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**Vlad the Impaler** · September 3rd, 2004, 05:12 PM

Originally posted by MatJimMood:

Telling people that i do a film and media course and seeing their face change before they go 'Oh...So what do you want to do after university then' - If i said i was doing something like medicine or engineering they wouldn't fucking ask!

I totally agree with this one too, I'm a music student and I get exactly the same!

**nunquam** · September 3rd, 2004, 08:04 PM

Most of my hates have already been listed...but I'm a bitter, small-minded person and have a few more [img]biggrin.gif[/img] --

- CGI abuse (most cases).
- Pontificating.
- Movie trailers using that gravel-voiced guy.
- Discovering that the "DVD commentary track" is just a recording of the director/actor/whatever rambling on about the movie but not watching it at the same time.
- Out-takes in the credits, "funny" scenes at the end of the credits...cool when it was first done, now it's overdone.
- "Why doesn't she/he love me anymore?" student films with lots of shots of lonely young men being alone and frustrated while solemn music plays.

**untamed_aggression** · September 3rd, 2004, 09:21 PM

Going back to zombies for a moment...

- The fact that George Romero has to wait until an unnesassary REMAKE ( [img]mad.gif[/img] ) of one of his films is successful before he can get funding to conclude the vision he had 35 years ago, and then with a budget that is a third of said remake.

**nunquam** · September 3rd, 2004, 10:42 PM

(- and I hate the shout-to-the-heavens "Noooooooo!" when someone dies.)

**joepiechura** · September 3rd, 2004, 11:36 PM

Here's a few:
Gone With the Wind, On the Waterfront, Lawrence of Arabia, Ben Hur, The Godfather, All Quiet on the Western Front, It Happened One Night, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Casablanca, West Side Story. And let's not forget - Chicago - hah just kidding I HATE Chicago!

Okay, I'll give you those. Maybe Best Director would be a better example. No Alfred Hitchcock for a start. I think that says it all.

Telling people that i do a film and media course and seeing their face change before they go 'Oh...So what do you want to do after university then' - If i said i was doing something like medicine or engineering they wouldn't fucking ask!

Yeah, I get that all the time. That or sarcastic relatives saying "so what's your current production" or, "when you're rich and famous, can you make me a film star." Not now you've asked that you prick.

Film snobbery - especially people who complain when you say movie rather than film

At least it's not as bad as music snobbery. At least people celebrate if good underground films break into the mainstream. In music, if you haven't known the band since before they were formed, you're not a real fan.

- "Why doesn't she/he love me anymore?" student films with lots of shots of lonely young men being alone and frustrated while solemn music plays.

Can't believe I forgot those. Our uni's by the sea, so we get a lot of shots with a gentle breeze and someone standing on the end of the pier looking out to sea. Kind of ties in with my black and white for the sake of it point. Yeah, I know it's beautifully shot, but nothing actually happens.

As an aside, I also hate those adverts on the TV, where the person in shot moving their mouth is clearly not the person talking. How do you tell someone that you're not using their voice. "Yeah, I know you're beautiful, but you sound like a train crashing when you open you mouth." I suppose they had to tell Darth Vader at one point though.

**Jass Films** · September 4th, 2004, 04:10 AM

-Zooming
-Shot's that are out of focus (unless for an effect)
-CRAP FILMS!!!

**The Cavity** · September 4th, 2004, 04:10 PM

The amazingly shitty wine I got loaded off of last night, due to overwhelming paranoia.

Diz-Nee

The ad they play in cinemas before the film begins, where a humble black man is talking about his work as a stunt co-ordinator, how stunt performers put their lives on the line to bring the audience quality entertainment, and how piracy and downloading films off the internet lets the viewer reap all the benefit without giving back something in return, and then going to see a film like "The Bourne Supremacy," where the cinematography is so mind-numbingly amateurish you can't even see, let alone appreciate, any of the life-threatening stunts.

The following "Directors" - George Lucas, Sidney Lumet, William Friedkin, Cameron Crowe, Ridley Scott, Josh Becker, Bryan Singer, and Martin Scorcese's eyebrows.

Obsessive DVD collectors who didn't give two shits about cinema until certain technological advances enriched their lives. Go to the Internet Movie Database's "Video" forum if you don't believe me.

Movies with babies who talk in them.

Empty political films like "The Contender."

The de Laurentiis family of producers for turning filmmaking into a kind of Special Olympics.

Movies where pacifists go around kicking the shit out of people who give them dirty looks.

The Academy Awards. Absolutely useless, nothing more than Hollywood bigwigs giving each other facials.

Dorky Bollywood musicals (exceptions are "Sholay,""Kudah Gawah," and possibly the Indian "Silence of the Lambs" musicalized remake).

The fuckin' commie bastards, camel jockeys, and moon crickets from Siberia.

The extensive opening credit sequences in films made during the first half of the century.

Jack Valenti and his merry band of Moral Crusaders.

Musicals.

Showcase, the Canadian TV station, for showing nothing anymore but HBO sitcoms and only 2-3 movies a week. It used to be "Oz" on Friday nights, and two movies every night of the week.

The History Channel, for playing the exact same war movie, with a different title, every day at 1 P.M.

Telefilm Canada, for refusing grants to films that don't have any "discernable Canadian content" in them, and like-minded critics who complain about American cinema for having things like plots, character arcs, and the like, and no "discernable Canadian content."

Excellent Canadian films that are made independently of Telefilm Canada and governmental grants and are subsequently ignored and forgotten, in spite of the shitty, embarrasing films funded by Telefilm Canada which win awards for having "discerable Canadian content."

North American distributors who are too chickenshit to release films like "Lilja 4-Ever" on DVD.

The fact that "The Monster Squad" isn't on DVD.

The fact that Roseanne Barr has yet to do a steamy love scene.

The fact that you can arrive at a movie a half-hour late and not miss anything, because of all the advertisments and trailers they play beforehand.

The fact that Steven Spielberg keeps making the exact same two "bona-fide blockbusters" every year.

Censorship.

When films like "White Chicks" actually inspire serious and enraged debate on the IMDb message boards.

**emjen** · September 4th, 2004, 05:06 PM

Wait a minute, why are flashbacks bad?

And why do vampires suck?

*turns to heaven*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

EP · September 4th, 2004, 06:00 PM

Telefilm Canada, for refusing grants to films that don't have any "discernable Canadian content" in them, and like-minded critics who complain about American cinema for having things like plots, character arcs, and the like, and no "discernable Canadian content."

And for all Canadian movies to be overly depressing and about coming of age or set in the early 20th century!!!1 ArRRRRRRG!

-People who critisize films yet have no idea how hard it is to write a good one.

- suicide themes

Whats wrong with suicide themes...I acctually think the idea i had last night at 11pm was pretty good...