The only good example I can think of where people actually explain themselves is Agents of SHIELD, which isn't even a movie. It's amazing. She doesn't doubt his loyalty for a second and understands, given their situation, why he had to keep it a secret from her. You still get drama, but it's drama from everyone being on the same dramatic page.
So… every season of Bridgerton?
Wait you think that's unrealistic? Tell me you're single without telling me you're single
I’m a software engineer, so basically anything involving software/hacking. It’s always inaccurate. (Because accurate hacking is incredibly boring.)
That looks like the closest to realistic hacking I’ve seen, until you get to the graphical password box that starts flashing “access granted”. None of my SSH servers have ever done that.
But, credit where credit is due, at least she’s using realistic hacking tools.
I'm pretty sure we can do this with a bash script. Now I want it.
Mr Robot has some pretty accurate hacking and social engineering in it.
It'd be remiss not to mention Mr. Robot somewhere in this conversation.
People driving while staring intently at their passenger for way too long.
and the driver jerkily moving the steering wheel like they're on a rally course instead of most likely just a long straight road
I have vague memories as a kid of my dad doing this IRL and my mom occasionally telling him to look at the road. But idk if I just made up the memories or not. I guess my point is maybe these people do exist out there? Lol!
Bad physics. Totally pulls me out of immersion.
No, Captain America cannot lean back and hold a helicopter that is lifting off. It doesn't matter how strong he is - he will be lifted once there is enough force generated from the propellers. Basically anything Batman does that involves gravity in the Nolan films is similar.
The magic I can get behind. The mutant stuff or dragons or even time travel in superhero movies doesn't bother me. It's the lack of sensible mechanics on an alleged Earth that I'm bothered by.
Maybe Captain America's real power is that he is really heavy.
Yay! I’m a superhero!
Variable density would be a really convenient (but weird) super power
Only way to explain Thor hammer that can't be lifted by others
I get your point, but I will say the Captain America scene isn't completely out of the realm of possibility. Cap weighs the helicopter down for a few seconds, and grabs a support beam for the helipad as soon as he can. If Cap can keep a grip on both the beam and the helicopter, then the propellers will only lift him if either Cap or the support beams break.
Of course, whether he should have had that much effect on the helicopter for those first few seconds is another matter entirely and I'm not enough of a physicist to make that call.
It's those first seconds I am referring to. The pole does make more sense to me. Also not a physicist, but it irks me just the same.
Ant man surfing through pressurized water pipes. Would have been a lot more interesting and realistic as a scuba dive.
If the railing was strong enough, seems possible.
Yes! This seems like the right movie. For a few seconds before he grabs the pole, he does just lean back, right? That is the part that concerns me the most. At least this in the image seems doable if somebody is cap strong and angry.
I don't think he's able to stop it by just leaning, I thought it was pulling him along.
He isn't heavy enough to make that much of a difference before he grabs the ledge, is he? If the helicopter can manage lift, his 200 lbs shouldn't make that much difference. It's the part before he grabs the ledge that bothers me in this clip
Cutting the palm to spill blood. Typically followed by a huge battle scene where a gash in your palm isn't going to affect your sword play/battle prowess
Injecting medications into necks.
Medical things are rarely accurate, but Jesus this one is absolutely infuriating. There's no anatomy in a neck that you could even inject anything INTO. You're not aiming for a jugular vein on the fly and there's not enough tissue in a neck to receive an intramuscular or subcutaneous injection. If your needle is too long, you're definitely hitting something critical. It's feasible that you could squirt medication into someone's trachea or esophagus or - god forbid - spine if you actually tried this nonsense.
Arms, people, ARMS. This is where we inject things into people who are not interested in receiving an injection. Arms or butts, right through the clothes. You're aiming for the deltoid muscle or the glutes. I'm even willing to concede the inaccuracy of a medication affecting someone instantly (they don't), if Hollywood would just stop having characters inject things into people's necks.
On our next episode of medical things that make me crazy: People getting shot through the shoulder with zero consequences.
This always bugs me on police dramas. On Chicago PD the characters are constantly on gunfights, get in and out of hospital almost everyday, get shot multiple times on back to back episodes, get beaten up, concussions, cuts, stab wounds, bullet wounds in all sort of places. Yet, every episode they're fine and working the field, and clearing building like a fucking ad-hoc Swat team. Not a limp, no cronic pain, no painkiller addiction.
In reality, the whole force would be on medical leave, on a desk job for disability or plain out of the force due to medical unfitness by the season's midpoint. The cases would have to be finished by an entire new batch of officers every few episodes, including the captain.
What is your medical opinion on people who get lofted 30 feet through the air by an explosion only to get up and walk away? On a scale from molasses to beetroot soup, how runny will their organs be?
My wife is a nurse and any time someone is getting a shot in the arm she starts yelling at them to find the shoulder bone first three 3 fingers down!
Concussions. Especially when they are used as plot vehicles where someone is knocked out, and they wake up in a jail cell or whatever.
If you got hit THAT hard on the head that you're unconscious and unresponsive for hours? You are going to wake up dizzy, nauseated, and disoriented with a huge headache, loss of motor control, and a disorienting tinnitus. Possibly permanently. Your brain swelled up and cut off blood flow. You might look like a stroke victim. You will not wake up, rub your head, then pick a lock in a dark room and construct a bomb with a gum wrapper and a smoke detector battery. You will weep, vomit, and be unable to walk straight until you get real medical attention.
Some action stars get knocked out almost every episode. I think MacGyver would have been mentally incapacitated after just a few shows.
Im not a medical professional, but I thought if someone was knocked out for mote than a few minutes there's a good chance they just wont wake up again?
It's a probability thing. It's used as a proxy indication of the severity of the concussion. A person who can't stay awake after a head injury is an immediate rush to the trauma room, they probably have internal bleeding and their brain tissue is dying.
Duh. Magruber is cannon. It makes sense now.
It really really bothers me when a character puts something down, and then walks away without picking it up, especially if they show them with it again later.
Something not so small that bothers me is when a victim is running from a bad guy or monster and then happens to knock them down, like with a baseball bat or something, and then they just take off running again. Fucking finish the job, you dumb ass! Hit him a few more times and he won't catch up to you again in 30 seconds when you unsurprisingly trip over your own feet.
Similarly when they walk in the house but don't shut the front door again, or open the fridge but never close it. I'm like waiting the whole scene to get back to that and missed the entire dialogue.
Right? Act like normal people, you hooligans!
Just watched an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. In the episode, the ship's security officer, La'An, enters the bedroom of Khan Noonien-Singh when he is a small child. Proceeds to put a loaded gun down on his desk, have a conversation, then leaves the room. You're the chief security officer, and you just left a loaded gun in a child's bedroom!
Yeesh! That's lazy directing.
When people and places that should be dirty are clean and kempt. Pirates on the seas should be dirty. Soldiers in the field should be dirty. Cowboys on a cattle drive should be dirty. Swamp cultists should be dirty. I appreciate realistically dirty characters. It distracts me every time when characters are clean and showered with their hair done on day three of being lost in the woods or some shit. It's one of the many things Our Flag Means Death nails. Even Stede gets grimy, because piracy is grimy work.
Especially when two people have to crawl through a pile of mud, or experience explosions or something and the guy is all muddy and torn up but the girl's makeup is intact and her clothes are mostly clean.
No, she has one spot of mud perfectly placed on her cheekbone.
Always seems to happen when a woman is in an explosion or something too. One cut or scratch in the same place or just above the eyebrow, and in the next scene it's got a butterfly bandaid over it.
It’s the perfect white teeth that throws me off in those scenes.
Or women with foundation, mascara, and lipstick when it makes no damn sense. Like wow, didn't know Sephora survived the nuclear apocalypse.
People always hang up the phone without saying goodbye or anything. I read that it's some time is money thing in film and TV but it just sounds like bullshit to me.
I thought that was just an American cultural thing.
In the UK, you have to say bye at least 3 times.
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson are still exchanging goodbyes to this day.
TV shows and movies only make you think it's a cultural thing.
We say "bye" here in the US after essentially every phone call otherwise people would probably be confused at when the conversation ended or when you're hanging up.
An exception I've had to this is when I'm getting a phone call where someone is trying to meet me at a location. I might hang up without saying bye if we both make eye contact in person and find each other. Because we're going to continue the conversation in person anyway.
There are other rare exceptions like this, but it's definitely culturally expected for you to say "bye" before hanging up!
I would love to hang up without a goodbye, but then people are just going to call me back because they'll think the call dropped. After a couple of those awkward interactions, I would quickly switch back to some sort of affirmative close to the call.
"I'm gonna let you go..."
That's true in the States too, just not in the movies. Especially in the south or midwest
I had a boss who did this! He just abruptly hung up when he was done with the conversation. People used to call back, worried they'd been cut off, or my boss was mad at them. Nope, he's just overly autistic-efficient.
Lots of scenes with two parties exchanging gunfire, often with like full machine guns, no one's wearing ear protection, and they're always urgently yelling shit at some teammate standing right next to them.
Even though they're yelling, the only thing the dude you're talking to is going to hear is "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" cuz his ears are now FUCKED.
Many people don't realize how loud guns are. Shooting a rifle without hearing protection is physically painfull. I don't get how people who've been to war are able to hear anything after that.
Even as someone who spends a good amount of time at the range, I never thought of this until Bill Burr did that bit about why he has a smaller pistol for home.
It didn't ruin John Wick, but any of the indoor scenes, especially the one where they'll have low gravely emotionally loaded dialogue... I have a hard time suspending my disbelief.
Characters repeatedly "dying" but then surviving again. That's why I liked game of thrones so much when I first watched it
Jon Snow has re-entered the chat
Haha fair enough you got me there
This is so important! People like to be surprised by inciting incidents, not by the consequences of them. Showing a character dying and then not having them die is a good way to make the audience think you're lying when you're not.
Game of thrones, feels like a kid whimsically thought about a classical story then killed the main characters.
Everyone would normally think it's too immature for a story. Instead it became one of the most watched shows.
Except the "killing off characters" thing ,the show was well made.
1890 beggars with ... Perfect teeth!
And medieval people with good skin, even the poor people
I work in the film business. Im one of the on set tech worker bees and the thing that annoys me most in movies is making them. What a shit industry. In the past +5 years of so, it has really gone down Hill. I'm an IATSE member and year after year these big studios have taken everything from us, refused to give reasonable raises, even if only to keep up with inflation, and the daily production demands get bigger and bigger, putting so much pressure on the crews. On top of all that, they brag about setting record profits every year while pretending to be shooting a huge film on a shoestring budget. I hate it and I've been trying to get into another industry but it's so hard. It's hard for me to enjoy movies anymore because I'm so resentful. I work on the big big stuff too so it's not like I'm getting screwed over my little indie shit stain prod cos. These are the jobs people dream of and it's not what you think it is and everyone hates it once they get here. It's not the work itself though, it's those you work for. Ignorant peanut counters and the precious shareholders ruin everything.
To be fair what you've described is just about what any public facing for profit business is heading for lately it seems. Your experience is not dissimilar to mine in engineering.
Characters needing to talk “privately” when in a location with others. The solution is always to take a few steps in one direction. They’re still clearly within easy hearing range of anyone who isn’t massively hard of hearing. Yet apparently the other characters in the room all just go temporarily deaf.
Conversely, people talking to each other in normal voices in a loud environment - e.g. a concert venue or club.
I really fucking hate this too
When hackers/IT people in a movie have a fully mobilzed datacetner/networking/rack gear they've seemingly configured in a matter of minutes or hours, not days or weeks. Forget stabilizing custom software, too. It just works. AND you can hack any protocol with it!
When hackers/IT people in a movie work in a room that has a bunch of server racks blinking away and it's not 90db of whirring fan noise. Datacenters are LOUD.
And it would be so hot as well. Server racks expel uncomfortable heat. Without an industrial sized HVAC system your improvised datacenter would become a sauna in a matter of minutes. There's a reason datacenter would be a warehouse sized fridge if it wasn't for the extreme heat that the server racks output. You need thick coats to enter those places for how cold they are, but only because they're battling the heat from all those chips and other electronics.
I'd laugh my ass off if an actor racked a slide, or pumped a shotgun, and it kicked out a round because it was already loaded.
Big Trouble in Little China. Russell racks out about an entire mag of rounds punctuating sentences throughout the sewer scene. Still love that movie, tho!
But now it's loaded with malicious intent.
I don't think anyone making movies understands how guns work. I've seen people in movies chamber rounds 5 times as if to intimidate. If you did that in real life, you'd just be wasting ammo by expelling 4 rounds out of the side of the chamber.
It also bugs me when people are shooting an obvious 8 or 10 round pistol and fire off 30 rounds without ever having to reload.
John Wick, of course, deserves a mention. Despite being a superhuman badass, with really nice guns, he still deals with malfunctions.
Ever seen The Way of the Gun? Crazy movie, but the gun play is spot on. If you blink you'll miss it, but in one scene
Benicio Del Toro casually clears a stove piped 12-gauge.
(And after all these years, I just realized the title basically means, "live by the sword, die by the sword".)
Ever seen The Way of the Gun? Crazy movie, but the gun play is spot on
That's a great movie. I never see it mentioned anywhere
Ex-wife and I used to randomly download whatever off TPB. 2-minutes in, we were like, "WTF is this?!" LOL, just that opening scene is enough to suck you in.
"Shut that cunts mouth or I'll come over there and fuck start her head!"
The random downloads were also how we saw Taken before it hit theatres. Thought we were tripping when we saw ads for it 3-weeks later.
People obviously fake-playing musical instruments. Either get a double who can play it or have a pro spend a few hours a day with the actor for 2 weeks to get them to at least have the basics down enough to look somewhat convincing.
On the flip side of this, I noticed "master of puppets" in last season of stranger things was a small bit different. Our boy Eddie was playing it.
Nobody in film seems to understand motorcycles. I'm tired of seeing sport bikes rumble like cruisers, Im tired of seeing 4-stroke bikes sounding like two-strokes, and people riding open-piped cruisers jn situations where they need to be quiet. There was that recent attempt at cashing in on Indiana Jones, set in the late 1940's, and someone is riding a bike with fuel injection, overhead valves, and disc brakes. I've seen it too many times where an "old bike" was needed and it's obvious someone bought a Softail off craigslist and expected that nobody would notice the difference between a ten year old bike and a 70 year old bike.
That every TV show and movie seems to re-use the same sound effects. Always takes me out of the story when I hear the same crying baby or fake “car clunking and breaking down” noises for the 1000th time.
I was going to mention this. This squeaky metal door/gate noise is so overused in the XFiles that if I hear it in a movie today, I want to walk away. It's been 30 years! Get a new door sound.
Holy shit, I know exactly what sound you are talking about and it's more than just XFiles. I never really watched XFiles, and I know what noise you are talking about. this one! . I can't even find a name for it.
Okay so there is also a wilhelm scream of police radio chatter. Its a female voice that trails off. Its the sound that plays when you click on a police station in simcity 2000. Ive never been able to figure out what the voice says but its in so many tv shows and movies.
If anyone knows, please... help.
I was watching Generation Kill, absolutely immersed because it's amazing, then all of a sudden I'm hearing the baby cry from an interlude track on Ænima by Tool. I've listened to that album countless times so that was very very weird and distracting
I am more of a points at screen Leonardo Di Caprio from wolf of wallstreet kinda guy.
Hey! I know that sound!
There is a specific growling sound that I hear in movies sometimes that I'm sure I've heard in WoW and the original Doom.
"Dr. Davis, telephone please. Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair. Dr. J. Hamilton, Dr. J. Hamilton..."
Ooh gun shot sounds from 80 movies were a bang. Doesn't matter if Clint Eastwood is in far west or 80 LA, they are the same sounds.
Mary Poppins on Disney+ had this. It drove me nuts. Not the recent one, the 1964 one.
There is a recent one?
2018 With Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda
A sequel, Mary Poppins Returns came out in 2018
I hate it when the whole thing revolves around the protagonist being young and they act emotionally stupid.
I know, I just hate stupid teen drama.
Why can't the main guy/gal be an emotionally smart person?
Because that would be way harder to write.
Or the entire conflict being assault by just talking to somebody instead of just interpreting what that person was thinking
This is one of the things that makes me mentally scream at characters in movies and TV shows
Lazy plot setups. Main example: if someone coughs for no reason in the first 10 minutes, they DEFINITELY have a terminal illness that will be revealed shortly.
Similarly, there is only one reason for a woman to vomit in a movie.
Especially frustrating because vomiting isn't even guaranteed with pregnancy! 20-30% of women make it through with no morning sickness, and then out of the 70-80% who do feel totally nauseous, not everyone actually vomits!
A necessary evil, though I agree very spoiler-y. People don't respond well to left-field plot-relevant details. So when you have a story to tell and a limited run-time to tell it, you don't get time to linger on atmospheric-but-not-plot-relevant details, and you have to include a satisfying level of foreshadowing. The result is that those foreshadowing details don't get time to "breathe".
This seems to go either one of two ways, depending largely on story pacing and overall quality: either it's derided as predictable, or lauded as "tight". It's a tricky, and largely subjective, line to walk.
Im honestly not super bothered by it. Why have an actor cough if it doesn't mean something?
I think it comes down to different approaches to writing. One is to only keep what's absolutely necessary to the plot. Done well, this can result in a tight narrative, but done poorly it can be way too predictable.
Another is to add little details that, while not necessary to the plot, may make the world/characters feel more real. Done well you can get some believably human characters, but done poorly it just feels bloated.
I think it can be done well, but it's often done poorly. Like a closeup of a character coughing is pretty obviously going to mean something later, it's so predictable as to be boring. IMO, a good Chekhov's Gun is something that surprises you at first but makes sense when you remember it later, or at least something where you have to keep guessing when it's going to come up. The viewer should feel clever for picking up on it. Knives Out is a great example of this being done well many times over.
Yeah, they're always needs to be a checkovs gun for things
Breaking the "show, don't tell" rule. In a similar vein, exposition dumps bug me.
exposition dumps
The most egregious example that I encountered recently was in Annihilation. What specifically annoyed me was the scene in which a member of the Shimmer team who rows in the same boat as Natalie Portman's character tells her something to the effect of, "We're all damaged goods."
She then proceeds to provide Portman's character a straight up list of the internal struggles that each of the team members face.
May not be "minor" but the whole trope about the kid knowing more than the adults in horror movies is very tired.
Somewhat related: kids that are clearly written by someone who has never spoken to a child in their life
Also kids acting super mature like they are adults, they are kids
To be fair, those actors are generally adults.
That and small kids over powering a small army of fully grown well trained men, with nothing but their own strength.
Even more so if it is just so the kid can get themselves into a dangerous situation, so that said men have to save them.
Sound in space.
Not only in movies, in series too. Fake coffee. People takes hot coffee in a disposable cup, never burn their hand, can drink it like water or says damn it's hot but the cup is empty, they never dropped a drop, never choke, never spill it, etc. They can drink it and talk at the same time, run with it, etc.
I hate it.
It's a continuity thing, apparently. If the level in the cup keeps going up and down in a single scene, it's more distracting than a clearly empty mug.
This doesn't hold when the drink container is opaque! They can still put water or something in it so the actors aren't drinking from obviously empty cups.
I feel like actors wouldn't benefit from an adundance of hot coffee they have to spill take after take. Especially if they have to run with it.
Also, obviously empty cups.
Just put water in it.
I know this is a common complain, but they have tested with special cups that have weights and special compartments to have water. Audiences can't tell the difference. People complain that the cup is empty when it's filled with water, or are fooled by empty cups, so much as to not matter. Unless you can see the liquid in the shot it doesn't matter. The things like sipping or trying to move fast, are what gives away the state of the cup. Not the acting. And for those scenes there are other concerns like spilling, that are more trouble than they're worth.
Strange decisions with cinematography.
Fall of house Usher episode 1: Conversation between 2 people about a man we don't know is in a strange house. Next shot we have focused on a car pulling up and a slow reveal of someone leaving the car. But it's the same person as previous scene.
Just why? Why slow reveal the person in the scene just seconds before? We pull up to the house and don't focus on his face for his reaction OR the house itself for our own reaction. Instead we get the end of a car advertisment and some shoes.
90% chances to have you as confused as you are. Problem is, instead of embracing it and making it a part of the experience, you want a powerpoint giving you relevant information in a logical order.
When a single person is fighting multiple assailants but they still only attack one at a time while the others just stand there trying not to look odd while waiting for their turn.
This annoys me too. Especially when it is "their turn" and it's the slowest most predictable combat move.
No, no, they're wincing and recovering and holding the spot they got hit at while being disoriented.
Badly performed CPR. Extra point if it's surprisingly/unrealistically/impossibly effective.
Agreed, but you can't do real CPR on a live person.
They should just not show it. Plenty of opportunities for cuts in a scene where CPR is necessary.
And a person jolting when getting shocked to restart the heart
Watch Grey's Anatomy and take a shot every time you see limp compressions
Pretty sure real CPR risks breaking a rib
If you're doing it right, you will. And if you don't feel like you're going to break the ribs, you're not doing it hard enough
Real hospital CPR is eerily calm too, actually. There's no frantic screaming of random adrenaline medication names and bogus doses. No defibrillator is hastily setup next to the patient. There's no aggressive ECG beeping. IRL the whole ordeal is done calmly and almost in silence. It does calls all the doctors available to the patient and everyone self appoints to a specific job, one install the breathing pump, another monitors the pulse, a third prepares and administers medication if needed, nurses walk family away and set up curtains around the patient, etc. They take turns on compressions every minute and a half or so because properly done CPR is physically tiring. The time is kept by the most senior doctor who decides the time to stop and pronounces the dead after a set amount of CPR time without patient response. You either come out of it or you don't. There's relatively little drama involved.
Treating mental conditions like you can simply come back from it.
Depending on how you interpret that, can refer to something like brain trauma (think of all the times people were knocked out) or something like someone's state of being (e.g. I'm probably the only one in the world who thinks Pokémon Horizons is rushing with how they treat Dot).
Oh god, my eye roll when depression is 'cured' after a bottle of myserty pills and a single 'therapy' session physically hurts. Similarly, the symptoms are always so stereotypical and often false - see OCD and cleaning a lot. Sure, cleaning can be an OCD trait but it's much more likely that the person has to touch every ceiling tile 3 times before they can focus on a conversation.
Shoehorned romantic stories.
Just give me my damn movie.
Top Gun for example.
Wilhelm scream. It was cute in like 2007 when the internet called attention to it, and now it’s in everything and is no longer funny or interesting.
Useless damsels in distress.
The hero and villain are fighting 1-vs-1 and it's about evenly-matched, and the damsel just stands there. I'm like, "get in there and help! You might not be a great fighter but 2-vs-1 will make up for that!
Or they just scream. Useless!
There's a bad horror movie called Night of the Lepus, which is about giant killer bunny rabbits. I like the female lead because she doesn't just stand there and scream or be useless. No. She grabs a fucking shotgun and starts blasting bunnies.
Sex scenes. Usually opening the door while passionately kissing and hastily undressing.
So boring, i fast forward
Killing animals
Women having no function other than being a brainless stereotype
The black or asian guy dies
American movies not hiring actual actors who natively speak a foreign language
When they need a bit of blood for a pact or to prove they are human and they USE THEIR HAND - dude. So many ligaments and tendons in there you could accidentally cut not to mention it hurts super hard and you can just use your fleshy forearm instead and still be able to grab things afterwards with less of an issue. I know it's because it's easier to hide the fake blood and smear but you can just as easily do that on your forearm.
I know! And it would take forever to heal that wound.
People just walking by someone "hiding" by pressing against a wall. May work occasionally in real life, but most of the time you catch someone out of your peripheral vision, and it triggers a reaction.
As someone who is a bartender, almost any scene in a bar in any show or movie. I swear it gives people bad habits about how bars actually work.
Example? Geniunly interested.
People magically get drinks, often without ordering or waiting and then don't pay. Also overly vague orders, there's probably near 10 options for a "whiskey neat" at your average bar, but there's never a clarification.
I just think of it like a funny little easter egg tbh.
Which is totally fine in a movie where little callbacks and winks to the audience make sense--like Tarantino flicks or cheesy slashers. Where it gets annoying is when it's plopped into something like a serious historical drama or atmospheric sci fi. In so many cases it's just jarring and snaps you out of the movie world for awhile
My good thank you so much, I FINALLY found that super annoying cheesy scream that sticks out like a sore thumb! I noticed it all the time and wondered why it is used so much. It ruins a good atmosphere by making me either frustrated or chuckle depending on the situation haha.
I almost walked out of Love and Thunder because of this. It's so fucking obnoxious.
It's tradition.
When the scene is incredibly quiet because they want to make one moment seem even louder than it actually is
Bad foreign languages. It always annoys me when an actor is pretending to be fluent in a language while it's obvious that they're not. And not just for the main actors, sometimes even the extras sound like confused tourists working their way through a phrase book.
It's most likely because the movie was filmed somewhere other than on location, but it still annoys me.
"Creepy head tilt to the side" in horror. It's not scary anymore.
It is when the crackhead at the bus stop does it while maintaining intense eye contact
handycam overuse. I don't care how good the writing, fx, or character development is, I'll stop watching if it's seemingly abused.
Forced emotional engagement using children or animals in peril.
People being tied up with ropes that are an inch in diameter. That's not how knots work!
Similarly, handcuffs that you could just slip out of.
People never use toothpaste
Someones never seen iconic cheerleader movie Bring It On
I suppose in a similar vein...people drinking from obviously empty cups!
Wait. What? They don't typically shower or floss or clip their nails or wipe their butts either.
What am I missing?
I'm guessing if OP is bothered in the same way as me: it's because they still brush their teeth. It's not (like people showering/ pooping) that they just don't show the activity. It's that they have the actor brush their teeth as part of the scene, but there's no toothpaste involved.
Oh. Yeah. Now I feel dumb. Awesome!
When they add the "pull hammer back on gun" sound effect and the character is holding a gun with no hammer (like a Glock). I first noticed this in one of the Fast and Furious movies, and I haven't been able to watch any of them since.
Drinking spirits like whisky like it's not burning the shit out of your esophagus
You clearly haven't met a real alcoholic yet.
True. Before I quit drinking I would drink cheap scotch out of the bottle like it was water. It only burns the first swallow. After that, its smooth sailing.
Being in a volcano or near lava and not burning up.
I'm a submariner. Most depictions of submarines - especially with giant wall-to-wall windows, super dark interiors for no reason, diving to stupid depths, taking a full-on torpedo or depth charge without any consequence beyond shakey-cam, and putting stupid down-angles or up-angles when diving and surfacing.
I hate when the protagonist start hearing/seeing things that aren't there or just in any other way retreats somewhere deep into their mind in a way that makes them forget the world around them.
Why?
Ever since I saw a video about it years ago, I've found it hard not to notice the overuse of orange and teal in shows/movies that have been color corrected to death. It's gotten better since the 2000s, but you still have a lot of shows with washed out colors where everyone wears stone variation of blue, black, brown, and orange clothing.
The worst thing is, once you've noticed it, it's so hard to ignore.
When historical clothing is really wrong/modern. Like if the movie is of the 1950s but the fabrics are stretchy.
“Call me at 555…”
When I was a young lad fake phone numbers really pissed me off.
There's a service that will give real phone numbers for movies and TV, and setup a related voice message to play when you call.
Entire plot lines hinging on people not explaining themselves which would take about 5 seconds.
The idiot plot.
Animes abuse this trope all the time. Plot only happens because MC don't say what he wants/feels.
I think it's more the miscommunication trope, which is kind of a sub-trope of the idiot plot
Great video by osp on the topic if you prefer to consume your information that way.
https://youtu.be/3-2NH-NVePw
The only good example I can think of where people actually explain themselves is Agents of SHIELD, which isn't even a movie. It's amazing. She doesn't doubt his loyalty for a second and understands, given their situation, why he had to keep it a secret from her. You still get drama, but it's drama from everyone being on the same dramatic page.
So… every season of Bridgerton?
Wait you think that's unrealistic? Tell me you're single without telling me you're single
I’m a software engineer, so basically anything involving software/hacking. It’s always inaccurate. (Because accurate hacking is incredibly boring.)
Except for that one scene in The Matrix Reloaded where we get to see actual vulnerabilities exploited.
That looks like the closest to realistic hacking I’ve seen, until you get to the graphical password box that starts flashing “access granted”. None of my SSH servers have ever done that.
But, credit where credit is due, at least she’s using realistic hacking tools.
I'm pretty sure we can do this with a bash script. Now I want it.
Mr Robot has some pretty accurate hacking and social engineering in it.
It'd be remiss not to mention Mr. Robot somewhere in this conversation.
"I'll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic, see if I can track an IP address"
I’ve never seen that one. I think that’s my new favorite line.
Mr. Robot
So you don’t type 90 wpm your way into the mainframe for work? You might need chew some more gum and change your laptop theme to black and green.
No, you need two people typing on the same keyboard to prevent a hacker from infiltrating their system.
Here's some sugar for you
https://youtu.be/-rQPdWwv3k8?si=AdOwIgu8z1_Te_z9
Such a good show. :D
People driving while staring intently at their passenger for way too long.
and the driver jerkily moving the steering wheel like they're on a rally course instead of most likely just a long straight road
I have vague memories as a kid of my dad doing this IRL and my mom occasionally telling him to look at the road. But idk if I just made up the memories or not. I guess my point is maybe these people do exist out there? Lol!
Bad physics. Totally pulls me out of immersion.
No, Captain America cannot lean back and hold a helicopter that is lifting off. It doesn't matter how strong he is - he will be lifted once there is enough force generated from the propellers. Basically anything Batman does that involves gravity in the Nolan films is similar.
The magic I can get behind. The mutant stuff or dragons or even time travel in superhero movies doesn't bother me. It's the lack of sensible mechanics on an alleged Earth that I'm bothered by.
Maybe Captain America's real power is that he is really heavy.
Yay! I’m a superhero!
Variable density would be a really convenient (but weird) super power
Only way to explain Thor hammer that can't be lifted by others
I get your point, but I will say the Captain America scene isn't completely out of the realm of possibility. Cap weighs the helicopter down for a few seconds, and grabs a support beam for the helipad as soon as he can. If Cap can keep a grip on both the beam and the helicopter, then the propellers will only lift him if either Cap or the support beams break.
Of course, whether he should have had that much effect on the helicopter for those first few seconds is another matter entirely and I'm not enough of a physicist to make that call.
It's those first seconds I am referring to. The pole does make more sense to me. Also not a physicist, but it irks me just the same.
Ant man surfing through pressurized water pipes. Would have been a lot more interesting and realistic as a scuba dive.
If the railing was strong enough, seems possible.
Yes! This seems like the right movie. For a few seconds before he grabs the pole, he does just lean back, right? That is the part that concerns me the most. At least this in the image seems doable if somebody is cap strong and angry.
I don't think he's able to stop it by just leaning, I thought it was pulling him along.
Edit: yeah, doesn't look like he's stopped it till he grabs into the railing. https://youtu.be/1ccey7IJLCM
He isn't heavy enough to make that much of a difference before he grabs the ledge, is he? If the helicopter can manage lift, his 200 lbs shouldn't make that much difference. It's the part before he grabs the ledge that bothers me in this clip
Freaking Gravity...
Cutting the palm to spill blood. Typically followed by a huge battle scene where a gash in your palm isn't going to affect your sword play/battle prowess
Injecting medications into necks.
Medical things are rarely accurate, but Jesus this one is absolutely infuriating. There's no anatomy in a neck that you could even inject anything INTO. You're not aiming for a jugular vein on the fly and there's not enough tissue in a neck to receive an intramuscular or subcutaneous injection. If your needle is too long, you're definitely hitting something critical. It's feasible that you could squirt medication into someone's trachea or esophagus or - god forbid - spine if you actually tried this nonsense.
Arms, people, ARMS. This is where we inject things into people who are not interested in receiving an injection. Arms or butts, right through the clothes. You're aiming for the deltoid muscle or the glutes. I'm even willing to concede the inaccuracy of a medication affecting someone instantly (they don't), if Hollywood would just stop having characters inject things into people's necks.
On our next episode of medical things that make me crazy: People getting shot through the shoulder with zero consequences.
This always bugs me on police dramas. On Chicago PD the characters are constantly on gunfights, get in and out of hospital almost everyday, get shot multiple times on back to back episodes, get beaten up, concussions, cuts, stab wounds, bullet wounds in all sort of places. Yet, every episode they're fine and working the field, and clearing building like a fucking ad-hoc Swat team. Not a limp, no cronic pain, no painkiller addiction.
In reality, the whole force would be on medical leave, on a desk job for disability or plain out of the force due to medical unfitness by the season's midpoint. The cases would have to be finished by an entire new batch of officers every few episodes, including the captain.
What is your medical opinion on people who get lofted 30 feet through the air by an explosion only to get up and walk away? On a scale from molasses to beetroot soup, how runny will their organs be?
My wife is a nurse and any time someone is getting a shot in the arm she starts yelling at them to find the shoulder bone first three 3 fingers down!
Concussions. Especially when they are used as plot vehicles where someone is knocked out, and they wake up in a jail cell or whatever.
If you got hit THAT hard on the head that you're unconscious and unresponsive for hours? You are going to wake up dizzy, nauseated, and disoriented with a huge headache, loss of motor control, and a disorienting tinnitus. Possibly permanently. Your brain swelled up and cut off blood flow. You might look like a stroke victim. You will not wake up, rub your head, then pick a lock in a dark room and construct a bomb with a gum wrapper and a smoke detector battery. You will weep, vomit, and be unable to walk straight until you get real medical attention.
Some action stars get knocked out almost every episode. I think MacGyver would have been mentally incapacitated after just a few shows.
Im not a medical professional, but I thought if someone was knocked out for mote than a few minutes there's a good chance they just wont wake up again?
It's a probability thing. It's used as a proxy indication of the severity of the concussion. A person who can't stay awake after a head injury is an immediate rush to the trauma room, they probably have internal bleeding and their brain tissue is dying.
Duh. Magruber is cannon. It makes sense now.
It really really bothers me when a character puts something down, and then walks away without picking it up, especially if they show them with it again later.
Something not so small that bothers me is when a victim is running from a bad guy or monster and then happens to knock them down, like with a baseball bat or something, and then they just take off running again. Fucking finish the job, you dumb ass! Hit him a few more times and he won't catch up to you again in 30 seconds when you unsurprisingly trip over your own feet.
Similarly when they walk in the house but don't shut the front door again, or open the fridge but never close it. I'm like waiting the whole scene to get back to that and missed the entire dialogue.
Right? Act like normal people, you hooligans!
Just watched an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. In the episode, the ship's security officer, La'An, enters the bedroom of Khan Noonien-Singh when he is a small child. Proceeds to put a loaded gun down on his desk, have a conversation, then leaves the room. You're the chief security officer, and you just left a loaded gun in a child's bedroom!
Yeesh! That's lazy directing.
When people and places that should be dirty are clean and kempt. Pirates on the seas should be dirty. Soldiers in the field should be dirty. Cowboys on a cattle drive should be dirty. Swamp cultists should be dirty. I appreciate realistically dirty characters. It distracts me every time when characters are clean and showered with their hair done on day three of being lost in the woods or some shit. It's one of the many things Our Flag Means Death nails. Even Stede gets grimy, because piracy is grimy work.
Especially when two people have to crawl through a pile of mud, or experience explosions or something and the guy is all muddy and torn up but the girl's makeup is intact and her clothes are mostly clean.
No, she has one spot of mud perfectly placed on her cheekbone.
Always seems to happen when a woman is in an explosion or something too. One cut or scratch in the same place or just above the eyebrow, and in the next scene it's got a butterfly bandaid over it.
It’s the perfect white teeth that throws me off in those scenes.
Or women with foundation, mascara, and lipstick when it makes no damn sense. Like wow, didn't know Sephora survived the nuclear apocalypse.
People always hang up the phone without saying goodbye or anything. I read that it's some time is money thing in film and TV but it just sounds like bullshit to me.
I thought that was just an American cultural thing.
In the UK, you have to say bye at least 3 times.
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson are still exchanging goodbyes to this day.
TV shows and movies only make you think it's a cultural thing.
We say "bye" here in the US after essentially every phone call otherwise people would probably be confused at when the conversation ended or when you're hanging up.
An exception I've had to this is when I'm getting a phone call where someone is trying to meet me at a location. I might hang up without saying bye if we both make eye contact in person and find each other. Because we're going to continue the conversation in person anyway.
There are other rare exceptions like this, but it's definitely culturally expected for you to say "bye" before hanging up!
I would love to hang up without a goodbye, but then people are just going to call me back because they'll think the call dropped. After a couple of those awkward interactions, I would quickly switch back to some sort of affirmative close to the call.
"I'm gonna let you go..."
That's true in the States too, just not in the movies. Especially in the south or midwest
I had a boss who did this! He just abruptly hung up when he was done with the conversation. People used to call back, worried they'd been cut off, or my boss was mad at them. Nope, he's just overly autistic-efficient.
Lots of scenes with two parties exchanging gunfire, often with like full machine guns, no one's wearing ear protection, and they're always urgently yelling shit at some teammate standing right next to them.
Even though they're yelling, the only thing the dude you're talking to is going to hear is "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" cuz his ears are now FUCKED.
Many people don't realize how loud guns are. Shooting a rifle without hearing protection is physically painfull. I don't get how people who've been to war are able to hear anything after that.
Even as someone who spends a good amount of time at the range, I never thought of this until Bill Burr did that bit about why he has a smaller pistol for home.
It didn't ruin John Wick, but any of the indoor scenes, especially the one where they'll have low gravely emotionally loaded dialogue... I have a hard time suspending my disbelief.
Characters repeatedly "dying" but then surviving again. That's why I liked game of thrones so much when I first watched it
Jon Snow has re-entered the chat
Haha fair enough you got me there
This is so important! People like to be surprised by inciting incidents, not by the consequences of them. Showing a character dying and then not having them die is a good way to make the audience think you're lying when you're not.
Game of thrones, feels like a kid whimsically thought about a classical story then killed the main characters. Everyone would normally think it's too immature for a story. Instead it became one of the most watched shows. Except the "killing off characters" thing ,the show was well made.
1890 beggars with ... Perfect teeth!
And medieval people with good skin, even the poor people
I work in the film business. Im one of the on set tech worker bees and the thing that annoys me most in movies is making them. What a shit industry. In the past +5 years of so, it has really gone down Hill. I'm an IATSE member and year after year these big studios have taken everything from us, refused to give reasonable raises, even if only to keep up with inflation, and the daily production demands get bigger and bigger, putting so much pressure on the crews. On top of all that, they brag about setting record profits every year while pretending to be shooting a huge film on a shoestring budget. I hate it and I've been trying to get into another industry but it's so hard. It's hard for me to enjoy movies anymore because I'm so resentful. I work on the big big stuff too so it's not like I'm getting screwed over my little indie shit stain prod cos. These are the jobs people dream of and it's not what you think it is and everyone hates it once they get here. It's not the work itself though, it's those you work for. Ignorant peanut counters and the precious shareholders ruin everything.
To be fair what you've described is just about what any public facing for profit business is heading for lately it seems. Your experience is not dissimilar to mine in engineering.
Characters needing to talk “privately” when in a location with others. The solution is always to take a few steps in one direction. They’re still clearly within easy hearing range of anyone who isn’t massively hard of hearing. Yet apparently the other characters in the room all just go temporarily deaf.
Conversely, people talking to each other in normal voices in a loud environment - e.g. a concert venue or club.
I really fucking hate this too
When hackers/IT people in a movie have a fully mobilzed datacetner/networking/rack gear they've seemingly configured in a matter of minutes or hours, not days or weeks. Forget stabilizing custom software, too. It just works. AND you can hack any protocol with it!
When hackers/IT people in a movie work in a room that has a bunch of server racks blinking away and it's not 90db of whirring fan noise. Datacenters are LOUD.
And it would be so hot as well. Server racks expel uncomfortable heat. Without an industrial sized HVAC system your improvised datacenter would become a sauna in a matter of minutes. There's a reason datacenter would be a warehouse sized fridge if it wasn't for the extreme heat that the server racks output. You need thick coats to enter those places for how cold they are, but only because they're battling the heat from all those chips and other electronics.
I'd laugh my ass off if an actor racked a slide, or pumped a shotgun, and it kicked out a round because it was already loaded.
Big Trouble in Little China. Russell racks out about an entire mag of rounds punctuating sentences throughout the sewer scene. Still love that movie, tho!
But now it's loaded with malicious intent.
I don't think anyone making movies understands how guns work. I've seen people in movies chamber rounds 5 times as if to intimidate. If you did that in real life, you'd just be wasting ammo by expelling 4 rounds out of the side of the chamber.
It also bugs me when people are shooting an obvious 8 or 10 round pistol and fire off 30 rounds without ever having to reload.
John Wick, of course, deserves a mention. Despite being a superhuman badass, with really nice guns, he still deals with malfunctions.
Ever seen The Way of the Gun? Crazy movie, but the gun play is spot on. If you blink you'll miss it, but in one scene Benicio Del Toro casually clears a stove piped 12-gauge.
(And after all these years, I just realized the title basically means, "live by the sword, die by the sword".)
That's a great movie. I never see it mentioned anywhere
Ex-wife and I used to randomly download whatever off TPB. 2-minutes in, we were like, "WTF is this?!" LOL, just that opening scene is enough to suck you in.
"Shut that cunts mouth or I'll come over there and fuck start her head!"
The random downloads were also how we saw Taken before it hit theatres. Thought we were tripping when we saw ads for it 3-weeks later.
People obviously fake-playing musical instruments. Either get a double who can play it or have a pro spend a few hours a day with the actor for 2 weeks to get them to at least have the basics down enough to look somewhat convincing.
On the flip side of this, I noticed "master of puppets" in last season of stranger things was a small bit different. Our boy Eddie was playing it.
Nobody in film seems to understand motorcycles. I'm tired of seeing sport bikes rumble like cruisers, Im tired of seeing 4-stroke bikes sounding like two-strokes, and people riding open-piped cruisers jn situations where they need to be quiet. There was that recent attempt at cashing in on Indiana Jones, set in the late 1940's, and someone is riding a bike with fuel injection, overhead valves, and disc brakes. I've seen it too many times where an "old bike" was needed and it's obvious someone bought a Softail off craigslist and expected that nobody would notice the difference between a ten year old bike and a 70 year old bike.
That every TV show and movie seems to re-use the same sound effects. Always takes me out of the story when I hear the same crying baby or fake “car clunking and breaking down” noises for the 1000th time.
*insert Wilhelm scream
I was going to mention this. This squeaky metal door/gate noise is so overused in the XFiles that if I hear it in a movie today, I want to walk away. It's been 30 years! Get a new door sound.
Holy shit, I know exactly what sound you are talking about and it's more than just XFiles. I never really watched XFiles, and I know what noise you are talking about. this one! . I can't even find a name for it.
That's the Willhelm Scream of hinge noises
Okay so there is also a wilhelm scream of police radio chatter. Its a female voice that trails off. Its the sound that plays when you click on a police station in simcity 2000. Ive never been able to figure out what the voice says but its in so many tv shows and movies.
If anyone knows, please... help.
I was watching Generation Kill, absolutely immersed because it's amazing, then all of a sudden I'm hearing the baby cry from an interlude track on Ænima by Tool. I've listened to that album countless times so that was very very weird and distracting
I am more of a points at screen Leonardo Di Caprio from wolf of wallstreet kinda guy.
Hey! I know that sound!
There is a specific growling sound that I hear in movies sometimes that I'm sure I've heard in WoW and the original Doom.
"Dr. Davis, telephone please. Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair. Dr. J. Hamilton, Dr. J. Hamilton..."
Ooh gun shot sounds from 80 movies were a bang. Doesn't matter if Clint Eastwood is in far west or 80 LA, they are the same sounds.
inaccurate official subtitles
Mary Poppins on Disney+ had this. It drove me nuts. Not the recent one, the 1964 one.
There is a recent one?
2018 With Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda
A sequel, Mary Poppins Returns came out in 2018
I hate it when the whole thing revolves around the protagonist being young and they act emotionally stupid.
I know, I just hate stupid teen drama.
Why can't the main guy/gal be an emotionally smart person?
Because that would be way harder to write.
Or the entire conflict being assault by just talking to somebody instead of just interpreting what that person was thinking
This is one of the things that makes me mentally scream at characters in movies and TV shows
Lazy plot setups. Main example: if someone coughs for no reason in the first 10 minutes, they DEFINITELY have a terminal illness that will be revealed shortly.
Similarly, there is only one reason for a woman to vomit in a movie.
Especially frustrating because vomiting isn't even guaranteed with pregnancy! 20-30% of women make it through with no morning sickness, and then out of the 70-80% who do feel totally nauseous, not everyone actually vomits!
A necessary evil, though I agree very spoiler-y. People don't respond well to left-field plot-relevant details. So when you have a story to tell and a limited run-time to tell it, you don't get time to linger on atmospheric-but-not-plot-relevant details, and you have to include a satisfying level of foreshadowing. The result is that those foreshadowing details don't get time to "breathe".
This seems to go either one of two ways, depending largely on story pacing and overall quality: either it's derided as predictable, or lauded as "tight". It's a tricky, and largely subjective, line to walk.
Im honestly not super bothered by it. Why have an actor cough if it doesn't mean something?
I think it comes down to different approaches to writing. One is to only keep what's absolutely necessary to the plot. Done well, this can result in a tight narrative, but done poorly it can be way too predictable.
Another is to add little details that, while not necessary to the plot, may make the world/characters feel more real. Done well you can get some believably human characters, but done poorly it just feels bloated.
I think it can be done well, but it's often done poorly. Like a closeup of a character coughing is pretty obviously going to mean something later, it's so predictable as to be boring. IMO, a good Chekhov's Gun is something that surprises you at first but makes sense when you remember it later, or at least something where you have to keep guessing when it's going to come up. The viewer should feel clever for picking up on it. Knives Out is a great example of this being done well many times over.
Yeah, they're always needs to be a checkovs gun for things
Breaking the "show, don't tell" rule. In a similar vein, exposition dumps bug me.
The most egregious example that I encountered recently was in Annihilation. What specifically annoyed me was the scene in which a member of the Shimmer team who rows in the same boat as Natalie Portman's character tells her something to the effect of, "We're all damaged goods."
She then proceeds to provide Portman's character a straight up list of the internal struggles that each of the team members face.
May not be "minor" but the whole trope about the kid knowing more than the adults in horror movies is very tired.
Somewhat related: kids that are clearly written by someone who has never spoken to a child in their life
Also kids acting super mature like they are adults, they are kids
To be fair, those actors are generally adults.
That and small kids over powering a small army of fully grown well trained men, with nothing but their own strength.
Even more so if it is just so the kid can get themselves into a dangerous situation, so that said men have to save them.
Sound in space.
Not only in movies, in series too. Fake coffee. People takes hot coffee in a disposable cup, never burn their hand, can drink it like water or says damn it's hot but the cup is empty, they never dropped a drop, never choke, never spill it, etc. They can drink it and talk at the same time, run with it, etc. I hate it.
It's a continuity thing, apparently. If the level in the cup keeps going up and down in a single scene, it's more distracting than a clearly empty mug.
This doesn't hold when the drink container is opaque! They can still put water or something in it so the actors aren't drinking from obviously empty cups.
I feel like actors wouldn't benefit from an adundance of hot coffee they have to spill take after take. Especially if they have to run with it.
Also, obviously empty cups.
Just put water in it.
I know this is a common complain, but they have tested with special cups that have weights and special compartments to have water. Audiences can't tell the difference. People complain that the cup is empty when it's filled with water, or are fooled by empty cups, so much as to not matter. Unless you can see the liquid in the shot it doesn't matter. The things like sipping or trying to move fast, are what gives away the state of the cup. Not the acting. And for those scenes there are other concerns like spilling, that are more trouble than they're worth.
Strange decisions with cinematography.
Fall of house Usher episode 1: Conversation between 2 people about a man we don't know is in a strange house. Next shot we have focused on a car pulling up and a slow reveal of someone leaving the car. But it's the same person as previous scene.
Just why? Why slow reveal the person in the scene just seconds before? We pull up to the house and don't focus on his face for his reaction OR the house itself for our own reaction. Instead we get the end of a car advertisment and some shoes.
90% chances to have you as confused as you are. Problem is, instead of embracing it and making it a part of the experience, you want a powerpoint giving you relevant information in a logical order.
When a single person is fighting multiple assailants but they still only attack one at a time while the others just stand there trying not to look odd while waiting for their turn.
This annoys me too. Especially when it is "their turn" and it's the slowest most predictable combat move.
No, no, they're wincing and recovering and holding the spot they got hit at while being disoriented.
Badly performed CPR. Extra point if it's surprisingly/unrealistically/impossibly effective.
Agreed, but you can't do real CPR on a live person.
They should just not show it. Plenty of opportunities for cuts in a scene where CPR is necessary.
And a person jolting when getting shocked to restart the heart
Watch Grey's Anatomy and take a shot every time you see limp compressions
Pretty sure real CPR risks breaking a rib
If you're doing it right, you will. And if you don't feel like you're going to break the ribs, you're not doing it hard enough
Real hospital CPR is eerily calm too, actually. There's no frantic screaming of random adrenaline medication names and bogus doses. No defibrillator is hastily setup next to the patient. There's no aggressive ECG beeping. IRL the whole ordeal is done calmly and almost in silence. It does calls all the doctors available to the patient and everyone self appoints to a specific job, one install the breathing pump, another monitors the pulse, a third prepares and administers medication if needed, nurses walk family away and set up curtains around the patient, etc. They take turns on compressions every minute and a half or so because properly done CPR is physically tiring. The time is kept by the most senior doctor who decides the time to stop and pronounces the dead after a set amount of CPR time without patient response. You either come out of it or you don't. There's relatively little drama involved.
Treating mental conditions like you can simply come back from it.
Depending on how you interpret that, can refer to something like brain trauma (think of all the times people were knocked out) or something like someone's state of being (e.g. I'm probably the only one in the world who thinks Pokémon Horizons is rushing with how they treat Dot).
Oh god, my eye roll when depression is 'cured' after a bottle of myserty pills and a single 'therapy' session physically hurts. Similarly, the symptoms are always so stereotypical and often false - see OCD and cleaning a lot. Sure, cleaning can be an OCD trait but it's much more likely that the person has to touch every ceiling tile 3 times before they can focus on a conversation.
Shoehorned romantic stories.
Just give me my damn movie.
Top Gun for example.
Wilhelm scream. It was cute in like 2007 when the internet called attention to it, and now it’s in everything and is no longer funny or interesting.
Useless damsels in distress.
The hero and villain are fighting 1-vs-1 and it's about evenly-matched, and the damsel just stands there. I'm like, "get in there and help! You might not be a great fighter but 2-vs-1 will make up for that!
Or they just scream. Useless!
There's a bad horror movie called Night of the Lepus, which is about giant killer bunny rabbits. I like the female lead because she doesn't just stand there and scream or be useless. No. She grabs a fucking shotgun and starts blasting bunnies.
Sex scenes. Usually opening the door while passionately kissing and hastily undressing. So boring, i fast forward
Killing animals
Women having no function other than being a brainless stereotype
The black or asian guy dies
American movies not hiring actual actors who natively speak a foreign language
When they need a bit of blood for a pact or to prove they are human and they USE THEIR HAND - dude. So many ligaments and tendons in there you could accidentally cut not to mention it hurts super hard and you can just use your fleshy forearm instead and still be able to grab things afterwards with less of an issue. I know it's because it's easier to hide the fake blood and smear but you can just as easily do that on your forearm.
I know! And it would take forever to heal that wound.
People just walking by someone "hiding" by pressing against a wall. May work occasionally in real life, but most of the time you catch someone out of your peripheral vision, and it triggers a reaction.
As someone who is a bartender, almost any scene in a bar in any show or movie. I swear it gives people bad habits about how bars actually work.
Example? Geniunly interested.
People magically get drinks, often without ordering or waiting and then don't pay. Also overly vague orders, there's probably near 10 options for a "whiskey neat" at your average bar, but there's never a clarification.
"Gimme a beer"
Hot or cold?
With ice please
the wilhelm scream. FUCK the wilhelm scream
I just think of it like a funny little easter egg tbh.
Which is totally fine in a movie where little callbacks and winks to the audience make sense--like Tarantino flicks or cheesy slashers. Where it gets annoying is when it's plopped into something like a serious historical drama or atmospheric sci fi. In so many cases it's just jarring and snaps you out of the movie world for awhile
My good thank you so much, I FINALLY found that super annoying cheesy scream that sticks out like a sore thumb! I noticed it all the time and wondered why it is used so much. It ruins a good atmosphere by making me either frustrated or chuckle depending on the situation haha.
I almost walked out of Love and Thunder because of this. It's so fucking obnoxious.
It's tradition.
When the scene is incredibly quiet because they want to make one moment seem even louder than it actually is
Bad foreign languages. It always annoys me when an actor is pretending to be fluent in a language while it's obvious that they're not. And not just for the main actors, sometimes even the extras sound like confused tourists working their way through a phrase book.
It's most likely because the movie was filmed somewhere other than on location, but it still annoys me.
"Creepy head tilt to the side" in horror. It's not scary anymore.
It is when the crackhead at the bus stop does it while maintaining intense eye contact
handycam overuse. I don't care how good the writing, fx, or character development is, I'll stop watching if it's seemingly abused.
Forced emotional engagement using children or animals in peril.
People being tied up with ropes that are an inch in diameter. That's not how knots work!
Similarly, handcuffs that you could just slip out of.
People never use toothpaste
Someones never seen iconic cheerleader movie Bring It On
I suppose in a similar vein...people drinking from obviously empty cups!
Wait. What? They don't typically shower or floss or clip their nails or wipe their butts either.
What am I missing?
I'm guessing if OP is bothered in the same way as me: it's because they still brush their teeth. It's not (like people showering/ pooping) that they just don't show the activity. It's that they have the actor brush their teeth as part of the scene, but there's no toothpaste involved.
Oh. Yeah. Now I feel dumb. Awesome!
When they add the "pull hammer back on gun" sound effect and the character is holding a gun with no hammer (like a Glock). I first noticed this in one of the Fast and Furious movies, and I haven't been able to watch any of them since.
Drinking spirits like whisky like it's not burning the shit out of your esophagus
You clearly haven't met a real alcoholic yet.
True. Before I quit drinking I would drink cheap scotch out of the bottle like it was water. It only burns the first swallow. After that, its smooth sailing.
Being in a volcano or near lava and not burning up.
I'm a submariner. Most depictions of submarines - especially with giant wall-to-wall windows, super dark interiors for no reason, diving to stupid depths, taking a full-on torpedo or depth charge without any consequence beyond shakey-cam, and putting stupid down-angles or up-angles when diving and surfacing.
I hate when the protagonist start hearing/seeing things that aren't there or just in any other way retreats somewhere deep into their mind in a way that makes them forget the world around them.
Why?
Ever since I saw a video about it years ago, I've found it hard not to notice the overuse of orange and teal in shows/movies that have been color corrected to death. It's gotten better since the 2000s, but you still have a lot of shows with washed out colors where everyone wears stone variation of blue, black, brown, and orange clothing.
The worst thing is, once you've noticed it, it's so hard to ignore.
When historical clothing is really wrong/modern. Like if the movie is of the 1950s but the fabrics are stretchy.
“Call me at 555…”
When I was a young lad fake phone numbers really pissed me off.
There's a service that will give real phone numbers for movies and TV, and setup a related voice message to play when you call.