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[fistfulofmetal]

The main character making all of his friends go to that fucked up building to rescue some chick is pretty dumb.

Trying to save a loved one during a disaster is dumb, but it's not isolated to movies.

 

[Kozak]

-Brave people. Bullshit in a bank robbery you're going to try to tackle the robbers who are armed with explosives and guns.

-Backup always arrives late

 

[neorej]

I don't remember the movie, but some rich guy drives into a shady neighborhood/ghetto with his shiny expensive car, gets out and doesn't lock the car. As if this isn't dumb enough, when he comes back, the car is still there. I don't know which part was dumber...

 

[MarkMclovin]

Any scene where someone is typing into a computer. but there's no text being typed on the screen.

 

[Salazar]

I don't remember the movie, but some rich guy drives into a shady neighborhood/ghetto with his shiny expensive car, gets out and doesn't lock the car. As if this isn't dumb enough, when he comes back, the car is still there. I don't know which part was dumber...

Bothers me a great deal when the desirable car in question is a convertible.

 

[aku:jiki]

I really don't get the phone thing. It's like you can't capture phone goodbyes on film or something. Even the most rule-breaking indie movie does it. I really don't get it, as I would appreciate the tiny bit of characterization in the character's way of saying goodbye. :/

I don't remember the movie, but some rich guy drives into a shady neighborhood/ghetto with his shiny expensive car, gets out and doesn't lock the car. As if this isn't dumb enough, when he comes back, the car is still there. I don't know which part was dumber...

Sounds like that scene had a point to me, to show that the owner of the car is such a badass that nobody even touches his unlocked car in the hood.

 

[mrklaw]

I don't remember the movie, but some rich guy drives into a shady neighborhood/ghetto with his shiny expensive car, gets out and doesn't lock the car. As if this isn't dumb enough, when he comes back, the car is still there. I don't know which part was dumber...

Well, either they never lock their car, or all cars have exactly the same 'blip blip' locking sound. I've never had a car that made a noise like that.

 

[Bjern Fita]

'You don't have it in you to kill me....' The 10 - 15 foot stand-off, usually between ex-lovers/friends/etc.

they always let them get away when I reckon they should bust out a 'Maybe not but I sure as shit can live with shooting you in the leg/shoulder/etc...'

(I'm not a gun user so I'm if we're really pedantic I'm sure there's some sort of realism/accuracy issue with this)

[I think maybe in Shoot 'em Up Clive Owen did just waste the guy that said that to him, which I thought was awesome]



and 'You'll never get me to talk...'

I reckon that shooting the foot, then ankle, then knee etc. would be a pretty convincing way to open them up.

 

[neorej]

I really don't get the phone thing. It's like you can't capture phone goodbyes on film or something. Even the most rule-breaking indie movie does it. I really don't get it, as I would appreciate the tiny bit of characterization in the character's way of saying goodbye. :/

Sounds like that scene had a point to me, to show that the owner of the car is such a badass that nobody even touches his unlocked car in the hood.

You'd had to be on Shaft- or Huggy Bear-levels of badass to pull that off, the dude in question was pretty far from it.

 

[Kentpaul]

having james bond on a table about to kill him but for some reason they dont

 

[beelzebozo]

saying something never happens. then it happens.

most recent example is in my rewatch of RETURN OF THE KING: "none who venture there return."

when someone says something like this, you can rest assured that [1] someone will venture, and [2] they will return.

 

[Truant]

I hate it when people don't question abnormal stuff that happens. This is especially bad in the show 'Lost'.

Completely breaks any immersion or suspension of disbelief.

 

[jonremedy]

About the phone thing; several of my friends thought that that was the usual phone etiquette in the US, us being Norwegian and all. If you don't say goodbye on the phone over here, you're a major douchebag.

 

[Kentpaul]

I get real nervous watching those scenes too. It's those kind of people that causes all accidents on the road

Fight club..

 

[elektrixx]

Not exactly a person, but why do computers have to make beeping sounds?

 

[John Dunbar]

saying something never happens. then it happens.

most recent example is in my rewatch of RETURN OF THE KING: "none who venture there return."

when someone says something like this, you can rest assured that [1] someone will venture, and [2] they will return.

NITPICK TIME: That's not really "a dumb thing people do". It's just predictable, but I fail to see how anyone was being dumb.

 

[Kozak]

Not killing the worst criminal on the face of the earth or the hero thats been foiling your mega plans at sight. Nope, you have to give a huge fucking long speech in which he formulates a brilliant plan in which he dives to the gun he just dropped and shoots you unexpectedly.

FUCK

 

[beelzebozo]

NITPICK TIME: That's not really "a dumb thing people do". It's just predictable, but I fail to see how anyone was being dumb.

touche.

 

[Zeppu]

These piss me off to no ends. They mostly happen in serieses etc...

When a couple has an argument, one of them runs out the door and leaves the room/building. Their significant other will never follow them but turn back and rub his/her face.

When someone kills their girlfriend's pet or something they always try to hide it. Fessing up sucks and there wouldn't be a story without it sometimes but jesus, that shit gets repetitive and it will be revealed sooner or later.

 

[Kentpaul]

the godfather,

Spoiler

trying to kill a guys dad so he will join you in your drug smuggling

 

[sankt-Antonio]

not feeling or giving a fuck about pain -

all the die hard movies... and oh my god, the last 10min of antichrist... god damn it...

and every single horror shocker... i just cant watch them

and movie "computer os" ... what are they using? windows 15?

 

[Leckan]

Talking about Jurassic Park how is it that the T-Rex looks better there when it was made in 93 in comparison to the King Kong T-Rex which was made in 2005?

The mind boggles.

In regards to the thread: The antagonists always having a long enough monologue for the protagonist to be saved instead of just shooting them.

 

[TOM f'N CRUISE]

These piss me off to no ends. They mostly happen in serieses etc...

When a couple has an argument, one of them runs out the door and leaves the room/building. Their significant other will never follow them but turn back and rub his/her face.

When someone kills their girlfriend's pet or something they always try to hide it. Fessing up sucks and there wouldn't be a story without it sometimes but jesus, that shit gets repetitive and it will be revealed sooner or later.

:lol it can be in so many situations too....if they would just fess up to it immediately the would have less problems as well.

 

[Kentpaul]

These piss me off to no ends. They mostly happen in serieses etc...

When a couple has an argument, one of them runs out the door and leaves the room/building. Their significant other will never follow them but turn back and rub his/her face.

When someone kills their girlfriend's pet or something they always try to hide it. Fessing up sucks and there wouldn't be a story without it sometimes but jesus, that shit gets repetitive and it will be revealed sooner or later.

srsly man if you killed your girlfriends dog would you admit it ? or just say it ran away or something

 

[Leckan]

Oh I forgot one.

When people on their deathbed has something important to say and always end up dying RIGHT BEFORE they say it.

 

[Zeppu]

srsly man if you killed your girlfriends dog would you admit it ? or just say it ran away or something

The guilt would kill me. Also, if I'm keeping it a secret, I won't tell my idiotic friends who would undoubtedly babble and I'll get rid of the poor dog properly and far away not keep him in the trunk of the car or bury him in the back yard.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

having james bond on a table about to kill him but for some reason they dont

This is so bad in many movies. They catch the hero, an intelligent, dangerous and sneaky bastard, yet the super villain describes the whole plan ("LAWL, GOOD GUY WILL DIE ANYWAY!!!1") and wants him to be killed by some extravagant device with some weak points the hero knows of and is able to flee.

JUST SHOOT HIM IN HIS FUCKING FACE, GODDAMNIT!!

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Awaking from a nightmare by sitting bolt upright. Nobody does this. It is excusable in Aliens because Ripley went to feel her abdomen by reflex at the same time.

 

[Rktk]

When people smoke weed and start tripping like they're on LSD.

 

[VAIL]

You got over 20 henchmen to take on 1 measly guy,why is there a need to dance around him and 1 vs 1?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect

Dumb tech shit, so many Examples, but of course JP tops it all off with a 10 year old girl that "knows unix" which is a fucking flight simulator.

and gotta give props to the Turbo Express in Enemy of the State.

 

[quickwhips]

not feeling or giving a fuck about pain -

all the die hard movies... and oh my god, the last 10min of antichrist... god damn it...

and every single horror shocker... i just cant watch them

and movie "computer os" ... what are they using? windows 15?

I got to disagree a little bit. Die Hard 1 is fucking awesome. I mean the guy is picking glass out of his feet and limping and just trying to survive. I mean he really tries to show he is fucked up and hurt. Now I will say Die Hard 4 bruce willis is invincible in it. But Die Hard 1 did so many things right.

 

[Jack Random]

Decorating your saloon with the corpse of William Munny's friend.

/Thread

 

[Chao]

I hate it when people don't question abnormal stuff that happens. This is especially bad in the show 'Lost'.

Completely breaks any immersion or suspension of disbelief.

They did that a lot, but then they realized the island was a fucked up place and stopped questioning things.

 

[neorej]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect

Dumb tech shit, so many Examples, but of course JP tops it all off with a 10 year old girl that "knows unix" which is a fucking flight simulator.

and gotta give props to the Turbo Express in Enemy of the State.

I still love the computersystems they use in CSI, they can practically extract DNA from the air if you breathed in a car.

 

[Dorrin]

Dropping a useable weapon, usually guns. "Ow man, thank god I picked up this shotgun or this zombie would have ate me, well lets go" *tosses shotgun on the floor to start running again.

Also not taking multiple weapons, you've just used a pistol to kill two guys with machine guns.. keep the pistol and take both machine guns don't just leave them there idiot.

 

[flipping_heck]

Lighting a cigarette during a gas fight in a gas station

 

[Souldriver]

It's not exactly something people do in a movie, but...


the way computers are presented in films is SO.FUCKING.STUPID. Instead of just using Windows, or if you want something fancy mac OSX, they come up with something completely different.

- If it's a romantic comedy or a family film the screen always has incredibly large fonts and animated objects. YOUVE GOT MAIL with a giant envelope jumping all over the screen. It reminds me of those beginning-of-2000s web applications that tried to be cool, like Incredimail. But much more annoying is...

- If it's a "cool movie" the OS is also extremely cool. Lot's of black screen with green letters, small fonts and cool animations. But what pisses me off the most. EVERY SINGLE ACTION OR BUTTON MAKES A LITTLE BEEP NOISE. It's so fucking stupid and unrealistic. Some guy is hacking another computer and while doing so it's all beep beep bip bip beep beep tututututututut bip bep beeeep bip beeeep.

 

[Mashing]

Why do the cops ALWAYS arrive after a shootout is done and overwith. Especially one in a public place that would have a police car only a couple minutes away.

The International (most recent example), I'm looking at you.

Why are bad guys ALWAYS bad shots, but the good guys are all trained sharpshooters?

 

[Binabik15]

Why do the cops ALWAYS arrive after a shootout is done and overwith. Especially one in a public place that would have a police car only a couple minutes away.

The International (most recent example), I'm looking at you.

Why are bad guys ALWAYS bad shots, but the good guys are all trained sharpshooters?

Judging from the cops I have met coming late is deliberate :lol

Going from mostly non-violent crimes or a few brawls to a Hollywood-sized shoot out wouldn´t be on my to do list as cop, to be fair. There´s SWAT/SEK/whatever your country calls it for this shit.

I hate overly obvious and over the head expositions.

 

[Gabroni]

-People getting into cars that won't start and keep trying to make it start instead of leaving said car
-People who make out in an abandoned house, clearing, really any place a serial killer would be.

I just saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith (didn't finish) and when they are engaging in gunplay in shards of glass and whatnot, neither have so much as a scratch on their face or loose hair strand from their perfectly moussed hair. What is up with that?

 

[BattleMonkey]

When people are shot with a silenced weapon, they respond appropriately by dying quietly. (got that one from Ebert actually, haha).

Just once I'd like to see "OH GAWD HE SHOT ME WITH A SILENCER AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

Or perhaps people actually hearing a silencer. I hate people being only a few feet away from the silencer yet somehow can't hear it, or even hearing the person getting hit and falling down... it's hard to not notice a person falling over, especially a guy covered in gear, guns, armor.

 

[Medalion]

Audiences that inject real world thinking into fictional movies to find something to complain about in said movie.

 

[Majmun]

When a group of people/or an individual don't kill the bad guy when he's unconscious after a fall or hit, but instead they run away.

So annoying.

 

[flipping_heck]

All(?) of the James Bond films, James Bond gets captured and the villain finds an elaborate way to try to kill him but fails hard.. why not just shoot him?!

 

[Lucky Forward]

Action movies where the hero has to save "the girl" (wife/daughter/girlfriend) from the bad guys, and in the process a dozen patrol cops, security guards, and innocent bystanders are killed...but in the end, the girl is saved, so it's a happy ending with hugs, banter, and swelling music, YAY!!!

 

[neorej]

Or perhaps people actually hearing a silencer. I hate people being only a few feet away from the silencer yet somehow can't hear it, or even hearing the person getting hit and falling down... it's hard to not notice a person falling over, especially a guy covered in gear, guns, armor.

Silencers in movies are generally dumb.

Live tests by independent reviewers of numerous commercially available suppressors find that even low caliber unsuppressed .22 LR firearms produce gunshots over 160 decibels.[7] In testing, most of the suppressors reduced the volume to between 130 and 145 dB, with the quietest suppressors metering at 117 dB. The actual suppression of sound ranged from 14.3 to 43 dB, with most data points around the 30 dB mark.

Yeah, no-one will notice 117 dB :lol

if you wanna take out someone silently, man up and use a bow.

 

[malingenie]

Talking cover behind car doors.
Using slim metal plates as bulletproof (batman...hmm)
Not closing doors when cameras are behind you

 

[AVclub]

people not being able to say something important because...

NEVER MIND THAT NOW! Read my comment about this:

But who checks their back seat when getting into a car? Are you going to go through a bunch of movie tropes in your head if there is someone scary around? no, you're going to get into your car and lock the door - you'll feel safe.

Most of the time, you walk up to a car from the back, to get into the driver's side. You're walking by a large rear window and side door window which gives you an unobstructed view of the back seat. Not glancing back there and completely missing the fact that at least a third of that seating area is filled with a person seems incredibly dumb to me.

 

[xKilltheMx]

Awaking from a nightmare by sitting bolt upright. Nobody does this. It is excusable in Aliens because Ripley went to feel her abdomen by reflex at the same time.

Not giving you that one, I have personally woken up like that before straight out of a nightmare.

 

[micromagic]

Some intelligence agency gets a crappy CCTV picture or phone pic and uses some state of the art software to 'enhance' or zoom into the image so it looks like it was taken with a 100 mega pixel camera.