Horror movies of the '00s:
Torture films. Sequels to remakes that are themselves remakes. Uwe Boll. Ghosts killing people... through the Internet.

Romantic comedies (or romantic action films) produced to showcase the latest hot Hollywood couple.

VH1. (Oh, sorry, I guess that's not film-related.) 

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The stubborness of the French to continue making French language films long after French stopped being the international language of the world. Damn arrogant Frenchies.

Also, not film, but I think that CSI Timbuktu goes too far.

Beauty is momentary in the mind -
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives.
So evenings die, in their green going,
A wave, interminably flowing.
So gardens die, their meek breath scenting
the cowl of winter, done repenting.
So maidens die, to the auroral
Celebration of a maiden's choral.
Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings
Of those white elders; but, escaping,
Left only Death's ironic scraping.
Now in its immortality, it plays
On the clear viol of her memory,
And makes a constant sacrement of praise.

('Peter Quince at the Clavier' by Wallace Stevens)

Bleep you, & bleep the establishment, and bleep all of you who are trying to make me part of the unestablished establishment.

That awful plot device of so many romantic films consisting on a guy who bets with some friends that he will date the (not so) ugly girl, then he falls in love with her, she falls in love with him, she finds out about the bet, gets angry, he explains himself (using lines like "my love for you was real"), she forgives him and everybody happy... I think Mandy Moore has done about 3,000 of those films...

There are variations like the guy who lies saying he's someone else...

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

Agreed. Oh my god, AGREED. I hate romance flicks anyhow, so this just makes them even worse. Although I do have to say, Mandy Moore has never done any of those films. Don't ask how I know. Just trust me that it is so. :) But HILARY DUFF HAS. Someone needs to STOP her. Her and that horse-faced sister of hers. Ugh.

Another annoying trend...the incredibly unimaginative and wholly disappointing *GASP* TWIST ENDING! *GASP* While it's true that most thrillers and horror flicks would suck without the twist ending, it just seems that nowadays that's the filmmaker's whole goal...they're just creating the rest of the film as a runway to their INCREDIBLY CLEVER! twist ending. Like a giant glowing marquee that says "LOOK! I thought of that! I'm SO AWESOME! Weren't you SURPRISED?!"

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

I must check that out when I get home. :D Shyamalan tops my list of Annoying One-Trick Ponies. The man can't make a film without there being a TWIST ENDING!!! Which is sad because for the most part his films are at least interesting on their own. But we're built to expect this TWIST ENDING!!! and it's just such a sad gimmick. Not to mention his TWIST ENDING!!!s are easy to figure out (sorry, I figured out Sixth Sense by the time the restaurant scene rolled around; and don't get me started on Signs).

Another beef of mine (that is related to twist endings most of the time) is the trend of advertising a film as having a must-see ending. "It's a tale of the struggle between good and evil with an ending that will BLOW YOUR MIND!!!!" What the-? If you have to tell me that, it's a sh*tty movie to begin with. That's a typical television sweeps tactic (and the "twist"/ending is never even close to mind-blowing; most are so weak or transparent that I think we'd have grounds to sue the production companies for false advertising) and it's just a sign of bad things to come.

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

My boyfriend at the time (who, funny enough, is a huge Shyamalan fan, which explains A LOT) took me to see Fight Club after he'd already seen it twice. Like you, I figured it out about 15 minutes in. I turned to my bf and said "OK, we can leave. I know what the twist is." He was furious. But we stayed so I could ogle Jared Leto. He's also the one who forced me to watch Signs and I informed him as soon as I figured it out, which marks the last time he ever took me to see a movie. In fact, after that point he wouldn't watch movies with me that I hadn't already seen. Serves him right for subjecting me to dreck. :P

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

I didn't enjoy The Usual Suspects in the theater for the same reason.  I remember at a certain point my girlfriend of the time leaned over and whispered "I think the detective is actually Keyser Soze."  "No, he's not," I replied, dredging up what wit I could.  I liked it more the second time I watched it, though.

The only Shyamlamalmanan I've seen is Unbreakable, and I made no effort to figure out what the twist would be, and I felt that it suited the story when it arrived.  Plus, it was right there in front of you the whole time, so it wasn't like getting jerked around. 

~ Amanda

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Same here. Or rather, it's my favorite of his. It's basically what I was hoping Heroes was gonna be.

Anyway, I rarely figure out trick endings. I gauge a "twist" movie's value according to whether or not I found the film preceeding it interesting, not on how clever I am. That's why I liked Unbreakable and was indifferent to Fight Club.

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Same here.

I don't consider myself clever for figuring out the twists. I may be an a**hole, but I'm definitely not an arrogant one. I just discovered the twists because they were predictable. Most twists are. Easy to spot and yet easy to miss as well. The more a film bores me, the faster I figure out its gimmick because I have nothing better to do with my time, I suppose.

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

 I still think his best work to date is that wonderful American Express commercial. 

We saw Unbreakable with Little Mike Anderson.  He hate-hate-hated it mostly because of its basic implausibility of Samuel L Jackson as Osteogenesis Imperfecta sufferer.  That's the disease Mike has.  I remember him wondering why they didn't cast Arnold Schwartzeneggar or Sylvester Stallone instead.

Oh, and I understand his new book is awful as well. It's a shame.  That American Express commercial showed such great promise.

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

To go back to annoying trends... This happens more often in weekly television dramas or advertisements, but films are susceptible as well:

Using beautiful, dramatic popular music to score subject matter that isn't very dramatic in the first place. This one occured to me while watching Gary Jules' Mad World cover being used under footage of a guy shooting giant space worms in the trailer to the sci-fi video game Gears of War. Just because it worked in the movie about the ghost rabbit doesn't mean it's appropriate for your generic Half-Life knockoff.

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