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[impirius]

Commericals targeting specific audiences. "Yo, yo, yo...I'm lovin' it, G! You down wit Micky D?" "I gots ta git me some o' dem fries, yo!"

My black friends say things like this constantly in between rollerblade basketball games

 

[kumanoki]

My black friends say things like this constantly in between rollerblade basketball games

:lol :lol :lol

 

[explodet]

I'm the opposite. I hate it when the dog "miraculously" survives whatever terror that's going on.

Focus groups, for some reason, hate it when animals die on screen. It could be a massacre where hundreds of people die and they won't have any problems with it, but if one dog is killed the scene is ruined. Go figure.

 

[Flynn]

Focus groups, for some reason, hate it when animals die on screen. It could be a massacre where hundreds of people die and they won't have any problems with it, but if one dog is killed the scene is ruined. Go figure.

It's funny. Because most instances of dog death are always off-screen.

A perfect example of this was in

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The Royal Tennanbaums, I guess Wes Anderson is too in love with all of his precious characters to off one of them, so he made Owen Wilson run the dog over offscreen.

 

[LakeEarth]

Focus groups, for some reason, hate it when animals die on screen. It could be a massacre where hundreds of people die and they won't have any problems with it, but if one dog is killed the scene is ruined. Go figure.

But one of my favourite scenes from 24 comes from the death of a dog. Season 2 spoiler...

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Bauer is such a badass. He just shotguns the fucking dog attacking him. I've never seen a good guy kill a dog in anything before.

But you are right. In the extreme edition of T2, there's a cut out scene where T1000 kills Max, aka Wolfy, the dog after the father got killed... heh, who was George Mason in 24, heh.

 

[Hournda]

That annoying scene in almost every horror movie where someone pretends to get attacked by something as a joke, then later on they actually do get attacked by something.

 

[gblues]

I hate it when, and this happens in most movies, when they play one song in the movie, the whole story progresses by like a year. This goes for all movies. Some football team is struggling, cue background music, team is incredible. Guy is a wimp, cue middle music, guy is super stong and a big pimp (see wet hot american summer, making fun of this).

That's called a montage, and that's exactly what they're for--communicating the passage of time without boring you with all the details. Instead, you get a highlights clip set to some (hopefully) appropriate music.

Nathan

 

[explodet]

The hours approaching, just give it your best
You got to reach your prime.
That’s when you need to put yourself to the test,
And show us a passage of time,
Were going to need a montage (montage)
Oh it takes a montage (montage)

Sure a lot of things happing at once,
With mind, everyone what’s going on (what’s going on?)
And when every shot you show a little improvement
Just Show it or it will take to long
that’s called a montage (montage)
Oh we want montage (montage)

And anything that we want to know, from just a beginner to a pro,
You want a montage (montage)
even Rocky had a montage (montage)

(Montage…montage)

Anything that we want to know, from just a beginner to a pro,
You need a montage (montage)
Oh it takes a montage (montage)

Always fade out in a montage,
If you fade out, it seem like more time
Has passed in a montage,
Montage

 

[Mr. Spinnington]

"Don't ever do that again"

-Will Smith

 

[COCKLES]

Genetic Engineering.

 

[Forgotten Ancient]

Tom Cruise is one of my favorite actors and I really enjoyed "The Last Samurai", but it really pissed me off how he went from some musket-toting American soldier to a master swordsman capable of beating life-trained japanese warriors.

- Slow motion scenes in movies that somehow try to make whatever's happening more intense (Tomb Raider 2)

- Any handicapped person in films are generally extremely nice and they always find ways to overcome their disabilities. Just for ONCE I would like to see a self-loathing blind stumble into the middle of an intersection.

- Surprise twist endings that are only there to try redeeming an otherwise shitty movie.

- movies that say "in memory of" or whatever. It pisses me off that I don't know this person and I hate feeling slightly saddened to know they're dead.

- XXX/Biker Boyz/Torque/The Fast and the Furious. I have not seen any of these films, they are not really related to each other, but they somehow find a similar association in my mind of movies that suck.

- When the hottest woman in a movie doesn't get naked. She'll be nearly naked, but she'll be covering her tits with a sheet in the middle of having sex. WHY?

 

[firex]

Commericals targeting specific audiences. "Yo, yo, yo...I'm lovin' it, G! You down wit Micky D?" "I gots ta git me some o' dem fries, yo!"

The funniest of these that I've seen in the past couple years is a very transparent attempt by wal-mart to get customers other than rednecks and white trash. It features a black guy and girl talking about wal-mart's home entertainment stuff... at one point the black girl says "my system is da bomb."

It's like not only is wal-mart pretty obviously pandering to black people, they're half a decade late with their "hip" slang.

 

[Loki]

My black friends say things like this constantly in between rollerblade basketball games

:lol

 

[Bob White]

- movies that say "in memory of" or whatever. It pisses me off that I don't know this person and I hate feeling slightly saddened to know they're dead.

:lol

 

[spliced]

Ugly duckling magically becoming hot by taking her glasses off and letting her hair down.

Smart-assed little kids.

Sitcom stud that gets any chick he wants. (which leads to unfunny over used sex jokes)

 

[Team Rancid]

When the hottest woman in a movie doesn't get naked. She'll be nearly naked, but she'll be covering her tits with a sheet in the middle of having sex. WHY?

Building off that, when they release "Unedited/Unrated" DVD versions what have absolutely nothing: Old School, Eurotrip, Road Trip, Girl Next Door.


Also the big star of the HS team getting injured, ending his sports career and chances at going to college.

 

[Phoenix]

Building off that, when they release "Unedited/Unrated" DVD versions what have absolutely nothing: Old School, Eurotrip, Road Trip, Girl Next Door.

I don't understand what you're saying. Are you saying they have on less in the unrated versions or that they have on the same amount?

 

[Unresponsive Bee Victim]

Modernization is always ruining the idealic culture of the past. Especially true with a movie like The Last Samauri, which was trying to defend a medieval feudilist system based on peasentry and birthright, but it was pretty or something?

- Slow motion scenes in movies that somehow try to make whatever's happening more intense (Tomb Raider 2)

- American movies with big name actors trying so hard to "different", "underground" or "art house". LOOK AT HOW CLEVER WE ARE! (I love huckerbees)

All kids play Video Games ( Cartridgeless Game Gear from "Rumble in the Bronx," anyone?)
Video Games all have super cool names like Space Blaster 9000
Black Guy is totally ghetto and has street smarts and loves rap.
White guy is incredably lame
The one "Rebel," kid whos hardcore and gives his parents a hardtime.
Phone calls always seem so fake.

Even the spoof movies are getting cliche' themselves.

 

[Jim Bowie]

Any animal in any movie interacting with any main character.

The vertigo (dolly back, zoom in)

Sparks flying off of guns (Thanks to Mr. Spinnington)

Cars exploding midair

Horse/Motorcycle chases

Characters waking up in the beginning of the movie. FUCK, it's so overdone!

Needless Japanese or German dialogue. Only by American actors.

 

[Particle Physicist]

Fat man with hot wife.

.if the guy is rich.. this isnt far from the truth .

 

[Father_Brain]

My most detested cliche: a shot of someone running in slo-mo from a giant fireball. It's even worse if there's more than one character and/or they're silhouetted against it. (I actually laughed out loud when this happened in AvP.)

 

[Gorgie]

No one has mentioned the indifferenct populace. No matter what crazy unreal thing is going on, people just walk around, doing their own business instead of gawking.

 

[The Faceless Master]

the #1 thing i hate is the come from behind 1 hit knockout blow that can incapacitate any good guy or bad guy just enough to accomplish the current goal (sneaking in/out or kidnapping or capturing or whatever)

 

[Celicar]

Fat kids. They have one in that Charlie Sheen show and now I see another one in the John Goodman show.

 

[Dujour]

- movies that say "in memory of" or whatever. It pisses me off that I don't know this person and I hate feeling slightly saddened to know they're dead.

:lol
You're so mean :lol

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