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    Originally posted by Sits View Post
    When using a punchbag, it's almost inevitable a character will completely lose their rag, pounding the bag relentlessly until they are on the verge of collapse.
    ....the punchbag being located close to a large window, producing a stream of light onto the scene in an otherwise gloomy gym.

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      Prompted by recent Game of Thrones episodes (and this isn't really a spoiler):

      If you have a defensible position, like a fortress or wall, you will deploy a large part of your force outside it, a tactic which has no military justification but offers an enhanced spectacle. The inevitable orders "Fall back!" and "Open the gates!" must follow, and be easily heard amidst the deafening chaos of battle.

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        The military justification is to avoid being starved out in a prolonged siege.

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          But we're talking movies, not documentaries. The plot requires an early setback, that's all. They don't go out to fill their carts with turnips. And those gung-ho expeditions lose enough horsemeat to feed the population for months.

          The real justification is usually something like getting the leader-hero wounded, so he can be saved and brought back in a desperately close call, and let the coward who stayed behind take over and redeem himself.

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            True.
            The Two Towers didn’t have that. They just waited in the Hornburg for the siege.

            IIRC, in the book, Gandalf suggested going after Sauraman’s army on the open field. But they didn’t and it worked out because reinforcements arrived in time.

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              Originally posted by tee rex View Post
              Prompted by recent Game of Thrones episodes (and this isn't really a spoiler):

              If you have a defensible position, like a fortress or wall, you will deploy a large part of your force outside it, a tactic which has no military justification but offers an enhanced spectacle. The inevitable orders "Fall back!" and "Open the gates!" must follow, and be easily heard amidst the deafening chaos of battle.
              All your ranged weapons, archers and trebuchets should be within the walls along with your reserves.

              Cavalry are useless in a fortress and should be deployed outside the walls and used to harry the opposition at the flanks and, hopefully, the rear (not charge headlong into a massacre). Troops with long spears should be set up at the point where the opposition has been canalised i.e. where there's a break in the fire wall/trench, forming a literally mobile "wall" which can fall back if necessary.

              In the Battle of Winterfell the army of the living should've been trying to engage in melee as little as possible whilst using their ranged weapons, artillery and air support to take out mass formations of wights in the choke points.

              Then again, if we're talking rubbish tactics then the Night King wins by not sieging the castle, starving everyone and just raising the dead who are inside the walls of Winterfell. When you have an indefatigable army and, literally, all the time in the world, why attack at all?

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                https://www.wired.com/story/game-of-...ical-analysis/

                And in a similar vein:

                https://angrystaffofficer.com/2019/0...le-of-wakanda/

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                  Oh, wow. The Star Wars ones on this blog are brilliant.

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                    We've probably had this...
                    A villain replies to a victim in an ambiguous / stilted way, then kills them.

                    Victim: "What about my wife you kidnapped you rogue?"
                    Villain: "You will see her very soon." <shoots him>

                    Victim: "Where's my payment?"
                    Villain: "You'll get what you're due." <shoots him>

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                      Couples conducting affairs in 1970s dramas were. of course, compelled to leave a trail of discarded clothing from the lounge to the bedroom, clues to be discovered by unexpectedly-returning partners. A giggle from said bedroom was generally the deal-breaker.

                      (These days used without irony in the opening sequences of Emmerdale, I note. I remember the days when it was all sileage and lambing incidents...)

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                        It is really easy to accidentally knock over a row of 30+ Harley Davidsons parked outside a bar.

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                          Originally posted by andrew7610 View Post
                          It is really easy to accidentally knock over a row of 30+ Harley Davidsons parked outside a bar.
                          Though if you're Clint Eastwood you generally have to back your truck into them, if you're someone like Jim Carrey just leaning on the first one does the trick.

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                            Originally posted by elguapo4 View Post

                            Though if you're Clint Eastwood you generally have to back your truck into them, if you're someone like Jim Carrey just leaning on the first one does the trick.
                            Clint usually got his chimp to push them over.

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                              Orangutan.

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                                Have we mentioned facial recognition software yet? Where main protagonist asks assistant who happens to be the best tech-wizard on the planet to check the facial recognition stuff to ID someone. If we get past the fact that they have good facial database, what really bothers me is that it works by drawing every single picture to the screen until it finds a match. Often with little red lines drawn across. Don't they understand that it's far more processor intensive to draw all those new pictures to the screen than it is to do the facial comparison, so at best it would slow down the process

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                                  Not to mention their source photo will be grainy, zoomed-in CCTV where the subject is 100 feet away with half their face out of sight.

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                                    In an era when bonfires are not generally the done thing, a surprising number of people have braziers in their back gardens, handy for hasty evidence disposal.

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                                      Perhaps mentioned before.

                                      Tech person: something something fairly technical, but not really that hard to understand, especially if you work in law enforcement/espionage/medicine or whatever it is the show is about.
                                      Protagonist: "In English, please!"
                                      Tech person: Explains it at a sixth-grade level.

                                      Techy person: Doesn't get right to the point of what they're trying to explain. Instead they do long pre-amble as if they're writing about it for the Atlantic or Carrie on Sex and The City and end the long explanation with a rhetorical question like "But what if we got this backward? What if that isn't what they're really after?"
                                      Protagonist: "Get to the point!" (they should have told them to get to the point three paragraphs ago)
                                      Techy person: Here, look at this - displays what they were explaining in a way that is probably technically impossible - like an animated HD hologram - but would have made the entire previous explanation unnecessary.

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                                        I saw a funny thing recently that talked about how morning sickness is used as an indicator of pregnancy almost without fail in films.

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                                          Although the man will still need several more hints before he cottons on (after the audience and the pregnant woman herself, in that order). It would be a lot easier to just tell him rather than wait for it to dawn on the dimwit, but that only happens in life.

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                                            Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View Post
                                            I saw a funny thing recently that talked about how morning sickness is used as an indicator of pregnancy almost without fail in films.
                                            Yeh, I posted about that on here. Woman throws up but doesn't connect it to that unprotected night of passion with Mr Unsuitable 6 weeks before.

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                                              Saw a few minutes of one of the Lord of the Rings films last night and was becoming increasingly annoyed by the constant "SCCCCHHHHIIIINNNNGGGG" noise every time some drew a sword from their scabbard.

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                                                Every other advert seems to be someone going through a list of options by "swiping". E.g. walking down the street *swipe* park, there's a silver *swipe* blue *swipe* pink car...

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                                                  An inordinate number of people have stupid amounts of sugar in their tea and coffee. Almost as if it was supposed to create some mystique in the absence of well drawn character.

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                                                    Blinking strip lights - especially when they make a noise as they blink - something really bad is about to happen.

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