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D.N.
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Idiot Plot/Idiot Characters
Most romantic comedies (how I loathe the genre) are dependent upon this terminally-frustrating cliché: the characters are idiots who spend the entire movie laboriously finding out what we the viewers already know (i.e. that so-and-so is the perfect person for them). Of course, if they found out sooner, the movie would be over really quickly. Instead, they act stupidly and believe the worst of the situation/other characters, so as to pad out their eventual realisation. |
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D.N.
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The Obligatory Cameo!
Quirky cameos are less amusing and more tiresome when they're predictable. Examples: original cast members of an old TV show doing cameos in the film remake; Stan Lee's cameos in films based on Marvel comic books he co-created. |
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Call me Mister. Call me Mister. Call me Mister. Call me Father!
Just came upon this annoying one while watching Exorcist : The Beginning. It really shits me, mostly because you can always see it coming now that it's been overused to the point of pain. It's where a character gives up his army/religious/superhero/police career and insists everyone call him 'Mister' or refer only to his civilian name because he thinks himself unworthy. Near the end of these films comes the inevitable line after he proves himself. Someone finally refers to him by his civilian title/name and he turns the tables by insisting they call him General/Father/Superintendent. All I have to say is I'd be real pissed off and suspect the guy just wants to shit me by asking I call him the opposite of what I said every time.
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The Disapproving Wife!
When otherwise good movies are blighted by a subplot in which the melodramatic wife berates the protagonist for being too obsessive with his work and not paying enough attention to her, the family, etc. This usually requires lines like, "You care more about __________ than your own family! I don't know who you are anymore! I don't know what you do every day!" etc. This cliché can be found in movies like JFK (1991), The Good Shepherd (2006), Breach (2007), and probably others I can't recall to mind at the moment.
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I was thinking of posting about the Disapproving Wife cliche but you beat me to it. It's particularly annoying when it's obviously just a token effort to introduce some drama in a thriller or action movie and just seems superfluous and incongruous. It is also annoying when you consider half of these nagging wives must have known their husbands/partners were involved in a time consuming profession when they married.
Anyway, how was the 2996 version of The Good Shepherd? Did you see an advance screening? |
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D.N.
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| Cannon Fodder wrote: | | Anyway, how was the 2996 version of The Good Shepherd? Did you see an advance screening? |
Let's just say, when you have friends like this guy, you can travel forwards in time to see movies that won't be released for centuries:
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Trailer Dialogue...in the actual movie!
One thing that annoys me: dialogue in a movie that's obviously been inserted more for the benefit of the trailer than for the actual film. Examples: Donatello's "You were expecting maybe the Addams Family?" in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993), Raul Julia's "GAAAAME O-VAH!!" in Street Fighter (1994), Cartman's "That movie has warped my fragile little mind!" in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999), and Jim Carrey mugging the word "FABULOUS!!" in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000). Sometimes it's weird hearing dialogue in a movie that sounds like it was written for the trailer, but wasn't used as such. For example, check out this horrendous load of "summarising James Bond" waffle in Die Another Day (2002): "He's a Double-O. A wild one...He'll light the fuse on any explosive situation and be a danger to himself and others. Kill first, ask questions later. He's a blunt instrument; his primary method is to provoke and confront. He's a man nobody can get close to: A womanizer!" |
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| ...somehow I forgot to mention some other grisly examples of the "trailer dialogue in the actual movie" cliché. How about "Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out!" in The Hurricane (1999), or ""We haven't been teaching Radio, Radio's the one that's been teaching us!" in Radio (2003)? |
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Raul Julia's "GAAAAME O-VAH!!"
Awww, come on, that's a brilliant line
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Yeah, I can't deny that.
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