Vee: There are a lot of things in movies that bother me: people who are less than average intelligence, that 'I'm about to throw up' facial acting young people tend to do, and inaccurate depictions of hacking and/or use of computers.
But what REALLY gets my goat is when somebody knocks the villain out, and then RUNS AWAY.
I mean -COME ON- that fucker is CLEARLY coming back. What you need to do is kill the SHIT out of him while he's out. You will NEVER get the best of him again, and he will just make a triumphant return, more crazy and pissed off than ever before.
This is a belief I carry over to real life. Once, to Jaime's horror, I described my meticulous Action Plan if ever a hobo attacked us. First, I would break his knees, then knock him unconscious. Finally, I would curb-stomp him -not because I'm a monster, no- but because I could never take the chance that he would come back for me later, steeped in insanity and hatred, my face tattooed on his chest as a constant reminder of the woman who ROBBED HIM OF HIS LEGS.
But what REALLY gets my goat is when somebody knocks the villain out, and then RUNS AWAY.
I mean -COME ON- that fucker is CLEARLY coming back. What you need to do is kill the SHIT out of him while he's out. You will NEVER get the best of him again, and he will just make a triumphant return, more crazy and pissed off than ever before.
This is a belief I carry over to real life. Once, to Jaime's horror, I described my meticulous Action Plan if ever a hobo attacked us. First, I would break his knees, then knock him unconscious. Finally, I would curb-stomp him -not because I'm a monster, no- but because I could never take the chance that he would come back for me later, steeped in insanity and hatred, my face tattooed on his chest as a constant reminder of the woman who ROBBED HIM OF HIS LEGS.
Jaime: I rarely go a single day without watching a movie, oftentimes I'll catch a matinee on my own, just to enjoy the singular pleasure of pure uninterrupted
I love movies, and like all passionate obsessions, this love inspires a great deal of frustration and hate... continuity mistakes, technical issues and bad acting don't bother me, they're often unavoidable byproducts of the medium, but what really gets to me is awful, terrible, no good writing.
I'm not talking about plot holes or shoddy dialogue, though those bother me too, I'm talking about FACTUAL ERRORS!
Simple stupid mistakes that even the tiniest modicum of checking could have been avoided, and that have miraculously survived through multiple rewrites, many levels of supervision, focus groups and so on. The worst and most common offenders include:
1) "We only use 10% of our brain!": This is used as a plot device so many times that the words have begun to lose all meaning... it's entirely untrue, we use all of our brain, if you only used ten percent you'd be less than a vegetable.
2) Getting Knocked Out: People fall unconscious for many reasons, but it's almost always nothing like how it's portrayed in the movies. First of all, if you punch someone in the head with your bare fist you're going to break some fingers or some knuckles, our hands just aren't designed to do that and the skull is very, very hard. Secondly, if you get hit in the head hard enough to pass out and wake up tied to a chair in a warehouse or something then you weren't just unconscious... you were in a coma, and you've probably got some serious head trauma or brain damage.
I can go on like this all day... but those are the two that bother me the most.
