skinsfan07 Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Let's create a list of overused plot devices featured in movies that you would love to see banished from films forever. And let's do this because I'm bored. :thumbsup:1) Police officer 2 weeks from retirement gets killed on the job. 2) Guy realizes he really DOES love the girl, and runs to airport to stop the "love of his life" from flying off to Paris. 3) Young teenage mother decides, at the end of the movie, to give up baby for adoption to perfect couple who want teenage mom to remain in baby's life. Everyone's happy. 4) Nuclear physicist-slash-organic chemistry specialist is 24 year old female bombshell who just happens to fall in love with the rough-and-tumble hero. 5) Talkative villain explains his entire plot to hero instead of just shooting him in the head immediately. Continue the list...:cool: Most true one in that list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsfan07 Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Washed up comedian dresses up as fat woman for roll in movie. Martin Lawrence ROFLLLLLL :rotflmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDoyler23 Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Cop movie: Grizzled veteran with sass-talking sidekick type. Sports movie: Stupid tactics to win a game. (The Mighty Ducks flying V! Chick movie: A death or a wedding...or both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RabidFan Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Sports movie: Stupid tactics to win a game. (The Mighty Ducks flying V! Chick movie: A death or a wedding...or both. The "Oopty Oop" in Varsity Blues, Riggs's play in Unnecessary Roughness Four Weddings and a Funeral Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 Sports movies (football movies, specifically): When a player running with the ball is leveled--and does a complete backwards flip in the air--by an opposing player simply sticking his arm out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooka Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 1. Invincible bad guy vs the hero - The indestructible villain stands there letting the hero blast him away so he can laugh in his face. He's invulnerable, his limbs will grow back. Sure stand there doing nothing while the hero straps a bomb to your chest. :jerk: - With the strength to rip a man in half or punch through someones face the bad guy of course shows his superiority by picking up the hero and throwing him. The hero is hurt, but manages to get up every time from his toughness. :kungfu: - The death blow is always the devastating choke him to death! Of course the bad guy doesn't rip the hero's head off like he did to 50 people earlier in the movie. Nah, choke him to death, which takes 5 minutes giving the hero time to save himself. 2. Extraordinary kids - The 80pound runt can whoop up an entire room of armed bad guys. He knows karate! - The hacker kid. They can hack into any computer system making them do anything they please. They can plug their laptop into a toaster and turn it into a rocket ship to escape. - The junior scientist. The 9 year old with the rock collection knows everything about science imaginable; chemistry, biology, physics, he knows it all. He's smarter then anyone else and can one-up any mad scientist with ease. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IONTOP Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Sports movie: Stupid tactics to win a game. (The Mighty Ducks flying V! Replacements - First the fake fg with Falco running it in but the penalty... Then the trick play to the sumo guy... Which brings me to my next one... Distortion of space/time... Halftime, Gene Hackman says they need "Heart, miles and miles of heart", Falco gets to the stadium in time to play the rest of the game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMP Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 2. Extraordinary kids- The 80pound runt can whoop up an entire room of armed bad guys. He knows karate! Samething for many women. Any movie with Lucy Lui beating up even a normal man with training fighting makes me laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSUskinfan Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Any movie with the line: "Give me the disc!" Typical plot line involves corporate henchmen chasing either a hacker or a friend of a hacker that was handed the "disc" (which contains info that will ruin the corporation / evil plans of the head antagonist) running away the whole movie. Why didn't you geeks just make a few copies and this wouldn't even be an issue! :logo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bliz Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 one person slowly clapping (who claps like that?) builds to thunderous roar of applause chick flicks - woman dumps fiancee she's been dating for years to be with good looking stranger she met 2 weeks ago and "fell in love with", which is romantic for some reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 one person slowly clapping (who claps like that?) builds to thunderous roar of applause This irritates me to no end lol :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDoyler23 Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Lifetime movies only cover a few plot outlines. Dude cheats on wife and he's a scumbag. His stuff gets set on fire or something. Or Chick cheats on dude and she's the heroine breaking free Rape/abuse/stalking Daughter becomes runaway/prostitute (usually a *bad boyfriend's* fault) Diseases/disabilities/poverty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 Computers that can do the impossible, like create a recognizable face from an extremely blurry, pixelated image. Usually it goes like this: - A single still shot from a grainy b&w video shows some blurry, pixelated image of the killer. - Hero takes still shot to some fat geeky computer whiz that ONLY the hero knows about. The guy will be in some large basement of some broken-down building and will have $2 million dollars worth of computer equipment down there with him. - Hero says something like "Can you tell me who this is?" - Fat geeky computer whiz says something like "That's a blurry, pixelated imaged from a grainy b&w video. But I could put it through a spectal facial analyzer and have it spacially transfigure similar pixel colors based on facial characteristics...there are no guarantees, though." - 10 minutes before the movie ends, the fat geeky computer whiz comes back to the hero with a damn-near crystal clear image of the killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spec138 Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 I hate movies that use stupid science in them. Like in the movie Evolution, they notice that Arsenic is deadly to us and since we're Carbon life forms, they move the same way the squares on the periodic table are from Carbon to Arsenic, except they move from Nitrogen or something to figure out what kills the aliens, SHAMPOO! I hate space movies where you can see stars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHOPSkins Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 ....5) Talkative villain explains his entire plot to hero instead of just shooting him in the head immediately....."Monologing"The Incredibles and Austin Powers made fun of this.....and did a good job of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 "Monologing"The Incredibles and Austin Powers made fun of this.....and did a good job of it Austin Powers' scene where Dr. Evil argues with his son about not just killing Austin was hilarious lol :yes:... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECU-ALUM Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 The love interest in a super-hero movie will always manage to get themselves kidnapped. In just about every Sci-Fi movie...no matter where you are in the universe somehow someway just about everyone knows how to speak english. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Tater Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 In just about every Sci-Fi movie...no matter where you are in the universe somehow someway just about everyone knows how to speak english. Hitchhiker's Guide explains this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 When it comes to the "bad guy" explaining everything,I think Eli Wallach said it best in The Good,The Bad,and The Ugly right after dispatching one said bad guy. "If you're going to shoot,shoot. Don't talk." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 2. Extraordinary kids And it's corollary, bad-ass women who are model-thin but can whoop the rear ends of a SEAL team, Mike Tyson and bring our hero to his knees and yet still allow some dark misogynistic impulse to find expression and release when the hero inevitably sends her through a wall or makes her explode. (granted, they spent like 2 hours making you hate unrealistic bad-ass women but still.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Horror movies where a group of teenagers go so some strange place to have a good time. Villain(s) find group of young kids and proceeds to murder all of them with the exception of a bad acting, smoking hot girl and equally bad acting, stud of a dude. Chicks who have sex and show their boobies on the big screen always die and people somehow loose their balance very easily when running away from said villain. Bad acting lead male and female usually survive (sometimes not) and live happily every after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted April 19, 2009 Author Share Posted April 19, 2009 - The hero and the villain both struggling to get to the dropped gun, which happens to be just out of both their reaches, and they fight each other as they do. - The hero avoiding being shot by machine gun fire simply by running fast and ducking his head lol... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MintHillSkinsFan Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Guy's girlfriend/fiance/wife/family gets murdered by evil gang. Guy is usually beat to within an inch of his life as well. Guy spends months becoming a badass and learning how to shoot a gun and hunts down killers one by one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Guy's girlfriend/fiance/wife/family gets murdered by evil gang. Guy is usually beat to within an inch of his life as well. Guy spends months becoming a badass and learning how to shoot a gun and hunts down killers one by one. Months? More like years, if not decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 Months? More like years, if not decades. Nah, in movies it usually only requires months lol...either that, or the guy was already a badass and the evil guys just picked the wrong wife/fiance/girlfriend/family to murder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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