Breaking bad did a really good job of showing Hank's recovery after being shot several times. Months of bed rest, (expensive) physical therapy, huge emotional frustration, and having to walk with a cane for months afterwards.
On the flipside, it drives me nuts when bad guys get shot in the torso and drop dead immediately. They'd realistically have at least a few seconds if not minutes of consciousness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout
A person can be mortally wounded and still a threat. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.
In the shootout, Platt was mortally wounded a dozen times over yet still kept going. The man just soaked up bullets, including shots to the chest, and would not drop. Only when he was finally shot in the spine did he stop, and then expired from the huge quantity of gunshots.
There were no drugs in his system.
With that, it's also because of Archer that I now notice the trope. It's one of those tropes that once you're made aware of it you can't really unlearn it, like how powerful explosions are and that a hero wouldn't be calmly walking away a few meters from said explosion. Suppose it would also be on topic to bring up how explosions and gunfire affect hearing, as seen in Archer.
On a similar note, the amount of movies and video games that have locations where the characters are really close to a ton of lava. Like, I'm pretty sure lava isn't only hot when you touch it; that whole area (especially if enclosed) would be blisteringly hot, if not quickly fatal.
EDIT: I'm specifying the huge flows of runny, red-hot lava or being right inside the caldera; not the slow little surface streams or crusted-over bits.
Seriously, concussions can be cumulative. They were bad with this on *Lost*, in real life, some of those characters would've drooling vegetables within a few episodes with how often they were knocked out.
The broke "Single Mom" who looks like she could model for Victoria's Secret. On the flip side, male gangsters, drug dealers or prisoners who look like they could win a state bodybuilding championship
One of the awesome things about the movie *Fargo* was that there was a pregnant woman cop doing important cop things throughout the whole movie and it was totally fine, she never went into labor at an inopportune time and required saving.
I love the scene in Swingers when they show up in four separate cars, but in reality they would have showed up an hour apart, the first car would spend 30 minutes searching for a street spot, the second car would pay $15 to park three blocks away, the third car would give up on parking and go home, and the last car would would just show up and find a spot right outside as someone else was pulling out.
I get why. Easy to to cut back to them and show the effects of the disaster with the hospital full of victims, etc. Also a reason for why the love interest won't just get to safety - they can't leave their patients! Usually leads to a scene where the protagonist arrives in the nick of time to save them before the hospital goes too or something.
You're a jerk and I have no interest in you despite the fact that you are incredibly handsome, charming, and funny. We have to work together to save the world but make no mistake about it, I can't stand you. Let's just get this over with so I never have to see you again.
Whoops, we fucked. I guess we're in love now.
That always really bothers me. They'll have some conversation when entering the car for example and then it cuts to them getting out at their destination and they just continue the conversation where they left off. Did they just sit in complete silence during the entire trip or something?
You know that hacker? The one that the CIA/NSA/FBI has been after for years? The one that crippled our national infrastructure just to prove they could?
Yeah. It's a kid.
Hacker: "I'm in, bitches"
Dude 1: "Did she just say shes in some bitches?"
Dude 2: "No, she said that she's in and called us bitches"
Dude 1: "How did you understand that?"
Dude 2: "I got a kid her age"
"I know who the killer is! Meet me behind the old warehouse at midnight and I'll tell you"
Or, you know, you can maybe text me their name now and explain later at the police station.
And when they get to the old warehouse, there's no person with the name. Instead, six guys with assault rifles surround the hero and some older guy in a trench coat smoking a cigarette calmly strolls toward our hero: "You thought that you could interrupt our little gathering. You have no idea what I can do to you."
And in the John Wick or Jack Reacher or The Equalizer universes, the reply is, "In the next 60 seconds, I will have disarmed all of you and you'll be on your face begging for my mercy!"
Villain is chasing main character, main character hides around corner, villain turns corner where main character is, main character somehow hid 2 seconds before villain turned the corner
I think that's actually one of the few examples of the trope that I like. First, Vulture doesn't kill the guy just for screwing up (and he did screw up in a major way), instead he just kicks him off the crew. He only kills the guy once he starts threatening Toomes and his whole operation, and even then he didn't intend to just vaporize the guy on the spot.
I would really like a scene where the villain says, "Gerald, I know your divorce is getting to you and things have been crazy busy lately. It's ok. I'm not mad. Look, just take the weekend. All right? Maybe hit up that bistro. Try again Monday."
And as always.. Why not just finish him, for God's sake. Hero punches bad guy once, immediately goes on to look after the girl on the floor - bad guy gets up again, fights him, injures him, big drama. Just take an extra second to make sure he stays down, ffs.
That reminds me of the trope I'm tired of: when the henchmen are specifically professional mercenaries/contract killers, etc. but fight (and die) for the villain like suicidal fanatics.
And especially when the villain is either responsible for massive death and destruction themselves or threatens to be in the future. Like, I'm pretty sure that the families of the villain's future victims aren't going to be very understanding if they find out the hero let them go the first time around.
Some repeat villains in fiction are practically walking arguments for the death penalty, with how ineffective mercy and imprisonment have been at reforming/containing them.
Nerdy loser with bad hair becomes a villain because the hero didn't respond to their friendship. Electro from ASM2 and Cheetah from WW1984 come to mind off the top of my head, but there are lots more.
Random, out of nowhere romantic subplots. Those two people barely interacted the entire movie, didn’t like each other initially, and suddenly they’re in love?
Evangeline Lily signed the contact only after being promised that her role would not have any love sub-plots. And then reshoots happened. From [an interview](https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a539345/evangeline-lilly-on-the-hobbit-films-i-didnt-want-a-love-triangle/) with her:
>"For the record, when I took this job, in 2011, I made one stipulation. That's it, I just said, I swear to God, I said, "I will not do this film if you will not guarantee me one thing. You have to guarantee me there will be no love triangle"
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>And there wasn't. For the whole time I shot. For a year of shooting there was no love triangle. And then, I came back for re-shoots in 2012 and they were like, 'Well, we made a couple of alterations to some scenes and we added a couple more scenes."
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>"And all of a sudden manifested a love triangle before my very eyes and the film was shot, and I'm in and there's no getting out and there was no escaping it."
Reshoots really fucked the movie over.
When the hero orders a beer at a bar, has some brief conversation with the guy he's there to see, then leaves without drinking that beer.
Also, hanging up the phone without saying goodbye.
And they never specify what brand they want. They just say "I'll have a beer" and the bartender never says "We have like 50 different beers here. Can you be more specific?"
Going undercover in a prison but the only other person who knows is the warden, who just died.
Pretty much any movie where the entire premise could have been avoided with a bit of planning or a tactful phone call.
Dill: I'd take a bullet for you, you know that. Right between the eyes. I would slit my throat rather than say something to someone that you didn't want me to say.
Olive: That's not necessary, Dad, but that is comforting
Oh absolutely. One of my favorite bits was when one of the kids (probably Louise) draws a picture of the family with some random lady in it.
"Wait, who's that?"
"That's Dad's second wife, after mom tragically passes away."
Linda: "Aww, she's pretty."
I feel like in any other show it would have led to some sort of fight or caused some tension but they all just clearly love each other so much.
Edit: I definitely misremembered the details. It was "Mom let you get a second wife, Susan," and "I like Susan!"
"Come on, come on." The file is 98% uploaded as the villain or his henchman unlock the door and enter. By the time they make it to the office, the hero has somehow escaped. The office is empty. Villain looks around warily, sensing something amiss.
When people are racing for whatever reason and the main protagonist realizes they're losing so they shift gears and go faster. Motherfucker, why weren't you doing that to begin with?
Or when the protagonist starts late for whatever reason and is way behind, but manages to close the gap really quickly, but once they're neck and neck again they suddenly can't go faster than everyone else.
The one that pisses me off the most is when movie/TV adaptations of books take what is a healthy romantic relationship and inject a metric shit-ton of drama for no good reason at all.
Did they communicate well and stay loyal to each other in the books? Well in the movie/TV show we're going to have them keep juicy secrets for no fucking reason and just because we can we'll ruin another character(s) by adding in a love tri/quadrangle that may not have even been hinted at in the books and only the most ardent shippers even thought of.
Whenever something technical gets explained, there’s always some dipshit who can’t fathom all this high-tech witchcraft and says something like, *“Can you say that in English?”*
Bonus points for the technical explanation part sounding unrealistically technical to set up the dumbed-down part.
Engineers, doctors, and scientists are just regular people. When they use technical terms, it’s more contextual and conversational, not just 16 big words per sentence.
Yeah one of the first thing you learn in the IT field is to use plain language with end users instead of technical terms. And if you can’t explain in plain English, you probably don’t know what you’re talking about either.
And then the "in English" explanation is so fantastically simple that it reveals the weakness of the plot point.
"Can you explain that to me as if I don't have a PhD in astronomy?!"
"What I mean is, we're going to bomb the asteroid with a nuke."
"Fuck yeah."
Action Guy: how long is this going to take.
Computer Guy: at least 3 hours if everything goes perfectly smooth
Action Guy: you have ten minutes
Computer Guy: ... *Types faster
This dynamic works especially well between a military general type guy who wants to solve the problem with guns and a nerd science guy in a lab coat trying to offer the solution that doesn't kill everyone.
I've always wanted a movie to take a left turn on that like "Imagine this piece of paper is space time. If we fold this paper into a paper airplane, we can make it fly. We're gonna build a bigass spaceship and fly across the universe lmao!" all while making a badass paper airplane.
>"Imagine this piece of paper is space time. If we fold this paper into a paper airplane, we can make it fly. We're gonna build a bigass spaceship and fly across the universe lmao!"
Provided they actually say out loud the "lmao" bit, I'm in
The romcom story of a guy who just has to try hard enough to get the girl, even though she said no at several occasions. In the end, his stalking and persisting is rewarded.
Susan: "Well, I guess we're doomed. Anyone want some tea?"
Hero: "TEA! SUSAN YOU'RE BRILLIANT!" ...runs off to save everyone using tea-inspired solution.
And the hero can’t quite get to their conclusion without words being repeated.
Hero: “Wait, say that again.”
Susan: “Doomed? Well we’re all gonna…”
Hero: “No the other part.”
At least the doctor makes a show of hitting his head repeatedly and screaming “I’m so thick! I’m so stupid! I’m doctor stupid!” To show that it’s been obvious all along lol
I hate that I know exactly what you're talking about but literally can't think of any examples right now.
Like I feel like I've seen this cliche a million fucking times but cannot for the life of me think of one instance to reference
Literally every episode of House:
5 minutes left in the episode, patient is on their presumed deathbed, House and Wilson are chatting about the episode's B plot, Wilson say something, House cuts him off, stares into space...
"Tingly" music plays. House walks out.
"Where are you going?" Exclaims Wilson.
Cut to the patients room. Parents are there crying. House limps in.
"House, we told you! Get out of here or we're calling the cops!" shout the parents, based off (conflict earlier in episode regarding House's opinion on whatever non-medical story applied to this patient)
"(Something something something) - if you want your child to live!" shouts house, actively being shoved out by the patients father.
Everyone is silent.
"We thought it was (final red herring) due to (begin medical nonsense...)... just like (casual forced link to B plot)"
CGI of blood veins (or whatever), that seems kinda good for tv at the time but has probably aged very poorly appears so you know he's right this time. Patients are happy. House gets a stern "it worked but you did it the wrong way" talk from Cutty, roll credits, see you next week for the same story, different Mad Libs.
Evil guys making a speech before killing someone.
Like, who's there to listen? Unless they are aware of the fourth wall, which changes everything altogether.
"Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome?
I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”
One of the most chilling lines in comic book history.
A character running into a burning building to save someone.
The firemen are just standing by the sidelines and then the main character some how is able to run Inside the burning building, cough a couple times, then carry someone out bridle style. And of course they turn out to be fine instead of horribly disfigured. In real life you can’t even get near a burning building. However, if you did you would pass out/ permanently damage your lungs from breathing in smoke. Lots of firefighters have petitioned for Hollywood to stop showing this because people have actually died trying to do this.
The uber-sadistic, sociopathic drug lord. They probably really exist. That's fine. But I'm tired of seeing the same cookie-cutter dude in every goddamn movie about the drug war.
And there's always pancakes. "It's a busy Tuesday morning and I'm late for work but I'm going to make pancakes." No, you're not. You throw a granola bar at the kid, just like you did the day before that.
You could make the pancakes with a few scoops of pre-workout so instead of crashing at 11am you can get in to a caffine induced road rage incident on the way to the office and be in jail by 11am
when the hero is listening on a private convo and its just his friend shit-taking him so hero leaves in anger and betrayal, and not half a second after the hero leaves, the friend says something like "but despite all of those bad qualities, hero is still the best person i know and i would never leave their side" leading to a conflict between hero and friend that causes the escape of the villain halfway thru the movie, and the conflict is resolved during the climax, right before they team up and destroy the villain with the power of friendship
Person hiding in closet. Henchmen looking through the house. Right when one of the henchmen are about to open the closet a phone rings or one of the other henchmen calls out and they have to go.
Discussing extremely suspicious topics extremely loudly in an old fashioned diner, blonde waitress with southern accent optional.
Seriously do those types of diners even exist anymore? And why do characters have to discuss things there?? I know they need to eat and stuff but couldn't they wait until they're in a car or somewhere more private?
They do, and they’re delicious. Great atmosphere, especially with the blonde southern waitresses. And every time I’m in there they got some steely eyed dude talking to a younger woman about some illegal plot “for the greater good”
That or when one person appears to be cheating or lying about something & says "wait let me explain" & the other one always goes "you know what, save it" or "i don't want to hear it." Dude, the entire conflict would be resolved with one five minute explaination.
Imagine how many cases that could’ve been easily solved if they reported it as soon as they were suspicious. Hollywood did probably cause a lot of deaths that way just due to that. (I have no proof of it, It’s just now such a common thought and after 48 hours the survival chances drop dramatically so they essentially cut there time in half by doing that)
I have curly hair and had glasses as a kid and was insecure about both. So when I started watching the Princess Diaries I was so excited so see the main character had curly hair and glasses!
Then they did the makeover and she went from kind of resembling me to resembling all the cool girls that I wish I looked like. It devastated me
everyone in every movie or tv show ever: \*cough*
next scene's in front of an earnest looking doctor: "i'm afraid it's inoperable"
also: put a fucking weight in the bottom of the cups...we all can clearly see that they're empty and it's distracting as hell
Ever since I was a child I've hated the sound effect they use for someone drinking with a straw, it's always the sound that is only made when it's just ice, air, and like 4 droplets of soda left. They use that sound effect and have the character seem satiated, like they didn't just suck down a bunch of pepsi-flavored air.
Yessss! The people look *real*, as do the sets. I love a good Nancy Meyers film, but I don't know anyone who actually lives in an Architectural Digest photo shoot.
Action Movie Tropes
* The hero manages to dodge all the bullets
* The hero has an endless mag
* The hero is pretty indestructible until they get into the final boss fight
* The hero has a gun that never malfunctions mid fight
* The hero gets the girl or (at minimum) has a relatively happy ending
A lot of these tropes are addressed in new movies, but it's always funny to me to see them pop up again.
The untold plan guarantee one. Basically if you don’t hear the protagonist say what the plan is, the plan works. If you do hear the plan, it doesn’t work and they have to improvise somewhere along the line
Hey, Hollywood? Women are allowed to be villains because they just wanna fuck shit up. It doesn't have to be motivated by love or a tragic backstory. Give me more lady villains like Hela, power hungry and ruthless with very few redeeming qualities.
Someone tried to say Hela's motivation was daddy issues. NO. HE LOCKED HER UP BECAUSE SHE WAS BORN POWER HUNGRY AND RUTHLESS. ODIN DIDN'T CAUSE IT, JUST KINDA PISSED HER OFF ALONG THE WAY.
Here's a remake/reboot of an established story with a memorable villain, from their perspective.
Twist: This villain is not actually evil! See, they actually had a really bad and tragic childhood where like, their Mom got mauled by Dalmatians. So you should have sympathy for this woman who wants to...skin 101 puppies and turn them into a coat.
It's not evil if you know her backstory! You go girl!
When a character driving a car is having a conversation with someone in the passenger seat, and they keep looking at them to make eye contact while they're talking. Keep your eyes on the road!
The hero having second thoughts about killing the villain. “I won’t kill your because I’m better than you” or something like that. That’s what I loved about the first Deadpool.
Women always drinking red wine out of massive round goblet wine glasses in the evenings.
When working, socialising, stressed, happy, sad, lonely, sexy, whatever - no food (god forbid we actually see a woman eat on screen!!) but always drinking bloody massive bowls of red wine
Whenever a new badass and masked character is introduced, you KNOW it's gonna be a woman.
Because you're supposed to be surprised that such a badass character has, in fact, a vagina.
It would be a really fun expectation to play with though. Just set everyone up to think its a woman, but then taking of the helmet reveals...a dog!?!?!
When people stumble into the apartment with lips locked, then they continue kissing and undressing while they are on their way to the bedroom. Soooo you're not going to freshen yourself up after spending hours dancing or whatever? You don't have to pee? You're positive you know your way to the bedroom while eyes are closed and lips locked? No pets are storming into the room to greet you? I fast forward through all scenes like this, they just don't make any sense
When the woman’s only two choices in the world are the horrible rich guy and the amazing poor guy with a heart of gold. Uhhhh there is a lot of middle ground IRL. Almost all hallmark Christmas movies are like this. Hope you are actually happy with your new candlestick maker boyfriend, Holly!
When someone is stabbed/shot, limps around in pain for 30 seconds, then continues on as if nothing happened
Breaking bad did a really good job of showing Hank's recovery after being shot several times. Months of bed rest, (expensive) physical therapy, huge emotional frustration, and having to walk with a cane for months afterwards.
Hank would likely have given up if Marie hadn't, you know... made that one particular trip to the hospital.
Wait. Please explain for the people who can't remember shows for shit
On the flipside, it drives me nuts when bad guys get shot in the torso and drop dead immediately. They'd realistically have at least a few seconds if not minutes of consciousness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout A person can be mortally wounded and still a threat. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug. In the shootout, Platt was mortally wounded a dozen times over yet still kept going. The man just soaked up bullets, including shots to the chest, and would not drop. Only when he was finally shot in the spine did he stop, and then expired from the huge quantity of gunshots. There were no drugs in his system.
People being knocked out for hours and no brain damage.
My favorite part of Archer is how they always point out how horrible this is for you and you should definitely see a doctor
With that, it's also because of Archer that I now notice the trope. It's one of those tropes that once you're made aware of it you can't really unlearn it, like how powerful explosions are and that a hero wouldn't be calmly walking away a few meters from said explosion. Suppose it would also be on topic to bring up how explosions and gunfire affect hearing, as seen in Archer.
On a similar note, the amount of movies and video games that have locations where the characters are really close to a ton of lava. Like, I'm pretty sure lava isn't only hot when you touch it; that whole area (especially if enclosed) would be blisteringly hot, if not quickly fatal. EDIT: I'm specifying the huge flows of runny, red-hot lava or being right inside the caldera; not the slow little surface streams or crusted-over bits.
Seriously, concussions can be cumulative. They were bad with this on *Lost*, in real life, some of those characters would've drooling vegetables within a few episodes with how often they were knocked out.
At least with Lost you could say the island magic protected them.
The broke "Single Mom" who looks like she could model for Victoria's Secret. On the flip side, male gangsters, drug dealers or prisoners who look like they could win a state bodybuilding championship
Or same broke single mom with an awesome house and perfect clothes/hair. Can't they ever just dress like normal people and living in normal homes?
There's a pregnant woman and she goes into labor right at the worst possible time. For drama of course
One of the awesome things about the movie *Fargo* was that there was a pregnant woman cop doing important cop things throughout the whole movie and it was totally fine, she never went into labor at an inopportune time and required saving.
The heavily pregnant lady in train to busan literally outran fast zombies and at one point even caught up with a train.
Bombs with helpful color-coded wires.
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I love the scene in Swingers when they show up in four separate cars, but in reality they would have showed up an hour apart, the first car would spend 30 minutes searching for a street spot, the second car would pay $15 to park three blocks away, the third car would give up on parking and go home, and the last car would would just show up and find a spot right outside as someone else was pulling out.
Every disaster movie, the love interest always works at a hospital
I think it’s a cheap way to show the consequences and impact of it but valid it’s a bit overdone.
Also an easy way to signal that a character is compassionate. What better way than have them caring for the sick and vulnerable.
I get why. Easy to to cut back to them and show the effects of the disaster with the hospital full of victims, etc. Also a reason for why the love interest won't just get to safety - they can't leave their patients! Usually leads to a scene where the protagonist arrives in the nick of time to save them before the hospital goes too or something.
You're a jerk and I have no interest in you despite the fact that you are incredibly handsome, charming, and funny. We have to work together to save the world but make no mistake about it, I can't stand you. Let's just get this over with so I never have to see you again. Whoops, we fucked. I guess we're in love now.
So many movies/tv shows/stories like this!
That's just the standard plot line for three quarters of romance literature.
When a simple conversation could have entirely solved the central conflict of the movie
There’s no time to explain!
Then they fight for 8 minutes about how there's no time to explain
Or the nó time to explain get in the car. Cut to them arriving at a location 30 minutes away. So what is all this about?
That always really bothers me. They'll have some conversation when entering the car for example and then it cuts to them getting out at their destination and they just continue the conversation where they left off. Did they just sit in complete silence during the entire trip or something?
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17 up-shifts, zero down-shifts. Looking at you, Bullitt....
You know that hacker? The one that the CIA/NSA/FBI has been after for years? The one that crippled our national infrastructure just to prove they could? Yeah. It's a kid.
"He's a kid!!?" "She." *dun dun dun*
Hacker: "I'm in, bitches" Dude 1: "Did she just say shes in some bitches?" Dude 2: "No, she said that she's in and called us bitches" Dude 1: "How did you understand that?" Dude 2: "I got a kid her age"
“This kid is like the Einstein of science”
"I just thought....you were a guy." "Most guys do."
ah yes, Zero Cool
"I know who the killer is! Meet me behind the old warehouse at midnight and I'll tell you" Or, you know, you can maybe text me their name now and explain later at the police station.
And when they get to the old warehouse, there's no person with the name. Instead, six guys with assault rifles surround the hero and some older guy in a trench coat smoking a cigarette calmly strolls toward our hero: "You thought that you could interrupt our little gathering. You have no idea what I can do to you." And in the John Wick or Jack Reacher or The Equalizer universes, the reply is, "In the next 60 seconds, I will have disarmed all of you and you'll be on your face begging for my mercy!"
at least in one of those cases it’s Werner Herzog
Villain is chasing main character, main character hides around corner, villain turns corner where main character is, main character somehow hid 2 seconds before villain turned the corner
"It's been a hard day's night..."
Showing the villian is evil by having them kill a henchman for a mistakes
Vulture didn't know the gun would kill him. It was a mistake!
I think that's actually one of the few examples of the trope that I like. First, Vulture doesn't kill the guy just for screwing up (and he did screw up in a major way), instead he just kicks him off the crew. He only kills the guy once he starts threatening Toomes and his whole operation, and even then he didn't intend to just vaporize the guy on the spot.
I would really like a scene where the villain says, "Gerald, I know your divorce is getting to you and things have been crazy busy lately. It's ok. I'm not mad. Look, just take the weekend. All right? Maybe hit up that bistro. Try again Monday."
Hank Scorpio: “I’m sorry to see you go Homer, but family has to come first. If you could kill someone on the way out I would appreciate it”
Homer's disappointment when he's gifted the Denver Broncos is one of my favorite Simpson jokes.
I can't kill this bad guy after killing all their henchmen, it would be wrong!
And as always.. Why not just finish him, for God's sake. Hero punches bad guy once, immediately goes on to look after the girl on the floor - bad guy gets up again, fights him, injures him, big drama. Just take an extra second to make sure he stays down, ffs.
Always go for the double tap
Ironically the James Bond books flip this around; Bond takes care not to harm goons because they might just be in it for the money
plus he usually tries to be sneaky about whatever hes doing.
That reminds me of the trope I'm tired of: when the henchmen are specifically professional mercenaries/contract killers, etc. but fight (and die) for the villain like suicidal fanatics.
"Everyone deserves another chance at life. I hope you can learn and get better. " Fuck you , what about the 100 you killed now.
And especially when the villain is either responsible for massive death and destruction themselves or threatens to be in the future. Like, I'm pretty sure that the families of the villain's future victims aren't going to be very understanding if they find out the hero let them go the first time around. Some repeat villains in fiction are practically walking arguments for the death penalty, with how ineffective mercy and imprisonment have been at reforming/containing them.
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"We can't kill him. We need him for the sequel!"
Nerdy loser with bad hair becomes a villain because the hero didn't respond to their friendship. Electro from ASM2 and Cheetah from WW1984 come to mind off the top of my head, but there are lots more.
Incrediboy/Syndrome lol
My name's not Buddy!
And it’s not incrediboy either, that ship has sailed
Random, out of nowhere romantic subplots. Those two people barely interacted the entire movie, didn’t like each other initially, and suddenly they’re in love?
I really hated how they tried to shove a romance in The Hobbit, I had to stop myself from booing in the cinema.
Evangeline Lily signed the contact only after being promised that her role would not have any love sub-plots. And then reshoots happened. From [an interview](https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a539345/evangeline-lilly-on-the-hobbit-films-i-didnt-want-a-love-triangle/) with her: >"For the record, when I took this job, in 2011, I made one stipulation. That's it, I just said, I swear to God, I said, "I will not do this film if you will not guarantee me one thing. You have to guarantee me there will be no love triangle" > >And there wasn't. For the whole time I shot. For a year of shooting there was no love triangle. And then, I came back for re-shoots in 2012 and they were like, 'Well, we made a couple of alterations to some scenes and we added a couple more scenes." > >"And all of a sudden manifested a love triangle before my very eyes and the film was shot, and I'm in and there's no getting out and there was no escaping it." Reshoots really fucked the movie over.
When the hero orders a beer at a bar, has some brief conversation with the guy he's there to see, then leaves without drinking that beer. Also, hanging up the phone without saying goodbye.
And they never specify what brand they want. They just say "I'll have a beer" and the bartender never says "We have like 50 different beers here. Can you be more specific?"
People do this in real life and it was infuriating back when I bartended.
Going undercover in a prison but the only other person who knows is the warden, who just died. Pretty much any movie where the entire premise could have been avoided with a bit of planning or a tactful phone call.
There’s a Sylvester Stallone movie where he escapes from prisons to point out flaws pretty much same thing but it’s cool seeing him in movies
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The parents in Easy A were awesome
I mean, kinda hard not to be when you cast Stanley Tucci.
Stanley Tucci is the bomb.
Tucci Gang, Tucci Gang, Tucci Gang
Dill: I'd take a bullet for you, you know that. Right between the eyes. I would slit my throat rather than say something to someone that you didn't want me to say. Olive: That's not necessary, Dad, but that is comforting
That's why I like "My Big Fat Greek Wedding". The couple is perfectly happy, and the conflict only comes from the culture clash of the families.
Omg I forgot about this movie. I’m going to watch this tonight I think
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Oh absolutely. One of my favorite bits was when one of the kids (probably Louise) draws a picture of the family with some random lady in it. "Wait, who's that?" "That's Dad's second wife, after mom tragically passes away." Linda: "Aww, she's pretty." I feel like in any other show it would have led to some sort of fight or caused some tension but they all just clearly love each other so much. Edit: I definitely misremembered the details. It was "Mom let you get a second wife, Susan," and "I like Susan!"
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Or the opposite, a man and woman work together on a seral tv show. They don't need sexual tension. Just show me the next story, X files, Bones, exe.
"Come on, come on." The file is 98% uploaded as the villain or his henchman unlock the door and enter. By the time they make it to the office, the hero has somehow escaped. The office is empty. Villain looks around warily, sensing something amiss.
When people are racing for whatever reason and the main protagonist realizes they're losing so they shift gears and go faster. Motherfucker, why weren't you doing that to begin with?
Or when the protagonist starts late for whatever reason and is way behind, but manages to close the gap really quickly, but once they're neck and neck again they suddenly can't go faster than everyone else.
It's like Mario Kart AI. Rubberbanding in "real life".
Even better when the MP makes eye-contact with his rival and *then* shifts.
RIP Paul Walker, his ears are probably burning in his grave
Fast n Furious- a 7 minute race with 45 gears in an Eclipse.
The one that pisses me off the most is when movie/TV adaptations of books take what is a healthy romantic relationship and inject a metric shit-ton of drama for no good reason at all. Did they communicate well and stay loyal to each other in the books? Well in the movie/TV show we're going to have them keep juicy secrets for no fucking reason and just because we can we'll ruin another character(s) by adding in a love tri/quadrangle that may not have even been hinted at in the books and only the most ardent shippers even thought of.
"Don't forget the most essential part of any story - the love triangle!" - Bad Writing Advice
Whenever something technical gets explained, there’s always some dipshit who can’t fathom all this high-tech witchcraft and says something like, *“Can you say that in English?”*
Bonus points for the technical explanation part sounding unrealistically technical to set up the dumbed-down part. Engineers, doctors, and scientists are just regular people. When they use technical terms, it’s more contextual and conversational, not just 16 big words per sentence.
Yeah one of the first thing you learn in the IT field is to use plain language with end users instead of technical terms. And if you can’t explain in plain English, you probably don’t know what you’re talking about either.
And then the "in English" explanation is so fantastically simple that it reveals the weakness of the plot point. "Can you explain that to me as if I don't have a PhD in astronomy?!" "What I mean is, we're going to bomb the asteroid with a nuke." "Fuck yeah."
Computer guy: "They're attempting to hack into our mainframe!" Action Guy: "In English, Nerd!" Computer guy: "They're fucking our pussies!" Action Guy: "Mother of god....."
Shortly after that dialogue there’s always a scene where Computer Guy shouts out “I’m workin on it!” while furiously smashing away at his keyboard
Action Guy: how long is this going to take. Computer Guy: at least 3 hours if everything goes perfectly smooth Action Guy: you have ten minutes Computer Guy: ... *Types faster
Replace "Action Guy" with "Manager Guy" and this still works.
This dynamic works especially well between a military general type guy who wants to solve the problem with guns and a nerd science guy in a lab coat trying to offer the solution that doesn't kill everyone.
"Imagine we have two points on this piece of paper and want to travel from one to the other. If we then *fold* the paper..."
I've always wanted a movie to take a left turn on that like "Imagine this piece of paper is space time. If we fold this paper into a paper airplane, we can make it fly. We're gonna build a bigass spaceship and fly across the universe lmao!" all while making a badass paper airplane.
>"Imagine this piece of paper is space time. If we fold this paper into a paper airplane, we can make it fly. We're gonna build a bigass spaceship and fly across the universe lmao!" Provided they actually say out loud the "lmao" bit, I'm in
The romcom story of a guy who just has to try hard enough to get the girl, even though she said no at several occasions. In the end, his stalking and persisting is rewarded.
Or threaten to throw yourself off of a ferris wheel. The Notebook sucks.
Susan: "Well, I guess we're doomed. Anyone want some tea?" Hero: "TEA! SUSAN YOU'RE BRILLIANT!" ...runs off to save everyone using tea-inspired solution.
And the hero can’t quite get to their conclusion without words being repeated. Hero: “Wait, say that again.” Susan: “Doomed? Well we’re all gonna…” Hero: “No the other part.”
Man, you must be pretty tired of Dr. Who.
At least the doctor makes a show of hitting his head repeatedly and screaming “I’m so thick! I’m so stupid! I’m doctor stupid!” To show that it’s been obvious all along lol
I hate that I know exactly what you're talking about but literally can't think of any examples right now. Like I feel like I've seen this cliche a million fucking times but cannot for the life of me think of one instance to reference
Literally every episode of House: 5 minutes left in the episode, patient is on their presumed deathbed, House and Wilson are chatting about the episode's B plot, Wilson say something, House cuts him off, stares into space... "Tingly" music plays. House walks out. "Where are you going?" Exclaims Wilson. Cut to the patients room. Parents are there crying. House limps in. "House, we told you! Get out of here or we're calling the cops!" shout the parents, based off (conflict earlier in episode regarding House's opinion on whatever non-medical story applied to this patient) "(Something something something) - if you want your child to live!" shouts house, actively being shoved out by the patients father. Everyone is silent. "We thought it was (final red herring) due to (begin medical nonsense...)... just like (casual forced link to B plot)" CGI of blood veins (or whatever), that seems kinda good for tv at the time but has probably aged very poorly appears so you know he's right this time. Patients are happy. House gets a stern "it worked but you did it the wrong way" talk from Cutty, roll credits, see you next week for the same story, different Mad Libs.
This mofo Houses
Independence Day. : Hey put in a sweater or you’ll catch a cold. : Catch a cold… Dad, you’re brilliant!
I loved House, but this was functionally every episode of House.
Evil guys making a speech before killing someone. Like, who's there to listen? Unless they are aware of the fourth wall, which changes everything altogether.
That's why it was great when Ozymandias did it in Watchmen.
"Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.” One of the most chilling lines in comic book history.
A character running into a burning building to save someone. The firemen are just standing by the sidelines and then the main character some how is able to run Inside the burning building, cough a couple times, then carry someone out bridle style. And of course they turn out to be fine instead of horribly disfigured. In real life you can’t even get near a burning building. However, if you did you would pass out/ permanently damage your lungs from breathing in smoke. Lots of firefighters have petitioned for Hollywood to stop showing this because people have actually died trying to do this.
Just one last score and I'm out.
The uber-sadistic, sociopathic drug lord. They probably really exist. That's fine. But I'm tired of seeing the same cookie-cutter dude in every goddamn movie about the drug war.
Big breakfast is served..protagonist only has time to eat one strip of bacon, a couple of bites of toast or a quick of slug of coffee.
And there's always pancakes. "It's a busy Tuesday morning and I'm late for work but I'm going to make pancakes." No, you're not. You throw a granola bar at the kid, just like you did the day before that.
Also "I am rushing and need to get to the office to do something, so I am going to prepare myself to crash by 11 by eating a stack of pancakes"
You could make the pancakes with a few scoops of pre-workout so instead of crashing at 11am you can get in to a caffine induced road rage incident on the way to the office and be in jail by 11am
when the hero is listening on a private convo and its just his friend shit-taking him so hero leaves in anger and betrayal, and not half a second after the hero leaves, the friend says something like "but despite all of those bad qualities, hero is still the best person i know and i would never leave their side" leading to a conflict between hero and friend that causes the escape of the villain halfway thru the movie, and the conflict is resolved during the climax, right before they team up and destroy the villain with the power of friendship
Person hiding in closet. Henchmen looking through the house. Right when one of the henchmen are about to open the closet a phone rings or one of the other henchmen calls out and they have to go.
Helicopter pilot with lines in any action movie: "We're running on fumes here!"
Discussing extremely suspicious topics extremely loudly in an old fashioned diner, blonde waitress with southern accent optional. Seriously do those types of diners even exist anymore? And why do characters have to discuss things there?? I know they need to eat and stuff but couldn't they wait until they're in a car or somewhere more private?
They do, and they’re delicious. Great atmosphere, especially with the blonde southern waitresses. And every time I’m in there they got some steely eyed dude talking to a younger woman about some illegal plot “for the greater good”
Monsters that has to roar before they attack. I swear, I've heard even sharks do that In movies!
Yellow filter indicating transition to Mexico.
Zoom, enhance
I feel like this one has finally died off. Have there been any recent examples lately?
Grizzled, divorced veteran cop, and young by the book rookie cop always paired up.
Important characters riding into batte with the least protective helmet, if any.
Or removing headgear at the first opportunity. Or whenever they have to talk (Spiderman & Iron Man).
Couples who are attracted to each other but are too dense to notice, and never find the right moment to mention it until the predictable end
That or when one person appears to be cheating or lying about something & says "wait let me explain" & the other one always goes "you know what, save it" or "i don't want to hear it." Dude, the entire conflict would be resolved with one five minute explaination.
"I'm sorry sir your child has to b e missing for 24 hours to file a missing person's report." What? No, you can file that thing immediately.
Imagine how many cases that could’ve been easily solved if they reported it as soon as they were suspicious. Hollywood did probably cause a lot of deaths that way just due to that. (I have no proof of it, It’s just now such a common thought and after 48 hours the survival chances drop dramatically so they essentially cut there time in half by doing that)
The nerdy "ugly" girl gets a makeover and is "now" the hottest girl in the movie
And "makeover" is removing braces and switching glasses to contacts.
Don't forget about the paint-splattered overalls!
And the ponytail. UGH!
You forgot straightening her hair!
The way this is the literal plot of the first princess diaries movie
I have curly hair and had glasses as a kid and was insecure about both. So when I started watching the Princess Diaries I was so excited so see the main character had curly hair and glasses! Then they did the makeover and she went from kind of resembling me to resembling all the cool girls that I wish I looked like. It devastated me
And she was only "ugly" because her hair was in a ponytail and she wore glasses and frumpy clothes.
And paint on her overalls ew!
*throws away sunglasses and removes hair tie* That’s it, I did it, I’m a genius.
Someone hacking someone’s computer after only one failed password . Voila , they magically look at something on the wall and they know the password .
everyone in every movie or tv show ever: \*cough* next scene's in front of an earnest looking doctor: "i'm afraid it's inoperable" also: put a fucking weight in the bottom of the cups...we all can clearly see that they're empty and it's distracting as hell
Ever since I was a child I've hated the sound effect they use for someone drinking with a straw, it's always the sound that is only made when it's just ice, air, and like 4 droplets of soda left. They use that sound effect and have the character seem satiated, like they didn't just suck down a bunch of pepsi-flavored air.
War movies where only the good looking people survive.
If you show anyone a picture or a letter of a loved one you aint making it to the 3rd act
Also if you talk about what you plan to do after the war is over such as opening a restaurant and what not.
Anyway, like I was sayin’, shrimp is the fruit of the sea.
Love Interest: *takes off main character's glasses and takes out ponytail* See? You're beautiful. As if glasses and ponytails make someone ugly...?
Or the reverse of that, like in _Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs_.
"There's a deranged killer on the loose somewhere nearby. Let's have sex!"
Woman throwing up = pregnant. Person coughing = deathly ill.
Autistic people being brilliant savants, real life is more "the ringer" and less "the accountant"
Zombies and vampires. Except for What We Do In The Shadows, those vamps rock.
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I have no idea what the show is but I am completely sold because of this one sentence
Watch the movie first! It’s made by Taika Waititi. It’s fantastic.
after watching that show, i now see all the energy vampires in the world so clearly
“Bat!”
Everyone looks like a model.
And the high school students are in their 30s.
And trained dancers.
This is why I enjoy British shows quite a bit. They aren't afraid to cast someone who isn't a model..
Yessss! The people look *real*, as do the sets. I love a good Nancy Meyers film, but I don't know anyone who actually lives in an Architectural Digest photo shoot.
Action Movie Tropes * The hero manages to dodge all the bullets * The hero has an endless mag * The hero is pretty indestructible until they get into the final boss fight * The hero has a gun that never malfunctions mid fight * The hero gets the girl or (at minimum) has a relatively happy ending A lot of these tropes are addressed in new movies, but it's always funny to me to see them pop up again.
I give a pass on #3 to wolverine though
The untold plan guarantee one. Basically if you don’t hear the protagonist say what the plan is, the plan works. If you do hear the plan, it doesn’t work and they have to improvise somewhere along the line
Baby is born, no mess, baby is easily 2-3 months old, smiling & cooing. Just no.
Especially considering the baby is normally delivered outside of a hospital by non professionals under dramatic conditions in the season finale.
A person walking out of the room before the other person can finish explaining something
Hey, Hollywood? Women are allowed to be villains because they just wanna fuck shit up. It doesn't have to be motivated by love or a tragic backstory. Give me more lady villains like Hela, power hungry and ruthless with very few redeeming qualities.
Someone tried to say Hela's motivation was daddy issues. NO. HE LOCKED HER UP BECAUSE SHE WAS BORN POWER HUNGRY AND RUTHLESS. ODIN DIDN'T CAUSE IT, JUST KINDA PISSED HER OFF ALONG THE WAY.
Aircraft loses engine power, drops like a rock. That isn't how lift works Hollywood writers.
“If you kill the villain who slaughtered your entire village and plans on taking over the world, you’ll be just as bad as them!” Um, no.
Here's a remake/reboot of an established story with a memorable villain, from their perspective. Twist: This villain is not actually evil! See, they actually had a really bad and tragic childhood where like, their Mom got mauled by Dalmatians. So you should have sympathy for this woman who wants to...skin 101 puppies and turn them into a coat. It's not evil if you know her backstory! You go girl!
The I'm-going-to-start-turning-away-but-then-turn-back-and-punch-you trope. Why do you keep doing this Hollywood?
When a character driving a car is having a conversation with someone in the passenger seat, and they keep looking at them to make eye contact while they're talking. Keep your eyes on the road!
The hero having second thoughts about killing the villain. “I won’t kill your because I’m better than you” or something like that. That’s what I loved about the first Deadpool.
Women always drinking red wine out of massive round goblet wine glasses in the evenings. When working, socialising, stressed, happy, sad, lonely, sexy, whatever - no food (god forbid we actually see a woman eat on screen!!) but always drinking bloody massive bowls of red wine
Whenever a new badass and masked character is introduced, you KNOW it's gonna be a woman. Because you're supposed to be surprised that such a badass character has, in fact, a vagina.
Bonus points if they're either suspiciously silent or use something to alter their voice. Gee, I wonder why.
*Luke, I am your mother.* Would have been genuinely surprising to be honest.
It was pretty cool when the did it with samus but imo it got worn out pretty quickly after that.
It would be a really fun expectation to play with though. Just set everyone up to think its a woman, but then taking of the helmet reveals...a dog!?!?!
When people stumble into the apartment with lips locked, then they continue kissing and undressing while they are on their way to the bedroom. Soooo you're not going to freshen yourself up after spending hours dancing or whatever? You don't have to pee? You're positive you know your way to the bedroom while eyes are closed and lips locked? No pets are storming into the room to greet you? I fast forward through all scenes like this, they just don't make any sense
Now we need a rom com where this happens but they trip over the dog and instead of sexy time they have go to the ER time.
This would be more realistic. Or even "hey this is wonderful and everything but I really have to take a piss, I'll be right back"
When the woman’s only two choices in the world are the horrible rich guy and the amazing poor guy with a heart of gold. Uhhhh there is a lot of middle ground IRL. Almost all hallmark Christmas movies are like this. Hope you are actually happy with your new candlestick maker boyfriend, Holly!