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     Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Okay, I'm sick to death of hearing this in films. If I hear it in a trailer, chances are I'm never ever going to watch it. So, what lines, utterances and general all round cliches of the verbal kind do you hate hearing in movies? | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
I find endless clever quips pretty tiresome. Nothing specific, just the kind of barrage of hip one-liners that passes for dialogue between implausibly attractive teens in films these days. "These days"? Jeez, I'm getting old... | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
No, no, Kate, it's not time to hang up the 'trendy clothes' for the wimple and habit just yet. I know exactly what you mean. That kind of thing is the bastard progeny of 80's action flicks; Stallone and Arnie always ready with a flip line after butchering somebody...'Stick around Bennett,'...which has translated into the teen market under the spurious guise of coolness. No, really, there's a connection...honestly... Michael Biehn once gave a really funny interview in which he pointed out he was always in films which required him to utter, 'we gotta get the hell outta of here,' or various derivations of it. That's why he loved making Planet Terror. Seems like a nice guy. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.132.136.188 |
I don't have access to YouTube just now, but there's a clip on there somewhere which consists of nothing but people shouting "Get out of there!" from films down the ages. My personal current annoyance is "It's started." | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
"I'm too old for this shit." It was funny when Danny Glover said it in Lethal Weapon, but why oh why does it keep being said. It's as if the screenwriters think it's an original line, hilariously witty, and has never been doen beore. It even gets said by protagonist's who aren't even old. Pathetic. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
People looking heavenwards and yelling "Nooooooooooooooooo" have me grinding my teeth, but I think the line of dialogue I most loathe for its omnipresence is "You just don't get it, do you?" | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Ramsey, I'll raise you a People looking heavenwards and yelling "Nooooooooooooooooo" whilst repeatedly shooting a handgun into the air.  | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
I trust Hot Fuzz is exempt.  | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
HHHHAHAAHAHAHA...then I'm not alone. Those are also bugbears of mine. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Kate - oh, yes, Hot Fuzz is exempt. I love that film, though it seems to be generally disliked. John - yes, that's another line that does the round to often. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Hot Fuzz is hilarious! Loved it. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Other cliches (not as lines):After fleeing a monster, you will want to call for help from a public phone within ten feet of where you last saw the monster. Summer camps are filled with the musically gifted and psychopathic. Any drug deal usually involves multiple fatalities. Reading any book aloud usually has catastrophic consequences. All expeditions must be led by an old and experienced guide with a facial scar who dies horribly before the end. (I didn't think these up, I pasted them from elsewhere) | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Not a line from films, but about films- That Tom Hanks is a good actor isn't he? No he bloody isn't. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
"Your guess is as good as mine." A staple from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Classic silliness (: | ||
| Skunsworth (Skunsworth) Username: Skunsworth Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 92.14.252.204 |
"God damn!" We've heard this so often that Wendy now uses it to describe a certain class of dumb action/horror movie - they are now officially called 'God damn movies'. S | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.248.167 |
Usually when there's a heated action sequence, like someone shooting at someone else or some thing on the rampage, the "leader" will yell at his own men/women, who have to either run away or attack: "Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!", etc. Always hated that. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
It's a million to one chance but it might just work... Has anyone ever noticed that - in the movies at least - million to one chances work nine times out of ten. I'd say someone's working out their probabilities wrong. Also whenever anyone says there's no chance of something going wrong... it always does. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Re cliches rather than actual lines, it never fails to amuse me (in a childish sort of way) that the young lady in a film, faced with a crazed serial killer or some such, always runs INTO a dark wood/dark alleyway/quiet street or similar, usually losing her shoes and some other item of clothing in the process. If I was faced with a crazed serial killer, I'd run like hell to the nearest INHABITED place, keeping all my clothes on (thankfully, I hear you utter!)  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.248.167 |
9 times out of 10, whenever the main characters either go to Mexico, or to a Mexican part of the city, etc., it always just so happens to be on "Day of the Dead," during which there's a lurid parade going on at (imagine that!) that exact moment.... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Aren't there Day of the Dead festivals all day, every day, in every small Mexican border town in existence? Hollywood has lied to me yet again! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
they are now officially called 'God damn movies'. I like that. A lot. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.45.110.211 |
Not a specific quote, but I noticed something watching the ludicrously over-rated FROST/NIXON that during a montage (an attempt to make business meetings interesting) someone says something that has the general shape of something funny, without actually being funny, and everyone in the room laughs, and the montage continues. I'm probably not doing a good job of describing it, but you know it when you see it. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.45.110.211 |
Half way through a trailer the voice over man interjects with the word "Now..!" for absolutely no reason. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.115.63 |
If a character says "here's my plan" and the scene changes before the plan is revealed to the audience, it'll all work flawlessly. However, if that character says "here's my plan" and the audience hears it, it'll go wrong. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.45.110.211 |
Except in OCEAN'S [insert number], where both of those occurred. Still ghastly films, though. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.45.110.211 |
My personally most loathed phrase is "lock and load". | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.248.167 |
Aren't there Day of the Dead festivals all day, every day, in every small Mexican border town in existence? No, but there are women wandering around in panchos, balancing baskets of food on their heads.... (but are they real ponchos, or Sears ponchos? [that was for you, Stevie ]) | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
"Now that's what I'm talking about!" usually delivered smugly, apropos of nothing. By Will Smith. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
Following on from Caroline's post, why is it that the chainsaw-wielding maniac always manages to outrun the skinny teenager? And how does he rig those bodies to fall down in front of her along the way? Oh, and a pet peeve of mine in writing is anything that starts with the phrase "So there I was..." I can't help but hear Sarah Jessica Parker narrating, with bouncy rom-com music playing. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 207.6.255.47 |
"Isn't it always?" Typically this follows someone summing things up in an entirely over-simplified way, delivered with a tone of incredulity. Surely, if it really is as frequent an occurrence as the user of the trite phrase would have it, not only would the summarizer not be sounding like a disbeliever, the statement "isn't it always?" wouldn't even be required at all! "This can't be good..." is another damn fool, obvious statement. Typically it's used when something has blown up, been eaten, or been revealed to be a massive atomic-powered tiger crossed with a Ghila Monster which is about to either eat someone or explode or both. Once more I wonder if the clarification of the absence of "everything will be sunshine & lollipops" in the situation is something which needs indication. ...clearly I have my grump pants on today. Hmmm, I'm giving Weber a run for his money. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.199.230 |
"Time is the one thing we don't have." | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
The various mispronunciations of "ouija" always irk me. If the word is derived from French oui and German ja, where the hell do "wee-jee" and "wee-juh" come from? Why isn't it "wee-yah"? The only film I've ever seen address the issue is Witchboard, where a character actually corrects someone's "wee-jee" pronunciation by explaining the derivation of the word. (Hooray!) But then he proceeds to call it "wee-juh"! (Huh?) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.244.154 |
Or when someone's telling you a story of what happened to them recently and they begin, "And what must have happened was . . . and then he must have said . . . " Etc. Actually, now I think, that's probably a more honest way of narrating experience than the orthodox, faux-accurate ("And he said . . . and I replied . . .") reporting we usually use. So yeah, I take it all back. In writing this message I have realised that this method is superior is to the received way of reflecting on experience. Everyone must adopt it at once. Ignore me. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.244.154 |
And sorry, my message has nothing to do with films. I'm cracking up. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.244.154 |
Ah, now I think: in films, when a character repeats his or her last phrase for portentous emphasis. Such as, for example, when a guy hears about some disastrous event and is asked, say, by his wife why things like this happen in the world . . . and he says, "Beats me, honey. Beats me." Somebody should beat him. Other presently sourceless examples: "Damned if I know, bubba. Damned if I know." "Who can say? [dramatic pause filled with philosophically mournful gurning and a resigned shake of the head] Who can say?" | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.211.103.120 |
"Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead." | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.193.36 |
Remember the ghastly sitcom BREAD? "You'll learn, Joey Boswell. You'll learn." | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
I actually like that one - it's how people speak. At least, it's how my speaks when she's telling me off: "You're a cheeky little bastard, you. A bastard."  | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
"Do you have a plan B?" | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.244.154 |
>>>"Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead." No, I could probably live with this one. Esepcially if I got to see the camcorder footage of the bus running him over.  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.244.154 |
Zed, next time we meet, I'm going to speak like this all the time. "Put the kettle on, mate. Put the kettle on . . . What's you working on at the moment? What you working on? . . . Etc, etc." We'll see how much you like it, then! | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
Here's one that always makes my dad shake his fist at the screen: When people ask movie/TV doctors how an operation went or if someone in an accident will be OK, if it's bad news they'll just shake their heads solemnly without saying anything. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
I do that all the time. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
But, Gary, I think you're missing the point. They only speak like that when it's about something vaguely portentious. Not putting the kettle on. Honestly; sometimes I despair. I despair. (Gazes to the heavens, screaming "Noooooooo!" whilst repeatedly pulling trigger of spud gun) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.244.154 |
But . . . putting the kettle is a portentous and extremely moving moment. Come on, surely you feel the same. It's tea, man. It's tea. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Yes, but you put the kettle on about 50 times a day. Surely after the 21st time it must become more prosaic? You tea-guzzling maniac. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.244.154 |
No, the pleasure is never diminished, even with a permanently stacked bladder and tea stains starting to appear on my face. Tea, tea, tea. 'Tis the way forward. ('Tis the way forward.) | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.66.88 |
What about hanging up the phone without saying goodbye? Nobody does that. People actually have taken to saying mulitple little "goodbyes" now. "Cheersyeahbyeseeyabye." | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.244.154 |
Yeah! Good one! I hate that. Or what about when they switch their bedside lamps out, and it's still light enough to read a fucking book! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.244.154 |
One my Michelle just mentioned: when women wake up from sleep in bed and their hair and makeup are flawless. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Gary - she forgot to mention when men wake up and their hair and makeup is flawless...that reminds me, where is Zed this morning/afternoon. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Gary - I didn't think you'd be able to contribute to this thread, seeing as you know nowt about films...but you've surprised me, old bean. It's quite endearing to see that little boy who once had no idea as to what people were talking about, to see him now fully grown, and stumbling round offering his own opinions and choices. Remember come and speak to your Uncle Frank if you need any help  | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.66.88 |
Or when one character says to another "you look terrible". And they don't. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Yeah, when they look terrible everybody else is thinking, I wish I looked as terrible as that. One thing they never say in films is 'you've put on weight,' Or 'I've just been for a piss/slash/dump' (sorry for the crudity) | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Have you ever noticed that in Coronation Street nobody ever says "Did you see Coronation Street last night"? Or would that be too metafictional for a soap opera? | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
No, but wouldn't it be cool. Though one appalling use of meta-fiction gone horribly wrong, was the last Red Dwarf min-series. | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.202.180.87 |
Hubert - "Do you have a plan B?" There's a "Plan B" scene in Tango & Cash that made me chuckle... "Why do we have to use your plan A?" "Because it's one helluva lot better than your plan B, which you don't even have." A line that was cool the first time I heard it, but now grates is: "Now what do we do?" "We wait." | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Matthew - somehow Tango and Cash shouldn't work, but somehow it manages to entertain through its absolute ridiculous. There goes any shred of credibility I MAY have had. | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.202.180.87 |
Yes. A guilty pleasure, that one. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
I meant to write ridiculousness. Another guilty pleasure is Stallone's 'Demolition Man' and 'Night Hawks' | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
There's a plan B sequence in the last Star Wars. Doesn't Lucas realize how ridiculous that will sound in thirty years? It's a lucky thing the jedi don't talk about mindmapping. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 62.40.54.135 |
DEMOLITION MAN is, actually, quite funny. A future world run by Sir Humphrey. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Nighthawks shouldn't be a guilty pleasure - it's a very good thriller, and totally of its time. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
Another movie convention that never seems to be undermined: whenever a scene begins in a school class you know the bell will ring in less than a minute. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.132.139.221 |
Usually interrupting the clearly surprised teacher in mid-flow, Ramsey. Zed - thank god I'm not alone in appreciating NIGHTHAWKS. Any film in which two key scenes revolve around Sly cross-dressing is all right by me. Plus, New York looks like an utter bombsite throughout. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 207.6.255.47 |
Ramsey: see that wonderful scene in The Meaning of Life. Good lessons to be had there, as well as the exception to the rule. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.118.178 |
"You fool! Leave the thinking to me." | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.115.63 |
"Let's do this thing". | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.103.21 |
An officer referring to soldiers he doesn't respect as "ladies" and soldiers he does respect as "gentlemen". | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.103.21 |
Ten minutes into THE INTERNATIONAL Clive Owen said "I'm telling you he was murdered" and I turned it off. | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
Pet hate cliches... The team/group/gang/whatever walking towards the camera (sometimes in slow motion)looking determined or mean. "You can do this" "I can do this" "We can do this" The completely over-the-top way teenage gang members are portrayed in Hollywood films. Seeing your girlfirend (usually recently estranged) in the crowd just as you are on the point of giving up. The big militry control rooms where they grimly watch the action on some huge screen then all cheer and high-five when the hero pulls it off. The way everyone in the bus cheers when the hero and heroine have a big tongue-heavy public snog -in this country they would be greeted with shouts of "get a room!" The montage, if only it was that easy to train/learn/buld something. And pettest hatest of all - the new teacer who is greeted by a clssroom full of arseholes (average actor 30 but playing teenagers) who he/she magically converts into the best goddam class in the school. I teach at a college and believe me, if the class are arseholes when you first walk in, they stay that way no matter what the hell you try to do with/to them. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
If you want to see a film that positively glorifies in all the above clichés, and has just ousted 'The Last Exorcism' from my Top 10 of the year, then go see 'The Other Guys' with Will Ferrell & Mark Wahlberg, abso-bloody-lutely hilarious imho... | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.111.142 |
CUT TO: INT. BOARDROOM - DAY MAN "...and that is why I feel this company is in such good shape." | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
"I don't know how I missed it!" I don't know how I missed that one. Oh, and the ubiquitous, "There's a storm coming." I swear that every TV show in history has used that particular metaphor at least once. | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
Now you've got me going... SHOUTING. Every bloody American film contains SHOUTING!!!! Someone has to SHOUT at someone who usually SHOUTS back. Why can't they all just SHUT UP! And the multiple gun pointing scene; he's pointing the gun at him who is pointing the gun at her who is pointing a gun at him etc etc etc and yes, they're probably all SHOUTING at each other. And why does the heroine start the film all tough and self-assured and is then reduced to a quivering, useless girly wreck ss soon as the trouble starts? And Bruce Willis...well, just Bruce Willis. Oh i could go on and on. why do I watch films anyway? Terry Grumpy Old Bastard Grimwood | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
Sorry, one more. Hero: "How long will it ake to fix that thing?" Highly trained, very expeirnced engineer who knows a thousand times more about "that thing" an how to fix it and what parts are required and what speicalist tools have to be requisitioned from the stores and who has been fixing those "things" for years: "Twelve hours." Hero, who has never so much as changed a spark plug in his car: "You've got three." Why doesn't the technician tell the hero where to stuf "that thing2 and walk off? Better till, why doesn't he stuff "that thing" up there himself? Terry Extremely Bloody Grumpy This Morning Grimwood (I have a thing to fix by Friday and its made me very cross) | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
Whenever anyone drives a speeding car in a film, the tyres *always* squeal. Even on dirt roads. And whenever there's a thunderstorm raging outside you can always count on the lightning/thunder to punctuate important dialogue right on cue. And why is it that the highly skilled bad guys can't hit the broad side of a barn while the frightened little girly who's never fired a gun in her life suddenly has a pistol thrust into her hands and hits every target dead-on? And why do people throw the empty gun at the bad guy once they've run out of bullets? And why does every newly discovered dungeon have a full skeleton hanging in shackles? Did the gaolers have no more need of that particular set of shackles? Did they just leave the body there to rot? Or was that the last person tortured before the dungeon was shut down due to budget constraints? (This one has bugged me ever since Lord P pointed out that the joints would have decayed, leaving only a pile of bones.) | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.132.136.188 |
"And why is it that the highly skilled bad guys can't hit the broad side of a barn while the frightened little girly who's never fired a gun in her life suddenly has a pistol thrust into her hands and hits every target dead-on? " They're all graduates of the Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy. Basically, you go in, get given a gun, and are told to shoot at a barn door. If you miss, you're in! | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Most hilarious OTT example of the above is the demented 'Red Dawn'... highly trained Russian paratroopers with Kalashnikov assault rifles expend thousands of rounds of ammunition and fail to hit Patrick Swayze and co. Patrick Swayze or one of the other kids fires one round from Dad's old hunting rifle/shotgun and twenty Russians drop dead on the spot. That's some pretty interesting ammunition they're using. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Simon, that film is indeed demented. A guilty pleasure. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Red Dawn the remake is almost finished. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 207.6.255.47 |
There's some possibility of that happening on a dirt road, as the soil/clay/rock combination might have compacted sufficiently that a smooth hard surface is created as the tire finishes off the top, or even that the dirt is over a solid rock plate and the tire is finding a bite on that. Very long shot, that is, but it is possible. Where it is not at all possible no matter how much you stretch the point is in the opening scene of On Her Majesty's Secret Service where a vehicle zooms around repeatedly on a wide, flat, expansive, sandy beach, its tires merrily screaming away as the sand rooster-tails around it. The fact the scene also boasts heavy, mid-afternoon shadows, although purportedly at night (which is created by use of a Tungsten-balanced film and under-exposing by a good two stops; plus a polarizing filter to deepen the shadows, reduce glare, and darken the sky) is merely a bonus. I think it happens in The Prisoner a few times as well; which is particularly insane, as you're dealing with an electric golf-cart thing that can't possibly conquer any speed records set by the average house cat, let alone squeal its tyres. ...film-making gits. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Thy shall never question the logic of The Prisoner for fear of the pain and violence which WILL be inflicted upon thee | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.202.180.87 |
Tonight we rented REC 2 on DVD. There were 4 trailers before the main feature, and these were the taglines of 3 of them: "How far would you go?" (The Tortured) "How far would you go for revenge?" (7 Days) "How far would you go to protect your country?" (Unthinkable) I felt like James Bond at a job interview. At least ask me one appropriate to my evening, like "How far would you go for another slice of pizza?" | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
"Give me the gun, son." I've heard this so many times I can't give a straight example. There must be a few in John Wayne westerns. |