What things in movies bug you?

[bif]

My biggest pet peeve is when a film includes a bunch of text messages that are too small to read.

[Tetrachloride]

1. empty coffee cups

cars cruising down a highway at 25 mph as if full speed

“be careful “

[Midnight Writer]

2. Bad scripts, especially in big budget productions.

They will spend millions on amazing effects shots, then tie them to a script that doesn't hold together or has some "WTAF?" moments.

[TexasBushwhacker]

25. Don't get me started

If it's not on the page, it's not on the stage.

[Sneederbunk]

3. When police do a night search of a residence

but insist on using their flashlights instead of turning the house lights on.

[Polly Hennessey]

5. Agree. I always say, 'turn on the lights' for crimmy sakes.

[Polly Hennessey]

4. When I first read your post, I thought of movie theaters.

Oops, you meant movies. Mine would be overwhelming music and mumbling actors.

[Diamond_Dog]

43. One of my biggest peeves, as well.

You have to put captioning on to understand the mumbling.

[bcool]

6. Microphone feedback in comedies

Every time someone steps up to a microphone to speak to a large group, it squeals when they start speaking

[oldsoftie]

32. Boy is THAT overused!!!

[LisaM]

7. When they order food and drinks but don't eat or drink.

Also when they don't pay at restaurants.

[Shermann]

8. Background music that clashes with the dialog. nt

[Xavier Breath]

9. Anytime in a movie when someone arrives at home

they always enter the house through the front door, and rarely through the door from the garage.

[True Dough]

12. But what if

the killer is lurking in the garage or that's where the bodies are being stored?

[Bitbit]

10. I agree bif but would add hand written notes or a typed

page, a book page and absolutely text messages.

[True Dough]

11. I'm fussy about most implausible things

I prefer to watch docs, dramas that are essentially true to life and foreign films.

I avoid the action/thriller genre because of all the shoot 'em up silliness and preposterous stunts. The storylines are too repetitive too, IMO.

They say when you watch a movie, you should be prepared to suspend your sense of disbelief. I have great difficulty doing that.

[EYESORE 9001]

13. Inability to attain suspension of disbelief

If a movie contains elements too incongruous for suspension of disbelief, it’s ruined for me. The most recent example was The Death of Stalin. I just couldn’t accept Steve Buscemi as Krushchev.

[hlthe2b]

14. Yes.. This... Streaming shows too. One should not have to stand in front of the monitor or with a magnifyer

to try to read it.

[hlthe2b]

15. Dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark cinematography! A single scene, fine but more and more are just unwatchable.

[CurtEastPoint]

16. YES! FFS it's not dark everywhere! And LOUD MUSIC. Jeez.

[northoftheborder]

49. Dark everywhere as though electricity hasn't been invented.

Perhaps it makes sense in a period piece but all dark all the time is aggravating. Are they trying to save on the set property???

[dcbuckeye]

17. Empty suitcases

People carrying obviously empty suitcases. You can tell they are empty. Full suitcases make a different sound when you set them down than empty ones

[Xavier Breath]

18. No one ever says goodbye to end a phone conversation.

Here's another: anytime a great distance has to be driven, it's almost always over back roads. Hardly anyone ever takes the interstate.

[Xavier Breath]

19. Just thought of another: when an alarm clock goes off in the morning and it's set to a music station

it's always right at the beginning of the song. Yet another reason to love Groundhog Day.

[Xavier Breath]

20. They're coming fast and furious now.

- Someone is always from, is trying to get back to, or dreams of going to NYC.

- Anytime a character goes back home to or visits a small town, that town always has a town square bustling with shops and everyone knows everyone else.

[mitch96]

21. In my previous life I was an X-ray tech... So when they put up a chest X-ray backwards it drives me nutz...

Unless of course the patients guts are backwards. .Very rare.
The other is showing an MRI and saying it's a CT scan or visa versa.. Poor attention to detail
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[JoseBalow]

22. When someone runs out of bullets, then throws away a perfectly good gun

WTF?

[twodogsbarking]

23. It takes so much money to make one and the objective is to make more money.

[msongs]

24. profanity, no character development, overly loud, gay bashing, women hating, disney princesses

tons more but I view few movies at the theater. too overpriced

[Skittles]

26. if anyone coughs it means they are dying

[oldsoftie]

30. Hahahahahahahahahaha!!! There is NOTHING wasted in scripts!

[snowybirdie]

27. The cost

Of movies, popcorn and a coke. Not doing that again.

[brewens]

28. A lot of times we're not meant to read stuff that pops on the screen but I always try. Pause and zoom to see if

I can get it. Then as soon as you do that, they talk about the message, so you were gonna know anyway.

[oldsoftie]

29. Ridiculously impossible feats accomplished. Like leaping or jumping long distances.

Along with dozens of people shooting at the SAME person & ALL of them missing (I'm looking at YOU John Wick movies)
Getting shot/stabbed but "I'm fine!!" & continuing
Of course in superhero or Marvel type movies its understandable.

[Nittersing]

31. All the fire sprinklers going off at once

They don't work that way. (Each one has a meltable link in it... which melts and lets the water flow)

Also... crawling around inside ductwork. Most would require a belly crawl and most would barely stand up to the weight.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

33. A few things

Soundtrack or special effects way too loud compared to the dialogue.

Characters making obvious, absolutely mind boggling, awful decisions. It's as if horror/slasher/zombie/etc movies never existed in their universe.

Grenade explosions with giant fireballs.

People getting shot and knocked back 5ft. Apparently physics are different lol.

Shooting in indoor spaces or inside cars, or just in general with zero hearing protection and they have normal conversations right after.

Characters being close enough to an explosion to get thrown or singed, but no other injury.

[mahina]

34. Bad Boston accents. I'm looking at you, Sasha Baron Cohen in The Trial of the Chicago 7. Jaysus.

It really is an otherwise excellent film, and important for people to watch. Still, that hideous screeching attempt deeply damaged this very good movie for me.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1070874/

[thucythucy]

39. Did you ever see,

or rather hear, Kevin Costner in "Thirteen Days?" He was supposed to be Boston pol and JFK confidant Kenneth O'Donnell.

My ears begin to bleed again just thinking about it.

[mahina]

58. OMG it was dreadful!

Funny! but skip the very end if gunshots shake you.

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[thucythucy]

61. That was hilarious!

As a former--but not native--Bostonian, I approved this message.

[bif]

46. Well, he is British.

[bottomofthehill]

35. Bad fake Boston Accents.

Or worse, when Boston actors turn up the fake accent.

[FalloutShelter]

36. Okay... I'll go there

Spontaneous sex in rando gross bathrooms.
Posted up unto sinks, against walls and doors.
What woman does not dream of this?
Just sayin.

[GPV]

37. Impossible timelines, ie hero should have fallen off the tower by now. Gunfire and explosions that never take people out

[Ocelot II]

38. A character runs to their car, which is always unlocked and they always have their key ready.

A man and a woman are running away from the bad guy and the woman trips and falls.

Two people are having a conversation and one of them just walks away instead of closing off the conversation in some way.

Whenever a woman discovers something disturbing like a dead body, she screams and screams like a banshee instead of just gasping or saying OMG, stepping back and calling 911 like a normal person would do.

A character (usually a woman) is trying to drive away from danger and her car doesn't start until suddenly it does, just as the bad guy appears at the window.

Movie characters hardly ever have pets, or if they do, it's a dog who appears at the beginning and is never seen again, or else is killed off.

Nobody ever has to go to the bathroom.

[doc03]

40. Hate that and some you cant follow the plot

at all without reading them. In theaters the volume is on 150% and the AC is set at 55 degrees.

[Tetrachloride]

41. ty all for excellent reasons

[MaryMagdaline]

42. British and Australian actors who are given American parts but

can’t nail the accent … or their accent takes so much effort that it flattens the rest of the performance

[sorcrow]

44. There's always a parking space

Never a realistic portrayal of traffic.
Airbags almost never go off.
Guns that never run out of ammo.
Houses are always too clean and well decorated. Apartments that look like Martha Stewart and Marie Kondo are roommates.

Some of these require a bigger willing suspension of disbelief than the plot line.

Regards,
Sorghum Crow

[Diamond_Dog]

45. Bad guy shoots and shoots at cop and misses every time

Cop shoots bad guy and nails him on the first try.

[bif]

47. When a woman pukes

She's always pregnant.

[birdographer]

48. I don't see my pet peeve(s) here yet..

1. Moviemakers: Women do not wash their hair every single time they get in the shower. They do not stand there, head back, with the water falling on their heads, slicking their hair back with their hands. You may find it sexy, but once in a while a woman takes a shower without having to go through a long hair drying process afterward. I do not believe I have EVER seen a woman shown in a G-rated shower scene where she was not slicking wet hair back with her hands.

2. Casting Directors: Ok, you have a type. You love women with long straight dark hair parted in the middle. Or men with wavy brown hair parted on the side. So, during the lengthy process of casting your movie, you always select the actors auditioning that are your type. Every time. And we, the moviegoers/watchers, are left saying "Is that the wife or the mistress? Or the maid? Is that the mailman or the boss?" Stop hiring people who look identical, even if you like them all best.

3. When a driver is having a conversation, they are typically in a car on a road moving quickly. They are not in a studio in front of a green screen. So they cannot have long conversations with the passenger that involve staring at them for minutes at a time.

[Leghorn21]

55. #3, #3, #3, bird!!!

The driver looks at the passenger for what feels like 15 seconds and I’m like NO NO YOU WOULD DRIVE INTO A POWER POLE, WTF!!! Or DRIVE OFF A CLIFF!! Or RUN INTO THE CAR IN FRONT OF YOU!!!!! STOP THIS!!

Makes me cray cray to see someone STARING at their passenger for more than 2 seconds, max!!
Arrghhh!!

[Gaytano70]

50. When actors mug to the camera.

Talking to you, Will Farrell!

[marble falls]

51. Blowing up cars that are better than mine.

[Layzeebeaver]

52. Car chases and extra long gun fights.

They just burn time.

[Beatlelvr]

53. Horrible costumes/wardrobe

In colors that don't look good on the wearer. Haven't these people had their colors done?! ( I know, don't yell at me.
Alot of people haven't. But wouldn't a wardrobe professional know that stuff?) Weird set designs, huge apartments or homes when the character is supposed to be on the poor side. I just notice backgrounds and surroundings. Oh, and bad acting.

[Biophilic]

54. The background music that is louder than anything else.

[perfessor]

56. Speaking of gun fights ...

The bad guy and the hero(ine) have been shooting at each other for the last few minutes. Shooting to kill, presumably. Suddenly they are face to face, guns drawn … “Drop your gun!!” “No, you drop your gun!!!” And they have a 10-second stare down. Ridiculous. You and I both know that in reality, that confrontation is over in milliseconds, with a dead body hitting the floor. Do they think we’re idiots?

[Groundhawg]

57. CGI. Bugs me. I prefer movies from the 80's

[Ocelot II]

59. I thought of another one:

Where the evil mastermind captures the hero and while said hero is restrained, explains his entire nefarious plot in detail and at great length (giving the hero time to get loose using the screwdriver/hairpin/pliers/other tool he/she concealed up a sleeve or in a shoe). In the real world the evil mastermind would just have killed the hero immediately.

[GreenWave]

60. Noise in space. It's a vacuum.

[bif]

62. At the end of the action flick

After the villain and hero shoot at each other for several minutes, they end up dropping their weapons and end the film in hand to hand combat. ALWAYS!

[Diamond_Dog]

63. I thought of another one, too

A woman gives birth to a baby by the side of the road in 5 minutes, moans or yells only once, and is delivered by someone with no medical training whatsoever who innately seems to know what to do. And the baby comes out looking like a 4-month old. Easy peasy, right, ladies?

[RainCaster]

64. 20 minutes of adverts before the movie starts

Don't they make enough money already? I pay twice as much to go to the theater as it costs to buy a box of microwave popcorn and a Blu-ray movie.