Worn out scenes

[barsoomcore]

Rule #582: Every appearance of a computer in a movie reduces that movie's intelligence by a factor of three.

I've NEVER seen it fail. I don't know who makes movies in Hollywood, but they evidently missed the last twenty years of technology development. Take a fine movie like The Core -- written by our very own jonrog1, and a great fun movie. As long as you pay no attention to anything that happens while the "hacker" character is on screen. The movie would have been at least THREE HUNDRED times better had that character been expunged from it -- I base that on the estimate that computers appear onscreen about a hundred times, so it is three hundred times (Rule #582) stupider than it would have been otherwise. It's all very mathematical.

 

[Rackhir]

The guy who is about to be married and thus is doomed to die. I remember watching "Navy Seals" and after the intro rescue we find out that one member of the team is getting married and I remember thinking "Why don't you just paint a bullseye on his back?" Sure enough he gets killed later in the movie and it's our hero's fault.

It always makes me really appreciate Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson from Hotshots! even more...

 

[thalmin]

How about the auto collision where a car, usually one of several which are chasing the hero, hits another car then spirals into the air.

 

[Hypersmurf]

How about the auto collision where a car, usually one of several which are chasing the hero, hits another car then spirals into the air.

Hey, I just picked up the first seasons of The A-Team, Knight Rider, and The Dukes of Hazzard on DVD.

Don't mess with tradition!

(And let's not forget Blues Brothers 2000 )

-Hyp.

 

[mojo1701]

On the subject of computers in movies:

Everyone who has an e-mail account, when checking, has an AOL account (denoted by either the '@aol.com' ending, or the "You've got mail" voice).

 

[Logan]

Any movie where a group of highly trained special forces soilders get taken out by something, and that something is taken out by the untrianed, either over- or under- aged hero.
Are our armed forces really that incompotent?

 

[Vocenoctum]

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.

Hero then completes the rest of the episode/ movie, with no sign they're wounded beyond a blood stain.

"Five minutes ago, you could barely stand, and staggered to your feet to finish the evil guy. Now you're fine?"
"I drained his soul to power mine, it's really neat!"

Gratuitous slide/action racking on guns. It's not dramatic folks, it's just freaking silly.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

My beef is when two people could resolve huge conflicts with less than 30 seconds of conversation. The worse example was Daredevil. Jennifer Gardner (Elektra) thinks Ben Affleck (Daredevil) has killed her father. What does he do? He runs away and creates High Drama. What doesn't he do? Say something like, "No, it wasn't me, it was that guy over there let's kick his butt."

I mean, these characters can deliver inspiring monologues after getting worked over with a baseball bat, but they can't tell each other who the bad guy is?

 

[Darth Shoju]

Any movie where a group of highly trained special forces soilders get taken out by something, and that something is taken out by the untrianed, either over- or under- aged hero.
Are our armed forces really that incompotent?

I second that. Although the exception that comes to my mind is James Cameron's Aliens. The Marines there were sent into a death trap. They were lead by a green officer into a situation where they couldn't use their most potent weapons, and had a traitor in their midst who's primary interest was to serve the needs of a mega-corporation. Can't blame them for getting their butts handed to them there.

 

[Darth Shoju]

Gratuitous slide/action racking on guns. It's not dramatic folks, it's just freaking silly.

How about when a character has a revolver, flicks the cylinder out, spins it, stares with one eye into one of the breech chambers and then slams the cylinder back in? How many times has this been done now?!