Precious Doll wrote:I hate it when a character (always female) is in bed and gets up to answer the phone whilst holding a sheet to cover their breasts when there is either no one else in the room with them or only someone who they have just had sex with.
If an actress doesn't want to do nudity then she should be wearing something in bed. After all, I'm sure that some people do actually wear something to bed.
That's a common misconception. Everyone knows that nobody wears clothes to bed.
I wear a t-shirt and shorts when I'm sleeping, but clothes kind of get in the way when I'm having sex.
So the same holds true for men in the movies: after having sex, a man will jump out of bed--and he's wearing shorts! Bah!
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Precious Doll wrote:I hate it when a character (always female) is in bed and gets up to answer the phone whilst holding a sheet to cover their breasts when there is either no one else in the room with them or only someone who they have just had sex with.
If an actress doesn't want to do nudity then she should be wearing something in bed. After all, I'm sure that some people do actually wear something to bed.
That's a common misconception. Everyone knows that nobody wears clothes to bed.
"It's the least most of us can do, but less of us will do more."
I hate it when a character (always female) is in bed and gets up to answer the phone whilst holding a sheet to cover their breasts when there is either no one else in the room with them or only someone who they have just had sex with.
If an actress doesn't want to do nudity then she should be wearing something in bed. After all, I'm sure that some people do actually wear something to bed.
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cam wrote:One film which was true to the year it supposedly took place was L.A. Confidential, wherein all the music was exactly true to the year, including the wonderful, but seldom heard "Christmas Blues" by Dean Martin.
Actually, I believe there's one notable error in L.A. Confidential: the movie is set in 1953/54, correct? Then it would've been impossible for Guy Pearce and Kevin Spacey to run into Lana Turner and Johnny Stompanato--they didn't meet until the spring of 1957. It was a great scene, but anachronistic.
"...it is the weak who are cruel, and...gentleness is only to be expected from the strong." - Leo Reston
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
Big Magilla wrote:Easy to spot anachronisms drive me up the wall. Obvious ones like rock music in Marie Antoinette don't bother me, but little things the producers think the audience is too dumb to catch like popular songs heard on the radio years before they came out or people going to the movies to see a film years before it was made.
Anything by Lars von Trier post-Breaking the Waves.
Spotting anachronisms is kind of fun. BUT I think that producers or directors who go to the trouble of affixing a "year" to a film and then spoil it by the use of music that hasn't yet been recorded should be taken out and shot. Granted, many of them are younger than thee and me, Peter, but I wonder why they make these errors, which could easily be corrected by an older viewer.
One film which was true to the year it supposedly took place was L.A. Confidential, wherein all the music was exactly true to the year, including the wonderful, but seldom heard "Christmas Blues" by Dean Martin.
Another anachronism that could be corrected is the placement of cars that haven't been manufactured yet.
Easy to spot anachronisms drive me up the wall. Obvious ones like rock music in Marie Antoinette don't bother me, but little things the producers think the audience is too dumb to catch like popular songs heard on the radio years before they came out or people going to the movies to see a film years before it was made.
Anything by Lars von Trier post-Breaking the Waves.
cam wrote:I totally agree re cell phones. Worse: the phone rings, and it is immediately answered, stopping all action, no matter what is going on. In real life, this would be considered the height of rudeness.
But it does happen in real life. The phone wouldn't ring in the film if it weren't a plot point for it to be answered.
What annoys me is two people are having a conversation, the cell phone rings, and one says to the other "it's yours" or "I have to answer this". Even more annoying, one character has a conversation with someone on his or her phone they don't want someone in the next room to know they're talking to. In walks this person, the caller hangs up, is distracted by something and leaves the room. The second person picks up the phone, checks to see the last number called. In real life the first person would have taken the phone with them.
My only quarrel with cell phones in movies is that brief moment that everyone in the audience thinks some jerk didn't turn theirs off before the movie began.
I've noticed this in a lot of 40s films:
Two people carrying on a conversation--only one of them is looking over the other's shoulders, not AT the other. Of course, this is done so that one camera can catch both faces, but it would drive me crazy if I had a conversation with anyone like this.
I totally agree re cell phones. Worse: the phone rings, and it is immediately answered, stopping all action, no matter what is going on. In real life, this would be considered the height of rudeness.
One of the things that drives me crazy about movies (and this isn't really something that can be helped because of the current times in which we live) is the dramatic potential eliminated by cell phones. One of the things I found so refreshing about No Country for Old Men was the fact that it was set in 1980 and there were no cell phones available. Llwellyn couldn't just call his wife to make sure she was okay -- instead we get a great scene in the bus terminal where he's checking out a girl at the same time he's on the pay phone unable to hide his injury from Carla Jean. Chigurgh tries to track Llwellyn down using his telephone records using a pay phone as well.
I've noticed the same thing on soap operas. Instead of face-to-face conversations, we just get a cell phone conversation. There's no dramatic tension of a character having to track another one down with crucial news (just before they end up sleeping with their own half-sister!). They can just call their cell phone. I was watching some old episodes of Another World from 1990 and it's worth noting how many interesting scenes would've been eliminated had they been taped today.
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Laziness or carelessness with editing or spending the time to make accurate a film's continuity just really bothers me and makes me resent how such things could happen....
most recent example that just really pisses me off and you ask yourself how could this happen?
The Departed- scene in the porno theater where Costello tells Sullivan "it won't be me who suffers for it," and on the tape sent to Sullivan's house played back on the stereo, he clearly says "it won't be me who pays for it"
There are plenty in the Departed and maybe that's being a little too tight ass, but no matter how I look at it I can't see how such a thing could slip by or why it would be reread in the first place, and then wrong on top of that
rain Bard wrote:If she coughs, it means she's going to die before the end of the film.
As much as I love my beloved Kate Winslet, the scene in Finding Neverland where she starts coughing while her children are putting on a play, well, it was just too, too laughable. I had to snicker very quietly.
As for the main topic, the things that annoy me are:
Shaky-zoomy cam and rapid-fire editing in action movies.
Bland, seemingly washed-out cinematography in practically ever other independent movie.
Sarcasm and cruelty masquerading as hip comedy.
"...it is the weak who are cruel, and...gentleness is only to be expected from the strong." - Leo Reston
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
