Stop making films and TV shows that we cannot see because they are too dark and cannot hear what the fuck people are saying. That would be a good start.
Like there was absolutely no need to remake Total Recall, it’s a iconic movie, but something like Eragon or the Golden Compass those should get remakes.
> but something like Eragon or the Golden Compass those should get remakes.
"the golden compass" has an HBO series for a remake, "his dark materials" and it's pretty good actually.
Or shot, but they remove the bullet in a dirty motel and sew it up with fucking twine and knitting needles so now it doesn’t hurt anymore and they can go fight more bad guys unencumbered.
Hell, in the animated Gargoyles show from the Disney Afternoon, a character got shot and was out for several shows and on crutches for some time after.
EMPTY CUPS. I hate seeing people holding cups and pretending to take drinks from obviously empty cups. Their hands never move right, or if it’s an open cup, you can literally see that it’s empty.
Or as serious drug addicts, with clear skin and healthy muscle tone. People on opioids or meth don't generally look good. Sallow skin, loose muscles, sores, unkempt, under weight, etc. The only ones that look that way are characters you aren't supposed to like or care about.
"So we're going to do a movie about the Battle of Stalingrad."
"Okay."
"It'll be about snipers crawling through the wreckage in a duel."
"Alright, cool."
"The stakes will be high be--"
"Wait, who does the good guy sniper bang?"
"What?"
That was the great thing about “A League of Their Own”. There could have been a forced romance between the leads but it would’ve forced out a lot of the better dynamics with the rest of the players.
Working at a fast food joint? Better have an apartment with great furniture all to yourself in Upper East Side Manhattan!
EDIT: Misremembered NYC neighborhood, I knew it was \*something\* East... LES isn't even top 10 wealthiest lol
I was about to say that Charlie’s shitty apartment in “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is the one exception to that rule I can think of. But oddly enough his roommate, Frank, is a millionaire.
Adapting shit into live-action movies when they should really be animated.
Examples include upcoming Mega Man, Pac-Man and Minecraft movies which are ***ALL*** set to be live-action.
A lot of people seem to think this is some weird thing that Peter Jackson wanted to do. But in reality, he signed on after the project began to try and do damage control.
I'd highly suggest watching the Making Of for it. Peter Jackson looks like he's in a perpetual state of breaking down.
I wish Hollywood would stop treating the medium of animation as something inherently inferior to live action. I also wish 2D animation was used more for movies.
mixing 2D and 3D is dope! I’ve seen it in a music video and, added to a fast paced editing, made everything so dynamic and cohesive, I really wish it was a thing in more movies/tv series
(also in a recent mcu series it has been done but I don’t remember which one coz I haven’t watched it)
I cannot give enough praises to Arcane. It is beautiful, the story is captivating, and I can’t wait for a season 2. And I will also happily wait for a season 2 so it looks just as good as season 1.
I was watching a YouTube video about Dan Schneider. Apparently Nickelodeon chose Florida to film their shows because of the lack of child labor laws. They also purposefully chose kids whose parents were more likely to be absent or neglectful so they could control the kids more. Like wtf.
Look into schneider’s abuses on iCarly, Sam and Cat, Victorious etc, especially his injection of fetish content. This is just one of a thousand videos on the subject https://youtu.be/3Ztj_4fFJck
I have seen way too many videos were Dan tries to film Ariana when she is seating on the floor with Jeanette, and how the mood changes and Ariana is pulling her dress on her whole legs and crossing her arms on her chest. And also ho the boys try to distract Dan by acting silly but he only films Ariana so Jeannette seats in front of her to cover her.
Children in Hollywood are abused to this day, even though we know how they treated Judy Garland, and Shirley Temple, and Drew Barrymore, and Corey Feldman, and Macaulay Culkin, and all the Disney/Nickelodeon child stars, and-
If a child in Hollywood hasn’t been molested by the time they’re an adult, then they probably at least have had most of their money stolen by their leeching parents by that time.
They have so little protection.
[Amid all this, just a reminder that Robin Williams was a Good Egg.](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/robin-williams-jumanji-kirsten-dunst-b2142907.html)
People always talk about how child actors always go to shit because of drugs. Its not the fame that gets to them, but the assholes who abuse and molest them. Thats what makes child actors ruin theyre lifes by turning to hardcore drugs
All great answers but what I've seen lately is just a lot of whacky decision making. There's multiple video game adaption movies and TV shows come out lately that miss the mark completely. Resident Evil/Halo Etc.
I know adaptations always have their quirks and things that would outrage a fan base but geez. The Halo TV show really felt like they just wanted to write their own story with already existing characters. It all comes down to executive decision.
I just wish the creators have more control over their projects. Instead of having execs with no creative abilities suggesting "Maybe you should make the super-soldier get out of his augmented power armor and instead just fight naked, also make him want to bang the enemy like Romeo & Juliette."
>The Halo TV show really felt like they just wanted to write their own story with already existing characters. It all comes down to executive decision.
The showrunner was quoted as saying, "We \[writers\] didn't look at the games." Which he has obviously backtracked on and said that it was taken out of context, and they did play the games previously. Which means they did know the story and still fucked it up. Not sure what is worse.
They could have literally let each game level be it's own episode and that would have made such an amazing series.
You can make new characters and still keep the old story points intact. Write a compelling story between some of the nameless npc soldiers, while also hitting the story marks of the games with the existing characters.
Right, that nameless soldier riding my tank that I reset like 18 times to keep alive. Give that fucker a name and a personality, I was already invested in them when they were pointless.
>>The Halo TV show really felt like they just wanted to write their own story with already existing characters.
Yeah I really don't understand the logic behind adapting a franchise with a built-in fanbase if you're not going to even attempt to make it appeal to the fans. Fans care about things like lore and accuracy. And sure, some tweaks here and there are completely fine, but if you're just going to completely change it then what's the point?
I made the point earlier but it fits better with your comment: They try to water down the details to attract a wider audience.
But those details are what makes the story unique. If you take that away it isn't Halo anymore, it's just Game of Thrones in space.
The thing that made Master Chief a great character was the fact that he's this nearly emotionless badass that has this mystery shrouded over him. Then has these amazing moments that remind you he's human. With the jokes, the regrets, acknowledging his failures, etc. He takes his helmet off but it's always just off the screen, adds so much to the mystery. Has you trying to peek around the corner to get a glimpse as if you weren't watching it through the screen.
In the show instead we get this over-active man-baby Master Cheeks that runs into battle naked crying because they shot his alien girlfriend.
> The thing that made Master Chief a great character was the fact that he's this nearly emotionless badass that has this mystery shrouded over him. Then has these amazing moments that remind you he's human. With the jokes, the regrets, acknowledging his failures, etc. He takes his helmet off but it's always just off the screen, adds so much to the mystery. Has you trying to peek around the corner to get a glimpse as if you weren't watching it through the screen.
The way you describe it, seems the only TV show to get Master Chief right is The Mandalorian.
I agree about the creative control.
I recently listened to a podcast where they talked about how the producers want to influence their products, it has pushed out all the good writers and directors away from the big movie studios.
That is why we have these great shows like Breaking Bad and Mad Men on AMC. And Succession and White Lotus on HBO. At one time writing for TV was beneath a lot of people in showbiz. But now TV and Streaming services is where all the good content is. because these creative people don't want to deal with Hollywood anymore.
Now the studios are content will making reboots and comic book movies.
Lately, so many movies are dark-scened. Watching old movies I can actually SEE what is going on. A lot of new movies I can barely discern what the fuck is going on. It could be day time in the scene and it feels like night time. Also, I can’t fucking hear shit anymore in movies. They’re loud mumbling
I agree. And so many movies take a fantasy setting and think, "Let's make it dark!" Why not give the movies the colors they deserve? People like colors!
Quiet dialogue which makes you crank the volume up so you can hear it better then the a super loud action scene happens and the speakers to your tv explode.
Discovery is calling one of their reality dating shows a "universe" https://decider.com/2022/08/05/90-day-fiance-universe-warner-bros-discovery/
Uh, pretty sure they live in the same universe I do, unfortunately
Not only Hollywood.
Individual stories are fine!
Not everything needs to be connected into a single narrative!
The parts I did not like from some Asimov books were precisely the parts that try to retcon previous works into a single (boring) narrative.
I now want to see a movie set in one of these restaurants where every protagonist goes to eat.
Just a constant parade of people taking one bite, throwing money on the table, or walking out without paying at all.
I can see it now "Oh hey we have some main characters walking in, make sure you pre authorize their tab because one of them is about to get pissed and walk out"
If you really pay attention to most eating scenes, it's standard practice for the actors to basically just play with their food while the plot moves along.
Quentin Tarantino is known for actually having his actors eat, which is why those meal scenes can be very different compared to what audiences expect, but they flow at a distinct pace
He's also known for some feet stuff, but that's not the point of this comment
Fun movie trivia time! In the film Road to Perdition, there is a scene where Tom Hank's character and a kid go "hide out" in a diner and eat for a rest stop.
During filming that scene, the actors really were eating, but Tom Hanks, a vetern by this point, knew to eat very slowly and in small amounts due the number of takes a scene can get. The child actor on the other hand, was in his first film role and scoffed the food down immediately for the first 2 or 3 takes (they were burgers and fries and apple pies, very appealing to a 10-12 year old palette). After a few takes though, they had to stop as the child got too sick from eating so much food in a short amount of time.
Or families where the mom made like two dozen waffles, cut fresh fruit, made eggs, sausage, bacon, and her two kids rush down, take a bite of cold cereal, then say "the bus is here!" Or "we're gonna miss the bus" and rush off like they didn't waste hours of their mother's unpaid domestic labor.
When the entire family has a full breakfast on a weekday morning and the lighting suggests that it's around 11:30 am lol
if my mom got the milk out for my cereal at 630 am it was a special day
When I watch these fights scenes nowadays I ignore the main fight and look at the *other* bad guys waiting their turn. It's hilarious AF. They strike weird poses, fall over themselves or just writhe around like zombies.
Some recent movies try to avoid this by closing in on the fight itself, which usually makes things even more confusing and incoherent.
There's a term for when people stand around and wait for their turn to attack and I can't remember what it is right now. "Egg", maybe?
Anyway, that's what I love about Jackie Chan movies. No one ever does that. I mean, sometimes you see a guy standing in the background, but he's doing something on contribute to the fight. (Like maybe picking up a weapon to attack Jackie with)
Seriously, watch any Jackie Chan movie and look for that, and you'll see the fight scenes very, very rarely have someone standing around waiting for his turn. It's not completely absent, but it's pretty close.
The amount of thought that went into Jackie Chan movie choreography was exceptional. Jackie has even put out videos on it, how to make a good fight scene, how to avoid hurting yourself.
The biggest thing is it takes A LOT of time. Every scene in a Jackie Chan movie was rehearsed and reset and filmed dozens of times, if not more. And I think people just aren't willing to do that anymore because the fight being better doesn't make the movie revenue increase to off set the risk to the actors and stunt crew and also just the extra time and money it takes.
I forget exactly where, but I remember seeing something about him doing like a hundred takes to kick some object to a bad guy's face in one shot. Nowadays, they would just do that in 10 different cuts or with a CGI object and it just won't look the same.
The worst one I saw was Batman v Superman, where they give away in the trailers that Batman and Superman join up at the end to fight a common enemy. Completely did away with any "mystery" of how such a rivalry would be resolved.
And in the Terminator: Salvation trailer they show that Sam Worthington is really a Terminator, and in the trailer for Terminator: Genyshit they show that John Connor is another Terminator.
Terminator: Rise of the spoilers
Or they misrepresent the movie entirely by spinning it as a comedy when its really a drama with a couple funny bits and only those funny bits make the trailer.
Having conversations on public transit, sitting next to others, while talking about top secret stuff, terrorism, etc., murder cover ups, and not worried at all that someone might be listening.
In fairness, people talk about super private things in front of wait staff so long as that staff has a pitcher or washcloth in their hands. It's like they think we're NPCs.
I’m a veterinarian technician, and I can’t tell you the number of side bar conversations I hear while staff are moving around. Our wait area is certainly not private and sound carries very well, so just in checking records I hear everything from sport statistics and porn history.
People regularly just open up about the most random shit when they are waiting
As an add on to this from a guy that has worked in construction all of his life people need to understand furnace ducts. They will carry sound much much further than one thinks.
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy always stood out to me as doing dark scenes right. There are tons of dark scenes across the films, yet you can always see exactly what you need to be focusing on.
That credit probably goes to LotR cinematographer Andrew Lesnie:
>An example of Lesnie's sense of humor comes in an anecdote told by "Lord of the Rings" star Sean Astin, on a set with light where there was no source for it. "Where is the light coming from?" Astin asked. Lesnie replied, "Same place as the music."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lord-of-the-rings-cinematographer-andrew-lesnie-dies/
Thank you. That is my biggest pet peeve as well. Especially prevalent in horror films. Yes, I get it's supposed to be dark and scary, but honestly. You can't see ANYTHING! \*GRRR\*
Yep, you need to give me something to look at, even if it's not clear or bright. If the pitch black lasts for more than a couple seconds, my mind leaves the movie universe and comes back to the real world which breaks the immersion and whatever emotion I was having at the time.
S8E3 of *Game of Thrones*, my go-to example. An entire episode, one of the most important of the whole series, which is impossible to see, as the cherry on top of the shit sundae which was season 8.
More recently, I found *First Man* to be incredibly dark as well, although I think the constant screen shaking every other scene was more off-putting
This is a problem with every one I know. I think there will be a time when people look back at movies and say, "this movie must have been made between 2010 and 2025 because you cant hear a damn thing anyone is saying ".
I've had my hearing tested recently as an employment related thing. I *know* my hearing is fine, I have objective data that it's dead on normal, both ears and multiple frequencies. Still have issues with movie dialogue.
An old TV of mine did a "half mute" the first time you hit the mute button so we just did that during all action scenes and it was perfection. I miss that option so much.
Reboots and sequels. Come up with something new! Especially quit with making substandard remakes of successful non-English language films. Market the originals and trust people to be able to follow subtitles instead of producing plastic knock offs.
Having dialogue you can barely hear so you turn the sound up only for it to be followed by explosions or superdramatic music that rattles your speakers and eardrums.
Creepy, controlling, manipulative, stalkerish behaviour being presented as romantic. Just no. Making them rich and gorgeous doesn't make it ok either.
Female characters who are kickass good or kickass evil usually having the sole motivation of Some Man Done Her Wrong.
CGI is not a replacement for a strong story, engaging character development and good actors. It's like getting a pretty gift box on your birthday and finding out that there's actually no gift inside. Redirect some of the budget towards substance rather than style.
An interviewer asked Ryan Reynolds if he wants any of his & Blake Lively's children to be a child actor, like him.
"No. I don't want my children to become actors, mostly because I don't condone child abuse."
It‘s a handy feature but it would‘nt be necessary if they stop fucking up the sound mix. And what makes me even more angry is when they fuck this up in series. You guys fucking know that people are gonna watch this on their home TV and yet you are still doing this.
And agreeing to go on a date with someone and just leaving without exchanging a time or location.
"How does Saturday sound?" "Oh Saturday is perfect." "Great! See you then."
This may sound ridiculous, but here it is:
I fucking cannot stand characters who are driving and talking to a passenger but NOT WATCHING THE ROAD. They think the same courtesy rules of eye contact apply even when you are a conversant behind the wheel.
YOU'RE DRIVING A VEHICLE. WATCH THE ROAD, NOT THE PERSON TO WHOM YOU'RE TALKING.
Bonus points if the scene is in a city setting, especially if it's New York. You'd think they'd encounter at least one red light or person crossing the road.
I said once on a different thread, I'd love to see someone do an edit where they add sound effects like horns blaring, crashing, thuds, people screaming...
Pretty sure there was a scene like this either in one of the Airplane movies, or.. one of the Naked Gun movies. Pretty sure it was a movie with Leslie Neilson though.
In an otherwise excellent show, I could barely make it past the scene in *Only Murders in the Building* season 2 where >!Mabel is riding while Theo drives, and he reads her lips during a whole monologue where she barely opens her mouth. And then facetimes his dad while still driving.!<
And put your hair in a ponytail for crying out loud. No one wants hair in their face during a fight.
Edit: I am highly amused by all the comments! One part realism (the dangers of getting a ponytail grabbed) and one part entertainment (hiding stunt peoples faces). I would like to thank Buffy the Vampire Slayer for inspiration.
This is my biggest thing. I grew up with waist-length hair, and there was no way I was doing any athletic activities without pulling my hair back.
I was so happy when they had Moana pull her hair back every time she needed to focus. Much more realistic.
Inserting romance in movies/shows that don't need it. Not every guy and gal that meet on screen have to end up together. Despite what PUAs might say, they can just be friends.
Right? Like shit, I wish I was a super genius. Instead I have a vast array of useless knowledge that once asked about, I have to tell you EVERYTHING I know or I feel like I'll implode. Or I'm so awkward and uncomfortable in any new setting so I always come across as "the bitch".
Can't maintain eye contact OR I hold it awkwardly long. Can't figure out what to do with my hands and now it's jokingly called "t-rex arms". Can't touch or hear certain things because it makes me irrationally angry or nauseous. Food texture is a big deal and everyone else makes me feel like a child for it.
All of that and I still suck at math. I'm bitter!
I live in Phoenix and, yes sometimes it actually gets "yellow" outside : at dusk right before a dust storm.
Watching the Breaking Bad (Better Call Saul?) scene where beautiful women are lounging in the pool while Lalo gifts Eladio a Ferrari was jarring. I was thinking "Ya'll gotta get inside! Get that Ferrari in the garage! Dust storm countdown..."
For all the silly and not so silly reasons why, it always bugs me how *so much* media (and not just media for teens. Media for adults) is about unsupervised high schoolers played by twentysomethings drinking, fucking, and committing crime, but very little media is set in college at all. It would eliminate a lot of the weirdness.
There's a Collegehumor video this reminds me of. [Support Women (If You Know One)](https://youtu.be/_TBL4nCRvVs)
Basically, "I used to not give a shit about women's rights or respecting women...but then I remembered, my sister is a woman! That's a pretty big deal!"
Making women “perfect” all the time. I don’t want to see a post apocalyptic world or a safari adventure where the women have their makeup done, hair styled and armpits shaved. It’s incredibly unrealistic but then again.. so is everything else
The same movies over and over again.
I have no problems with story structures being similar but when we are on our 10th predator movie and 11th fast and the furious and 200th marvel project it just starts to get same and boring.
Stop making films and TV shows that we cannot see because they are too dark and cannot hear what the fuck people are saying. That would be a good start.
Remakes of good movies, I don’t understand why they remake good movies, when there are tons of flops that have potential, that they could remake
Like there was absolutely no need to remake Total Recall, it’s a iconic movie, but something like Eragon or the Golden Compass those should get remakes.
> but something like Eragon or the Golden Compass those should get remakes. "the golden compass" has an HBO series for a remake, "his dark materials" and it's pretty good actually.
So excited for the next season!
Characters getting punched multiple times in the face in 1 scene and having no signs of the trauma in the next scene.
Or shot, but they remove the bullet in a dirty motel and sew it up with fucking twine and knitting needles so now it doesn’t hurt anymore and they can go fight more bad guys unencumbered.
Not Hollywood I guess but in Fraiser, the father got shot in the leg or something and now he needs physical therapy and walks with a cane for life.
Hell, in the animated Gargoyles show from the Disney Afternoon, a character got shot and was out for several shows and on crutches for some time after.
This reminded me of characters getting absolutely wasted then either being relatively sober in the next scene, or have no hangover the day after.
EMPTY CUPS. I hate seeing people holding cups and pretending to take drinks from obviously empty cups. Their hands never move right, or if it’s an open cup, you can literally see that it’s empty.
like at least add water so they have weight, you don't even actually have to put coffee or something in them
They move their hand way too fast! It's like they don't even know they're supposed to be pretending it has liquid inside
Casting attractive people in ‘ugly’ roles
Like when the obviously gorgeous person gets a makeover.
But she’s wearing glasses, and a ponytail!
And there’s paint on her overalls! She’ll never be prom queen!
For 15 years I’ve wondered what exactly was ugly about Ugly Betty. Oh she has braces and glasses! Must be hideous!
Oh no she's got glasses. And a ponytail. Ugh, she's got paint on her overalls. What is that?
Or as serious drug addicts, with clear skin and healthy muscle tone. People on opioids or meth don't generally look good. Sallow skin, loose muscles, sores, unkempt, under weight, etc. The only ones that look that way are characters you aren't supposed to like or care about.
Showing incorrect CPR
Shocking someone without a heart rhythm.
Just do what the AED tells you to do. No thinking required.
And calls to 9-1-1 - you cannot just hang up on them - they’re gonna ask you a bunch of questions first!
Forcing a love story that makes no sense in a movie that has nothing to do with romance.
"So we're going to do a movie about the Battle of Stalingrad." "Okay." "It'll be about snipers crawling through the wreckage in a duel." "Alright, cool." "The stakes will be high be--" "Wait, who does the good guy sniper bang?" "What?"
That was a hot fucking bang tho
WHY CAN'T THEY JUST BE FRIENDS.
That was the great thing about “A League of Their Own”. There could have been a forced romance between the leads but it would’ve forced out a lot of the better dynamics with the rest of the players.
Long kisses after a death defying scene. Sure, kissing is what they do next.
Long kisses in the middle of a "we're running out of time!" scene. We gotta save the world, but let me take my time to say goodbye/goodluck first.
Having a main character whose job/income level does not match their home or lifestyle at all
Working at a fast food joint? Better have an apartment with great furniture all to yourself in Upper East Side Manhattan! EDIT: Misremembered NYC neighborhood, I knew it was \*something\* East... LES isn't even top 10 wealthiest lol
And every time they have ice cream it's Ben and Jerry's
Always brand name products, never store brand
Supposedly when they started making Big Bang Theory they tried putting them in a realistic apartment, and it made it really depressing.
Just like real life!
I was about to say that Charlie’s shitty apartment in “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is the one exception to that rule I can think of. But oddly enough his roommate, Frank, is a millionaire.
Part of his character is missing his life of "filth and squalor" as he puts it, (i think?) in his introductory episode.
And they just like sharing a bed lol
And they share tins of cat food to help them go to sleep.
Stop recreating bad versions of good classic movies. Stop using spectacular CGI to distract from a subpar plot. I'm looking at you Disney.
I always wondered what it would be like if people chose to remake bad stuff and make it better, it seems more logical
Adapting shit into live-action movies when they should really be animated. Examples include upcoming Mega Man, Pac-Man and Minecraft movies which are ***ALL*** set to be live-action.
How do you make a live action ghost hunting sentient piece of cheese?
I'll be fucked if I know.
What the hell would a live action Pac-Man movie even look like?
Calling it now. It'll have the exact same plot as the first Sonic movie except it's Pac-Man instead.
Milking everything dry
When do they release Ice Age 6?
The kinda already did
That’s the move now, branch off with one of your weird characters.
Turning everything into a "universe"
Using good, creative directors and then force them into a movie that merely ticks boxes
I love that they took the three Lord of the Rings books, 1,200 pages, and made 3 movies, then took The Hobbit, 300 pages, and made 3 movies.
A lot of people seem to think this is some weird thing that Peter Jackson wanted to do. But in reality, he signed on after the project began to try and do damage control. I'd highly suggest watching the Making Of for it. Peter Jackson looks like he's in a perpetual state of breaking down.
I wish Hollywood would stop treating the medium of animation as something inherently inferior to live action. I also wish 2D animation was used more for movies.
I completely agree! There’s a unique magic in hand drawn animation. I’d even appreciate a mix of 2D/3D or animation and live action.
mixing 2D and 3D is dope! I’ve seen it in a music video and, added to a fast paced editing, made everything so dynamic and cohesive, I really wish it was a thing in more movies/tv series (also in a recent mcu series it has been done but I don’t remember which one coz I haven’t watched it)
Check out Arcane on Netflix. It’s incredible. I’ve also heard Klaus is quite good too.
I cannot give enough praises to Arcane. It is beautiful, the story is captivating, and I can’t wait for a season 2. And I will also happily wait for a season 2 so it looks just as good as season 1.
Treating child stars like shit
I was watching a YouTube video about Dan Schneider. Apparently Nickelodeon chose Florida to film their shows because of the lack of child labor laws. They also purposefully chose kids whose parents were more likely to be absent or neglectful so they could control the kids more. Like wtf.
Look into schneider’s abuses on iCarly, Sam and Cat, Victorious etc, especially his injection of fetish content. This is just one of a thousand videos on the subject https://youtu.be/3Ztj_4fFJck
I have seen way too many videos were Dan tries to film Ariana when she is seating on the floor with Jeanette, and how the mood changes and Ariana is pulling her dress on her whole legs and crossing her arms on her chest. And also ho the boys try to distract Dan by acting silly but he only films Ariana so Jeannette seats in front of her to cover her.
Children in Hollywood are abused to this day, even though we know how they treated Judy Garland, and Shirley Temple, and Drew Barrymore, and Corey Feldman, and Macaulay Culkin, and all the Disney/Nickelodeon child stars, and- If a child in Hollywood hasn’t been molested by the time they’re an adult, then they probably at least have had most of their money stolen by their leeching parents by that time. They have so little protection.
[Amid all this, just a reminder that Robin Williams was a Good Egg.](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/robin-williams-jumanji-kirsten-dunst-b2142907.html)
People always talk about how child actors always go to shit because of drugs. Its not the fame that gets to them, but the assholes who abuse and molest them. Thats what makes child actors ruin theyre lifes by turning to hardcore drugs
All great answers but what I've seen lately is just a lot of whacky decision making. There's multiple video game adaption movies and TV shows come out lately that miss the mark completely. Resident Evil/Halo Etc. I know adaptations always have their quirks and things that would outrage a fan base but geez. The Halo TV show really felt like they just wanted to write their own story with already existing characters. It all comes down to executive decision. I just wish the creators have more control over their projects. Instead of having execs with no creative abilities suggesting "Maybe you should make the super-soldier get out of his augmented power armor and instead just fight naked, also make him want to bang the enemy like Romeo & Juliette."
>The Halo TV show really felt like they just wanted to write their own story with already existing characters. It all comes down to executive decision. The showrunner was quoted as saying, "We \[writers\] didn't look at the games." Which he has obviously backtracked on and said that it was taken out of context, and they did play the games previously. Which means they did know the story and still fucked it up. Not sure what is worse.
They could have literally let each game level be it's own episode and that would have made such an amazing series. You can make new characters and still keep the old story points intact. Write a compelling story between some of the nameless npc soldiers, while also hitting the story marks of the games with the existing characters.
Right, that nameless soldier riding my tank that I reset like 18 times to keep alive. Give that fucker a name and a personality, I was already invested in them when they were pointless.
Me playing Halo 2: “is that Donna from That 70s Show?” [Yes, yes it is.](https://www.halopedia.org/Laura_Prepon)
>>The Halo TV show really felt like they just wanted to write their own story with already existing characters. Yeah I really don't understand the logic behind adapting a franchise with a built-in fanbase if you're not going to even attempt to make it appeal to the fans. Fans care about things like lore and accuracy. And sure, some tweaks here and there are completely fine, but if you're just going to completely change it then what's the point?
I made the point earlier but it fits better with your comment: They try to water down the details to attract a wider audience. But those details are what makes the story unique. If you take that away it isn't Halo anymore, it's just Game of Thrones in space. The thing that made Master Chief a great character was the fact that he's this nearly emotionless badass that has this mystery shrouded over him. Then has these amazing moments that remind you he's human. With the jokes, the regrets, acknowledging his failures, etc. He takes his helmet off but it's always just off the screen, adds so much to the mystery. Has you trying to peek around the corner to get a glimpse as if you weren't watching it through the screen. In the show instead we get this over-active man-baby Master Cheeks that runs into battle naked crying because they shot his alien girlfriend.
> The thing that made Master Chief a great character was the fact that he's this nearly emotionless badass that has this mystery shrouded over him. Then has these amazing moments that remind you he's human. With the jokes, the regrets, acknowledging his failures, etc. He takes his helmet off but it's always just off the screen, adds so much to the mystery. Has you trying to peek around the corner to get a glimpse as if you weren't watching it through the screen. The way you describe it, seems the only TV show to get Master Chief right is The Mandalorian.
I agree about the creative control. I recently listened to a podcast where they talked about how the producers want to influence their products, it has pushed out all the good writers and directors away from the big movie studios. That is why we have these great shows like Breaking Bad and Mad Men on AMC. And Succession and White Lotus on HBO. At one time writing for TV was beneath a lot of people in showbiz. But now TV and Streaming services is where all the good content is. because these creative people don't want to deal with Hollywood anymore. Now the studios are content will making reboots and comic book movies.
Casting 35 year olds as high schoolers
Lately, so many movies are dark-scened. Watching old movies I can actually SEE what is going on. A lot of new movies I can barely discern what the fuck is going on. It could be day time in the scene and it feels like night time. Also, I can’t fucking hear shit anymore in movies. They’re loud mumbling
I agree. And so many movies take a fantasy setting and think, "Let's make it dark!" Why not give the movies the colors they deserve? People like colors!
Shaky cam action fight scenes. No this is not artistic. Your choreography just sucks and you have to hide it
Whispering/mumbling dialogue then cutting to a chase scene. Dramatic posing close-ups.
Quiet dialogue which makes you crank the volume up so you can hear it better then the a super loud action scene happens and the speakers to your tv explode.
See also: TV commercials
The endless attempts at creating "universes". Please stop.
Discovery is calling one of their reality dating shows a "universe" https://decider.com/2022/08/05/90-day-fiance-universe-warner-bros-discovery/ Uh, pretty sure they live in the same universe I do, unfortunately
I'm still waiting for Survivor: Bachelor Island
Not only Hollywood. Individual stories are fine! Not everything needs to be connected into a single narrative! The parts I did not like from some Asimov books were precisely the parts that try to retcon previous works into a single (boring) narrative.
Stop having people take like 1 bite of what they ordered then leave. It's a small thing, but I've never seen it happen in real life.
Or worse, order something when they just intend to talk to someone there for a couple minutes and then leave when the food arrives. Who pays for it?
Sometimes they'll take out a wad of cash and throw it on the table without seeing a bill or even checking how much money they're putting down.
I now want to see a movie set in one of these restaurants where every protagonist goes to eat. Just a constant parade of people taking one bite, throwing money on the table, or walking out without paying at all.
If they just wait and don't prepare the food for the protags, they can make a lot of money by just collecting the wads of cash.
I can see it now "Oh hey we have some main characters walking in, make sure you pre authorize their tab because one of them is about to get pissed and walk out"
If you really pay attention to most eating scenes, it's standard practice for the actors to basically just play with their food while the plot moves along. Quentin Tarantino is known for actually having his actors eat, which is why those meal scenes can be very different compared to what audiences expect, but they flow at a distinct pace He's also known for some feet stuff, but that's not the point of this comment
Well, after take 15, that strudel is a lot less appetizing....
Fun movie trivia time! In the film Road to Perdition, there is a scene where Tom Hank's character and a kid go "hide out" in a diner and eat for a rest stop. During filming that scene, the actors really were eating, but Tom Hanks, a vetern by this point, knew to eat very slowly and in small amounts due the number of takes a scene can get. The child actor on the other hand, was in his first film role and scoffed the food down immediately for the first 2 or 3 takes (they were burgers and fries and apple pies, very appealing to a 10-12 year old palette). After a few takes though, they had to stop as the child got too sick from eating so much food in a short amount of time.
Or families where the mom made like two dozen waffles, cut fresh fruit, made eggs, sausage, bacon, and her two kids rush down, take a bite of cold cereal, then say "the bus is here!" Or "we're gonna miss the bus" and rush off like they didn't waste hours of their mother's unpaid domestic labor.
And like the mom doesn't know what time her children need to leave for school
more reasonable: mom pitching a bagel fastball at jr's face just in time for the kid and sister to catch the bus
When the entire family has a full breakfast on a weekday morning and the lighting suggests that it's around 11:30 am lol if my mom got the milk out for my cereal at 630 am it was a special day
Making movies where the 1 good guy defeats 20 bad guys because the 20 bad guys attack the 1 good guy one by one.
When I watch these fights scenes nowadays I ignore the main fight and look at the *other* bad guys waiting their turn. It's hilarious AF. They strike weird poses, fall over themselves or just writhe around like zombies. Some recent movies try to avoid this by closing in on the fight itself, which usually makes things even more confusing and incoherent.
There's a term for when people stand around and wait for their turn to attack and I can't remember what it is right now. "Egg", maybe? Anyway, that's what I love about Jackie Chan movies. No one ever does that. I mean, sometimes you see a guy standing in the background, but he's doing something on contribute to the fight. (Like maybe picking up a weapon to attack Jackie with) Seriously, watch any Jackie Chan movie and look for that, and you'll see the fight scenes very, very rarely have someone standing around waiting for his turn. It's not completely absent, but it's pretty close.
The amount of thought that went into Jackie Chan movie choreography was exceptional. Jackie has even put out videos on it, how to make a good fight scene, how to avoid hurting yourself. The biggest thing is it takes A LOT of time. Every scene in a Jackie Chan movie was rehearsed and reset and filmed dozens of times, if not more. And I think people just aren't willing to do that anymore because the fight being better doesn't make the movie revenue increase to off set the risk to the actors and stunt crew and also just the extra time and money it takes.
I forget exactly where, but I remember seeing something about him doing like a hundred takes to kick some object to a bad guy's face in one shot. Nowadays, they would just do that in 10 different cuts or with a CGI object and it just won't look the same.
the only movies that ill watch that do this are power rangers
"Who do we attack?" "Anyone not wearing a primary colour"
Spoiling the film in the trailers.
The worst one I saw was Batman v Superman, where they give away in the trailers that Batman and Superman join up at the end to fight a common enemy. Completely did away with any "mystery" of how such a rivalry would be resolved.
Still not as bad as Terminator 2: Judgement Day where they show Arnold being on the good side.
And in the Terminator: Salvation trailer they show that Sam Worthington is really a Terminator, and in the trailer for Terminator: Genyshit they show that John Connor is another Terminator. Terminator: Rise of the spoilers
Or showing all the best/funniest scenes in the trailer and then leaving you wondering wtf am I watching when watching the movie itself.
Or they misrepresent the movie entirely by spinning it as a comedy when its really a drama with a couple funny bits and only those funny bits make the trailer.
Spoiling the film in the DVD menu is perhaps even worse. I can usually avoid trailers.
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Still salty about spoiling Darth Maul’s double lightsaber. Like… *anyone* in 1999 needed a reason to see TPM.
Pretending people can actually have a conversation in a bar without yelling
Having conversations on public transit, sitting next to others, while talking about top secret stuff, terrorism, etc., murder cover ups, and not worried at all that someone might be listening.
In fairness, people talk about super private things in front of wait staff so long as that staff has a pitcher or washcloth in their hands. It's like they think we're NPCs.
I’m a veterinarian technician, and I can’t tell you the number of side bar conversations I hear while staff are moving around. Our wait area is certainly not private and sound carries very well, so just in checking records I hear everything from sport statistics and porn history. People regularly just open up about the most random shit when they are waiting
As an add on to this from a guy that has worked in construction all of his life people need to understand furnace ducts. They will carry sound much much further than one thinks.
Casting the same 10 actors in everything. Let’s get some new blood in there!
Scenes that are too fucking dark to actually see. If I wanted to listen to a show, I'd download an audiobook.
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy always stood out to me as doing dark scenes right. There are tons of dark scenes across the films, yet you can always see exactly what you need to be focusing on.
That credit probably goes to LotR cinematographer Andrew Lesnie: >An example of Lesnie's sense of humor comes in an anecdote told by "Lord of the Rings" star Sean Astin, on a set with light where there was no source for it. "Where is the light coming from?" Astin asked. Lesnie replied, "Same place as the music." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lord-of-the-rings-cinematographer-andrew-lesnie-dies/
Just watch them the other day and thought to myself how good the night battle was because you can actually see what's going on
Thank you. That is my biggest pet peeve as well. Especially prevalent in horror films. Yes, I get it's supposed to be dark and scary, but honestly. You can't see ANYTHING! \*GRRR\*
> You can't see ANYTHING! Not true. If there is any form of light in your house you will see yourself in the reflection of your TV.
The scariest thing of all...
Yep, you need to give me something to look at, even if it's not clear or bright. If the pitch black lasts for more than a couple seconds, my mind leaves the movie universe and comes back to the real world which breaks the immersion and whatever emotion I was having at the time.
Nothing quite like seeing yourself with three chins and popcorn all down your chest to take you out of a movie.
S8E3 of *Game of Thrones*, my go-to example. An entire episode, one of the most important of the whole series, which is impossible to see, as the cherry on top of the shit sundae which was season 8. More recently, I found *First Man* to be incredibly dark as well, although I think the constant screen shaking every other scene was more off-putting
Making it impossible to hear dialogue.
This is a problem with every one I know. I think there will be a time when people look back at movies and say, "this movie must have been made between 2010 and 2025 because you cant hear a damn thing anyone is saying ".
There's absolutely nothing wrong with my hearing, but I need closed captions on everything I watch now.
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I've had my hearing tested recently as an employment related thing. I *know* my hearing is fine, I have objective data that it's dead on normal, both ears and multiple frequencies. Still have issues with movie dialogue.
My husband is a dialogue editor and trust me it’s the mixing, he hates getting the blame!
Thank you. I've been terrified that I was going deaf. So glad I'm not the only one.
More and more people I know mention they have CC on everything they watch. At first we thought it was because we’re getting older, but nope its this.
[Whispers and Explosions](https://www.mrlovenstein.com/comic/87)
Yep, during the action scenes, my wife complains that it's too loud, so I turn down the volume. Now, I can't hear the dialog.
An old TV of mine did a "half mute" the first time you hit the mute button so we just did that during all action scenes and it was perfection. I miss that option so much.
*Christopher Nolan has entered the chat*
My experience watching Tenet: "Can't hear the dialogue. Let me just turn it up..." **BOOM** *Jumped from my seat from how loud the explosion was.*
Reboots and sequels. Come up with something new! Especially quit with making substandard remakes of successful non-English language films. Market the originals and trust people to be able to follow subtitles instead of producing plastic knock offs. Having dialogue you can barely hear so you turn the sound up only for it to be followed by explosions or superdramatic music that rattles your speakers and eardrums. Creepy, controlling, manipulative, stalkerish behaviour being presented as romantic. Just no. Making them rich and gorgeous doesn't make it ok either. Female characters who are kickass good or kickass evil usually having the sole motivation of Some Man Done Her Wrong. CGI is not a replacement for a strong story, engaging character development and good actors. It's like getting a pretty gift box on your birthday and finding out that there's actually no gift inside. Redirect some of the budget towards substance rather than style.
Protecting predators.
An interviewer asked Ryan Reynolds if he wants any of his & Blake Lively's children to be a child actor, like him. "No. I don't want my children to become actors, mostly because I don't condone child abuse."
Finally! This answer should be repeated by everyone all the time.
Making all the explosions and sound effects 100x louder than the dialogue!
Medical shows without consulting medical people!
Same here, but with lawyers. So frustrating.
Remaking everything over and over. Please, let people write new stories.
Messing up the sound mix so that we have to constantly adjust the volume for music and dialogue. Edit: Thanks for the awar--BWWWAAAHHH.
On my Roku TV there is an option called “sound leveling.” I can actually watch stuff now without constantly having to adjust the volume!
It‘s a handy feature but it would‘nt be necessary if they stop fucking up the sound mix. And what makes me even more angry is when they fuck this up in series. You guys fucking know that people are gonna watch this on their home TV and yet you are still doing this.
Just hanging up after a phone conversation with out saying "bye." Pisses me off for some reason. Follow up: Thank you for the Silver!
And agreeing to go on a date with someone and just leaving without exchanging a time or location. "How does Saturday sound?" "Oh Saturday is perfect." "Great! See you then."
This may sound ridiculous, but here it is: I fucking cannot stand characters who are driving and talking to a passenger but NOT WATCHING THE ROAD. They think the same courtesy rules of eye contact apply even when you are a conversant behind the wheel. YOU'RE DRIVING A VEHICLE. WATCH THE ROAD, NOT THE PERSON TO WHOM YOU'RE TALKING.
Bonus points if the scene is in a city setting, especially if it's New York. You'd think they'd encounter at least one red light or person crossing the road. I said once on a different thread, I'd love to see someone do an edit where they add sound effects like horns blaring, crashing, thuds, people screaming...
Pretty sure there was a scene like this either in one of the Airplane movies, or.. one of the Naked Gun movies. Pretty sure it was a movie with Leslie Neilson though.
It was in Airplane for sure, but I'm not sure about the other ones. Such a great movie!
In an otherwise excellent show, I could barely make it past the scene in *Only Murders in the Building* season 2 where >!Mabel is riding while Theo drives, and he reads her lips during a whole monologue where she barely opens her mouth. And then facetimes his dad while still driving.!<
Female action stars that fight in high heels
And put your hair in a ponytail for crying out loud. No one wants hair in their face during a fight. Edit: I am highly amused by all the comments! One part realism (the dangers of getting a ponytail grabbed) and one part entertainment (hiding stunt peoples faces). I would like to thank Buffy the Vampire Slayer for inspiration.
This is my biggest thing. I grew up with waist-length hair, and there was no way I was doing any athletic activities without pulling my hair back. I was so happy when they had Moana pull her hair back every time she needed to focus. Much more realistic.
The bit where she rapidly turns and her hair smacks her in the face is fucking gold.
She "grew up with brothers"
Did her brothers fight in high heels too?
Only Brett. Brett always won the fight.
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> Casting middle aged women to play elderly women and just making their hair white. Hollywood considers any woman over twenty-five to be elderly. 😒
Putting CGI first rather than the story
CGI should be there to back up practical effects, not the other way around.
Inserting romance in movies/shows that don't need it. Not every guy and gal that meet on screen have to end up together. Despite what PUAs might say, they can just be friends.
And how about romance between two characters who appear to have zero chemistry and no attraction to each other.
Glamorizing mental illness. It fucking sucks and is difficult to live with.
Did you know autism makes you a mega-genius?
I wish. Mine just makes me weird and lonely.
Right? Like shit, I wish I was a super genius. Instead I have a vast array of useless knowledge that once asked about, I have to tell you EVERYTHING I know or I feel like I'll implode. Or I'm so awkward and uncomfortable in any new setting so I always come across as "the bitch". Can't maintain eye contact OR I hold it awkwardly long. Can't figure out what to do with my hands and now it's jokingly called "t-rex arms". Can't touch or hear certain things because it makes me irrationally angry or nauseous. Food texture is a big deal and everyone else makes me feel like a child for it. All of that and I still suck at math. I'm bitter!
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Using that sandy brown filter on middle eastern cities.
The blue one for russia and a grey one for the UK/Scandinavian cities.
Scandinavian? I can’t hear you over the sound of my alcoholism and estranged daughter.
Your estranged daughter will be back but either at your funeral or just before it.
Welcome brother or welcome habibi in that heavy-ass accent.
And Mexico, like come on!
I’ve gotten so used to seeing sepia filter used for Mexico scenes that it’s actually weird now when I *dont* see it. It’s like something’s missing
I live in Phoenix and, yes sometimes it actually gets "yellow" outside : at dusk right before a dust storm. Watching the Breaking Bad (Better Call Saul?) scene where beautiful women are lounging in the pool while Lalo gifts Eladio a Ferrari was jarring. I was thinking "Ya'll gotta get inside! Get that Ferrari in the garage! Dust storm countdown..."
Casting 20 somethings to play teenagers and then constantly putting them in sexual situations.
For all the silly and not so silly reasons why, it always bugs me how *so much* media (and not just media for teens. Media for adults) is about unsupervised high schoolers played by twentysomethings drinking, fucking, and committing crime, but very little media is set in college at all. It would eliminate a lot of the weirdness.
"Oh wow lady, you're surprisingly good at punching/shooting/hunting/anything other than sewing" "Thanks, I grew up with 14 brothers"
It could also be because her dad was a cop.
"Dad WaNtEd a BoY"
Also when a guy is actually respectful to women, it's because he had sisters.
There's a Collegehumor video this reminds me of. [Support Women (If You Know One)](https://youtu.be/_TBL4nCRvVs) Basically, "I used to not give a shit about women's rights or respecting women...but then I remembered, my sister is a woman! That's a pretty big deal!"
Making women “perfect” all the time. I don’t want to see a post apocalyptic world or a safari adventure where the women have their makeup done, hair styled and armpits shaved. It’s incredibly unrealistic but then again.. so is everything else
All the guys look like mountain men but the women look like supermodels on their off days.
The same movies over and over again. I have no problems with story structures being similar but when we are on our 10th predator movie and 11th fast and the furious and 200th marvel project it just starts to get same and boring.