getting shot in the shoulder

6/15/2008 7:03:36 PM

i dont like when the end of a movie (typically comedies) shows the main guy and the girl married and they have a kid

and the kid does something that the main guy is known for

example: Zoolander

6/15/2008 9:08:21 PM

In war movies, when they run holding a rifle, it goes clink clink clink... THEY DON'T DO THAT.

6/15/2008 10:21:40 PM

^^ turner and hooch, in a way.

6/15/2008 10:21:59 PM

When two people are fighting and they both start doing roundhouse kicks and then spin like two gears in mesh for about 3 rotations before someone gets hit. The camera will always be directly above their heads when this happens.
Another variation involves one person doing the roundhouse kick while another person is doing a circular sweep, same camera angle.

6/16/2008 9:50:05 AM

It bothers me when investigators in movies & TV shows magically bring grainy low-res images to crystal clarity with a single mouse click. It's a lot more involved than that and sometimes what they do simply can't be done in real life.

The criminal information databases on the CSI shows always use fonts and slick layouts that you'd never find in a real-life government database.

6/16/2008 2:38:04 PM

I hate it when everyone is in a bar, and one person trips or drops a cup on someone and that person punches someone else and all of a sudden everyone in the entire bar is fighting each other for no reason.

6/16/2008 3:28:14 PM

^ Fuck you. Roadhouse was awesome.

6/16/2008 3:31:13 PM

this may already be in here, but i hate it when anybody using a computer on any movie, tv show, etc is typing when they really should just be using the mouse (like when opening a program or something).

6/16/2008 3:35:54 PM

^ I also love how apparently no one in the world ever thinks of a password that you can't see while sitting at the desk

I don't think i've ever seen a computer go unhacked, no matter who's doing the hacking

6/16/2008 3:37:20 PM

When somebody breaks another dude's neck in a headlock.

6/16/2008 5:01:52 PM

Quote :

"Joe has Bill at gunpoint. Joe is squeezing the trigger (close-up on trigger). Loud BANG. Joe falls to the ground, revealing Jenny (the romantic interest boning Bill later) pulled the trigger first."

The Nepal fight scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark

6/16/2008 7:51:36 PM

Show-downs that "give a nod" to The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

It is a timeless epic and will never be topped, folks. Give it up and try your own last-minute tense-building for a change!

6/17/2008 4:16:51 AM

"happily ever after" endings annoy the fuck out of me

i know movies are "escapes from reality," but it wouldn't hurt for there to be some realism every now & then would it?

6/17/2008 5:34:55 AM

Quote :

"at least better than Everybody Loves Raymond"

Both bad shows, but the thing that always stood out about Everyone Loves Raymond...

They supposedly had kids but they're absent for nearly 98% of the series. Sorry, but when you have kids there is no escaping them

The could have easily brought a new kid out each time they needed to make a brief cameo and no one would have noticed. They probably could have brought out a different kid for each appearance in the same episode for that matter.

6/17/2008 7:44:18 AM

has anyone said the villian being an alter-ego yet?

6/17/2008 4:44:25 PM

^^Yes, because Everybody Loves Raymond was a study of family interaction.

6/17/2008 5:56:53 PM

Injured guy: "Just leave me, I'm only slowing you down."
Hero: "No, I'm going to get you out of this!"

6/17/2008 6:58:23 PM

Beautiful court rooms with 25 foot ceilings and wood paneling everywhere.

I have never seen a court room that looks like that.

6/18/2008 12:39:19 AM

Damn, two good ones right there.


I'll continue to contribute nothing of worth to this above par thread.

6/18/2008 12:42:28 AM

This is by far the most entertaining thread in Entertainment.

Then again I don't visit here much.

6/18/2008 12:49:57 AM

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"People cocking a double action pistol to show that they mean business."

^^^^^^^^^
Best one so far.


Does black comedians on stage or in movies impersonating a white guys voice count? They all do the same tired impression.

6/18/2008 1:13:36 AM

but that's how white guys really sound

6/18/2008 1:50:33 AM

*Misunderstanding occurs that is easily explained*

Man: Just let me explain!

Woman: You can't possibly explain this!

*Woman leaves, refusing to communicate with man until the make-up at the end*

6/18/2008 8:51:27 AM

Quote :

"HOT FEMALE SCIENTISTS"

Listening to Elizabeth Shue try to explain cold fusion in "The Saint" made my brain hurt. And don't even get me started on those Bond chicks that were scientists. Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist? WTF was that shit?

6/18/2008 6:32:38 PM

Elizabeth Shue made a convincing scientist i thought.

6/18/2008 7:12:04 PM

Everyone in the south talking like Kevin Spacey in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

6/18/2008 11:28:46 PM

Quote :

""People cocking a double action pistol to show that they mean business.""

People do this IRL to get an easier trigger pull on the first shot.

6/18/2008 11:36:25 PM

True. In movies it's always done in standoffs when the other guy is 6 feet away. If heavy trigger pull is going to make you miss at that range then you shouldn't be in shoot outs to begin with.

6/18/2008 11:49:50 PM

Elizabeth Shue made a convincing scientist i thought.

agreed


but then again I <3 her.

6/19/2008 4:44:21 AM

Quote :

""People cocking a double action pistol to show that they mean business.""

I can understand someone pulling the hammer back with their thumb, it's dramatic and all, but what really gets me is when they're pointing a gun at someone and then they pull the whole slide back.


Also I can't stand when someone gets chopped in half and they stay still for 5 seconds, and then slowly slide apart. Culprits I can remember off the top of my head: Resident Evil, Equilibrium, Ghost Ship, Thirteen Ghosts, etc.

6/19/2008 8:00:08 PM

don't forget johnny mnemonic, where that guy gets cut up with that laser-finger gizmo

6/19/2008 9:56:30 PM

^ Ahahaha. I thought of that one but didn't post it out of embarrassment. You're a bigger man than me.

6/19/2008 10:29:33 PM

Quote :

"Man: Just let me explain! Woman: You can't possibly explain this! *Woman leaves, refusing to communicate with man until the make-up at the end*"

sounds like my ex & me

6/19/2008 10:36:09 PM

I detest any time in a movie when killer robots are used... and they don't seem to be very effective killers. Surely these robots would have been programmed to calculate the speed of a moving target and then lead that target with fire.

6/19/2008 11:36:38 PM

I think conspiracies of any kind (government, Illuminati, Templars, etc) are really cliche and played out. I know that people like to believe that there's some secret society that covers their tracks near perfectly but they're the only ones who can see through the deception, but is it too much to ask that sometimes shit happens for no reason at all?

6/19/2008 11:41:41 PM

When the attractive teenage girl is introduced, and she's usually the new girl in town with a chip on her shoulder (i.e. Disturbia), and it's usually because her parents just don't understand her or why she's pissed that they had to move.

Right before the hero kills the enemy, monster, or whatever, they utter some cheesy line right before they off them.

Backstories that have nothing to do with the plot.

6/20/2008 5:00:18 PM

People ducking when they walk under helicopter rotors.

6/20/2008 8:45:14 PM

id probly do that in real life

hell when im on a roller coaster ill get in a ducking action when it looks kinda close

6/20/2008 8:48:29 PM

^^ maybe it has to do with all the wind caused by the rotors. perhaps ducking lowers one's center of gravity enough so that it's easier to move around without getting buffeted around or something.

6/20/2008 10:45:00 PM

Eh. Not really.

6/20/2008 11:18:02 PM

^^When I was in high school I went on a field trip to some Army recruiting thing or whatever and they were giving Black Hawk rides. They said that although highly unlikely, under certain wind conditions the rotors have been known to deform enough where it could hit a tall person or something and they said that everyone needed to duck when going up to the door.

6/21/2008 1:04:18 AM

when a group of people hear a name and a few of them talk about rumors theyve heard about the name

examples (forgive me for including Usual Suspects, best movie in the world):
they hear keyser soze and fenster starts saying what he's heard about him

batman begins
when crane and the gang hear something and someone says batman, they start askin shit like
IS IT TRUE HE CAN FLY? I HEAR BLAH BLAH

6/21/2008 1:09:29 PM

When someone plays anything recorded on a camera you see the big red flashing RECORD in the corner.

6/21/2008 2:32:12 PM

Quote :

"People ducking when they walk under helicopter rotors."

Its actually a very good idea to do this, if you want to keep your head.


everytime I got on a helo, I always ducked a bit, no matter which kind it was.

6/21/2008 3:38:11 PM

every single phone number in every movie no matter the location begins with 555

6/21/2008 8:27:41 PM

yeah, i would think that there should be a bank of real phone numbers that all the studios have bought that they can use in movies or TV shows. It always really breaks the illusion when they show (or worse, say) 555

6/21/2008 9:19:17 PM

The smart studios, I think 24 did this, use a real phone number, and you can can call it and its like the number to a fan club for that movie or show

6/21/2008 10:41:05 PM

yeah, I think Lost and maybe The Office have done that too.

6/21/2008 10:43:21 PM

Quote :

"every single phone number in every movie no matter the location begins with 555"

because stupid faggots would see the # in movies and call it, prompting complaints.


another thing I hate, everyone knows kung fu. wtf? and everyone dances like they been goin to dance school for years. wtf??

I swear to God I think Rocky was one of the best movies ever, that and Outlaw Josie Wales.

6/21/2008 11:32:45 PM