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Post by lynn on Jan 30, 2012 18:37:23 GMT -5
I hate the build up of sound effects trying to tell us a scene is scary or a movie is scary long before anything remotely scary happens. It just makes me annoyed so I turn it off. I'm never going to be scared of a movie if I'm thinking "that sound effect is gratuitous" the problem is the overuse, so now it sticks out like a sore thumb.
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Post by drivebyluna on Jan 31, 2012 1:40:15 GMT -5
This one is more of a trailer pet peeve. I hate when trailers show clips of the movie but not the actual plot. This usually happens in indie films or documentary films and it's overlaid with some emotional music but it doesn't actually tell me what the freaking movie is about. trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/28hotelrooms/ |
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Post by broox on Jan 31, 2012 15:39:07 GMT -5
Some of them sound like the THX sound. I like these, maybe I'll start putting them on TVAMD. If you give in to this temptation your journey to the dark side will be complete. |
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Post by Gilberto on Jan 31, 2012 17:05:42 GMT -5
If the dark side hasn't taken me by now, then it just doesn't want me.
On the trailer thing, my real pet peeve is when trailers straight up tell you the end of a movie. Either they show you the final scene or they even have the final line in it. "I Come In Peace" does that in the trailer. The final one-liner should not be revealed in the trailer and neither should the actual end of the movie. I knew exactly how "Shutter Island" ended just from watching the trailer.
The sound FX in reality shows are really annoying too. "Ghost Hunters" is always playing some kind of spooky music when we're supposed to be listening for the real thing they recorded. I can't ever tell what they captured on tape from what they did in post.
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Post by broox on Feb 1, 2012 0:04:28 GMT -5
Ghost Hunters" is always playing some kind of spooky music when we're supposed to be listening for the real thing they recorded. I can't ever tell what they captured on tape from what they did in post. GH drives me crazy when they hear something and instantly go "Whoa, what was that? Did you hear that? What was that noise? Did you hear that sound?? Wha?" instead of listening carefully to hear if there's more. |
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Post by Glip on Feb 1, 2012 8:02:13 GMT -5
One word: Accents
If it's meant ironic or funny I can get behind stupid or lame accents. I'm doing those all the time.
But, seriously, if I hear another totally overdone misplaced gggrrrrusian, bwittish, zjerman, awestraylian, spaneesh or worse ahfrikahn only for the sake of telling the audience 'here's a foreigner!' I'll switch. My daughter's twelve now and watching American teen series like Victorious and some other crap (English spoken, Dutch subtitled) and even she notices the subtle racism, intentional or not, in there.
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Post by Gilberto on Feb 2, 2012 18:33:02 GMT -5
It's a throwback to how all TV shows used to be made in a closet with whoever was around, but there's no reason you can't get an actor of the appropriate nationality to play the part these days.
Cultural insensitivity happens locally too, which we've complained about enough already. Supposedly Southern people have the worst accents and attitudes in American television. I think that's just something we do in America. We stereotype everything.
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Post by broox on Feb 5, 2012 20:36:18 GMT -5
Supposedly Southern people have the worst accents and attitudes in American television. Tarnation son, I sure ain't reckon I got any idear whart you jawin' bout ya dam yankee  |
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Post by Gilberto on Mar 3, 2012 9:42:36 GMT -5
Here's another one that drives me crazy: In TV or the movies if they have to cut themselves to shed blood for something they slash their palms open. Do you know how much that would hurt? There are lots of places you could cut yourself other than your palm! There's a reason cutters do the arms, folks. Nobody cuts their palm!
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Post by Gilberto on Mar 3, 2012 9:46:20 GMT -5
I think we mentioned this on the show before, but I just saw Hugo and they did it too. In movies when someone is supposed to be foreign - ANY nationality - but for obvious reasons the movie is in English, they hire British actors or get the actors to effect British accents. We're so dumb that A) we need someone to have an accent for us to know they're supposed to be foreign and B) we can't distinguish one accent from another. If it's set in Ancient Rome, British accents. On a Russian submarine? British accents. French train station? British accents. It makes me crazy.
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Post by Scary Gary on Mar 3, 2012 12:05:29 GMT -5
Here's another one that drives me crazy: In TV or the movies if they have to cut themselves to shed blood for something they slash their palms open. Do you know how much that would hurt? There are lots of places you could cut yourself other than your palm! There's a reason cutters do the arms, folks. Nobody cuts their palm! The Walking Dead's last episode did this. It really bothers me when they do it and five minutes later they are using the hand with no pain or excessive bleeding. Even my favorite horror flick, "The Thing" did it. Remember the blood test scene. They used the scalpel to cut a two-inch cut along the guys' thumbs. WTF? They also had a syringe on hand. Why not use that to draw blood from the guys? It can't be that they were worried about contamination because McReady used the same scalpel on each guy with only leg-wipe sterilization between each cut. |
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Post by Gilberto on Mar 3, 2012 17:38:14 GMT -5
I hear ya. The pilot of "Awake" just did it too. There are lots of ways to tell if you're dreaming, dude.
They do this ALL THE TIME. I guess it seems more dramatic, but they had all kinds of med supplies in the Thing. There should have been plenty of syringes to go around. They can't send a bunch of guys into the arctic with 1 syringe. That's rolling the dice.
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Post by lynn on Mar 4, 2012 18:33:13 GMT -5
It's the using the hand again two minutes later like nothing has happened that bugs me. I mean, the concept of cutting the palm is very silly, but that just annoys me. They do it in the first Pirates of the Carribean movie, I know not the bastion of reality, but Elizabeth gets her palm cut open and the only medical treatment she gets is a little wash in salt water then wrapped up with whatever bit of rag will could find, but the next day she's rowing by herself? I call my whole hand useless if I get so much as a papercut, but she goes on to do have a fight scene, row boats, help out with rigging and stuff... but it's ok, they put a dirty rag over it. What are the chances a savage cut like the one she got wouldn't have damaged some of the very vital muscles, tendons, or anything else in the hand? It's a pretty small thing, with everything close to the skin, a big old cut on the palm could do permanent damage. Or, you know, be a little sting for a few minutes then go away next time you need to be heroic. Whatever.
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Post by drivebyluna on Apr 3, 2012 22:37:32 GMT -5
Shaky cam. we saw hunger games last week and the amount of shaky cam was almost unbearable.
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Post by lynn on Apr 4, 2012 1:36:06 GMT -5
I heard that about the movie. They use it here to establish POV and so they can show less of the violence, but it always pisses me off. And makes me sick, I had to walk out of that one with the superpowered kids because of the camerawork. But, you know, in this one there's no real excuse for it, storywise. You can understand it if the story is meant to be handheld.
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