Eye Rolling Movie Tropes

[rank and file]

People that get in situations where they need to snap the blinds closed, have an inordinate number of windows in the house too. Big bay windows and side windows in the lounge room, each bay with separately operated blinds. Enough to make it a montage.

I'm looking at this room I'm in now. One window out in to the street. One roller blind. Two curtains either side. No dramatic potential.

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Small rooms with not many exits are a great prop,can build tension and suspense especially if you have a small budget.

Tommy Wiseau learnt with 'The Room'.
Grossed $1,600 cost 6 million.
Side by side with 'The Disaster Artist' they are the greatest movies about movies.

 

[peternorth]

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One that shits me is the back seat in movie cars,crucial dialogue in back always seems a skinny car.
No middle seat.
I just get distracted by shit going on in the rear windscreen that turns out to be irrelevant.

Gonna look for that now.

When there is a middle seat, character sits on that. I don’t know anyone who will voluntarily do that when he or she is the only passenger

 

[Father Jack]

One that shits me is the back seat in movie cars,crucial dialogue in back always seems a skinny car.
No middle seat.
I just get distracted by shit going on in the rear windscreen that turns out to be irrelevant.

Not to mention the headrests of the front seats are always missing too

 

[Gasometer]

When it’s winter and actor/s get into cars with coats and scarves on etc when modern cars are heated

I watched a current tv series this week and the characters went on a 6 hour road trip in a new Mustang with full winter gear on

 

[GreyCrow]

When it’s winter and actor/s get into cars with coats and scarves on etc when modern cars are heated

I watched a current tv series this week and the characters went on a 6 hour road trip in a new Mustang with full winter gear on

Its so they can leave the windows down for the film crew to shoot through

Then leave said windows open when they get to their crime ridden destination

 

[Pistol Night]

When it’s winter and actor/s get into cars with coats and scarves on etc when modern cars are heated

I watched a current tv series this week and the characters went on a 6 hour road trip in a new Mustang with full winter gear on

Would of died of heat stroke in real life and been a short series

 

[TheJanuaryMan]

People that get in situations where they need to snap the blinds closed, have an inordinate number of windows in the house too. Big bay windows and side windows in the lounge room, each bay with separately operated blinds. Enough to make it a montage.

I'm looking at this room I'm in now. One window out in to the street. One roller blind. Two curtains either side. No dramatic potential.

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Dramatic effect of roller blind going up seemingly on its own = intruder in house.

 

[emuboy]

It's unusual, but not completely unknown for TV shows to write in new characters as though they had always been there.

For example, Captain Mike Yeates (played by the late Richard Franklin) joined Doctor Who for the first serial of the 1971 season during the Third Doctor era along with Jo Grant (Katy Manning). However, while Jo was a new character and introduced as such, it was said that Mike Yeates had been there all through the 1970 UNIT stories where Liz Shaw was a companion, only we didn't see him on screen.

It has happened in sitcoms too. When the Cosby Show debuted in 1986, Doctor and Mrs. Huxtable seemed to have four kids early in the debut season - a son and daughter in high school, a daughter in middle school and a younger girl still in elementary school - but a fourth daughter Sondra who was older and away in college suddenly appeared late in the first season, despite having never been seen or mentioned before. Julie, the sharp-tongued PA of Gordon Brittas in early 1990s UK sitcom only arrived for Season 2, but was later said to have worked at the Leisure Centre from the time it first opened. And in Everybody Loves Raymond around 1999, Raymond suddenly had a new friend named Gianni - only he wasn't a 'new' friend he had apparently been there all along and had even played a major role in Debra and Raymond getting together.

While in the above examples those behind the shows possibly hoped fans wouldn't notice so much, there was one show where a slight twist on this was attempted - and to put it mildly it didn't go very well. When the show runners for the immensely popular 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' were looking for new plots for the 5th season, they came up with a novel idea. Why not give Buffy - until this point an only child - a younger sister aged in her mid-teens? Everyone on the show would believe that the sister was always there, with changed memories, photos and the like, but it would be lamp-shaded to the viewers that she had obviously not been there from the start and that there is a greater reason for her sudden appearance that nobody on screen is aware of it, not even the new sister herself.

Given that Buffy TVS was a supernatural show and that strange and outlandish things happened in every episode, one might assume that the show's large fanbase would like such an unusual plot twist. Those behind the show certainly did, hence the introduction of Dawn Summers - and fans were not impressed. They hated the plot twist and the new character Dawn, and this was not helped by the personality of the new arrival - she was an immature, irresponsible, whining and selfish spoiled brat with many behavioral problems. Aged about 14 at the time, Dawn often behaved more like a pre-teen than a middle schooler.

With the benefit of hindsight, it seems like those behind the show might have been trying to do too much with Dawn. It would be one thing for her to be immature and naive if she had just been created, sort of like aliens who are struggling to understand Earth and how humans think. But while Dawn indeed was newly created, she had 14 years of memories programmed into her so this doesn't hold up so well.

But its still a bit odd that fans of a supernatural show with numerous outlandish plots should dislike this innovative plot twist so intensely.

 

[raskolnikov]

In horror movies where some characters have a chance to get away but decide to go back to help others. I would save myself first every time then go and get help.

 

[Father Jack]

In horror movies where some characters have a chance to get away but decide to go back to help others. I would save myself first every time then go and get help.

"Let's all split up"

 

[peternorth]

In horror movies where some characters have a chance to get away but decide to go back to help others. I would save myself first every time then go and get help.

And not to mention that singular, easily avoidable, log or fallen branch that happens to be strong enough to trip over a busty character by flicking her shoe

 

[peternorth]

Here's an example of the token busty character

 

[emuboy]

In horror movies where some characters have a chance to get away but decide to go back to help others. I would save myself first every time then go and get help.

I have to admit my instinct would be to stay and help, my conscience would bother me if I didn't, but this is just me.

Speaking about horror movies, have you ever noticed that in this genre and also disaster movies that the most useless and annoying characters often make it through while other far better characters die? Like Jo, the girl from Jaws 2 who becomes hysterical and screams, cries and panics, putting all the others in more danger? Or Noni from The Poseidon Adventure, who basically cries through the whole thing, struggles more than anyone else on the climb despite being a young and slim woman with no injuries, and is more a hindrance than a help to the small band of survivors trying to get out of the fast sinking, upturned ocean liner. And in The Towering Inferno, two women who are among the group selected to be evacuated first by helicopter completely lose their heads, rushing the Navy chopper as it tries to land on the roof, causing it to crash, the two Navy men to lose their lives, setting off yet another fire and preventing anyone else getting out by this method. What happened to these two un-named characters? Like Jo and Noni, they escape with barely a scratch.

And in Scream 5 and Scream 6, the most irritating and stupid character in the entire franchise is surely Mindy. Yet despite two Ghost-faces at work in Scream 5 - one of whom is an absolute psycho-case as soon as she gets a knife in her hands and has a clear shot at killing her - Mindy survives. She again somehow survives a team of three well organized Ghost-faces in Scream 6, a movie that actually includes five Ghost-faces if you count the gay male couple at the start who are doing copy-cat Ghostface murders before they are dispatched by the real Ghost-faces. And like in Scream 5, Mindy is alone with a guy she herself (rightly as it turns out) suspects of being Ghost-face and survives despite his clear chance and intention to murder her.

Seriously, seven Ghost-faces in two movies, and not one of them managed to kill off this annoying, unintelligent character very lacking in any common-sense despite many chances to do so?

 

[Frank Bunn]

"Let's all split up"

Cabin in the woods?

 

[Shell]

One that shits me is the back seat in movie cars,crucial dialogue in back always seems a skinny car.
No middle seat.
I just get distracted by shit going on in the rear windscreen that turns out to be irrelevant.

It shits me in movie cars, the driver rarely looks at the road and more often the front seat passenger.

That scene in The Blind Side and Big Mike driving his new truck, hardly looks at the ****ing road too busy singing with that little shit of kid.
But oh no.. the crash wasn't his fault.

 

[Cruyff14]

After an intense conversation and person A is walking away and gets to the door/some distance away, either person A or person B will turn around and say something.

 

[Father Jack]

Cabin in the woods?

to be fair that was kind of the point of that film

 

[rank and file]

It shits me in movie cars, the driver rarely looks at the road and more often the front seat passenger.

That scene in The Blind Side and Big Mike driving his new truck, hardly looks at the ****ing road too busy singing with that little shit of kid.
But oh no.. the crash wasn't his fault.

Shit song,but fair trope lots of not looking at the road.
Up there with the attack from the back seat.
Manages to take out driver in hand cuffs with a gun pointed at their head.

 

[Bestbird]

Probably mentioned before but packed Bar or Nightclubs scenes where they are in conversations as if there is no background noise at all.

 

[edgie]

Probably mentioned before but packed Bar or Nightclubs scenes where they are in conversations as if there is no background noise at all.

This is legit how it's filmed... been in a few scenes and all the background extras have to pretend to talk but not actually make noise. Some places just must forget to go back and add in the ambient noise.

 

[peternorth]

Probably mentioned before but packed Bar or Nightclubs scenes where they are in conversations as if there is no background noise at all.

Or when there IS noise which is audible to a nightclub level, the characters are speaking at normal volume and the viewer is able to watch and hear easily

 

[TheJanuaryMan]

Probably mentioned before but packed Bar or Nightclubs scenes where they are in conversations as if there is no background noise at all.

Usually where a key member of the story is served instantly by a bar person, who often is able to impart key information in a low voice.