with the first thread being closed for some reason
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Zezelicious — 19 years ago(March 13, 2007 02:12 PM)
If a movie is about how great the FBI are then the locals cops they take over from are a bunch of bumbling idiots who know nothing, however if it's being told from the locals point of view then the FBI are a bunch of ego-maniacs who have high-tech stuff but don't know how to deal with people.
Once I would like to see actual realistic portrayal of two police forces no, they don't have to get along but don't make one force look like a charicature.
I'm sure this has been mentioned:
when the man and the woman hate each other they will end up having sex right after the building blows up or the exhausting car chase is over..
along with the computer popping up the exact right info when you need it, bad guys turn on the news to the exact info they need then flip off the TV, phones ring 1 1/2 times (this one I don't mind cause I don't want to be annoyed by a phone in a movie either)
Someone else mentioned ( a long time ago, on a thread far far away) that if any character coughs in a movie they will have a terminal illness.
all knives/swords make that metal on metal sound regardless of whether it was touching any other metal.
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There_Is_No_Sayid — 15 years ago(February 02, 2011 08:11 AM)
And when a woman goes into labor it is always the quickest labbor in history. It's always so quick that there's no time to get to the hospital or get out of whatever location they're in. About the only exception I've seen to this is on Murphy Brown where she was in labor for hours and hours. But usually you never see anyone spend hours in labor
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susanemccool — 11 years ago(August 08, 2014 10:03 AM)
And if a pregnant character so much as falls three inches from a beanbag chair onto thick carpeting, she will have a miscarriage. Of the heir to the throne, or in some other way change the course of the story.
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moviemystic — 18 years ago(January 20, 2008 11:55 AM)
In any movie involving the removal of a bullet from someone, no matter what the location may be - the safety of a hospital, or an emergency situation in a battlefront foxhole or desert sand dune, etc. - right after they pull it out you hear a loud "CLANK!" because magically someone always provides the guy removing it with a heavy duty metal bowl.
But very oddly, no medical journal in the world has ever mentioned that there must be a large metal bowl on hand in order to properly remove a bullet from any wounded patient. Go figure! -
nieder27 — 19 years ago(March 15, 2007 03:02 PM)
The high school basketball/baseball/football team full of rebellious athletes gets a new coach whom they initially hate. But then they all bond and the team wins the tournament.
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Ceer — 19 years ago(March 16, 2007 08:52 PM)
It's been done a million times in disaster movies. There is a earthquake or a tidal wave or a swarm of killer bees or well, you get the idea. The hero goes to the man in charge who laughs at the absurdity of the warning. The man in charge doesn't want to cause a panic or lose money so he blows off the warning and people die. The hero comes up with a wacky idea that nobody thinks will work and saves the day.
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phantom509 — 18 years ago(September 04, 2007 02:19 PM)
The car/helicopter/motorcycle/bicycle/ship/dirtbike/paper bag/ microwave oven/cell phone or whatever always blows up right after the hero gets out of it or away from it. So dramatic!!
Let's not forget the massive fires caused by explosions in space.
Isn't Oxygen part of the fire triangle?????????
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aquafunk — 14 years ago(June 18, 2011 07:52 PM)
"Regular" fires are. But oxygen is only one kind of fuel. Guns, bombs, missles, etc. all work in space because they have there own airtight fuel/detonation source. Also, what do you think our star is? It is a fusion explosion of fire.
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moviemystic — 18 years ago(January 20, 2008 12:13 PM)
The Hollywood writers strike should last forever and they should just go away forever. Their lame excuse for being so grossly unoriginal over the last few decades is always "there are only five main film plots, anyway" - which is total baloney!
That's funny, since from 1930 to 1970 they sure had no problem coming up with many more than "five main plots" !!!
Today's writers are just hacks, that's all.
Meanwhile, a recent cliche has been the awful Bowling Pin Choreography used in everything from MTV videos to bad teen prom flicks. None of them can really dance, but they've obviously had some weak form of training, which is even worse then letting them dance naturally. A certain song plays at some party, and boom - everyone suddenly falls into place and starts doing the Bowling Pin bit, copying each others' bad Bob Fosse moves in an overly-rehearsed looking way. Yuck! -
Frumious_Bandersnatch_46 — 17 years ago(April 01, 2009 01:57 AM)
The man in charge doesn't want to cause a panic or lose money so he blows off the warning and people die.
Don't forget: The man in charge always leaves the hero to take the blame for those people dying due to his ignoring the hero's warning. After all, he doesn't want to lose the next election.
Don't you just love the military always being portrayed as mindless automatons unable to act without orders even with all communications lines cut and the monster-or-disaster coming right toward them?
And then there's the wannabe-hero:
"Those three cannons couldn't kill the monster but I think I can kill it with my handgun if I can just get close enough."
(I like your signature, btw. Reminds me that Halloween = Christmas.)
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things,"
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indy_go_blue44 — 19 years ago(March 19, 2007 03:21 AM)
I was an EMT like 30 years ago. There were always two people in the crew, a driver and an attendant who rode in the back with the victim. We had communication between each other through an open door or window (depending on whether the ambulance was a van or a truck type. It's been a while, but I don't ever remember a slap on the door. The driver was usually aware if the attendant was busy (checking vitals, etc) and would wait for him/her to say the word to go.
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davywap — 19 years ago(March 18, 2007 10:46 AM)
In a movie when a smart, kind of cool teacher starts a new job at a high-school in a really poor, rough neighbourhood full of gang-bangers (a cliche in itself) they think they can change the lives of all the troubled students in their class, usually through literature, and actually do start to make a difference and change the way these gangsters think about their lives, but the worst bad-ass in the class always gets whacked just when he's starting to turn his life around for the better.
People who shag in horror movies almost always get killed.
Quite often when a bad guy is about to 'off' the hero of the film, he/she is out of bullets.
I love lamp.