I hate when I can’t remember what I’m sick of.
At this point, I would have to agree with Superhero/Comicbook movies. Enough already. Move on. Nothing to see here folks.
. . . and I’m sick of bologna sandwiches.
Cutting to a wide shot high above a vast landscape when a character screams, to signify that their scream is really loud.
Usually this is done for dramatic effect, but it only makes me cringe.
A man and a woman hold some stuff together, maybe dishes or something while cleaning a table, or one hands something over to somebody, and it falls down into pieces. They both kneel to clear up the mess, when by accident their hands meet, they look each other in the eye – and realise that they have been in love.
This kind of scene to illustrate awakening love without spoken words may have been good the first few times it was used, but that must be long ago.
And I am sick of DVD covers that have written all over them how many and which awards they were nominated for, how many they’ve won and which festivals they were shown at. A film should speak for itself, and they could really design nicer covers. I bought my first Criterion only because I liked the cover, without knowing what Criterion was. A nice, artistic cover is more appealing to the eye than awards etc.
I am also sick of religious fanatics that go out on the streets and try to convert people. And I am sick of childhood indoctrination, and I hate the word peace, as I hate hell or people who wear sunglasses at night.
@BrandonBedaw: That one comes really often, indeed. But it does not annoy me since it just lasts one or two seconds. Still, one might wonder why this has become the stereotype for loud noises and not the way Murnau did it, long ago, in The Last Laugh, with the tone coming out of the trumpet, following the camera.
Silent Films were so rich in cinematic language!
People who can’t spell to save their life.
I love Carlo’s last name. A lot.
Good call Wondar6789. I agree.
Expensive superhero films based on graphic novels or franchises based on bestselling books that are impervious to criticism because of the dollars they take in. Whenever I speak to anyone about my dislike for Peter Jackson’s pseudo-Tarkovskian ‘Lord of the Rings’ doldrum, the (hate to say it) nerds with their pewter dragons and D&D books vehemently defend it’s worth by telling me how great the books are. “Great books” don’t necessarily make for “great films”, and the two shouldn’t be inseperable. Film is a completely separate medium from literature and film should be judged as an art unto itself, not because a book is really popular. The same can be said for the comic book fans who herald the greatness of superhero films or graphic novels, irrespective of whether the film works or not.
I am tired of the slew of Disney pictures such as ‘National Treasure’ or ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, which aspire to be pre-80s Spielberg popcorn excitement but have less life inside them than a dead insect. And of course, remakes of foreign films. It’s not so much that the efforts aren’t well produced or that people shouldn’t see them if they want. It’s that they make people docile and averse to watching foreign language films that are infinitely better and original. It’s Hollywood deliberately dulling the mind to think for itself.
Long long takes of nothing happening being passed off as brilliant.
That redundant Benjamin Button thread that people keep posting in, completely ignoring numerous pleas to let it die, and links provided by moderators to where the exact same conversation has already taken place.
That’s something I’m really sick of.
Brandon, you stole the words right out of my mouth (or the letters off of my keyboard, as it were).
People that think a positive attitude can solve anything.
Twilight
You know what I’m really sick of?
Any shot in any film under 3 minutes. The only form of brilliance in film anymore is long takes of nothing happening.
…and Twilight most definitely.
I hate the term indie, and Sundance. I would pick Hollywood over their sensationalist crap.
Mumblecore movies. Why? Because their hasn’t been a good one made yet. It’s like going to see a really shitty local band who think they are really good because their friends show up and cheer them on.
I personally enjoyed In Search of a Midnight Kiss, which was mumblecore. I’m sick of people putting themselves on pedestals and discrediting entire groups.
No offense, Alex, but…
I’m really sick of the term Mumblecore spreading beyond the small group of people it was originally connected to, such as calling In Search of a Midnight Kiss a “mumblecore” film.
Also, I’m sick of that phrase entirely, as it means nothing and serves no purpose other than to help bloggers and critics generalize things.
I’m sick of entire groups putting themselves on pedestals without making good films, no matter what term the group coined for themselves.
Ryan Estabrooks scores!!!!!!!!! insert hockey music . . .
I hate just about everything in todays movies, i cant think of anything i like.
I could call a technical foul, soybean, considering that none of the filmmakers involved actually coined the phrase, and none have embraced it.
In the larger picture, however, Ryan is very much correct.
Clovehoof needs a hug from a chubby girl, I recommend it.
the term ‘new wave’. What the hell is that supposed to mean? what makes a film ‘new wave’?
the term ‘chemistry’ applied to film.
The “new wave” or new generation of french filmmakers to come out of Cahiers du Cinema in the 1950’s, stewart. The first generation of filmmakers to have grown up watching cinema, and being devoted fans of the art before creating their own.
That’s what the term means, it’s not the movies that are nouvelle vague, but the filmmakers themselves, and their theories on what cinema should be, as opposed to what it had been, the past being the “old” that allows the creation of the new.
The line “Let’s get out of here”
“Post-” anything.
Stupid, teen-driven remakes of good (or bad) films, just to get the cash, which in the process ruin the chances for so many other smaller films to get made.
Sorry, not re-makes, ‘re-imaginings’. I hate that term too.
Reviewers in major media outlets who are too scared to step up and condemn the absolute dreck out now for what it is because they are whores of the very companies that make it.
I agree with mikerswllg on the shakey camera stuff. Just stop, already. Enough. We get it, something is happening.
People who complain about characters being one-dimensional or unrealistic and therefore completely dismissing the film as “crap” because of it.
Rossoneri Ultra
This is what I hate:
Flashbacks to remind the viewer of previous important story information. (Aren’t we smart enough to remember?)
Using popular songs to convey the mood of the scene and the interiority of the character.
Romantic, soppy melodramatic storylines. (Do we really need more?)
Moving the camera too much (See Australian TV Dramas)
Gimmicky comedies and parody films
Cutting to another camera angle.
There’s more I hate but I can’t remember.