.....cell phones have no signal or run out of battery, especially in horror/suspense films?
....people sit down to eat in restaurants, yet they rarely take a bite and never actually finish the expensive meal they've just ordered?
....people never go to the toilet even if it's an action-filled film that goes over several days?
....some characters just HAVE to walk out or explore dangerous stuff alone when there's absolutely no reason why they couldn't have called for help or just gotten the hell outta there?
1. People can hold their breath under water for a seemingly impossible amount of time, even under physical duress. (Gene Hackman in The Poseidon Adventure for example)
2. People appear to fall over a cliff, but are revealed to be just hanging on to the ledge. (Frodo in ROTK, Indy from Last Crusade tank chase, Harrigan and Predator in Predator 2 ).
3. People being chased almost always trip and fall.
....an established character dies in an action film, is then greeted by a brief "oh no!" by the remaining cast, but then they're back at cracking jokes and acting as if nothing ever happened five minutes later?
.....cell phones have no signal or run out of battery, especially in horror/suspense films?
....people sit down to eat in restaurants, yet they rarely take a bite and never actually finish the expensive meal they've just ordered?
....people never go to the toilet even if it's an action-filled film that goes over several days?
....some characters just HAVE to walk out or explore dangerous stuff alone when there's absolutely no reason why they couldn't have called for help or just gotten the hell outta there?
You continue.
Sounds like circumstances that take place in any given episode of 24.
...no matter where you are in Paris, you always have a view of the Eiffel Tower. And everyone in Washington DC has an office window through which you can see the Capitol Dome.
...there's never any traffic blocking the car chase.
...except, when a car heads down a narrow alleyway, there's always a big truck slowly backing out to block the way, causing the car to do an impossible thrilling maneuver to avoid it!
...and then that impossible-thrilling-maneuver usually involves a large pile of empty cardboard boxes stacked conveniently nearby.
almost every movie the phone number starts with 555, that makes me laugh and if they are in the woods, the actors are almost always PERFECTLY lit, but even when they are perfectly lit, their characters are acting like they can't see and such.
EDIT, actually these things I don't hate as the subject suggests, I just think they are funny!!!
