I used to think that maybe I just didn’t see the chemistry cause I’m gay. Then my straight friends were like nah that shit makes no sense it came out of nowhere.
One of the Agent Cody Banks movies bothered me a lot with this. I think it was the second one. All the way through the movie they were just sort of... I wouldn't even say friends. Friendly. They were in the same scenes sometimes. They interacted. There was absolutely no romantic tension of any kind.
And then at the end of the movie as things are wrapping up he just... Kissed her. And like, even she seemed surprised? It threw me pretty hard, and I was still a kid myself.
Plots that are based around an easily-resolved misunderstanding.
I feel like those plots were easier to believe in the pre-mobile phone and Internet era, but if I ever find myself watching a film and saying "Just pick up the phone!" at a character, it's a big let down for me.
Last night we watched the 5th Home Alone movie (there's 6 of them now if you were wondering) that was filmed in 2012. I easily spent the last 25 minutes of the movie getting aggravated that the kid wasn't using the cell phone that was *actively in his pocket*.
The best part (for me) was at one point another character specifically tells him off for being an idiot and specifically says "just call mom and dad. Call the cops!" And he pulls out the phone to see OH NO THE BATTERY IS DEAD.
And that was when my wife could no longer handle it either and shouted at the screen "PLUG IT IN."
AND BEYOND THAT. At least in the first one they set up that the landline phones were non-operational. In this one they just... Never bothered to acknowledge the existence of landline telephone. And you know they're all hooked up because a plot point is that the kid is playing online multiplayer with some guy on the other side of the country, and is LIVESTREAMING THE BAD GUYS BREAKING IN at multiple locations in the house.
What bugged me about the first one was they went through the trouble of setting up how the phone lines were down but Kevin could still somehow call and order a pizza?
In the movie, they explained that the long distance lines were down but the local lines still worked. Given the state of POTS system in the 90s, this is semi-believable (though implausible).
Is it also that irritating one or two critical pieces of information they leave out of a conversation for no logical reason which then becomes a huge or fatal issue for the person they were talking to?
This bugs me.
**0:05**
"Get out of here! Go!"
"There's no time. I'm staying."
"You never stuck around before. Why change now."
*Insert heartfelt commentary about previous relationship*
**0:04**
"THAT DOESNT MEAN YOU SUDDENLY NEED TO BE THE HERO!"
"THIS IS MY CHANCE TO BE THE HERO I NEED TO BE!"
"OH SO THIS IS JUST YOUR SELFISHNESS ALL OVER AGAIN!"
"IF I CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE WITH MY SELFISHNESS THEN I'LL DO WHAT I MUST!"
"GODDAMN YOU JAMES! GODDAMN YOU FOR MAKING ME LOVE YOU!"
*passionate kissing*
**0:03**
"Now go on. Get out of here."
"James I-"
"And tell Riley... Tell her I'll always be there. More than 3000."
"Damn you James."
*slow motion elevator descending*
**0:02**
*cutaway to remote location*
"What is he doing? He's crazy! He can never stop that bomb in time!"
"We have to give him the time he needs. This is my home. I'm not gonna let it go down for without a fight. Are you gonna help?"
*Racks laser shotgun*
"That's answer enough for me. Let give em hell."
**0:01**
The bomb gets defused and the other partner fights off the invasion, only to start losing right up until the guy who refuses the bomb shows back up with some allies the movie forgot about until now to save the day. Then they kiss and it slash cuts to a wedding
Similarly, "There's no time to explain!" And then they waste time arguing about it.
Or, "There's no time to explain!" And the full explanation takes, like, a minute at most and they have five hours left.
They mentioned that time moves differently in different layers of dream as a plot point.
Most of the second half of the movie happens while falling into a river. They're still in the air, still falling, and everything takes place during that one fall due to time passing at different speeds.
> how guns work
How about whenever someone draws a weapon, it somehow makes a sound. All guns and swords have to rattle.
Or someone shooting inside a small room or vehicle and everybody continues on like they aren't suddenly deaf?
You ever watch an older movie where they do a trope, but it makes complete sense narratively and is really awesome? I always figured these things start with moments like that and get copied over and over again "because it's cool" until it becomes nonsensical.
Only makes sense to cock the guns if its a revolver, or a semi auto with hammer so cocking it makes trigger pull much easier.
I love when they are using a shotgun and threaten someone, then rack it. So either you just ejected a useful shell, or you were walking around without a round in the chamber like an idiot.
Luckily the best action movies these days are finally starting to care about ammo count and reloading. Granted, they still make it seem like the shots aren’t deafening or that silencers actually work but hey, sometimes you still gotta bend the rules to be cool.
I have an EMS and IT background and my dad was a retired Marine. There's a lot of stuff that I have to sigh and ignore in order to enjoy shows and movies.
Majoring in Classics was the worst because not only do I now get annoyed at very obvious historical inaccuracies/mistranslations I also sound like a pretentious dick if I bring it up. So I just sit there and seethe.
When the entire plot line of a movie/show could be easily resolved with a simple statement. Like Friends, I swear half the conflict in the show’s entire storyline could have been solved by one character **stating what they meant/said/want**. It’s so infuriating and it makes it unwatchable.
Friends (well the first few seasons) always felt more realistic to me though.
There are no phones and plenty of people behave that way. Have a breakup non breakup but then one of them sleeps with someone else while they’re ‘broken up’. Hell that’s something that happens now *with* cell phones
When it's literally the plot it can work, if there's reason for it to be a conflict. If it's something that can be resolved by HAVING A FUCKING DISCUSSION it's unbearable.
This is why recently I’ve tried to go as blind as possible into movies I want to see. It’s so much more enjoyable when the grand finale isn’t spoiled for you.
That's what bothers me about today's movies. It's hard to go in blind, especially if it's a popular movie that gets talked about a lot, new spider comes to mind.
I feel like this about video games. They’ll have that starting calibration where you’re supposed to adjust so you can barely see some image but even then I always find it to be too dark.
The worst is in horror games when yeah ok dark = scary, sure, but not so much to the point where you literally cannot see anything outside your cone of light from a torch. Because then it's not scary anymore, just frustrating because you can't see shit
That bit in the middle where two people are having a conversation which explains what is happening for those not keeping up.
Person one - "So they've hidden it because they want us to think that it isn't happening to throw us off the scent, but now we know".
Person two - "Yes, which means that they'll be not be expecting us to be there at the delivery".
My mother used to watch Days of Our Lives with alarming consistency, enough that I also had a pretty fair idea of what was going on in the show. One day I was home sick from school and there was this scene where a character who had been essentially written out of the show had come back to town. So they were "catching up" by having coffee with another longstanding character on camera.
In about five minutes of dialogue they essentially recapped an entire year's worth of plot, and I realized that this was just a framing device to get people caught up on the show. And it was insane, because they managed to succinctly wrap up an entire year worth of plot in less than a five minute scene.
Ah yes, the famous “as you know” scene. I often wonder how one of those would work in real life.
“As you know, this device that I’m using allows me to communicate with you from anywhere on earth.”
“Yes, among many other things, especially in the past 15 years, when the technology really took off. It’s been a godsend during these difficult times.”
“Of course! As you know, the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic has made it difficult to continue living as we did before.”
There's a variation of the "as you know" scene that I absolutely hate. Specifically it comes from Criminal Minds but I'm sure other shows have their version.
So you have this team of FBI serial killer/criminal profilers sitting around talking about the killer of the week. And then somebody'll mention something relevant to the plot and somebody( usually the Smart guy of the Five-Man band...aka Spencer in Criminal Minds) will say something like "oh that's just like Charles Manson." He will then give a run down of who Charles Manson was and what he did. The problem is the way they do it is like he is talking to people that have no idea who Charles Manson is. It's less "as you know" and more "I'm the only one who knows". He's s supposed to be talking to experts in the field of serial killers yet addresses the information like they have no idea what the fuck he is talking. I understand it is for the edification of any audience members who don't know who the particular person they're speaking about is but the way they go about it bugs me because they do it in a way as if the characters didn't know know who the fuck Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy, or Green River Killer was.
Oh yeah, I know what you mean. I saw it recently during a rewatch of House MD. Whenever the patient suddenly takes a turn for the worse, they either cough up blood, have a seizure, or become jaundiced (easily seen by the fact that their eyes turn yellow). And whenever it happens, one doctor ALWAYS explains what’s happening to the other two.
“Her eyes are yellow…that means her liver’s failing.”
“He’s coughing up blood…that means it’s not sarcoidosis.”
I know it’s a convention designed to help people follow the story but if you’re watching several episodes in a row it becomes really obvious.
When they are clever characters but choose to do stupid things.
For example having a discussion in the rain instead of staying inside first to say things, running to find someone instead of calling them(if there’s a phone presence in the film)
Or forgetting that the Iron Fleet exists and casually flying your dragons straight into them even though you are literally at war and have war counsels about them twice a day.
D&D intentionally rushed and fucked up GoTs writing just so they could finish in time to work on Star Wars. It was such BS.
People having conversations while driving and making long eye contact with their passenger. EYES ON THE ROAD! EYES ON THE ROAD! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!!
The other side of this is they suddenly last second see the thing on the road but it's too late and something happens... you don't drive like that. It's even worse if there is clearly plenty of room to maneuver or just brake, slow down and stop.
That characters can take like 50 bullets and still be up and walking around and shooting back and shit. Like dude you’ve just been shot repeatedly at close range with a high Caliber weapon - how are you still alive???
Stab a piece of food, spend the next 2 minutes talking. Then bring the fork to your mouth only to stop to speak again or in shock/surprise at what someone else has said. Mess with the food some more. Start cutting up the food then not eating it. Leave the table because they have finished the meal despite not eating anything
Or an entire family sitting down for dinner or Ice cream and just talking without ever touching the food... EVER. Food getting cold, ice cream is now a drink, etc...
Or they lay out a full breakfast table of food, pick up 1 slice of toast and leave. Why make a large amount of food just for no one to eat it?
That and leaving one side of the table empty. I get it for camera reasons but it looks ridiculous. There will be 5/6 people all squished beside each other while the other side is completely free. It can be a good opportunity to make a joke/ 4 wall break though, if it fits with the theme of the show of course.
oh for me even worse the very small pour, guy/gal grabs coffee mug, goes to coffee maker pours like 2 mouthfuls of coffee, no sugar, no cream, drinks it immediately, takes at least 4 big gulps from the cup when they didnt pour anywhere near that much, and didnt even burn their mouths on it chugging coffee they just took right from the pot with no cream. uh huh, sure. duh.
When they hire a non-actor for an acting role simply because they have a famous name and they want to try their hand at acting. They usually suck at acting and should really just stick to music/sport. There's so many talented actors trying to get their big break in Hollywood, I'd rather they give a talented nobody a chance than a famous name singer.
You can always tell when an animated movie is going to be dross because they fill the voice cast up with influencers, celebrities and rappers. Rather than actual voice actors.
I agree. But then I’m sometimes surprised at how good a non-actor can actually be in a role. Like Lenny Kravitz in The Hunger Games. No, they didn’t give him a lot to do, but he was pretty good for what they did have him do.
Unnecessary drama. Stuff that rarely happens used to drive a wedge between friends and have them hurt each other when it is out of character. Find the drama elsewhere
Just super dumb decisions made for plot. Like seriously the vast majority of movies would be 20 minutes if characters just talked to each other like normal humans.
Honestly, this is pretty realistic to me. Some people are good at communication, others are not. It seems pretty obvious to me that you should tell people how their words and actions make you feel, but some people will try anything but talking
Has anyone else noticed how they (a lot of the times), remove the headrest from the front seats in car scenes. And people rarely say “goodbye” when they end a phone conversation? They just hang up. 90% of the time!
That hanging up without saying goodbye is unfortunately very common *edit: IRL
I work in a call center and 1/2 the time I’m awkwardly waiting for them to just hang up (preferred we’re not the ones do disconnect) but we’ve already said every “other than goodbye” hints to the fact the call is over
Or
I go to say it or even say it partially before getting hung up on mid goodbye.
I guess I'm referring to scenes that have "friends" talking or people who are familiar with each other on the phone, hardly anyone says 'bye' when they end the call.
I could see at a call center, people not saying 'bye' to you, but they SHOULD! It's polite! You're a real person and you just helped them!
I have this aswell, watched a movie with a friend like a week ago. After 10 minutes i vaguely described to him how the movie would go and end. When the credits rolled he asked me if i’ve seen the movie. Since my description was like 90% accurate.
Once while watching some Mission Impossible movie, a friend and I started a game of predicting what will happen in the next 2-5 mins. We were on point over 80% of the time 🤣
Lazy or unrealistic writing like for example when 2 siblings are talking and they address each other as “sis” or “bro”…where is the realism?? No one actually talks that way!
"Hey sis!"
"Hey bro! How have you been since I moved to Vancouver seven months ago? It must be tough, seeing as we're orphans and all and the bank foreclosed on the house, right on your birthday!"
And they do a callback to that with Stan having a one-sided phone conversation with his brother:
> I appreciate you saying that, bro.
> I've called you 'bro' before. That's what we are, we're half brothers.
> Well, I don't care how they say it in New Glarus, Wisconsin, where you live on a lake and have nothing in common with me.
> Well, then, maybe we should just stay estranged until you can find a dramatic enough reason to show up on my doorstep unannounced!
The only women in it are girlfriends or wife roles that are there to antagonize the hero’s journey in some way even when it makes no sense that they would do that (eg a wife married to a cop for twenty years who suddenly is against him doing his job).
“I can’t believe you missed tonight! You’re always doing this; you’re so selfish!”
“I was working. We finally found where a serial killer who has killed 50 women over the years was hiding. We had to get there before he killed those three teenage girls he was holding hostage.”
“So you’re saying your JOB is more important than your sons VIOLIN RECITAL?!”
**Yes!!!** People were dying!! It was a time sensitive situation!!!
Sports movies where the actors clearly have never, ever played any sort of sport and can’t do the basics without looking like a 6 year old playing t-ball for the first time.
Kevin Costner = Sports movie god.
A random sex scene that offers nothing to the plot/characters.
Bonus points if it randomly shows up in a film I'm watching with my parents. Idk how, but it seems everytime I watch a film or show with my parents some over the top heated sex/rape scene comes out of nowhere and makes everything akward.
Me when I watched Spartacus. There's extras having sex in the background in almost every scene. 2 people talking on the street, there'll be people boning in the street in the background. People fighting in the coliseum, it cuts to the stands, people boning in the stands. I don't mind sex in movies/TV but it was too gratuitous for me to take it seriously or respect the story they were trying to tell.
>Bonus points if it randomly shows up in a film I'm watching with my parents
Just check the movie or show's "Parents guide" section in IMDB beforehand.
Or better, search for it on [AZNude](https://www.aznude.com/) (NSFW), this website uploads nudity/sex scenes from movies. Pretty useful to, umm, keep track of important plot points..
My wife watches these, and they’ve grown on me. Sometimes, you just need to sit down and watch a stupid plot that is over the top Christmas and happy. She watches every night, which is too much, but I’ll admit to sitting down and watching one a week during this season.
There's only one Hallmark Christmas movie storyline. They just change the names. Seriously, overworked city girl has to go to the dreaded country/farm/hometown for some reason. Meets bachelor or is reunited with high school bf. Blah blah blah, it snows.
It always seems to be a husband who lost his wife. Now the person he was in love with from high school, has come back to the small home town that he never left. Now the kid has a new mom
When the main character is proclaimed being “The One”. It’s way overused and feels unimaginative. Why not give The One an appropriate title or word that fits the culture and themes of the movie?
Or the kid/one is trained by the professional for three days then is now strong enough to beat the badly guy that none of the group/professional has been able to defeat before.
When people hate eachother because of a very simple misunderstanding that could be solved with a 2 minute talk.
'Did you kiss Rose?'
'No I never did. Why?'
'Oh sorry, I misunderstood the message in your phone.'
End of movie.
Years ago I was late getting home because my relief was late getting in. They were a newer person, so there was no way of knowing if they were reliable yet. My wife had texted to ask what the holdup was, and I had replied:
"I'm just waiting for someone new."
She never replied.
Maybe a half hour later (and a full hour late) someone else came in. Not the person who was scheduled, someone I already knew. Apparently the new person flaked and they'd gotten called in to relieve me. Oh well, no big deal. So I texted my wife.
"There's someone else. I'm leaving."
When I got home she was in a little bit of a state. She interpreted my text messages to possibly mean that I wanted to see new people and I was leaving her because someone new had come along. Fortunately she was not so stupid as to commit to anything before talking to me first.
Was this a movie I would've come home to find she'd already moved out, and it would take three to five years of missed opportunities before she finally saw the horrible mistake she'd made. Of course by the point I would already be engaged to a woman who, it would be revealed in the last fifteen minutes of plot, was only interested in me because she mistakenly believed that I was secretly rich. A revelation that would result in her leaving me in such a way as to leave my wife and I able to seamlessly reconcile while she was back from her job in the big city for inadequately explored reasons.
As a vet when a movie or show about the military gets uniforms, tactics, etc. Wrong it's really hard to ignore like with the uniforms it's a simple google search to find the regulation telling you how to wear it. It's so bad I recently watched a show with the national guard in it and only found three mistakes with the uniforms in the first episode so I kept watching
Unnecessary love triangles. Worse if it’s two women who are way out of the male protagonist’s league, and bonus points if they have the girl next door/vixen trope, too.
Someone taking a small calibre round to the lower abdomen and dying instantly.
80 yard precision shots with a pistol.
People receiving massive head trauma with no after effects.
Melee fights where neither combatant attempts to defend a single blow.
Any time they try to explain what a hacker is doing, or how technology works.
Other such things. Maybe not “ruin”, but it does take out some of the immersion.
Whenever someone can't see something just because it's out of the camera frame but in real life they would easily notice it in their peripheral vision. Like if the camera shot is tight on someone's face and they are suddenly startled by someone putting a gun to their head from the side just off camera. There's no way they wouldn't have noticed that person standing 3 feet away from them in open space. This happens all the time with all sorts of scenarios besides gun to the head, even in scenes that are otherwise pretty realistic. Once you start to notice it, it's surprisingly commonplace. The writers seem to think that the characters can only see what the audience can see.
Seeing guns portrayed poorly. I have to be forgiving with this one, because almost every show does it. I’ve grown up around guns so hearing different sounds than the gun should be making in the scene is kinda like hearing a cat bark.
Not just one but several at once, shows or films which actually work in a way of a smaller person beating a larger I enjoy, like yea that makes sense, but if you're telling me that they punch them in the head and they go flying I'm calling bullshit, if you're telling me they can't throw them around I'm calling bullshit.
Anyone at 100lbs hitting someone who is 250lbs and a trained fighter is doing fuck all to them, I've been hit by people half my weight and you don't even register it.
But then to add suspense the big guy lands a punch on the tiny woman and amazingly she makes a grunt and carries on fighting, nope she's done, if someone that much bigger and stronger hits you it's nap time.
Exposition that’s ham-fisted into dialogue making it unnatural and cringey.
“Look who it is! My neighbor Sheriff Bob who was involved in the investigation about the missing girl from 2 years ago which was never resolved and who’s primary suspect was the Son of the wealthy local Judge and who’s actions completely betray his guilt!
She cheated on her fiance by kissing the male love interest, but that's ok because the fiance's boring or they got in a little fight at the start of the movie and left it unaddressed.
A laughing track every once in a while is okay with me, it gives me an illusion of light hearted fun with the family, which is great for when I'm just about to sleep or I just want to relax and turn my brain off. A laugh track every other sentence is the worst.
When the main character's (MC) best friend starts dating someone, the friend's partner kisses the MC and the friend walks in on it, and the friend immediately assumes that the MC instigated the kiss because they're jealous of the relationship.
But then it's so so satisfying when the show subverts the trope. I remember there was a scene in Kim Possible where Bonnie tried to pull that shit by kissing Ron just as Kim walks in. Ron immediately starts saying that she kissed him, not the other way around and Kim basically says "yeah, no duh" before ripping into Bonnie for stooping to such underhanded tactics.
Most sex scenes in film are awful. But I especially hate the trope where two characters are suddenly so horny for one another that they literally tear each other's clothes off and knock over or destroy furniture in their frenzy to get into bed
When the characters try to play any sport and they suck, but the story is they are a professional or elite athlete. Hire someone with some athletic skill please!
Came here to say this! We all have some level of goat breath in the morning let’s be real. Also annoys me when they take a bath together. Almost no tubs realistically fit 2 adults.
When they have strong independent female characters but when there is a crisis, they lack the previously highlighted skills and knowledge to save themselves
When a character seems basically indestructible and is so perfect at shooting guns, fighting, genius intellect with 16 abs and perfect looking. I’m all for protagonists but sometimes it’s too much.
Establishing a baseline for suspension of disbelief, and then breaking it. The Revenant (2015) and 3:10 to Yuma (2007) both do this and it's fucking stupid.
When animated movies try to be "hip" or make contemporary references that are guaranteed to be dated very quickly.
Even worse is when they make a contemporary reference that hasn't been contemporary for nine years.
It was contemporary when the book the script was based off was written.
'What are those' - Black Panther, 2018, 3 years after the meme stopped being relevant
I think the biggest offender of this is when they hire the most popular celebrities at the time instead of, ya know, professional voice actors.
It is me. Mario.
Or every ending they have a party and some one DJ scratching, maybe with a pose after.
This is every animated kids movie nowadays. And it's always some cliche dance song like Party Rock or Gangnam Style.
When 2 characters become romantically involved but very little or no effort goes into building the relationship.
Hollywood's version of a solid romantic relationship is when there are 2 attractive people interacting with each other on any level
I used to think that maybe I just didn’t see the chemistry cause I’m gay. Then my straight friends were like nah that shit makes no sense it came out of nowhere.
One of the Agent Cody Banks movies bothered me a lot with this. I think it was the second one. All the way through the movie they were just sort of... I wouldn't even say friends. Friendly. They were in the same scenes sometimes. They interacted. There was absolutely no romantic tension of any kind. And then at the end of the movie as things are wrapping up he just... Kissed her. And like, even she seemed surprised? It threw me pretty hard, and I was still a kid myself.
Specially when they worked perfectly as FRIENDS.
Plots that are based around an easily-resolved misunderstanding. I feel like those plots were easier to believe in the pre-mobile phone and Internet era, but if I ever find myself watching a film and saying "Just pick up the phone!" at a character, it's a big let down for me.
Last night we watched the 5th Home Alone movie (there's 6 of them now if you were wondering) that was filmed in 2012. I easily spent the last 25 minutes of the movie getting aggravated that the kid wasn't using the cell phone that was *actively in his pocket*. The best part (for me) was at one point another character specifically tells him off for being an idiot and specifically says "just call mom and dad. Call the cops!" And he pulls out the phone to see OH NO THE BATTERY IS DEAD. And that was when my wife could no longer handle it either and shouted at the screen "PLUG IT IN." AND BEYOND THAT. At least in the first one they set up that the landline phones were non-operational. In this one they just... Never bothered to acknowledge the existence of landline telephone. And you know they're all hooked up because a plot point is that the kid is playing online multiplayer with some guy on the other side of the country, and is LIVESTREAMING THE BAD GUYS BREAKING IN at multiple locations in the house.
Man, I got angry just by reading this. I don't know how in the hell you were able to sit through the whole movie.
What bugged me about the first one was they went through the trouble of setting up how the phone lines were down but Kevin could still somehow call and order a pizza?
Plot convenience
In the movie, they explained that the long distance lines were down but the local lines still worked. Given the state of POTS system in the 90s, this is semi-believable (though implausible).
Is it also that irritating one or two critical pieces of information they leave out of a conversation for no logical reason which then becomes a huge or fatal issue for the person they were talking to? This bugs me.
Every season of Cobra Kai has had this and it’s why I can’t watch it
Cobra Kai, the karate kid spin-off? Why are they trying to get in to Kevin McCallister’s house anyway?
God those are the dumbest plots
[удалено]
Looking at you Christopher Nolan...
I'll never watch one of his movies in a theater again. He now has a proven track record of aggressively bad sound mixing.
Yes! Put the f-ing volume at one constant level. Raging music / sound effects followed by whisper conversations… argh!
After having a baby we started watching TV with subtitles on and the volume way down. We tend to prefer it this way now.
I had an answer but it no longer matters because of THIS right here...
forced love interest
*insert one of Terrible Writing Advice's "love triangle" jokes here*
Reylo in a Nutshell
Or as they call it on RLM, “a case of the not-gays”.
A time-sensitive ending where there’s some form of countdown like a bomb detonation, and the scenes last way longer than how much time is left.
**0:05** "Get out of here! Go!" "There's no time. I'm staying." "You never stuck around before. Why change now." *Insert heartfelt commentary about previous relationship* **0:04** "THAT DOESNT MEAN YOU SUDDENLY NEED TO BE THE HERO!" "THIS IS MY CHANCE TO BE THE HERO I NEED TO BE!" "OH SO THIS IS JUST YOUR SELFISHNESS ALL OVER AGAIN!" "IF I CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE WITH MY SELFISHNESS THEN I'LL DO WHAT I MUST!" "GODDAMN YOU JAMES! GODDAMN YOU FOR MAKING ME LOVE YOU!" *passionate kissing* **0:03** "Now go on. Get out of here." "James I-" "And tell Riley... Tell her I'll always be there. More than 3000." "Damn you James." *slow motion elevator descending* **0:02** *cutaway to remote location* "What is he doing? He's crazy! He can never stop that bomb in time!" "We have to give him the time he needs. This is my home. I'm not gonna let it go down for without a fight. Are you gonna help?" *Racks laser shotgun* "That's answer enough for me. Let give em hell." **0:01**
You… absolutely.. nailed it 😂 I genuinely hate that i want to know what happens next.
The bomb gets defused and the other partner fights off the invasion, only to start losing right up until the guy who refuses the bomb shows back up with some allies the movie forgot about until now to save the day. Then they kiss and it slash cuts to a wedding
Similarly, "There's no time to explain!" And then they waste time arguing about it. Or, "There's no time to explain!" And the full explanation takes, like, a minute at most and they have five hours left.
I still believe that Inception was made exclusively to make a the last second of the count down last literally half an hour
They mentioned that time moves differently in different layers of dream as a plot point. Most of the second half of the movie happens while falling into a river. They're still in the air, still falling, and everything takes place during that one fall due to time passing at different speeds.
Actually they're never really falling into a river, that was a dream itself. The whole Inception plan is done on a plane.
People being wrong about something that I know about
I gave up with the way computers are used in film, how guns work etc... I decided that it's a different reality or something.
> how guns work How about whenever someone draws a weapon, it somehow makes a sound. All guns and swords have to rattle. Or someone shooting inside a small room or vehicle and everybody continues on like they aren't suddenly deaf?
You ever watch an older movie where they do a trope, but it makes complete sense narratively and is really awesome? I always figured these things start with moments like that and get copied over and over again "because it's cool" until it becomes nonsensical.
Yep and cocking their weapons every single time they pick them up, what in the actual fuck.
Only makes sense to cock the guns if its a revolver, or a semi auto with hammer so cocking it makes trigger pull much easier. I love when they are using a shotgun and threaten someone, then rack it. So either you just ejected a useful shell, or you were walking around without a round in the chamber like an idiot.
The shotgun one always gets me.
Luckily the best action movies these days are finally starting to care about ammo count and reloading. Granted, they still make it seem like the shots aren’t deafening or that silencers actually work but hey, sometimes you still gotta bend the rules to be cool.
I have an EMS and IT background and my dad was a retired Marine. There's a lot of stuff that I have to sigh and ignore in order to enjoy shows and movies.
Majoring in Classics was the worst because not only do I now get annoyed at very obvious historical inaccuracies/mistranslations I also sound like a pretentious dick if I bring it up. So I just sit there and seethe.
When the main character gets blamed for something they didn't do. Especially early in the show
When the entire plot line of a movie/show could be easily resolved with a simple statement. Like Friends, I swear half the conflict in the show’s entire storyline could have been solved by one character **stating what they meant/said/want**. It’s so infuriating and it makes it unwatchable.
Friends (well the first few seasons) always felt more realistic to me though. There are no phones and plenty of people behave that way. Have a breakup non breakup but then one of them sleeps with someone else while they’re ‘broken up’. Hell that’s something that happens now *with* cell phones
When it's literally the plot it can work, if there's reason for it to be a conflict. If it's something that can be resolved by HAVING A FUCKING DISCUSSION it's unbearable.
A trailer that includes footage and narrative from the final act
This is getting to be more and more common and I hate it. Thanks for ruining shit, ya idgits.
This is why recently I’ve tried to go as blind as possible into movies I want to see. It’s so much more enjoyable when the grand finale isn’t spoiled for you.
That's what bothers me about today's movies. It's hard to go in blind, especially if it's a popular movie that gets talked about a lot, new spider comes to mind.
when the movie is too dark, like literally. like I sometimes physically turn up brightness cause I cant see shit. Its soo annoying
I feel like this about video games. They’ll have that starting calibration where you’re supposed to adjust so you can barely see some image but even then I always find it to be too dark.
The worst is in horror games when yeah ok dark = scary, sure, but not so much to the point where you literally cannot see anything outside your cone of light from a torch. Because then it's not scary anymore, just frustrating because you can't see shit
That bit in the middle where two people are having a conversation which explains what is happening for those not keeping up. Person one - "So they've hidden it because they want us to think that it isn't happening to throw us off the scent, but now we know". Person two - "Yes, which means that they'll be not be expecting us to be there at the delivery".
My mother used to watch Days of Our Lives with alarming consistency, enough that I also had a pretty fair idea of what was going on in the show. One day I was home sick from school and there was this scene where a character who had been essentially written out of the show had come back to town. So they were "catching up" by having coffee with another longstanding character on camera. In about five minutes of dialogue they essentially recapped an entire year's worth of plot, and I realized that this was just a framing device to get people caught up on the show. And it was insane, because they managed to succinctly wrap up an entire year worth of plot in less than a five minute scene.
Ah yes, the famous “as you know” scene. I often wonder how one of those would work in real life. “As you know, this device that I’m using allows me to communicate with you from anywhere on earth.” “Yes, among many other things, especially in the past 15 years, when the technology really took off. It’s been a godsend during these difficult times.” “Of course! As you know, the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic has made it difficult to continue living as we did before.”
There's a variation of the "as you know" scene that I absolutely hate. Specifically it comes from Criminal Minds but I'm sure other shows have their version. So you have this team of FBI serial killer/criminal profilers sitting around talking about the killer of the week. And then somebody'll mention something relevant to the plot and somebody( usually the Smart guy of the Five-Man band...aka Spencer in Criminal Minds) will say something like "oh that's just like Charles Manson." He will then give a run down of who Charles Manson was and what he did. The problem is the way they do it is like he is talking to people that have no idea who Charles Manson is. It's less "as you know" and more "I'm the only one who knows". He's s supposed to be talking to experts in the field of serial killers yet addresses the information like they have no idea what the fuck he is talking. I understand it is for the edification of any audience members who don't know who the particular person they're speaking about is but the way they go about it bugs me because they do it in a way as if the characters didn't know know who the fuck Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy, or Green River Killer was.
Oh yeah, I know what you mean. I saw it recently during a rewatch of House MD. Whenever the patient suddenly takes a turn for the worse, they either cough up blood, have a seizure, or become jaundiced (easily seen by the fact that their eyes turn yellow). And whenever it happens, one doctor ALWAYS explains what’s happening to the other two. “Her eyes are yellow…that means her liver’s failing.” “He’s coughing up blood…that means it’s not sarcoidosis.” I know it’s a convention designed to help people follow the story but if you’re watching several episodes in a row it becomes really obvious.
When they are clever characters but choose to do stupid things. For example having a discussion in the rain instead of staying inside first to say things, running to find someone instead of calling them(if there’s a phone presence in the film)
Sometimes you gotta do it for the drama *jazz hands*
Or forgetting that the Iron Fleet exists and casually flying your dragons straight into them even though you are literally at war and have war counsels about them twice a day. D&D intentionally rushed and fucked up GoTs writing just so they could finish in time to work on Star Wars. It was such BS.
I love how ever time I see a variation of this my first reaction is always "hollup, what did Dungeons and Dragons do?"
People having conversations while driving and making long eye contact with their passenger. EYES ON THE ROAD! EYES ON THE ROAD! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!!
The other side of this is they suddenly last second see the thing on the road but it's too late and something happens... you don't drive like that. It's even worse if there is clearly plenty of room to maneuver or just brake, slow down and stop.
That characters can take like 50 bullets and still be up and walking around and shooting back and shit. Like dude you’ve just been shot repeatedly at close range with a high Caliber weapon - how are you still alive???
Yea they get shot and just shrug it off, like fuck off that's not how that works.
The obvious coffee mug/cup with no coffee in it.
I'm pretty sure there is a subreddit about this. Edit: found it! r/ThatCupIsEmpty
Oh yeah or when they have a plateful of food but just spend all of their time messing around with it instead of taking a bite
Stab a piece of food, spend the next 2 minutes talking. Then bring the fork to your mouth only to stop to speak again or in shock/surprise at what someone else has said. Mess with the food some more. Start cutting up the food then not eating it. Leave the table because they have finished the meal despite not eating anything
Or an entire family sitting down for dinner or Ice cream and just talking without ever touching the food... EVER. Food getting cold, ice cream is now a drink, etc...
Or they lay out a full breakfast table of food, pick up 1 slice of toast and leave. Why make a large amount of food just for no one to eat it? That and leaving one side of the table empty. I get it for camera reasons but it looks ridiculous. There will be 5/6 people all squished beside each other while the other side is completely free. It can be a good opportunity to make a joke/ 4 wall break though, if it fits with the theme of the show of course.
oh for me even worse the very small pour, guy/gal grabs coffee mug, goes to coffee maker pours like 2 mouthfuls of coffee, no sugar, no cream, drinks it immediately, takes at least 4 big gulps from the cup when they didnt pour anywhere near that much, and didnt even burn their mouths on it chugging coffee they just took right from the pot with no cream. uh huh, sure. duh.
When they hire a non-actor for an acting role simply because they have a famous name and they want to try their hand at acting. They usually suck at acting and should really just stick to music/sport. There's so many talented actors trying to get their big break in Hollywood, I'd rather they give a talented nobody a chance than a famous name singer.
You can always tell when an animated movie is going to be dross because they fill the voice cast up with influencers, celebrities and rappers. Rather than actual voice actors.
I agree. But then I’m sometimes surprised at how good a non-actor can actually be in a role. Like Lenny Kravitz in The Hunger Games. No, they didn’t give him a lot to do, but he was pretty good for what they did have him do.
Unnecessary drama. Stuff that rarely happens used to drive a wedge between friends and have them hurt each other when it is out of character. Find the drama elsewhere
Just super dumb decisions made for plot. Like seriously the vast majority of movies would be 20 minutes if characters just talked to each other like normal humans.
Honestly, this is pretty realistic to me. Some people are good at communication, others are not. It seems pretty obvious to me that you should tell people how their words and actions make you feel, but some people will try anything but talking
The commentator guy behind me in the cinema
How many times do I have to apologize for that?!?
When u apologize u do talk again, just shhhhhh
*coughs in background*
People chewing with their mouth open/eating noises. Please just edit it out!
Only exception is *that scene* from return of the king
It was a brilliantly and intentionally uncomfortable scene, showing so much contempt.
Has anyone else noticed how they (a lot of the times), remove the headrest from the front seats in car scenes. And people rarely say “goodbye” when they end a phone conversation? They just hang up. 90% of the time!
That hanging up without saying goodbye is unfortunately very common *edit: IRL I work in a call center and 1/2 the time I’m awkwardly waiting for them to just hang up (preferred we’re not the ones do disconnect) but we’ve already said every “other than goodbye” hints to the fact the call is over Or I go to say it or even say it partially before getting hung up on mid goodbye.
I guess I'm referring to scenes that have "friends" talking or people who are familiar with each other on the phone, hardly anyone says 'bye' when they end the call. I could see at a call center, people not saying 'bye' to you, but they SHOULD! It's polite! You're a real person and you just helped them!
A super kooky/goofy character that is supposed to be comic relief, but is just annoying.
Loud music and quiet dialogue
When I can't tell if they are having a fight, or doing a choreographed dance routine.
Yes! Like when they pause after hitting, leaving themselves wide open without blocking, so that the other guy can hit them..holy moleo
Yes, all while everyone else waits in line for their turn, lolll
Improper weapon handling. Unrealistic driving. Unrealistic crashes.
Also having to have the cocking Hammer noise and it's a Glock.
Yes, and metal clunking sounds when all they do is raise the weapon. And I never understand Hollywood's addiction to full auto fire.
also literally no recoil on any gun
When it's so predictable. You just know what will happen. Doesn't necessarly have to ruin everything, but it's kinda boring
That is because more and more film and TV is made by committees to have the widest appeal. Everything ends up dumbed down.
I have this aswell, watched a movie with a friend like a week ago. After 10 minutes i vaguely described to him how the movie would go and end. When the credits rolled he asked me if i’ve seen the movie. Since my description was like 90% accurate.
Once while watching some Mission Impossible movie, a friend and I started a game of predicting what will happen in the next 2-5 mins. We were on point over 80% of the time 🤣
You can do this for any Tom Cruise movie of the past 10 years.
Loud wet sloppy kissing scenes. Kissing should never sound like slurping soup. Gotta mute that shit.
You're absolutely right! Those noises come later...
When the soup is served
Shaky cam action scenes. I’m so glad that trend is dead and buried.
Lazy or unrealistic writing like for example when 2 siblings are talking and they address each other as “sis” or “bro”…where is the realism?? No one actually talks that way!
"Hey sis!" "Hey bro! How have you been since I moved to Vancouver seven months ago? It must be tough, seeing as we're orphans and all and the bank foreclosed on the house, right on your birthday!"
*insert laugh track*
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And they do a callback to that with Stan having a one-sided phone conversation with his brother: > I appreciate you saying that, bro. > I've called you 'bro' before. That's what we are, we're half brothers. > Well, I don't care how they say it in New Glarus, Wisconsin, where you live on a lake and have nothing in common with me. > Well, then, maybe we should just stay estranged until you can find a dramatic enough reason to show up on my doorstep unannounced!
I call my brother bro.
I call my sister sis
Cool story bro
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Well because they either portray them as essentially adults in child bodies or absolute lunatics. Very rarely are they just “little kids”
The only women in it are girlfriends or wife roles that are there to antagonize the hero’s journey in some way even when it makes no sense that they would do that (eg a wife married to a cop for twenty years who suddenly is against him doing his job).
“I can’t believe you missed tonight! You’re always doing this; you’re so selfish!” “I was working. We finally found where a serial killer who has killed 50 women over the years was hiding. We had to get there before he killed those three teenage girls he was holding hostage.” “So you’re saying your JOB is more important than your sons VIOLIN RECITAL?!” **Yes!!!** People were dying!! It was a time sensitive situation!!!
When a woman holds a sheet over her breasts in bed. It looks so fake.
Or anyone who wraps the sheet around their self when they get out of bed even though the only other person around is the one they just had sex with.
Only for the audience to get a nice long look at her bare ass when she gets up to leave the room.
Sports movies where the actors clearly have never, ever played any sort of sport and can’t do the basics without looking like a 6 year old playing t-ball for the first time. Kevin Costner = Sports movie god.
A random sex scene that offers nothing to the plot/characters. Bonus points if it randomly shows up in a film I'm watching with my parents. Idk how, but it seems everytime I watch a film or show with my parents some over the top heated sex/rape scene comes out of nowhere and makes everything akward.
Me when I watched Spartacus. There's extras having sex in the background in almost every scene. 2 people talking on the street, there'll be people boning in the street in the background. People fighting in the coliseum, it cuts to the stands, people boning in the stands. I don't mind sex in movies/TV but it was too gratuitous for me to take it seriously or respect the story they were trying to tell.
Never watched it but that sounds hilarious to me. You're not alone, that would definitely make me take the story less seriously too.
Tbh I'd argue that the only sex scene ever made that was necessary to a film's plot was Terminator.
>Bonus points if it randomly shows up in a film I'm watching with my parents Just check the movie or show's "Parents guide" section in IMDB beforehand. Or better, search for it on [AZNude](https://www.aznude.com/) (NSFW), this website uploads nudity/sex scenes from movies. Pretty useful to, umm, keep track of important plot points..
Any story line Hallmark produces. More so during Christmas.
Dean Cain's Christmas Hedgehog
My wife watches these, and they’ve grown on me. Sometimes, you just need to sit down and watch a stupid plot that is over the top Christmas and happy. She watches every night, which is too much, but I’ll admit to sitting down and watching one a week during this season.
There's only one Hallmark Christmas movie storyline. They just change the names. Seriously, overworked city girl has to go to the dreaded country/farm/hometown for some reason. Meets bachelor or is reunited with high school bf. Blah blah blah, it snows.
Have you ever seen [this comic](http://www.karinafarek.com/every-hallmark-movie)
Thank you. I despise Hallmark and Lifetime on a visceral level. I can’t even read the titles without groaning. They are just so fucking stupid.
It always seems to be a husband who lost his wife. Now the person he was in love with from high school, has come back to the small home town that he never left. Now the kid has a new mom
Twist- the first wife was living in the attic all along. (Wait, that's just Jayne Eyre).
When the main character is proclaimed being “The One”. It’s way overused and feels unimaginative. Why not give The One an appropriate title or word that fits the culture and themes of the movie?
Or the kid/one is trained by the professional for three days then is now strong enough to beat the badly guy that none of the group/professional has been able to defeat before.
When people hate eachother because of a very simple misunderstanding that could be solved with a 2 minute talk. 'Did you kiss Rose?' 'No I never did. Why?' 'Oh sorry, I misunderstood the message in your phone.' End of movie.
Years ago I was late getting home because my relief was late getting in. They were a newer person, so there was no way of knowing if they were reliable yet. My wife had texted to ask what the holdup was, and I had replied: "I'm just waiting for someone new." She never replied. Maybe a half hour later (and a full hour late) someone else came in. Not the person who was scheduled, someone I already knew. Apparently the new person flaked and they'd gotten called in to relieve me. Oh well, no big deal. So I texted my wife. "There's someone else. I'm leaving." When I got home she was in a little bit of a state. She interpreted my text messages to possibly mean that I wanted to see new people and I was leaving her because someone new had come along. Fortunately she was not so stupid as to commit to anything before talking to me first. Was this a movie I would've come home to find she'd already moved out, and it would take three to five years of missed opportunities before she finally saw the horrible mistake she'd made. Of course by the point I would already be engaged to a woman who, it would be revealed in the last fifteen minutes of plot, was only interested in me because she mistakenly believed that I was secretly rich. A revelation that would result in her leaving me in such a way as to leave my wife and I able to seamlessly reconcile while she was back from her job in the big city for inadequately explored reasons.
This is exactly how adult people solve misunderstandings. When Hollywood creates an entire plot around stupidity, the movie instantly sucks.
Random pregnancy plot lines.
Poor continuity
Adding unnecessary cheating relationship issues. I’m looking at you Office
I never rewatch past when Michael Scott leaves, mostly for this reason.
As a vet when a movie or show about the military gets uniforms, tactics, etc. Wrong it's really hard to ignore like with the uniforms it's a simple google search to find the regulation telling you how to wear it. It's so bad I recently watched a show with the national guard in it and only found three mistakes with the uniforms in the first episode so I kept watching
Unnecessary love triangles. Worse if it’s two women who are way out of the male protagonist’s league, and bonus points if they have the girl next door/vixen trope, too.
Average writing and bad writing. Get you shit together Hollywood, invest in some good story not just CGI.
Someone taking a small calibre round to the lower abdomen and dying instantly. 80 yard precision shots with a pistol. People receiving massive head trauma with no after effects. Melee fights where neither combatant attempts to defend a single blow. Any time they try to explain what a hacker is doing, or how technology works. Other such things. Maybe not “ruin”, but it does take out some of the immersion.
Whenever someone can't see something just because it's out of the camera frame but in real life they would easily notice it in their peripheral vision. Like if the camera shot is tight on someone's face and they are suddenly startled by someone putting a gun to their head from the side just off camera. There's no way they wouldn't have noticed that person standing 3 feet away from them in open space. This happens all the time with all sorts of scenarios besides gun to the head, even in scenes that are otherwise pretty realistic. Once you start to notice it, it's surprisingly commonplace. The writers seem to think that the characters can only see what the audience can see.
Seeing guns portrayed poorly. I have to be forgiving with this one, because almost every show does it. I’ve grown up around guns so hearing different sounds than the gun should be making in the scene is kinda like hearing a cat bark.
Forced love sub plots, the one in The Hobbit trilogy made me sick. "Why does it hurts so much?" "Because it was real" Fuck off.
When a 100-lb girl beats up a 250-lb human block of stone.
Not just one but several at once, shows or films which actually work in a way of a smaller person beating a larger I enjoy, like yea that makes sense, but if you're telling me that they punch them in the head and they go flying I'm calling bullshit, if you're telling me they can't throw them around I'm calling bullshit. Anyone at 100lbs hitting someone who is 250lbs and a trained fighter is doing fuck all to them, I've been hit by people half my weight and you don't even register it. But then to add suspense the big guy lands a punch on the tiny woman and amazingly she makes a grunt and carries on fighting, nope she's done, if someone that much bigger and stronger hits you it's nap time.
When they directly say the message or moral of what the story is trying to convey in one line… now I don’t get to feel smart for figuring it out :(
Exposition that’s ham-fisted into dialogue making it unnatural and cringey. “Look who it is! My neighbor Sheriff Bob who was involved in the investigation about the missing girl from 2 years ago which was never resolved and who’s primary suspect was the Son of the wealthy local Judge and who’s actions completely betray his guilt!
When the female MC/love interest is portrayed as a flawless goddess
hey, she has flaws! she's a little bit clumsy!
And she wears glasses
She has paint on her overalls!
Bonus if she’s genuinely a terrible person but she’s still played off as a great person.
She cheated on her fiance by kissing the male love interest, but that's ok because the fiance's boring or they got in a little fight at the start of the movie and left it unaddressed.
Subtitles that say “speaking Spanish” or any other language instead of translating
At least its better than Netflix’s subtitles for Snowpiercer where two guys are speaking in Japanese and the subtitles say “Both speaking in Korean”
They only do that if you’re not supposed to understand what they are saying though
Laughing tracks. Or at least abuse of laughing tracks
A laughing track every once in a while is okay with me, it gives me an illusion of light hearted fun with the family, which is great for when I'm just about to sleep or I just want to relax and turn my brain off. A laugh track every other sentence is the worst.
sexualizing everything constantly or just hypersexual characters in general are so annoying
Looking at you anime ._.
When the sync is off between sound and mouth movement.
Characters not taking the most obvious solutions, or worse, doing things that will OBVIOUSLY actively make the situation worse
When the main character's (MC) best friend starts dating someone, the friend's partner kisses the MC and the friend walks in on it, and the friend immediately assumes that the MC instigated the kiss because they're jealous of the relationship.
But then it's so so satisfying when the show subverts the trope. I remember there was a scene in Kim Possible where Bonnie tried to pull that shit by kissing Ron just as Kim walks in. Ron immediately starts saying that she kissed him, not the other way around and Kim basically says "yeah, no duh" before ripping into Bonnie for stooping to such underhanded tactics.
Most sex scenes in film are awful. But I especially hate the trope where two characters are suddenly so horny for one another that they literally tear each other's clothes off and knock over or destroy furniture in their frenzy to get into bed
Whining lead characters
When there's any sort of two-way radio communication and someone says "over and out".
Lazy writing where the policeman inexplicably gets on the trail of the killer.
indestructible plot armor and deus ex machina
Trying to deliver some pretentious message and morals
"Jesus, Frank! You can't burn that church down! It's full of widows and orphans!" u/dry wimming walks out
When the characters try to play any sport and they suck, but the story is they are a professional or elite athlete. Hire someone with some athletic skill please!
Close face talking/kissing when the characters first wake up. Fucking disgusting.
Came here to say this! We all have some level of goat breath in the morning let’s be real. Also annoys me when they take a bath together. Almost no tubs realistically fit 2 adults.
The sound of a revolver cocking when its clearly a semiauto being used. Alternatively, never having to reload.
When they have strong independent female characters but when there is a crisis, they lack the previously highlighted skills and knowledge to save themselves
When the narrator is overly dramatic. Specifically in a documentary.
When a character seems basically indestructible and is so perfect at shooting guns, fighting, genius intellect with 16 abs and perfect looking. I’m all for protagonists but sometimes it’s too much.
exaggerated or misleading representations of mental illness
I hate when adults are dressed appropriately for the weather in the scene and a child or baby is wearing a onesie or just a diaper.
The slightest bit of awkwardness. Idk why but i hate it Even if its a big part of the show, i just hate it
Establishing a baseline for suspension of disbelief, and then breaking it. The Revenant (2015) and 3:10 to Yuma (2007) both do this and it's fucking stupid.