shaky-cam, “documentary” style and overuse of steady-cam (a slightly less lazy version of the same kind of thing). Why is it anathema these days for a director to actually put the camera on a tri-pod, KEEP IT STILL (no pans, dollies, etc) and frame a frickin’ shot?
I with Mikerswllg on this one.
The pull out into the sky at the very end of the movie
Color . . . it’s totally overused :)
blind buys gone bad
Framing devices.
Seriously, if I see another movie that’s all a flashback unnecessarily, I’m gonna scream.
I’m really sick of when my waiter/waitress asks if I saved room for desert, because I never do but they always ask and I always say no and I just want an option to choose of whether or not I want my waiter/waitress to ask such a question, ugh capital U.
bad films. usually of the hollywood big-budget variety.
JP
I’m also sick of the unncessary dessert request. In addition to that, I’m sick of: the welfare state, vomiting, and winter.
morgan freeman narration
Hollywood pre-1950’s (sound films), and post 1977.
I can’t handle the stylized acting in the 40’s, and 30’s, it’s really been bothering me lately. I tried to watch Brute Force today, and everything was so perfect, and real, and intense, but the acting just took me right out of it. The way they speak, I just can’t stand it. It’s probably just a phase, and I’ll be able to watch great Hollywood films again, I just can’t right now.
Do I even have to explain why I hate Hollywood after 1977?
Forums that begin as a place for people to have serious discussions about film, and end up being a big whine fest…drives me crazy.
im sick of morgan freeman narration too. features, documentaries, commercials, political bios, it doesnt stop with this guy
im sick of morgan freeman narration too. features, documentaries, commercials, political bios, it doesnt stop with this guy
“brute force”? great film! hume cronyn, burt lancaster, and a gallery of the best film noir character actors. there’s really some good performances in that film. and its got probably my favorite line of all time, from cronyn:
“i dont believe in coincidences. especially when they happen more than once.”
Jeez Col. Dax your annoyed with a huge chunk of great films. Do you have any exceptions form your annoyness because I can’t imagine you don’t like any films from these eras. Also I love your name. The era you like is no doubt the best though if you extend 1977 to 1980 (I got to include Apocalypse Now and Raging Bull).
Well there’s an exception to every rule (Apocalypse Now, Hannah and Her Sisters, Raging Bull, etc…), and there are certainly exceptions to this rule I have. I don’t doubt that the performances in Brute Force are great, but it’s the way they talk that annoys me, and I got to the scene with Joe in the infirmary and it became too much, I couldn’t stand they way they were talking. I’ll watch it again soon, and try to shut off the part of my brain that’s annoyed by that. Essentially it’s really film noir, the way characters speak in film noir annoys me.
Some films from the 40’s and 30’s Hollywood Noir I can watch over, and over:
Maltese Falcon (I could watch Humphrey Bogart eat a sandwich for an hour-and-half and he’d make it interesting, I have no doubt of that)
Naked City (because of the city, and the Irish cop off sets my annoyance) (I do enjoy me some Jules Dassin)
The Third Man (because it’s fucking The Third Man, although it’s British, and not Hollywood)
there’s some others, but I’m tired…
You are very right about Bogart. I finally saw The African Queen for the first time yesterday (thank God for TCM!) and he is just so great. The film was great too.
Misspelled topic headings.
oh crap I just realized that, my bad.
complaining doesn’t solve anything, does it? oh, what the hell. I am not a fan……….you name it. It stinks. It stinks.
I ‘m sick of is people saying one of the things they’re sick of is threads about things they’re sick of!
Another thing I can’t stand is American actresses/celebrities who suddenly don a British accent and use slang from England (i.e. Audrey Hepburn, Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna, etc. and their abundant use of words like rubbish and bollocks). Sorry, honey, you’re from the States and everyone hates you, get over it.
@JP – I believe Audrey Hepburn is European (Dutch, English origins?), and grew up in England. And ‘rubbish’, isn’t that a normal American english word?
Well then she can be crossed off the list, but rubbish isn’t too prominent in the US, at least I haven’t heard its usage ever.
Add all forms of social networking to my list of hates, the last thing I want to do is get in contact again with a kid I haven’t seen since high school (I don’t care if it doesn’t have to do with film, I need to vent!)
Also, the backlash against the Watchmen graphic novel with the movie’s release, and I hate daylight savings time in general. There, done for today, tonight…
I’m sick of people who think we all need to have a “positive attitude” and laud everything as “great!” like Tony the frickin’ Tiger, when in reality most of what gets produced is crap. ;p
though I will laud this thread as a great idea.
I’m actually getting quite tired of that “in the box” shot. The character opens a container (mailbox, locker, safe, car trunk) and the next shot is from inside the container as the character contemplates what’s in it/dialogs with another character/takes something out that you can’t see because it’s too close in the frame. There’s no reason I dislike it, it’s just used so often that I begin to wonder if there’s not some other way….
And yes, complaining about things doesn’t change them. However, it provides catharsis. And there’s always a chance that an aspiring filmmaker could be talking on these boards and think, “Hmmm, what if I tried something different, then?” Or not. But it’s the Internet, so…. it’s not of very high importance.
In response to the complaints about hand-held cinematography: definitely, not enough people do it correctly and it’s over-used. I just wanted to mention that a really great response to this is Romero’s Diary of the Dead. In it, he has the “student filmmakers” make the movie, but this time allows them the opportunity from time to time to actually hold the camera steady and show what they’re shooting. Instead, the self-reflexivity of the camera is reinforced by people talking into it rather than unnecessary jerkiness. It’s still not graceful but it’s a huge improvement, and I think it’s really well done. Not everybody agrees with me, but I think Diary of the Dead is the perfect response to Cloverfield, Blair Witch Project, et al.
—PolarisDiB
I hate indie movies. Not independent movies, but the kind of movie that would literally be a stupid hipster converse all-star wearing douche with headphones blaring ironic acoustic covers of overly popular songs if it were turned into a human being.
I am sick people paying to go see crap movies. They wouldn’t make them if you don’t give them your money.
And also, I am sick of Cannes and Sundance. Awards blow. Have the festival, that’s great. Show a bunch of movies until people’s eyes fall out, but why do you have to give out awards.
The movie business as a whole sickens me. What a joke. We are doomed.
AMEN on the hate for social networking sites, for all the reasons you mentioned!! haha! i get great satisfaction when people ask me, “hey, are you on facebook??” and i simply say, “nope.”
and another vote of support for the hate on the movie business. i’m an ex-hollywood guy that escaped from the corporate monolith of viacom via mtv networks. after years and years of working in it, the “industry” disgusts me now. i’m into movies. not the movie industry. long live art. fuck commodification.
stewart SFA Adams
Certain plot devices, certain camera angles, certain lines, etc. anything in movies that you’re really sick of.
One thing I am getting really sick of is all superhero movies, doomsday movies, and horror movies. They’re practically all the same.