TV & Film Stuff in movies and on TV that bothers you

[Freesia]

Too many underdog-achieving-success movies. I'd like for once to see some ragtag group of athletes, or singers, or dancers or whatever get together to try to win the state championship - and lose. Then they all go home and realize that they'll survive okay without that victory.

I think that's more realistic, honestly.

There is a movie like that. I cant remember what it is called though. It might have Adam Sandler in it.

 

[Spang]

I also look for signs of life on dead people in movies.

 

[Ansciess]

I was about to start a thread like this specifically for animals. I watch shows mostly just as an escape. I have a particular fondness for real-life re-enactment shows. I was just watching old "I Shouldn't Be Alive" episodes, which are mostly free of animals and abuse - they're almost exclusively about humans struggling to survive in some isolated environment.

I start watching one about some big-ego'd guy who fancied himself an explorer who decided to go into the Amazon. As soon as he said that he picked up a friendly stray dog to take the journey with him I suspected there would be trouble. After a dangerous trip and losing the dog in the wilderness, against all odds the dog manages to scent him out to be by his side - the dog is that loyal. Then the guy gets hungry and hacks up the dog to eat him. Didn't really seem to bother the guy much. The dog was a tool who served his purpose first as loyal companion then as food source (which it turned out the guy couldn't even eat and should have realized that would be the case because his stomach was irritated). It really ****** me off. The guy took the dog out of his village where he was probably fed scraps and looked after by villagers, to fear and death in the Amazon - all because the guy wanted a thrill.

Argh. I'm so sick of humans involving animals in their selfishness and stupidity. Can't I just have an escape from it without having to scout every show for animal cruelty?

Oh geez, another one. This time a woman decides drive out to and then run through a remote Utah canyon with her dog, in dangerous conditions. Of course she slips and falls 60 feet and breaks her pelvis, with no cell phone and no one knowing where she is.

It's fine with me if people decide to take risks with their own lives. But I have no sympathy for them when they choose to take animals along on their big adventures with death. That animal had no choice but to go out there with her. If someone is dependent on you you're obliged to not put them in dangerous situations.

 

[yakherder]

The walking into a dark cave or creepy house thing doesn't bother me too much in and of itself, it's the way they do it. Going in with a flashlight that's just about dead and then walking backwards until they run into a murderer or something.

Perhaps I'm stuck in the cultural cliche myself, because the opportunity to meet a threat face to face just makes my nipples hard with anticipation, but what bothers me more is when they have a clear opportunity to go on the offensive and pass it up. In one of the Scream movies, for example (can't remember which), ghost face gets knocked out in a car, and the girl is cautiously reaching around him trying to get the keys or something, and it's supposed to be suspenseful because he could wake up at any second. I'm just thinking why does she not eviscerate the ******* while he's sleeping and end it right there? But it seems that making up for situations that wouldn't really be that scary by making the characters either extra stupid or extra brave/cowardly (whichever is least desirable in the situation) seems to be the standard.

 

[kazyeeqen]

I think it's the 'good guy' problem of not wanting to hurt people a lot of times. I don't know what I'd really do in the situation, but I think if I was being chased by the kind of over the top bad guy in those movies I'd at least attempt to cut their throat or beat them unconscious with whatever I had handy when I had the chance, then go vomit and wait for the police to come.

Oh yeah, and boring movie I guess.

I hate when the evil killer bad guys just walk and always catch up to the running victims. Or when the killer turns out to be a ninety lb woman (I guess I just have a problem with the female size standards in movies and then how the makers ignore the real life consequences of being a size zero) who somehow managed to carry a 180lb man up two flights of stairs to put him in a bathtub full of ice and remove his kidney or whatever.

 

[Chryssie]

Why do women always trip and fall when running from the bad guy?

 

[yakherder]

Why do women always trip and fall when running from the bad guy?

To give the above mentioned walking murderers a chance to catch them

 

[Moll Flanders]

One of my cats brought in a mouse a few years ago and it ran towards me and I ran to jump on the sofa and I tripped.

Perhaps I'm stuck in the cultural cliche myself, because the opportunity to meet a threat face to face just makes my nipples hard with anticipation,

 

[K-II]

The walking into a dark cave or creepy house thing doesn't bother me too much in and of itself, it's the way they do it. Going in with a flashlight that's just about dead and then walking backwards until they run into a murderer or something.

Perhaps I'm stuck in the cultural cliche myself, because the opportunity to meet a threat face to face just makes my nipples hard with anticipation, but what bothers me more is when they have a clear opportunity to go on the offensive and pass it up. In one of the Scream movies, for example (can't remember which), ghost face gets knocked out in a car, and the girl is cautiously reaching around him trying to get the keys or something, and it's supposed to be suspenseful because he could wake up at any second. I'm just thinking why does she not eviscerate the ******* while he's sleeping and end it right there? But it seems that making up for situations that wouldn't really be that scary by making the characters either extra stupid or extra brave/cowardly (whichever is least desirable in the situation) seems to be the standard.

I usually end up wanting those characters to die for their idiocy anyway, so it does make their eventual death more of a bonus.

 

[Rosie1]

Why do women always trip and fall when running from the bad guy?

Women make great plot devices, doncha know!

 

[Spang]

Why do women always trip and fall when running from the bad guy?

Because most movies are made by men.

 

[kazyeeqen]

Because most movies are made by men.

Plus we're all dead clumsy. Honestly, it's a wonder we function at all, just flailing our limbs about and screaming all the time.

The screaming bothers me a lot. Screaming once is normal if you're startled and it's involuntary, or trying to get someone's attention or something, but taking a breath and just screaming and screaming, with no point?

 

[beancounter]

Movies where they always manage to find a way to kill the monster. Often they come up with/or obtain information out of the blue deux machina style.

I don't watch a lot of horror movies, but I've only seen one where the monster(s) won at the end of the movie. I don't remember what it was called, but the monsters were afraid/harmed by direct light, and the heroin had a camera with a flash. She was just feet from the door when the flash burnt out, and she was dragged back into the house. The end.

 

[cornsail]

Kids/teenagers who are super obnoxious to their parents for no reason and it's treated as normal "kids being kids". I was a nice kid.

 

[Moll Flanders]

It used to be more of a cliche with older films but I used to hate it when they showed a woman walking late at night on her own wearing high heels and then you would hear footsteps walking behind her and then she would hurry away, with him in pursuit, only to turn up raped/killed later.

 

[Rosie1]

One thing that makes me cringe in movies/tv - when they make horses do "stunts", the falling roll thing that they make them do. I always worry they are going to get hurt or something, especially when they have them rollfall on their neck/head. I hate it.

 

[yakherder]

One thing that makes me cringe in movies/tv - when they make horses do "stunts", the falling roll thing that they make them do. I always worry they are going to get hurt or something, especially when they have them rollfall on their neck/head. I hate it.

You won't like this scene, but it's so over the top ridiculous funny it's worth watching if you haven't seen it before... If nothing else, watch the horse stunt at 2:00 lol.

 

[FortyTwo]

If it weren't for the strong possibility that it will have idiotic gay jokes in it, I would want to go see Ted. It looks very funny.

PVL, I understand that you don't like movies like that, but maybe this other person does? It's not a crime to think profanity is funny because to some people it is. To each their own.

 

[K-II]

You won't like this scene, but it's so over the top ridiculous funny it's worth watching if you haven't seen it before... If nothing else, watch the horse stunt at 2:00 lol.

Huh... so even Indians see their traffic like that...

 

[Amy SF]

The reason women trip and fall in the movies is the same reason they do it in real life: They're always wearing the wrong kind of shoes for running away from the bad guy, or running, period. Or walking. Or doing anything. I am one person who refuses to wear the type of shoes that make it easy to break an ankle just stepping off the curb.

You might say, "but Amy, not even for a special occasion?"

Nope. If you notice, in the movies, the woman who wanders out of the fancy party wobbling around in 3 inch heels is the one who gets attacked by a man jumping out of the shadows. And of course she screams and flails about and can't RUN because she's wearing those stupid 3 inch heels and it never occurs to her to take them off so she CAN run away.