TV & Movie memes and plots I am sick of:

[GH85Carrera]

I do enjoy action flicks. What the heck, I am a guy and I like to see stuff get blowed up real good.

One plot point or meme is the completely amoral evil horrible man that is actually a CIA agent. Time after time the most over the top evil person ever turns out to be the CIA guy. And they often are working right here in the USA which is illegal in itself.

In the movie about tracking down and killing Bin Laden they actually had some normal reasonable hard working "good guy" agents. Almost every other movie or TV show the CIA guy is just the worst person and evil can't be trusted sleaze of a man. Often he is only doing the evil to make himself rich and not even trying to accomplish anything else.

The other meme that is just silly and over-used is the smoking hot 95 pound woman that get whip three or four professional body guards with punches and kicks. There is no doubt in my mind many women can whip my butt. No 95 pound woman ever on the planet would stand for 30 seconds in the top level MMA ring against 190 pounds of muscle trained fighting men. Most of the super hot women for some reason have skin tight black leather pants and low cut blouses. I enjoy the view but come on, give it a break writers.

So what are your lease favorite and overused plot points?

[flipper35]

Movies where everybody is stupid.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by flipper35

Movies where everybody is stupid.

That brings up another one:

On the vast majority of TV comedies ONLY the white male is the blubbering incompetent fool that can't do anything right. He may well have a heart of gold and try to do his best but he "just can't help himself" and he screws up almost every show.

[flipper35]

Home Improvement was pretty good. Then again, Tim Taylor was the only one a few points short on his IQ.

[cashflyer]

Cars / car doors that stop bullets - even 5.56.

[sand_man]

Anything that Adam Sandler touches!

[herr_oberst]

There's so so many.

The computer genius who can hack into anything with just a few strokes.

The brand new Mercedes (or whatever) with squeaky brakes

5 or six black Suburbans or Escalades driving through town together through traffic getting through all the stopsigns and stoplights like beads on a rope.

[scottmandue]

Tires squealing on dirt roads...

In most movies&TV 95% of the human race is physically strikingly beautiful.

[MMiller]

OP's whole post is played out in the new NBC series "Blindspot". I enjoy watching her but the whole premise is pretty weak..

[GH85Carrera]

The computer "expert" that just pounds on the keys and with a few hundred key clicks can hack any computer or enhance a reflection in the glasses of a cell phone photo and read the tag number of a car across the street.

[gtc]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The computer "expert" that just pounds on the keys and with a few hundred key clicks can hack any computer or enhance a reflection in the glasses of a cell phone photo and read the tag number of a car across the street.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

1. Anything involving Matthew McConaughey

2. Any movie where people shoot with worse aim than the "A team" tv series (Gratuitous gunfire needed to provide action, the poor aim so the characters don't die)

3. Movies that push the limits of what technology can do to ridiculous levels because the writers don't know any better. For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger hovering around in his harrier jet for 45 minutes in vertical take off mode in True Lies. Another example is a movie that was made in the 1950's-60's (cannot remember name), in which an air force colonel (or someone), upon being attacked by Russians, or aliens, or something, ordered his force to "launch those lifting bodies from XXXX XXX airfield." Sounded good at the time, but in retrospect, what the hell would that have accomplished? Launching an unarmed, barely maneuverable test vehicle to a high altitude, only to descend back to earth at a high rate of speed, and if lucky, even land? Exactly HOW would that save us?

4. Movies that violate physics for the sake of the shot- people unrealistically/unnecessarily jump from airplane to airplane, airplane to car, car to airplane, car to helicopter, truck to truck, truck to airplane, airplane to boat, etc.

5.Any movie where the action hero dangles from something by one hand, and is holding/saving someone else in the other hand.

[varmint]

The Top 100 Things I'd Do
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord

My Legions of Terror will have helmets with clear plexiglass visors, not face-concealing ones.
My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through.
My noble half-brother whose throne I usurped will be killed, not kept anonymously imprisoned in a forgotten cell of my dungeon.
Shooting is not too good for my enemies.
The artifact which is the source of my power will not be kept on the Mountain of Despair beyond the River of Fire guarded by the Dragons of Eternity. It will be in my safe-deposit box. The same applies to the object which is my one weakness.
I will not gloat over my enemies' predicament before killing them.
When I've captured my adversary and he says, "Look, before you kill me, will you at least tell me what this is all about?" I'll say, "No." and shoot him. No, on second thought I'll shoot him then say "No."
After I kidnap the beautiful princess, we will be married immediately in a quiet civil ceremony, not a lavish spectacle in three weeks' time during which the final phase of my plan will be carried out.
I will not include a self-destruct mechanism unless absolutely necessary. If it is necessary, it will not be a large red button labelled "Danger: Do Not Push". The big red button marked "Do Not Push" will instead trigger a spray of bullets on anyone stupid enough to disregard it. Similarly, the ON/OFF switch will not clearly be labelled as such.
I will not interrogate my enemies in the inner sanctum -- a small hotel well outside my borders will work just as well.
I will be secure in my superiority. Therefore, I will feel no need to prove it by leaving clues in the form of riddles or leaving my weaker enemies alive to show they pose no threat.
One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.
All slain enemies will be cremated, or at least have several rounds of ammunition emptied into them, not left for dead at the bottom of the cliff. The announcement of their deaths, as well as any accompanying celebration, will be deferred until after the aforementioned disposal.
The hero is not entitled to a last kiss, a last cigarette, or any other form of last request.
I will never employ any device with a digital countdown. If I find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable, I will set it to activate when the counter reaches 117 and the hero is just putting his plan into operation.
I will never utter the sentence "But before I kill you, there's just one thing I want to know."
When I employ people as advisors, I will occasionally listen to their advice.
I will not have a son. Although his laughably under-planned attempt to usurp power would easily fail, it would provide a fatal distraction at a crucial point in time.
I will not have a daughter. She would be as beautiful as she was evil, but one look at the hero's rugged countenance and she'd betray her own father.
Despite its proven stress-relieving effect, I will not indulge in maniacal laughter. When so occupied, it's too easy to miss unexpected developments that a more attentive individual could adjust to accordingly.
I will hire a talented fashion designer to create original uniforms for my Legions of Terror, as opposed to some cheap knock-offs that make them look like Nazi stormtroopers, Roman footsoldiers, or savage Mongol hordes. All were eventually defeated and I want my troops to have a more positive mind-set.
No matter how tempted I am with the prospect of unlimited power, I will not consume any energy field bigger than my head.
I will keep a special cache of low-tech weapons and train my troops in their use. That way -- even if the heroes manage to neutralize my power generator and/or render the standard-issue energy weapons useless -- my troops will not be overrun by a handful of savages armed with spears and rocks.
I will maintain a realistic assessment of my strengths and weaknesses. Even though this takes some of the fun out of the job, at least I will never utter the line "No, this cannot be! I AM INVINCIBLE!!!" (After that, death is usually instantaneous.)
No matter how well it would perform, I will never construct any sort of machinery which is completely indestructible except for one small and virtually inaccessible vulnerable spot.
No matter how attractive certain members of the rebellion are, there is probably someone just as attractive who is not desperate to kill me. Therefore, I will think twice before ordering a prisoner sent to my bedchamber.
I will never build only one of anything important. All important systems will have redundant control panels and power supplies. For the same reason I will always carry at least two fully loaded weapons at all times.
My pet monster will be kept in a secure cage from which it cannot escape and into which I could not accidentally stumble.
I will dress in bright and cheery colors, and so throw my enemies into confusion.
All bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no-talent bards, and cowardly thieves in the land will be preemptively put to death. My foes will surely give up and abandon their quest if they have no source of comic relief.
All naive, busty tavern wenches in my realm will be replaced with surly, world-weary waitresses who will provide no unexpected reinforcement and/or romantic subplot for the hero or his sidekick.
I will not fly into a rage and kill a messenger who brings me bad news just to illustrate how evil I really am. Good messengers are hard to come by.
I won't require high-ranking female members of my organization to wear a stainless-steel bustier. Morale is better with a more casual dress-code. Similarly, outfits made entirely from black leather will be reserved for formal occasions.
I will not turn into a snake. It never helps.



Peter's Evil Overlord List

[varmint]

I will make sure that my doomsday device is up to code and properly grounded.

[aigel]

The lady along in the action scene constantly screaming. I guess it is supposed to raise the suspense or something.

I have not watched a modern movie in months. I can't take the over-the-top crap. Cuts every 200 milliseconds, I feel that I'll get a seizure watching that. My life is exciting enough - when I have down time, I like to relax ...

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[LEAKYSEALS951]

Originally Posted by varmint

I will make sure that my doomsday device is up to code and properly grounded.

HA!!!!!!!!

[emcon5]

Endless remakes of crap that wasn't that good when it first came out 15 years ago.

[sand_man]

Shakey-cam horror mocumentaries!!!

[sand_man]

Have super hero (DC/Marvel comics) been mentioned?

[flipper35]

I thought Heat didn't do too bad.

Silencers on revolvers...

When someone with a red shirt survives an away mission..Oh wait, wrong meme.

I really have a hard time with movies that try to be realistic but then drop in some jarringly bad CGI.

Or these guys that are supposed to be this great weapons expert but have their trigger finger wrapped so far through the guard they could hit the (non ambi) mag release on a 1911 with it.