What really pisses me off in movies.

[GuardhouseMusic]

Yeah, Diary of the Dead has a strangely annoying as fuck protagonist. "I HAVE TO TAPE THIS!!"

Quarantine had a lot of problems. How about that woman who was watching snow and foaming? Oh she's normal.

[Darkmoon]

REC is available to rent at my local library, oddly enough.

This one of those cases where something feels scripted for a certain outcome, or as my wife puts it 'Because it's in the script'. As they go this one doesn't feel too bad...it's actually believable that the guy wouldn't want to hurt even an infected child, since at that point in the movie they still think it's people they're dealing with, even if they're infected with a disease. Since a cop would want to help someone, most likely, and you don't just bash a sick kids head in...

It's not as bad as Diary of the Dead, though, where the guy constantly watches his friends get attacked and just records it. Either they'd kill him or he'd help. Meh.

[Helegad]

Yeah, I heard about Rec. I'm tracking it down

[Gideon Quinn]

Quarrantine is a remake of [REC], a Spanish film that was released approx 8 months before the typical soulless Hollywood remake. And guess what? It's virtually identical. Either the makers of Quarrantine realised how good a movie [REC] was and chose not to fuck with it too much, or they juat assumed that people were too lazy to read subtitles and decided to do a shot for shot remake.

But yes, the same thing happens in [REC] involving the little child - So we can rule out the accusation of it being a Hollywood staple. I think the whole point of that scene was to build tension and to make us shout "No you stupid idiot! Don't do that!" - There's a scene like that in every horror film and having dumb people in horror films certainly helps mount the tension.

[Helegad]

That was at least slightly more logical than what happened in Quarantine. Wikus was panicked by what was happening.

What that cop did was just plain stupid, panicked or not.

[kevstah2004]

Typical Hollywood melodrama BS take D9 for instance
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He leaves the pawn for 10 odd seconds then comes back to save the day.

[Helegad]

I just watched Quarantine. Shit-scary movie, but I just wanted to get into my screen and demonstrate how it's done at some points.

See, all these people have encountered countless rabies victims, yet the little girl is somehow an exception when it comes to dealing with them. She's hiding in a closet, red eyes, blood all over her, insane look on her face, and the cop is still all "oh come here, we won't hurt you, look I'll hold out my hand so you can grab me and rip the shit out of my neck with your teeth".

God, you see it in so many movies. The IQ of these people have to be less than 80. The firefighter had a hammer; if I was there, I woulda grabbed it and caved in the little bitch's head. No matter she's a child, she was no different to any of the other victims now.

Dammit, this "thing" annoys me most in the movies out of everything.