What Sterotypes do you hate?

[Ranger REG]

Another stereotype to complain of:

If all the characters in a movie are non-American, they have to speak with stupid fake accents so that anyone in the audience who's as dumb as the studio execs will remember that they're not Americans. My favorite example is K-19: The Widowmaker. All the characters are Russian, so why do they need Russian accents? :\

Because they couldn't find decent actors of Russian ethnics?

Kind reminds me of that tall blonde dude on America's Got Talent wearing angel's wing and put on a balancing sword act. :\

 

[bodhi]

If all the characters in a movie are non-American, they have to speak with stupid fake accents so that anyone in the audience who's as dumb as the studio execs will remember that they're not Americans.

That's why I like subtitles. I forget the title, but there's a WWII movie where the Americans and British speak English, the Germans speak German, the Japanese speak Japanese, and it's all subtitled.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Thank you I wish they would make more movies like that.
Tora!Tora!Tora! had all Japanese dialogue in Japanese with subtitles and I thought it really helped cement the feel.
The Longest Day does the same thing with the Germans when it bothers to translate them (it focuses on the Alliesl, the Axis were the enemies after all who cares what they had to say) and it made the feel of the entire movie somehow more solid.
We Were Soldiers has the Vietnamese dialogue in Vietnamese and subtitled. There were others whose names I can't remember that did the same and I generally liked them.

Probably mentioned before already but the Enormous Conspiracy of which only the protagonist is aware despite the fact very strange things are happening in plain sight of the populace and huge numbers of people are involved.

 

[mmu1]

In some media, serial killers are also able to teleport short distances. They have precognitive visions that let them wait in exactly the right place to attack the victim and be certain that their killings will be uninterrupted even when they're killing in a crowded house, or there's somebody in the same frikkin' room ("Urban Legend"). They also possess regenerative powers, which are triggered by the proximity of a victim checking out their apparently lifeless body ("Scream 2"). They have incredible athleticism, and can catch up with a fleeing victim while never moving faster than an amble. Lastly, they can sustain damage that would kill a normal person ten times over ("Hollow Man").

Don't forget that, apparently, spending years in a solitary prison cell, skulking around alone in the woods, or spending most of your time in a dank and cluttered basement will transform a serial killer - no matter how physically unassuming - into an expert assassin, able to incapacitate just about anyone.

Those things will also have no detrimental effects whatsoever on the supernatural endurance and vitality you mention.

In addition, all serial killers generate a distortion field that causes most firearms to disappear or become almost entirely inaccurate. However, the field will frequently glitch and fail to restart in time if the killer falls down, apparently dead, only to rise again.

 

[Someone]

The real offender with serial killers is that, to catch a one of them that has killed a lot of people and has a hostage and threatens to kill him in some cruel and elaborate fashion if the Hero Policeman doesn´t do something bizarre, it´s only Hero Policeman -and his companion- who´s working on the case, as if serial killers who take hostages didn´t bother anyone.

 

[Ranger REG]

That's why I like subtitles.

Only old-timers like us (as well as hearing-challenged) don't mind subtitles.

 

[Elemental]

The real offender with serial killers is that, to catch a one of them that has killed a lot of people and has a hostage and threatens to kill him in some cruel and elaborate fashion if the Hero Policeman doesn´t do something bizarre, it´s only Hero Policeman -and his companion- who´s working on the case, as if serial killers who take hostages didn´t bother anyone.

Well, it saves time that way. In movies, even if the hero had a huge team backing him up, the police never show up en masse until just after the final confrontation between hero and villain. Most of the time, they'll have followed a red herring and be launching a raid on somewhere irrelevant. One police officer might show up at a critical moment to distract the villain and probably get killed, but that's all.

 

[Someone]

Well, it saves time that way. In movies, even if the hero had a huge team backing him up, the police never show up en masse until just after the final confrontation between hero and villain. Most of the time, they'll have followed a red herring and be launching a raid on somewhere irrelevant. One police officer might show up at a critical moment to distract the villain and probably get killed, but that's all.

I can see that, those movies or TV shows don´t bother me at all. There are others, however, where only a couple of policemen work on the serial killer´s case (when everyone knows he´s a serial killer that has killed several or many people)

 

[Ranger REG]

Well, it saves time that way. In movies, even if the hero had a huge team backing him up, the police never show up en masse until just after the final confrontation between hero and villain. Most of the time, they'll have followed a red herring and be launching a raid on somewhere irrelevant. One police officer might show up at a critical moment to distract the villain and probably get killed, but that's all.

That's another stereotype I hate: dumb beat cops.

Even worse: dumb police detective in a private detective film.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Another stereotype to complain of:

If all the characters in a movie are non-American, they have to speak with stupid fake accents so that anyone in the audience who's as dumb as the studio execs will remember that they're not Americans. My favorite example is K-19: The Widowmaker. All the characters are Russian, so why do they need Russian accents? :\

Interestingly, I heard many people make the opposite complaint about Enemy at the Gates.

"If they're Russian, why don't they have Russian accents?"
"So... let me get this straight. It doesn't bother you at all that all these Russians are speaking English to each other. But it bothers you that they're doing it with British accents?"

As far as I'm concerned, they're speaking English as a cinematic device so we can understand them. But since it represents them speaking their native language, they should sound like a person speaking his native language, not like someone speaking a language foreign to them with a heavy accent. Having them speak English like Englishmen didn't bother me at all.

I blame 'Allo 'Allo.

-Hyp.