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
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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!
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.
This is one of the things that makes me mentally scream at characters in movies and TV shows
Or the entire conflict being assault by just talking to somebody instead of just interpreting what that person was thinking
Characters repeatedly “dying” but then surviving again. That’s why I liked game of thrones so much when I first watched it
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.
Jon Snow has re-entered the chat
Haha fair enough you got me there
the wilhelm scream. FUCK the wilhelm scream
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 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
I almost walked out of Love and Thunder because of this. It’s so fucking obnoxious.
It’s tradition.
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.
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.
People driving while staring intently at their passenger for way too long.
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!
and the driver jerkily moving the steering wheel like they’re on a rally course instead of most likely just a long straight road
When historical clothing is really wrong/modern. Like if the movie is of the 1950s but the fabrics are stretchy.
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.
Or women with foundation, mascara, and lipstick when it makes no damn sense. Like wow, didn’t know Sephora survived the nuclear apocalypse.
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.
Sound in space.
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!
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.
Yeah, they’re always needs to be a checkovs gun for things
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.
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.
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.
Just take all that and substitute horse for motorcycle. Though it is nice to occasionally actually see someone who can ride.
Man do I hate it when they ride a horse with fuel injection and over head valves. It’s like they don’t care
Exactly. Everyone knows horses are still carbureted
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
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.
