What's something they do in movies all the time that irritates you?
Something cheesy or unrealistic that finds its way a bunch of movies.
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My god the better question would be ‘what is something that Doesn’t bother you’? Predictability is THE thing with movies lately
Product placement.
Like, ‘oo, there’s a crime being committed, good job I can video it with my Nokia E75 with dual mode function then upload it to the web with my no nonsense, free internet package’
In a horror movie, the power will always go out at least once.
It drives me nuts in movies whenever a person pulls out a gun it makes the “chick-chick” noise that guns make when you cock them. Most of the time they don’t even actually cock the weapon. It’s like somehow the act of picking up a gun is what makes that noise. Ridiculous! Also if you keep a gun on your person for self defense you definitely have it cocked and loaded.
Hanging up the phone without saying goodbye…normal conversation and everything, but then one of the people says some sort of line, usually funny, and then just hangs up the phone. Like anyone would really do that?? It bugs me.
When they take grainy surveillance footage and “enhance” it into a clear high resolution image. It just doesn’t work that way!
When they say “I’ve got a baaaad feeling about this!”. Ugh…each time I lose a little more faith in humanity
@jaketheripper
GA, and yes! What is the ‘computer’ doing? Making it up? Being artistic? If a camera shoots on a low resolution YOU CAN’T CHANGE THAT AFTERWARDS!! AAAAARGHHHH!
Nasty, slobbery morning breath kisses first thing in the morning.
When there are nerdy characters that get made fun of until they cut their hair end get contacts. Then they are all hot stuff, like all that nerdy people need to do is cut their hair and get contacts then they’d be cool.
They never rinse the sink after spitting while brushing their teeth.
They never bush their teeth!
Ridiculous leaps of deduction.
Some movie long ago had this:
1) The victims all had sliding glass doors in back of their homes (in Florida, who doesn’t).
2) The murderer broke in using a glass cutter.
3) OMG! The murderer works at the photo lab, where he saw all the glass doors in family snapshots!
Characters that react to everything. They just speak their mind the exact moment something bothers them, and it’s every character usually. Almost everybody I know keeps it in.
Intelligent people (scientists, professors, FBI directors, etc) using dictionary-word or meaningful-name passwords, so that the hero or villain trying to “hack” their account can remember that one piece of vital information (they love violets, their dog’s name is Samuel, etc) that lets them get into their account to get the needed data. I don’t know anyone who uses an actual word or name as their password, without at least a number in it somewhere.
When they just throw around the vague idea of “hacking” to spackle over gaping plot holes, OMG hackers can control the world!
When the person whom you thought just died turns out to be not really dead.
Hang up the phone without saying good-bye.
@Frankie, that has bothered me for years. I always say “good-bye” aloud when that happens.
The number one thing that REALLY irritates me in movies is when people are driving and they just move their hands left and right constantly when they’re supposed to be driving in a straight line >_<
Well, it doesn’t irritate me, I think it’s funny, how in a lot of martial arts movies the bad guys all kinda wait their turn, instead of all ganging up on the good guy.
As @Frankie and @Jeruba said, the phone thing. They also never say “hello?” Both parties know who it is and start talking. They never even glance at caller ID on landlines:)
@ccrow thats a very good point. I always think about that. In war movies aswell, with big epic sword battles. Why is that guy behind the good guy not stabbing him in the back?
In the horror films ; they are in a house alone , hear a noise and go down into a dark basement to check it out withou a weapon etc…. or go upstairs to cheak out a noise and have no weapon etc ..
OR; they will actually SEE a killer or monster coming at them , preparing to KILL them ; yet all they do is just stand there and screem…
Just as your trying to escape or make your getaway…the damn car won’t start!!
Yet two scenes ago, it was running just fine.
The way there’s always a happy ending.
No actors wearing seatbelts in car scenes
The phone thing, not saying goodbye
Heavy kissing but you never see lipstick smeared on the skin
Couples looking so comfortable cradled up in bed… and looking marvelous
555–1212
And, it drives me crazy… Though I do know why they do it.
When a movie goes to print and there are technical errors.
Actor lifts glass with right hand. Shot changes, glass is in left hand.
The special effects, that the Mythbusters have proven to be to be impossible, and all the houses are in rich neighborhoods.
On CSI theu always touch the phone or their face with their gloves on. Drives me up the wall!!
@EdMayhew ; Have you noticed the :product placement” for the movie Avatar lately?
the post-coital couple laying in bed with the sheet just up to the guy’s waist and just up to woman’s breasts. Never have a woman and I laid in bed like this (before, during, or after).
Pisses me off in horror movies when a death dealing blow is always blacked out right before impact, to be instead replaced by a full moon and a scream.
@MrItty Or the guy who gets out of bed with a woman, and he’s wearing underwear.
That just isn’t happening.
Or someone hangs up the phone on you, and you instantly get a dial tone.
@filmfann Or, they never get up and go to the bathroom after. Come on, no one wants a wet spot.
I always hate it when some character abruptly wakes from a bad dream and instantly springs up in their bed. I’ve never known of anyone who does that.
Battle scenes where fighters drop dead immediately after being pierced with a sword or bullet.
Fist fights – one blow to the head and they’re down and unconscious
The villian who delays finishing off the hero in order to brag and explain how smart they are long enough for the hero to get the upper hand
I hate that the bad guy always loses or the person who did something bad always gets caught, and gets punished. The only movie I have seen where the person doing bad didn’t get caught was Mr. Brooks.
When the character inhales smoke from a cigarette, but does not exhale. Where does the smoke go?
Also, I hate the BLAM! you hear when someone fires a handgun. Have you ever heard one go off? They go POP ike a firecracker, not BLAM!
On older shows before mobile phones were so prevelant- the caller thinks someone hung up on them or the phone isn’t working right and so the caller would push the button that hangs up the phone several times and say HELLO! a few times. I don’t know why that would help the situation at all.
Also when someone asks someone else out on a date they will just say “see you at 7!” Or something. That has always bothered me. There is a lot more planning that goes into it than that.
I get annoyed that the main character (particularly in action movies) always has these hidden talents that no joe shmoe would ever have.
Ex- they need to go to another country to get some detrimental information, and they just happen to speak the language like a native. Oh and they happen to have a friend who’s “good with computers” that can hack anything/make resolutions better/put back together a destroyed computer etc.. And then they just happen to have a criminal background or something that makes them relatable to cops annd bad guys.
I suppose it’s to enhance the story but really? No one is like this in real life.
Oh and what’s up with the fake highschools in movies? My highschool was NEVER like that!! (in any aspect: prom, homeroom, the hallways, prom, football games, and especially the people. Kids that went to my highschool were 14–18 years old not 19–39)
I know that watching what really happens would be boring- but if you change too much the movie is so unrealistic and predictable.
Just did a Smallville Marathon. Watched all the seasons and bought the current season on iTunes. About season 3 I told my husband I was going to stop watching if they didn’t get rid of the “somebody took over my body plot.” They have done that about 10 times!
Ooo and taking a sip from a cup and apparently not swallowing it.
How about the woman always falling down when she’s being chased? And why don’t they show the fight at the end of dinner instead of wasting all that good food?
@faye that reminds me- why are they never hungry? Something always happens and everyone gets upset or they’re just not hungry… ever.
When the bad guys are coming, and the good guys “We’ve got company!” My eyes roll so far back into my head everytime I hear that, I miss a good two minutes of the movie. Why can’t we come up with something new?
Wait, that would make a great Fluther question…
@AstroChuck do I dare ask why a postal worker would be familiar with the real sound of a firearm being dishcharged?
Get out of their car in a downtown area and walk past the parking meter without putting any money in. Around here that youd get you a ticket.
When the protagonist closes their fridge and the murderer is standing there.
Similarly, when said protagonist is in the bathroom, leans down to the sink (wash face, etc), lifts face up and the murderer is reflected in the mirror. It’s gotten too predictable.
Twenty somethings with low wage jobs living in fabulous urban apartments that would cost more than their entire monthly salaries to rent. If they could be found in the first place.
Medieval warriors in either chain mail or plate armor being incapacitated by a slice, not a chop, to the stomach. HELLO? WHY DO THEY WEAR THE ARMOR IF IT DOES NOTHING TO PROTECT THEM?
I don’t know if anyone has said it, too many responses to read, but I hate it when they take some shitty quality security camera footage and then zoom in and “computer enhance” it to read the guy’s nametag or serial number on the digital camera he’s carrying.
Zooming in makes it blurrier, not clearer, damn it!
This applies more to TV shows, though. CSI does it all the time. It’s so stupid. Security cameras have notoriously crappy quality.
Squealing tires on a wet road.
I agree with people are always in upper class neighborhoods in a lot of movies. Hello?? Most people do not live like that. I also have a beef with sound affects with cars in a lot of movies. No matter how slow they accelerate the tires always squeel. Drives me nuts.. OH MAN! and the response from DominicX is right on. The CCTV cameras they use in the movies are TOTALLY bogus. They seem to be able to zoom in on all 3 axis’s and create digital rendering of objects in 3D, and can zoom in on someone’s face and it magically becomes clear.
@Tenpinmaster my favorite example of that is in Enemy of the State. In that movie, the security cameras are able to “enhance” a picture of the bag that Will Smith is carrying, to see that it contains a small rectangular box. The aburd part? Will Smith was carrying the bag on his right, the camera photographed him from the left. The camera was somehow able to magically remove his body and see the impression of a rectange in his bag.
I watched that movie at my technology-focused college’s movie theatre. When that scene aired, there was a collective protestation of “WHAT?” “BULLSHIT”, and outrageous laughter on the part of the audience.
What bothers me is two things: obvious product placement and actors who don’t have the accent of the country they’re supposed to be from the in the film. It’s just lazy.
@MrItty you know i was thinking the same thing. I was like… holy crap! Those are the coolest fictional cameras ever! lol. I want my camera system to extrapolate and digitally reproduce a figure around all three axis’s or something like that… lol.
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