January 27, 2014

Netflix's New "Mitt" Documentary Apparently So Affecting and Humanizing Liberals Regret Watching It
— Ace

I hear nothing but good things.


So far, the reviews of the film, which went live on Netflix Friday, have been remarkable for their consistency. Mitt, we are told in one identical article after another, reveals a shockingly likable “other side” to the candidate. It “humanizes” him. It “pulls back the curtain,” or “goes behind the scenes,” to “reveal a fuller, more intimate portrait” of a man who proved elusive during the election. If only this movie had been released during the campaign, many have argued, it might have changed the outcome of the race. If only voters had been able to meet the Real Mitt Romney.

...

As I watched the movie with my wife and another Mormon couple on Friday night, I began to take note of every time something on the screen provoked a sympathetic sigh from our small audience. It happened when one of Mitt’s grandkids jumps on top of him in the snow; when the ever-frugal Mitt opts to keep his old sturdy winter gloves instead of new ones that were gifted to him (“These work great!”); when a tearful Ann Romney kneels in a hotel on the eve of the 2008 New Hampshire primary and leads the family in prayer, telling the Lord that their “motives are pure” and asking for strength to endure the daily persecutions of campaign life; when, upon realizing he’s going to lose the election, Mitt immediately begins consoling his family members, worried that the failed campaign may harm his sons’ careers.

When Mitt is shown, hours before a big debate, diligently cleaning up after a trash can that has tipped over on a windy hotel balcony, someone watching with me remarked, “He’s such a good guy.”

And when Mitt, upon seeing the 2008 New Hampshire primary returns, stifles a curse word by adopting a silly falsetto and exclaiming, “That’s not good!” my wife turned to me and said, “Oh my gosh, Mitt Romney is my dad.”

I have to watch this at some point. I'm afraid it will make me depressed.

Speaking of movies that depress me, there's a movie thing that's been annoying me for a while.

It's this: Action movies and horror movies frequently require a hero, villain, or monster to suddenly jump out at someone, to take him by surprise. Fine.

But what bothers me is that character who suddenly appears often was invisible to the camera -- that is, he was off-screen, out of shot, outside the outer edge of the frame of the camera's picture -- but he was not actually hidden behind anything existing in the world of the film itself.

That is, he's hidden from the movie audience because the camera was deliberately avoiding him, but if you consider the state of affairs from the point of view of every character in the scene, he would have been right out in the open.

I see this a lot. It annoys me a lot. I see characters pop out of nowhere, but when you look closely at the physical space the scene takes place it, it becomes apparent they must have literally popped out of nowhere, because there is no convenient door-jamb or Chinese room divider they could have been hiding behind before jumping into view of the camera.

I mentioned this in an email to the cobs on Friday. Gabe brought up this scene from The Dark Knight, in which Batman literally materializes -- through magic, I guess -- among five different people, in the middle of open space, with no hiding places at all.

Skip to 3:00 to see Joker menacing Rachel Dawes -- no one in the middle of the room except for the Joker, three goons, and Rachel Dawes; the rest of the party is way back from them, standing away from the center group -- and then Batman teleports in.

Where did he come from? Was he hiding in Rachel Dawes' chooch the whole time?

Now you might say, "Well, that's Batman. He's always doing things like that. Plus he has League of Shadow training, which, who knows, maybe includes deployment of hallucinogenic gases that make people not see you or something."

But they don't just do it with Batman. Even minor characters with no names and no skills can achieve this trick when a director is too lazy to set the scene properly.

Lethal Weapon 4 was horrible and you know that. But I'm posting this just to illustrate this movie cliche. Right in the beginning, a nameless thug emerges out of... nowhere to put a gun to Roger's head.

Moments later in the scene you see the rest of the room. Where was that guy hiding before he burst into frame?

Russ says this happens in the Tom Cruise movie Oblivion, too (and a hundred other movies), but I haven't watched that yet.

Gabe notes that TV Tropes deems this one aspect of a broader phenomenon called Offscreen Teleportation, a movie conceit which posits that if a character is off-camera for even a second, he can and probably will move to anywhere else by the time the camera next takes notice of him, regardless of whether this is plausible or even possible.

Anyway, this annoys me, and it should annoy you too.

Please note your own movie annoyances, if you like.

Oh One More Thing: I re-watched It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World last night.

It was... well, kind of not as good as you're hoping. I remember feeling that the first time I saw it, when I was fairly young.

And here's something else I felt this time that I felt then, too: The whole Fire Ladder sequence at the end is supposed to be funny, and it sort of is, but it's something else, too. It's... horrifying, actually.

It reminds me of the gory special effects you'd see in movies like Rollercoaster (mad bomber blows up roller coasters and sends cars full of people flying) or The Fury (psychic psychopaths use mental powers to cause... rollercoaster cars to go flying off the tracks, killing people... This was a popular way to movie-kill people in the mid-seventies, it turns out).

There's something just unsettling about it, about watching that ladder sway and throw people off of it. It moves sort of plausibly, as we'd expect out-of-control, hydraulic-powered heavy machinery to move. A machine moving like that is a realistic threat to human life.

And yet it seems possessed of a deliberative power-- that it's choosing what to do with each character. Almost like it's an instrument of a Vengeful God assigning a painful torment to each of the characters.

Anyone else feel like that?

Or is it just funny?

Posted by: Ace at 01:44 PM | Comments (368)
Post contains 1141 words, total size 7 kb.

1 I can't keep up!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 01:41 PM (DmNpO)

2 Where did he come from? Was he hiding in Rachel Dawes' chooch the whole time? That would explain the erect nipples on the bat suit.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2014 01:43 PM (lM/7U)

3 All links to TVTropes should come with a warning that any remaining hours in the day are severely at risk of going missing.

Posted by: AMDG at January 27, 2014 01:43 PM (t7OO0)

4 It wasn't enough for them that they differed with Romney on policy-- he had to be Satan himself for them.

Posted by: --- at January 27, 2014 01:44 PM (MMC8r)

5 hellloooooo??

Posted by: soothsayer at January 27, 2014 01:44 PM (aIKFR)

6 Whitespace annoys me.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 27, 2014 01:45 PM (o9Rp5)

7 ace is annoyed because a ninja appears out of thin air? I'd be annoyed if a ninja couldn't do that.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at January 27, 2014 01:46 PM (TJ8HB)

8 sock puppet off!

Posted by: gwelf at January 27, 2014 01:46 PM (TJ8HB)

9 Please note your own movie annoyances that Halle Berry wears clothes

Posted by: navycopjoe at January 27, 2014 01:47 PM (At8tV)

10 I have to watch this at some point. I'm afraid it will make me depressed.

How exactly could it be worse than election night, 2012?  Mitt Romney was the most decent man to run for President in this and the last century, with the arguable exception of Ronald Reagan.  My only consolation is in knowing that whatever the short term reverses, the idiots who defeated him will enjoy decades of grinding misery. 

Posted by: pep at January 27, 2014 01:48 PM (6TB1Z)

11 Watched Mitt over the weekend - not going to give any spoilers but your blood will boil all over again over once they show the debates

Posted by: Astronaut Achmed at January 27, 2014 01:48 PM (Kiz9M)

12 "when, upon realizing heÂ’s going to lose the election, Mitt immediately begins consoling his family members, worried that the failed campaign may harm his sonsÂ’ careers."

And it's not as though his failed campaign was going to massively harm THE ENTIRE GODDAMNED COUNTRY or anything. No, he's worried about the mob of mini-Mitts being unable to get jobs as management consultants.

Thanks again for foisting this wet firecracker on us, Beltway bunch.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 27, 2014 01:48 PM (gqT4g)

13 Michael Walsh had the opposite reaction to Mitt,it made him dislike him more because he is seen to lack confidence.Admittedly,Walsh pretty much hated Romney from the beginning.

Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2014 01:48 PM (zqvg6)

14 Let the stompening continue.

You're up, CAC.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 27, 2014 01:48 PM (eHIJJ)

15 We just couldn't vote for him. He wouldn't stay out of our bedrooms. And he didn't like choom. And he relied too much on his imaginary friend. And, of course...there were the binders. 

Posted by: The Libertines Who Stayed Home at January 27, 2014 01:48 PM (Dwehj)

16 Jet Li doesn't need to hide. Jet Li is the atmosphere itself.

Posted by: zombie at January 27, 2014 01:49 PM (+cx5n)

17 Well, I never thought about it before, but yeah now that you mention it, it annoys me too.

Also, how in a rom/com there always has to be some stupid misunderstanding that breaks apart the main two love interests until they reunite in the end.  Every. Single. Time.  Annoying.

As for Mitt, I was a very reluctant voter until the convention.  It was the personal stories about how good of a man he is that made me feel really good about voting.  It made him "human" for me, whereas before he was sort of this Mitt-bot.  I never really got the grasp of who he was as a person until that night.  I wish more people would have gotten to see that, but if I remember correctly, many of the news stations who covered the convention either talked over that part or didn't air a lot of it.

Posted by: DangerGirl at January 27, 2014 01:49 PM (GrtrJ)

18 Please note your own movie annoyances

That I've figured out the plot in the first 10 minutes of pretty much every movie I see.  Brilliant? No.  Hollywood is on autopilot.  A chimp can figure it out.

Posted by: pep at January 27, 2014 01:49 PM (6TB1Z)

19 Didn't Batman used to drop in on the Bat-Wire hanging from the ceiling after he tossed the Bat-Arang around a pipe?  Or at least give us a little knee flex like he jumped in.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at January 27, 2014 01:49 PM (DL2i+)

20 You know what pisses me off about movies. If I want to see Kate Beckinsale get naked I have to sit through an additional hour and firty minutes of bullshit.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2014 01:49 PM (lM/7U)

21 Is Romney going to run again?

Posted by: wheatie at January 27, 2014 01:49 PM (Wq5le)

22 >>>Jet Li doesn't need to hide. Jet Li is the atmosphere itself. ... I could accept Jet Li doing that (with a little fog and neon for atmosphere) but not Random Nameless Goon #4.

Posted by: ace at January 27, 2014 01:50 PM (/FnUH)

23 A montage to explain all loose ends at the end of a movie, instead of letting me work it out on my own. Planes, Trains, Automobiles Sixth Sense

Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at January 27, 2014 01:50 PM (QF8uk)

24 Batman is ninjaesque, no?

Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 27, 2014 01:50 PM (aIKFR)

25 >>> Didn't Batman used to drop in on the Bat-Wire hanging from the ceiling after he tossed the Bat-Arang around a pipe? Or at least give us a little knee flex like he jumped in. ohhhhhhhh.... from above. Yeah, I guess that's possible. I didn't think of that.

Posted by: ace at January 27, 2014 01:50 PM (/FnUH)

26 LIV view Romney without the MSM hate/bias lens and realize they made a horrible mistake. They can all suck it then.

Posted by: redenzo at January 27, 2014 01:50 PM (WCnJW)

27 Where did he come from? Was he hiding in Rachel Dawes' chooch the whole time?

Yes, as a matter of fact.  I was the stunt double for that scene.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 27, 2014 01:50 PM (9F2c1)

28 Mitt Romney  showed his human  and likeable  side constantly during the campaign and his past acts were also used in the campaign,  though relucantly.   Just as the info about Obama's bad characteristics and actions were readily available to anyone paying attention in 2008  ,  Romney's 'other side ' was there for all to see.  

Posted by: polynikes at January 27, 2014 01:51 PM (m2CN7)

29 'firty' is an indiscriminate period of time between 30 and 50 minutes. Yes. I made that up.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2014 01:51 PM (lM/7U)

30 And it's not as though his failed campaign was going to massively harm THE ENTIRE GODDAMNED COUNTRY or anything. ...
Thanks again for foisting this wet firecracker on us, Beltway bunch.

He should have immediately offered personal consolation to every Republican voter in the country. 

Posted by: pep at January 27, 2014 01:51 PM (6TB1Z)

31 Chinese room divider Shoji panel.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2014 01:51 PM (IXrOn)

32 The Secret Life of Willard Mitty “America is on the brink!” the Impossibly Talented Orator thundered at the podium. “Only the most extreme measures shall save her!” A lock of his hair, slightly dampened with manly sweat, fell rakishly across one eye. Several women in the audience fainted from excitement. Not a Teleprompter was in sight. The Impossibly Talented Orator looked directly into the souls of every single person in the million-strong audience. “Damn the Democrats and their communist puppetmasters! Rise up for freedom! Rise up for success! Rise up——” “Willard, your smile is fading a bit,” said his wife Ann, interrupting his reverie. “You know a scowl is not acceptable. You promised to keep a friendly smile pasted on your face for the entire campaign. Now keep waving at those middle-class voters.” Momentarily confused, Willard Mitty raised his arm and waved at the farmers and unemployed coal miners gathered outside the ’50s-era diner hosting that morning’s photo op. A gentle elbow from Ann jolted him back to the task at hand. He looked at his watch — 10:17. Two minutes behind schedule. Willard ate a corn dog and grinned and shook hands with Likely Registered Voters, and then delivered some prepared remarks to the press pool: “When 18.2% of businesses in southern Ohio have trouble completing the paperwork required under section 47a of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it leads to a reduction of manufacturing output as much as 29.5%….” Mitty finally exhaled as he entered the campaign bus. “We’ve got an 11:30 at the state fair,” said the Assistant Campaign Manager. “I’ll debrief you on the way.” Mitty sighed and gazed out the window at the passing corn fields as the debriefing droned on in the background. “Captain Mittington! The dastardly Brits have hoisted the mizzen-mast,” cried the bos’n's mate. “There’s no stopping them now!” The Captain peered through the fog of war with his trusty spyglass. He noticed what not even the Brits had realized: the Westerlies had stalled and the English fleet was now in the Doldrums. “All men topside!” cried Captain Mittington. “We’re boarding them a-port come hell or high water!” The Captain swung onto the British deck and landed just as a cannonball broke his rope. Sparks flew from his blade as he repelled the lunges of several limey swordsmen. “Never shall overly taxed tea touch American shores!” the Captain yelled. With two swift strokes of his cutlass he sliced the moorings which held the cargo of tea on deck. “To the sea! To the sea with your accursed tea!” —— “The Bipartisan Protocol needs another revision by the Compromise Committee,” interrupted Willard’s Ombudsman of Moderation. “I’ve faxed the Mutually Agreed-Upon Points of Reasonableness to your pager.” Mitty looked up, startled. The Compromise Committee? Yes, now he remembered: He agreed to co-chair it at the last Moderate Conference. “I’m quite sure that the Points of Reasonableness are, well, reasonable,” Mitty said. “Are we at the county fair yet?” His campaign aides looked at each other nervously. After an awkward silence, one cleared his throat and spoke up. “Willard, the county fair appearance wrapped up 45 minutes ago. Your joke went over great.” “Joke?” “You know, the one where you say, ‘Why did the chicken only partly cross the carnival midway? Because he wanted to stay in the middle of the road — just like all of you, and me as well!’ It took the Noncontroversial Joke Team three days to come up with that zinger!” Mitty barely remembered saying the joke and the wild applause from average people it elicited. He must have been going through the motions, as his mind seemed to be elsewhere at the time. But where? What was he thinking? The voices around him faded as he gazed inward. “Vilard Mitté at your service,” the dashing recruit saluted at the French Legionnaire fort in the Sahara Desert. Glowing ash crumbled from the Gitane cigarette dangling off his chapped lips. “I have marched five hundred kilometres through ze burning sands to relieve your position.” The Commandant eyed him with disgust and disbelief. “Just vous and no one else? I snort with derision! We are surrounded by Saracens and savage desert nomads who desire death more than we desire life. How can one grizzled but handsome world-weary adventurer save us?” “How? How?” laughed the dashing Vilard Mitté through his five-o’clock shadow. “Avec le intestinal fortitude, mon commandant!” Vilard peered over the ramparts. Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl. Two riders were approaching — the wind began to howl. Through the billowing sandstorm he could see hundreds, no thousands of scimitar-wielding Saracens encircling the fort. “Surrender, infidels,” their leader cried. “The time of the Caliphate is at hand!” Vilard Mitté stood up on the highest turret and challenged the hordes. “I spit on your moon-god! You are not martyrs — you are women! The juggernaut of classical liberalism will crush you like cockroaches!” Enraged, the Saracens and savage nomads rose and charged the fort in a single mass of flesh. The French troops behind the walls wailed and scattered. The Commandant bellowed, “You fool! What have you done? You went out of your way to anger them; now we must appease or die!” “Bwa-ha-ha!” laughed Mitté. “You do not yet comprehend. This is all part of my plan — to lure them into a premature attack. To the Gatling guns!” —— “In the preparations for the foreign policy debate,” continued Mitty’s Strategy Coach, “should we emphasize your ability to cooperate with our allies, or your skill at avoiding conflict by accommodating demands from foes? Public opinion is now trending against having troops overseas.” Willard Mitty looked at him aghast. His patented unending smile fading to a steely gaze. After a frozen half-minute, he spoke. “There is no more Willard Mitty. From now on, call me Mitt.” Sideways glances ricocheted around the astonished campaign bus. At first, a giggle, then a snicker, and then everyone broke out into uproarious laughter. “Good one, Mitty! Whew! You had us convinced for a second. Now onto these latest polls….”

Posted by: zombie at January 27, 2014 01:51 PM (+cx5n)

33 Now if only we had an honest Hillary documentary. Perhaps if someone springs D'Souza.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 27, 2014 01:51 PM (aDwsi)

34 yeah well bin Laden liked soccer and puppies!

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 27, 2014 01:51 PM (U75ue)

35 Movie annoyances for me are what John Nolte calls the " sucker punch".When they just stick in a jab at conservatives or Republicans that is completely gratuitous.

Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2014 01:51 PM (zqvg6)

36 The teleport thing happens so often that it's not even noteworthy.

It's a conceit we accept.

Posted by: 13times at January 27, 2014 01:51 PM (fGPLK)

37 but if batman came from above he would have come down on a goon, and then, squatting on the prone unconscious body, THEN he would have said "Then you're gonna love me."

Posted by: ace at January 27, 2014 01:52 PM (/FnUH)

38 To little To Late I'd rather win There is no second place

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 27, 2014 01:52 PM (t3UFN)

39 "Is Romney going to run again?"

Bob Dole wants you to know that he's first in line if prior contenders are being talked up. Bob Dole is ready to answer his party's call. Remember, it's a new Bob Dole for a new century. I'm Bob Dole and I approve this message.

Posted by: Bob Dole at January 27, 2014 01:52 PM (gqT4g)

40 >>>The teleport thing happens so often that it's not even noteworthy. It's a conceit we accept. ... I don't accept it. It's UnAmerican.

Posted by: ace at January 27, 2014 01:52 PM (/FnUH)

41 ohhhhhhhh.... from above. Yeah, I guess that's possible. I didn't think of that. Science Fact : Ewok never look up. They don't even have a word for 'above'.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2014 01:52 PM (lM/7U)

42 Oh and a device in movies that has also annoyed me.  Good character shoots/stabs/beats bad guy to death then lays/stands there with back turned to bad guy, just to have bad guy not be dead and the fight continue.  Yawn.

Posted by: DangerGirl at January 27, 2014 01:52 PM (GrtrJ)

43 Speaking of popping out of nowhere, how about these posts? One moment it's "Exactly how great is Scott Walker?" and then, boom, "Heeeere's Romney!"

Really have to keep your head on a swivel.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 27, 2014 01:52 PM (eHIJJ)

44 Off-screen teleportation can be overcome with the advent of a dues ex machina.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 27, 2014 01:52 PM (T2V/1)

45 2012 election: Nice Guy 0 Bad Guys/MFM (BIRM) 1 He wasn't my first choice (Perry) but Mitt was probably the closest thing to a saint as will ever run for office. The guy did big things, but did them for the right reasons, not accolades. America lost when he lost. Instead, we are stuck with TFG for 3 more long years and Hitlery is warming up in the bull-pen. The media focused on binders, and all the LIV thought it was something baaaad, not just a fucking file folder. He should have said Trapper Keeper so they wouldn't have been confused.

Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at January 27, 2014 01:53 PM (9Bdcz)

46 Also,I'm not entirely sure Mitt Romney would have lost a fair election.

Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2014 01:53 PM (zqvg6)

47 Re: The teleport thing. It was Elvis' band that's responsible for that. They could show up anywhere in the middle of nowhere suddenly in-frame when ever he started singing.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 27, 2014 01:53 PM (C3Wjb)

48 Scenes where one CCW would have ended the movie happily (such as the above Batman one).

Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at January 27, 2014 01:54 PM (QF8uk)

49 None of my friends at The Vault have seen it.

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at January 27, 2014 01:54 PM (Pr6hk)

50 The most annoying thing about movies now is that 90% of them try to tell you a liberal political message and the entertainment value is shit.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 27, 2014 01:54 PM (T2V/1)

51 Sixth Sense *** Today I saw a bumper sticker with a picture of the kid from The Sixth Sense and it read 'I see debt, people'

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 01:55 PM (DmNpO)

52 Republicans are human beings too.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at January 27, 2014 01:55 PM (+VxsD)

53 This is what scares me the most. If an honorable, capable, honest man like Romney can be taken down by the media imagine a Cruz or Paul.... It's not gonna be pretty...

Posted by: hello, it's me also a creep-assed cracka.. at January 27, 2014 01:55 PM (9+ccr)

54 "Please note your own movie annoyances, if you like."

Hollywood.  That about covers it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2014 01:55 PM (wjJGE)

55 Ace have you ever tried to watch a tv show with French subtitles to help you learn conversational French? I used to do this when I was trying to teach myself Spanish. Maybe youre aware of the BBC serial Father Brown based on GK Chesterton's mystery solving Catholic priest? In my name is a link to an ep of Father Brown with French subs. (download it, don't stream it)

Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 27, 2014 01:55 PM (aIKFR)

56 A profoundly decent, likable, mentally well-adjusted man who has been successful in everything he's done in life? Thank goodness someone like THAT wasn't elected to be President.

Posted by: Stu-22 at January 27, 2014 01:55 PM (AiYlm)

57 Also,I'm not entirely sure Mitt Romney would have lost a fair election. Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2014 05:53 PM (zqvg6) Fair? If we wait around for fair, we will never win another election again

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 27, 2014 01:55 PM (t3UFN)

58 Alan Arkin playing Yossarian in every movie he's ever been in.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2014 01:55 PM (lM/7U)

59 I'm okay if Batman does it, but in that same movie commissioner gordon somehow sneaks up on the joker while there are two henchmen right by him. How did he not see him coming, they are on a empty street and he's facing his direction for a good ten seconds.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at January 27, 2014 01:55 PM (WdbF7)

60 I love the movie so-- damnit. Can I spin the-- Heath Ledger died excuse or not?

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 27, 2014 01:55 PM (RJMhd)

61 Random Nameless Goon #4.

That's Random Asian Nameless Goon #4.  Soon he'll graduate to Random Asian guy you've seen in every movie where there are Asians.  Then Rene Russo will break a chair on his head too.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at January 27, 2014 01:56 PM (DL2i+)

62 Did they show the part where Mitt gave that woman cancer ?

Posted by: The Jackhole at January 27, 2014 01:56 PM (nTgAI)

63 On the other hand, Mitt Romney didn't "tea bag" anyone or anything.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at January 27, 2014 01:56 PM (+VxsD)

64

My absolute biggest pet peeve is when directors get lazy in action movies and just blurr evey fight scene by shaking and whooshing the camera around.

The Bourne movies are   the epitome of this.  You can't   see anything that's happening.

It   has completely turned me off from action movies  altogether.

Posted by: eleven at January 27, 2014 01:56 PM (fsLdt)

65 Mitt Romney?  Never heard of him.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at January 27, 2014 01:56 PM (Pr6hk)

66 Not even pudding!

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at January 27, 2014 01:56 PM (+VxsD)

67 Mitt Romney on Hannity tonight. Also, just received an email from Rand Paul. He will also be delivering a response to the SOTU.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 01:56 PM (DmNpO)

68 Why are you guys so anal when it comes to Batman movies!? AAaaaaaack/

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 27, 2014 01:56 PM (RJMhd)

69 Mitt was too nice. He was afraid to alienate people by telling them the truth. Trying to scare big donors with "the 47%" was not smart, either. You go out there, and say, "We're ALL on the government dole, and it's killing the country and the economy." You don't have one "secret" message for one group of people, and another for a different group. It's the internet, Mitt--it's all out there now.

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at January 27, 2014 01:56 PM (pginn)

70 Speaking of Mitt and movies, my STFU Address will make you look back on 2012 and cry like a little girl watching Old Yeller. Heh.  

Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at January 27, 2014 01:56 PM (Dwehj)

71 I imagine no small percentage of these reviews will come from liberals, but none from the media, about this "new" Mitt Romney. As opposed to the fucking caricature of Mitt Romney that the media intentionally created so that all of progressivism could hate and despise him and spread that hate as far as possible, dooming any chance he had of winning the presidency. Bravo, media. Bravo.

Posted by: deadrody at January 27, 2014 01:57 PM (+Dpo7)

72 I have to watch this at some point. I'm afraid it will make me depressed.


Cheer up.  We got the SCoaMF and Mooch.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 27, 2014 01:57 PM (8ZskC)

73 Re: MITT Dennehy was awesome as the car with the kennel on top of it.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2014 01:57 PM (lM/7U)

74 I noticed that this was getting good reviews on Netflix, but couldn't bring myself to watch it.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 27, 2014 01:57 PM (SY2Kh)

75 Stallone and Arnold's recent movie ESCAPE PLAN has in it every single Annoyance that exists.

Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 27, 2014 01:57 PM (aIKFR)

76 "Alan Arkin playing Yossarian in every movie he's ever been in. Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2014 05:55 PM"

Samuel L. Jackson playing Samuel L. Jackson in every movie he's ever been in.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2014 01:57 PM (wjJGE)

77

Alan Arkin playing Yossarian in every movie he's ever been in.

 

Hah....so true.  It doesn't really bother me though.  He does a good Yossarian.

Posted by: eleven at January 27, 2014 01:57 PM (fsLdt)

78 "If only voters had been able to meet the Real Mitt Romney."

It was never going to happen. We have the MFM. That's all you need to know.

And, yes, while Romney wasn't my ideal candidate by a long shot, he was and is a decent man. What a shame that decency rarely has a decent shot at high public office.

Well done, 52%-ers. You rehired a criminal when you could have had a relative saint.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 27, 2014 01:58 PM (eHIJJ)

79 Someone should lead a "watch Mitt on Netflix instead of the SOTU Tuesday'.  In a surprise, more people will have watched Mitt then the SOTU

Posted by: Toni, Tone, Tone at January 27, 2014 01:58 PM (Kiz9M)

80 >>" Gabe brought up this scene from The Dark Knight, in which Batman literally materializes..."--Ace

Yeah, tell me about it. It's annoying as hell.

Posted by: Commissioner Gordon at January 27, 2014 01:58 PM (JACCP)

81 Why the fuck would Mitt Romney want to ban tampons, anyway?

Posted by: --- at January 27, 2014 01:58 PM (MMC8r)

82 I've been noticing a lot of laziness in movie and tv production/direction, too. Things are conveniently located - right there! A door! A screwdriver! A car jack?! A fire extinguisher! Everyone can speak every single language. So, eloquently. The bad guy doesn't shoot right away -- giving our "hero/heroine" a way out. Lucky him/her. The other guys in the movie didn't have such luck. And, just how did they get there so quickly? I'm still trying to figure out True Detective. Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey are insane, both in look and acting, so far. Dark and creepy. It's a slow (of course, it's in the South!), and meticulously paced. Not a lot of room for laziness, so far.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2014 01:58 PM (IXrOn)

83 Look The Dark Knight was not a Batman movie it was really about ________. Nolan is a closet ___________. Ya bastards.

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 27, 2014 01:58 PM (RJMhd)

84 I'm annoyed that a drunk like Nick Nolte had a career

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 27, 2014 01:58 PM (O9xia)

85 Please note your own movie annoyances, if you like. Movies that take longer to watch than to read Ace's reviews of them. That's why Looney Tunes cartoons are my preferred movie-like entertainment.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at January 27, 2014 01:58 PM (HsTG8)

86 Did the media ever say anything positive about the Romneys? They just spewed shit.

Posted by: KC at January 27, 2014 01:59 PM (i7KmQ)

87 Please note your own movie annoyances Not enough MATT DAMON!

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at January 27, 2014 01:59 PM (mETGQ)

88 I believe the convention started with Val Lewton. 
He used the technique to scare the audience.  The tension would be building, the audience would be waiting for the shoe to drop, and a bus suddenly enters the frame from the left with a loud squealing of brakes.  The audience would jump.  And the character would casually get on.  Then he'd ratchet the tension right back up.

Over the years, there have been a lot of imitators of varied quality, and "missing the point" is always a popular exercise. 

Posted by: Luke at January 27, 2014 01:59 PM (2MUaT)

89 Contemporary movies are little more than a humiliation ritual. The experience tends to tend toward the debasing.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at January 27, 2014 01:59 PM (+VxsD)

90

I hate  what I call the A-Team effect.   That is where no one is hit by  at  least one of  a hundred bullets hitting the car.

 

I think the worst of this was in one of the best action movies.   The  construction site car chase / gun battle  scene in Taken was useless and almost ruined the movie for me.   It recovered nicely though.   

Posted by: polynikes at January 27, 2014 01:59 PM (m2CN7)

91 86 Did the media ever say anything positive about the Romneys? No...

Posted by: hello, it's me also a creep-assed cracka.. at January 27, 2014 01:59 PM (9+ccr)

92 I could hide the entire Justice League in my cooch and there'd still be room for a shop-vac.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 27, 2014 01:59 PM (8ZskC)

93 You will be annoyed when Mitt jumps out of the dark.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 27, 2014 01:59 PM (F75MN)

94 I added a new thing about the end of It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

Posted by: ace at January 27, 2014 01:59 PM (/FnUH)

95 Did they show the part where Mitt gave that woman cancer ? *** How about filming that awful process of embindering women?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 01:59 PM (DmNpO)

96 This is why lone, obsessive, control freaks (auteur) produce the best of everything. best music, best movies, best software... They go over every detail a thousand times and find all the hole and flaws and never have to patch things up to make it look "good enough"

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 27, 2014 01:59 PM (LWu6U)

97 'It's not art. It's entertainment.'

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at January 27, 2014 01:59 PM (+VxsD)

98 I'm annoyed that Gilbert Gottfried wasn't cast in Interview With a Vampire

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 27, 2014 01:59 PM (GZX41)

99 Snakes on a plane. It's the title, the plot, the cast, and the surprise ending, all in one.

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at January 27, 2014 02:00 PM (pginn)

100 100lbs chick who drops bad guys left and right.

We get it Joss Whedon, you're a sensitive guy. Message received.

Just.fucking.stop.

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at January 27, 2014 02:00 PM (cxs6V)

101 I hate it when Shia LaBeouf appears in movies.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 27, 2014 02:00 PM (38LLM)

102 He doesn't seem like the kind of man who would keep women in binders.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 27, 2014 02:00 PM (8ZskC)

103 I can't bad mouth Nolte - "48 Hrs."

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2014 02:00 PM (lM/7U)

104 Oh how I hope they don't stick a left wing sucker punch in the new Godzilla movie.

Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2014 02:00 PM (zqvg6)

105 There will be 3 responses to obama's STFU speech. Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and the official GOP response will be delivered by a lady House member from TN.

Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 27, 2014 02:00 PM (aIKFR)

106

Stallone and Arnold's recent movie ESCAPE PLAN has in it every single Annoyance that exists.

 

 

This  is shocking.

Posted by: eleven at January 27, 2014 02:00 PM (fsLdt)

107 Most annoying thing about movies uh
1.shaky cam
2.shaky cam
3.shaky cam

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at January 27, 2014 02:01 PM (WdbF7)

108 Which is to say, contemporary "art" sucks and contemporary directors and producers agree.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at January 27, 2014 02:01 PM (+VxsD)

109 I hate what I call the A-Team effect. That is where no one is hit by at least one of a hundred bullets hitting the car. **** Some folks have all the luck.

Posted by: Sonny Corleone at January 27, 2014 02:01 PM (DmNpO)

110 I can't say this for the other movies, but for Batman, I think this was by design.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (tablet) at January 27, 2014 02:01 PM (a8eFL)

111 Romney's decency is only  matched  or  exceeded   by his  competency. 

Posted by: polynikes at January 27, 2014 02:01 PM (m2CN7)

112 "But what bothers me is that character who suddenly appears often was invisible to the camera -- that is, he was off-screen, out of shot, outside the outer edge of the frame of the camera's picture -- but he was not actually hidden behind anything existing in the world of the film itself." Yeah I've seen this mentioned many times in many humorous movie reviews going back at least 10 years.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 27, 2014 02:01 PM (oFCZn)

113 "Also,I'm not entirely sure Mitt Romney would have lost a fair election."

Team Romney never even had a serious game plan in place in the event that it came down to a photo finish. Whereas the Democrats had a team of high-powered attorneys in the starting blocks, and pre-positioned car trunks full of "found" ballots ready to roll, in every potential near-miss state.

Everyone talks about how "pleasant" and "decent" Mitt is. Well, he's a pleasant decent guy who failed. Fuck that.

Getting tired of milquetoast gentleman losers. Those polite Marquess of Queensberry rules need to be shitcanned when fighting an opposition whose rule book is co-authored by Boss Tweed and Saul Alinsky.

I want some hardened whiskey drinking streetfighters from now on. Someone who will engage in vicious curb stompage of the opposition and laugh cruelly about it afterwards.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 27, 2014 02:02 PM (gqT4g)

114 I could accept Jet Li doing that (with a little fog and neon for atmosphere) but not Random Nameless Goon #4. Posted by: ace at January 27, 2014 05:50 PM (/FnUH) --I believe the prover TV Tropes terminology is "Mook #4"

Posted by: logprof at January 27, 2014 02:02 PM (X3GkB)

115 Some folks have all the luck.

Posted by: Sonny Corleone at January 27, 2014 06:01 PM (DmNpO)

 

That you were able to get out of your car was bull crap. 

Posted by: polynikes at January 27, 2014 02:02 PM (m2CN7)

116 100 To be fair,he isn't the only one.It's been this way since James Cameron made a plausible heroine from Alien into an ass kicking killing machine in Aliens.Than he gave us the ass kicking Sarah Connor in T2.

Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2014 02:02 PM (zqvg6)

117 Now I want to watch the 'Sidler' Episode of Seinfeld.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2014 02:02 PM (lM/7U)

118 There will be 3 responses to obama's STFU speech. Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and the official GOP response will be delivered by a lady House member from TN. *** Cathy McMorris Rodgers and, from what I understand, she's going to fight Obama's props with props of her own.

Posted by: Sonny Corleone at January 27, 2014 02:02 PM (DmNpO)

119 I will never understand why Mitt changed so drastically from the first debate to the second, he had the election won after the first debate and then he just gave up at the 2nd. That's why he lost, he looked and acted like he wanted to win in that first debate, in the 2nd and 3rd he looked and acted like he didn't care.

Posted by: booger at January 27, 2014 02:02 PM (xRDdL)

120 Guy walks past dead bad guys without grabbing his gun.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 27, 2014 02:02 PM (C3Wjb)

121 99 Snakes on a plane. It's the title, the plot, the cast, and the surprise ending, all in one.

ENOUGH is ENOUGH!!!  I have HAD IT with this MOTHERF***ING CLICHES in these MOTHERF***ING MOVIES!

Posted by: Samuel L. Jackson at January 27, 2014 02:03 PM (9F2c1)

122 off sock

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 02:03 PM (DmNpO)

123 "But what bothers me is that character who suddenly appears often was invisible to the camera -- that is, he was off-screen, out of shot, outside the outer edge of the frame of the camera's picture -- but he was not actually hidden behind anything existing in the world of the film itself."


He was hiding behind the camera.  Duh.

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 27, 2014 02:03 PM (8ZskC)

124 109 I hate what I call the A-Team effect. That is where no one is hit by at least one of a hundred bullets hitting the car. Oh yeah. Or they'd crash in a horrific manner and you'd see a shot of the guys getting out of the car and shaking their heads like they're dazed. It was so obviously ridiculous we made fun it when the show actually aired and we were in middle school.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 27, 2014 02:03 PM (oFCZn)

125 The responses are always cold and awkward. They MUST do it with an audience! Doing it solo (with a bunch of flags in the background) sucks.

Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 27, 2014 02:03 PM (aIKFR)

126 79 Someone should lead a "watch Mitt on Netflix instead of the SOTU Tuesday'. In a surprise, more people will have watched Mitt then the SOTU Posted by: Toni, Tone, Tone at January 27, 2014 05:58 PM (Kiz9M) ^^^This

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at January 27, 2014 02:03 PM (pginn)

127 Things that annoy me about movies? That it makes feminist think that womyn can do anything a man can do physically, sometimes better. That it makes feminist think women should be in combat because G.I. Jane. I'm sure that there are some women that can do these things, but they are few and far between and they don't look like Angelina Jolie or Demi Moore.

Posted by: lindafell at January 27, 2014 02:03 PM (PGO8C)

128 39 "Is Romney going to run again?" Bob Dole wants you to know that he's first in line if prior contenders are being talked up. Bob Dole is ready to answer his party's call. Remember, it's a new Bob Dole for a new century. I'm Bob Dole and I approve this message. Posted by: Bob Dole at January 27, 2014 05:52 PM (gqT4g) Damnit.....Bob Dole beat Bob Dole to it.

Posted by: The Other Bob Dole at January 27, 2014 02:03 PM (uYvZb)

129 Yes, the ladder scene was cringe worthy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 27, 2014 02:03 PM (F75MN)

130 I don't think Fredo would ever have helped out Johnny Olla.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 27, 2014 02:03 PM (8ZskC)

131 Poor meatball....he only gets 27 mins.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 27, 2014 02:04 PM (bCEmE)

132 It was so obviously ridiculous we made fun it when the show actually aired and we were in middle school. I’m pretty sure it was on purpose. I remember one scene where their enemy’s helicopter crashes into the side of a mountain, rolls down to a plateau, explodes into flame—and in the next scene, you see everybody got out safely.

Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at January 27, 2014 02:04 PM (QF8uk)

133 Anyone else feel like that? Or is it just funny? ********* I'm not getting any sound with it--but it is too reminiscent of something really depressing. Just think about it.

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 27, 2014 02:04 PM (RJMhd)

134 100lbs chick who drops bad guys left and right. We get it Joss Whedon, you're a sensitive guy. Message received. We were watching The Avengers the other night, and they get to the street scenes in the end sequence where all the characters do their posey thing and the camera pans around. AGAINST THE ATTACKING ALIEN HORDE, YOU GET: THUNDER GOD!!! ARMORED MAN!!! GAMMA-RAY BEHEMOTH!!!! ULTIMATE SOLDIER!!!! and Scarlet Johannsen with a .45!

Posted by: --- at January 27, 2014 02:04 PM (MMC8r)

135 107 Most annoying thing about movies uh
1.shaky cam
2.shaky cam
3.shaky cam

Me too.  This ruined "The Blair Witch Project" for me (as well as the characters being absolutely clueless about the woods and yelling at each other the whole time).  I started rooting for the witch.

Posted by: Samuel L. Jackson at January 27, 2014 02:05 PM (9F2c1)

136 Movies are little more than base hedonism at this point. Later, all. God bless. :-)

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at January 27, 2014 02:05 PM (+VxsD)

137 Poor meatball....he only gets 27 mins. To be fair, when you are high that seems like an eternity.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2014 02:05 PM (lM/7U)

138 If you remember CSI Miami, the Sunglasses of Justice were able to teleport Horatio Cain anywhere in Miami whether it was the middle of a garage or a boat slip without any other character noticing him. Its only going to stop when the Zuckers make fun of it in an Airplane type movie.

Posted by: Iblis at January 27, 2014 02:05 PM (9221z)

139 132 Like the GI Joe cartoon.

Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2014 02:05 PM (zqvg6)

140 I don't think Fredo would ever have helped out Johnny Olla.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 27, 2014 06:03 PM (8ZskC)

 

I don't think Vito Corelone would have appreciated Michael killing his son. 

Posted by: polynikes at January 27, 2014 02:05 PM (m2CN7)

141 Per "It's a Mad, Mad...." It's slapstick is "the recurse to humor involving exaggerated physical activity which exceeds the boundaries of common sense" You probably didn't get the Three Stooges, either

Posted by: MikeH at January 27, 2014 02:05 PM (bRL1M)

142 Rule 44: When the phone rings in a movie, it's never a telemarketer.

Posted by: The Big Book of Movie Conventions at January 27, 2014 02:05 PM (8ZskC)

143 94 I added a new thing about the end of It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Posted by: ace I too re-watched it recently. And also was sorely disappointed. Not nearly as funny as I remembered from childhood. So much wasted talent. TOo much focus on the unfunny Mickey Rooney and Dick Shawn characters, too little Jonathan Winters and Terry-Thomas. And yes, the fire-ladder ending was terrible. (BTW, I read a behind-the-scenes essay about the film once, and just about EVERY SINGLE world-famous comedian in the movie conceded that, between takes, it was Jonathan Winters who brought everyone to gales of laughter, and was (off-camera) far and away the funniest person in the film. Many of them were egotists who only grudgingly admitted it, too.)

Posted by: zombie at January 27, 2014 02:05 PM (+cx5n)

144 When things get stabby in a movie. The blade makes a metallic sound no matter what.

Posted by: YIKES! at January 27, 2014 02:05 PM (mETGQ)

145 Ace bent his tailpipe. - J. Winters

Posted by: Sifty at January 27, 2014 02:06 PM (p39GY)

146 134 And the guy with the fancy longbow.

Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2014 02:06 PM (zqvg6)

147 I'm annoyed when you hear eerie music, so you know something's about to happen, and instead of a murderer popping out a cat pops out so then you're supposed to let your guard down and then, BOOM, the murderer pops out to scare you. I'm so over that.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 27, 2014 02:06 PM (38LLM)

148 I have HAD IT with my MOTHERF***ING SOCK in this MOTHERF***ING COMMENTS SECTION!

Posted by: The Lost Dutchman at January 27, 2014 02:06 PM (9F2c1)

149 Okay,here's another that annoys me.Arrows and blades go right through armor.I mean,why wear armor if it is useless?

Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2014 02:07 PM (zqvg6)

150 "Man I really feel for Mitt Romney. He's actually a pretty decent guy. Maybe I shouldn't automatically assume the worst of someone with a Republican tag." "They just announced the first GOP candidate for president." "KILL THAT MOTHERFUCKIN' KNUCKLEDRAGGING NEANDERTHAL!!!111!!!11!"

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 27, 2014 02:07 PM (oFCZn)

151 >>>When things get stabby in a movie. The blade makes a metallic sound no matter what. skringggggg!

Posted by: A knife opening an envolope at January 27, 2014 02:07 PM (/FnUH)

152 I don't think Vito Corelone would have appreciated Michael killing his son.

Posted by: polynikes at January 27, 2014 06:05 PM (m2CN7) 



He wanted his son to be a Senator.  He knew he would turn on his own for his own ego.

Posted by: Clemenza at January 27, 2014 02:07 PM (Pr6hk)

153 "But...this is a girl's bike!"

Posted by: Johnathan Winters at January 27, 2014 02:07 PM (pginn)

154 RE: It's a Mad...World: Really, after three hours of huge-scale slapstick, what are you going to do to finally wrap it up?

Posted by: --- at January 27, 2014 02:07 PM (MMC8r)

155 Toni, Tone, Tone: "Someone should lead a 'watch Mitt on Netflix instead of the SOTU Tuesday'. In a surprise, more people will have watched Mitt then the SOTU"

And the lead in to the Mitt Romney Watch-a-thon? Sharknado!

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 27, 2014 02:07 PM (eHIJJ)

156 Unidentifiable ferrin' language warbling singer on soundtrack
Uuluaalualaajaauaauajaa~!

Shut.the.fuck.up.

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at January 27, 2014 02:07 PM (cxs6V)

157 132 Like the GI Joe cartoon. Yeah, I think it was meant to be a fun action cartoon with live actors.

Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at January 27, 2014 02:08 PM (QF8uk)

158 My annoyance with movies? Deeper meanings. I hate being manipulated by Deeper Meanings.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 27, 2014 02:08 PM (P6QsQ)

159

Since we are talking old comedies,  I mention again that I think one of the funniest scenes ever was  Jerry Lewis in the locker room before his fight and his fight in the movie Sailor Beware.  

 

It holds up today. 

Posted by: polynikes at January 27, 2014 02:08 PM (m2CN7)

160 I don't think Vito Corelone would have appreciated Michael killing his son. *** I've heard a number of folks say they don't like the Godfather movies because they glorify the mob, making them into heroes. I don't think that at all. When Michael is at the Baptism, knowing the hell he's unleashed, it sends chills down my spine. I love the movies (I and II), because they so beautifully tells the story, not because it makes them look less than evil.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 02:08 PM (DmNpO)

161 and

Scarlet Johannsen with a .45!

To be fair, she was also armed with two Mind Control Orbs.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 27, 2014 02:08 PM (SY2Kh)

162 To be fair, when you are high that seems like an eternity. Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2014 06:05 PM (lM/7U) True....wonder if he even knows he posted a thread?

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 27, 2014 02:08 PM (bCEmE)

163 Did they show the part where Mitt gave that woman cancer ?

***

How about filming that awful process of embindering women?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 05:59 PM (DmNpO

 

Oh yeah, that's right, he put those women in binders too.

Posted by: The Jackhole at January 27, 2014 02:09 PM (nTgAI)

164 My annoyance with movies? ******** M. Night Shyamalan Most of his movies except the corn one. Whatever.

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 27, 2014 02:09 PM (RJMhd)

165 I've seen it twice now; once at Sundance, once with fam at home yesterday. I was afraid it would trigger some sort of election night 2012 PTSD but it was actually quite cathartic. Affirmed that I voted for the right guy. As a nation, we don't get the president we want, we get the president we deserve, unfortunately. In LIV land only Obama is king.

The audience at Sundance I saw it with was actually quite pro Mitt, but I saw it in Ogden, away from the uber lib Park City crowd. When Obama talked during the debates, right before the infamous Candy Crowley moment, there were a bunch of shouts of "You Lie!" that burst out from around the theater, was great. Wish I had been able to get tickets to the screenings with Mitt and Ann actually in the audience. Classy as ever, his comment about the doc is no comment; he's just letting it speak for itself.

For good or ill, it was apparent in the doc that politics in and of themselves were not the all consuming thing for the Romneys; at the end they would survive a loss, go on and live their lives. Whereas I don't think Obama's family could have survived that, I don't know if Hillary can in 2016 if she loses. Some people are just 100% political animals, Romney is not. Makes him a better human being but a worse politician.

Just a great family, nice to get a peek behind the scenes. One of the sons, commenting about how the elevator in the garage would be used against them, says he wished he could say "It was for my mom's MS, you A-hole." Hah, some fire there. Will be required viewing I think for any fam thinking of entering politics, help them decide if the sacrifices to their fam are worth it. 

Posted by: LizLem at January 27, 2014 02:09 PM (BF+2f)

166 I'm looking for a candidate who will take care of all family business during the Inauguration.

Posted by: Michael Corleone at January 27, 2014 02:10 PM (Pr6hk)

167 Another action movie trope that is ridiculous is when someone falls out of a building they scream all the way down. Now that might be the case had someone merely pushed or thrown the person out the window, but what about when they just absorbed a dozen bullets or a couple of close range shotgun blasts to the chest? Are we to believe they're capable of screaming with shredded lungs, air pipe, and heart?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 27, 2014 02:10 PM (oFCZn)

168 I never made it through "It's a mad, mad..." and was surprised, frankly, that so many others liked it. I preferred 'The Gods Must Be Crazy'.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 02:10 PM (DmNpO)

169 i hate every movie ever made out of anything Stephen King ever did

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 27, 2014 02:10 PM (P7/19)

170 I want some hardened whiskey drinking streetfighters from now on. Someone who will engage in vicious curb stompage of the opposition and laugh cruelly about it afterwards. I'd be very interested to see if that would work. Here's how I think that would go: 1. The Media portrays it as the ramblings of a violent idiot who must NEVER be near the button. 2. The Media has a million hand-wringing broadcasts in which every word and phrase is so parsed to death in minute detail everyone is sick of it by the time (six months later) it stops being 24 hour a day news. 3. The Media portrays it as the last act of a man desperate for attention. etc. Seeing a trend? With a filter in place to "contextualize" every act, anything a person says or does is made wrong. As if Grima Wormtongue had the nation's ear.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 27, 2014 02:11 PM (4QSOR)

171 My own special gripe is when characters answer questions with long explanations of stuff that should be obvious to the the person they are talking to. Obviously it is done to inform the viewer, but to me it is just lazy and amateurish scriptwriting. On TV House does this every episode where one Dr. will offer a diagnosis, and the other might mention a new symptom, and then explain why the new symptom precludes the mentioned diagnosis. Right away I think that no one talks like that I get the same feeling as when a character materializes -- wtf? why didn't the use some talent and skill to make that more realistic?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 27, 2014 02:11 PM (LWu6U)

172 @ torquewrench

I think the failed campaign they were referring to here was his loss in the '08 primary. Not the '12 general election.

Posted by: Chris M at January 27, 2014 02:11 PM (k3w9p)

173 Well movies and science fiction are suppose to be about escapism--right? So looking for your super hero to be all realistic and stuff is sort of an operation in annoying yourself.

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 27, 2014 02:11 PM (RJMhd)

174 >>Mitt was too nice. He was afraid to alienate people by telling them the truth. Nah, that's not it. Romney is actually that nice. It's not an act and he's not afraid, its just not in him. We've moved past that as a country. We don't want nice and competent. We want reality TV. And thats what we got.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2014 02:11 PM (g1DWB)

175 Mitt just didn't have the creases.

Posted by: David Brooks at January 27, 2014 02:12 PM (Pr6hk)

176 Speaking of stabby, how about when a single stab in the gut instantly kills someone?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 27, 2014 02:12 PM (vgIRn)

177 Conversely, I also just re-watched After the Fox,, the Peter Sellers classic from 1967, and that DID hold up, humor-wise. HiLARious. Strangely, though, it practically seemed like a different firm from when I watched it as a kid, and yet this "new " After the Fox was just as funny, if not funnier (probably because I as an adult now appreciated all the satire of the neo-realist italian film directors). If you've never seen it: DO!

Posted by: zombie at January 27, 2014 02:12 PM (+cx5n)

178 I never made it through "It's a mad, mad..." and was surprised, frankly, that so many others liked it. I remember seeing it in the theater as a child (must have been a re-release), but it's a cultural touchstone in my family. I watch it all the time.

Posted by: --- at January 27, 2014 02:12 PM (MMC8r)

179 I've heard a number of folks say they don't like the Godfather movies because they glorify the mob, making them into heroes. ....And they would be mind-numbingly stupid.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at January 27, 2014 02:13 PM (uYvZb)

180 The car never starts at worse possible time.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 27, 2014 02:13 PM (C3Wjb)

181 i hate every movie ever made out of anything Stephen King ever did *** I liked Carrie

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 02:13 PM (DmNpO)

182 I remember even when I was a little kid at the theater watching Mad Mad World - noticing that the Lincoln statue moves when the cabbie falls into its arms. Isn't it a big heavy granite statue? Why would it move?

I also got pissed as a little kid that the cameras on Star Trek used to follow the characters around on the planet.

I guess it's no surprise I grew up skeptical.

And yes, the ladder chooses who lives and dies.

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at January 27, 2014 02:13 PM (pgQxn)

183 Alright if people's be talkin shit about Mad Mad World we're gonna throw down.

Posted by: eleven at January 27, 2014 02:13 PM (fsLdt)

184 i hate every movie ever made out of anything Stephen King ever did

***


"Stand by Me" was OK.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 27, 2014 02:13 PM (vgIRn)

185 When someone is about to die they always have enough left in them to say their last words.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 27, 2014 02:14 PM (C3Wjb)

186 Shooting a .45 with no recoil at a target at a ridiculous distance and hitting it.

Posted by: YIKES! at January 27, 2014 02:14 PM (mETGQ)

187 Democrats can't handle the truth... or even speak it.

Posted by: Nathan R Jessup Obama at January 27, 2014 02:14 PM (Pr6hk)

188 Conversely, I also just re-watched After the Fox,, the Peter Sellers classic from 1967, and that DID hold up, humor-wise. HiLARious. Also a fave, even the opening theme by The Hollies. Mike Myers ripped off a sequence in one of the Austin Powers movies and totally fucked it up.

Posted by: --- at January 27, 2014 02:14 PM (MMC8r)

189 Speaking of stabby, how about when a single stab in the gut instantly kills someone? *** As if!!

Posted by: Jodi Arias at January 27, 2014 02:14 PM (DmNpO)

190 I'm not watching Mitt because it will make me depressed -- we didn't need this movie to be released to see this side of him -- we need a press that does it's EFFING JOB.

It's just like what Mitt was worried about in the debates -- he knew the press would declare them *at best* at tie no matter how well he did and/or how badly Obama did  (NO ONE expected Obama to tank the first one so badly such that the press couldn't spin it as even a tie). Heck, even now people on the RIGHT will complain that Mitt "stop debating" Obama after that first one, when in fact he "won" both of those debates (yes, even the 2nd one when Candy inserted herself into the proceedings -- giggling, laughing, flat out lying and yelling "Check the tape!" isn't a "winning" debate performance, except in Obot-land).

Posted by: Dancing Queen at January 27, 2014 02:14 PM (gKXfC)

191 111 Romney's decency is only matched or exceeded by his competency.

Posted by: polynikes at January 27, 2014 06:01 PM (m2CN7)


This. He was probably the most qualified candidate since Ike. Romney wasn't "my guy", but he would have made a very good president.



Posted by: Iowa Bob at January 27, 2014 02:14 PM (wcvVw)

192 Silver Bullet.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 27, 2014 02:15 PM (38LLM)

193 Mostly I don't watch movies for the same reason I don't watch TV shows. They just aren't that interesting to me.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 27, 2014 02:15 PM (P6QsQ)

194

Ace, all eyes in the room are facing center staring at Joker. If Batman comes out of a concealed door at the side of the room (we know the building has them), he could sprint to the center of the room in a couple of seconds and the crowd would hide his approach up to the very last couple of steps at which point he is thrashing Thug 1.

 

Posted by: Prndl at January 27, 2014 02:15 PM (2Ynt1)

195 181 The car never starts at worse possible time.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 27, 2014 06:13 PM (C3Wjb) 



Yeah, doesn't really happen too much nowadays with modern fuel injection and batteries. 

Posted by: Nathan R Jessup Obama at January 27, 2014 02:15 PM (Pr6hk)

196 Movie annoyance? Toying with the volume so I can't hear what's being said. Action scenes with the volume turned to eleven and my ears ringing, then soft whispers usually with some foreign accent so I have to ask, "What did he just say?" And if getting the line(s) from a fortunate soul who caught it, I miss the next line of the script because I was just getting the recap from the previous missed line.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 27, 2014 02:16 PM (eHIJJ)

197 what's effed up bout the King movies is I've seen almost all of them. i keep hoping they're going to be better somehow.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 27, 2014 02:16 PM (Qgbkq)

198

Posted by: zombie at January 27, 2014 05:51 PM (+cx5n)

Political fanfic? Needs moar cutlasses. Ugh I had liberal friends that read a ton of political fanfic in 2012, weird Romney/Santorum type pairings, or Romney/Obama, you are bringing back horrible flashbacks right now.

Posted by: LizLem at January 27, 2014 02:16 PM (BF+2f)

199 Good guy hiding behind the sheet rock wall or plywood bar or a couch and achieving total protection from full auto rifle fire instead of becoming a bloody colander . Hell , bird shot will penetrate 1/2 plywood at room ranges . Oh , and the everpresent shotgun blast that drives the bad guy ten feet across a room .

Posted by: awkward davies at January 27, 2014 02:16 PM (WK8VM)

200 Hitting a car with one or two shots does not usually make it blow up. In fact, most of the time it does not blow up.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 27, 2014 02:16 PM (C3Wjb)

201 One thing I hate about movies/action movies is that when someone gets shot or stabbed, they almost never scream their head off like they would in real life.

Posted by: --- at January 27, 2014 02:16 PM (MMC8r)

202 >>ace is annoyed because a ninja appears out of thin air? >>I'd be annoyed if a ninja couldn't do that. Sigh. http://tinyurl.com/mbo44ya

Posted by: The Ninja in the Link at January 27, 2014 02:16 PM (SUKHu)

203

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 06:08 PM (DmNpO)

 

I don't disagree,  I just think that Michael killing Fredo shows that he moved from the type of Godfather his father was to something more evil and devious.  I think Vito was  shown more in a positive light.   From his beginnings to  helping the less fortunate to not wanting to deal drugs to being shot by bad guys and recovering to be a kind grandfather. 

Posted by: polynikes at January 27, 2014 02:16 PM (m2CN7)

204 I am going to go contra horde here, but what annoys me in movies are super long fight sequences. The ones that go on for like 10 minutes. After a while it just gets boring to watch character 1 punch character 2 repeatedly.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 27, 2014 02:16 PM (RZ8pf)

205 193 Silver Bullet.


Mine are all worn out.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 27, 2014 02:16 PM (Pr6hk)

206

I mentioned this in an email to the cobs on Friday. Gabe brought up this scene from The Dark Knight, in which Batman literally materializes -- through magic, I guess -- among five different people, in the middle of open space, with no hiding places at all.

 

Really Batman is about the only character you would want doing this, because its sort of established behavior for him, to appear and disappear suddenly.  Though probably this scene is the worst instance of it.

 

The Biggest and I do mean Biggest offender of this behavior was the Cloverfield monster.

Posted by: buzzion at January 27, 2014 02:16 PM (LI48c)

207 I can get past the fourth wall teleportation nonsense and the liberal messaging, what I can't get over are the spectacularly uninteresting characters in super hero capes.

I now spend more time looking for movies to watch than actually watching movies.



Posted by: 13times at January 27, 2014 02:17 PM (fGPLK)

208 186 When someone is about to die they always have enough left in them to say their last words.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 27, 2014 06:14 PM (C3Wjb)


Right.  I've always found that a bit unrea

Posted by: General John Sedgwick at January 27, 2014 02:17 PM (9F2c1)

209 Yeah, doesn't really happen too much nowadays with modern fuel injection and batteries.
*******





#$^#! Cash for Clunkers....

Posted by: Girl-Chasing Knifey Stabby Guy at January 27, 2014 02:17 PM (vgIRn)

210 I like how people can dodge multiple machine fire at close range.

Posted by: YIKES! at January 27, 2014 02:17 PM (mETGQ)

211 The bad guy never just shoots the hero, but sets up some elaborate contraption that won't kill him for a while.  Then the bad guy has more important things to do besides killing his life's nemesis (putting fabric softener in the machine maybe) so he leaves before the hero is dead.  Naturally, the hero uses the time to escape.

Posted by: The Big Book of Movie Conventions at January 27, 2014 02:17 PM (8ZskC)

212 Movies don't use nearly enough profanity. You just can't hear "fcku" enough. Samuel Jackson would be out of work without it.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 27, 2014 02:18 PM (eHIJJ)

213 I don't disagree, I just think that Michael killing Fredo shows that he moved from the type of Godfather his father was to something more evil and devious. I think Vito was shown more in a positive light. From his beginnings to helping the less fortunate to not wanting to deal drugs to being shot by bad guys and recovering to be a kind grandfather. *** Vito is the closest they came to cloaking the mob in some sort of honor. I saw his refusal to sell drugs more as a business decision than an ethical one.

Posted by: Jodi Arias at January 27, 2014 02:18 PM (DmNpO)

214 character gets pulled out of house/car right before it blows up.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 27, 2014 02:18 PM (C3Wjb)

215 off stabby sock

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 02:18 PM (DmNpO)

216

Cujo!!!......It's a movie about a rabid dog!!!!

 

 

Get it!!!???

 

A. Rabid. Freaking. Dog.

Posted by: eleven at January 27, 2014 02:18 PM (fsLdt)

217 Hitting a car with one or two shots does not usually make it blow up. In fact, most of the time it does not blow up.


Ermm...maybe.

Posted by: NBC Dateline at January 27, 2014 02:18 PM (8ZskC)

218 I am going to go contra horde here, but what annoys me in movies are super long fight sequences. And ones that are cropped so tightly that you can't see what's going on-- blur one hits blur two, but there's no sense of space or movement.

Posted by: --- at January 27, 2014 02:19 PM (MMC8r)

219 scenes where 12 guys are pointing their guns at each other yelling drop your weapons. and no one shoots.

Posted by: X at January 27, 2014 02:19 PM (KHo8t)

220 Mitt really is a good guy, for a politician. He makes President Obama look crass and unpleasant by comparison. The better man LOST in 2012. Not necessarily the better politician, or the better leader for the country (although he could hardly have been worse), but the better man by far.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 27, 2014 02:19 PM (zfY+H)

221 I am going to go contra horde here, but what annoys me in movies are super long fight sequences. The ones that go on for like 10 minutes. After a while it just gets boring to watch character 1 punch character 2 repeatedly. I don't remember the occasion, but someone (Jackie Chan maybe) put some knowledge to me about fight scenes in movies in the US vs China. In the US we don't really like long fight scenes. In China, they want to see all the details and are super-critical about inaccurate martial-arts moves. They want ten or fifteen minutes to see it all.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 27, 2014 02:19 PM (4QSOR)

222 212 The bad guy never just shoots the hero, but sets up some elaborate contraption that won't kill him for a while. Then the bad guy has more important things to do besides killing his life's nemesis (putting fabric softener in the machine maybe) so he leaves before the hero is dead. Naturally, the hero uses the time to escape.

Posted by: The Big Book of Movie Conventions at January 27, 2014 06:17 PM (8ZskC)




No Mister Bond, I expect you to die.

Posted by: Auric Goldfinger at January 27, 2014 02:19 PM (Pr6hk)

223 Movie Annoyance #1: Stupid Lying. This is where the character lies for no discernible reason other than so they can get caught in the lie, thus turning an ally or someone who could be an ally against them in reaction to the lie. Then there is some more duplicity as the character who was lied to reacts against the liar. The whole movie depends on people never just honestly talking to each other. Of course, there are plenty of circumstances in life where people are less than honest with each other, but most of the time, they have some kind of motive. If the only motive that I can see is that the stupid movie plot depends on it, I get seriously annoyed.

Movie Annoyance #2: Too Much Weird, Just For The Sake Of Weird. Though, to be fair, this is more of a TV series annoyance. Lost would be a prime example. People crashing on some island. They have to figure out how to survive, how to organize themselves, etc. A little bit of mysterious occurrences would be fine. But, with this annoying fucking show, they just kept on adding in additional layers of weird. The stuff I was interested in, how people would really behave when they found themselves in that situation got short shrift because instead they were constantly having to react to the new level of weird. Plus, they would add some level of weird, and then ignore it for weeks at a time, like everyone just forgot about it, because there was some new weird to react to.


Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 27, 2014 02:19 PM (IN7k+)

224 The bad guy never just shoots the hero, but sets up some elaborate contraption that won't kill him for a while. Then the bad guy has more important things to do besides killing his life's nemesis (putting fabric softener in the machine maybe) so he leaves before the hero is dead. Naturally, the hero uses the time to escape. *** Which is why I so loved the 'bring a knife to a gun fight' scene in Indiana Jones.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 02:20 PM (DmNpO)

225 Here's the thing- Liberals should regret watching "Mitt". You had to be a complete paste-eating, window-licking, poo-flinging, furiously masturbating-in-public retard to fall for Obama's 2012 campaign. No jobs. A sinking economy. Deliberate racial antagonism. Stinking nationwide corruption. Using gov't agencies against political competitors. Obamafuckingcare. Benghazi. Fast and Furious. But hey- Dog on car roof! Outlawing tampons! War on women! Women in binders! Magic cancer rays! He's rich!!!!! Honestly, everyone of those shit-stains who voted for TFG needs an ass-whuppin'. Think about the poor college kids who graduated in 2008 and still can't find jobs. Eight years. Eight years gouged out of their working lives. (make that 12-16 if Hillary or another Dim is elected.) Ohhhh, you regret your vote? Go DIAF.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2014 02:20 PM (0cMkb)

226 Mitt was really depressing, but it's worth watching.

Posted by: Big T Party at January 27, 2014 02:20 PM (tE2TK)

227

Some mentioned the 'shaky cam' upthread.

I hate that too.

 

Why do they do that?

I mean...it makes sense when they are trying to show that it's an amateur doing the filming, like with a phone cam.

 

But when there is shaky action going on in a movie where there's no reason for it...it just reminds me that there *is* a camera.

It destroys the illusion.

Posted by: wheatie at January 27, 2014 02:20 PM (Wq5le)

228 I stopped watching "walking dead" (again, tv not movie) in the first season when the sheriff was on the roof and decocked his gun while still pointed at a guys head.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 27, 2014 02:20 PM (LWu6U)

229 175 We don't want nice and competent. We want reality TV. And thats what we got. That's what has me fearing our future as a nation, yep. The ship seems to have already sailed. There's still a pretty decent chunk of folks in this country that think the current placeholder at 1600 Penn is doing a great job. Millions of people. Whether misguided, blinded by ideology, or (intentionally) ill-informed, there it is. Until that problem is fixed, ain't nothing fixing America.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at January 27, 2014 02:20 PM (54dkR)

230 I hate the liberal message streaming in most movies and entertainment these days. They're just getting more open about it with the WH pretty much ordering film and TV to deliver pro-Obamacare messages. I hate this everywhere I find it...even today, on what I thought was an interesting, apolitical factoid site called something like "25 Things..." one of the categories was "25 Disturbing Things That You Really Don't Want to Know." And amid the usual 16 insects parts in peanut butter and 20% of all cell phones have fecal matter on them, etc., came this viscious little nugget, "In 1941 a plane with 9 servicemen was shot down over South Pacific cannibal islands. 8 servicemen were eaten. The one who was rescued? George H.W. Bush." Douchebag fuckers. Of course the comments are pretty predictable.

Posted by: Gem at January 27, 2014 02:20 PM (zw+pb)

231 35 Movie annoyances for me are what John Nolte calls the " sucker punch".When they just stick in a jab at conservatives or Republicans that is completely gratuitous. Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2014 05:51 PM (zqvg6)

THIS. Rewatched Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie over the weekend. At the very, very end, credits rolling, they interview a kid and he talkes about the vampires having cold, dead eyes. "I think they were young republicans." *eyeroll* Really Joss, was this jab necessary for life? No, but that's the point. It's never necessary but they can never resist.

Posted by: LizLem at January 27, 2014 02:20 PM (BF+2f)

232 Never cared for Spike Lee's movies.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 27, 2014 02:21 PM (38LLM)

233 I watched the movie and was left so frustrated with our superficial media. It makes our politicians into to talking point robots. Romney comes off so likable......it's ridiculous to think people to think Obama was more liked.

Posted by: TAO at January 27, 2014 02:21 PM (HGQES)

234 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly uses it as deliberate style. Anything outside of the frame doesn't exist. Unless Clint Eastwood was darting his way behind tombstones to the middle of the cemetery.

Posted by: Z Ryan at January 27, 2014 02:21 PM (fMK2m)

235 Not necessarily (.......), or the better leader for the country That's open to conjecture? Be fucking serious....

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at January 27, 2014 02:21 PM (uYvZb)

236 The Movie Avatar? Saw maybe ten minutes of it. Interplanetary travelers with stand off capabilities. That should have been a five minute movie.

Posted by: YIKES! at January 27, 2014 02:22 PM (mETGQ)

237 Daryl and Carol not being together on The Walking Dead. This pisses me the hell off dammit.

Posted by: jmel at January 27, 2014 02:22 PM (4pZVe)

238 That first guy who went through the window and down the stairwell, that looked painful.  I mean for the stuntman.  Because he crashes through the railing and hits the floor with his ribcage.  Not exactly hi-larious.

I hope that was a mannequin and not a real person.

Posted by: rdbrewer at January 27, 2014 02:22 PM (Iyg03)

239 When you have to shoot.  shoot.  Don't talk

Posted by: Tuco at January 27, 2014 02:23 PM (Pr6hk)

240 Friday the 13th is based entirely on at-will teleportation. It's not even casual or accidental. They sweep the camera in a near circle (as budgets would allow back then) and...nothing. Then BAM! there's Jason's mother (1st one), serial killer mutant Jason (2-4), supernatural Jason (7, 8, parts of 6) somebody else (5, parts of 6 & 9), a killer robot Jason (10), or Freddy (Freddy vs. Jason). Absolutely destroys any possibility of suspense, just like the falls in "The Hobbit" that are super-high, and have no consequence. Or like the fights in superhero movies, like "Man of Steel", that have no consequence. As The Boy put it, CGI set pieces today are like musical dance numbers in old movies. They don't do anything. They're just mandatory. But I digress.

Posted by: moviegique at January 27, 2014 02:23 PM (7zeA4)

241 And I think I'm going to have to get the Mitt flick for my LIV extraordinaire sister, who wouldn't vote for Romney because she thought he had a "fake smile." Seriously.

Posted by: Gem at January 27, 2014 02:23 PM (zw+pb)

242 In movies, every one who has their car stolen waddles into the street in a daze and says, "hey, that's my car!!!" Like the thief wasn't sure whose car it was.

Posted by: A knife opening an envolope at January 27, 2014 02:24 PM (/FnUH)

243 And I think I'm going to have to get the Mitt flick for my LIV extraordinaire sister, who wouldn't vote for Romney because she thought he had a "fake smile.


We might be related.  What's your dad's name?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 27, 2014 02:25 PM (8ZskC)

244 What bugs me about TV mysteries is when the have the prime suspect do something exculpatory on camera that would have been unnecessary if the prime suspect committed the murder. The camera shows him running down the hall of the empty building, screaming, even though there are no witnesses so he faked that part for his own amusement after he committed the murder? Riiiight.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 27, 2014 02:25 PM (NU/ou)

245 >> character gets pulled out of house/car right before it blows up. And the countdown on the bomb is down to one second when someone defuses it. Wow. I was really worried. At least Sherlock made fun of that.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 27, 2014 02:25 PM (SUKHu)

246 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly uses it as deliberate style. Anything outside of the frame doesn't exist. Unless Clint Eastwood was darting his way behind tombstones to the middle of the cemetery. Posted by: Z Ryan at January 27, 2014 06:21 PM (fMK2m) The way Tuco/Eli Wallach was running through the grave near the end did make me lol.

Posted by: YIKES! at January 27, 2014 02:25 PM (mETGQ)

247 Romney comes off so likable......it's ridiculous to think people to think Obama was more liked. Our Gatekeepers in the Media decide what you see and what you don't.

Posted by: --- at January 27, 2014 02:25 PM (MMC8r)

248 I'll say this, when I conpare Whedon's and Shamalayam's bodies of work, Shamslalayan's has given me more joy.

Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 27, 2014 02:25 PM (aIKFR)

249 The Movie Avatar?
Saw maybe ten minutes of it.
Interplanetary travelers with stand off capabilities.
That should have been a five minute movie.

You're referring to the movie Dances With Wolves II?

Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 27, 2014 02:25 PM (SY2Kh)

250

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 27, 2014 06:25 PM (SUKHu)

 

Galaxy Quest did also.

Posted by: polynikes at January 27, 2014 02:25 PM (m2CN7)

251 The bad guy never just shoots the hero, but sets up some elaborate contraption that won't kill him for a while. Then the bad guy has more important things to do besides killing his life's nemesis (putting fabric softener in the machine maybe) so he leaves before the hero is dead. Naturally, the hero uses the time to escape. **** I really want to put up a Battleship post some Saturday night and have folks watch and comment along. There are so many things wrong with the movie that it defies belief yet I have watched the damn thing something like six times. The aliens come here to destroy us. They proceed to kill a shitload of people but only after being provoked. Then they kill innocents at the astronomy site. they kill innocents on the freeway, but spare the innocents on the baseball field. BUT, most importantly! The scientist goes back to retrieve an important electronic device and the alien lets him escape with it. The entire alien invasion plan was foiled, in essence, by that one weak-ass alien.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 02:26 PM (DmNpO)

252 228 Some mentioned the 'shaky cam' upthread.
I hate that too.

Why do they do that?
I mean...it makes sense when they are trying to show that it's an amateur doing the filming, like with a phone cam.

But when there is shaky action going on in a movie where there's no reason for it...it just reminds me that there *is* a camera.
It destroys the illusion.

Posted by: wheatie at January 27, 2014 06:20 PM (Wq5le)

 

Because they want you to make it feel as if the camera is really their filming it.  Which is stupid.

 

Apparently one of the benefits of doing films in 3D, even though I really don't care for 3D and just like to watch a movie normally, is that the 3D cameras do not do shaky cam very well if you're going for 3D effects.  So the demand for films to be in 3D might help to kill the shaky cam.

Posted by: buzzion at January 27, 2014 02:26 PM (LI48c)

253 There's still a pretty decent chunk of folks in this country that think the current placeholder at 1600 Penn is doing a great job. Millions of people. Whether misguided, blinded by ideology, or (intentionally) ill-informed, there it is. Until that problem is fixed, ain't nothing fixing America. Posted by: akula51 at January 27, 2014 06:20 PM ......And the majority of those are current or former government workers who have good bennies, stability and decent pay. For them life is good and the guy running it will screech if anyone comes near their golden goose.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 27, 2014 02:26 PM (C3Wjb)

254 And the countdown on the bomb is down to one second when someone defuses it.

Wow. I was really worried.


Also, bombs that have digital countdown timers at all. Points off if the bomb says BOMB on the side.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 27, 2014 02:26 PM (8ZskC)

255 I hate it when an actor i despise gives a good performance and I can no longer dismiss them as talent-less. Same with directors. It seems even the worst eventually have one good movie. Sometimes early in their career, sometimes late. It disturbs my need for clear distinctions in life.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 27, 2014 02:26 PM (LWu6U)

256 Stupid Lying. This is where the character lies for no discernible reason other than so they can get caught in the lie, The latest Jack Ryan movie (otherwise I enjoyed it quite a bit) had this. Dude, itÂ’s an obscure movie and sheÂ’s asking you about going there the day after you saw it? You saw nothing odd about this and youÂ’re a CIA analyst?

Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at January 27, 2014 02:26 PM (QF8uk)

257 The thing that really bugs me most about TV detective or other shows with any question of "whodunit" is that IT'S ALWAYS THE EFFING ACTOR I RECOGNIZE FROM SOME OTHER SHOW.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 27, 2014 02:26 PM (SUKHu)

258 In movies, every one who has their car stolen waddles into the street in a daze and says, "hey, that's my car!!!" Like the thief wasn't sure whose car it was. That one rings true to me. People in real life are stunned at how fast and vicious and without warning most crime is. There's no ominous music. There are no camera angle hints. You're walking down the street, and then you're on the sidewalk with your head ringing. What just happened? You don't know. And people are walking right by not telling you.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 27, 2014 02:27 PM (4QSOR)

259 Millions of people. Whether misguided, blinded by ideology, or (intentionally) ill-informed, there it is. Until that problem is fixed, ain't nothing fixing America. Posted by: akula51 at January 27, 2014 06:20 PM (54dkR) We've fixed it just fine, teabagger. We took your children and will continue to do so.

Posted by: Progressive Radical Professors ® at January 27, 2014 02:27 PM (uYvZb)

260 And yeah, I've always despised the "comes from off camera" shots. They are dramatic and stuff, but they make no sense at all and happen far too often. Its like the "runs out into the street and gets hit by a CGI car" bit. Enough.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 27, 2014 02:27 PM (zfY+H)

261 You can try to get us to make next year a polygamy celebration all you want.  We're still going to make it a celebration of International Zoophile-Rights/Beastiality-Rights Day. We're hoping to have the London Boys perform via satellite with live human-animal sex acts on the awards stage!

Posted by: Grammy Awards Ceremony Planning Committee at January 27, 2014 02:27 PM (tv7DV)

262 Please note your own movie annoyances, if you like. Too much man ass and elbow.

Posted by: wooga at January 27, 2014 02:27 PM (MyQWX)

263 OT Texas Dems want Greg Abbot to prove he is a paraplegic?!!! Is that true??? disgusting

Posted by: thunderb at January 27, 2014 02:27 PM (zOTsN)

264 I really want to put up a Battleship post some Saturday night and have folks watch and comment along.


Get Battlefield Earth.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 27, 2014 02:28 PM (8ZskC)

265 Does it bother anyone that  Jonah  Hill has been nominated for two academy awards already? 

Posted by: polynikes at January 27, 2014 02:28 PM (m2CN7)

266 I have to watch this at some point. I'm afraid it will make me depressed.
=========
Remember how you were all high on the human interest stories they were showing, the people speaking for him during the convention?*

Didn't move the needle one damned bit in his favor.

This country doesn't WANT a decent, humble man to lead them--it is chock-full of vain, selfish and small people. It does not DESERVE a decent, humble man anymore.

You can keep calling it your country or not. Whether you identify with the majority.

*Never ever, ever forget that in some 10 years of That Fucking Guy being on the national stage, not one person has ever, ever, ever spoken about even one, single fucking time That Fucking Guy has ever done one single act of kindness, service or humility. That, THAT ought to tell you how far gone things are.

Posted by: RoyalOil at January 27, 2014 02:28 PM (VjL9S)

267

I haven't seen this new "Mitt" Documentary yet...but my question is: Why?

Why now?

 

This could've helped in 2012.

But why do it now?

 

Is he going to run again? ...Or is this being done to polish his image so that his Endorsement for 2016 will carry more weight?

Posted by: wheatie at January 27, 2014 02:29 PM (Wq5le)

268 In movies, every one who has their car stolen waddles into the street in a daze and says, "hey, that's my car!!!" Like the thief wasn't sure whose car it was. When this happens to me, I just shut up and make sure I get the license plate number.

Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at January 27, 2014 02:29 PM (QF8uk)

269 they are called "Wheel chair truthers"

Posted by: thunderb at January 27, 2014 02:29 PM (zOTsN)

270 Have you ever been around bats in the real world? The thing that sets people to screaming is that -- the bat swoops down on them and is in their hair before they even know the bat is there. So damn it. Accept it.. And then everything comes up Hitler: Hitler's Stealth Fighter reveals Nazi Germany's top-secret development of radar-evading technology. In the final months of World War II a jet powered flying wing made its first test flight from a remote airfield deep inside Nazi Germany. Generations ahead of its time, the Horten 229 had been designed to be a lethal fighter-bomber and more importantly, virtually undetectable to Allied radar. Had Reimar and Walter Horten designed the worldÂ’s first stealth fighter? Hitler's Stealth Fighter goes behind the scenes with an elite group of aerospace engineers and stealth experts from Northrop Grumman as they build a full-scale model of the sinister bat wing fighter. Once complete, go where cameras have never been allowed as the stealth's Northrop team test the Nazi fighterÂ’s capability at their remote Tejon Radar Range. After decades of debate and speculation the mystery of the Horten 229Â’s stealth capability is finally put to rest.

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 27, 2014 02:29 PM (RJMhd)

271 reminds me of the gory special effects you'd see in movies like Rollercoaster  ______ Heh. Rollercoaster was filmed, in part, a few short miles from where I sit. The old Ocean View amusement park. I really feel old now - thank you, Ace. Now, get off my lawn.

Posted by: shredded chi - If the river was whiskey, I'd be a diving duck at January 27, 2014 02:30 PM (rOuxT)

272 Spaghetti Westerns piss me off because EVERYTHING takes FIVE TIMES AS LONG as it should. Everybody stands around staring at each other before anybody moves.

Posted by: --- at January 27, 2014 02:30 PM (MMC8r)

273 Has anyone here ever tried to crawl through an air duct? They're not big enough for adults. PLUS air ducts are loaded with sheet metal screws at every joint. You ain't crawling through that. Oh, they (or a dropped ceiling for that matter) wouldnt hold the weight of an adult.

Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 27, 2014 02:30 PM (aIKFR)

274 Vito is the closest they came to cloaking the mob in some sort of honor. I saw his refusal to sell drugs more as a business decision than an ethical one. Posted by: Jodi Arias at January 27, 2014 06:18 PM (DmNpO) It was a business decision. Remember he tells Sollozzo that he doesn't mind what a man does for his business but his business is too risky for Vito. He wishes him luck as he leaves as long as Sollozzo's business doesn't interfere with his.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 27, 2014 02:30 PM (oFCZn)

275 183 I remember even when I was a little kid at the theater watching Mad Mad World - noticing that the Lincoln statue moves Posted by: Clutch Cargo at January 27, 2014 06:13 PM (pgQxn)
Only the lips moved on your show.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 27, 2014 02:30 PM (F75MN)

276

Most underrated movie  about trying to make a movie is Bowfinger.     I thought this movie sucked the first time I tried to watch  it but it grew  on me and I think its great.   Once again  it doesn't hurt that it has Heather Graham  in it. 

Posted by: polynikes at January 27, 2014 02:30 PM (m2CN7)

277 I hate films about horse ballet.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 27, 2014 02:31 PM (NU/ou)

278 No love for "The Mist"?  My God, that scene with the enormous tentacled ... THING ... walking across the road, and over the hill, as everyone watched in awe and horror?  THAT scene made the movie for me, even with all the other missteps.

Posted by: acethepug at January 27, 2014 02:31 PM (qZX7h)

279 *Never ever, ever forget that in some 10 years of That Fucking Guy being on the national stage, not one person has ever, ever, ever spoken about even one, single fucking time That Fucking Guy has ever done one single act of kindness, service or humility. That, THAT ought to tell you how far gone things are.

Posted by: RoyalOil at January 27, 2014 06:28 PM (VjL9S)


=============



A thousand times THIS ^^^^


Not one act of kindness reported in all these years.  No friends relating fond memories of when the Obamas helped them out.  No one has come forward with a tale of generosity in a time of trouble.  Nobody.  Silence.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 27, 2014 02:31 PM (P6QsQ)

280 >> ...but only after being provoked. Of course. I hate that they always have to equivalence. Unless it's a corporation - in which case they apparently kill orphans just for the fun of it - the foreign invaders are aways better than us.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 27, 2014 02:31 PM (LWu6U)

281 The nemesis is always the evil republican.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 27, 2014 02:32 PM (C3Wjb)

282 254 For them life is good and the guy running it will screech if anyone comes near their golden goose. Yeah, and thanks to the Legislature abdicating its role within our Government to the chief executive, not only do these civil servants write policy, they also write law. And virtually none of them are on the side of a limited Government...who can argue with human nature after all? LiB. I'm really in a LiB mood today. Sigh...

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at January 27, 2014 02:32 PM (54dkR)

283 Most underrated movie about trying to make a movie is Bowfinger. I thought this movie sucked the first time I tried to watch it but it grew on me and I think its great. Once again it doesn't hurt that it has Heather Graham in it. *** I liked it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 02:32 PM (DmNpO)

284 I never doubted Mitt Romney was a good man. Sure, as a conservative voter I disagreed with him on a number of issues but felt that Romney--like George W. Bush--is a principled man who strives to do the right thing inasmuch (as Lincoln said) it is given to us to know the right thing. That goes a long way with me since I believe character counts in a candidate since character is something that has to be consciously, actively acquired. Men and women of character tend to make better decisions serving the greater, national good than selfish, self-serving assholes and low men and women of bad character like Clinton (either one) or Obama, who only think of themselves.

Posted by: troyriser at January 27, 2014 02:32 PM (gNlvW)

285 It was a business decision. Remember he tells Sollozzo that he doesn't mind what a man does for his business but his business is too risky for Vito. He wishes him luck as he leaves as long as Sollozzo's business doesn't interfere with his.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 27, 2014 06:30 PM (oFCZn)

 

The way I saw it presented was it was both a business and ethical decision. 

Posted by: polynikes at January 27, 2014 02:32 PM (m2CN7)

286 I was on a subway platform once and I saw a guy with a gun out running down the opposite platform. People were just walking right by him, not even a backward glance. Nobody cried out or did anything. He wasn't a cop. I have no idea what was going on. He was there running, then he disappeared up some stairs.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 27, 2014 02:33 PM (4QSOR)

287 55
Ace have you ever tried to watch a tv show with French subtitles to help you learn conversational French? I used to do this when I was trying to teach myself Spanish.

We watched the French Language Cyrano de Bergerac in my French class, was a good one. Amelie is going to be on the Netflix, if is not already, that would be a good one as well.

Posted by: LizLem at January 27, 2014 02:33 PM (BF+2f)

288 Perfect, but heavy make-up and high maintenance hair for people doing stuff like CSI work. It just makes me laugh at this point.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 27, 2014 02:34 PM (SUKHu)

289 T'ings I loathe in movies: if a character possesses an automatic weapon, he or she cannot shoot for shit. The more rapidly it fires, the less likely any targets will get hit.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at January 27, 2014 02:34 PM (HsTG8)

290 He wasn't a cop. I have no idea what was going on. It was Alan Funt.

Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at January 27, 2014 02:34 PM (QF8uk)

291 I liked it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 06:32 PM (DmNpO

 

The last scene showing them making the karate movie  overseas was hilarious.  They got a big budget and still made a less than B-movie.  

Posted by: polynikes at January 27, 2014 02:34 PM (m2CN7)

292
Sometimes it annoys me too, but weirdly in Batman it seems right.  I think because he has all the cool bat toys and he can swing from the rafters and just drop in.  I'll accept it from most superheroes actually.

The annoying thing that bothers me in movies is the Hooker With The Heart of Gold (Pretty Woman, etc). 

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2014 02:34 PM (n0DEs)

293

279 No love for "The Mist"? My God, that scene with the enormous tentacled ... THING ... walking across the road, and over the hill, as everyone watched in awe and horror? THAT scene made the movie for me, even with all the other missteps.

 

-----------

 

'The Mist' had the worst ending ever.

I liked it up until then.

 

The ending was horrible.

It wasn't in the book like that...they added that for the movie.

Posted by: wheatie at January 27, 2014 02:35 PM (Wq5le)

294 293 The original script had the rich guy using the whore and than throwing her out of his car when he was done with her.Seriously.

Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2014 02:35 PM (zqvg6)

295 Also, very large drain sewer systems with intersections that you and a group of friends and enemies can stroll through under the streets. These do not exist.

Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 27, 2014 02:36 PM (aIKFR)

296 Irritating trope: When uptight suburban types with their sanitized pop and fusty classical music are exposed to urban jazz/funk/rap, and they can finally cast off their emotional straight jackets and get REAL. Because Beethoven, Bach, Tchaikovsky, et all, have no soul.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 27, 2014 02:36 PM (QBm1P)

297 Perfect, but heavy make-up and high maintenance hair for people doing stuff like CSI work. It just makes me laugh at this point. Don't forget the designer clothing. It's not like real CSI don't have to squat in absolutely filthy cars and alleys for a ten-hour day.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 27, 2014 02:36 PM (4QSOR)

298 Not really a meme. But ANYTHING with Keauneu Reeves in it. Yea ladies he might be teh hot but there's a zillion other guys who are teh hot who can act. I can't stand listening to his delivery. It's like he's reading it from TFG's teleprompter.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 27, 2014 02:36 PM (C3Wjb)

299 It was a business decision. Remember he tells Sollozzo that he doesn't mind what a man does for his business but his business is too risky for Vito. He wishes him luck as he leaves as long as Sollozzo's business doesn't interfere with his. *** Yes! He does. I think what is most instructive to the less-than-honorable character that is Vito Corleone is the story that is told in GII. Vito moves very smoothly and without hesitation into a life of crime, first by hiding a gun and stealing a rug, then by planning and executing the assassination of Don Fanucci. He didn't just execute the don for the sake of lessening his stranglehold on the community, but to take his place. There are no honorable characters in those films.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 02:37 PM (DmNpO)

300 The only thing Mitt could have done to close the deal was to promise everyone a golden goose. That is all most people care about.

Posted by: KC at January 27, 2014 02:38 PM (i7KmQ)

301 'The Mist' had the worst ending ever. I liked it up until then. The ending was horrible. It wasn't in the book like that...they added that for the movie. Yeah, my Dad and I hated it. Then we decided to mentally edit the ending. They made it just in time!

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 27, 2014 02:38 PM (4QSOR)

302 OH! And, least of all, Tom Hagen. I hate that bastard.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 02:38 PM (DmNpO)

303
I never understood in the movie "Mitt" how he just dropped out of sight in the general election.

I do like well-oiled viking women movies.  and women prison movies. those are good.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2014 02:38 PM (n0DEs)

304 299 Not really a meme. But ANYTHING with Keauneu Reeves in it. Yea ladies he might be teh hot but there's a zillion other guys who are teh hot who can act. I can't stand listening to his delivery. It's like he's reading it from TFG's teleprompter.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 27, 2014 06:36 PM (C3Wjb)

 

Bogus...

Posted by: Ted "Theodore" Logan at January 27, 2014 02:38 PM (LI48c)

305 >>>268 I haven't seen this new "Mitt" Documentary yet...but my question is: Why? Why now? This could've helped in 2012. But why do it now?

The documentarian filmed the Romneys for 6 years, covering 2 election cycles, then it took two years to edit that footage. Why put it out pre the 2012 election if election night is an obvious climax for your doc? Would make no sense narratively. It's not a biography, it is a behind the scenes of the campaign. But yes would have helped humanize him had something like this aired before the election.

Posted by: LizLem at January 27, 2014 02:39 PM (BF+2f)

306

253...So the demand for films to be in 3D might help to kill the shaky cam.

 

Posted by: buzzion at January 27, 2014 06:26 PM (LI48c)

 

Let's hope so.

Something needs to kill the shaky cam. It's been done to death now.

 

Shaky Cam must die.

 

 

Posted by: wheatie at January 27, 2014 02:39 PM (Wq5le)

307

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 27, 2014 06:36 PM (C3Wjb)

 

You  may have a point about Keanu Reeves acting . Maybe .   But I guarantee you he is either the luckiest actor in the world or the best ever in picking scripts.   I really , really like 95% of all of the  movies he has done.

 

I would like to think I would have liked them regardless who played his part. 

Posted by: polynikes at January 27, 2014 02:39 PM (m2CN7)

308 wheatie -- you are right, I read the original short story in "Skeleton Crew," but still, that one scene made the movie for me.  That Cthuloid monstrosity, so massive ... I just loved that to pieces.

The ending was pretty horrible, though.

Posted by: acethepug at January 27, 2014 02:40 PM (qZX7h)

309 Shaky Cam must die. How did you find out the new Samuel Jackson movie title?

Posted by: Hollywood Producer Cabal at January 27, 2014 02:41 PM (QF8uk)

310 Too many words don't match the time period. Scripts are written by idiots, now.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2014 02:41 PM (IXrOn)

311 In the gag reel for Firefly, a thoughtful panorama of the crew listening to Tracey's message is hilariously ruined by Nathan Fillion darting behind the camera and popping up next to other cast members, pretending to mourn as they can't help but crack up.

Posted by: pookysgirl at January 27, 2014 02:41 PM (kMnHs)

312 You may have a point about Keanu Reeves acting . Maybe . But I guarantee you he is either the luckiest actor in the world or the best ever in picking scripts. I really , really like 95% of all of the movies he has done. I would like to think I would have liked them regardless who played his part. *** The first film I ever remember seeing him in was Permanent Record and thinking he was quite good. Perhaps I was mistaking "good" with "cute".

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 02:42 PM (DmNpO)

313 He didn't just execute the don for the sake of lessening his stranglehold on the community, but to take his place.

There are no honorable characters in those films.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 06:37 PM (DmNpO)

 

The majority of the audience saw Vito killing a harsh task master with the kinder and gentler Vito taking over.   Nice lady gets apartment  from mean landlord  for  20.00 cheaper per month and gets to keep her dog.

Posted by: polynikes at January 27, 2014 02:42 PM (m2CN7)

314 Not one act of kindness reported in all these years. No friends relating fond memories of when the Obamas helped them out. No one has come forward with a tale of generosity in a time of trouble. Nobody. Silence.
They would have but they all only speak Arabic.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 27, 2014 02:43 PM (NU/ou)

315 Hillary thread up

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 27, 2014 02:43 PM (DmNpO)

316

Movie/TV show: the invariable subplot showing tension between the cop/firefighter/soldier/astronaut and his or her spouse because the spouse is frustrated at the long absences and/or the risks of the job. This subplot shows up all the time and is typically used to quickly frame the character and establish his/her humanity. Or whatever.

 

In real life, anyone marrying anyone in those positions would know beforehand that their future spouse worked long/weird hours and/or was in a dangerous or somewhat risky profession and/or probably wouldn't be able to make it to Britney's first birthday party or Jody's graduation. Makes me cringe whenever I see this subplot in action. I say to the screen, 'Bad writer. Bad writer. What the hell are you thinking?'

Posted by: troyriser at January 27, 2014 02:43 PM (gNlvW)

317 The nemesis is always the evil republican.
Hey! You stole our script for this week season!!!

Posted by: law & order at January 27, 2014 02:44 PM (NU/ou)

318 Posted by: andycanuck at January 27, 2014 06:43 PM (NU/ou) We have the President and First Lady that we deserve, with our ignorant, apathetic, and self-centered (non)electorate. Good and hard.

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at January 27, 2014 02:46 PM (pginn)

319 I watched most of the first season of The Killing. It was such a waste of time. I'm watching episode after episode of them investigating: -the democrat politician -the muslim public school teacher IT'S NOT THEM. LET'S MOVE ON.

Posted by: Z Ryan at January 27, 2014 02:46 PM (fMK2m)

320 Jonathan Winters was a comic genius. Without them the movie truly would have been a bust. I saw it IaMMMMW about a year ago and it wasn't as good as I remembered it but it was still good. There are many scenes in the movie that in isolation are great. Ethel Meraon is the ultimate mother-in-law! I can't imagine trying to make a cast today that was had the equivalent talent today. Impossible!

Posted by: Smashmaster at January 27, 2014 02:47 PM (NgOno)

321 BTW, I never thought the ladder scene in IAMMMMW was funny either, but it sets up Ethel Merman's banana peel fall in the hospital ward, so it had to be there.

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at January 27, 2014 02:47 PM (pginn)

322 Jonathan Winters destroying the desert gas station is probably the funniest scene in the movie. "We're gonna have to kill him!"

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at January 27, 2014 02:49 PM (pginn)

323 299 ANYTHING with Keauneu Reeves in it. Yea ladies he might be teh hot .... Posted by: Minnfidel at January 27, 2014 06:36 PM (C3Wjb) --------------------- Um, no. Not even the least bit hot --- to me at least.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 27, 2014 02:49 PM (dfYL9)

324 32 Posted by: zombie at January 27, 2014 05:51 PM (+cx5n) *standing ovation*

Posted by: rickl at January 27, 2014 02:51 PM (sdi6R)

325 316 Hillary thread up Time to go find some chicken wings.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at January 27, 2014 02:52 PM (54dkR)

326 And the chick from The Killing and her fiancé couldn't hold up moving for the few weeks the investigation was really taking contrasted with the 13 weeks it was in our TV watching time?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 27, 2014 02:52 PM (NU/ou)

327 Oh, no! Now I'm humming the Robot Chicken theme music!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 27, 2014 02:53 PM (NU/ou)

328
Another teleportation scene that's annoying: Big Daddy teleports into the warehouse full of bad guys in Kick Ass. Makes up for it by going all stabby stabby shooty shooty. Plus, taking the last guy's pump shotgun and immediately blasting him point blank.

A non-teleportation scene that's annoying: Rambo completely covered in mud and melted into the mud wall in the stream bed. How did he get his other hand covered in mud enough to camouflage himself? Makes up for it by going stabby stabby with the evil commie Spetznaz dude.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2014 02:54 PM (TIIx5)

329 I find it really annoying when lame YouTube videos are used as excuses for terrorist attacks.

Posted by: Christopher Stevens at January 27, 2014 02:55 PM (9F2c1)

330 Netflix's New "Mitt" Documentary Apparently So Affecting and Humanizing Liberals Regret Watching It Seriously? Liberals actually have the tiniest sense of shame??? Amazing. That said, they're still fucked up assholes, and Romney was still a lousy candidate.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at January 27, 2014 02:56 PM (itCai)

331

@268I haven't seen this new "Mitt" Documentary yet...but my question is: Why?
Why now?

This could've helped in 2012.
But why do it now?

-----------------------

 

Because iirc it was the filmmaker's project, not Romney's.  If I remember the background on it correctly, the filmmaker is the one who asked to follow Romney around with a camera and document the campaign.  It wasn't a Romney vanity project.

 

Posted by: junior at January 27, 2014 02:57 PM (UWFpX)

332 The Godfather came across as not so bad as your average mafioso because much of the nuts and bolts of how he made his money was never depicted in the movies. For example, the protection rackets. This is where the guys who "owns" the territory where a legitimate business owner is located. So, the thugs come around and say if you want to do business in this part of town, you have to pay protection. If you refuse, well bad things may happen. You might get robbed, your business may burn down, your employees may get beat up when they leave to go home at night, something might even happen to your family. And then for the ones who don't pay, the bad things do happen.

The Godfather movies only depicted Vito, or at least the onscreen Vito, as involved in harmless vice and in mixing it up with other players. On an intellectual level, you know that innocents are also being harmed, but it is not displayed. Instead, you just see the more understandable kinds of criminalty. The kinds of stuff that the audience can fantasize themselves as doing. Some kid of a local businessman gets raped and he wants some street justice - well, most people aren't too horribly concerned if the rapist gets his balls cut off. But, sending his thugs to tune up the local bar owner because he doesn't want to make his weekly payment - well most decent people don't want to think of themselves ordering that kind of thing.


Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 27, 2014 03:00 PM (IN7k+)

333 Wot, an action movie thread? Action movies begin and end with The Raid and its sequel which will be out soon, the imaginatively titled The Raid 2. A welsh dude and a crew of Indonesian stuntmen, with a budget that wouldn't cover the catering on a mid-level H'wood summer movie, serves you the finest action sequences ever committed to film. It's like 80's Carpenter on steroids. Seriously, even if you don't like subtitles, you gotta see The Raid(s) if you're into action flicks. They really are that good! ...check this clip out: http://goo.gl/pZCwws

Posted by: Filthy Scandi Snowbilly at January 27, 2014 03:02 PM (XhMkP)

334 So that's two elections in a row where a candidate who is genuinely a decent human being (Palin and Romney) loses to a candidate who nearly personifies hate, corruption, divisiveness, and treason. And each time the decent candidate was demonized with hate from a majority of the electorate. They despise good and embrace evil. America is in deep, deep trouble.

Posted by: rickl at January 27, 2014 03:04 PM (sdi6R)

335 Has anyone clued Mitt in that starring a candidate biopic as part of campaigning for the office is actually something you're supposed to do before the election?  I guess Stevens and Schriefer are pimping Mitt for their next gig...getting Sec of Scruntiness elected POTUS.  Why can't this douche just dry up and blow away...

Posted by: LiveFromRussianHill at January 27, 2014 03:10 PM (kDMxL)

336 Forget all those other movies with the surprise sneak and peak entries, because none of them do it nearly as good (or bad?) as Cloverfield. This is skyscraper-sized mutant alien thing that spends 90 minutes of movie time roaring, screeching, squalling, hollering, and literally shaking the ground when it walks, and yet the friggin thing somehow manages to sneak up on the protagonists at the end of the movie, who are out in the middle of an open-air park, and they had no idea it was there. Sorry, but even the sneakiest building-sized critter isn't going to be able to sneak up on someone. The "sneak and scare" routine is cheap hollywood nonsense, and it plays off a old horror movie trick where you create tension in a scene by resritcing the audience's persepctive. This, tight face shots on Ellen Ripley instead of what you'd actually get if you were there, which is a panoramic viw of what is going on around her, including the alien that is sneaking up behind her. But that's not tense, or scary, or suspensful, so all you get is a close up with no perspective at all.

Posted by: Goober at January 27, 2014 03:13 PM (QvJr9)

337 The movie "A few good men " really frosted my ass fucking smarmy pretty boy lawyers. Yeah,we CAN'T handle the truth.

Posted by: NativeNH at January 27, 2014 03:15 PM (UD+Ek)

338 See this is why Commando is cinematic perfection. You'll never see Arnold appear out of nowhere. Nope, dude is right there around the building corner ready to stab you in the stomach. http://tinyurl.com/ltmkth2

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at January 27, 2014 03:17 PM (dvRYt)

339

Mitt had little business running in 2008 and even less in 2012.  It doesn't matter that he's a good guy in his private life.  Especially in 2012, we needed a right of center populist to run against Obama.   Mitt was the furthest thing from a Populist the party could find.  Mitt couldn't credibly criticize Obamacare.  That Mitt made his fortune from carried interest meant he couldn't credibly sell hard budget measures.  Mitt got good at attacking his Republican opponents (e.g. Newt) but didn't have the stomach to really go after Obama the way that Newt would have.  This shows that Mitt's campaign was always more about Mitt than about stopping Obama. As a politician, he should just commit seppuku and go away.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 27, 2014 03:24 PM (EPEqj)

340 "If only voters had been able to meet the Real Mitt Romney."
 
If only anything about that presidential campaign had been real.

Posted by: Beef at January 27, 2014 03:25 PM (XERws)

341 Ignoramus Beef. Couldn't sum up what I thought of your posts any better than that.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at January 27, 2014 03:30 PM (WCi6Q)

342 Ace,

In this case, the Dark Knight clip is worse because the camera circles around Joker and Rachel, revealing the room to be open with a lot of white in the background. So Batman pops into frame having emerged from not only a crowd of people who don't react to his sudden presence, but also a bunch of Joker Goons, one at least who would have noticed the appearance of a man dressed as a bat and alerted his boss. In the Lethal Weapon clip, at least the openness of the room is established AFTER the implausible appearance of the goon.

Also, as a tertiary to your pet peeve, I cannot stand "gotcha" moments when something jumps out at someone and it's accompanied by a severe stroke of percussion instruments (from bass drums to staccato snares all mixed together)...might as well have someone on the soundtrack shouting "BOO!"

Posted by: SGT. York at January 27, 2014 03:31 PM (8Uxxu)

343 "Mitt" is a moving and sad documentary. It brings back memories of the hopes and expectations surrounding the 2008 and 2012 election as well as the sharp disappointments along the way. It is clear that Mitt is a fine and decent man and would have made a vastly better president then the messiah.

But that was not to be.

In 2012 everyone on the right expected a win because they couldn't imagine the voters electing someone with the economy and job market as bad as it was. This time around I think everyone is looking to a failed Obamacare providing the victory. I am however afraid that the voting public has changed over the decades and the old types of assumptions aren't valid anymore.

Posted by: Harold at January 27, 2014 03:32 PM (xTVTq)

344 It's not just the younger voters who don't know better, it's the middle aged and elderly voters who SHOULD know better and yet still voted for that piece of shit, twice. The same ones complaining about high taxes, the ones who tell me they're retiring to red states without seeing the irony. Or retiring to Costa Rica! Thanks for shitting on the country and then leaving!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 27, 2014 03:42 PM (QBm1P)

345 The Godfather came across as not so bad as your average mafioso because much of the nuts and bolts of how he made his money was never depicted in the movies. For example, the protection rackets.

__________________________

Wasn't one of the subplots in Godfather II that Vito objected to the oppressive protection racket run by Don Fanucci (recall Fanucci with the theater owner and at Abbandando Gosseria)?

Posted by: Alec Leamas at January 27, 2014 03:42 PM (lh89W)

346 The greatest appearing-out-of-nowhere movie trick I remember happened at the end of Jurassic Park when two T-Rex's suddenly materialized in the museum (I think it was a museum) and saved everybody from the velociraptors. I didn't notice it when I first saw the movie though, so I guess it worked.

Posted by: wallydog at January 27, 2014 03:47 PM (Za+Lt)

347 344 This time around I think everyone is looking to a failed Obamacare providing the victory. I am however afraid that the voting public has changed over the decades and the old types of assumptions aren't valid anymore. Posted by: Harold at January 27, 2014 07:32 PM (xTVTq) Look at the cities. The worse conditions get, the more people vote in lockstep for Democrats. I have always believed that it was a deliberate policy to force as many people as possible onto the government dole. Once they lose hope of ever finding a decent job again, they will never vote for anyone they think will reduce their benefits.

Posted by: rickl at January 27, 2014 03:55 PM (sdi6R)

348 345 It's not just the younger voters who don't know better, it's the middle aged and elderly voters who SHOULD know better and yet still voted for that piece of shit, twice. Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 27, 2014 07:42 PM (QBm1P) ^^THIS. Young people often do stupid things, out of ignorance and inexperience. I can't hold that against them for the most part. Eventually many of them learn their lesson and wise up. It's the people my age who voted for TFG who really piss me off.

Posted by: rickl at January 27, 2014 04:01 PM (sdi6R)

349 I've heard a number of folks say they don't like the Godfather movies because they glorify the mob, making them into heroes.

I don't think that at all. When Michael is at the Baptism, knowing the hell he's unleashed, it sends chills down my spine.

I love the movies (I and II), because they so beautifully tells the story, not because it makes them look less than evil.

__________________________________________

I've always taken the position that the Corleones and the other players in the Godfather movies inhabited a separate and distinct moral universe - I don't think the point was to show that these guys did all of these evil things, but rather that there is a different system of moral credits and debits that doesn't correspond to our own in that life.

I can't think of anything that Vito or Michael did that they wouldn't deem necessary or at the very least retributive and justified. Fanucci terrorized the neighborhood - Vito removed the oppressor and replaced him with a just and more benevolent order. Michael assassinated Sollozzo and McCluskey, but only after they attempted to assassinate Vito, continued to pursue him in order to murder him, etc. Kay Adams was perhaps the tether to the WASP world and its moral order, which Michael identifies as similarly corrupt and more hypocritical than the one he then inhabits when he calls Kay naive for believing that "Presidents and Senators don't have men killed." Even having Fredo killed makes a certain moral sense after betraying Michael and nearly having Michael, his wife and children killed and after forewarning not to be disloyal to the family.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at January 27, 2014 04:01 PM (lh89W)

350 "In the seen" lol.

Posted by: mr.midnight at January 27, 2014 04:22 PM (Kv/xV)

351

"In 2012 everyone on the right expected a win"

Speak for yourself.  I wasn't alone in predicting well before the 2012 Convention  that Obama would get over 300 electoral votes against Romney.

Reagan beat Carter in 1980 because enough people felt real pain that they got off their asses to vote.  Bernanke and the Fed have had us on a steady morphine drip, so that we're not forced to face the long-term effects of a trillion dollar structural deficit.  That will change, but I'm not sure when.

 

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 27, 2014 04:27 PM (EPEqj)

352 So Batman pops into frame having emerged from not only a crowd of people who don't react to his sudden presence, but also a bunch of Joker Goons, one at least who would have noticed the appearance of a man dressed as a bat and alerted his boss.
To be fair to the Joker's goon, he might have thought it was a kid's Wish Foundation stunt and ignored it for that reason.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 27, 2014 04:42 PM (NU/ou)

353 I've been out all day and missed this thread, but I would like to comment on "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."

No, it's not that funny. It tries too hard and mistakes bombast for humor, and it's odd that no one figured that out when they were making it in spite of the pedigrees of the people making it.

But you know what? I love this movie, and I also find it kind of haunting. There's a real darkness running through the heart of this film, and it's not just in the harrowing ladder sequence, it's also in the Spencer Tracy plot, which is really quite tragic. His character, who by all accounts appears to be a decent man who gets pushed to his limit on this particular day and makes one really bad choice, is destroyed by the end of the film. His fate is quite harsh.

Posted by: Kensington at January 27, 2014 04:56 PM (uaEZS)

354 Another movie trope that is super annoying is when multiple people are in a single space and an attack occurs on one party member.  Although the characters are within split seconds of each other, a five second struggle must take place (for the drama, y'know!) between the "thing" and the character being attacked.  I was watching an ep of Helix (on SyFy) the other day.  An infected person jumped a security guard who was traveling with two other security guards in a small hallway.  Although they were in a fairly tight formation, you could literally count to five until one of the other guards pulled the infected peep off of the security guard.  What's even worse, is that during such an event, five seconds is an ETERNITY.

Posted by: Quintapalus at January 27, 2014 05:08 PM (tJP4b)

355 I'm on my way, Ma! I'm on my way.

Posted by: OCBill at January 27, 2014 05:08 PM (Wi6J5)

356 IAMMMMW is about the least funny comedy ever made. So bad it's not even unintentionally funny.

Posted by: cqness at January 27, 2014 05:50 PM (D0sGt)

357 "proved elusive" ? sweet jesus our press is worthless

Posted by: morgan at January 27, 2014 05:56 PM (xd0hb)

358 It comes up over and over and over again: the media bias is killing us . . . killing America. So what do we do about it? I've suggested hiring detectives to dig up dirt on "journalists" and entertainers, to take down or blackmail the worst of them. Also take the fight to the producers and writers, who make up the shit that the empty-headed faces on screen read off the teleprompters. Any other ideas? We've got to do something. These people are literally destroying the future of human civilization. Ace doesn't like scary violence talk, but we're running out of options here. Unless we can force the media to be honest, or shut them down for good, they're going to keep pushing us into the abyss. I'm serious. Ideas, anyone?

Posted by: Trimegistus at January 27, 2014 05:59 PM (YxryS)

359 .

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at January 27, 2014 06:31 PM (zxsxA)

360 @170

"Apt Pupil" is a darned good horror movie, (loosely) based off a Stephen King story.  Of course it lacks the "Because aliens!" copout so frequent in his work, as well as the gratuitous gross-outs, and the the characters are not idiots.

Posted by: Luke at January 27, 2014 07:04 PM (2MUaT)

361 I think TruCon idiots hated Romney more than actual liberals.

He wasn't my ideal candidate, but anyone who sat out the election because he was insufficiently conservative is just as much to blame for this country going down the shitter as an Obama voter.

Posted by: Uniden at January 27, 2014 07:36 PM (13G+x)

362 I don't regret my vote for Mitt Romney. I've never thought he was anything but a good man, a far better man than any of his critics... or his opponents. I DO regret that the RNC and DC GOP who couldn't put together an effective campaign around him are still in power. Mitt Romney has retired to private life, but Reince Priebus, Karl Rove, and the McConnell/Boehner Klown Posse are still in power. Obsessing over Mitt obscures the real problem.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at January 27, 2014 07:58 PM (XO6WW)

363 Make that "opponent", singular, with particular reference to the J-E-F-in-Chief.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at January 27, 2014 08:00 PM (XO6WW)

364 The real Mitt Romney wasn't hidden at all.  He's been in public life for decades. 

He's just a very modest man, as most truly great people are, and would never tout himself with his campaign.  But there were no secrets.  Most in the media who cared to know understood fully well the sort of man he was.

There was a concerted effort on the part of Obama, aided and abetted by media, to portray Romney as something else, based on his wealth alone.

Posted by: Adjoran at January 27, 2014 09:50 PM (473jB)

365 Same technique annoyed me just the other day. It was a different Gary Oldman flick, The Backwoods. Apparently Oldman's in every movie now, and he never looks the same twice. He's like Ted Bundy that way. It also had that cute French girl from The Beach (but no Leo, thank God).

Oldman and Paddy Considine find a shack in the woods, break into a padlocked sideroom, and Oldman's character walks in staring the entire time straight at the floor. "Ooh whats in there, whats in there?," I wondered. Then he looks up at a young, deformed girl chained to the wall who's bathed in light streaming through cracks in the building. He would have seen her the moment he walked in the room. But the camera had to hide her from us, ya know, because.

That was enough to tell me the movie sucked. I kept watching another 20 minutes anyway, and yep, it still sucked. Then I checked reviews online, and everyone else said it sucked.

Posted by: Willy at January 27, 2014 09:56 PM (BzWvW)

366 Posted by: pookysgirl at January 27, 2014 06:41 PM (kMnHs)

Here's the clip you're talking about: http://bit.ly/1f8HjQg.

Posted by: tunakermit at January 28, 2014 03:48 AM (90QG6)

367 The Walking Dead relies heavily on out of frame/ teleporting zombies to kill folks off. You'll be thinking "how did you NOT see that?".

Posted by: TexasPatrick at January 28, 2014 11:35 AM (o2TWn)

368 About time, I was wondering when the GOP Establishment would order it's bloggers to start softening up the path for it's chosen candidate.

Posted by: doug at January 28, 2014 02:38 PM (uJ8q7)

Hide Comments | Add Comment | Refresh | Top

Comments are disabled. Post is locked.
287kb generated in CPU 0.1722, elapsed 0.346 seconds.
64 queries taking 0.2996 seconds, 496 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.

Support





Donate to Ace of Spades HQ!


Contact

Change the At to "@" and the DOT to "."




Intermarkets' Privacy Policy
Support


Donate to Ace of Spades HQ!


Search Thingy



Archives

Monthly Traffic

  • Pages: 11929
  • Files: 155
  • Bytes: 253.8M
  • CPU Time: 9:48
  • Queries: 296274

Content

  • Posts: 22824
  • Comments: 5953260

Feeds


RSS 2.0 Atom 1.0