What do You Hate about Movies?

My Warren | 01/01/2002 | Mad Bunny

[Sueann]

"cramming in so much bad language"

I heard the reason they do that is so they can get an "R" rating; or close to it. I never have figured out why, because "G" rated movies make more money.

[breakem]

My complaint is not enough gratuitious sex and female nudity. Sarcasm alert.

Real comment: people who back up in slasher movies.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Sorry for double post

[AlGone2001]

I hate it when the male actors who play the role of a military member do not have their hair cut according to military standards. That really ticks me off.

[Long Cut]

By the way, another site , that does a great job of skewering these cliche's, AND has a conservative bent to it, is Jabootu's Bad Movie Planet, at www.jabootu.com. Man, I about crack up at some of their movie reviews. Just plan to spend some time, they go into a LOT of detail. They had an article about "Jurassic Park II" that hit a lot of what people are talking about here.

[Restorer]

?&I¼tion movies, the inevitable long shootout/stalking scene inside a dark factory or warehouse, dripping water or steam optional. I believe "Terminator" started this.

How about the obligatory scene of the heroes outrunning a fireball from an explosion? Fireballs move at somewhere around 300 mph in real life, so these guys should all be in the Olympics.

I have no objection to spectacular stunts, as long as they bear some relationship to reality. That's why Jackie Chan is so much fun. You know his stunts are real.

[Emmanual_Goldstein16]

I just pray they don't make another Jurassic Park movie. The third one was so predictable and Sam Neil seemed bored throughout the movie. The plot really sucked too. Land on the island, run, scream, get off the island. And I wonder how that one chick was able to call the U.S Navy and Marines and get them on the island in the nick of time. Can anyone explain that?

[denydenydeny]

The term "Magic Negro" is not mine. It was coined, I believe, by Stephen Hunter of the Washington Post in 1998:

...our old friend from '50s liberal movies, the Magic Negro, as descended from Sidney Poitier in "The Defiant Ones." His job is to prevent the white man from drowning in the bile of his own hatred.

In recent years, the term has become more literal, as with the examples I cited. The caricature of the wise-in-the-ways-of-the-universe MN in movies gets worse all the time.

[reg45]

what happened to John Wayne and Maureen O'hara type charecters?

I'll bet you loved "The Quiet Man".

[Bernard Marx]

They are mostly made BY immature people with arrested sexual/political development of the Howard Stern/Charlie Steen variety, FOR adolescent children with assumed IQs below body temperature and 8th-grade government educations.

Yeah, mombonn, agree on everything but you missed the writers.

[Long Cut]

One of my favorites. As was "McLintock!", and how joyfully politically incorrect THAT was! If it was re-made today (not outside the realm of possibility considering the oversupply of remakes out there now) it would have to be butchered.

[Argh]

Their insulting left-wing preachiness. "Here, you stupid bastards, you're too dumb to think for yourselves, so we brilliant writers/actors/directors are going to present this medieval morality play so you know what to think."

[CIB-173RDABN]

I agree with almost all of the reason the previous posters have listed. I will just add a pet peeve about Hollywood and the Military.

When I see a soldier and they have something wrong with the uniform. The most glaring is someone wearing ribbons on their utility (work) uniform, or in some cases the actual decoration and medals.

The actual medals and decorations are generally only worn on very special occasions.

The military, unlike civilians, wear their “resume” on their uniform. Everything on a uniform means something. Some are decorations, earned by some action on the part of the wearer, some are medals earned by participation in campaign or action (not always during war time). Some are just good conduct medals. Some are badges earned by knowing a special skill or passing a test.

With few exceptions, each branch of service have their own set of badges, medals and insignias.

Most vets can look at someone in uniform (from their branch of service) and immediately know a lot about the person.

There really should never be any mistakes. I know it is the job of wardrobe to provide this stuff, but it does not take much research to get it right. I always thought the easiest thing to do was get real pictures of real men (and women) in uniforms and just copy what they are wearing.

I remember once seeing a movie with these guys all in there dress uniforms. Every thing seemed to be in proper place. It was an outdoor scene, and they must have filmed portion in the morning and portion in the afternoon. The entire scene was all suppose to be at the same time, but sun must of moved and the shadows were wrong, and so someone simply reversed the afternoon shot so as you see these guys outside the scene cuts away and then back and like magic, everything is reversed. All their badges and ribbons were on the wrong side. I guess they thought no-one would notice.

The younger someone is, the less they should have on their uniform (unless you are Audi Murphy).

Besides the uniform thing, I wish the special effects guys would take a box of grenades out and toss a few. Hey guys, there is not big flaming explosion.

Sound is slower than the speed of light. If you see a big gun fired in the distance, it will be a few seconds before you hear it.

Anyway, these are my pet peeves.

[Emmanual_Goldstein16]

I thought LOTR was a masterpiece but one movie that I thought sucked beyond most other sucky movies was Pearl Harbor. That movie is major major suckage. I was falling asleep waiting for the actual bombing to occur. 90 freaking minutes for the actual event to show. That's 90 minutes I miss from my life.

[Restorer]

Did you see Mission Impossible 2 where Tom Cruis'e grip slipped and he slid down and stopped. The speed and angle and the pure "physics impossiblity" of that made that stunt like a cartoon. When the stunts look like that, it really degrades the movie.

Didn't see that one, because MI1 was so bad there was no way I was going to shell out for the sequel. Their flying a helicopter in the Chunnel and then Tom being blown off the chopper onto the speeding train was beyond cartoonish. Even Wily Coyote couldn't have pulled that one off!

There are lots of truly spectacular things to do, why do things that aren't spectacular because they aren't believable?

[MississippiMan]

My beef is not the movie itself but the theatre charging $4.50 for 2 cents worth of popcorn and paper.

That's how theaters stay in business. Their cut of ticket sales is shockingly low. Anyone here in the business with an accurate figure? Last time I talked to a theater owner -- several years ago -- his cut for each ticket sold was something like 50 cents. The biz at the theater level is all about popcorn and Cokes.

MM

[AK2KX]

White liberals, in an effort to atone for racism, feel it necessary to have wet dreams over black people. They create these ludicrous, patronizing caricatures.

This carries over to television as well, not that I watch it anymore. Ever notice that judges more often than not are black women? And that people in positions of power are black far more than their percentage of the population?