Starlord Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 For hackneyed action movie scenes you hate. Feel free to delve into other genres if you wish. I nominate - Desperate protagonist without gun knocks out mook with gun then...DOESN'T PICK UP GUN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 Saying a bad pun about a now-deceased bad guy, said pun having to do with the way they died. For example, hero finds a way to fry the bad guy and then says, "You're toast." It's one thing if it's said just beforehand, so the bad guy can at least "appreciate" the pun (e.g. in Speed, when Keanu Reeves says, "I'm taller" just before the tunnel ceiling light takes off the bad guy's head). Or if the hero is bantering with someone else (though this still seems a little tasteless). But if nobody else is around to hear it, the protagonist is just talking to himself (well, really, the audience). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 Hero has a gun on the bad guy... and then tosses it aside to go hand-to-hand with the guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 The hero dives through a window, shattering the glass into a thousand shards which miraculously don't leave a scratch. The hero jumps onto the roof of a fleeing car, desperately clinging to it while the villain swerves to shake him off. Seriously, what did he think he was going to do once he was up there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 This thread makes me think of Last Action Hero and some of the stuff there, like, "you know, tar sticks to most people". BarretWallace 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 the girl has to be saved. Even when there is no way she is in danger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 The car chase. I tune out every time one starts. Gods, I hate car chases. Cassandra, drunkonduty and Trencher 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 Just now, Logan.1179 said: The car chase. I tune out every time one starts. Gods, I hate car chases. You must really hate Gone in 60 Seconds. Either version. When they kill a lot of police to make the point that the bad guy is bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 The Villain having the Hero helpless but then talks just long enough so the tables can be turned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 1 minute ago, death tribble said: You must really hate Gone in 60 Seconds. Either version. When they kill a lot of police to make the point that the bad guy is bad. Have not seen it. Or any of the Fast and Flurrious movies. Doubt I ever will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 Every action hero is a trained stunt driver. The hero's car is always somehow fitted with indestructible suspension, wheels, and tires. Groups of thugs fight the hero one at a time, rather than overpowering him with their numbers. Police/soldiers stand their ground and continue to shoot at someone/something that has not felt the effects of the first hundred rounds that hit. Knife fights. Protagonist can always get up and flee (usually in the second act), no matter how numerous/serious their wounds are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 Is the "magic countdown" still in use these days? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 Guns that never run out of ammo. Successfully defusing the bomb by blindly pulling / cutting a random wire at the last second. Cassandra 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 Bombs which are disarmed with one second left to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 The Heroine being kidnapped off screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ockham's Spoon Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 "Hero" was a top assassin or master thief but now after a change of heart will use his abilities for good. Because those skills sets just scream righteous behavior when applied correctly. The villain or hero being able to kill large numbers of people with little apparent consequence (well the villain gets killed in the end by the hero of course). The police must be too busy issuing traffic tickets to investigate mass killings (except during the aforementioned car chases, because the police can never catch main characters). Matt the Bruins and Trencher 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 Bullets that make sparks when they hit a wall, car, etc. Even more ridiculous subset of the aforementioned: Bullets that ignite gas tanks and blow up vehicles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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death tribble Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 2 hours ago, Logan.1179 said: Have not seen it. Or any of the Fast and Flurrious movies. Doubt I ever will. Then what did you see that put you off car chases ? And if you say Steve McQueen's Bullitt, I say thee NAY VILLAIN ! Bad Science. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 2 minutes ago, death tribble said: Then what did you see that put you off car chases ? And if you say Steve McQueen's Bullitt, I say thee NAY VILLAIN ! Bad Science. I've never been a fan, but I think the nail in the proverbial coffin was Ronin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 The Villain, no matter how old or desk bound, it able to physically take on and defeat the Hero. (Red 2) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 Hero holds villain at gunpoint, long dialogue ensues, then hero cocks hammer to show he really means it. Any scene involving a computer. Unbelievably inaccurate bad guys. Like half a dozen hardened thugs spray full auto at the hero from thirty feet away while he sprints for cover. Any character is hit by an arrow and can still function, even (or especially) if they break it off. Any character gets blown off their feet by an explosion and can still function, let alone hear. Exploding fuel tanks, especially when detonated by non-incendiary bullets. Note that all of the last four occurred in War for the Planet of the Apes, which was actually a really good movie in spite of the clichés. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 The worst new one that is used more often lately is "suffering catastrophic, even lethal damage, and walking away virtually unharmed." Its like the hero (and some villains) of action movies are all cartoons. The first example I ever saw of this was in Die Hard where Bruce Willis' and Alexander Gudonov's characters get in a fist fight. Basically both are punched way more times in the head than a normal person could sustain, but then Bruce puts GUdonov's head on a steel pipe then proceeds to punch him as hard as he can in the face like 15 times. Then he wraps the guy around the neck with a chain and hangs him. Minutes later, when the people are fleeing the roof top explosion he's still hanging there motionlessly. And yet he's still alive at the end of the movie. Or the times in The Mummy when Brendan Frasier's character is slammed in the chest so hard he flies like 30 feet and crashes into a stone wall, gets up a little dazed. Or Tony Stark in his steampunk armor falling 150 feet into sand head first, walking away unharmed. Or Captain America falling 4 stories on his head on a car and just being slightly dazed. It happens over, and over these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 Heroes are allowed to murder as many "unimportant" people, such as innocent security guards, as they want without it counting as a black mark on their character. The movies often want you to accept a mass murderer as a good guy. Christopher R Taylor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 You guys and gals DO realize we play tabletop games, right ? What are tabletop gaming sessions if not action movies with infinite budgets? RDU Neil, Michael Hopcroft, BoloOfEarth and 2 others 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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