Oh and people thinking you are lieing just because you say Citizen Kane is in your top 10. Is it impossible to love a films that has been praised?
“best film ever” or “top ten films ever” posts
Self-aggrandizing attitudes when talking about films and, especially, the people who make them… The kind of ridiculousness that prompts the always ready “I hate” this or that. I much prefer the banality of lists to the self-serious BS that permeates a large part of discussions.
Also,
I’m sick of ralenty. I really hate them.
But I’m really really sick of loud soundtrack if isn’t rock.
As per the above, I am sick of reality – it is way over-rated – imo.
Positive attitudes only lead to the possibility of making things better. Attitudes aren’t even the means to outcomes, they’re the catalysts. That’s why people in shitty situations stay there if they don’t think it could get any better, or they win the lottery, which doesn’t solve everything either.
In movies, I’m sick of the frame stopping so a voice over can describe something. I also dislike the new fad of improvisational humor/awkward humor, and guys who are supposed to look like Micheal Cera making out with supermodels. I’m tired of characters who resemble an attitude or a single emotion and create completely banal lifeless fucks who cry, or get mad once during the story. I’m tired of Ken Loach films always having to have at least one sex scene. And of course, I’m really really tired of the lack of purely character driven films. Some great director said that characters should create the circumstances, not the other way around.
bresson said “let it be the feelings that bring about the events. not the other way.”
Ever since The Sixth Sense has come out almost every horror movie is about some ghost or supernatural being. It’s been 10 fricking years since that movie came out, give it up and come up with some new ideas Hollyweird.
Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell, Stupid remakes of cool old TV and films, Stallone Bashing.
The word, “vegetables.” I’m really starting to hate that word.Can we all just get past it, please?
Blackberrys and I-Pods. Burn them all!
The slasher movie standby where a body falls into frame from the upper left side of the screen right behind the protagonist. Usually the falling is not precipitated by any rational cause, other than the need for something to happen. That shit happens in almost every Jason movie.
Films that start with alarm clocks going off and the the protagonist slapping them and then following the protagonist through his morning routine. What a lazy, unimaginative way to start a film.
Lack of an affordable, digital rangefinder camera, suitable for street photography.
Neo-Conservatives.
Real estate brokers.
Remakes
Bare bone DVDs
Comic Books declining in quality while going up in price.
Overuse of CGI
The pointless, tasteless and overuse of profanity in films.
Irresponsible pro athletes.
Big budget films with horrible acting.
Shoyish, I think it’s a point of relation in those films. Every single person has experienced that, and it’s an extremely easy way for the director/writer have us relate to this character in an albeit superficial manner. We all live pretty similar lives when it comes down to it (unless you’re extremely rich, or poor). It may be unimaginative, but what was the last film you watched that was completely original? The answer to that is none. No film ever made hasn’t not come from some other source. It is overused, though, I will give you that.
I’m tired of being called an elitist snob (on these forums no less) because I want to treat film as a serious art form, and don’t want to continuously click on Rick Roll’d links, and talk about Benjamin Button. I’m really fucking sick of that.
“I’m tired of being called an elitist snob (on these forums no less) because I want to treat film as a serious art form, and don’t want to continuously click on Rick Roll’d links, and talk about Benjamin Button. I’m really fucking sick of that.” – As It Were
LOL…could not have put it better!
political threads / debating politics
The ubiquitous ‘shaky cam’.
AS IT WERE/DANIEL: I haven’t been here very long and even I’M sick of that. Keep up the good work!
Drew Gregory
Stupid people. In my geography class two people missed the same review question: What three continents meet in the Middle East? The first guy said Africa, Asia, and Australia, and the second girl said Africa, Asia, and Saudi Arabia. Seriously what the fuck.