Worn out scenes

[mojo1701]

Roger Ebert's Movie Glossary.

Go nuts.

 

[Thanee]

Just recently I got reminded of something...

The hero/ine shows his/her sidekick a martial arts move and the sidekick uses that move later to defeat a villain who should normally just wipe the floor with him/her.

Bye
Thanee

 

[mmadsen]

I hate, hate, hate when a character falls and catches himself (or herself) on a ledge (or cable) -- especially with one hand. Try holding onto an easy-to-grip chin-up bar by one hand, with no momentum to overcome. Now try jumping up and grabbing the bar with one hand. Now try jumping off of something and catching yourself on the bar. Not likely. (If the character's Spiderman, OK; if the character's Mary Jane, not OK.)

 

[mmadsen]

The laws of probability do not apply to movie poker. If all you've got is a straight flush, fold immediately; everyone else has an even better hand.

 

[Warrior Poet]

Despite the rate of acceleration of the pressure wave in the average explosion (let's say at least 10 dynamite sticks worth), the protagonists will be able to outrun it, and despite a leap at the end that (I guess) is supposed to represent the event horizon of the pressure wave catching the runners, said protagonists will come away unscathed.

Same is true for avalanches and landslides, evidently, despite the fact that some of them reach speeds in excess of 60 mph (100 kmh).

Come on!

The laws of probability do not apply to movie poker. If all you've got is a straight flush, fold immediately; everyone else has an even better hand.

So true!

Warrior Poet

 

[Warrior Poet]

Also, protagonists who have to make a rapid ascent from any significant depth of sea water, especially to escape a shark or other similarly threatening aquatic resident, will never suffer nitrogen narcosis, nor have to stop and equalize lung pressure, etc., etc.

Addendum: one of the worst things you can do in movie land is board a submarine. It's almost certain to spring a leak, suffer a depth-charge assault, hit the ocean floor, or be irradiated by a breach of the nuclear core.

Warrior Poet

 

[Richards]

Or be attacked by a Japanese rubber-suit monster. They seem to like chomping on submarines.

Johnathan

 

[Pseudonym]

Pointless inclusion of a cute kid. I kept waiting all the way through Mummy 2 for the kid to catch a bullet. It's almost as bad as miraculously surviving dog.

Moronic pseudoscience. Protagonist injects blood directly into a machine, looks at a screen a second later and exclaims "That's human DNA!"

Makes me twitch.

 

[mojo1701]

They seem to like chomping on submarines.

They've watched one-too-many Subway commercials with Jared.

 

[Abisashi]

I hate when the hero has to choose between saving the world/a bunch of innocents and his girlfriend, chooses his girlfriend, and still saves the world/innocent people. Best example I can think of is in Spiderman.

On a related note, I hate it when heroes with deontological ethics (D&D alignments fall under this), refuse to do the one thing that will save the world (kill the possesed child, etc.) because it is wrong, and things work out anyway. This happens a lot in books too.