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Exploding helicopters...

Posted by Dalton on December 30, 2003 at 12:20:57

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...

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