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 Posted:   Sep 30, 2017 - 12:29 PM   
 By:   madmovyman   (Member)

Anyway, what I've come to dislike in movies is when you see a character go to the bathroom, inside or outside. I don't need to see that.

Did you close your eyes during the toilet scene in Trainspotting?

 
 Posted:   Oct 2, 2017 - 6:03 AM   
 By:   RoryR   (Member)

Anyway, what I've come to dislike in movies is when you see a character go to the bathroom, inside or outside. I don't need to see that.

Did you close your eyes during the toilet scene in Trainspotting?


Not that I recall, but right now I just watched Bryan Cranston on a toilet in Why Him? It was pretty lame, but I watched it because it's worse having to view the news of 50+ people machine-gunned in Vagas. Can't take it.

 
 Posted:   Oct 2, 2017 - 4:32 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Yeah (& I'm sure I posted this before), the killer puts his hands on both sides of the victims head from behind & twists the head to the side (accompanied by the sound of someone breaking a stick of celery), & the guy's dead. Quite ridiculous really, the head never turns more than it could naturally & I read somewhere that's it's impossible to kill someone like that, the neck muscles are too strong.



just saw a particularly egregious example on the CBC drama X COMPANY.
A 90 pound girl basically gave a very large man the kind of neck crack you would get from a chiropractor

 
 Posted:   Oct 26, 2017 - 9:10 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

...a character catches on fire, and suddenly his head is the size of a pumpkin as we cut to a stuntman who obviously has a prosthetic mask over his actual face to protect it from the flames? I realize there's no way around this unless you add the flames in later with CGI (which always looks dodgy), but still.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 27, 2017 - 5:59 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

...a character catches on fire, and suddenly his head is the size of a pumpkin as we cut to a stuntman who obviously has a prosthetic mask over his actual face to protect it from the flames? I realize there's no way around this unless you add the flames in later with CGI (which always looks dodgy), but still.


Yeah, what happened to method acting?

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 27, 2017 - 9:18 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

Buy this time I'm sure we're repeating stuff, but thinking of a few films I've seen lately (Con Air being one), I have to wonder why the police use handcuffs, when any movie villain can pick them with a pin or paperclip or anything really, & then drive away in a stolen car after reaching under the dashboard & flashing a few wires together.

 
 Posted:   Oct 27, 2017 - 11:58 AM   
 By:   madmovyman   (Member)

frantic and rough first time sex...

...so the guy and the girl meet in a bar, have a drink and maybe an appetizer -
cut to one or the others apartment and then suddenly they grab at each
others clothing sometimes ripping shirts, pants and dresses in a frantic
attempt to release the wanton desires that have consumed them. Is it love,
lust or just wrestling? I dunno, but I don't like it and I don't believe it.
Tiresome.

reference - Berlin Station



 
 Posted:   Oct 27, 2017 - 5:07 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

frantic and rough first time sex...

...so the guy and the girl meet in a bar, have a drink and maybe an appetizer -
cut to one or the others apartment and then suddenly they grab at each
others clothing sometimes ripping shirts, pants and dresses in a frantic
attempt to release the wanton desires that have consumed them. Is it love,
lust or just wrestling? I dunno, but I don't like it and I don't believe it.
Tiresome.

reference - Berlin Station

OR, ....the woman mounts the man - both fully dressed - and somehow manages to insert an erect penis into her vagina.

"Well that's a neat trick"
- James Bond in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

Last reference ; MARCO POL0 - Netflix A Weinstein Company production

 
 Posted:   Oct 27, 2017 - 7:11 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

frantic and rough first time sex...

...so the guy and the girl meet in a bar, have a drink and maybe an appetizer -
cut to one or the others apartment and then suddenly they grab at each
others clothing sometimes ripping shirts, pants and dresses in a frantic
attempt to release the wanton desires that have consumed them. Is it love,
lust or just wrestling? I dunno, but I don't like it and I don't believe it.
Tiresome.

reference - Berlin Station


The frantic sex scene became a "thing" in the 90's. Completely stupid and not sexy.

 
 Posted:   Nov 5, 2017 - 7:31 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Asking a simple question or offering a simple answer would've avoided a great deal of conflict, pain and confusion. Forced drama at it's worst.

 
 Posted:   Nov 5, 2017 - 8:08 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

Asking a simple question or offering a simple answer would've avoided a great deal of conflict, pain and confusion. Forced drama at it's worst.

TV shows do this shit a LOT...dragging out conflicts that would be resolved in a matter of minutes for half-a-season just because the damn characters won't talk to each other. mad

 
 Posted:   Nov 6, 2017 - 7:45 AM   
 By:   Recordman   (Member)

Probably done before, but I hate it when ALL the film credits are scrolled upfront before the film begins! At least the old way you could make an early exit if the film was a dog. Credit the dogcatcher now).
RM

 
 Posted:   Nov 6, 2017 - 3:12 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Asking a simple question or offering a simple answer would've avoided a great deal of conflict, pain and confusion. Forced drama at it's worst.

You mean like this?

Watson rushes into the office yelling :"Holmes, I just found out something important!"
Holmes:" Not now Watson, I am late for an engagement" (he puts on coat and starts out the door)
Watson: "But Holmes this is really important. You will want to hear this"
Holmes: "How many times have I told you Watson; don't bother me when I have to go somewhere..." You can tell me tonite"
Watson: "But...but... but.....

d'oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 6, 2017 - 3:46 PM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

How about someone phoning up a cop with some vital information, "I can't tell you over the phone (why not??), I'll meet you at... You just know that when the cop arrives at the destination, he/she will be there...dead!

The film industry needs a new credit, a cliché editor, with the force of law behind them.

Sorry you can't have that.

Why not?

Because it's a whorey old cliché that's been done a thousand times before & insults people's intelligence, go back & think of something better.

 
 Posted:   Nov 6, 2017 - 9:29 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

...the obligatory, pop culture-riffing "nerd" techie character is somehow just as good-looking as the lead characters? Every single CW superhero show has this character. Here's the "nerd" techie from The Flash:



Man, what a dweeb!

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 7, 2017 - 2:45 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Asking a simple question or offering a simple answer would've avoided a great deal of conflict, pain and confusion. Forced drama at it's worst.

You mean like this?

Watson rushes into the office yelling :"Holmes, I just found out something important!"
Holmes:" Not now Watson, I am late for an engagement" (he puts on coat and starts out the door)
Watson: "But Holmes this is really important. You will want to hear this"
Holmes: "How many times have I told you Watson; don't bother me when I have to go somewhere..." You can tell me tonite"
Watson: "But...but... but.....

d'oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Probably more like they do in Thomas Vinterberg's JAGTEN, for example, where every single statement is answered with a reply, or as 'woollen as possible', so that it's taken in the most ambigious and negative way:

-"So, did you molest that child?"
-"Do you really need to ask me that question?"
-"But did you? Can't you just be honest?"
-"Why have we come to this?"

etc.etc.

Really, really annoying...

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 7, 2017 - 3:55 AM   
 By:   Graham Watt   (Member)

Asking a simple question or offering a simple answer would've avoided a great deal of conflict, pain and confusion. Forced drama at it's worst.

You mean like this?

Watson rushes into the office yelling :"Holmes, I just found out something important!"
Holmes:" Not now Watson, I am late for an engagement" (he puts on coat and starts out the door)
Watson: "But Holmes this is really important. You will want to hear this"
Holmes: "How many times have I told you Watson; don't bother me when I have to go somewhere..." You can tell me tonite"
Watson: "But...but... but.....

d'oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Or, ending with,

Watson: "But Holmes! LeStrade's been murdered!"
Holmes: "LeStrade murdered? For heaven's sake man, why didn't you say so before?"

 
 Posted:   Nov 7, 2017 - 7:09 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Asking a simple question or offering a simple answer would've avoided a great deal of conflict, pain and confusion. Forced drama at it's worst.

You mean like this?

Watson rushes into the office yelling :"Holmes, I just found out something important!"
Holmes:" Not now Watson, I am late for an engagement" (he puts on coat and starts out the door)
Watson: "But Holmes this is really important. You will want to hear this"
Holmes: "How many times have I told you Watson; don't bother me when I have to go somewhere..." You can tell me tonite"
Watson: "But...but... but.....

d'oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


That's one fine example!

 
 Posted:   Nov 7, 2017 - 12:18 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

How about someone phoning up a cop with some vital information, "I can't tell you over the phone (why not??), I'll meet you at... You just know that when the cop arrives at the destination, he/she will be there...dead!

.


If you had done your research you would know that on June, 11, 2011 I posted this very same cliché!!!!!!
Next time, do your research!!!!
bruce


ps wink

 
 Posted:   Nov 7, 2017 - 12:23 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

I call this one the "crime solvers roundtable" aka "exposition diversity forum"

I don't hate it and its mostly done on ELEMENTARY , a show I like.

AT the climax , the murderer is brought into the police station interview room. Seated are Holmes, Watson, Gregson and Bell.
Holmes starts off describing how they solved the case. After a few sentences Watson picks up right where he left off...

Holmes: We know you did it because your alibi doesn't fit...
Watson: Right, surveilliance footage shows that...
Bell: You weren't where you said you where the night...
Gregson: ..the shooting went down

yu get the drift!
smile
b

 
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