TV & Movie memes and plots I am sick of:

[jorian]

Guy in the city drives up in front of whatever place and there is a big enough space that he can pull right in. Nose first. At speed.

I think I've heard it called Doris Day parking.

[wildthing]

I stumbled upon the YouTube channel called CinemaSins and found it entertaining.

Of course, I suspend all reality when watching TV or movies.

[jorian]

Originally Posted by wildthing

I stumbled upon the YouTube channel called CinemaSins and found it entertaining.

Of course, I suspend all reality when watching TV or movies.

Reality shows need you to suspend reality too.

[varmint]

Originally Posted by jorian

Reality shows need you to suspend reality too.

and most news channels.

[scottmandue]

Highly trained government agents with top of the line firearms that can't hit the bad guy from across the room with multiple shots.

[widgeon13]

Steen Segal crap.

[Shifter]

How about car chase scenes were the car being chased can't shake or out run the far inferior vehicle?

"Hey, I have a five minute head start in my Bugatti, but that Yugo only needs thirty seconds to catch up on the open straight away!"

[Por_sha911]

TV shows where the straight person is always an idiot and the homosexual or lesbian is always the enlightened one.

Beer commercials with gorgeous bikini babes - do you think they got that figure chugging beer and, do you think they are attracted to a beer gut like yours?

There must be a law that any car crash in a movie is mandated to have the car explode.

Car chase scenes require running through a plate glass window and running over a fruit cart or bistro table.

The macho actor that can take brutal pounding in a fight but then winches when the girl cleans a cut.

Gratuitous nudity or profanity in a movie where it provides no added value to the plot.

[Heel n Toe]

Car chase scenes in which the bad guy's car hits another car (usually stationary) in such a way that would normally just be a nasty impact, but instead takes a leap and rolls like a stunt plane in mid-air before crashing down on its roof or one side. Yes, of course there was a ramp.

Similarly, any vehicle leap in a chase scene that would easily take out the oil pan and the front suspension, but the car remains completely viable for another mile or more.




^^^ Nice skidpan, bro!

Bullitt and The Blues Brothers are exempt from this criticism for obvious reasons.

[Nostril Cheese]

Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

HA!!!!!!!!

One of my good friends built the motion control platforms for True Lies with his dad. At one point, they had a Harrier fuselage (without wings) on top of it in the backyard. We built all kinds of crazy stuff in their workshop. I learned a lot from them.

They made some other cool stuff too..

[Baz]

You're not cool..........unless you're "Jack Lord CIA" cool.......

[mikesride]

Zombies.......

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by mikesride

Zombies.......

+1
Vampires also.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by Shifter

How about car chase scenes were the car being chased can't shake or out run the far inferior vehicle?

Particularly the pickup truck/panel van/extra large SUV that can keep up/chase down a sports car.

[Por_sha911]

Well, maybe it depends on who is driving? Think Nurburgring and Sabine in a Ford transit van versus most drivers in a sports car.

[hardflex]

Comic book plots that are transfered to movie form. Plots that remind me of 8 year olds playing 'cops and robbers' or 'war'. Short on substance, they fill the time with ridiculous action sequences or endless gun battles. That covers about 98% of what's made today.