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Old 05-04-2009, 12:01 AM
 
Location: Sale Creek, TN
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For me, it would be the ones where the charactar is walking/running away from an explosion, and never slows down or turns around to look.
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Old 05-04-2009, 12:11 AM
 
Location: Lemon Grove, CA USA
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Yes and the last minute jump, usually while holding the hand of the heroin, as the explosion goes off.

Another one that always cracks me up is the team of heroes doing a slow motion entrance. Be it a sports team onto the field or pilots into a hanger or whatever. Always makes me laugh.

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Old 05-04-2009, 01:30 AM
 
Location: Wherever women are
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Pretty much everything in the matrix trilogy.

He's the one. Blah! Gross!

I tried to do a somersault off the wall but fell down. LOL.
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Old 05-04-2009, 11:17 AM
 
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The Elvira Madigan/Gone With the Wind/Kermit and Miss Piggy race across a field of two lovers.

The camera circling like a vulture around a couple having a face to face conversation. Guaranteed to make a lot of people sick.

If you want to see the absolute cheesiest and abominably bad camerawork and direction, you HAVE to see "That's Clever," a series on one of the home improvement channels on tv. It goes beyond bad, beyond camp, beyond awful, beyond any sense of sanity, into the realms explored by psychotic six-year-olds with cameras after taking drugs. It really has set the standard for lowest bar in the pigpen. Jump shots, stop motion shots, stuff thrown at the camera shots, spinning shots, you name it. If it is childish and idiotic, they have it.

The show is totally unwatchable without the help of a DVR. The slow fast forward speed on a tivo is actually MORE watchable than seeing it at the broadcast speed. The producer, director and cameramen should all be buried up to their necks in sand at a beach with a high tide.
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Old 05-04-2009, 01:01 PM
 
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The scene in which Hero loses female love interest (she dies, I mean), and so he stands/kneels and screams out his anguish to the surrounding countryside (maybe while he cradles her body, maybe not). Usually, he's in some remote place so nobody hears him and it's just this primal scream of heartbreak.

It's not that I doubt the sincerity of the action or that men can feel such things so strongly. It's just that it's been done (in the movies). A lot.
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Old 05-04-2009, 02:40 PM
 
Location: Back in the gym...Yo Adrian!
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Good guy is about to get shot by bad guy, but then out of the shadows, a previous victim of the bad guy appears and shoots him dead just in time.

Horror movies that use the cat that jumps out of nowhere to startle you. Or some other animal.

The "buddy cop" formula has been used to death, enough already. That and the older cop breaking in the rookie.

Use of CGI is way overdone, especially in horror movies.

Martial arts movies using the "Matrix" CGI in fight scenes rather than have actual real time fight scenes without the guy suspended in mid-air during a backflip.

The fart joke...I'm tired of comedies using toilet humor for cheap laughs.
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Old 05-04-2009, 06:36 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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All of those entire movies that are 100 minutes of beautiful people in New York City talking to each other about their relationship problems.
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Old 05-04-2009, 07:27 PM
 
Location: In the north country fair
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The "Hollywood" kiss--where one person is kissing the top lip of the other person who is kissing the bottom lip. Seriously, does anyone really kiss like that? Is it supposed to look better than a real kiss? Because it doesn't, it just doesn't!
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Old 05-04-2009, 11:52 PM
 
Location: Wherever women are
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The "Hollywood" kiss--where one person is kissing the top lip of the other person who is kissing the bottom lip. Seriously, does anyone really kiss like that? Is it supposed to look better than a real kiss? Because it doesn't, it just doesn't!
Maybe that is a technique to avoid bad breath?
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Old 05-05-2009, 07:12 PM
 
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The horror movie ending where the villain just will not die, gets stabbed or clubbed or shot by the hero/heroine about a gazillion times, something no one could really survive, seems to be dead, suddenly reappears alive and kickin' still threatening the hero/heroine, repeat 87 times until villain is finally really dead.
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