I have to ask, since a fair few of these come from MythBusters, if you hadn't seen MythBusters would you notice and would you give a crap? Some of those, like the cars not exploding after rolling over a cliff, you probably would, but the silencer one, probably not...
When someone is under surveillance, the person doing the snooping makes themselves invisible by leaning against a lamp post opposite their home/workplace/restaurant etc and reading a newspaper. Doesn't matter what time of day it is or what the weather is like, someone standing outside your house reading a paper for 6 hour is perfectly innocent.
To make it easier for the snooper, the person being followed will leave their blinds open and insist on a table window in any restaurant.
Characters having conversations in noisy nightclubs or whilst driving at high speed on motorbikes/convertible cars, without having to raise their voices.
After sex scenes with the lovers in bed, or getting out of bed, with their underwear on.
When the protagonist is pursing a love interest who just so happens to have a partner but the partner is always a douche. It's a terrible trope in order to not make the protagonist look like an even bigger douche for pursing the person in the first place.
Characters having conversations in noisy nightclubs or whilst driving at high speed on motorbikes/convertible cars, without having to raise their voices.
After sex scenes with the lovers in bed, or getting out of bed, with their underwear on.
True Lies was the worst offender for this - Arnie could be heard over the sound of a Harrier's engine. Saw one close up at an airshow and my ears were ringing for days afterwards - they are LOUD.
After sex scenes with the lovers in bed, or getting out of bed, with their underwear on.
And they have L shaped sheets to preserve the woman's modesty while the bloke is bare chested. In fact they usually seem desperate not to reveal themselves to the person they've been bonking only a few minutes earlier.
A group of bad guys who decide to fight the lone good guy one at a time instead of taking him on all at the same time.
Bad guy has cornered the good guy by pointing a gun at him. Instead of just shooting him there and then he instead decides to have a long blown conversation with the good guy by taunting him and saying how he has won and the good guy is now a loser. This is of course so other people have time to come and rescue the good guy.
A group of bad guys who decide to fight the lone good guy one at a time instead of taking him on all at the same time.
Bad guy has cornered the good guy by pointing a gun at him. Instead of just shooting him there and then he instead decides to have a long blown conversation with the good guy by taunting him and saying how he has won and the good guy is now a loser. This is of course so other people have time to come and rescue the good guy.
... and will also give a full confession of their previous crimes, who they killed and how they got away with it
Bad guys who have a greatly heightened tolerance of pain and injury. They can get beaten half to death, thrown from moving cars, slammed into concrete walls and still continue fighting the good guy.
and also just fight scenes that just go on and on with both getting full on punches to the face yet they keep going
When two people who to the audience are supposedly enemies are secretly in cahoots and share scenes when they are alone which keep up the pretense just for the audience. See Die Hard 2, Now you see me and The Last Stand for examples of this.
It's now used exclusively as an in joke, like the Stan Lee cameo in Marvel movies.
That is what I find irritating about it.
It's fine in a light hearted movie but I've heard it twice in two days, once in ROTJ and once today during the big battle scene in LOTR Return of the King.
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Let them keep trying if they want to. They're not going to make the person any worse. They're dead.
News reports which give out far more information than would happen in real life.
Policeman in foreign country/state being told "you have no jurisdiction here". Of course they don't, you don't have to spell it out for the audience.
And as "Mythbusters" proved, it's dam near impossible to get a car to explode, by just driving off a cliff.
To make it easier for the snooper, the person being followed will leave their blinds open and insist on a table window in any restaurant.
After sex scenes with the lovers in bed, or getting out of bed, with their underwear on.
You see it in older films quite a bit. It compliments the obvious back-projection behind the car.
True Lies was the worst offender for this - Arnie could be heard over the sound of a Harrier's engine. Saw one close up at an airshow and my ears were ringing for days afterwards - they are LOUD.
After sex scenes with the lovers in bed, or getting out of bed, with their underwear on.
And they have L shaped sheets to preserve the woman's modesty while the bloke is bare chested. In fact they usually seem desperate not to reveal themselves to the person they've been bonking only a few minutes earlier.
Bad guy has cornered the good guy by pointing a gun at him. Instead of just shooting him there and then he instead decides to have a long blown conversation with the good guy by taunting him and saying how he has won and the good guy is now a loser. This is of course so other people have time to come and rescue the good guy.
... and will also give a full confession of their previous crimes, who they killed and how they got away with it
Yes?
It's no different than saying "knob" or "bellend". Different words always sound odd from different cultural perspectives...
As in every just about martial arts movie ever made.
Ah, the language of Shakespeare.:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0he5k6shmw
Now I know about it, every time I hear it I know that it's not the actor screaming and is therefore fake.
It's not even a good scream.
It's now used exclusively as an in joke, like the Stan Lee cameo in Marvel movies.
I though that would be the fight scene from They Live
Which scene?
That is what I find irritating about it.
It's fine in a light hearted movie but I've heard it twice in two days, once in ROTJ and once today during the big battle scene in LOTR Return of the King.