Subtitles for momentary translations being spoken that go too fast for my dumbo brain to read and then subtitle text that either blends in too much with what's behind it so I can't see it anyway or that uses a color or font that for some reason kills immersion for the movie they are applied to.

I also don't like when Hollywood throws in some insult or political preachiness that's obvious and targeted to some current issue especially when the movie has nothing to do with that. Then years later you don't even remember what it was about but you know they were being preachy about something and it serves no purpose other than as a distraction just because some joker with clout got to the writers.

I hate when someone uses the saying "its a free country".

When movies make the youth out to be more savvy and intelligent than their elders.

When movies go out of their way to make "Christians" appear like the most brainless, in-genuine, almost non-human robotic type individuals instead of people with the same background and same problems but with a different faith and belief-system.

It's been posted before but...

33? What are you folks talking about?

It's the first episode of the first season of Battlestar Galactica.

When I was a kid, it used to always irk me when some kid in a movie would get all upset and indignant with his father for missing his baseball game or whatever because of some important business meeting, or he missed his flight, or any number of other legitimate reasons.

Maybe that really says more about my childhood than it does about movies, but even when I was pretty small I could appreciate that my dad often had obligations and responsibilities superseding my immediate desires that had to be done to keep me clothed and fed and such.

Even now, knowing it's really just a movie-friendly device that serves to quickly illustrate a deeper ongoing father-son relationship issue, I still feel the urge to sort the kid out and explain that a father's love and attention is important, but so is having a roof over your head, food to eat, and a baseball glove so you can play in your posh suburban little league game.

edit: Colonel James, the new BSG is well worth watching if you are even just a bit interested in science fiction (well, the first couple seasons at least... after that, it goes a bit downhill but is still okay).

Thanks.

Never seen that show except for the 80's version.

Plus... Number 6 and Boomer. 'Nuff said.

Then there's the very well known and established cliche from the James Bond films and other spy genre films where the hero is apprehended by the main villain and instead of simply killing the hero outright he has to wine & dine him, strike up conversation, etc.

And then when the villain finally does decide to kill the hero, he leaves the area and leaves it up to his henchmen to do the deed.
And of course that plan always goes awry.

I always hate it when a character responds in an unbelievable way, beyond the example of the kid not understanding their parents have responsibilities.

All the time I'll see it and say "no real person would react that way!", but you can see it was done in order to set up the next scene or circumstance because if they HAD reacted normally the next event wouldn't work. My favorite is the wife/ex-wife/girlfriend acting with ridiculous outrage to some easily explainable event and not accepting the explanation, especially if it's barely different from something you've seen them accept 100 times before.

Eg the cop regularly works long shifts, getting home late or not at all, but THIS time the wife says "this is too much!" because he said THIS time he'd be there by X o'clock, but it's 15 mins after and he missed her clearly unimportant "thing" he said he'd show for.



The Jedi Master