Things you're tired of seeing in movies.

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  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Cold blue color filters to make things like "cinematic" Natural colors please!
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    Sick to death of CGI green screen scenery when the actors lose out on the experience of performing on wonderful sets designed by the likes of Ken Adam, Peter Lamont, etc.
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    Droning atonal ambience scores with little to no melody or themework.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Sex scenes where the two lovers just get an overpowering urge and tear down half the apartment while undressing each other. Probably funny the first time, but the next five thousand?
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Just came to mind while watching the new Kingsman: when someone goes to shoot at somebody, and they're obviously holding something that is bulletproof, so we watch the person empty their entire gun into them, knowing they should've tried something else once the bullets run out (TLD's "body armor" bit with Whitaker comes to mind).
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    (Disclaimer: Haven't read the first six or seven pages before writing this)
    Scenes where an airplane or helicopter is descending, voluntarily or involuntarily, and a certain sound accompanying that descent is coming on. That is the sound of the Stuka sirens, deliberately generated to strike terror with the people below. It has nothing to do with a noise that just happens naturally when a plane is going down.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Disasters
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    President or high ranking official
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    His wife and kid(s)
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    Everyman and estranged family
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    A kid and his dog
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    The token black man
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    Friendly old person

    Yes, I'm talking to you, Roland Emmerich.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Endless screaming.
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    One-note performances with very little range.

    Martial arts styled fight sequences that look like the Bourne films.

    Slow motion action sequences that look like The Matrix.

    Blue color timing.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Unlikable edgy and angsty characters.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Big CGI sequences (the opening scene in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 being a prime example) that are so cartoonish they don't convince for one second that what you're watching is actually there and not just a bunch of animated pixels.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    A credit reading "Music by Hans Zimmer".
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
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    Murdock wrote: »
    Adam Sandler movies. He stopped being funny back in 2002.

    He was funny?! Never happened.
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    Superheroes!
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    A credit reading "Music by Hans Zimmer".

    Here here! :-bd
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Murdock wrote: »
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    A credit reading "Music by Hans Zimmer".

    Here here! :-bd

    Whear?
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    Thear!
  • BMW_with_missilesBMW_with_missiles All the usual refinements.
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    spectreeverywhere.gif
    :D
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Films 'based on a true story' that bear little similarity with the actual events.

    They should be called 'a work of fiction inspired by true events'
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited December 2017 Posts: 23,883
    Big CGI sequences (the opening scene in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 being a prime example) that are so cartoonish they don't convince for one second that what you're watching is actually there and not just a bunch of animated pixels.
    I agree. The CGI overload is a bit much for me too. Once the first viewing novelty wears off I find I don't have much interest in revisiting the films again because the environments are so obviously fake.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    bondjames wrote: »
    Big CGI sequences (the opening scene in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 being a prime example) that are so cartoonish they don't convince for one second that what you're watching is actually there and not just a bunch of animated pixels.
    I agree. The CGI overload is a bit much for me too. Once the first viewing novelty wears off I find I don't have much interest in revisiting the films again because the environments are so obviously fake.

    Could be my age but I'm finding these unconvincing CGI fests a complete bore.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Scientific formulas that fill an entire blackboard.
  • MooseWithFleasMooseWithFleas Philadelphia
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    Combination of fast cutting & shaky cams. Makes it so I cannot follow anything that is transpiring. It's suppose to be exhilarating action and seems like it is for many who give these movie favorable reviews, but it is exhausting instead of exhilarating for me.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Digital countdown clocks on bombs.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited December 2017 Posts: 25,131
    'who do you work for?'
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    IT'S ALL A DREAM!

    When my girlfriend forced me to sit through the Twilight Saga--yes, I will allow that to sink in for a moment--and that fifth film presented me with one of those surprisingly cool scenes that turned out to be just a dream, I yelled, "OH MY GOD NO THEY DID NOT JUST DO THAT!" in theatres, in complete anger. I was "sushed" quite a bit. ;-)

    I didn't belong there.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Did you get laid that night?
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    I was rewarded for my exceptional bravery.
  • dbowen007dbowen007 Virginia, United States
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    Murdock wrote: »
    Adam Sandler movies. He stopped being funny back in 2002.

    He was funny?! Never happened.

    Haha! Agreed
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
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    Remakes.
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