Eye Rolling Movie Tropes

[Stemp Fester]

The obligatory screeching of tyres when a car starts moving regardless of how calmly it might be taking off...

 

[Andre]

When both male/female characters don't get along for half the movie but you KNOW it's only a matter of time before they disrobe and hit the sack! You can see İt's coming from a mile out.

Usually also accompanied by guy is a partier, not looking to settle down, until he realises true happiness can only come from hooking up in a serious relationship.

 

[Kirby]

What about the nerdy plain looking girl who has her hair tied back and big glasses, but then has a makeover where her hair is let down, the specs come off, add some lippy and she looks like a supermodel.

Usually said girl is quite obviously hot to begin with.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Any tag along kid in an action movie

Spends most of the movie getting into trouble stupidly and having to be rescued by the star.

Then near the end they hack into the government computer (they've been lugging a laptop around the whole movie) and justify their inclusion by opening a key door or disabling some alarm

 

[iluvparis]

Any tag along kid in an action movie

Spends most of the movie getting into trouble stupidly and having to be rescued by the star.

Then near the end they hack into the government computer (they've been lugging a laptop around the whole movie) and justify their inclusion by opening a key door or disabling some alarm

I still believe Short Round in Temple of Doom is the most annoying movie character of all time.

 

[TigerCraig]

stabbing a person once in the guts and they die near instantly. One stab wound never kills instantly, that's why in real life knife murders you always hear the victim was stabbed 30+ times.

Yep, shits me in war movies when guys get bayoneted or slashed with a sabre (or gut shot for that matter) and are dead instantly. Really the battlefield should be covered with writhing wounded

 

[Andre]

What about the nerdy plain looking girl who has her hair tied back and big glasses, but then has a makeover where her hair is let down, the specs come off, add some lippy and she looks like a supermodel.

Usually said girl is quite obviously hot to begin with.

I'll go with Nerd girl look is usually hotter anyway. I'll go latest Wonder Woman as a case in point. Barbara is hotter at the start IMO, then when she's 'as beautiful as Diana'.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Yep, shits me in war movies when guys get bayoneted or slashed with a sabre (or gut shot for that matter) and are dead instantly. Really the battlefield should be covered with writhing wounded

You've probably explained why they don't!

 

[Andre]

I still believe Short Round in Temple of Doom is the most annoying movie character of all time.

A failed attempt to soften Indy's image. Until the feedback realised they didn't need to. Quietly disappears with barely a mention.

 

[iluvparis]

Yep, shits me in war movies when guys get bayoneted or slashed with a sabre (or gut shot for that matter) and are dead instantly. Really the battlefield should be covered with writhing wounded

I think the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan does this a lot better.

 

[RolandF1]

I still believe Short Round in Temple of Doom is the most annoying movie character of all time.

More annoying than Spielberg's wife in the same movie?

 

[JackOutback]

More annoying than Spielberg's wife in the same movie?

No.

 

[iluvparis]

No.

Yes - but both should have been sent to the gas chamber

 

[JackOutback]

Yes - but both should have been sent to the gas chamber

Harsh but fair. Play on.

 

[TigerCraig]

I still believe Short Round in Temple of Doom is the most annoying movie character of all time.

Jar Jar Binks?

 

[atlas1]

I think the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan does this a lot better.

Not sure where they got the inspiration for that scene and movie in general but damn, it was brutal

 

[raskolnikov]

When somebody is chasing someone through the woods and always seems to catch them. If someone was being chased through the woods,especiallywith a decent head start it would be very hard for the chaser to find them.

 

[raskolnikov]

I still believe Short Round in Temple of Doom is the most annoying movie character of all time.

 

[psychobrown]

Macguffins, the over-skilled villain, the unnecessary romance and the down with the science chick for mine. This is probably more genre than trope, but zombies are starting to become passé.

Also modern horrors seem to rely a lot on the 'running ghost' or the 'running monster' these days, where the creature runs directly at the protagonist who somehow get out of the way at the last moment and don't sh*t their pants. There were at least 4 in It, and I passed out counting them in The Nun. It's basically the new face in the mirror jump scare.

 

[Melvin]

I still believe Short Round in Temple of Doom is the most annoying movie character of all time.

Not even close to the most annoying character in that film...

 

[Plugger35]

Those horror films like Friday the 13th where there are a bunch of friends all holidaying in a cabin in the woods, they hear a disturbance outside so one person goes out to investigate and gets murdered by the bad guy (ie. Jason).

Then the next person goes out by themselves to see what happened to the first person and also gets murdered by Jason in a different horrific way.

They all do this one by one until the last person is left in the cabin and then Jason smashes his way into the cabin and murders them too.

Have these people never heard of the concept of safety in numbers? They just play right into Jason's hands time and time again by going one out.

 

[Pistol Night]

Everytime there is a big aggressive beast of some kind the protagonist(s) have to face off against it takes a moment to stand there and roar for some ******* reason. IT HAPPENS EVERYTIME. Tell me one film in the last 20 years where there is a big foe and it doesnt roar before attacking. Not to mention the last minute running, dodging and breaking sh*t.

Samual.L.Jackson in Deep Blue Sea

 

[RolandF1]

Samual.L.Jackson in Deep Blue Sea

Film not made in the last 20 years.

 

[Pistol Night]

Not the last 20 years.

Yep sorry. Always amazed me on Jurassic Park how they could barely get away from a T-Rex in a car but on foot they all burned him off like Usain Bolt racing Matt Preston

 

[RolandF1]

Yep sorry. Always amazed me on Jurassic Park how they could barely get away from a T-Rex in a car but on foot they all burned him off like Usain Bolt racing Matt Preston

And the lack of serious firepower on the island.

I say last 20 years because I reckon the big troll in Moria from LOTRs started the trend.