In westerns where there is a condemned man in a cell, he can always hear the gallows being built (sawing, banging) and can always see ithe gallows from his cell window.
(Never understood why towns didnt have permanent gallows on outskirts of town, always have to have one built for the plot by the town carpenter)
Yeah, such a western cliché, if fact I can't think of a western where a prisoner is going to be hanged where he's not looking out of the bars of the window & seeing the gallows being built (or at least hearing it). And those gallows are always so well made, I reckon the Swiss immigrant carpenter, with the family name of Ikea, has it all stored in flatpack
...when, in a horror/suspense film, someone hides in the closet, the villain slowly moves his hand to open it, but then just at the last moment, he's called off by some distraction or someone saying 'let's move out!'. As if he couldn't spend 5 extra seconds on opening the closet door before moving on.
...when, in a horror/suspense film, someone hides in the closet, the villain slowly moves his hand to open it, but then just at the last moment, he's called off by some distraction or someone saying 'let's move out!'. As if he couldn't spend 5 extra seconds on opening the closet door before moving on.
This also happens in action films....Hero hiding in a public toilet cubicle. Bad guy walks in....sequentially kicking in each cubicle door from closest to furthest. Luckily our hero is hiding in the last one and the bad guy gets called away before they can kick that last door in.
Our intrepid band of good guys are searching for a thing that helps them find another thing that hasn’t been located by anyone who has been looking for it. Ever.
Then they get chased by stormtroo....errrr...bad guys (who can fly now), and because of the chase, fall into quicksand - which seems to be certain death. But then they fall through said quicksand into a secret cavern. Where they find the thing that helps them find another thing.
Police are looking at blurry medium distance surveillance footage on a computer screen. Top cop says to computer operator, "Can you zoom in on that face / license plate / tattoo? Operator does so and blurry footage becomes larger and crystal clear.
Of course zooming in on blurry footage actually just makes it blurrier.
This may also have been mentioned, perhaps even by me. When the characters are in a situation where they either need to conserve oxygen by not talking or to be quiet in order to avoid detection, the leader of the group waits until they’re in the predicament before telling the others exactly that, thereby risking running out of oxygen or of being overheard.
For the former, I give you the underwater sequence of For Your Eyes Only. For the latter, something I watched last week but can’t recall what it was, but the talking thing happened.
Our intrepid band of good guys are searching for a thing that helps them find another thing that hasn’t been located by anyone who has been looking for it. Ever.
Then they get chased by stormtroo....errrr...bad guys (who can fly now), and because of the chase, fall into quicksand - which seems to be certain death. But then they fall through said quicksand into a secret cavern. Where they find the thing that helps them find another thing.
LOL! Are you describing Fall of the Skywalker? I dunno, I haven't seen the film.
A group of people are at a cocktail party, dinner, or some other get together, and one of the characters says "I have an interesting story to tell" it then cuts to a lengthy flashback that goes on and on for hours with copious narrating throughout. At the end of what must have taken hours and hours to tell, the guests remain wholly engaged. Whenever I see this I always think of the scenes from Airplane! with various characters choosing suicide as the better option to continuing to listen to Stryker's stories.
Police are looking at blurry medium distance surveillance footage on a computer screen. Top cop says to computer operator, "Can you zoom in on that face / license plate / tattoo? Operator does so and blurry footage becomes larger and crystal clear.
Of course zooming in on blurry footage actually just makes it blurrier.
The TV series Bones (which I loved) was very guilty of that.
War of the Worlds tv series is full of stupid. Clunky robot dog is within thirty feet of a group of survivors, pistons wheezing, clinking loudly, but because everyone is facing in a different direction, so they suddenly can't hear anything.
There's also been a worldwide pulse that killed everyone above ground, which they labour the point, so our heroes take refuge in... a 16th floor hotel suite... because the script obviously won't be using that again.
Lady meets a great new guy. But the old guy isn't totally out of the picture yet. late in the story the lady tells the old guy its over. They huge or kiss and part ways. New guy sees this interaction from afar and thinks they're getting back together again and leaves the scene heartbroken.
Don't we know what Hitler looked like? To me an emo haircut, a Chaplin moustache, and folding the right arm ready for a tray, is not enough from me. Facial features (most of all eye colour), body size and movement seem not to be important to the people who claim to go through great lengths to "bring you every thing as historically accurate as technically possible".
So many action movies ive seen where the main gangster who has some semblance of villain's code always has a troublesome, scummy, cruel but cowardly murdering son, who either feels inadequate and keeps screwing up or who plots to take over daddy's firm. From Road to Perdition to Liam Neeson's Run All Night to two Seagal films i saw recently. Its become a terribly boring cliche
A person leaves a house or apartment, closes the door and the phone rings. For some reason they never hear it through the thin door and come back in. Even if they were expecting the call.
