Inexplicable Film Cliches

[kained&able]

untill the cleaner uses the socket thats got the router connected for thier hoover. thus dooming humanity!


dave

 

[Fez909]

If you discover something quite important - impending disaster, monster, meteor etc, you will be taken to the president so that you, him and a few others minor characters can work out a plan, no matter who you are!

 

[Iguana]

Lots of black gangsta types do the side ways shooting thing dunno if thats hollywoods fault or vice versa though.

Most experts agreed that the sideways trend started with the 1993 Hughes Brothers film "Menace II Society." A character called O-Dog holds his gun sideways as he murders a grocer, then replays the security-system videotape of the event for his friends. Allen and Albert Hughes said they first witnessed the technique during a robbery in Detroit in 1987. They said they used it in their film not because it looked cool but because it seemed sloppy, edgy and realistic.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEEDE1739F936A35752C1A963958260

 

[DotCommunist]

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Aliens are humanoid & speak english.

the movie where a group of mathematicians and linguistics experts decode the speech of extra terrestrials is going to be worthy but boring

 

[DotCommunist]

The fact that film-makers think you can hear explosions in space.

My dad always moans about this. He loved Moonraker purely because it shows the explosions as silent. He was going on about that for about half an hour after the film finished.

ah, but it depends. In the case of Star Wars fighters, they kick out gas and shit that can transmit soundwaves. The iconic scream of a TIE fighter is conveyed through the ozone and hydrogen kicked out by the target and the craft

 

[The Groke]

ah, but it depends. In the case of Star Wars fighters, they kick out gas and shit that can transmit soundwaves. The iconic scream of a TIE fighter is conveyed through the ozone and hydrogen kicked out by the target and the craft

So you would only hear it if you were actually floating in the exhaust, not from any sort of distance surely?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

ah, but it depends. In the case of Star Wars fighters, they kick out gas and shit that can transmit soundwaves. The iconic scream of a TIE fighter is conveyed through the ozone and hydrogen kicked out by the target and the craft

In all seriousness, I don't think it really matters with Star Wars, which is only a scifi in as much as its set in space; in every other regard it's fantasy/western...

 

[DotCommunist]

So you would only hear it if you were actually floating in the exhaust, not from any sort of distance surely?

yes. But the TIE fighters and X-wings were always filmed on fly-bys and close quarter dogfights

 

[DotCommunist]

In all seriousness, I don't think it really matters with Star Wars, which is only a scifi in as much as its set in space; in every other regard it's fantasy/western...

it matters more than life itself dammit

 

[The Groke]

yes. But the TIE fighters and X-wings were always filmed on fly-bys and close quarter dogfights

But you would still only hear them briefly after they had already passed the point of observation dammit.

 

[DotCommunist]

But you would still only hear them briefly after they had already passed the point of observation dammit.

If you think the a Death Star cannot kick out a massive cloud of waste (yet sound wave friendly) gas then you are a fool. Even a Capital class Star Destroyer would be trailing a wake of waste gasses that would make a small moon ashamed.

 

[Iguana]

ah, but it depends. In the case of Star Wars fighters, they kick out gas and shit that can transmit soundwaves. The iconic scream of a TIE fighter is conveyed through the ozone and hydrogen kicked out by the target and the craft

That's the best bit of useless information I've ever learned.

 

[Helen Back]

 

[such and such]

No one ever seems to pay cab drivers or lock their car/front door in movies.

 

[such and such]

Oh yeah, the "ugly" or "weird" girl thing makes laugh. It's always some good looking girl with slightly unfashionable clothes and bad hair. Magically they are attractive when they get a hair cut!

 

[isitme]

Oh yeah, the "ugly" or "weird" girl thing makes laugh. It's always some good looking girl with slightly unfashionable clothes and bad hair. Magically they are attractive when they get a hair cut!

same for boys as well

there is always one of the nerdy boys in those sort of films who is in fact really good looking and just a bit shy

 

[quimcunx]

Not a film cliche but probably not worthy of it's own thread. I was thinking the other night about Scream. There's a bit in there where Neve Campbell is in her room and she is contacting the police online. Does anyone know if this can actually be done and how?

It seems yes.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....221433&cguid=f1de15e111c0a0aad3538523ffa7f2da

 

[Hi-ASL]

 

[Maggot]

No one ever says "goodbye" at the end of a phone call - they always rudely hang up

I was gonna mention that.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

A bag of shopping always contains a couple of french sticks.

 

[SpookyFrank]

That's the best bit of useless information I've ever learned.

Until this:

The iconic TIE (twin ion engine) fighter noise was created using mixed recordings of a car skidding on a wet road and an elephant trumpeting

 

[SpookyFrank]

Oh yeah, the "ugly" or "weird" girl thing makes laugh. It's always some good looking girl with slightly unfashionable clothes and bad hair. Magically they are attractive when they get a hair cut!

This really annoyed me in the breakfast club, mainly because Ally Sheedy's makeover served only to make her a lot less attractive

 

[DotCommunist]

Until this:

The iconic TIE (twin ion engine) fighter noise was created using mixed recordings of a car skidding on a wet road and an elephant trumpeting

wast Lucas's cat involved in that somewhere or did I just dream that

 

[david dissadent]

the movie where a group of mathematicians and linguistics experts decode the speech of extra terrestrials is going to be worthy but boring

Ummmm Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

 

[DotCommunist]

Ummmm Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

Spielbergs worst film, dead boring and schmaltzy

 

[George & Bill]

no one in films ever has to go to the launderette. or do the washing up. or cut their toe nails.

what's that all about eh?

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Spielbergs worst film, dead boring and schmaltzy

It's hardly Spielberg's worst film, and at the time it stunned the young me. It does however contain the worst snatch of dialogue ever:

Tech dude with clipboard and Nasa glasses: "So Einstein was right".

Silver haired alien-project boss type "Einstein was probably one of them".

But all is forgiven for:

"Play the tones"

and

"We are now taking over this conversation"

and

"bu bu bu BOOOOM"

 

[DotCommunist]

Law Of Action Films: The main baddie will have a chief henchman. The chief henchmans death scene will be gruesome, but no way near as gruesome as the death of the main baddie. The only exception to this otherwise inviolable law is in Total Recall where micheal ironsides arm-cut off and plunge to death is far more horrific than Cohegans frankly improbable death by exposure to vacuum. Mainly cause the cold would kill you before you had a chance to die of exploding eyeballs.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Spielbergs worst film, dead boring and schmaltzy

Two words, no two letters: A.I.

 

[DotCommunist]

Two words, no two letters: A.I.

that was just abysmal casting, the essential story wasn't that bad.

Barring that really rubbish gladiatorial type scene