Stupid movie thing I hate

[BottlesOf]

I hate the following which often happens in movies.

Two people are having a disagreement, maybe one is holding the other prisoner, or one is robbing the other, or one is trying to get the other to do something they don't want to do. Anyway, the one person has a gun and is trying to use it to persuade the other person. The other person resists and refuses to comply, but then, the first person COCKS the gun. Uh-oh, now he must be serious, he cocked the gun. This is now an entirely different situation, and I will immediately back down. Lame.

[Blarg]

This sounds like it was inspired by Roger Ebert's thing on his site where they've assembled a whole encyclopedia of these. It's a very fun read and fun subject though. Anyone who hasn't seen it on Ebert's site should check it out.

Here's the one I hate:

Hero of the movie fights the bad guys for most of the movie sustaining many cuts, bruises and other assorted injuries that don't seem to affect him at all.

However, when he's with his love interest and she's cleaning him up and bandaging his wounds, he looks like he's in a lot of pain. Lot's of wincing.

[BottlesOf]

Don't know of it. Link?

[Klepton]

i'm ashamed to say this was on LOST last episode. very good observation.

[BottlesOf]

It's everywhere.... [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

[Bigdaddydvo]

Actually firing a warning shot is much cooler than just cocking a gun.

[witeknite]

I can't remember which ones, but I think there has been at least one movie that involved a pump action shotgun having a shell chambered as the "I'm serious" warning. This is especially retard as it says, "I couldn't have shot you a second ago."

WiteKnite

[TimM]

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Actually firing a warning shot to the kneecap is much cooler than just cocking a gun.

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[Blarg]

Good point.