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Nov 3, 2015 - 7:16 AM
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Mr. Jack
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...a character is portrayed as a stereotypical "nerd", and they are apparently interested in EVERY even vaguely "nerdy" thing in pop culture? Something like The Big Bang Theory is a good example...Sheldon and his friends are into Star Trek and Star Wars...and Babylon 5...and X-Men...and Superman...and... (etc., etc., etc.) I'm into a lot of nerdy stuff myself, but I hardly have enough interest or free time to watch all sci-fi and/or fantasy shows and movies. It's never enough to just have someone be a "Trekkie" or whatever, they literally have to have their living space crammed wall-to-wall with random sci-fi memorabilia and assorted rickrack. Hell, prior to the J.J. Abrams movies, I knew virtually nothing about Star Trek, aside from the general clichés that have seeped into pop culture.
Also, "nerdy" characters must have thick glasses, horrible hygiene, terrible fashion sense, and must cringe away in terror when confronted with an attractive woman (even as they secretly lust after them in their private time). Movie characters who admit to liking Star Trek/Wars are never played by the likes of Brad Pitt or whoever.
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...a character is portrayed as a stereotypical "nerd", and they are apparently interested in EVERY even vaguely "nerdy" thing in pop culture? Something like The Big Bang Theory is a good example...Sheldon and his friends are into Star Trek and Star Wars...and Babylon 5...and X-Men...and Superman...and... (etc., etc., etc.) I'm into a lot of nerdy stuff myself, but I hardly have enough interest or free time to watch all sci-fi and/or fantasy shows and movies. It's never enough to just have someone be a "Trekkie" or whatever, they literally have to have their living space crammed wall-to-wall with random sci-fi memorabilia and assorted rickrack. Hell, prior to the J.J. Abrams movies, I knew virtually nothing about Star Trek, aside from the general clichés that have seeped into pop culture.
I pretty much resemble this person. I am a huge fan of Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings, Marvel, and DC. And that doesn't even count the series that I enjoy at least some of the films in the series, but don't consider myself to be a hard core fan like the Alien series, the Terminator series, Battlestar Galactica, etc. Of course, I don't love each series equally. Nor do I devote equal time to each series. For example, no other series can match the number of times I have seen the Star Wars movies. Nor do I love all things SF or fantasy, but that said, if it involves SF or fantasy, my interest is at least piqued.
Also, "nerdy" characters must have thick glasses, horrible hygiene, terrible fashion sense, and must cringe away in terror when confronted with an attractive woman (even as they secretly lust after them in their private time). Movie characters who admit to liking Star Trek/Wars are never played by the likes of Brad Pitt or whoever.
This is definitely true. Adam Scott's Ben Wyatt from Parks and Recreation is one of the rare exceptions to this.
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Nov 3, 2015 - 8:36 AM
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Mr. Jack
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This is definitely true. Adam Scott's Ben Wyatt from Parks and Recreation is one of the rare exceptions to this.
Also Halle Berry in Boomerang and Zoe Saldanna in The Terminal admit to being Trekkies (even if Saldanna totally messes up the Vulcan finger salute in the latter...funny she actually went on to appear in Trek). 99% of the time, though, anyone who has any sort of interest in nerdy shit in the movies is always a grotesque, morbidly-obese shut-in.
Wait, Steve Carell in The 40 Year Old Virgin was actually good-looking and in-shape...the bad fashion sense and awkwardness around women was there, but at least they made him out to be somewhat functional in general society, despite the usual, "Ha-ha, let's plaster his apartment with toys!" visual shorthand for "he's never been laid". It's just such a cruel cliché, though...you like sci-fi? Then you're a retarded hermit who no woman will ever touch.
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you see this in superhero movies a lot....
example: SMALLVILLE
an elevator is sabotaged and is hurtling in freefall to destruction. Supe' flies to the bottom of the shaft and stops the car from hitting pavement by stretching out his arms. Of course, the force of the impact is still the same and the car would be crushed. An object or person in freefall has to be gradually slowed down or cushioned in some way i.e. a trampoline.
brm
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I hate it when a character - usually a cop - calls another character "hotshot". It makes me want to punch the writer.
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Before he gets into action, some anti-hero is living like a slob, drinking beer & eating junk food, yet for some reason he has the body & abbs of a...well, of a Hollywood actor with his own personal trainer!
I kinda already pointed this out in an earlier post
But, it can never be repeated enuf
brm
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I hate it when a character - usually a cop - calls another character "hotshot". It makes me want to punch the writer.
Or, in film noir films from the 40's "smart boy"
brm
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...when someone is confronted with a mysterious gun or a knife left on a desk or the floor...and then immediately pick it up, all the better to leave incriminating fingerprints upon it? Ron Howard's film The Paper has one of the all-time dumbest examples of this I can think of (two black teenagers come across a shot-up car filled with bodies, and one stoops down to pick up the UZI left behind by the killers). Even worse when the character who picks it up is a police officer or detective who should know better.
PERRY MASON seemed to use this cliché in every ep!!!!!
brm
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