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 Posted:   Oct 12, 2022 - 3:25 PM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

The Terminator is on the box right now, & they come back in time from the future naked, they obviously can't bring anything non-organic back with them...but the terminator (Schwarzenegger) has a metal body under that fake skin, so they obviously can. But then I'm sure you make a long list of logical errors in that film...I don't think it's aged that well, but at least it doesn't have that very annoying kid in it that was in Terminator 2.

 
 Posted:   Oct 12, 2022 - 11:32 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

when the assassin goes rogue and starts killing off the criminals that the police have been desperate to convict of terrible crimes for years, the cops try to stop him. Why?

Be nice to see more movies where the cops deliberately didnt try too hard to catch the vigilante and admitted they werent.
Although often you would get a clever cop who catches them but lets them go. Death Wish was 1 of the first i saw like this but im sure there mustve been others.

 
 Posted:   Oct 13, 2022 - 4:51 AM   
 By:   jackfu   (Member)

when the assassin goes rogue and starts killing off the criminals that the police have been desperate to convict of terrible crimes for years, the cops try to stop him. Why?

Be nice to see more movies where the cops deliberately didnt try too hard to catch the vigilante and admitted they werent.
Although often you would get a clever cop who catches them but lets them go. Death Wish was 1 of the first i saw like this but im sure there mustve been others.


I agree. I remember everyone in the theater getting a chuckle at Detective Ochoa's line: "Mr. Kirsey, we want you to leave New Yoak. Poimanently!"

 
 Posted:   Oct 13, 2022 - 5:26 AM   
 By:   jackfu   (Member)

Another one - the use of the same sound effects for howling wind, howling wolves, thunder, etc. in different films. There is one wind effect that has been used numerous times. The same with one particular thunder sound. And, it doesn't really sound that much like real thunder - more like a sheet of steel or aluninum being struck.

 
 Posted:   Oct 13, 2022 - 8:29 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

The Wilhelm Scream- I thought it was really funny and amusing at first, but now that I know the scream it sticks out like a sore thumb in practically every film I watch. And Ive heard it used when the mood was supposed to be very serious.

 
 Posted:   Oct 15, 2022 - 7:43 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Hurricanes suddenly appear then disappear- Karate Kid pt2, The Little Mermaid, Jurassic Park.

 
 Posted:   Oct 16, 2022 - 12:21 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Why in so many films do gangsters (often eastern european ones) decide to rape or murder the mate/work colleague/stepdaughter/dog of a special forces assassin who is dormant and working as an average Joe nobody?

Saw this in Nobody, Clean, Equaliser, John Wick, etc etc and dozens more.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 16, 2022 - 3:47 AM   
 By:   Rick15   (Member)

Why in so many films do gangsters (often eastern european ones) decide to rape or murder the mate/work colleague/stepdaughter/dog of a special forces assassin who is dormant and working as an average Joe nobody?

Saw this is Nobody, Clean, Equaliser, John Wick, etc etc and dozens more.


I’m gonna stick up for Nobody here....

I haven’t seen it for a while but I think no family member, close associate (or pet) of Mr Nobody was murdered or raped.

I think he had a price on his head because he beat the f**k out of a Russian crime lord’s son/nephew/cousin who was being particularly anti-social on public transport.

 
 Posted:   Oct 16, 2022 - 5:22 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Dont get me wrong, nobody was great.
The point im making is sleeper assassin getting activated is a common trait. And i was also being slightly tongue in cheek.

But dont they get burgled to start off with by house breakers?

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 17, 2022 - 4:43 AM   
 By:   Rick15   (Member)

Dont get me wrong, nobody was great.
The point im making is sleeper assassin getting activated is a common trait. And i was also being slightly tongue in cheek.

But dont they get burgled to start off with by house breakers?


Jeez, Bill

Don’t you understand that movie makers are just showing you "normal citizens" how easy it is to activate us.....errrr...sleeper assassins...

By the way Bill, I have a particular set of skills....

 
 Posted:   Oct 27, 2022 - 9:48 AM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

...a group of people is running from a disaster or monster, and there's that one dumb-shit little kid just standing there, stock-still, for no other reason than to goad one of the protagonists to put themselves in harm's way to save them?





Have you ever seen a five or six-year-old who isn't running around like a maniac even at the best of times? And yet when their lives are on the line, their survival instinct immediately shuts off. It always smacks of the director telling them to stand COMPLETELY STILL, or else they'll ruin the shot.

 
 Posted:   Mar 28, 2023 - 6:34 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

A detective will go to someones house and ask them to come down to the station. The home owner will walk out of the house, close the door behind them then walk straight to the car without turning around to lock the door. No one ever locks their house, office, apartment, motel, or hotel room doors when exiting the premises. The only time a character locks a door behind them is when they have something secret inside they are hiding from others.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 28, 2023 - 7:28 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

Cars are worse, they hardly ever lock them, & of course they always manage to park right outside the building they're going to.

 
 Posted:   Apr 20, 2023 - 5:05 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

The "death" of the bittersweet ending in films. Remember E.T.? The sad goodbyes? We were happy E.T. was going home but sad because Elliot didn't want him to leave. Or in the Jungle Book, Mowgli leaves Baloo for the man village. Sad Mowgli and Baloo were no longer going to be together but happy Mowgli found a home with his kind?

Now fast forward to HTTYD 3. Where Hiccup and Toothless have their sad goodbyes knowing they had to separate for the betterment of everyone? Ruined by the very next scene shifting ahead in time where Hiccup is grown up, has kids and reunites with Toothless completely ruining the logical and emotionally satisfying ending of the series. I can't think of a modern film that doesn't ruin a bittersweet ending by tacking on a happy epilogue.

If E.T. was made today, after the sad goodbyes they would've jumped a year ahead in time and have E.T. return and visit his friend Elliot so not to traumatize the audience before leaving the theater.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 20, 2023 - 9:37 AM   
 By:   Prince Damian   (Member)

When he was to phone home there would be no signal.

 
 Posted:   May 24, 2023 - 9:57 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Why in so many films do gangsters (often eastern european ones) decide to rape or murder the mate/work colleague/stepdaughter/dog of a special forces assassin who is dormant and working as an average Joe nobody?

Saw this in Nobody, Clean, Equaliser, John Wick, etc etc and dozens more.


The latest one to sort of do this is Mother, with jennifer Lopez as an ex special forces sniper assassin wanted by the bad gunrunners who try to kill her baby in the womb (who survives) and then go after the grown up little girl 12 years later. Of course, like in Hanna, the special forces assassin teaches the girl to be an expert shot of olympian standard in just a few weeks, just so she can conveniently help the scriptwriters wen the bad guys turn up.

 
 
 Posted:   May 24, 2023 - 10:10 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

I know this has been mentioned before (probably by me), but plans in films (escapes, robberies ect.), always ridiculously over complicated & could never work "We've been over this a hundred times" - "Well we're going over it again". A proper workable plan would be very simple - "wait 'till he goes for lunch, nip in the office, nick the cash from the draw, & do a runner".

 
 Posted:   May 25, 2023 - 7:43 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

...a group of people is running from a disaster or monster, and there's that one dumb-shit little kid just standing there, stock-still, for no other reason than to goad one of the protagonists to put themselves in harm's way to save them?

Have you ever seen a five or six-year-old who isn't running around like a maniac even at the best of times? And yet when their lives are on the line, their survival instinct immediately shuts off. It always smacks of the director telling them to stand COMPLETELY STILL, or else they'll ruin the shot.


Superheros are interfering with natural selection! No wonder the planet has gotten dumber!

 
 Posted:   Jun 1, 2023 - 8:06 AM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

...the passenger during a high-speed chase scene will always uselessly yell out the names of objects the driver is in danger of crashing into? Like in Die Hard With A Vengeance, where Sam Jackson keeps shouting things like, "Tree...tree!", or, "Rock...rock!"

 
 Posted:   Jun 1, 2023 - 8:18 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

...the passenger during a high-speed chase scene will always uselessly yell out the names of objects the driver is in danger of crashing into? Like in Die Hard With A Vengeance, where Sam Jackson keeps shouting things like, "Tree...tree!", or, "Rock...rock!"


Cow!
Another cow.
Actually, I think that was the same one.

 
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