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The phone/pager/intercom/alarm/fill-in-the-blank will not begin ringing until someone has finished their line (which usually concludes a conversation).
Happens in even the best films, but I know I'm just a bit OCD.
I have never sat bolt upright after a nightmare and don't know anyone who does.
In the last Die Hard McClaine rode over the top of the vehicles on a busy motorway, crushing them as he went. No recrimination for the damage nor the deaths that this action would have caused.
My third pet hate is that when the hero is creeping around a dark room there is always a cat that will leap out and yowl as loudly as possible. I have had cats all my life and the only time one made that awful noise was when I stood on it's tail.
Watch Bad Boys 2 and you'll wonder why the heck Smith and Co are still walking around freely.
The best moment in Species ;) , and that says all about the movie you need to know.
Brosnan's Bond was very lucky after the events of GE ;) At least they showed the police clambering out of their cars after Bond had crushed them...unlike DH5
But that happens in quite a few Bond films:
Klebb and Tanya in FRWL
Anya and Gogol in TSWLM
Gogol and Orlov in OP
Boris and Natalya in GE
Gustav Graves and Zao in DAD
I've never really had a problem with this. Personally I'd prefer it to lengthy subtitled sequences. I've no problems with subtitles in other films, but with Bond it just feels a bit off for me and takes away some of the enjoyment.
This is a phenomenon that I have only witnessed in English speaking films. I wonder why. It would sound absolutely absurd in films from anywhere else. Two Englishmen speaking Norwegian with English accents in a Norwegian film? Forget about it.
But the fact that it isn't doesn't matter as the acting is very good.
The worst offender on this is Firefox (I love the film), sometimes subtitled, sometimes not, Eastwood speaks Russian to Russians, and a minute later it's English with no Russian accent while Russians speak back to him in English WITH Russian accents...WTF?
- Remakes, if I can add that here.
- Movies set in foreign countries and people speak English instead of their native language.
- Historical inaccuray.
- Dumb action sequences.
- Movies shot on digital film.
- Teenagers who hate their parents.
- Style over substance.
- Dumb female heroines and the movies they're in (Twilight, Red Riding Hood, The Fault in our Stars, Divergent, etc.)
- Unoriginal sex scenes.
- Easy computer hacking.
- Corny dialogue.
- Comedies starring Adam Sandler.
- Focus on white actors (like that movie set in Japan which centers on the only Western white family living there) or when when white Americans play for example Mexicans.
- Mentally tortured males who act very philosophical and womanize a lot.
- Ensemble cast holiday movies.
- When models or people from the music industry play parts in movies.
- Cynical 'out of the ordinary' kids.
- When someone says something in supposedly complicated language and people ask them to say what they really mean 'in English' or something like that, followed by a corny simplification of what was previously said.
- Workout montages and the protagonist gets really buff in just a few shots.
- When someone has nearly completed something but his/her plans are ruined.
- People who leave the water running when they're about to check something out. i get that the sound creates tension but it's still annoying.
- When people stand and wait for something suspicious to happen and then something suddenly happens and they're like RUUUNNN and other movie cliches.
- People just shoving their food around.
- When characters' appearances are unaffected by all the action tehy went theough.
-Unrelatable characters.
-Generic bland music scores.
-Eye rolling inducing plot twists.
-Strawman villainy.
-no consequences to big action.
-reboot/remakes that don't really try anything different but rather just rehash a good story badly.
-bad comedies.
-preachy films.
-unoriginality.
The Hunt for Red October handled this well, by having the crew speak Russian (with English Subtitles) and gradually turn into English without Russian accents. The scene where the two submarine crews meet, Connery and the rest of the "Russians" were speaking in Russian.
Bryan Singer used the same ploy for "Valkyrie".
Why more directors and films refuse to do this is beyond me.
Another thing I hate in films is when the fridge is left open. Pretty bad example for our children who we train to always close the fridge asap.
Like CNN on in a Turkey beach bar? ;)
What's your favourite Stanley Kubrick film?</font></center>
That was easy.
That was even easier. :D
But I didn't think much of Full Metal Jacket or 2001: A Space Odyssey. Sorry @DarthDimi!
Great satire and lots of laughs.
A Clockwork Orange (now thats a morally corrupt film for you!)
:))
I just... I saw bits and pieces of Full Metal Jacket, and it didn't seem all that good to me. Never saw A Clockwork Orange or Dr. Strangelove, but they didn't look like they were for me, though I told myself I'd watch Dr. Strangelove if it were on TCM one of these days. I watched The Shining as a Stephen King fan and 2001 as an Arthur C Clarke fan, but Kubrick just doesn't impress me the same way Francis Ford Coppola or Brian de Palma do.