The "ding ding ding" in cars when the seatbelts aren't fastened - you'll hear it perhaps in more serious dramas or when losers like William Macy's character in FARGO opens his car door, but you're not likely to hear that in action movies even though they are usually filled with car stunts and chases.
...a man is interrupted partway through a shave, then uses a hand towel* to wipe away the remaining shaving cream...to reveal a perfectly-shaven face. No one ever has to go through the rest of the film with his face half-shaven, and half-stubbly. *And for that matter, have you EVER in real life used a towel to wipe off the last of the shaving cream? I always splash a few handfuls of cold water on my face to get rid of it.
Really good point. If you rub it off onto a Towel it just sticks to it, then your hands, then the walls, then the light switch. Splash of water does the trick.
Someone finds something on the sofa or floor. "Oh, a raisin!" Put's it in its mouth. Spits it out. "Not a raisin." Yeah, mice poop. Not funny the first time.
The "ding ding ding" in cars when the seatbelts aren't fastened - you'll hear it perhaps in more serious dramas or when losers like William Macy's character in FARGO opens his car door, but you're not likely to hear that in action movies even though they are usually filled with car stunts and chases.
a character in a bar talks to his friends about how little money he has, and yet has no problem ordering several adult beverages with his tight budget. makes sense
People seem to have either no job, a low paying or modest job, or quit a job and yet have really nice apartments, eat pretty well, never appear to have any money trouble and drive a nice new car too.
Hollywood is the worst at having characters like security guards go home to nice spacious apartments in a good area of New York City. It would cost 6 months of their wages to pay the rent for one month in the real world, not in the movies though.
.....people wake up from a nightmare, and sit up in bed with a scream. Has this ever happened in real life? Even from the worst nightmares I've awoken from, I've only ever opened my eyes...never sat up in bed.
...someone uses the phrase "This is above your pay grade" as a reply when a low-ranking character asks why he was not privvy to important information. I hear this line all the time, mostly in political/techno/spy movies.
Heard it AGAIN in Iron Man 3 recently, and supposedly it pops up in Fast & The Furious 6.
.....people wake up from a nightmare, and sit up in bed with a scream. Has this ever happened in real life? Even from the worst nightmares I've awoken from, I've only ever opened my eyes...never sat up in bed.
.....people wake up from a nightmare, and sit up in bed with a scream. Has this ever happened in real life? Even from the worst nightmares I've awoken from, I've only ever opened my eyes...never sat up in bed.
I rarely have nightmares, but last month I had one in which I thought I was awake and seeing the outline of someone (and not all that human looking) sitting on my bed. I tried to shout for it to go away, but I could barely whisper the words. I then realized I was awake and sitting up, and I was having a hallucination. Once I turned the light on, there was nothing there. I was so freaked out and disoriented that I actually peered over the end of the bed to see if "it" was still there. So no actual scream from me - but that is certainly more dramatic for a film than to have the sleeper awake in a daze whispering in a shaky voice!
...someone uses the phrase "This is above your pay grade" as a reply when a low-ranking character asks why he was not privvy to important information. I hear this line all the time, mostly in political/techno/spy movies.
Heard it AGAIN in Iron Man 3 recently, and supposedly it pops up in Fast & The Furious 6.
Also, INSIDE MAN. In fact, it's track 10 on the soundtrack.
The hero and the villain chase each other to the top of a building and begin fighting each other.......then they fall into a big skylight and crash through the glass.
I might have brought this up somewhere way back on this thread years ago. but when it looks like a movie is over and bingo another shock scene comes in.It once was a novelty a long long time ago, no more.
In lawyer movies, the hero usually graduated from Harvard Law School........not from Duke Law School, not from Yale Law School, not from the University of Michigan Law school.
In war movies, the hero is usually a former SEAL........not a former Ranger, not a former Delta Force.
In sci fi movies, the hero usually graduated from MIT......not Georgia Tech, not VPI, not Texas A&M.
In movies, the villains openly talk about their plot to blow up Washington DC with a nuclear bomb, assassinate the prime minister, rob Fort Knox, smuggle $100 million of cocaine or kidnap the French ambassador..........while their maids, butlers, tailors, barbers and hairdressers are standing right there.
...someone uses the phrase "This is above your pay grade" as a reply when a low-ranking character asks why he was not privvy to important information. I hear this line all the time, mostly in political/techno/spy movies.
Heard it AGAIN in Iron Man 3 recently, and supposedly it pops up in Fast & The Furious 6.
Also, INSIDE MAN. In fact, it's track 10 on the soundtrack.
That was one of the earliest movies to use it...or at least, the earliest I can remember. It's fucking EVERYWHERE now.
