Louis Cypher
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Another chance for everyone to have a little rant
Whats yours?
I'll start with the stupid idea of starting a trailer with a little mini trailer for the trailer
Things Everyone Hates About Modern Movies
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Another chance for everyone to have a little rant
Whats yours?
I'll start with the stupid idea of starting a trailer with a little mini trailer for the trailer
Having a spoiler in the trailer.
Time travel in movies that are not about time travel.
Resurrection as a cover up for poor plot planning.
Actually just in general shitty storytelling that we seem to expect now.
Time travel in movies that are not about time travel.
Resurrection as a cover up for poor plot planning.
Actually just in general shitty storytelling that we seem to expect now.
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I really hate cheap C.G.I. especially in a horror movie. I'd rather have old school makeup and bad effects then the computer generated garbage put out today. Something about it just turns me off.
Completely agree on the bad sound mixing.
Most of my pet peeve tropes aren't particularly new:
Most of my pet peeve tropes aren't particularly new:
- Every time travel plot since Back to the Future. Oh no! Changing something in the past might affect the future! We get it. Creating a convoluted timeline does not make you a clever writer.
- Every alternate universe plot. Let's kill a character, or have something massive happen, but then let's pop to an alternate reality where that character still exists or the terrible event didn't happen or is preventable. I feel like it's as lazy a plot device as "but it was all a dream".
- Similar to the alternate universe plot is anything that involves "nested realities". Hard to explain exactly, but the plot involves some points where the characters don't know if they're in reality or in some virtual reality/dream/hallucination/etc. Always has a "wake up" scene where they think they've come back out of it but then discover that they're still inside. Existenz, Inception, etc.
- Every action movie needs a love interest. No one can save the world without falling in love or having a journey of self discovery in the process.
- The climactic big hero motivational speech. You also can't save the world without stopping at a critical point when everything looks hopeless to give an inspiring speech to really remind everyone what they're fighting for and bring everyone together to do the impossible.
- The edgy shocking opening scene. Within the first couple minutes, there needs to be some gratuitous extreme violence or sex scene that doesn't actually serve any plot or character development purpose. It's just there to let you know that the filmmakers are "bold" and don't care if they offend some people.
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If I learned physics from movies:
Time travel... because ummm quantum particle something something relativity paradox, yeehaw, is possible! (Or just fly around the world facing west and ignore that inconvenient fact that there is a dateline)
Explosions in space go boom.
Cars can jump over holes without a ramp. (and sustain no damage to their suspension for that matter, ramp or no, regardless of how far they fall, as long as a major character is in them)
Everything that bumps into something else during an action scene will explode into a giant fireball.
If a 40 kg woman shoots a shotgun at a 120 kg man rushing at her, the woman will remain stationary when she fires, but the man will fly backward with a velocity of >10 m/s when the shot makes contact with him.
You can outrun explosions, as long as you are the main character.
The other day, my wife was watching a zombie movie, and the plot was that someone launched some sort of thermonuclear warhead at the city where all of the characters were situated. Two of the main characters went under an 18 wheeler and were perfectly fine when a blast a few hundred meters away occurred, even though zombies were turning to ash all around them and the screen went completely white (I'm assuming to indicate white-hot heat). Not to mention that they were close enough to the blast that the visual of the blast and audio were simultaneous. If a nuclear fusion-based warhead exploded close enough to you that you didn't notice a delay between the flash and the boom, you wouldn't detect either, because you'd be vaporized.
And, while I'm at it, not physics, but you only use 10% (or 2% in some movies) of your brain, and you'd have psychic and/or telekinetic powers if only you could use more than that.
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Time references in YEARS on SciFi movies who's story is based on other planets and civilizations. I mean, the "year" we all know is EARTH's year. All other planets in our solar system have different length years and so will planets on different solar systems/galaxies, so WTF people? Can't these writers find a time reference that could be translated to that particular planet so it makes the story more convincing? It's on all over the bigger SciFi movies, either Star Treck, Star Wars, Dune or whatever... damn...
And with your eardrums intact, even when the explosion is powerful enough to launch you twenty feet through the air.
Related, but apparently gunshots just aren't really that loud. You can fire a shotgun or a .45 inside a car with no ear protection and then just have a normal conversation afterwards. You can have an indoor firefight with automatic weapons for like 20 minutes and no one even has a ringing in their ears. And if you have a suppressor...
Might mean that space travel is the final justification Napoleon would have needed to get metric time keeping to take. I guess we will find out in the next gigasecond or so.
Hollywood doesn't understand guns, like at all. Let alone suppressors. I just love the James Bond sound effect everyone uses for suppressed handguns now. Sure, if you use really low powered ammo and a single-use suppressor, it is possible to fire a gun and have it sound less loud than a conversation going on a few feet away, but, according to movie-science, if I take a .44 magnum and just put a pillow over the muzzle, the gun will sound like "pew" and still be able to blow someone's head clean off of their neck.
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That's what I liked about Sicario. The scene where he's using a suppressor, the gun is still reasonably loud, but not muffled the way it's usually depicted.
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Anybody watching For All Mankind? I basically enjoy it but it suffers from a lot of the things folks have brought up so far. It's a [nominally] space-focused show with absolutely no concern for the physics of space, is pretty much just a soap opera with very occasional space scenes, etc.
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Does it have full time planar interior only gravity? That rules. Because [waves upward] thpathe.
Spaced Out Ace
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You see this in wrestling as well, but the inability to book a good finish to a film. You’ll have a great film, then it’ll get to the finish, and it’ll just be a sloppy, poorly received pile of feces.
spudmunkey
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Bad ADR. No amount of studio trickery is going to male this additional replacement line of dialog match the sound of the rest of the dialog recorded by a boom mic in a forest.
I’d settle for the audio to be more balanced.
I’m sick of turning the volume up to max so I can hear the whisper level conversation only to have an explosion loosen screws in my entertainment center.
I’m sick of turning the volume up to max so I can hear the whisper level conversation only to have an explosion loosen screws in my entertainment center.
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Speaking of .44 Magnums, want to try and figure out everything wrong with the suppressed Python from Magnum Force?
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Here's a demonstrative example:
Upon getting to low earth orbit on a mission to the moon in a space shuttle (which by no means could ever make it to the moon), the folks in Houston announce MECO (main engine cutoff) and discuss the TLI (trans-lunar injection) burn that will happen in 19 minutes. Throughout this interval, the cut-aways continue to repeatedly show the shuttle engines burning.
There are far more egregious mistakes, but that should suffice to demonstrate the complete lack of concern from the production team. They wanted to make a typical relationship drama and decided to set it at NASA for some reason other than knowing anything about it.
- I hate the fact that almost every movie starts with a ringing phone, an alarm clock, tea kettle whistling, a car horm etc. Some movies are basically just watching a bunch of people on fake phone calls.
- I hate movies that expect you to know everything about the characters and plot even though it's not a sequel, yet they never mention the characters names or history in the entire movie. Like, don't forget you're making it for someone who's never seen it or read the script before.
- Almost every movie or TV show must also have several time wasting obligatory bar scenes. Also, everyone has a mini bar in their house but me apparently. All everyone does is drink all the time.
- My number one pet peeve about movies is all the damn mumbling. Open you mouth, move your lips, and talk! Everyone has their throat talking mumble voice like they all took acting lessons from the same guy. Worse yet, the audio engineer's apparently also don't know how to mix for this shit. It's call center channel on a 5.1 system and, btw, with a multi million dollar budget why is there no proper stereo mix either? It's called mid range. It's where human speech sits in a mix, but they always mix massive bass and tinny highs with no mids. WTF!
- I hate movies that expect you to know everything about the characters and plot even though it's not a sequel, yet they never mention the characters names or history in the entire movie. Like, don't forget you're making it for someone who's never seen it or read the script before.
- Almost every movie or TV show must also have several time wasting obligatory bar scenes. Also, everyone has a mini bar in their house but me apparently. All everyone does is drink all the time.
- My number one pet peeve about movies is all the damn mumbling. Open you mouth, move your lips, and talk! Everyone has their throat talking mumble voice like they all took acting lessons from the same guy. Worse yet, the audio engineer's apparently also don't know how to mix for this shit. It's call center channel on a 5.1 system and, btw, with a multi million dollar budget why is there no proper stereo mix either? It's called mid range. It's where human speech sits in a mix, but they always mix massive bass and tinny highs with no mids. WTF!
Bodes
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Sound variations for sure my number 1 pet peeve. My only arm movement during a film should be for food and drink, not the remotes volume button.
Visually I can't stand inconsistencies with the CGI. Some scenes I'm thinking that the CGI team is the Bee's knees, then 2 minutes later I feel I am watching a grade 3 play-doh model flying across the scene.
Visually I can't stand inconsistencies with the CGI. Some scenes I'm thinking that the CGI team is the Bee's knees, then 2 minutes later I feel I am watching a grade 3 play-doh model flying across the scene.
The video in the first post claims that the problem is that no one bothers taking the audio mix that was done for theatres and redoing it for home systems when they push it out to streaming services. They're probably right, but I'm pretty sure I've also experienced the problem with TV shows, and they shouldn't have any excuse.
