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Post by Gilberto on May 4, 2012 15:51:20 GMT -5
To clarify, I said THEY forgot the battery, not WE. That was back in the days where I kept threatening to kill everyone with a claw hammer because I had to go to every shoot just to make sure it got done.
Not that the shoots I attended yielded gold. We did once do a whole shoot where nothing recorded and another one where we taped over a previously recorded shoot. And ultimately anything we didn't film turned out to be for the best. We've given a little too much to the world as it is.
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Post by lynn on Jul 2, 2012 6:17:51 GMT -5
This one is mostly from horror movies, but it's when something scary is happening behind a person and they hear a noise and turn around really slowly. This started off, I think, from horror movies where the person would turn around really slowly because they were scared and didn't really want to see what was behind them, but nowadays they have it all over the place, just when a person hears any noise behind them they turn around in ultra slow motion. People don't do that. You hear a noise behind you you turn around reflexitively, quickly, not slowly like you're taking in the view on the way around.
Ben would also like me to add that he gets annoyed at the way the monster likes to stand there and wait for the person to turn around before they attack them, usually also wasting precious time roaring at them first. Maybe they like to make them shit their pants before killing them, I don't know.
Oh, and also, nobody ever finds a pool of blood without sticking their finger in it so they can hold it up to the light and we can all see the pretty red smush on their fingers. I would not be doing that if I saw a pool of dark red liquid on the ground even if I wasn't sure it was blood. You should be able to smell what it is anyway.
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Post by broox on Jul 2, 2012 12:22:15 GMT -5
A lot of people also walk slowly backwards in horror movies. Why do they do that? Who does that in real life?? Turn around and watch where you're going before you bump into the monster!
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Post by Gilberto on Aug 19, 2012 13:11:38 GMT -5
Here's one I just noticed in Friday the 13th 4... The coroner who's always eating because he's so insensitive to the dead bodies.
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Post by Glip on Aug 19, 2012 14:34:12 GMT -5
People growing up educated by film and tv know for a fact that it's part of the coroner's job description to eat while disecting.
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Post by drivebyluna on Aug 19, 2012 14:49:10 GMT -5
Here's one I just noticed in Friday the 13th 4... The coroner who's always eating because he's so insensitive to the dead bodies. I remember watching an interview with a coroner and she said she almost became vegetarian because she had issues slicing meat for dinner after work. |
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Post by lynn on Aug 20, 2012 3:38:19 GMT -5
But on the other hand, I did once talk to a doctor who said that you occasionally did get hungry during dissections while training...
but I do agree that "because I'm tough" is not a good enough reason to behave in such a horribly unhygienic and unprofessional manner.
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Post by Gilberto on Sept 1, 2012 15:35:36 GMT -5
Here's another couple:
I may have mentioned this before, but PEOPLE SHOOTING GUNS IN THE AIR TO GET SOMEONE'S ATTENTION. The bullet lands somewhere, people. That's just irresponsible.
I thought of this while watching Intruders, which is actually not a bad movie (despite its bad name)... THINGS IN MOVIES NO ONE ELSE BUT ME CAN SEE. The best part of this movie is when she says there's something in the closet and then - hot damn! A dude comes out of the closet! But they spend a lot of time after that trying to convince Clive Owen that he hallucinated it. When you can see the monster is there, it's really scary because it speaks to our fear that the world doesn't work that the way we thought it did. When you're the only one who can see it, that just speaks to our fear of being embarrassed. Both are relatable, but one is a more fundamental fear and the other is more or less vanity.
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Post by lynn on Sept 1, 2012 18:52:45 GMT -5
Well, as for the monster on you can see I think that plays better in different audiences. My mum says the idea that she knows something is real and everyone else is telling her she's crazy is one of her worst fears, because then you start questioning your own sanity, your grip on the world and everything you know. That's not vanity exactly, it's about making you feel isolated and crazy. Those movies where they try to convince a mother that the child that's just disappeared never existed? Most terrifying movie ever to my mother.
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Post by sam on Sept 3, 2012 8:29:16 GMT -5
how about the disposable zippo? whenever someone wants to make a statement and start a huge fire (typically to kill someone or just blow up a building) they ALWAYS have that one disposable zippo to start the fire. they usually throw it into the gasoline, never needing it before or after that one moment. nice
however, we can't forget Stallone in Cobra where he was always chewing on a match waiting for that one moment to use it!
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Post by Gilberto on Sept 3, 2012 10:11:51 GMT -5
That is a really good one. Zippos in general drive me crazy in movies. Regarding the throwing of the Zippo: They are expensive! You wouldn't just throw your Zippo away like that. Plus there's no guarantee it will stay lit. It's a lot easier in general to start a giant fire in movies. Everything sparks and ignites and fully explodes with very little provocation in movies. Anyone ever started a real fire? On purpose or (most of the time in my case) through dangerous negligence or almost criminal carelessness? It's hard! They should throw a toaster over instead of a Zippo. In my experience nothing starts a fire faster than a toaster oven.
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Post by Gilberto on Sept 3, 2012 10:18:00 GMT -5
Sam's zippo tip got me thinking about another one: They're always throwing away empty magazines or - worse yet - empty guns when the bullets run out. Those things are expensive too! You almost never see someone loading a clip in movies. It's a tedious business (which is why they probably don't focus on it). They make it look like every pistol comes with a hundred fully loaded disposable clips, and when you run out you'll just keep finding them in big piles like in Left 4 Dead or something.
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Post by sam on Sept 3, 2012 12:13:16 GMT -5
how about the fact that 99% of the time whenever there is a computer/laptop in a movie....it's a Mac! i guess PC's are just for losers anyway.
most "normal" people cannot afford a $2000+ computer, but even the poorest of the schmucks in movies can afford a Mac.
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Post by Gilberto on Sept 3, 2012 15:35:08 GMT -5
Product placement. What I find funny is when they have a Dell or something the Dell logo is turned up to the viewer when the laptop is open, even though the logo is actually up in reference to the laptop user out of the box. When it's open the logo ought to look upside down to someone on the other side of it.
The sign in the Central Perk coffee shop in "Friends" used to similarly drive me crazy. The painted letters on the glass are perfectly legible from the INSIDE of the shop, which would mean they would actually look backwards to people standing outside. That wouldn't be a very effective sign.
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Post by lynn on Sept 3, 2012 18:19:00 GMT -5
Fully clothed sex scenes. I know all sorts of things are possible when you set you mind to it, but the way they just sort of make a zipper noise then two fully clothed people just start rubbing each other and gasping. There was one in Buffy when she's wearing skin-tight leather pants, and they stay on the entire sex scene. I know there's a whole slayer vampire thing they can probably make rips... but at the end all cothes are fully intact. They just move apart like nothing ever happened and clothes still fully on. Sometimes they have the man pull his zipper up at the end like that explains everything. Girls clothes are hard to get into! There was one in that movie with Joaquin Phoenix and Gwennith Paltrow where they're both fully clad for winter weather, like, multi-layered and coats and everything, and all you get is that one zipper sound and they're both good to go. That was one of the things I liked about Watchmen; it's all awkward and maybe if I put my foot here and then oh wait it's too complicated anyway we'll just watch tv.
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