Stupid overused things in movies that annoy me

[Winston]

Does anyone else get annoyed by these stupid things that are overused in Hollywood movies?

- Why is it that during a sex scene or a lovemaking scene, the phone always has to ring, and the couple always has to stop to answer it, and then one of them has to stop the sex and suddenly leave on an emergency? In real life, people don't stop sex to answer the phone. That's stupid and overused.

- Why is it that in action movies, when the bad guy points a gun at the action hero, he always gets really close to him so that the hero can grab the gun or arm and take out the bad guy? That's so stupid, obvious, predictable, and unrealistic. Anyone knows that when you point a gun at someone, you do it from a safe distance so that he can't grab it or suddenly attack you. That's common sense. Yet they always so that in movies, especially those involving Steven Seagal or Chuck Norris.

- Why is it that in a group of criminals in a shoot 'em up action movie, the leader of the bad guys usually abruptly shoots one of his teammates as soon as he has no more need for him anymore (In the movie "Cliffhanger", the bad guy leader even shot his own wife, which was totally implausible) yet the other bad guys on the team continue following the leader as though they don't realize that they too will be shot as soon as they are not needed? Come on. Instead, they think "Oh great, one less person to share the loot with, I'm sure our bad guy leader will treat us fairly and give us our share of the loot, just like he promised!"

Yeah right. Gimme a break.

These kind of things insult my intelligence.

[ladislav]

Also, when bad guys shoot hails of bullets, and good guys, either do not get hit or get hit in the shoulder. Good guys, however, aim and hit immediately with a single shot and in the right place.
Asian actors of different Asian races get shuffled from one movie to another playing a Vietnamese in one, a Japanese in another, and a Korean in yet another one. I can tell different Asians apart so it annoys me seeing a man with obviously a Chinese face playing a Japanese. Background Asian language noise is always wrong. People are screaming in Chinese, but the movie is about a US war in Laos. And in movies about VN, they film everything in Thailand even showing famous Bangkok landmarks such as the Thai Parliament building.
They shot a movie Beyond Rangoon in Malaysia but Malays look nothing like the Burmese.
"The Kingdom" was filmed in Abu Dhabi, and I know it very well, and the clothes that the women wore there were Emirati, not Saudi.
Movies about Russia are filmed in Bulgaria with dark, low-set Turkish-looking actors and a subtropical terrain with no birch trees- more like olive trees. Looks nothing like Russia to me.
And all these foreigners speak English so well with perfect grammar. They get conditionals and tenses and subjunctives perfectly. The only difference is the accent- in case of a bad guy, it is heavy, in case of a good guy, it is barely audible.
The more you travel the less you want to watch those movies.

[Winston]

LOL so true. I've noticed that in every American movie that features Russians, they never use real Russian actors or show real Russian faces. Instead, they show people with long pointy noses and European accents. Why don't they at least show flat nosed actors? Who do they think they're fooling?

[Master]

Movies are contrived and not meant for them to be intelligentable. The producers assume the audience are nothing but dumb down donkeys. Or as our friends like to call them, sheep.

[FuzzX]

Why did they have to end star wars ep3 on a sad note... wouldn't it have been much cooler if vader was laughing manically at the end or showing scenes of triumph over the jedi... why don't villians ever get happy endings

I'm such a nerd.

[globetrotter]

Pre-1990 movies would show explicit sex scenes in R rated USA films. Since then they have toned them down, and it is more likely you will see naked guys than a woman's breasts. Breasts have disappeared from film.