To be fair to Homer Simpson, he was written as a parody of those kinds of characters. The show just became so popular that he ended up being a reinforcement of it rather than a satire.
Annoying TV/Movie Tropes
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To be fair to Homer Simpson, he was written as a parody of those kinds of characters. The show just became so popular that he ended up being a reinforcement of it rather than a satire.
Honestly, when you're my age, a lot of things are annoying, mainly that the plots and big moments are recycled over and over. Very little originality, which is silly when the real world is full of a billion fascinating true stories.
From everything I could tell the movie took place on February 14th, in Milwaukee, WI.
It was Love Hurts with Ke Huy Quan (now in his 50s, but he was Shortround in Indiana Jones Temple of Doom back in the day)
Hey Bruce Willis was just tougher than most in Die Hard.
The “surprise t bone” while the protag is in the car having a critical discussion with the driver, it happens so often that you can see it from a mile away.
Guy and gal being chased through woods by bad guy/mass murderer/evil demon.
Girl trips over leaf and sprains ankle.
Girl trips over leaf and sprains ankle.
Just general mistakes of geography.
True Grit is set in Eastern Oklahoma’s Ouachita Mountains. This an extremely green, lush area. The John Wayne version was filmed in Arizona, the Jeff Bridges version was filmed in New Mexico. Both are much more scrubby desert than the Ouachitas.
Fargo is largely set in Brainerd, which is deep woods/lake country. Marge Gunderson comes across the abandoned car in a setting that would be - at a minimum - an hour from there. Open flat fields and barbed wire fence.
True Grit is set in Eastern Oklahoma’s Ouachita Mountains. This an extremely green, lush area. The John Wayne version was filmed in Arizona, the Jeff Bridges version was filmed in New Mexico. Both are much more scrubby desert than the Ouachitas.
Fargo is largely set in Brainerd, which is deep woods/lake country. Marge Gunderson comes across the abandoned car in a setting that would be - at a minimum - an hour from there. Open flat fields and barbed wire fence.
There's a scene when they're just walking around their 'neighborhood' in Aurora iirc and the palm trees are accidentally in the background.
I saw a Rock movie where he leaped (with a prosthetic leg mind you) from one skyscraper to another.
And yet (and I know this will date me), that's the play in steering the cars in the 50's and 60's had. But, I get what you're saying. LOL They should be up with the times.
In a horror movie when someone is standing in front of a mirror and it's just the main character in the reflection. They grab something out of the medecine cabinet then close the door and now the monster/villain is right there!
I was bugged about that in Ozark, too.
Seemed like they'd be going back and forth to Kansas City and Chicago in about about an hour each. Osage Beach to KC is about 3 hours. To Chicago is about 7.
The one that I always laugh at is more of a props thing. Every time someone is carrying groceries there is ALWAYS a baguette sticking out of the top.
And it's always in a large brown paper grocery bag. When's the last time you had groceries in one of those?
And it's always in a large brown paper grocery bag. When's the last time you had groceries in one of those?
The 15 minute car chase where the hero (and his GF or family) and bad guy are weaving in and out of traffic, going the wrong way on one way streets, driving over sidewalks and jumping over cars. All while shooting at each other. Until at the end of the 15 minutes the bad guy crashes and the cops magically show up.
Then the protagonist just walks away... nobody cares how many people were injured, the thousands in property damage, or the danger they put 100s of people in shooting in crowded streets. The hero just walks away and everybody's cool.
Then the protagonist just walks away... nobody cares how many people were injured, the thousands in property damage, or the danger they put 100s of people in shooting in crowded streets. The hero just walks away and everybody's cool.
And if they drop it there's always a dozen eggs all over the sidewalk!
Also biopics that get all sorts of things wrong. They couldn't put more effort into when and where something happened?
I recently saw A Complete Unknown and while it was good the last performance was pretty cringe for how many things didn't happen at that time.
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Blatant exposition.
Don't get me wrong, exposition is important, and the viewer needs to be given information about who people are and important details to the story, but sometimes it's soooooo lazy, and when it is, it's just an immediate immersion breaker.
Like characters turning on a television that's immediately discussing something incredibly pertinent to the story, or having unrealistic conversations where they overtly share details that wouldn't come up regularly, or that both parties already know. Sometimes entire characters only exist to deliver exposition.
It just can be incredibly ham fisted when done poorly.
The contrast with clever and/or subtle exposition is drastic, because it definitely can be done very well.
Don't get me wrong, exposition is important, and the viewer needs to be given information about who people are and important details to the story, but sometimes it's soooooo lazy, and when it is, it's just an immediate immersion breaker.
Like characters turning on a television that's immediately discussing something incredibly pertinent to the story, or having unrealistic conversations where they overtly share details that wouldn't come up regularly, or that both parties already know. Sometimes entire characters only exist to deliver exposition.
It just can be incredibly ham fisted when done poorly.
The contrast with clever and/or subtle exposition is drastic, because it definitely can be done very well.
