Then they'd lock their keys in the car, which are always in the sun visor ldo.

A police chief will yell an accentuated GODDAMMIT when an operation goes wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqz5dbs5zmo

Haha never seen that before.

Enhance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk

One thing I cannot wrap my mind around is how phone calls are handled in pretty much any movie or television show. It seems ridiculous to me at what speed the person who picks up processes/responds to what the person on the other end of the line is saying. On television I can kind of understand this, since they are usually strapped for time. I remember watching some Simpsons episode with commentary where they explained that when the network shortened the episodes by 90 seconds or so, it totally changed the way they had to write the episodes. But in movies this just seems incredibly lazy to me. I mean, is it so implausible to actually write dialogue for the caller as well and then having the person who picks up acting out the scene with him/her on the phone? Is anyone else bothered by this?

In many cases, it's not necessary to show the other end of a phone call or would slow things down needlessly. Everything gets sped up in movies. They show the guy pull up to a house, then walking through the door while skipping the steps in between. No one waits for a cab unless it's a plot point. No one ever waits for the door to be answered unless they're having a conversation. Driving across LA takes a few minutes at most. Movies don't reflect life, they reflect life with all the irrelevant BS cut out.


Movies don't have the strict time constraints as TV, but they're still very conscious of pacing. Why have a 2 hour long movie that drags in places and has shots that are unnecessarily long when you can strip the movie down to 105 minutes without hurting the story just by cutting it tighter?

Not sure I made myself entirely clear. I wouldn't want to show the other end of the phone call, but is it too much too ask that the actors say nothing for like 2 seconds and act with facial expressions so that the viewer can see that he is processing what he is being told? You're obviously right about the whole speeding up thing, though.

Thought of a couple more (same device though):

- starting a movie with the end
- telling a story in a non-linear way

While I am a big fan of the second, I think this has really become commonplace and it is incredibly infuriating when it adds nothing to the experience.

i love how the money in a ransom situation always exactly fits the suitcase/briefcase, filling it to the brim and not a inch less or more

This is by design. The kidnappers know ahead of time how much money fits into the briefcase so that's how they select their number. jk.

Muse, that's pretty low down on my list of things that bother me but yeah it would be nice to see one end of the conversation at a bit more accurate pace. It's a bit better than "(pick up) Patterson! (half second passes) Oh yeah? (half second passes) I'm ON IT! (slams down phone)"

Maybe they used to do it better in films and enough data showed that people got bored or antsy during these scenes and it wasn't worth it.

It's also in Wedding Singer, which is by far the worst movie I've ever seen.

You haven't seen many movies.

How about Hero is infiltrating a building or something, and on his way, knocks out a first bad guy and doesn't even bother tying him up / taking his weapon ?

Also, hero knocks out bad guy and doesn't take his weapon, is later confronted by 2nd bad guy who is armed while he is still not. Often there is a chain of these, in which hero defeats multiple armed opponents while unarmed himself and never chooses to take one of their weapons.

Oh, right sorry for my opinion.

Grown man crawling through an air duct in a building.

Hero is fighting several baddies of the same type, for every one he has to find a new cunning plan to beat them even though the first one is still usable.

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I bet it totally puts you on supermonkeytilt when sports center shows clips of guys making 99-yard touchdown runs and they fast forward the part between when he breaks free and when he gets to the five-yard line.

Turning the tv/radio on to get the relevant piece of news immediately.

@pvn: I didn't realize that my view comes off as super picky. It's just a little detail that bothers me precisely because I think fixing it would take minimal effort. I also think that there's a difference between watching a movie and a summary of some sports event, but whatever.

Not a cliche but thing that tilts me out of this world is when character lights a cigarete,inhales,and exhales N A D A!I mean wtf!It totaly pulls me out of the movie and ruins my expirience for the next 10 minutes or so.If you ppl dont understand why,equivalent for this would be if the actor would,out of the blue,look straight at the camera and winked at the viewer.Anybody else hates this??

Teens who smoke pot or have sex get killed in every horror movie, while sole survivor is the good student virgin waiting for marriage.

Horror movies that have the pet get killed.

End of movie where villian is about to kill hero but takes 5 minutes to explain why he is doing it, enabling hero to somehow defeat villian and live.

Lead male and female character hate each other at start of movie but end up realizing they would be a great couple by the end.

These come from me being a bit of a gun geek:
1-as posted above- The obligatory "click" of a pistol when pointed at someone. This SERIOUSLY tilts me when the pistol is a double action only style (glock etc.)

2-Any time someone is hit by a bullet and thrown backwards. This can not happen. Even a 1oz. shotgun slug can't propel even a 75lb girl off her feet. I believe Newton explained that whole "equal and opposite reaction" thing. It would blow you off your feet if it would throw the target anywhere.

3-Any pinpoint accuracy with a pistol beyond 25 yards. Seriously, has anyone in the movie business actually fired a handgun? 2 inch groups from a bench rest at 25 yards is GREAT for a $3000 custom 1911.

4-Large amounts of fatal gunshot wounds. Look up the FBI crime statistics, 85% of gunshot wounds are survived.

5-Silencers on large bore rifles and/or handguns. (also seen in video games) Seriously? a silenced .50BMG? really? faster than 3,000 feet per second is going to crack the sound barrier regardless of the fancy can on the front of your rifle. Also applies to 9mm, which is a supersonic round as well. .45ACP one of the few common calibers that is manufactured subsonic (standard loads)

A bit?