# Recent movie trends you hate
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 29, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030 "2007-03-29T20:59:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@wonder9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonder9)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/41 "2007-03-30T00:55:40Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud]
Scout was dressed as a ham. I don’t remember an onion costume.
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:smack:
See? There are so many play scenes in movies that I’m mixing them up.
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/42 "2007-03-30T01:01:26Z")
> [@The Scrivener](#):
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> Desaturated color.
There’s so much room to do cool, subtle, innovative things with color that I can’t even bring myself to see movies that do it the obvious, cliche ways.
> [@Caridwen](#):
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> Overdone- Parents attending a school play. Parents and kids stare at each other and share a special moment.
This one elicits a reaction somewhere between :rolleyes: and projectile vomiting for me. The last thing I wanted at my high school basketball games were for my parents to show up–they might hear the dirty conversations I have with my teammates and their being there put pressure on me, too. (Thank God they didn’t know anything about basketball or it would’ve been even worse.) So scenes like this make me completely disengage from the movie.
> [@lissener](#):
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> I’m tired of the tacked on twist ending that has almost no organic connection to the rest of the movie. Recent worst example: The Illusionist.
I loved the twist in that movie. I thought it worked really well in the context of what happened beforehand, especially Cutter’s testimony at the beginning of the movie.
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/43 "2007-03-30T01:02:46Z")
I hate this proliferation of trilogies. It seems like the “more is better” rationale is leading to an excess of tired filmmaking. I mean, why have one good movie when you can have three barely-mediocre movies? :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/44 "2007-03-30T01:08:05Z")
**Queen Bruin** , don’t even get me started on Rocky Balboa.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/45 "2007-03-30T01:18:37Z")
[QUOTE=fetus]
**Queen Bruin** , don’t even get me started on Rocky Balboa.
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Ah yes, the sixth part in the increasingly inaccurately-named trilogy of Rocky “movies.”
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### Author:  [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/46 "2007-03-30T01:46:40Z")
[QUOTE=silenus]
The lack of gratuitous nudity on the part of the leading actresses.
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Or actors :mad: . Compare **American Pie** (any one except Naked Mile) and **Porkys** (any one).
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### Author:  [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/47 "2007-03-30T01:53:05Z")
I’m fed up with the ‘cast of billions because CGI means we can’ phenomenon. ‘Hey Mr. Director, if you want a scene featuring thousands of people / delegates / soldiers / boats (or whatever) you can have it, because all we have to do is crunch some more numbers in the render farm.’
Yep, but just because you _can_ do it doesn’t mean you _should_, or that it will look like anything except indulgent overkill for its own sake.
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/48 "2007-03-30T01:58:53Z")
I don’t hate the trend, but I think the swords and sandals are beyond played out by now–that, and the racing of fast cars.
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/49 "2007-03-30T03:05:09Z")
I find the rushing wind “SWOOP” noise when a camera pans suddenly to be overdone lately. I seem to remember that it started on TV, maybe mostly in comedies, but Scorcese did one in “The Departed” that jumped out at me.
Sir Rhosis
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/50 "2007-03-30T03:38:23Z")
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool]
You’re definitely right that both of those are the two that I recently was made aware of and which prompted this thread. But in both cases, I thought to myself “WHAT, a NOTHER movie of this sort?”. I don’t see why I would have conjured up that reaction out of whole cloth.
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The hellish _Grinch who stole Christmas_ movie a few years ago had the competing-over-Christmas-decorations scenes. It was one shitty bit in a shitacular shitstravaganza–who would have guessed that someone would try to expand it into an entire movie?
And then there was some horrid-looking thing a couple years ago in which a college-aged daughter is unexpectedly coming home for Christmas, forcing her parents into a decorating frenzy that appeared to be in competition with neighbors.
I think you’re right: it’s a trend, and a mindboggingly irritating one.
Daniel
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### Author:  [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/51 "2007-03-30T03:54:15Z")
I agree with **ianzin** on the one billion CGI enemies. I particularly hate when the handful of heroes faces a billion CGI enemies. LOTR did this and I hated it. They are facing literally thousands of enemies. After the first wave, there would be nothing left of the fellowship except for a greasy stain on the ground. A million against 12 is heroic, it’s just stupid.
Also, I’m sick of comic books and graphic novels turned into movies (also video games into movies). Enough. A NY times reviewer wrote a while back that he is tired of pretending that these films are deep and dark when they are actually embarassingly sophmoric.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/52 "2007-03-30T03:57:17Z")
20,000 to 2
and we killed them both!
d&r
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/53 "2007-03-30T04:19:23Z")
[QUOTE=fetus]
**Queen Bruin** , don’t even get me started on Rocky Balboa.
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I had had Rocky Balboa conveniently wiped from my mind until you mentioned it! 😛
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### Author:  [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/54 "2007-03-30T04:36:10Z")
[QUOTE=fetus]
> [@lissener](#):
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> I’m tired of the tacked on twist ending that has almost no organic connection to the rest of the movie. Recent worst example: The Illusionist.
I loved the twist in that movie. I thought it worked really well in the context of what happened beforehand, especially Cutter’s testimony at the beginning of the movie.
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Actually, **lissener** was talking about _The Illusionist_, and I believe you’re referring to _The Prestige_.
They are both movies about magicians with a rivalry, and the movies came out about the same time, so it’s easy to confuse the titles.
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### Author:  [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/55 "2007-03-30T04:42:18Z")
The Will Ferrell adult jackass films - Talledega Nights, and now the ice-skating one. Ol’ Will is becoming the Rob Schneider of the 00s. Take a cue from Adam Sandler and get out of the game while you can.
I’m tired of computer-animated cartoons. It just means there are more of the annoying things. I liked it when it took years to put together a Disney flick!
Speaking of which… I know it’s a kid thing primarily, but I’ve had my fill of movies that either a) have a superimposed talking mouth on an animal, or b) have lifelike representations of animals that are overly humanized (Happy Feet and its ilk). I think kids look at penguins in the zoo nowadays and wonder why they don’t have Spanish accents and dance.
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### Author:  [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/56 "2007-03-30T05:30:30Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia]
I don’t hate the trend, but I think the swords and sandals are beyond played out by now–that, and the racing of fast cars.
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I couldn’t agree more, but the 15 year-old boys that make the cinema a profitable industry seem to think otherwise.
I just saw a trailer for Spiderman Ad Infinitum, and I couldn’t help thinking that doing imperfect CGI is much worse than doing no CGI at all.
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### Author:  [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/57 "2007-03-30T06:15:42Z")
There’s a filming technique I’ve seen a lot of lately, I don’t know what it’s called, but I think they double each frame of film in a particular scene (mostly action scenes), which causes the picture to look jerky. I first remember noticing it in _28 Days Later_, probably because of the way it made the rain look, but they also did it in the _Hills Have Eyes_ remake (which I loved, by the way—they kept everything that was good about the original and made it more intense, and with much better actors). I don’t mind this technique (and even liked it in _28 Days Later_), but I can’t help but think that it’s going to look awfully dated in twenty years.
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/58 "2007-03-30T06:16:48Z")
> [@Waenara](#):
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> Actually, lissener was talking about The Illusionist, and I believe you’re referring to The Prestige.
:smack:
OK. I haven’t seen The Illusionist. Sorry **lissener**. Thanks **Waenara**.
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### Author:  [@Crispy\_McCloud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crispy_McCloud)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/59 "2007-03-30T10:42:04Z")
I third the point about CGI battle scenes. On top of that, I’m also a little tired of the ‘big speech before the battle’ scene.
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### Author:  [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2007, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-movie-trends-you-hate/398030/60 "2007-03-30T10:55:06Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo]
**X-Men 2**. Charles visits Magneto in his cell. Gas comes out. Magneto says “I’m sorry Charles. I had no choice.” Then for no reason he screams “You should’ve killed me when you had the chance!!” When was Charles _ever_ planning on killing Magneto?
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He wasn’t, and Magneto doesn’t say he was, just that he had the chance. That he did.
The whole CGI thing. Not just the billions of enemies, but the “monster with ridiculously flexible and stretchable physique just because we couldn’t do it with animatronics” thing and basically anything they do just because they can. Like that “wobbly watery substance” effect (like the underwater city in _The Phantom Menace_) - an effect with no real-world counterpart, done just because computers make it look good.
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