You don't see it so much now but it used to be common in older horror movies this one...
A woman (usually) walking into a dark room, and suddenly the music starts to build and a hand is seen reaching slowly out behind her...very slowly, as the music builds to a crescendo...until the creepy hand actually makes contact with the victims shoulder...which turns out to be her husband/boyfriend etc who normally says something like -
'Why Ginty darling whatever is the matter, you look like you have see a ghost?'
To which the woman breathes a sigh of relief and says -
'Oh Gerald, it's you...I thought...oh, never mind' etc
Whereas the correct response should be -
'WHAT THE F ARE YOU DOING CREEPING AROUND IN THE DARK AND FRIGHTENING ME TO DEATH FOR?!'
Car windscreens which can stop bullets even as they are shattered.
Automatic weapons which fire continuously for ages whereas in real life they would be empty in seconds.
People who die instantly when shot; some people have sustained up to 100 bullet wounds and survived.
Guns which fire when dropped; not possible.
People getting kicked in the goolies and getting up in less than 2 hours; never happens.
Fires in which there's lots of coughing but never any smoke.
People hammering on phone rests thinking it will reconnect them.
People getting hit with chairs and shrugging it off.
Fire extinguishers used for everything except extinguishing fires.
English characters using American slang.
Christopher Lambert, Thomas Jane and James Purefoy looking so alike.
Arty 3D movies in which no one ever chucks anything out of the screen.
Westerns in which people with the sun beating down on them announce that it'll be dark soon.
Karl Urban: he just annoys me.
Falls dead immediately after being knifed or shot in the stomach.
Super lip-reading skill.
(No one can initially lip-read that easily and so well. It's literally impossible.)
Hanging up phone without saying goodbye or any other interjection.
Action and horror films: Women in tank tops.
Why would you wear something that makes you physically vulnerable? Especially during a gun fight? I do hold Alien's Ripley responsible for this moronic cliché.
Woman screams like air-raid siren on finding a body. (I've even seen it when the finder is a nurse: seriously, have you ever known a nurse?)
Massive boxes of gold bars being toted round like they were spuds (Gold is like, REALLY REALLY heavy)
Someone coughs, and you know they'll die of U.C.I (Undefined Cinematic Illness) by the end of the next reel
Sean Bean is almost always a traitor (Lord of the Rings, Ronin, Flightpath)
In "Banshee" (a series I quite like) the hero walks out of jail, nicks a car, abandons it in another city....leaves dabs all over. Yeah, you'll always get away with that.
During any heated conversation between two characters that result in one walking off or leaving the room, the shot will always be of the remaining character, from behind, whilst he looks over his shoulder with a sigh or grim look on his face.
Im not a fan of the term 'torture porn' being used to describe a certain type of horror film. how is it porn, are people actually masturbating over these movies?
Im not a fan of the term 'torture porn' being used to describe a certain type of horror film. how is it porn, are people actually masturbating over these movies?
That same bird screech (eagle?) that turns up again and again when in some wilderness or forest.
Mildly annoying is sound in space.
Silly sword moves, like swinging around and exposing your back in the process. Yeah, you'd get incapacitated or killed the first time you tried that by any competent sword fighter.
Press cameramen who don't hold or use their cameras properly.
Characters never have to repeat themselves or cough/sneeze halfway through explaining domething ( unless they have the killer lurgy...that they'll die from )
People 'drinking' from empty cups/cans. The only times cups have anything in them is when they are going to spill.
Women being incapable of running without falling over.
People sticking shoes on beds.
People who walk out of buildings or away from things which subsequently explode without reacting in the slightest.
I hate mid/end credit scenes too. Why should I have to sit and wait for anything up to ten minutes to see a crappy (and usually baffling, if you aren't a hardcore fan) setup scene for the next identikit superhero film? I just youtube them.
Oh, and the recent trend trailers which are just entire scenes lifted wholesale out of the film, usually with the star waffling on about how awesome it is for 5 minutes beforehand, is getting on my tits too.
That same bird screech (eagle?) that turns up again and again when in some wilderness or forest.
Mildly annoying is sound in space.
Silly sword moves, like swinging around and exposing your back in the process. Yeah, you'd get incapacitated or killed the first time you tried that by any competent sword fighter.
Press cameramen who don't hold or use their cameras properly.
That's a peculiarly British one...it's not an eagle, more of a raven/rook or similar type of bird, it's a sort of CAWWWW....CAWWWWWW sound. Used a lot in horror movies between 60's and 80's, or indeed any sort of rural or forest scene.
Probably one of those old 'library' sounds, where filmmakers could just use/borrow certain sound effects for their movies rather than go to the expense of recording (a bit like gunshots/ricochets in old cowboy movies, punches/thumps in kung fu movies etc).
Bullets throwing up sparks, the bullets made of lead
Hiding behind a car door in the hope it will stop a bullet, I've seen a 22 which is a very small round go through a car door and imbed itself in the other door
Explosions, you never see the "shock wave" which is probably more damaging than the actual explosion itself, just look at those old Vietnam news footage, when a bomb hits the ground you can see the shock wave for about a mile out.
That's a peculiarly British one...it's not an eagle, more of a raven/rook or similar type of bird, it's a sort of CAWWWW....CAWWWWWW sound. Used a lot in horror movies between 60's and 80's, or indeed any sort of rural or forest scene.
Probably one of those old 'library' sounds, where filmmakers could just use/borrow certain sound effects for their movies rather than go to the expense of recording (a bit like gunshots/ricochets in old cowboy movies, punches/thumps in kung fu movies etc).
No, it's not that one (I know the sound you're talking about; maybe I should have included it). I've just checked, and it's the sound from a red-tailed hawk, which is often used for any bird of prey (bar owl). Apparently, the original sound was recorded in the '50s.
Helicopters that can only be heard once they are seen. The hero is alone on the roof of a building or on top of a hill and there is complete silence. Then a helicopter rises up and suddenly we can hear 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.
Bad guys who continue to try and kill the good guy even though they're in a situation where they're facing imminent death. Titanic is a good example of that when Billy Zane's character is trying to kill DiCaprio's character, even though the ship is sinking.
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Did the Death Star have many? How did Storm Troopers manage?
Yes that annoys me. You just know something is going to happen to the person because they failed to turn the lights on
A woman (usually) walking into a dark room, and suddenly the music starts to build and a hand is seen reaching slowly out behind her...very slowly, as the music builds to a crescendo...until the creepy hand actually makes contact with the victims shoulder...which turns out to be her husband/boyfriend etc who normally says something like -
'Why Ginty darling whatever is the matter, you look like you have see a ghost?'
To which the woman breathes a sigh of relief and says -
'Oh Gerald, it's you...I thought...oh, never mind' etc
Whereas the correct response should be -
'WHAT THE F ARE YOU DOING CREEPING AROUND IN THE DARK AND FRIGHTENING ME TO DEATH FOR?!'
Automatic weapons which fire continuously for ages whereas in real life they would be empty in seconds.
People who die instantly when shot; some people have sustained up to 100 bullet wounds and survived.
Guns which fire when dropped; not possible.
People getting kicked in the goolies and getting up in less than 2 hours; never happens.
Fires in which there's lots of coughing but never any smoke.
People hammering on phone rests thinking it will reconnect them.
People getting hit with chairs and shrugging it off.
Fire extinguishers used for everything except extinguishing fires.
English characters using American slang.
Christopher Lambert, Thomas Jane and James Purefoy looking so alike.
Arty 3D movies in which no one ever chucks anything out of the screen.
Westerns in which people with the sun beating down on them announce that it'll be dark soon.
Karl Urban: he just annoys me.
Super lip-reading skill.
(No one can initially lip-read that easily and so well. It's literally impossible.)
Hanging up phone without saying goodbye or any other interjection.
Action and horror films: Women in tank tops.
Why would you wear something that makes you physically vulnerable? Especially during a gun fight? I do hold Alien's Ripley responsible for this moronic cliché.
Drives me batty!
Massive boxes of gold bars being toted round like they were spuds (Gold is like, REALLY REALLY heavy)
Someone coughs, and you know they'll die of U.C.I (Undefined Cinematic Illness) by the end of the next reel
Sean Bean is almost always a traitor (Lord of the Rings, Ronin, Flightpath)
In "Banshee" (a series I quite like) the hero walks out of jail, nicks a car, abandons it in another city....leaves dabs all over. Yeah, you'll always get away with that.
To be fair, they might be there, but never shown.
What worries me about the Death Star is the complete lack of handrails. With all those deep drops, you'd think the HSE would shut that place down.
What annoys me is that characters hardly ever say thank you to the waiters in restaurants or bars
Regards
Mark
Mildly annoying is sound in space.
Silly sword moves, like swinging around and exposing your back in the process. Yeah, you'd get incapacitated or killed the first time you tried that by any competent sword fighter.
Press cameramen who don't hold or use their cameras properly.
Women being incapable of running without falling over.
People sticking shoes on beds.
I hate mid/end credit scenes too. Why should I have to sit and wait for anything up to ten minutes to see a crappy (and usually baffling, if you aren't a hardcore fan) setup scene for the next identikit superhero film? I just youtube them.
Oh, and the recent trend trailers which are just entire scenes lifted wholesale out of the film, usually with the star waffling on about how awesome it is for 5 minutes beforehand, is getting on my tits too.
The voice of experience?
Why are films that are really funny not known as comedy porn and expendables 3 is gun porn...its a stupid expression.
That's a peculiarly British one...it's not an eagle, more of a raven/rook or similar type of bird, it's a sort of CAWWWW....CAWWWWWW sound. Used a lot in horror movies between 60's and 80's, or indeed any sort of rural or forest scene.
Probably one of those old 'library' sounds, where filmmakers could just use/borrow certain sound effects for their movies rather than go to the expense of recording (a bit like gunshots/ricochets in old cowboy movies, punches/thumps in kung fu movies etc).
Hiding behind a car door in the hope it will stop a bullet, I've seen a 22 which is a very small round go through a car door and imbed itself in the other door
Explosions, you never see the "shock wave" which is probably more damaging than the actual explosion itself, just look at those old Vietnam news footage, when a bomb hits the ground you can see the shock wave for about a mile out.
No, it's not that one (I know the sound you're talking about; maybe I should have included it). I've just checked, and it's the sound from a red-tailed hawk, which is often used for any bird of prey (bar owl). Apparently, the original sound was recorded in the '50s.
Snooker/pool shots where the balls don't go anywhere near where they actually would.
Bad guys who continue to try and kill the good guy even though they're in a situation where they're facing imminent death. Titanic is a good example of that when Billy Zane's character is trying to kill DiCaprio's character, even though the ship is sinking.
What happened to "F**k that, i'm off !!!" ?