Annoying little things in movies

I think it's weird when the actor has to fake making a phone call and it's obvious there's no one on the line because the call is simply going by TOO FAST. I mean, I don't know any people who rush like that on a phone!

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Hey Jin! You better not be cheating on me!!

The fake scare in horror movies.
Almost 90% of horror movies (usually the bad ones) have this.

"Dun un....dun un... DUN UN...SCARE! Oh, haha, it's just you, the jerk friend, trying to scare me!"

I agree with Amelie about the driving/conversing thing, and also about the oversteering that makes driving scenes look ridiculously fake.

-how during feast scenes, everyone just nibbles at their food or doesn't eat at all. I know they do it b/c actors would end up having to eat like a meal for every take and get sick, but still. It's annoying.

-they always show women in bed/in the shower/swimming/in the morning before showering/at night after showering in full makeup! It is so obnoxious as a woman to see that. It's glaringly unrealistic and silly.

-the "unpopular" girl is always freaking gorgeous and somehow still gets ignored. Yeah *beep* right.

-plenty of scenes that show female nudity even though it's not really relevant to the story, but a man is never shown naked from the waist down. Come on.

-high schoolers dress and look like they're 25 years old. And scenes where two high-schoolers are in the hall talking and walking and, along with everyone else, completely ignore the bell.

-"poor" characters wearing obviously designer or high-end clothes...or having an infinite amount of outfits, jewelry

-showing that a character is "smart" or "thoughtful" by having them read a classic...usually something like Steinbeck or Tolstoy. Like smart people never read mysteries or romance. Please.

-having plots where some kid gets into Harvard or Yale or Juilliard...even when they're not that brilliant or talented

-1940s/1950s movies almost always have this "sultry woman" stock character with perfectly curled hair and a curvy figure and full, red lips and a lot of eyeliner. Not every woman from the 1950s looked like a pinup

-smart, adorable kids who are actually just annoying and unrealistic

-Usually, anytime a movie takes place in New York City, the apartments are MUCH too big for the character's income, and in restaurant scenes the tables are much too far apart, when in real life, the tables are so close you're practically sitting on each other's laps.

-birthing scenes where the baby comes out and is immediately handed to the mother all clean and adorable and smiling

-love triangles where the choice is obvious, like "should I choose the mean, selfish, snobby jerk guy, or should I choose the nice, sweet, good-looking, affectionate guy?" Gee, I wonder.



"And then he started cheating...especially at magnetic travel scrabble."

The Fight where the hero always kill others with 1 Punch,,,Guns can never kill heroes,,,,for me action movies is all annoying.

I hate that every funeral scene in a movie must take place while it is raining out. It's like they watch the forcast and only burry people in the rain.
Happened in Watchmen, Batman Begins, Daredevil, Uhm I'm sure there are many other non comic based films too.
-j-

When a man and woman are about to kiss, but are interrupted at the last second by an alarm, telephone or an annoying comic relief character.

In chick flicks, where a the entire family or a room full of friends start singing and dancing together randomly.

And I almost always hate when directors use slow motion. It has its uses, but most of the time it's used to extract emotion out of a mediocre shot. I feel that showing a proper scene at full speed has a much greater effect and you don't feel cheapened by it. Examples off the top of my head include when Tom Hank's character gets shot in Saving Private Ryan and the car chases and crashes in the Bourne movies. (No explosions there, either :D)

I agree about drivers not looking at the road! I tend to yell at the screen, "Look where you are driving, idiot!" My family tease me about this but agree that it's ridiculous how often drivers are shown speaking to passengers and not looking at the road.

As for people not starting with Page 1 in a magazine: Many people in our family tend to start in the middle or toward the back of a magazine. As for a book I'm considering buying: I don't look at Page 1 that often; generally, I open several places randomly, reading a few lines to see if it gives me a "feel" for the book. But, magazines... I never start at the beginning.

About saying "Goodbye" on the phone: My family and everyone I know leave it up to one person to say it but don't always expect it. Once we've said what we meant to, we hang up. Both know we've finished! Also, I have yet to phone a business, for example, where the person at the other end didn't simply hang up. Telemarketers don't bother to say, "Goodbye", at least in my experience. "Goodbye" is not a necessity in phone conversations.

As for my pet peeves:
1) People say aloud what they are typing into a computer. Now, I know there are times that we get aggravated and argue with or yell at our PCs, but soooo many movies of all types show people saying EVERYTHING aloud as they type it!
2) Firefighter friends tell me that most buildings with sprinkler systems are set so that not every sprinkler is activated when sensing a fire/intense heat. They tell me that businesses install localized systems to protect the rest of the building, so that not all material and computers/equipment will be doused. Yet, in most movies and TV series, mayhem breaks loose with the application of a match or lighter in one spot.
3) There's someone in the middle of the road! This is amazingly persistent in horror films going decades back. Is this a common fear among drivers transferred to the screen? I have to commend "The Graves", which had an apparently inevitable "someone in middle of the road" yet avoided it. It's a so-so movie, but it certainly played with expectations.
4) Since "Psycho", far too many horror films have relied on scary bathrooms. What's sad is that they use it for gratuitous nudity; I truly feel sorry for young actresses who believe they have to do these scenes. Others have mentioned that men do not have the same obligation of baring all. OK... Maybe porcelain can be creepy, and people tend to be vulnerable, whether they are private or public places. But, it really is overused. "Poltergeist" cleverly had us edgy when she was dyeing her hair and taking a bath, only to have the entity pounce later.
5) When hurrying out of a restaurant, someone just drops some money on the table and races after the other person. I have worked in a number of restaurants, and I am certain that someone would be stopping a person in that much of a hurry to leave. Maybe the person left more than enough to cover the cost, but they aren't going to be trusted to do so. Someone is going to call out to these people or try to stop them in some way, figuring that they are, instead, running out on the bill. Yet, there's never any problem or any sort of protest.
6) Car bombs are generally way too predictable~the setup of person escorting person to car, getting just far enough way to be relatively unscathed before key is turned in ignition and ***BOOM!***
7) Stolen clothing fits perfectly. I LOVED when this did NOT occur in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"!
8) At the end of action/adventure films, everything falls apart: Temples and other structures are destroyed, Skull Island sinks into the ocean, volcano erupts, ancient civilizations collapse, etc. They've been around for thousands of years, only to be destroyed~though allowing our heroes to escape. If our heroes hadn't shown up, all of these places would be getting along just fine.
9) No matter their financial situation, people ALWAYS have funds readily available to catch flights to wherever necessary. What always confused me when I saw movies from the Sixties and onward was that a family could be financially strapped, have huge medical costs, yet could hop on a plane to go meet some expert! In the same period, my family could barely manage a car trip of several hours to a heart specialist up north. "Gilmore Girls" was amazingly farfetched when it came to what the mother earned and what they spent just on treats for a movie night or the vast quantities of fast food they consumed. That leads to another irritant: The two of them never gained weight!
10) I have seen so many movies in which one or two people live in a two-story house yet are not supposed to be wealthy. It seems so unreal. Unless someone inherits a place, this living situation seems unbelievable because of the upkeep involved. (I think the same thing when I see those crazies on TV build some gigantic, complicated house for a family! How are they going to keep up with the bills and the maintenance?! They'd be better off with a smaller, simpler design, with the rest of the money set aside for upcoming bills.)

~~MystMoonstruck~~

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