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— Brad from England | Art | 10.25.2010 | Comments (0)
Automatic prestige afforded to big name actors who gain weight, wear weird unflattering prosthetics, or otherwise make themselves ugly for a role, regardless of the actual quality of the performance.
Charlize Theron in Monster, Kate Winslet as the old lady in Titanic, Nicole Kidman in The Hours, Salma Hayek in Frida, etc. Also disturbing is the fact that I can only think of female examples...like "OMG, she is SUCH a good actress that she's even willing to NOT BE PRETTY." (Often quickly followed by "Did you see how thick her arms were on the red carpet this year? What a fashion don't!")
— Diana from Brooklyn, NY | Art | 9.18.2009 | Comments (5)
"I'm running late, but save me a seat!"
Not only are you rude for being late but now i have to say "sorry, this is taken" ten thousand times before you arrive making me look like a jerk to everyone who showed up to the movie on time and has to sit in the front row.
this is especially bad when the movie is sold out or when your friend is really late.
— aleks g from brooklyn, ny | Art | 3.19.2009 | Comments (0)
People who watch the credits STANDING UP
Sit down and watch, leave, or stand at the back of the theater, but don't just stand there in front of me!
— Jerome K. from Boston | Art | 3.21.2009 | Comments (0)
Characters in animations or fantasy movies that make incoherent noises which can only be understood by another character who has to repeat what they said for the audience to understand.
This must have originated with owners being able to understand their dogs. "What's that boy? " "Woof!" "Danger? What? Fire ... in the old barn by the lake?" "Woof woof."
This is such a warn staple of fantasy fiction. Examples off the top of my head: R2D2, Chewbacca, Kenny on Southpark, Cousin It from Adam's Family, the son on Frisky Dingo.
— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Art | 11.25.2008 | Comments (0)
When a new, possibly annoying or cute, movie's soundtrack contains a song you've liked for a really long time.
And everyone thinks that it was made for the film. Thank you, Wes Anderson.
— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Art | 3.20.2009 | Comments (1)
Asking me if I liked the movie before the credits are over with.
As one who enjoys and commits to a film, there is a poignant break with reality that comes during the generally 1.5 to 2.5 hours of a film.
Asking me how this experience is when it just ending is like jarring me awake during a blissful dream to go to school. Please, let me exit this trance in peace!
— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Art | 3.16.2009 | Comments (0)
When you draw for a long time with a ball point pen and then you get so much hand grease on the page that the pen hardly works any more.
Then you get those little areas, that no matter how many times you go over, the pen wont make a mark. No drawing zones.
— rebecca from woodbury | Art | 7.13.2010 | Comments (0)
Endings in film or literature where everything turns out to have been fake.
it's such a cop out! it's already fiction damnit! "everything you thought was just made up, is EVEN MORE made up." there should be a specific term for this exact type of lameness. i just watched swimming pool. how annoying. same with atonement, it ruined a perfectly entertaining book. its so egotistical too, the fiction writer's statement on the power of fiction.
— rebecca from oh, connecticut | Art | 10.3.2008 | Comments (3)
— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Art | 10.5.2008 | Comments (2)
Camera panning in as person starts to cry.
On interviews on the news and any documentary footage, this happens without fail. It's so obvious, like the cameraman is saying to himself, Oh yeah, here's the money shot ...
— Stu from | Art | 4.9.2009 | Comments (0)
Movies using posh, but modern, English accents for ancient Greeks and Romans
— Kurt from Manhattan | Art | 3.20.2009 | Comments (7)
Clapping at the end of movies.
My oldest and truest peeve. The peeve that awakened me to the possibilities of gratuitous antagonism.
— Grome from New Town | Art | 10.25.2008 | Comments (5)
