I’ll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter’s intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there’s the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

15 points

Normalization of the protagonist using violence before any attempt of diplomacy, without the narrative condemning this action

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My pet peeve is that screenwriters, directors, and producers know and recognize even more tropes than we do. Somewhere along the line, things were rushed and/or lazy. Someone just said “aw, fuck it.”

If the filmmakers don’t give a shit about the final product, why should I?

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It might not be fair to say they don’t give a shit. More often, I’ve found that productions simply hit a wall of time or money.

Just about anyone can write or edit a great story with enough time. But movies and shows are produced against a running clock, and they have obligations and limitations that go beyond the screenwriter’s imagination or the editor’s time. There are so many varied interests involved in a single production. Sometimes the issue is TOO many people giving a shit, and not being able to find a workable compromise in time.

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Tropes are not something one should avoid at all times. Tropes are there because they work. It’s the lazy use of tropes as a crutch that is the problem.

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I don’t know if this is a trope or not but I hate it when movies fail to live up to their potential.

The new Beetlejuice movie is like that.

(I’ll try for no spoilers)

There’s a couple of events that are shown as really big ordeals, huge events that you could base the entire movie around, and then the movie rug pulls your expectations and just kind of brushes those huge issues aside like it’s nothing.

And part of me gets it that that’s like a Beetlejuice thing, not complying with your expectations, but in this case I feel like the movie was made much worse for it and they should have really reconsidered doing the things they did.

It just made the entire movie feel like there were no actual risks, nothing bad can possibly happen, there’s nothing scary or dangerous in the world.

It’s like everybody in the movie was bored of living in that universe. It was ridiculous.

I watch movies for escapism and I don’t want to see the people that I’m escaping from my life watching escaping from their lives in the same process, having everything handed to them without having to work for it, with no real risks and no real adventure and no real humanity in their story.

And I’m honestly kind of surprised at how many movies lately have failed to give real stakes, real risks to the main characters, real goals to achieve, a real character to operate with, or has attempted to elevate the genre in any way.

It’s all same same and it’s really sad.

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More of a cliche at this point maybe?

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Guns. Fuck me.

Guns don’t blow the user backwards, unless it’s a truly monster rifle fired from a standing position, and they certainly don’t blow the bullet recipient backwards. The first cowboy movies showed people dropping straight down when shot and audiences thought that unrealistic. Yes, that’s realistic and, I think, far more horrifying seeing someone’s strings cut. There’s a finality that showcases how deadly guns can be.

Rattly guns. Jesus. Guns don’t rattle you Nimrods. They might make tiny sounds here and there, but Hollywood guns sound like they left out some screws or pins after assembly. I have a Colt .45, a somewhat loosey-goosey design, can’t hardly get a sound even shaking the shit out of it. You can punt about any modern gun and not hear metal on metal.

Constantly cocking, racking, charging. Look! Here’s our super badass who’s been in danger the last 20-minutes, and he’s just now chambering a round?! Or, Mr. Badass has to charge his weapon, kicking out a perfectly good round, to show he means business! And if it didn’t eject an unspent round? Action hero was running around with an unloaded weapon. What’s funny is that a real badass would fire all but the last round and then swap magazines. No charging required! Yes, that’s way harder than it sounds.

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My pet peve is people who insist I know how to disassemble an M14 blindfolded before my opinion about shooting children is valid.

(I know how to unload most guns, which is the only useful thing to do with them)

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We don’t have to know how to fly a plane to know flying one into the ground is bad technique.

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Once the silencer is on nobody can hear the gunshot or the supersonic bullet or impact on a wall or the bloody wound. That John Wick scene was particularly bad.

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I know very, very little about guns. If a mistake is bad enough for me to notice, it must be truly lazy and terrible writing/directing.

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People getting shot with a shitty handgun and they’re dead as soon as they hit the ground. Even if its a fatal shot, chances are quite high you’re going to die minutes or hours or days later if you make it to a hospital.

People hiding behind cars from bullets. Bullets being shot at the car and somehow not hitting them. Only the engine block could stop most bullets.

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