[cerveza_fiesta]

Any parts in movies that really drive you nuts?

I was just watching LOTR #3 the other night and realized just how much I hate the way they did gollum's voice in that movie. It drives me nuts start to finish. I like the character and the visual CGI acting bits, but the voice and comedic relief it provides (in a movie where comedic relief doesn't belong) is just so many flavours of stupid.

Obviously there's Jar Jar Binx, but that almost goes without saying.

Let the hateses fest begin you filthy dirty hobbitses!!!!

[Aptorian]

Usually it's just when the writers think that the audience is stupid. I usually begin to shout at the TV during CSI episodes. I also have a pet peeve for action sequences where the physics make no sense.

[Sinisdar Toste]

i realize the mist was a book before it became a movie, and i've never read the book so it might end better... but the ending of the mist: the movie, honestly made me want to scream.

"Oh, we ran out of gas. guess we better kill ourselves immediately."

[Beezulbubba]

Original Star Wars, Han shoots and kills Greedo. In special edition, Greedo shoots at Han first then is shot and killed by Han.

[RACHEL]

The Mist book ends with the people still traveling hoping to get out of the mist. Why was that not good enough. That ending was shit why would you just give up after getting that far. walk to another vehicle or at least try to walk somewhere.

[QuickTidal]

I never minded Gollum's voice actually.

Jar Jar was annoying...but funnily enough I ask you this. If they had debuted C3P0 in the prequels and you didn't remember him from being a kid...wouldn't he be JUST as annoying? I watch teh prequels and his stuff makes me cringe...but people don't say that about him because he's a nostalgia character.

To top it all off, Jar Jar as represented in THE CLONE WARS tv series is actually really funny.

Hmmmm. Now parts of movies I hate...

I love HACKERS as a story, but the computer screens and viruses and hacking in that movie are so beyond unrealistic and ridiculous it's not even funny. I wince at all that stuff.

The french Merovingian bastard in The MATRIX RELOADED's little stupid chat about causality makes me want to punch the screen.

I also hate CSI for its ridiculous believability factor.


I hate, hate, hate that in BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II and III the entire plot hinges on the fact that Marty doesn't like being called "Chicken" even though that point is NEVER mentioned in the original.

..and this one is a nitpicker but...in the original STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE when Obi Wan and Vader are having their lightsaber fight at the end the lightsabers in certain shots cast a shadow on the wall...when they are sources of light themselves! Arg! Really George? You painted out everything else but not that?

I can't think of an instance right now, but in ANY movie when there is a minute or second countdown...or someone says we only have 30 seconds left...or something before explosion or death...then in the film itself the scene seems to stretch on well past that time window. How hard is it to make the scene be the correct amount of seconds or minutes to jive with the dialog. This happens A LOT in films and TV.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 01 April 2011 - 05:58 PM

[Abyss]

I hate Woody Allen movies. Deeply. I would sooner watch DUNGEONS & DRAGONS again than VICKY CHRISTINA BARCELONA again, and that's saying a lot for a movie where Scarlet Johanssen makes out with Penelope Cruz.

I've tried, i've really, really tried... but i have a low whine tolerance to begin with and dear god that seems to be all the characters in his flics ever do and it just pisses me off. Plus predictable as fuck, pedestrian and irritating.

[Ulrik]

Battle: Los Angeles - cmon, its dumb as...yknow. And I dare not to remember, I saw around 100-150 movies per year, majority shits...

[worry]

Giving up is the best decision most people can make now in the real world, let alone in a setting where gigantic monsters are eating everybody. I liked both endings.

[rhulad]

Clockwork Apt, on 01 April 2011 - 05:04 PM, said:

Usually it's just when the writers think that the audience is stupid. I usually begin to shout at the TV during CSI episodes. I also have a pet peeve for action sequences where the physics make no sense.

So pretty much every action movie ever made?

[masan's saddle]

Any Hollywood blockbuster/patriotic cheese fest where some random minion/ redtop has to confront a superior officer/president with bad news or a contentious bit of info. Cue apprehensive minion face, followed by said superior/prez being super cool and giving a heartwarming, affirming, morale boosting answer.......cue.....,

Salute with grin accompanied by "Yeeesssss Siiiiiiirrr !"

ARGGGHHHH !

[Gatekeeper]

Ulrik, on 01 April 2011 - 07:01 PM, said:

Battle: Los Angeles - cmon, its dumb as...yknow. And I dare not to remember, I saw around 100-150 movies per year, majority shits...

I reaaaallly hated that movie.

[Illuyankas]

I hear it's better than Skyline.

To be fair, this is not a difficult accomplishment.

[Beezulbubba]

0.001 mark of The Matrix Reloaded to the closing credits of The Matrix Revolutions..... pure crap.

[Darkwatch]

G.I. Joe:
-Re-use of Blackhawk Down footage
-Arming a nanite warhead with a particle accelerator. No.

And the aberration of aberrations in that film: sinking ice. The ice that was floating two seconds ago is now sinking. Jesus, I know this is G.I. Joe but this is 3rd grade science, the kind of science you should not be able to screw up. Plot wise it's not even expedient (like FTL travel) since the same explosions that broke up the ice cap that then sunk and crushed the base could have been used to just directly blow up the base!

Brotherhood of the Wolf:
When the Naturalist suddenly becomes a pseudo ninja and all subtlety goes out the window.

[Binder of Demons]

A standard of so many movies is the SHOOTING RANGE scene where we see the hero demonstrating their amazing marksmanship.

and then, a short while later, because it's too early in the movie for them to kill the bad guy, the hero couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo.

and yet, lo and behold, with a few minutes of screen time left, ol' dead eye makes a return.

drives me nuts.

[Tiste Simeon]

Any film where there is someone so evil that they need to be stopped but the hero won't kill them because "that would make me just like him." It's like DO YOU NOT REALISE IF YOU LET HIM GO HE WILL COME BACK AND TRY AND KILL YOU AND YOU WILL BE FORCED TO KILL HIM ANYWAY!!!

Exceptions: Batman, Se7en.

[Illuyankas]

Bonus points if they've been killing his henchmen during the movie.

[Aptorian]

Similarly, this is most prevalent in the old action films, there is nothing creepier than the good guys blowing away people and then making light of it, laughing and patting each other on the back in the middle of a slaughter house, maybe throwing a few jokes in while they are at it. Sure it is fun, but sometimes it is a little unnerving.

One of my favorite one of those that creeps me the fuck out is in Rush Hour, I think it is the first film. Chris Tucker has just shot the evil chinese guy dead, he bends in over him, pulls out a hankerchief and makes this remark "Wipe yourself off, you are dead." and then throws it on him... what the fuck, Tucker?

[Knowing]

For everyone who hates action movies for their obvious flaws, I recommend you check out Arnold's Last Action Hero. Just about the entire movie is devoted to making fun of those examples.

Personally I despise most fist fight scenes in action movies (pleasantly surprised with The Expendables). Especially when people are kicked in the gut and instead of breaking ribs or damaging organs, the character is launched ten feet back to shatter whatever concrete pillar was in the way. Also, just about every fight sequence in the Born trilogy. By the third movie you knew he was going to survive each fight without serious injuries and he was going to demolish his opponent through maneuvers you couldn't see half the time due to funky camera cutaways.

Avatar pissed me off with the made up ore they were mining for. Unobtanium? really? It's just a word but it really dragged me out of the film. Likewise with other made up words that just sound silly.