Movie Cliches

[Cort Haus]

Geronimo, I don't think you're getting into the spirit of this. You keep pouring cold water on all these wonderful cliches. They're true - I promise!

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
But they appear as streams of particles, not as clouds.

I learned this when Armstrong et al blasted off from the moon. I had expected to see them raise a big cloud of dust. Instead, the exhaust shot down, ricochetted off the moon, and then shot out in straight lines. For clouds of dust to form, you need air to turn the exhaust particles.

Certainly that behavior looks different from dust 'clouds' in an atmosphere but how exactly it would look in the specific cases used in nbsg is hard to say. I suppose they error mainly in allowing it to so closely resemble familar atmospheric dust clouds rather than investigating how such particle 'clouds' look as they disperese through a vacuum in simple newtonian vectors.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


Hans Gruber = English accent
Grand Moff Tarkin = English accent

Anyone else think Lt Gruber from 'Allo 'Allo when they saw this.

[Kropotkin]

Some of the so called cliches are probably unique for one or two films...

The cliches about sex - particulary so in american films - really annoy me though. Not that Hollywood invented the double standard, but they sure as hell perfected it. I consider myself reasonably sane but some peoples views about sex are really screwed by their media impressions. Experience often leads to wisdom but when two youngsters get together and one got his/her (I'd say 'her', but that might be seen as a cliche) sex-ed from "Pretty Woman" and the other one got it from "may the forskin be with you" and "Willie ****er and the Fudge packing factory" there's bound to be clash of anticipations.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Kropotkin
Some of the so called cliches are probably unique for one or two films...

The cliches about sex - particulary so in american films - really annoy me though. Not that Hollywood invented the double standard, but they sure as hell perfected it. I consider myself reasonably sane but some peoples views about sex are really screwed by their media impressions. Experience often leads to wisdom but when two youngsters get together and one got his/her (I'd say 'her', but that might be seen as a cliche) sex-ed from "Pretty Woman" and the other one got it from "may the forskin be with you" and "Willie ****er and the Fudge packing factory" there's bound to be clash of anticipations.

I don't pin the blame on hollywood so much as the censors they have to contend with in the US market.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Anyone else think Lt Gruber from 'Allo 'Allo when they saw this.

I did

"The first thing they teach you at military academy, Hans, is never to tell a general when he has a chicken on his head."

'Allo 'Allo

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Kropotkin
Some of the so called cliches are probably unique for one or two films...

The cliches about sex - particulary so in american films - really annoy me though. Not that Hollywood invented the double standard, but they sure as hell perfected it. I consider myself reasonably sane but some peoples views about sex are really screwed by their media impressions. Experience often leads to wisdom but when two youngsters get together and one got his/her (I'd say 'her', but that might be seen as a cliche) sex-ed from "Pretty Woman" and the other one got it from "may the forskin be with you" and "Willie ****er and the Fudge packing factory" there's bound to be clash of anticipations.

Even notice how, during Hollywood sex, no one ever laughs, giggles, squeals, jokes, tickles, etc.? They approach the act with all the joy of a funeral.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Dauphin


Anyone else think Lt Gruber from 'Allo 'Allo when they saw this.

When I saw your reply I was thinking "Well, who else could they be thinking of?"...then Die Hard eventually came into picture...

[Provost Harrison]

Reminds me of my drive home from Dartford last week

[Dauphin]

I knew I should never have given you that image file.

[Provost Harrison]

[LordShiva]

I can't find season 6 episode 9 online anywhere

I've downloaded most of the subsequent ones, but I want to watch them in order

[Cort Haus]

OK , first random movie I watched since posting this thread - Tank Girl. It's crap, with the most annoying lead character ever, but the super-villain is ... English actor Malcom McDowell.

[Dis]

english don't just play bad guys. They play sophisticated or snooty guys as well. A lot of times germans play bad guys (die hard films). Germans just make natural bad guys.

[pchang]

Originally posted by BeBro
Btw, I wondered why they use sounds sparsely in nBSG, but always have missiles with smoke trails in space (not to forget the smoke coming out the Galactica when it was on fire after a missile hit in the pilot movie/miniseries)?

Damage in space would result in outgassing. In many circumstances, this would look like smoke. Missiles in space would leave exhaust trails, but much much fainter than in nBSG.