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In Reply to: Movie cliches - A New Year's Resolution posted by Bambi B on December 29, 2003 at 14:34:46:
Just ONCE I'd like to see them all land safely in an action movie. Better yet, why not use them at all? (My guess is that they're used because the small scale models fly and explode so convincingly at relatively little expense.)In general, I vow to avoid these broad Hollywood cliches:
- Any movie involving time travel.
- Body-switching movies.
- Any movies involving cloning and/or genetic mutation.
- Future dystopias where one large evil (conservative) corporation supplants Liberal democracy. Is there any doubt that the evil fascist regime that has controlled millions for decades will be overthrown in two hours by a single individual? Probably by a nerd with special powers or a time traveler?
- Future dystopia after an environmental disaster (usually brought about by capitalist excess). Usually these stories are just an excuse to keep cgi programmers employed, and after 9/11 I'm no longer impressed by a fuzzy computer image of New York under water.
- Fictional love stories set against the spectacle of historic tragedy. I'm fully expecting to see, some day, the 1871 story of Rose O'Leary and Jack D'arson and the trouble they cause as they retreat to her mother's barn and knock over a lantern while rolling in the hay...- Animated movies with flatulent anthropomorphic wildlife.
- Any movie featuring Kung Fu or other Asian martial arts, especially where the fight scenes are too well choreographed and generally-accepted laws of physics are ignored. If I want this type of "realism" I'll watch West Side Story.
I'm expecting to save a lot of money by not going to the movies this year. Too much good music coming out on SACD anyway...
Follow Ups:
Dalton,A very good list- I think I will join your moratorium on these items also!
Especially:
Exploding helicopters: I enjoy helicopters and haven't yet been in an exploding one. Have you noticed also how often the movie pilots are shown flying from the left seat? Is this to correspond to popular concept?
Time travel: This has become too easy and everyone is popping back and forth. I like the "Terminator" concept- naked and one way only a bit better, but overall it's an easy technique.
Evil corporations: I agree again here as fiction will never match the dull reality of how big companies work- hierarchy, blame passing, marketing angst, and dogged number crunching.
NY under water: Notice the WTC towers projecting out of the frozen sea in "A.I." 2000 years.
Love Stories in tough places: Yes, we haven't seen the Chicago fire one, nor has anyone done the last hour of the WTC towers- admirable restraint for once. Most unfortunate love story in a disaster setting: "Titanic".
Martial Arts: I enjoyed "Crouching Tiger"- until they were just running over the tree tops. This made sense in the "Matrix", but this leads me to:
Over-editing: I hate the idiotic change of angle/POV every 1/8th second. This was so ridiculous for the second "Batman" it was unwatchable on that ground only. A mask for lower production values- if we were allowed to focus on anything we's see the fromage?
And another:
Anti-gravity: I am sick of just about everything floating around without any apparent fuss or expenditure of energy. Most stupid example: Robin Williams' version of "Absent-Minded Professor", called "Flubber" after the compound that makes "anti-gravity", but all along Williams is accompanied by the gabby robot that just floats silently next to him. Why did he need to invent flubber if he had this floating robot? Wouldn't this sentient, conversational robot playing the film clips and floating in the air be a more fabulous invention than the flying Thunderbird? Interesting that Williams takes flubber to sell to the Ford Co. instead of giving it free to the US Gov't. as did Fred McMurray- a change of priorities between 1963 and 1999?
Yes, with the current movie crop, I'll be spending more time with the LPs.
Cheers,
Bambi B
I forgot to mention "Frequency" which, despite its confusing ending, does hold interest.
The CONCEPT is fascinating but I agree they just don't do them well, the best being the original "The Time Machine" (although "Time After Time" is a guilty pleasure of mine).I believe Robert Redford owns the rights to what could be the all time best if done right, "Time After Time", Jack Finney's 1972 novel with pictures. For 30 years I been afraid that someone would do a shitty TV movie version but so far, so good. Let's hope for the best from Redford.
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