Project Say Something!: Movie Cliché Pet Peeves
I have to admit, I’ve really been dragging my feet on this one. A year ago, I would have been all over something like this. I would have had a list with multiple examples for each (which is pretty much exactly what was asked). But. I flake. I am a loser. I am no longer what I would consider a movie buff. Not even a movie sometimes-watcher-who-longs-to-be-a-buff-or-at-least-likes-to-pretend-she’s-one. Nope. Not me. Not anymore. Let me tell you the last movie I saw. And let me tell you, the title reflects EXACTLY what I thought of the movie. That’s right, it was “Super Bad.” And boy, oh boy, was it. So bad that it scarred me so significantly that I can’t even remember what the last movie was I saw before that one. It was the first movie, in my life, (and I’ve been to a very large number of movies in my day) that I have ever truly, seriously, passionately, desperately wanted to walk out of. And no, I don’t think that makes me an old prude. Not that one.
Anyway… So now that we’ve established that I am a loser who no longer watches movies regularly (kids, man, they ruin everything!), let’s also establish that I’ve been digging through the depths of my brain trying to remember the movies I have seen so I could come up with something. And finally, let’s establish I’ve come up with nothing.
Well, okay. One thing. And it’s the only thing after days and days of trying to think of ideas and examples (and I know the second I hit “publish” a million are going to come crashing in to my mind all at once. Oh well. Such is the nature of my head.) that I can come up with. And it’s lame.
Every time someone is driving in a car and they drop something, or see something down on the floor, they have to lean over to get it and the shots are all framed stupidly from below and every. single. stinking. time. when they grab it and get back up and look at the road (after like 5 minutes of not looking at the road! Hello!! Duh!) OH NO! They HIT something. Or something is RIGHT THERE so they swerve to just miss it and end up running off the road or into something else. Drives me nuts.
Mine was lame. What are your movie cliché pet peeves? Which ones drive you right up the wall? Anything’s gotta be better than my sorry excuse for an answer… And I'm sure you all have at least seen a movie recently.