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I agree, seeing a microphone....

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In Reply to: IMMEDIATE turn-offs in films? posted by tinear on August 02, 2003 at 14:11:56:

will transport you right out of your "suspension of disbelief" just as seeing a modern penny transported Christopher Reeves back to his modern hum-drum life in Somewhere in Time.
What makes me turn off a movie (turn off a movie-movie turn offs...same difference) is a musical sequence, especially if it involves two or more characters getting cute with each other, or one character getting cute with herself while looking in a mirror. Maybe the cutsie musical sequence is a new version of what was formerly an intermission...it adds nothing to the picture, and allows you the time to get a drink or go to the powder room.
Muriel's Wedding had a couple of them.
Any Julia Roberts film will have one.
Other turn offs....overacted scenes
and violence and gore just for the sake of an "r" rating
and stingy people :o)
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Re: I agree, seeing a microphone.... - TA 19:24:33 08/02/03 (1)
roger ebert posed that as a movie rule one time - something like, where a group of female characters are cooking in the kitchen, someone will inevitably turn on the radio and ...
- you can find them anywhere.... - Mrs. Piggy 10:30:09 08/03/03 (0)
  riding in a car
  washing the car
  watering the yard
  hanging the laundry
  getting ready for bed
  fixing a car
  going shopping
  trying on new clothes
  cooking
  They fall into a couple of categories:
  (Bad)
  The characters don't know the music is playing, and are doing something cute like prancing about the beach or having a pillow a pillow fight
  (Really Bad)
  The characters Know the music is playing and they are being fun and daring...perhaps they are singing out loud, in a convertible full of twenty somethings with the top rolled down and their hair blowing in the wind.
  (The Worst)
  The character know the music is playing, and one or more of the characters will pick up a hair brush and pretend to be a singer, sometimes you see this while people are in their nightgowns (I think Tom Cruise-Risky Business started this one). Sometimes you see them wearing wigs or dress up clothes.
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