Badger Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 10 hours ago, Cassandra said: The Heroine being kidnapped off screen. And when she appears again, she gotta spit in the villain's face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 My dad's biggest pet peeve: When shooting at the running hero, shooting behind the hero rather than leading him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 The instant exploding car. Especially if it goes off a road into a ravine etc or over a cliff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 *cue A-team Music* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 Which, thank you Badger, reminds me. If you get shot or stabbed a lack of blood. Granted this was part of the Hays code amongst other things but still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 7 hours ago, Ragitsu said: You guys and gals DO realize we play tabletop games, right ? What are tabletop gaming sessions if not action movies with infinite budgets? I had a saying in the nineties -- "Anything that appears in a roleplaying game is, by definition, a cliche." Since then originality in RPGs has improved somewhat, although usually these are the more esoteric titles you see as a result of the PDF revolution. The example that leaps to mind is the Japanese game (translated into English) Golden Sky Stories, which uses a completely different paradigm in terms of setting and story design (The supplements are great too -- I highly recommend Fantasy Friends.) But the point stands the closer you get to the D&D/Pathfinder/GURPS mainstream. Everyone wants to play in something they can readily identify. In the case of Hero System, that usually means superheroes, who by definition can survive, thrive, and conquer in circumstances that utterly destroy normals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 1 hour ago, death tribble said: Which, thank you Badger, reminds me. If you get shot or stabbed a lack of blood. Granted this was part of the Hays code amongst other things but still. Related to that is the need everyone perceives to pull out bullets or arrows, especially by themselves with nothing approaching suitable gear. This is a textbook example of what people whose professions make it likely they will go into combat (soldiers in particular, and to a lesser extent police) are trained not to do. If you try it, you're more than likely to bleed out and die. Instead, you leave it in and do everything you can (with the resources you have available) to staunch the already substantial bleeding and keep the wound clean until you can get to a hospital or other source of trained medical professionals. The bullet or arrow itself is not going to hurt you more than you've already been hurt. It can wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netzilla Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 You can whack someone upside the head with a baseball bat/pipe wrench/other heavy blunt object, and you only temporarily KO them at most. A car can flip 15 times, skid upside down, and crash into a tree and the passengers will only be dazed for a few moments and have a few superficial injuries. No matter how far you fall, so long as you land in water, you're fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netzilla Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 Insubstantial shrapnel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 1 hour ago, Netzilla said: Insubstantial shrapnel. Fireball frag grenades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netzilla Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 15 minutes ago, Ragitsu said: Fireball frag grenades. All explosions are gasoline explosions. To be honest, though, this doesn't bother me much as movies are a visual medium and a lot of real explosions wouldn't look like much on camera. Christopher R Taylor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 11 hours ago, Badger said: And when she appears again, she gotta spit in the villain's face. That's why they gag her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 The Boss who yells at them for breaking procedure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barwickian Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 12 minutes ago, Cassandra said: The Boss who yells at them for breaking procedure. The fact that they break procedure. They're cops who don't play by the rules... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 Yeah the "cop who breaks all the rules and is thrown off the force but solves the case anyway by killing all the suspects and destroying all the evidence in a cataclysmic series of explosions and fires" is my least favorite cliche. Even in otherwise really well done cop movies, that tends to be the end, ruining the entire film. I blame Die Hard, not so much for the film but because stupid writers and directors took all the wrong lessons from the movie. Matt the Bruins 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt the Bruins Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 I'll at least give Captain America a pass on surviving falls and impacts since he's actually superhuman in the movies. But yeah, action heroes (and villains) treating injuries that would kill people as paper cuts does get old after a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 The Good Guys back up who turn out to be working for the Bad Guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 1 hour ago, Netzilla said: To be honest, though, this doesn't bother me much as movies are a visual medium and a lot of real explosions wouldn't look like much on camera. None of these cliches bother me any more than a Phillips head screwdriver bothers me or an awl bothers me. Everything has its place. As for explosions? I've noticed that filmmakers are opting to accentuate simulated explosions with CGI shockwaves. This practice is fine by me ?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 https://vlipsy.com/vlip/deadpool-2-thats-just-lazy-writing-dFr8IexQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 The Angry Police Captain wants to see all of you in his office. Now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 Heroes getting away with causing a lot of collateral damage that destroy people's homes, businesses, and special events. Bond is especially guilty of this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 This might be of some interest-- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 27 minutes ago, tkdguy said: Heroes getting away with causing a lot of collateral damage that destroy people's homes, businesses, and special events. Bond is especially guilty of this one. Isn't that the reason superheroes were outlawed in the Incredibles universe -- too much collateral damage caused by heroic actions that may "save the day" but lead to a lot of other problems, like people having to go to the hospital, major transportation arteries having to be rebuilt, and a horrible mess to be cleaned up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 Hammer cocking noises every time someone raises a striker fired (i.e., hammerless . . .) pistol to threaten someone. Threatening someone with a 1911 without the hammer being cocked. Both of those in the same movie. Racking a round into the chamber of a pistol every freaking time it's picked up or drawn. Often two or three times in a row. Thank goodness for infinite ammo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted June 14, 2018 Report Share Posted June 14, 2018 Women running in high heels without losing their balance no matter what the danger is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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