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What's something that annoys you in films & tv shows?

posted 3 months ago by M1sterDoct0r (4423)
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Things that happen often in fiction that just "piss you off".

There are countless things but I'm gonna go with the one that inspired this post.

I'm watching this show right now & it's a mystery-ish show. The main character is about to learn something, they get interrupted & she doesn't even follow up.

Happens a second time with a different character. Someone walks in & they just stop the conversation.

It's important information, you can literally continue the fucking conversation. It's not top secret stuff.

That happens A LOT in so many shows & movies & it annoys the shit outta me! 😆

I know it's just something to drag the hell outta the story but it just infuriates me how often it happens.

How about y'all? What's YOUR thing?

[–] Bloodshot77 (13763) 3 months ago

Actors playing with food instead of eating it.

Hanging up phone and not saying goodbye.

Leaving refrigerator door open.

Bag of groceries always has a baguette sticking out.

Leaving front door open.

Not watching the road while driving.

Signed, million man.

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4423) 3 months ago

Oh man, I hate how often characters just don't even bother locking their doors.

They just walk out. Who does that? 😆

[–] Kowalski (75523) 3 months ago

I DO...DARE YOU TO GO IN.🙂

[–] ColumboKate (5678) 3 months ago

Agree with the phone one. I thought this is how Americans ended calls until I was about 12 😄

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77378) 3 months ago

Yes, the not saying ‘goodbye’ at the end of a phone call thing is annoying! Who raised these people to have NO manners?!?

The ‘magical parking spot’ DIRECTLY in front of the cafe or disco the main character needs to visit. 999 times out of 1,000 visits this will simply not happen. You are paying at least 20 bucks for parking and walking several blocks if not a lot more.

Endless Ammo. Hollywood has gotten better with this but sheesh, in those old cop and murder movies guys would blaze away with a wheel gun like it was a U.S. Marine Corps rifle!

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4423) 3 months ago

I watched John Woo's The Killer (1989) recently & I was genuinely surprised at the amount of guns that actually ran out of bullets.

An 80s action movie without unlimited ammo? What kind of sorcery was John Woo using? 😆

[–] samoanjoes (56646) 3 months ago

- When two characters are talking about something, then it cuts to a completely different location and they continue the conversation where they left off in the previous location. Example: https://youtu.be/D-0_sL5AAVQ?feature=shared (happens twice within the first 10 seconds.)

- When people are talking about meeting up somewhere and they agree but don't give either the time or location.

- When kids make up in the morning to eat breakfast that their parents just made, have two bites, then say "gotta go".

- Explaining the plot. "You have to hurry up to the airport before your girlfriend gets on the plane to Germany and ends up marrying Karl who you have a fierce rivalry with."

- An actor steering while driving when the roads in the background are straight.

- A conveniently placed object on the ground to smash over the head of the person who is attacking them.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77378) 3 months ago

Oh, the grand breakfast buffet is so silly, drives me nuts!

Waffles, eggs, bacon, melons, pancakes, coffee, sausage, juice…?
Does anyone really eat like this if they are not on vacation at a ritzy resort?

Don’t we all have to get to work and school? Did this breakfast cost $700?!?
Who is cleaning all of this up?

[–] samoanjoes (56646) 3 months ago

These privileged kids don't know how good they have it.

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4423) 3 months ago

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4423) 3 months ago

"When people are talking about meeting up somewhere and they agree but don't give either the time or location."

THANK YOU!

*On the phone*, "Let's meet up later". No one ever says, "Where?'' Or more importantly, ''At what fucking time"

I genuinely even hate it in real life when someone says we should hangout somewhere like their place, at a party or whatever & don't specify the freaking time. Ahhhh, fucking hell! 😅

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77378) 3 months ago

I’ll meet you at the Hudson River tomorrow.

Wait…where, it’s a pretty big river! And what time , should I get deli sandwiches?!?

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4423) 3 months ago

Or when the suspicious character tells ya to meet them in the middle of fucking nowhere, don't tell a single soul where you're going.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77378) 3 months ago

Well THAT’s the last time I fall for that one!

[–] samoanjoes (56646) 3 months ago

Birdemic 2 (one of the best films of all time) has a scene at a beach where some random girl gets bitten by a jellyfish. They call an ambulance and tell the dispatcher the beach they're on qucikly without even giving her time to write it down, where they're situated on the beach other than "by the pier", and don't even say their name etc. The dispatcher says, "okay, we'll be right there."

[–] RoboReCop (3294) 3 months ago

The tried and true "If you show something/person/object, it will be a factor/used later on" or however it's stated.

I just believe writers/directors have no idea what they are doing; thus, destroying any mystery they are trying to convey.

There were too many TV show episodes and movies I ruined for my friends and family because of it's poor use.

For example,
'Wicker Park' (2004), Where the leads -- guy and girl -- are sitting at a table, and someone in a dark coat bumps into one of them. I turned to my friend and told her, "That's the bad guy" (that was at the beginning of the film). At that point, the audience isn't even supposed to know there is a "bad guy" yet!

'Criminal Minds' (2005), during its original run, first season I think... Episode about a murder or death on the set of a TV/film. While the detectives are interviewing an actor or director, a personal rep "pops in" in the trailer, interjects to tell the interviewee about some update about production or something. That's fine, but the cameras cut to her again "popping out" of the trailer (a split-second exit). I don't think they even show her face. I just turned to my friend and told her, "That's the bad guy" (10-15 mins into the episode).

However, there are countless examples.

[–] nyctc7 (43591) 3 months ago

Is this a type of https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chekhovs-gun

[–] RoboReCop (3294) 3 months ago

Indeed.

[–] ColumboKate (5678) 3 months ago

Murder she wrote was famous for this. They would have an unnecessary close up of some random object or person near around the start of the murder, that would then be revealed to be a major clue later to whodunit.

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4423) 3 months ago

Guess what? Another overused thing happened in the show I'm watching & y'all will definitely recognize this & it's pretty annoying.

The silent car or freaking truck that's absolutely SILENT until it hits the person.

It's like it exists outside of time, space & reality and only comes into existence when it hits one of the characters.

Cause absolutely no one hears it or sees it until it hits someone.

[–] nyctc7 (43591) 3 months ago

The 'pffft' of a silenced gun. Newer generation silencers can work very well, but the ones portrayed back on 1960s and 70s TV shows? I doubt it.

TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyfKPYSRUHY
Reality: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gun+suppressor

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77378) 3 months ago

Yeah, silencers, total baloney.
Very cool in James Bond movies though!

The U.S. Navy Seal teams raiding VC camps in the Mekong Delta would often pack along a few .22 or .32 caliber pistols. They were quiet enough and could be used on the dogs the enemy kept around their camps.

They called them ‘hush puppies.’

[–] nyctc7 (43591) 3 months ago

Some of the newer generation ones are impressive, if some of the vids in my link are accurately portraying them.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77378) 3 months ago

My info might be outdated on this but I had a text called ‘The Arnarchist Cookbook’ and there was a chapter on building a silencer. Evidentially they are not very quiet after a few rounds.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (14381) 3 months ago

I remember hearing a great joke about Spaghetti Westerns xD

"The only Western movies in the history where the guns sound like cannons, and the cannons sound like nuclear weapons." hehehehehe

[–] MaximRecoil (4598) 3 months ago

A silencer and an automotive muffler are the same thing. Listen to a 1960s or 1970s Cadillac with a 472 or 500-cubic inch engine, running as quiet as any car today. Its muffler is quieting thousands of otherwise loud explosions per minute.

Ever since the silencer/muffler was invented, it's been possible to make gun shots very quiet (though they will never produce that specific old TV and movie "pew" sound effect), but there are practical restraints on what you can do. Make a silencer for a service type pistol (e.g., 9mm, 40 S&W, .45 ACP) with a 4-5" barrel, that's as big as an old Cadillac muffler, and it would be very quiet, but that would make the pistol very unwieldy. On the other hand, if you only have, e.g., a .22 rimfire, especially a .22 short, it's not very loud to begin with, and can be made nearly silent with even a small silencer.

Listen to this WWII-era De Lisle Carbine (in service starting in 1943), which was a .45 ACP bolt-action carbine with an integrated, and relatively large, silencer:

https://youtu.be/IsUALdGog4U

It sounds about like an airgun. The sound of the action being cycled, and the sound of the bullet hitting the target, are as loud or louder than the sound of the shot itself. Imagine if it was chambered for .22 LR like the prototype for it was... you'd hear ~nothing with that big of a silencer.

[–] nyctc7 (43591) 3 months ago

cool

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77378) 3 months ago

Uggh!
The ‘Ugly Duckling’ story.

Hey guys, let’s hire a young actress that is totally hot according to anyone’s yardstick and make her look goofy with gigantic glasses and bad hair.

Then, we do a montage of her getting all done up and trying on skinny dresses and sexy heels and the whole audience will be like ‘whoa!’ She was super hot this whole time!
How did I not see this?!?

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4423) 3 months ago

This was perfectly parodied in "Not Another Teen Movie" (2001) with Chris Evans.

Saw that movie as a teen & that trope just became a joke to me after that.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77378) 3 months ago

I need to rewatch this.
They used to pick the cutest looking girl and ‘doofus’ her up and we were supposed to be like ‘wow, she’s super hot!’ An hour later.

No shit, just fix the hair girl!

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77378) 3 months ago

Jumping a car over a huge canyon and just driving off at top speed like you didn’t just completely destroy your chassis and steering.

Those Duke Boys may have gotten away with it but this ain’t Hazzard County and you and I will most certainly be killed!

[–] RoboReCop (3294) 3 months ago

Tribute to Homer J. Simpson, who dared to do something different.
https://youtu.be/aMvyTlcUoD4?si=fYxXgWGaKXACiZ3n

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77378) 3 months ago

Let this be a lesson boys, stay chubby, stay bouncy!

[–] ColumboKate (5678) 3 months ago

Still hilarious when The Blues Brothers did it though 😆

[–] RoboReCop (3294) 3 months ago

hehehe indeed!