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"Exploding Cars - Why do cars blow up or fly into the air in crazy flips and rolls when they get into accidents? Why can't they just crash like everyone elses cars? I think if cars acted like they did in movies, people would be getting into accidents a lot more often just to see the crazy explosions and retarded flippage."

repost because I like the phrase retarded flippage

7/29/2010 9:31:52 PM

driving a motorcycle away with a huge explosion behind them(bonus if its the first time they rode a cycle in the whole movie)

cops talking about how badass this other cop is because he is working undercover and he would get killed if the people he was investigating found out

7/31/2010 7:50:15 PM

May have already been said, but how about a shot of someone writing out equations, drawing maps, or sketching out critical strategies, apparently on glass, as seen from the OTHER side of the glass? Bonus points if the writing is white in color or uses lipstick.

8/14/2010 8:40:24 PM

Anything along the lines of

"Sorry I'm late! Sometimes I feel like I'd be late to my own funeral!"
"We'll see about that"
"Huh?"
BANG

8/17/2010 2:47:43 PM

i gotta have an example for that one

8/17/2010 2:49:09 PM

Goodfellas immediately comes to mind.

8/17/2010 2:56:58 PM

When something is being broadcast on TV or radio and they show groups of people watching/listening to the action going on

Truman Show, American Pie 2, and Joe Dirt come to mind

8/17/2010 3:02:05 PM

Like tvs in the storefront window?

8/17/2010 3:41:18 PM

or bars, or people's work

who the hell has a tv on at work??

8/17/2010 10:04:29 PM

And who the hell gathers around a radio anymore? Ain't no fireside chats.

8/17/2010 10:21:59 PM

those scenes where it's a pretty friendly conversation without any sign of violence or anger and then one character just suddenly blows another's head off unexpectedly, that seems like the type of footage those sick ass revel in violence tartantino types seem to get off on

the fact that any collision has to be a huge explosion has kind of bothered me since i was 10, a lot of the time the explosions are so awkward, like after a ten second delay the thing just suddenly blows up, it just doesn't seem realistic but I guess we need mythbusters to know for sure

8/20/2010 7:45:04 PM

THOSE FUCKING TARANTINO TYPES

SHITTY FILMMAKERS THOSE ONES.

8/20/2010 7:59:06 PM

Cars getting t-boned. I don't mind it as part of the plot, but there's one shot that everyone seems to use where they frame it like a shot of a driver or passenger and you see a suburban careening straight towards them in the background and they never notice.

8/20/2010 11:17:23 PM

i can always count on Mr. Joshua to bttt this

8/20/2010 11:31:34 PM

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"or bars, or people's work who the hell has a tv on at work??"

2/2 places that I've done an internship has had a TV. First place had it in the cafeteria, so I guess that still counts? Second place had them in the cafeteria, as well as 3 on every floor. Didn't miss a minute of the World Cup while sitting in my cubicle

8/21/2010 11:38:04 AM

A bank robber/thief/whatever doing "one last score" before they retire.

8/26/2010 4:22:34 AM

http://www.cracked.com/video_18156_a-trailer-every-academy-award-winning-movie-ever.html

[Edited on August 26, 2010 at 4:35 AM. Reason : hopefully someone hasn't already posted this, because it's old.]

8/26/2010 4:29:50 AM

When a character accidentally thinks out loud

9/3/2010 5:07:42 PM

^^ that's kind of what I was saying earlier except i was mentioning the more action drama types, it's like the same guys do EVERY movie trailer and do it the same way every time

[Edited on September 4, 2010 at 6:38 PM. Reason : k]

9/4/2010 6:35:50 PM

All those movies where someone is wrongly accused/set up and must pursue the real villain while staying a step ahead of the authorities instead of just explaining what happened to them.

10/13/2010 10:47:10 PM

A random character making the sign of the cross when they see a dead body.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and Predator come to mind immediately.

10/21/2010 12:30:11 AM

Sitting in the back of an ambulance with a blanket wrapped around you after your ordeal.

10/30/2010 4:57:25 PM

lol good one

10/30/2010 5:00:34 PM

specially when it's like in places you know its hot... like Miami...

10/30/2010 6:57:25 PM

a blanket will always make it better

10/30/2010 7:00:09 PM

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"All those movies where someone is wrongly accused/set up and must pursue the real villain while staying a step ahead of the authorities instead of just explaining what happened to them. "

yah dude you can trust the government ! just ask the Indians....

but seriously that whole "just come on in... and tell us what happened." shit would never cut it.

10/30/2010 7:08:18 PM

Find me an Indian and I'll ask them.

I forget what I was watching when I posted that, but during the whole movie I was thinking that the entire thing was very unnecessary.

10/30/2010 7:23:02 PM

Hypersexualized female villians / villian sidekicks.

10/30/2010 7:39:44 PM

^or when there is a female villain and the only way to take her out is with a female heroine

females shooting up men but men never seem to be able to shoot a single female, even if she is evil

(im not sexist, just an observation)

10/31/2010 1:41:16 AM

-Person in the back of an ambulance, taps the door/wall and says, "Hospital." Right. Where the hell else were they going?

-I think it was mentioned, but people ending phone calls by just hanging up.

-Cops and lawyers arguing about who's not doing their job. Usually involves, "How about some proof?" ... "Well then, get me more evidence!"

-Little kid always able to get past the police line/tape.

-Phone numbers and messages in match books. Really? Do people still do this?

-Any fruit stand or homeless person's cart full of cans is doomed during a car chase.

11/3/2010 11:07:39 AM

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"I think it was mentioned, but people ending phone calls by just hanging up."

Slave Famous does this IRL all the time

11/3/2010 11:20:56 AM

rich guys with sock garters

11/3/2010 12:32:31 PM

So sorry...I'll make sure we have a nice formal goodbye from now on

11/3/2010 1:08:20 PM

i didnt post it, i just said what u do

11/3/2010 1:09:32 PM

Probably been called out before:

kind of getting annoyed of the whimsical practice noises of an Orchestra being used in eerie times or in dark places to build up tension in the scene, when 9/10 times is something stupid like a cat jumping out; then the dramatic music with heavy drums play when someone jumps the subjects from behind like not 10 seconds after.

When someone asks if they are going to be alright, when they know damn well it's not going to be alright, but still ask it anyways and the subject asked reassures them that it will be alright, then 10 seconds later talk to another cool headed character telling them that in fact that it's not going to be alright.

Black guy's death is never the 1st one in modern movies anymore.

When actors play a role that isn't even the right race or age for that matter.

When military characters don't really act or follow like military people.

Use empty oil drums or car doors when under fire and said bullets are stopped from a firearm that could easily penetrate them.

Why does every military mission, in the most unlikely situation, pack C4 and somehow the situation is a game changer for their favor.

The use of 555 area code then be obscure to show the rest of the numbers like someone's hand covering up the last few digits or something like that.



Not really a movie cliche, but when characters who use mirrored glasses, the reflection of the production crew and light mods are always annoying to me to see. Edit that shit out or don't use sun glasses.

11/3/2010 1:45:22 PM

555 is never the area code

it's always the 3 digits after an area code. .. because if they are in NYC, it's no mysery that 212 is new york

11/3/2010 1:49:40 PM

that's right, my mistake. Still, funny to see the camera angles or characters trying to cover up a fake number.

[Edited on November 3, 2010 at 2:06 PM. Reason : ]

11/3/2010 2:06:42 PM

I've always wanted to know the story behind 555

11/3/2010 6:14:05 PM

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"The phone companies began encouraging the producers of television shows and movies to use the 555 prefix for fictional telephone numbers, roughly during the 1960s. One of the earliest uses of a 555 number can be seen in Panic in Year Zero! (1962), with 555-2106. In older television shows from the 1950s or 1960s, "KLondike 5" or "KLamath 5" was used, as at the time the telephone exchanges used letters and numbers in phone numbers. More recent works set in this period typically use this convention as well. For example, Dr. Emmett Brown's 1955 phone number in Back to the Future is "KLondike 5-4385". The number "2368" is a carryover from "EXchange 2368", which was common in old telephone advertisements.[2] This represents "Exchange Central", with 2368 being the numeric version of "CENTral" in alphabetic dialing. Before "555" or "KLondike-5" gained broad usage, and before touchtone phones became standard, scriptwriters would sometimes invent fake exchanges starting with words like "QUincy" or "Zebra". The letters "Q" and "Z" were not used on the old dial phones."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_%28telephone_number%29

11/3/2010 6:45:54 PM

Still think it kind of kills the realism

I like the shows or movies that use a real number...its usually some hotline for the show anyway, so win/win

11/3/2010 6:50:34 PM

Someone gets captured or beat in a fight. They will inevitably spit in the face of their captor as they are being interrogated / gloated over.

11/4/2010 12:00:12 PM

The whole "It has been an honor to have served with you sir." before they die or go into battle.

11/5/2010 9:13:36 PM

"please boss, give me 5 minutes"

"...you've got 3"

11/5/2010 9:47:56 PM

The constant cocking and re-cocking of an already loaded and chambered firearm such as shotgun. Also pulling back the hammer on a semi-auto pistol towards a prisoner who is being interrogated gets old pretty fast.

11/8/2010 5:07:28 PM

Those old fashioned key holes that you can look through.

11/20/2010 2:46:06 AM

movies that just end and don't tell you what happened to the characters or whatever.

when super cool dude grabs a rifle (with scope) that he's never shot before and knows nothing about and goes and pulls off a 1000yd shot first time around. Yeah, fuck you buddy that ain't happening.

Or movies like "The Hurt Locker", where you have EOD roll up on a SAS team, and yet, the SAS team lets the EOD guys man the sniper rifle when anyone with a fucking clue knows that wouldn't happen in real life.





[Edited on November 20, 2010 at 8:07 AM. Reason : your mom says hi]

11/20/2010 8:04:28 AM

When any futuristic military team seems be using an MP5 in the age of space flight and laser weapons... It's from the 80's... stop trying to use it in the 22nd century...

Also been getting annoyed with the long pause then the questionable "What???". Thanks to Coco showing the Madmen "what" video, now I'm seeing it everywhere.

11/20/2010 10:28:25 AM

When someone is tinkering between life and death - usually bleeding profusely - and being attended to by the paramedics, a friend, or sometimes alone, the camera will pan from up above usually centered on the victim's eyes/face.

Then, while the patient lies in a coma, he can barely see glimpses of events filtered through some ghost-trail haze and slow-motion techniques.

11/20/2010 10:51:38 AM

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"When any futuristic military team seems be using an MP5 in the age of space flight and laser weapons... It's from the 80's"

From the 60s actually.

11/20/2010 11:55:26 AM

when a space battle occurs, steam erupts and random bulkhead falls all over the bridge. I always wondered why they have shotty construction or where the use of steam comes from?

11/22/2010 12:22:00 AM