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films: Cinematic Devices That You Hate...

^ lol subtitles please. I agree.

I just don’t like it when film makers rely too heavily on a song to evoke an emotional response from the audience because the story isn’t strong enough to do it on its own. In some films it becomes blatantly obvious when the music overwhelms what you’re seeing on the screen. In fact it can be quite jarring and I’ll find myself thinking why are they doing this? and more often than not it’s because the scene or the story is actually quite weak.
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Any examples stick out in your mind?
 
EA-1475 said:
I always find it funny when a detective is trying to solve a case, goes to some key person's house (the criminal's ex-girlfriend, boss, mother, etc), asks, like, 3 questions, and then says "thanks for your time".
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I came in here to post this. Thank you :)

Great thread everyone.
 
Oh I got one: anything that happens in any Jean-Luc Godard movie, ever. (Except maybe Breathless). Take your cod-Marxist Brechtian alienation effect and shove it up your ass, Frenchboy.
 
Hmm, I'll grant you Pierrot le fou, grudgingly. For an example of what I'm thinking about, track down Two or Three Things I Know About Her. Simply dreadful. "This is a camera which is pointing at an actress. Now I've cut to a different camera, from a different angle. But....is it the same actress?". YES. You moron.
 
when they make an actor look over suspicious to make you think that he's the bad guy when in fact he turns out to be on the good side
(just came back from seeing
NSFW:
angels and demons
if you were wondering)

or alternatively, when they just make the bad guy look oversuspicious and it seems obvious that he's the bad guy... except that you think that maybe they're trying to play trick# 1 on you instead
 
Damien said:
^ lol subtitles please. I agree.


Any examples stick out in your mind?
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There Will Be Blood.

Natural Born Killers.

SFW.

Run Lola Run.

There’re plenty more but I've probably forgotten them because I didn't like them. Sometimes it's not the whole movie though, it can just be a particular scene that has been drowned out by the soundtrack, which tells me that the director knows the scene is weak and they're trying to cover it up with music.

Don't get me wrong, music is effective more often than not, but I just don't like it when it's used to cover up the deficiencies of a movie or a scene. If it jars you out of the film it’s overdone.
 
I thought of another one.

It's always usually when there is a cop, or a firefighter or some sort of service type person who is now out of work, and the way they show this is by scanning the camera view by a desk or tackboard with a newspaper article on it showing something like "Cop injured in shooting" or "5 die in fire" and it's the guys family or something. lol I hate that. I've seen it a bunch of other times I can't think of but they just did it again in the movie "Mirrors".
 
Fortunately I haven't seen this in a while. Being closed in on by bad guys, the police, or multiple parties, someone scatters the bags of money into the air- from a bridge or catwalk most likely, pandemonium breaks out, huge crowd trying to grab the bills floating around everywhere. The chaos enables an escape.

Someone's keepsake trinket turns out to be the solution that they were hunting for the whole movie.

Previously known to no one or almost no one, the bad guy turns out to be the protagonists father, brother, mother, sister, etc. Variation: protagonists aren't aware they are related til a sudden revelation. Further variation turns out protagonist is long lost royal and rightful ruler or has hereditary abilities that can nicely wrap up the plot.

Turns out the guy that got killed wasn't killed after all or can be brought back from the dead or faked their death.
 
In almost every action movie a guy is near a corner but you see the bullets hit just around the corner...
 
Super fast camera moving round and round an overacting couple hugging and admonishing each other while zooming in on certain parts...think Kenneth Branagh's over the top direction of Mary Shellys Frankenstein (whats weird is, I love the movie, but his directing makes me roll my eyes so hard!!!!!!!)
 
Love scenes. I find them abhorrent, because at least 99% of love scenes in movies are pointless titillation & have zero impact on the main storyline. If I want to see people screwing I watch porn where you see everything & not a pathetic side shot of a nipple.
 
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