...I always wish that someone decides to "leave the damn dog/cat, it's time to go". I'm almost at that point now that I would apply it to children too. All of them cheap means to add another short tension spike in a film. D.S.
If only Kasper Gutman directed films: "Well, Wilmer, I'm sorry indeed to lose you, but I want you to know I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. Well, if you lose a son, it's possible to get another. There's only one Maltese falcon. When you're young, you simply don't understand these things."
I guess you guys missed out on Nazi Germany or latest Muslim terrorist group. (take your pick) Think you can just "walk away" from it? Give it a try.
I didn't know they hunted down defectors. I thought it was the Mob which was infamous for holding a grudge until they got revenge.
More like stay and obey or we'll do terrible things to your family. They were trapped into the situation.
That's abit off mark from killing the messenger in Star Wars or Hercules movies. Of course they could create the scenario of a messenger deserting, and having his family threatened to make your point, but that's beyond the scope here.
I guess you guys missed out on Nazi Germany or latest Muslim terrorist group. (take your pick) Think you can just "walk away" from it? Give it a try.
I didn't know they hunted down defectors. I thought it was the Mob which was infamous for holding a grudge until they got revenge.
More like stay and obey or we'll do terrible things to your family. They were trapped into the situation.
That's abit off mark from killing the messenger in Star Wars or Hercules movies. Of course they could create the scenario of a messenger deserting, and having his family threatened to make your point, but that's beyond the scope here.
Yes, we went astray in the conversation. I do think constantly killing off the second in command, messenger or henchmen lackey is a bit silly. I was suggesting a real world reason why they might stick around.
Girl opens the refrigerator to get food, closes the door and OMG, there's someone there. Girl in bathroom spits out toothpaste then looks up and OMG, there's someone behind her in the mirror. Girl gets in a car and goes to drive away and OMG, there's someone hiding in the back seat.
I guess you guys missed out on Nazi Germany or latest Muslim terrorist group. (take your pick) Think you can just "walk away" from it? Give it a try.
I didn't know they hunted down defectors. I thought it was the Mob which was infamous for holding a grudge until they got revenge.
More like stay and obey or we'll do terrible things to your family. They were trapped into the situation.
That's abit off mark from killing the messenger in Star Wars or Hercules movies. Of course they could create the scenario of a messenger deserting, and having his family threatened to make your point, but that's beyond the scope here.
Yes, we went astray in the conversation. I do think constantly killing off the second in command, messenger or henchmen lackey is a bit silly. I was suggesting a real world reason why they might stick around.
In the movies they're just young thugs who want to bust heads and naturally don't expect to be killed off. They either don't have a family, or think of their fellow villains as a family. At least in Star Trek III, Klingon Chris Lloyd has a slightly more "legitimate" reason to kill one of his bridge crew who negligently destroyed a ship.
Girl opens the refrigerator to get food, closes the door and OMG, there's someone there. Girl in bathroom spits out toothpaste then looks up and OMG, there's someone behind her in the mirror. Girl gets in a car and goes to drive away and OMG, there's someone hiding in the back seat.
This is up there with the exiting character at the door with one more thing to say, or is called to hear one more thing from whomever is in the room.
...the head villain gets news from one of his underlings about something they did (or didn't do) that upsets the Big Bad, who then casually executes (or orders the execution) of said underling. Who would continue to WORK for someone who is likely to kill you if you so much as bring them a lukewarm cup of coffee? I know it's supposed to show just how crazy/ruthless the villain is, but it's lazy screenwriting.
Agreed. That was what was so silly about the James Bond films. That's also what made Star Wars start to go downhill, starting with The Empire Strikes Back, with Vader choking everybody who brings him a bad report.
In both "Bond" and "TESB" the underlings were executed because they had failed their mission/ orders, not because they merely informed the leader of a failure.
When....all serial killers are able to appear in a victim's house without any sign of breaking in or smashing glass - clearly they are all sent to locksmith school before they learn how to chop bodies up.
When....all serial killers are able to appear in a victim's house without any sign of breaking in or smashing glass - clearly they are all sent to locksmith school before they learn how to chop bodies up.
Not just serial killers... ....how many times have you heard this dialogue: " How did you get in here?!" "I let myself in n"
The last episode of BREAKING BAD has a particularly egregious example m Ben
...a superhero lurks in the shadows, talking to the detective or cop who has become his begrudging accomplice, and when said officer of the law turns around for a split second, then turns back, the hero has vanished into thin air? It doesn't matter if the conversation is taking place in a building fifty stories up, the officer will only see the billow of curtains in front of an open window when he turns around, and then usually say something to the effect of, "I hate it when he does that." Just ONCE, I'd love to see a scene with the hero trying to surreptitiously exit the room or back alley or whatever, and the officer spots them, and is like, "HEY! We were not finished speaking...!"
...the superhero's initials or chest logo appears etched in flame at some point? What, do they have a little cannister of gasoline they carry around with them at all times just so they can leave a calling card? Most absurd example: the 2004 version of The Punisher, where Thomas Jane ties John Travolta to the bumper of a car and sends it into a parking lot and blows it up via remote detonation...and then we cut to a God's-eye view shot, where the flaming car wreckage just happens to form his skull emblem. What, did he spend a few days using GPS satellite photos to set up the cars in the right pattern?
When....all serial killers are able to appear in a victim's house without any sign of breaking in or smashing glass - clearly they are all sent to locksmith school before they learn how to chop bodies up.
Not just serial killers... ....how many times have you heard this dialogue: " How did you get in here?!" "I let myself in n"
The last episode of BREAKING BAD has a particularly egregious example m Ben
The last episode of BREAKING BAD has a particularly egregious example m
Not sure what you mean, and also not sure since it's been a while that I saw that, but if you're talking about Walt slipping into Gretchen and Elliot's house, AFAIR, Walt just waited in the shadows and slipped right into the door after they arrived. Did not seem particularly difficult or tricky, they were not even suspecting it.
The last episode of BREAKING BAD has a particularly egregious example m
Not sure what you mean, and also not sure since it's been a while that I saw that, but if you're talking about Walt slipping into Gretchen and Elliot's house, AFAIR, Walt just waited in the shadows and slipped right into the door after they arrived. Did not seem particularly difficult or tricky, they were not even suspecting it.
That one. I didn't see him sneak him. My BAD...maybe.
... when a good guy is wrongly accused, so he decides to escape police custody while enroute to the station or prison. After overpowering the arresting officers, the good guy races along the streets causing massive damage to other vehicles and trucks. I've always wanted to know how many lives were ruined or destroyed by this desperate hero who is later found innocent of the initial crime. How many people were injured or died as a result of his maniacal escape.
...a movie made after the year 2005 has a scene where characters rent movies from a video store? It seems impossibly anachronistic in this day and age. There was the lame 2012 action/comedy This Means War, where Chris Pine and Reese Witherspoon Meet Cute in a video store while perusing the shelves, and I'm like, where do you people live where that's still something people do on a Friday or Saturday night? This is obviously the work of screenwriters well over the age of forty who don't understand how people consume media in the era of streaming, or else just want an excuse to get lonely characters out of their apartments so that Meet Cutes can still happen.
I haven't rented a movie in a video store since 2005, when my local Mom & Pop store closed down. Hell, even Blockbuster is extinct.
EDIT: And, for that matter, even in the era of video stores, what video store would have a display of Criterion Hitchcock titles for rent?!
