FFS! Shots You'd Like To Ban

[TordelBack]

Two bans that'd make my life easier:

Camera follows arrow/bullet/missile from 'gun' to target.  

Flaccid penises during sex scenes*.

Because my missus hits me quite hard every time these appear.**  She seems to think these things are my fault.





*Also applies to real life.

**Also applies to real life.

[Adrian Bamforth]

1. I'd personally be happy to see not moire films shot almost shot through a blue or green filter, often to the point that you are actually watching a black-and-white film.

2. I actually get annoyed when people say "what the..." without completing the phrase.

3. A couple have just had passionate sex, and she IMMEDIATELY heads off for a shower shower - I have seen this happen literally within seconds of 'completion'! May as well say "now that's done I'll just go and cleanse myself of your putrid sweat..."

4. We see a guy and a girl chatting in a bar...they seem to be getting on well - there's a bit of chemistry there...then BANG! They are at it like rabbits back at her place. Not that I oBject to the sex, it's just I think "don't show me the sex...SHOW ME THE BIT INBETWEEN THAT GOT FROM A TO B....BECAUSE THAT'S THE BIT WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT!

[Pete Wells]

Dunno if it counts as a shot but here goes:

The camera is behind a glass door, actor/ditsy actress walks towards camera, actor/actress hilariously bashes into glass a falls out of shot. See Jonny Depp in Charlie and the Choc Factory about a million fucking times.

[Roger Godpleton]

3. A couple have just had passionate sex, and she IMMEDIATELY heads off for a shower shower - I have seen this happen literally within seconds of 'completion'! May as well say "now that's done I'll just go and cleanse myself of your putrid sweat..."

ACCEPT MYSHOWER SHOWER

[Jim_Campbell]

See Jonny Depp in Charlie and the Choc Factory about a million fucking times.

Overuse in one film doesn't really make it a cliche.

Oh, and the sex stuff up-thread? You guys are doing it wrong.

Cheers!

Jim

[Grant Goggans]

Can I start with: character walking away (possibly in slow motion) from something that explodes behind them, with no visible duck-and-cover reaction from said character. Cheesy line of dialogue optional.

What, like the climax of the Doctor Who serial "Greatest Show in the Galaxy"...?  That was brilliant!

[Orlok]

Hero leaping through air spectacularly with a pistol blazing away in each hand. Also known as the "John Woo". Extra points if he has a mullet.

Having said that, Ice-T hanging upside down from a swinging rope with a machine gun in each hang (3000 Miles To Graceland) is simultaneously the most hilarious and ridiculously stupid fucking thing I have ever seen.

[HdE]

I'd like to abolish scenes of young folks hanging around together, having innocent fun, eating ice cream and generally being pleasant to one another.

Totally unrealistic. Stick ANY number of under-20s in that sort of setting and they'll soon be at each other's throats!

[Tiplodocus]

Something explodes behind our heroes and a bit of debris flies over their heads (sometimes, they presciently duck) as they walk away.

Similarly, there's an explosion and one single recogniseable item of debris comes flying towards the camera (a door, a wheel) and then falls back into the flames. Amusingly used in DIE HARD 2 (where the object is Bruce Willis in an ejector seat) but done to death since.

[Orlok]

Posse of heroes walking towards camera in slo-mo.
Again, this effectively puts Roland Emmerich, Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer out of business. But, fuck it...

[Pete Wells]

Overuse in one film doesn't really make it a cliche.

No Jim, that was just one example. There was a phase when just about every single American comedy trailer featured some glass door incident. Always the same, never funny.

[Daveycandlish]

Slow-mo quickly followed by a speed swipe. ANY action film of recent years has this! When did that all start?
I watched 14 minutes of D-13 U at the weekend before thinking "Fuck this..." and turned it off

[bluemeanie]

Any shot of Jack Black's shit eating, smug face

[LARF]

Bullet time.

Pigeons.

Anyone getting shot to fuck and still walking, with them being patched up at the end of the film, smoking a cigar whilst sat on the steps of an Ambulance.

Super hero films where the hero dons his costume and you get close ups of the costume being put on to a gradual build up sound track.

[locustsofdeath!]

I'd like to see a television show with an entire episode dedicated to cramming in every cliche listed here. Admit it, you'd love to see it too.