Played out tropes in TV and Film

[DA Baracus]

Then start the next one outside the building.

[54_and_counting]

10 hours ago, coprolite said:

Six henchmen, one hero. Numerical advantage not pressed home as the stupid npcs attack in turns, one at a time. 

Every single martial arts film ever

[scottsdad]

On 20/09/2024 at 18:41, Rugster said:

Fantastic books

Meh books

[Wile E Coyote]

American CIA agents operating in a foreign city such as London or Paris taking out their guns and shooting at the bad guys in crowded streets with lots of civilians around. Has this actually ever happened in real life

Edited September 22 by Wile E Coyote

[DA Baracus]

When folk are playing video/computer games and they're shown to be mashing every button repeatedly and also rocking the thumbsticks in ludicrously random directions.

On top of that they physically move the controller side to side and up and down for some reason.

[BFTD]

35 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:

When folk are playing video/computer games and they're shown to be mashing every button repeatedly and also rocking the thumbsticks in ludicrously random directions.

On top of that they physically move the controller side to side and up and down for some reason.

Do they still do that? I thought that would've died out by now as more and more actors actually had experience of playing video games.

It was a real generational thing in the Eighties when you'd see people in sitcoms supposedly playing games - kids laughing at the ridiculous movements, adults confused about what was so funny.

[LIVIFOREVER]

When taking pills, usually pain killers or headache tablets, and having to throw your head back as you swallow them, emphasizing they're going down your throat. 

[54_and_counting]

When someone is being drowned, they literally die in less than ten seconds (yeah i know its done for show run time purposes) 

Not one henchman can ever hold their breath for longer

[Soapy FFC]

4 minutes ago, 54_and_counting said:

When someone is being drowned, they literally die in less than ten seconds (yeah i know its done for show run time purposes) 

Not one henchman can ever hold their breath for longer

Conversely, the hero can hold his breath underwater for about 10 minutes 

[54_and_counting]

58 minutes ago, Soapy FFC said:

Conversely, the hero can hold his breath underwater for about 10 minutes 

Aye while thrashing about and expending a ton of energy

[LIVIFOREVER]

In films nobody has a problem driving fast through cities, or finding parking spaces.

[BFTD]

3 hours ago, LIVIFOREVER said:

In films nobody has a problem driving fast through cities, or finding parking spaces.

I wonder if there's been an urban chase scene where the target is just a few cars ahead of the chaser and they're stuck in slow moving traffic, but the chaser can never quite get enough time at traffic lights to jump out and catch up with them.

This could be part of the solution to the Eighties action stars slipping into their dotage. Struggling to get their zimmer out of the trunk could still be awkward.

[LIVIFOREVER]

52 minutes ago, BFTD said:

I wonder if there's been an urban chase scene where the target is just a few cars ahead of the chaser and they're stuck in slow moving traffic, but the chaser can never quite get enough time at traffic lights to jump out and catch up with them.

This could be part of the solution to the Eighties action stars slipping into their dotage. Struggling to get their zimmer out of the trunk could still be awkward.

Aye or stuck behind a tractor or JCB.

Another thing, the amount of times when i was following a rep taking me to a new site to work on, and they had to keep pulling in waiting on me when i got stuck behind someone that had pulled out between us, then stopped at traffic lights, it really isn't as easy to follow someone in a busy City, yet they do it no problem in tv shows.

Edited yesterday at 02:41 by LIVIFOREVER

[GordonD]

6 hours ago, BFTD said:

I wonder if there's been an urban chase scene where the target is just a few cars ahead of the chaser and they're stuck in slow moving traffic, but the chaser can never quite get enough time at traffic lights to jump out and catch up with them.

Michael Caine does something like that in The Fourth Protocol. They're chasing a pre-Bond Pierce Brosnan and they're both stuck in traffic at a road works or something. Caine gets out of his van and runs forward until he gets to Brosnan's car, then shouts to his mate who rams the cars in front and behind as he pulls the van out to catch up. Don't remember if Brosnan still gets away.

[scottsdad]

A man is in a relationship with a woman. Both are happy. 

Another woman becomes interested in the man. He doesn't respond to her advances/doesn't realise they are happening. 

The new woman tries a new tactic and kisses the man...just as his wife/girlfriend walks in and immediately gets the wrong idea. 

I've seen this twice in the last week.

[54_and_counting]

Big tense situation, loads of talking between characters, parties etc, the minute the room clears the main characters phone starts ringing, absolutely impeccable timing

[Soapy FFC]

The phone rings in the police office, the detective answers it then shouts to everyone "let's go, a body's been found down by the river etc", and everyone gets up and goes. No one every says "hang on, I need a pee, I'll catch you up".