Things you love/hate in a movie

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Permalink Reply by Miguel on October 16, 2009 at 10:19pm

You disliked the unnecessary sex in "A History of Violence"? :D

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Permalink Reply by foshizzle on October 16, 2009 at 10:21pm

I havent seen that. Haha its not unessecary if its very hot. haha

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Permalink Reply by The Eyeball Kid on October 18, 2009 at 10:32am

If you thought that scene was unnecessary, then you missed the point.

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Permalink Reply by Curry on October 18, 2009 at 4:10pm

What point was that? I just saw to people fucking on the stairs.

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Permalink Reply by Berko on October 16, 2009 at 10:44pm

Hate Cliche stock phrases.
Love over the top violence.
Hate plot holes.
Love twist endings

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Permalink Reply by I.Koval on October 16, 2009 at 10:50pm

I love:

Food in movies
When anyone shouts "GET OUTTA THERE!!!"
Drinking and drunken-ness in movies
Clues and occultism in the background/hidden

I hate:

This one thing, this one thing that gets me more than anything, and I mean makes me taste bile. It's when they show an animal onscreen and play some animal sound......even when the animal onscreen is obviously not making that sound. As if we wouldn't know a mouse if we didn't hear a squeak, a cat if no mew, a dog if no bark or growl, a snake if no hiss.........usually, animals are silent! O, that get's my goat. Baaaaa!

I also hate forced happy endings.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Smith on October 16, 2009 at 11:06pm

I dislike when the main character...or characters die at the end. Guess i'm a sucker for a happy ending. Excessive violence and blood just for pure shock value turns me off....the SAW movies come to mind. At least in "Zombieland", there was violence, but comedy and character development as well. The gore and blood was just enough to get the point across about the "infected" and the chracters' fight for survival.

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Permalink Reply by Gift of the Magi on October 18, 2009 at 12:23am

Love:
Interesting dialogue. Aaron Sorkin is a poet with dialogue, and can make even the most complicated scene both understandable and interesting (See the early seasons of the West Wing)
Interesting unique characters. Movies often make rather generic characters to fill their storylines in order to draw the audience in quicker. Personally I find that just lazy.
Unique Stories. Show me something new.

Hate:
Love interest. Unless it's a romance, I don't care and would rather have a root canal.
Gore for gore's sake. Fuck you Saw and Hostel. You're not scary, you're not interesting. You are just torture porn for idiots that get off on watching random people suffer. I had diarreia with more plot and social relavence than you.
Shaky cam shots. Originally meant to show action and the jarring nature of real-life franticsituations ( like open battlefields), this has gotten out of hand. Fights that use this now get boring quick and shows how lazy the director is.
Special Effects Only movies. Transformers. Need I say more?

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Permalink Reply by I.Koval on October 18, 2009 at 6:59am

You crack me up. You sound a bit like James Rolfe.

By the by, it's your own dam fault you went to see Transformers.

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Permalink Reply by Gift of the Magi on October 18, 2009 at 4:24pm

I got a free movie pass. There are a few people I know that work in the corporate division of the local movie theater chain so I get a few every couple of months. I use them on films I'd rather not drop money on so I can accurately say that I've seen them and know wheather they are crap or not.

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Permalink Reply by Betabug on October 18, 2009 at 10:04am

Love :
whem archnemesis or hero says: I'm sorry my old friend
bad endings everyone's dead, he does not get the girl, the villain wins.
good twist endings (Figh Club not like A Perfect Stranger for instance)
some sort of playing with the rules which are established


Hate:
cameos who are too distracting
montages
when the characters tell what just fucking happened 20 minutes ago and flashbacks (damn I was watching the movie and not sleeping or what do I know)
bad accents
fight scenes, where the protagonist is now better and has to show that by fighting with only one hand, yeah we get it you're a badass now
forcing fads into a like youtube, WoW or something like that( for example Hancock and Zombieland, Zombie outbreak and enough people who play and service the server??)
hipsters

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Permalink Reply by The Eyeball Kid on October 18, 2009 at 11:58am

Love: You see these fingers, dear hearts? These fingers has veins that run straight to the soul of man. The right hand, friends, the hand of love.

- Long takes
- Development through action rather than dialog
- Silhouettes


Hate: It was with this left hand that old brother Cain struck the blow that laid his brother low.

- Fast cutting
- Sloppy camerawork
- Expository dialog
- Musical montages

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