Worn out scenes

[Thanee]

Similar to Henry's, what also is pretty dumb oftentimes, if the scarcely armed heroes defeat some villains and then do not take their weapons with them.

Don't they know!? Kill monsters and take their stuff! D'oh!

Bye
Thanee

 

[Hand of Evil]

The one that ticks me off: You are driving down a road, there before you, a car is in the ditch (wreaked), a person is in the middle of the street...

Nothing good ever comes from this, it is standard setup stuff and may work in a D&D game but come on!

 

[nothing to see here]

I hate...really hate...the staple of summer blockbusters where one of the protagonists has a dog...the dog seems about to get killed, and always...ALWAYS, miraculously survives.

The most predictable hero to survive any action movie is the dog...always the dog.

Outside of Aliens 3, I can't remember a movie which included a scene featuring needless dog-death, and let's face, Aliens 3 sucked.

That's why I found funniest part of 'Anchorman' was Jack Black punting the dog off the bridge (of course the dog survived, but it was a comedy, so that's okay)

I understand the awesome power of PETA in petitioning against movies that reveal cruelty to animals (and I certainly oppose actually endangering the animal 'actors' involved in film making). And I recognize that, in a sad commentary on society, test audiences continually react with horror at animal death, yet are completely hum-dum about human-death...but that does not change the hackneyed...predictable...'Sparky gets away' pushover mentality of mass market film-makers to always ensuring that...in movies filled with senseless human death "no animals (real or fictional) were harmed in the making of this movie"

 

[Tetsubo]

My personal pet peeve is the "I've just hit the villain in the genitals, and I've got him rolling on the ground in pain, so NOW I'm going to run away from him." That one ticks me off, because if someone's stalking me, and I've just sucker-punched him, I'm going to press the advantage and keep stabbing / eye-gouging / strangling the until he's DEAD! It's not called "FIGHT or flight" for nothing!

Right. If the baddy has attacked me or mine and I have him down, I'm not stopping until I see grey matter.

 

[Mercule]

Hero gets snot kicked out of him. Hero gets more snot kicked out of him. BBEG has hero exactly where he wants him. Hero miraculously gets his second wind and defeats BBEG.

Ditto for "And, now, watch me kill your child/significant other/chia-pet. -- OH NO! Now I've really pissed you off."

Either could be okay in the right context, but have become cliched.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I hate...really hate...the staple of summer blockbusters where one of the protagonists has a dog...the dog seems about to get killed, and always...ALWAYS, miraculously survives.

The most predictable hero to survive any action movie is the dog...always the dog.

Outside of Aliens 3, I can't remember a movie which included a scene featuring needless dog-death, and let's face, Aliens 3 sucked.

That's why I found funniest part of 'Anchorman' was Jack Black punting the dog off the bridge (of course the dog survived, but it was a comedy, so that's okay)

I understand the awesome power of PETA in petitioning against movies that reveal cruelty to animals (and I certainly oppose actually endangering the animal 'actors' involved in film making). And I recognize that, in a sad commentary on society, test audiences continually react with horror at animal death, yet are completely hum-dum about human-death...but that does not change the hackneyed...predictable...'Sparky gets away' pushover mentality of mass market film-makers to always ensuring that...in movies filled with senseless human death "no animals (real or fictional) were harmed in the making of this movie"

I once heard that there are rules for the rating for movies, example: PG would never show a bystander die, so this meant they would have to film a scene showing the bystander okay, climbing from the wreakage or running away. This could explain it, target demographic.

 

[Particle_Man]

I hate...really hate...the staple of summer blockbusters where one of the protagonists has a dog...the dog seems about to get killed, and always...ALWAYS, miraculously survives.

Spoiler: One movie that really does kill the cute dog very dead is

Spoiler

Mars Attacks!

although that was likely a parody of the surviving dog in

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Independance Day

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[David Howery]

well, if you guys are just itching to see a bunch of dogs get wasted, rent "A Fish Called Wanda". Three little yappy lap dogs get offed in three really awful (but sorta funny) ways... come to think of it, an aquarium full of fish does too....

 

[Pielorinho]

Another dead-dog scene: Ladykillers. That one even has a snide in-joke about the "****ing humane society rep on set" who must at all costs be kept from learning of the death. (For what it's worth, the American Humane Association gave the movie its highest rating on animal welfare issues, and its report on the movie seemed pretty amused by the joke at their expense).

Cliches I hate? The freakin' love interest. It's all good if it arises naturally from the story you're telling, but don't just add one in for no reason, and really don't add a helpless beautiful woman in just so the strong man can save her and get smoochies.

Daniel

 

[Villano]

People outrunning a fireball. I swear that every action movie made since 1980 includes this scene.

Candles in a love scene. Sometimes it can be downright silly. I remember watching a movie in which a man and woman were on the run and hiding out in a sleazy motel. There's a love scene and suddenly the room was filled with candles. And not just any candles. They were all white candles. Where the hell did they come from? Do sleazy motels stock up on romantic candles or something?

Instant death from wounds that shouldn't kill. How many times have you seen a dead body in a movie or on TV and the only injury looks to be some slashes across the face? It shows up a lot in horror films.

The other big one is someone being killed instantly by being stabbed in the stomach. Usually, this happens when the villain is about to strike the fatal blow and lifts his weapon in the air, and then the hero stabs him (see Gowron's death on DS9). This is especially annoying when you can see that the hero's blade has only gone in about a quarter inch.

Zomibe movies in which you have to shoot them in the head. Stop ripping off George Romero! Also, in these movies, there are two types of people: those that keep shooting the zombies in the body even though they know better, and those that can hit a running zombie in the head at 400 yards.

The sheriff was in on it all along. Do I need to say more?

"Heroes" who aren't held accountable. Now, I'm not talking about vigillante movies like Deathwish and The Punisher here. I'm talking about the cop, soldier, or whatever who "doesn't play by the rules". Look at the remake of Planet Of The Apes. Marky Mark disobeys orders and pretty much gets everyone killed. Why is he the hero?

I remember a review of, I think, The Lost World, in which the "morally righteous" heroes try to protect the dinosaurs and get a bunch of people killed.

There are a million more, but I'm tired of typing.