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 Posted:   Dec 1, 2015 - 1:01 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

My ongoing pet peeve for the last 15 years. Injuries magically disappear then reappear again. A character gets shot or stabbed, shows five seconds of discomfort, then goes back to fighting or indulges in a long chase scene. Then when it's all over, grab the area of their injury and shows some discomfort again. Like, "Oh yeah, I was just shot or stabbed 10 minutes ago!"

 
 Posted:   Dec 2, 2015 - 5:38 PM   
 By:   agentMaestraX   (Member)

Hollyweird does remakes....!

 
 Posted:   Dec 2, 2015 - 9:08 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

...someone, during a cell phone conversation, gets so angry that they throw said phone against the nearest wall as hard as they can? Do they know how much those things COST?!

 
 Posted:   Dec 3, 2015 - 7:41 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

The hero's girlfriend announcing at the worst possible time she is pregnant. They seem to get pregnant on cue. Just when the hero is facing a no win scenario. This just happened in Gotham.

 
 Posted:   Dec 3, 2015 - 3:20 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

...someone, during a cell phone conversation, gets so angry that they throw said phone against the nearest wall as hard as they can? Do they know how much those things COST?!

NO. How much do they cost?
smile
bruce

 
 Posted:   Dec 3, 2015 - 3:22 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

The hero's girlfriend announcing at the worst possible time she is pregnant. They seem to get pregnant on cue. Just when the hero is facing a no win scenario. This just happened in Gotham.

Oh man! You forgot to put up a "spoiler alert"!!!!

Damn you! I NEVER could have seen that plot twist coming in a million years
brm

 
 Posted:   Dec 3, 2015 - 3:24 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

FBI SWAT teams burst into apartment but suspect flees out the fire escape.
You would think they could anticipate that cliche by now!
brm

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 4, 2015 - 2:51 AM   
 By:   Disco Stu   (Member)

1) Bad and very obvious ADR, especially when in the same scene the same character continues the discussion with the actual recording. It's extremely jarring.

2) This is something they don't do anymore luckily enough:
- when the background score mostly in a bar, a hotel or elevator is the main theme of the film.
- when the source music is so obviously pasted over a scene and it is the kind of music that would never be played in those locations/ social environments.

Biggest offenders are the 70s. As much as I love many series from that decade, damn do those stick out.

D.S.

 
 Posted:   Dec 4, 2015 - 3:29 AM   
 By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member)

guys, cool it.
you can not contract AIDS thru licking blood
So , go ahead and feast
wink
brm


You can if you have open wounds in your mouth. First of all you don't always notice you have those since they are not always sensitive. Secondly since the situations people do that stupid stuff usually follows an act of violence, it's very likely that the person involved does have some opening to their blood circulation.

Either way it's just stupid, what's worse, it's kitsch so knock it off!

D.S.



You absolutely CAN get HIV from licking blood. And you do NOT need an open wound in your mouth. If you lick HIV-infected blood, you're putting the virus in direct contact with your mucous membranes. The mouth is just as vulnerable as the genitals, which obviously can contract HIV without an open wound.

The confusion seems to have arisen from the saying that you can't get HIV from kissing. But there's an exception: if the HIV-infected person you are kissing has bleeding gums or an open cut on his lips or in his mouth, then you are in danger of contracting the virus. It can go from his blood to your mucous membranes.

 
 Posted:   Dec 4, 2015 - 8:42 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Stock footage of any kind. Old, blurry, grainy, washed out, not color keyed with the rest of the film. Usually a war plane or location inaccurate for the scene. How many times have they used NASA footage of the Space Shuttle or Atlas Rocket for fictional space craft launches?

 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2015 - 2:46 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Stunt doubles who look nothing like the actor they are doubling.

..watched a terrible Audi Murphy western THE QUICK GUN and every time there was a fight scene I broke out laughing : Murphy- short, fair haired STUnT man - tall, with a horrendous toupee that looked like it was falling off.

Apparently the director thought that if the stunt man just wore the same clothes we wouldn't notice
brm

 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2015 - 8:17 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

Stunt doubles who look nothing like the actor they are doubling.

..watched a terrible Audi Murphy western THE QUICK GUN and every time there was a fight scene I broke out laughing : Murphy- short, fair haired STUnT man - tall, with a horrendous toupee that looked like it was falling off.

Apparently the director thought that if the stunt man just wore the same clothes we wouldn't notice
brm


Happened all the time in the James Bond movies, especially once Roger Moore took over...it was always BLATANTLY obvious when they'd switch over to a decades-younger stuntman, basically whenever Moore's 007 had to do anything more strenuous than walking briskly. It was like, the producers didn't seem to care a lick, probably guessing that, if the stunt or fight was impressive enough, the audience wouldn't care (plus, the Moore films were produced in the days long before you could easily freeze-frame movies).

Here's one...the Fire Is Not Hot rule, which stipulates that, so long as fire doesn't actually touch a character, they will display no ill effects no matter how close to it they get. No passing out from the extreme heat, no smoke inhalation, nothin'. Also applies to pools of lava, molten steel, and the like. In real life, try getting within fifty feet of a lava flow without feeling the hairs in your nose start to crisp, and yet Anakin and Obi-Wan have a twenty-minute lightsaber duel while hopping, skipping and jumping from platform to platform above a sea of lava in Revenge Of The Sith and barely even break a sweat.

 
 Posted:   Dec 7, 2015 - 8:24 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

Death by drownings last 10 seconds. But the protagonist can hold their breath underwater for an eternity.

Also, hold a pillow over someone's face, and they pass out/die in fifteen seconds or less. Try holding a pillow over your face, and see how easy it is to totally cut off someone's oxygen supply.

 
 Posted:   Dec 8, 2015 - 3:09 AM   
 By:   gone   (Member)

I hate it when some handsome guy spends the night with some bombshell girl, they wake up in the morning, and they still have their pajamas on. What's up with that?

 
 Posted:   Dec 8, 2015 - 8:36 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I hate it when some handsome guy spends the night with some bombshell girl, they wake up in the morning, and they still have their pajamas on. What's up with that?

Or when the otherwise naked girl is always covering her breasts with the bed sheets. God bless Glenn Close.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 8, 2015 - 9:38 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

I hate it when some handsome guy spends the night with some bombshell girl, they wake up in the morning, and they still have their pajamas on. What's up with that?

Or when the otherwise naked girl is always covering her breasts with the bed sheets. God bless Glenn Close.


Yeah, & real tight too! I take it that they've been doing the do, so why so bashful in the morning, but I suppose the actress wants to leave a few secrets for very close friends only.

 
 Posted:   Dec 8, 2015 - 3:38 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

I hate it when some handsome guy spends the night with some bombshell girl, they wake up in the morning, and they still have their pajamas on. What's up with that?

Or when the otherwise naked girl is always covering her breasts with the bed sheets. God bless Glenn Close.


Yeah, & real tight too! I take it that they've been doing the do, so why so bashful in the morning, but I suppose the actress wants to leave a few secrets for very close friends only.



WE DISCUSSED THE 'sheets up' issue at length in previous post.

sad.....

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2015 - 5:09 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

I hate it when some handsome guy spends the night with some bombshell girl, they wake up in the morning, and they still have their pajamas on. What's up with that?

Or when the otherwise naked girl is always covering her breasts with the bed sheets. God bless Glenn Close.


Yeah, & real tight too! I take it that they've been doing the do, so why so bashful in the morning, but I suppose the actress wants to leave a few secrets for very close friends only.



WE DISCUSSED THE 'sheets up' issue at length in previous post.

sad.....


Yeah, a lot of these are coming round again, but that's what you get with a long thread, people aren't going to trowel through it all before posting, & I don't mind stuff coming up again (& again).

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2015 - 5:20 AM   
 By:   madmovyman   (Member)

I just hate it when...

the good guys have guns on the bad guy who is holding a hostage with a knife at the victim's throat and the bad guy says, "you good guys put your guns down or I'll kill her". And the good guys being such good guys lay their guns down and the bad guy escapes.

Why don't the good guys say, "I don't think I will put my gun down and allow you to escape and kill many more people other than the one that you've got right now. Go ahead and cut her throat, then when she falls down dead, you will have no other option but to say "whoops, now I have a dilemma with no hostage to threaten with death and I am facing very angry good guys with guns. I don't think my knife will protect me anymore... damn, I didn't think this through."

This recently happened on The Walking Dead. I am getting really tired of these apocalyptic survivors not doing what is necessary in a desperate situation, especially the guy that will not kill anyone because "every life matters". That ideology is just total bullshit and somebody needs to kick his ass and set him straight or boot his butt through the gate.

And somebody please zombyize that goofy kid with the cowboy hat... just so tired of him.

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2015 - 9:51 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

I was contemplating posting this very thing from walking dead, madmovyman.
Im sorry but any sharpshooter - and ricks crew are used to shooting zombies in the head - will tell you that from four yards a man with a bullet in the forehead is not gonna do anything except splatter the wall behind and collapse to the floor - let alone be able to slice someones throat!!!
Equally nobody puts their guns down to a psycho killer who would then have carte blanche to murder them all.
It was total and utter bollocks.

Not the first time such scenarios have happened in films and series.

 
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