Movie Morals that Annoy You

[underjoyed]

Heh, this reminds me of an odd obsession of mine, and this isn't totally on-topic, sorry. During an action sequence, when, say, 1 car is chasing another and they crash through store windows and other cars... I always grimly think, "Someone's going to have to deal with this mess!" I realize that the wanton destruction in scenes like this is supposed to add to the excitement, but some prissy part of me always wonders who the hell is going to fix the mess later.

Bonsai...are you my mother?

Seriously, my mom used to do the same thing (regardless of whether we were in the theatre or not, which could be deeply embarassing): someone would drive through a restaurant's front window or over the ubiquitous street fruit cart, and I'd always hear: "I hope he's going to go back and clean that up!"

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Underjoyed, heh, heh, heh. Now you'll always wonder, won't you? By the way, don't slouch like that.

It really is a silly quirk, this worrying about who'll clean up the mess, and it actually gets me agitated!

[ladymadonna]

No, I always wonder the same thing. Who the hell is going to be responsible for cleaning up all of this wanton destruction? <taps foot....... I'm WAITING!!!>

Here's the thing though. I always thought this was a product of Hollywood imaginations. I mean, REAL cops don't destroy a city block to get the bad guys, right?

Wrong. At a training I am attending this week, dealing with homicide investigations (don't ask, long story), we were shown a clip of cops DESTROYING the bad guys, a semi, two cars, and a store front. It looked like they used a freakin' rocket launcher or something at long range to bring the bad guys down, and the people themselves just EXPLODED when shot.

So, I guess I can forgive Martin Riggs, or John McClane when they annihilate half the city to get one guy, even though it IS a stupid cliche.

[GirlyGhoul]

[Off topic] Did the training video show who cleaned up the mess?[/ot]

[ladymadonna]

[OT] No. But I've learned that it is the officers and coroners, tow truck guys, and city and county road crews. Ugh. What a job. [/OT]

Topic? I got nuthin' that hasn't already been said, sorry.

[orangeslice]

I'm going to use Hitch as the example when the two characters have found out the lies that each other has told, and have gotten into the big fight.

Why is it that when the one character decides they need this person, the new object is to win them back only to find someone else with them. The next 10 to 15 minutes are spent with one character professing their love and telling the other character that their new man/or woman could never love them the way they do.

Now this is the part that pisses me off. At the end you find out that the new man/or woman is either related, gay, or married to someone else. No attempt is ever made by the one character to correct the other characters(and audiences)assumptions. Someone would have spoken up sooner to avoid getting a beat down.

Gaahh! that drives me crazy (Damn stupid case of mistaken identity)

[hasbro]

I hate movies that have an advertisin agent as a protagonist (conflicted or no), because it's a cheap vehicle for product placement i.e. the Nike ad in What Women Want

[duskwolf]

I got one! Not really a moral, but still...

I hate it when some guy/girl who's an expert in martial arts will hold a pose just to threaten someone that consists of holding a kick in midair.

Now, if the person being threatened were smart, he would sweep the leg out from under the person that was threatening him.

I've seen this at least twice. "Timecop" the movie was one. "Dark Angel" was another one.

[monsterzero]

It really is a silly quirk, this worrying about who'll clean up the mess, and it actually gets me agitated!

To be fair, the Beverly Hills Cop movies did cover that. In the sequel Eddie Murphy meets up with the guy who tears ass through Detroit in the semi after he gets out of prison. What did he do to pass the time in prison? Repair ALL of those cars he wrecked in the cigarette truck.

[tacoflavored]

Yeah, in addition to wondering about the scenes mass destruction left in the hero's wake, I've always been ticked off when nice cars get wrecked, even in isolation. A truly disturbing example was in Waiting To Exhale (someone showed a clip of it in English class as part of a presentation), where one of the women throws all her philandering hubby's clothes in his white BMW 735i and then torches it- AAHHH!!! NOOO!!! I know he cheated on you, but it's not the car's fault! Besides, you could probably win the Bimmer in the divorce settlement. [/car geek rant]