That, and the tires squeal when slamming to a stop or peeling out on rain soaked pavement and dirt roads alike. Just dumb as hell.
That's one of those things that always sticks out to me - if you watch enough movies or TV you'd think that hitting someone in the head is a magic bullet that puts them to peaceful sleep for an indefinite period of time but leaves them virtually undamaged afterward. And heroes, even non-super-powered ones, can take multiple injuries of this type and still remain virtually unharmed. It seems to me that any real person who took that kind of punishment that frequently would be either dead or severely brain-damaged.
How about the good guy chases the bad guy the whole film. But when the bad guy holds a gun on the good guy at the end, he has to take forever to explain everything. Just shoot him.
Yeah, even slightly more efficient bad guys would win every time. But they either have to flap their jaws until the good guy can regain the upper hand or put the good guy in some elaborate slow trap that's supposed to kill him horribly but only gives him opportunity to escape.
While there are tons of examples, the first two that come to mind: Wild Wild West (TV) James Bond films
I can't remember an example, but it seems to me that I've also seen non-campy examples of this sort of thing as well. I think it may have been on 24 or something like that. I remember thinking, "Come ON! This is a 1966 Batman TV series trap you're setting, and he's certain to escape it!"
Oh, no, I say that's the one thing Hollywood has gotten good at pulling off. Oh wait, you mean in the movies...
There is a very generic and over used storyline I see in films. Three films I can name off the top of my head are RV, Evan Almighty, and Click ;however, many other films use it. Father is a workaholic. He has a beautiful wife (who more often then not is a housewife) and several kids. The kids are upset because dad has to work all the time and has no time for them. At the end of every one of these films, dad learns his lesson and chooses his kids over work. Usually at the end the dad gets a reward where he can still work and be with his family while at the same time gets to tell his boss where to stick it. If someone doesn't work, having a place to live and food to eat becomes a problem. I have never met anyone who complained that dad works to much. They are to busy playing video games and spending his money to care that much. I also don't see to many housewives around. I'm sure they are still there but in fewer numbers. Most families have two working parents. Telling your work off to be with your family usually gets you fired.
Ending telephone conversations. Movie (and TV) characters often just seem to stop talking, and hang up. There's no goodbye or formal end to the call. Also, when two characters make plans, like for dinner, they rarely specify a time. It's just like 'I'll see you tonight' or 'I'll meet you after work'. It's like everyone intimately knows everyone else's daily schedule, or else everyone has their meals at set times.
So true, and it applies for every city in the world. I suppose having a character drive around in circles, becoming increasingly frustrated by the lack of parking spots, and then having to walk 20 minutes to their destination doesn't make for exciting cinema.
That irritates me a lot. I've watched two otherwise brilliant TV series recently (The Affair and The Missing) which both had scenes where a much younger, attractive woman (a total stranger) pretty much throws herself at the main character (in both series, a man in his 40s), and then in the next scene we cut to them in bed. I'm sure it's been known to happen in real life, but it's such a clichéd TV/movie situation. Like, it seems highly unlikely that if I went swimming in my local pool (The Affair) or sat on a bench in Montmartre, Paris (The Missing), within minutes an attractive young woman would be throwing herself at me. But in the imaginations of screenwriters, that seems completely plausible.
Characters living in houses/apartments that they could never afford. See Friends et al. Characters who are muscular or physically fit who never exercise or work out.
And they seem to always be sitting in the dark. Because, like, you can't find stuff out on the computer if you have a lamp on.
Even as a kid it used to bug me in old westerns when someone was shot by an arrow and died instantly - no matter where they were hit. Its not as blatant anymore but it does still happen to a degree in action films (with gunplay).
What I'm noticing in many of the Brit Masterpiece Crime-type programs is the disappearance of clergy persons. Bodies and bereaved spouses, parents etc everywhere, obviously burials to take place, but very rarely religious figures. Maybe that's being written out of script in Hollywood too, I don't watch many movies.
When someone hangs up a phone on another character, we hear a dial tone. That never happened in real life. (This has become less-used in the cell-phone era, I believe.) Every street and sidewalk at night is wet, but rain never figures into the plot. There are many US states that only have license plates on the rear of cars (Florida and PA, for example), yet movies allegedly set in those states might show vehicles with front license plates.
Not hiring forum member "Vidiot", to make all the wrong things being done in Hollywood for years, "look and sound, right".
