Nearly everyone employs a few helpful, less-than-cherished pop culture tropes that function as a good indication of "OH HELL NO". On the other hand, some cliches are delicious. There are sci-fi movies set in dystopian futures, novels about addiction and mental illness, Johnny Depp flicks, Josh Whedon series, British costume dramas, foreign horror movies with creepy children and/or dream sequences, stuff by David Lynch, training montages, and subtitled romances involving Women Of A Certain Age. Those are all (mostly) automatic yesses…for me. YMMV.
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harzerkatze
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Wed 3 Mar 2:17am
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Ok, here are a few of my trope hurdles. I am a fantasy follower, so I will mostly talk about my exposure there:
- If you have altercation scenes, use people who comprehend how to fight, or your moving picture is going to suck. No amount of special effects or rapid cutting will foreign the fact that that gazebo has never held a sword.
Bad illustration: Underworld.
Good example: Ivanhoe (1952).
- If you have a gathering of characters, don't have only the prime character do everything, or your movie is going to suck. Fantasy movies are a team rollick.
Unfavourable example: the Dungeons & Dragons movie.
Virtue example: the 13th warrior.
- If you after to have planned a comedic sidekick, choose a character who isn't supposed to also be a warrior, or your moving picture is going to suck.
Bad Example: the dungeons & dragons movie, and Lord of the Rings II (good movie, but Gimli as comedic sidekick sucks).
Good example: Lord of the rings I (Merry is a suitable comedic sidekick).
- As a rule: If you make an ironic or gaffe-in-cheek fantasy movie, it will most likely suck. Making a funny pretence film that is sympathetic is very drunk art.
Bad example: Dragonheart.
Safe benchmark: The Princess Bride or Willow.
- On the other hand, if you have a setting that is rightful absurd, you may still make a decent moving picture out of it if you take it no joking anyway.
Vicious example: To all intents most full-grown fantasy movies, from The Barbarians to Red Sonja.
Good model: Juggers.
- If you use special effects, using the wisely is more important than the amount of money you put into them. You can have effects that are sleazy but still nice.
Bad norm: Chronicles of Riddick.
Wholesome Example: Luminary Wars — a new craving or even Hawk the Slayer.
- Yeah, we separate mirage has a lot of black and white good vs. evil. But to be sure is that a good villain is more distinguished than a good hero. If you villain has no defining characteristic expect for how damage he is, your movie is customary to suck.
Bad example: Hawk the Slayer. Braveheart. Dragonheart. Profuse others.
Considerable example: Darth Vader from Big name Wars. The Big from Buffy. Vizzini from The Princess Bride.
- Like manner, just because your hero is teh solid guy, that is not enough. If your champion can do caboodle and has no bad characteristic, your movie is going to suck.
Bad lesson: Braveheart. Dragonheart. The dungeons & dragons film. Many many others.
Good example: Mad Martigan from Willow. Lord of the rings. Mal from Firefly.
Question authority. Don't inquire why. Just do it.

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StofCircumstance
1 hour, 48 minutes ago
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Okay, I can bear most of your premises absolutely easily…but how on earth can you have such disdain repayment for
Braveheart?
I can't stand Mel Gibson any more, but that talkie is distinctly his opus. And it's a agreeable-made rhyme.
Zen Happens

by
at
Wed 3 Mar 9:06am
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1. Choppy, skittish membrane action. Either the lead actor needs to learn how to do his or her own power scenes or the stand-ins need to be able to do them. But, destined for all that's holy, conclude with the Bourne series style of remain aloof from scenes. They don't make me the least hint entertained. Most times I need to take something for shift sickness.
2. Misstatement endings. Particularly twist endings that don't occupation or that are the only think for seeing a movie. If they're striking, they're only high-minded for the earliest week or so the film is in widespread turn loose. Appellation of audacity pleasure do them in.
3. Forget about the emotionally wounded cops — call a moratorium on emotionally scarred key figures. Frankly, I've had enough of following the antics and trying to develop empathy with actors wealthy the full retard plunge. Hardly focus on a courteous story with realistic altruist types acting on the screen.
4. Top-hole correction someone is concerned the next studio exec who greenlights any project featuring "Nationalist Lampoon" in the title.
Plastic is a maintain of something or other.

Re: Suffer from That Trope Off My Lawn!
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at
Matrimony 3 Mar 11:13am
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One that faded away a few years ago, but is ripe as a service to a revival ,is The Best Friend's Curse. I refer you to films like
Refresh Gun
and
An Functionary and a Gentleman
, where the hero's moral advancement depends on his best buddy's untimely death because of the hero's unwise actions. This is allied to the Girlfriend's Girlfriend Effect, where the hero's take interest gets the handsome guy, while her best friend is stuck working in the mill and living in a trailer appropriate for the idleness of her dazzle.
What rescues us from insignificance is the spunk of our questions and the profundity of our answers. Carl Sagan

Re: Camp Your Taste on B-Roll
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1 hour, 46 minutes ago
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That was totally awesome, thanks!
You yearn for b-somerset of a guy talking about b-roll in appearance of a callow scan?
peace

by
at
Ally 3 Blot 1:33pm
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Really, I'm done with him. What does he complete any more?
Take a literary or cola discrimination classic, add some day-glo color and a bit of CGI, Johnny Depp with pancake makeup, possibly a verve of Helena Bonham Carter, and voilà! A Tim Burton Reimagining®.
The macaroni can't even acquire a new haircut for chrissake.
Liberals are every time hesitation about the aggregate.

by
at
Wed 3 Mar 1:42pm
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The Making of Making of Trope. if you accompany the "Making of…" featurette on HBO or the rough of a DVD, you take in that they are exactly the in any case. The unparalleled telling how the director is a mastermind, the director weighty how Kurosawa was a genius, both the falling star and the big cheese praising the make-up artist and/or costumer for mounting the scene for the character so coolly, the star telling us that we should keep an eyesight on the ingenue because she will be a big celebrated hersolf some day…yeah, that pretty much sums them all up.
What rescues us from insignificance is the moxie of our questions and the depth of our answers. Carl Sagan
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