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[blakep267]

Wardrobes.

1)It bothers me when I see characters wearing full Jack'ets and shorts with jeans and it's supposed to be July. I don't think I've ever seen an adult wear shorts in a movie(outside of a beach etc)

2) not knowing anything about urban street wear. I'm black, and I notice when black characters are wearing clothes that nobody actually wears (looking at you Imprrial dreams)

 

[Nepenthe]

Bad continuity annoys me most of all. Cutting on an action and the action is suddenly complete in the second shot, bad violations of the 180 degree rule, shit like that.

Also, American fight choreography editing. All movie fights are staged by fights from the east tend to look more real, and it's partly because we cut on hits. American movies seem to be getting longer takes and dropping shaky cam, but still, I know when I go to see a Marvel movie, I'm in for fights that look like controlled flailing.

 

[talkingood]

The one-hit knockout punch. Everyone is a perfect-aim pro boxer in fiction. Movies pls.

I'll add to this—the idea that causing severe brain trauma by knocking someone out with a hit to the head means the hero somehow didn't kill someone. This is actually a pretty fucking good way to kill someone, or at the least turn someone into a vegetable. I hate how movies gloss over this as the "non-violent" choice. Batman has probably killed scores of people in each film.

 

[bjork]

This is how Hollywood mixes their movies nowadays. Everything is super loud except for the dialogue. It's really annoying, I'm constantly fidgeting with the volume control with some of these fucking things.

It's not just me, then. That's good to know, at least.

 

[Tezzeractor]

This may just be me not knowing how sound setups work, but I hate it when there's a conversation and it's supposed to be all important but they're talking super low. So you turn up the volume like "what the fuck are they saying" and then A BUS CRASHES THROUGH THE WINDOW OR SOMETHING LOUD ENOUGH TO FUCK WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS TWO DOORS DOWN.

This is how Hollywood mixes their movies nowadays. Everything is super loud except for the dialogue. It's really annoying, I'm constantly fidgeting with the volume control with some of these fucking things.

Really really wish blu-rays / streaming services gave users the ability to change individual music, sound fx and voice volume in an options menu like video games do.

 

[NingenJanai]

People leaving their home or car and not locking the door.

 

[Citizen Mane]

The casting of child actors seems to have gone way downhill in my opinion. The kids in something like The Goonies or Stand by Me always seemed relatively normal. Now all the child actors come across as little weaklings bred for showbiz or something. Movies like The Visit, the It trailers, or anything with Kodi Smit-McPhee. These kids all suck. Should cast some random kid they find riding his bike or something rather than a little asshole coming in to audition.

Like, the two brothers hugging at the start of the recent It trailer? Hahahaha, fucking whack.

 

[PaulBizkit]

I'd like to add one more thing... When movies set years in the past are weirdly prophetic about the coming years:

Example 1: Pearl Harbor (dir. Ben Affleck)
When the movie ends, the japanese celebrate their attack but one of the generals is not very happy. "What's wrong" the others ask. "I fear we may have awoken a bigger threat"


Example 2: American Crime Story - The People vs OJ
Spoiler alert, OJ is declared not-guilty, and Johnny Cochran goes to talk with Chris Darden (the prosecutor attourney) and says "this is a big day for black people". And, of course, Darden says "do you think this will change anything? the police will continue to beat us, chase us and to put us in jail"

This is how Hollywood mixes their movies nowadays. Everything is super loud except for the dialogue. It's really annoying, I'm constantly fidgeting with the volume control with some of these fucking things.

Have you ever watched the Oasis: Supersonic movie? Everybody talks in british accent but fast and in low volume, but when the transition music begins DAMN IT'S LOUD.

Spent most of the time controlling the volume too...

 

[Weevilone]

I'm sick of how so many suspects are identified by taking a shitty image with like 12 pixels of data for a face and using a computer to "enhance" the image to produce a crystal clear glamour shot.

 

[hatchx]

It bothers me when actors don't eat at restaurants. So many scenes take place at restaurants and they just never eat. They'll cut the food. They'll sometimes do every light chewing, but when do they actually eat?

I respect the movies and actors who eat on camera. The only one that comes to mind right now is Sandy Wexler with Adam Sandler always eating meat.

 

[Enoch Root]

When the character speaking has their back to the camera, but you can tell they're not actually talking, because their head/jaw is not moving. Or if it is moving, it is out of sync with what they are saying.

 

[Raptomex]

When the character speaking has their back to the camera, but you can tell they're not actually talking, because their head/jaw is not moving. Or if it is moving, it is out of sync with what they are saying.

I believe it's just editing to show you the reaction of whoever they're speaking to, sometimes making pauses between phrases last longer than normal. But I agree it's annoying when visible.

 

[Blablurn]

China pandering throws me out of the experience for some reason.
As someone who studied the language and lives here, its still strange to see brands like Vivo or QQ in big summer blockbuster.

 

[Razorback]

Can I get an example of this fake zoom a lot of you are mentioning?

 

[UnemployedVillain]

A guy and girl who have known each other for like a few hours are already getting it on and basically in love.
Oh and how no one seems to use condoms. It's like they start making out and next thing you know they're going at it

 

[Blade30]

One thing that really bugs me both on movies and tv shows is the time lapse. In one scene it's the middle of the day and 3 mins or so passes (i.e. talking.... whatever) and it's already night.

 

[shawnbuddy]

One thing that really bugs me both on movies and tv shows is the time lapse. In one scene it's the middle of the day and 3 mins or so passes (i.e. talking.... whatever) and it's already night.

Yeah, movies do that "It's daytime/nighttime now" thing a lot, in timelines that couldn't possibly work, just for a more dramatic shot or a plot contrivance.

TV and not movies, but, in reference to the wardrobe comment at the top of the page, I always hated it when normal human characters from Smallville would visit the arctic in a light jacket to go to the Fortress of Solitude.

 

[ShemhazaiX]

Black Holes that don't kill people.

Super high gravity is not a time machine and this concept should have died years ago. Kinda ruined Star Trek 09 for me.

 

[itwasTuesday]

No one finishes a meal.

 

[Wood Man]

No one finishes a meal.

In addition ordering a drink, taking a sip then leaving.

 

[jroc74]

Like alot of posts in this thread, stuff thats too unrealistic.

Maybe its being older. But after having my mind blown that in Mission Impossible 2 the motorcycles just lept off the ground and exploded in mid air, without hitting each other....I have subconsciously started noticing other things thats like ...wtf...in movies.

Right now? Its someone falling badly, getting the hell beat out of them, anything that should cause scrapes, bruises., puff up eyes, bloody lips,

And they have barely any marks, cuts, etc.

 

[zeemumu]

Freaking Grinch who stole Christmas did this. Backstory where the who's bullied young Grinch. Can't he just be an asshole who hates Christmas and then learns to be good?? Hated it.

I get what you're trying to get at but you have to understand: they killed Leatherface's family AFTER the events of the first movie. The angry mob was in direct response to that. That's like feeling bad for Freddy Krueger because they burned him alive after he murdered their kids and got away with it.

 

[Ordinaryundone]

Scientist character says some needlessly complicated but generally understandable technobabble.

The hero responds with some variation on "Can I get that in English?"

Copies straight from the lazy hackish scriptwriter handbook but extremely common in Hollywood, where scientists are always unrelatable savants and the hero is an everyman like us who don't need no learnin'.

Ha, the recent movie Life managed to do this no less than four times, in a single scene no less. Made even more egregious in that the movie was about scientist astronauts, there were no "dumb" or everyman characters among them (Ryan Reynolds I guess but even he was a pilot/EVO expert qualified to do maintenance on a space station....) And yet they still repeat the same scientific explanation for the alien's durability 4 times in increasingly simplistic language just for the audiences benefit.

 

[Chuckie]

Example 1: Pearl Harbor (dir. Ben Affleck)
When the movie ends, the japanese celebrate their attack but one of the generals is not very happy. "What's wrong" the others ask. "I fear we may have awoken a bigger threat"

Haha. That made that already shite film even worse. It is like they put it in to say: Remember people...even though in this movie the Japanese win...we actually won the war in the end! So it is kind of a happy ending no matter what!

 

[WedgeX]

People hang up without saying goodbye.


When a couple is laying in bed, the sheet covers up the woman's chest but exposes the mans chest. It's an L-shaped sheet.

I made a thread about where this happens in real life many moons ago.

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=605211

 

[Doc_Drop]

Wilhelm, hate it now. I get why it's used but it's just so annoying. Takes me out every time

 

[CaviarMeths]

Basically the entire plot of Minority Report happens because of a vision of a crime that would not have been committed if there was not a vision about it. I can't enjoy the movie because of it.

 

[hank_tree]

Shia laBeouf.

 

[Doc_Drop]

Basically the entire plot of Minority Report happens because of a vision of a crime that would not have been committed if there was not a vision about it. I can't enjoy the movie because of it.

Oh that reminds me, a time paradox is a pet peeve of mine. The déjà vu film bugged the hell out of me

 

[eizarus]

People never scream when stabbed, they just look surprised about it.

I've seen comedies be more realistic about it than most genres. Smh

This is how Hollywood mixes their movies nowadays. Everything is super loud except for the dialogue. It's really annoying, I'm constantly fidgeting with the volume control with some of these fucking things.

Man of Steel was disgustingly bad for that. Quiet followed by Zimmers amazing theme as loud as possible. Followed by sudden quiet again.

 

[chesspieceface]

People with no need to take a dump ever.

Worst, where do they shit on the Millenium Falcon? In an X-Wing?

 

[wetflame]

When people start a conversation, then the scene cuts and they're somewhere else but they carry on the same conversation.

INT. OFFICE BLOCK
Dude: I have some super important information I need to tell you right now.

CUT TO EXT. PARK
Same Dude: It's about your mother. She's an alien.

I never understand this, did they just shut up and walk in silence to where the second scene takes place?

People with no need to take a dump ever.

Worst, where do they shit on the Millenium Falcon? In an X-Wing?

Same place that fighter jet pilots etc take a shit, I imagine.

 

[GurgleBot20]

I'll add to this—the idea that causing severe brain trauma by knocking someone out with a hit to the head means the hero somehow didn't kill someone. This is actually a pretty fucking good way to kill someone, or at the least turn someone into a vegetable. I hate how movies gloss over this as the "non-violent" choice. Batman has probably killed scores of people in each film.

This bothered me with the latest Dishonored, where the new "non-lethal" alternative to air assassinations was jumping on top of them and slamming their head into solid concrete.

 

[eizarus]

This bothered me with the latest Dishonored, where the new "non-lethal" alternative to air assassinations was jumping on top of them and slamming their head into solid concrete.

Got the game yesterday and noticed that too. How tf is that non-lethal.

I'll add to this—the idea that causing severe brain trauma by knocking someone out with a hit to the head means the hero somehow didn't kill someone. This is actually a pretty fucking good way to kill someone, or at the least turn someone into a vegetable. I hate how movies gloss over this as the "non-violent" choice. Batman has probably killed scores of people in each film.

I think it's worse that people know this and still defend shit. Cap roundhouse kicked a guy into the wall of a boat so hard that he rebounded over the boat and fell into the water (and most likely died). Cap's a super soldier. That kick alone is enough to kill. But I've seen people say he doesn't kill since he joined the Avengers.

 

[Preezy]

That stock rusty-door-hinge noise that seems to be in EVERY film ever made.

 

[KarneeKarnay]

Sped up footage.

 

[Zoc]

One that I noticed, even as a kid, was how often the sound of biting into a crunchy apple was used as the sound effect for biting into anything, even soft things. For some reason, it often seemed to be a hamburger, which is about the most incongruous thing I can imagine.

 

[Aurongel]

Fake lens flare.

 

[matrix-cat]

"I can do it, give me 24 hours"

"You have 12"

FUCK YOOOOUUUUU every writer who's ever written anything like this.

 

[jroc74]

Wilhelm, hate it now. I get why it's used but it's just so annoying. Takes me out every time

You take that back. Right now.

Its become a thing between me and 2 sons. Like our own lil inside joke no one else around us gets.

 

[Machine]

Related to general complaints about hacking scenes, I've noticed a few times lately where people are hacking using touch screen devices. I don't know a single person that can type 100 wpm on a touch screen so pulling off amazing, time-sensitive hacks becomes even more ridiculous when they are doing it with an iPad or iPhone.

 

[Beren the Empty-Handed]

I'd like to add one more thing... When movies set years in the past are weirdly prophetic about the coming years:

Example 1: Pearl Harbor (dir. Ben Affleck)
When the movie ends, the japanese celebrate their attack but one of the generals is not very happy. "What's wrong" the others ask. "I fear we may have awoken a bigger threat"
.

Haha. That made that already shite film even worse. It is like they put it in to say: Remember people...even though in this movie the Japanese win...we actually won the war in the end! So it is kind of a happy ending no matter what!

Uhhhhhh, that actually happened. The exact line may or may not have been said, but General Yamamoto absolutely believed they had made a mistake, even though he was the one that came up with the plan to attack Pearl Harbor. He always thought that attacking America would be a bad idea that would come back to haunt them. That wasn't a film just throwing it in there to make Americans feel good. Even the part about everyone else celebrating while he sulked was apparently accurate.

When characters randomly switch back and forth between some made-up language and English for no good reason. I'm looking at you Avatar and Lord of the Rings.

I can't speak to Avatar as I don't remember it, but it isn't random in Lord of the Rings. Usually the switches occur between two characters who are perfectly fluent in the Elvish and the Common Tongue, and they switch when they want to produce a certain effect that the other language won't provide.

 

[The Elite]

This may just be me not knowing how sound setups work, but I hate it when there's a conversation and it's supposed to be all important but they're talking super low. So you turn up the volume like "what the fuck are they saying" and then A BUS CRASHES THROUGH THE WINDOW OR SOMETHING LOUD ENOUGH TO FUCK WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS TWO DOORS DOWN.

This could probably be its own thread.

One way to remedy it is adjusting individual channels on a 5.1 system but it's a pain and can be different for each movie.

People who just order a beer without specifying a brand like the bartender is just supposed to guess.

"I'll have a beer."

 

[supermarioworldE]

I hate those character exchanges in movies where one character tries to tell or warn the other of something important, but because of bad blood between them or a misunderstanding, the other character hears none of it and just cuts him/her off.

Ex:

Curse of Chucky

Character A: We have to get rid of that evil doll you're holding!

Character B: So you knew about the camera my husband put in the doll to spy on me for cheating, and you didn't tell me?

Character A: You dont understand, that doll is possessed by the soul of a dead murderer and it's gonna kill-

Character B: No YOU dont understand. Just because you've always been jealous of me, your older sister, for having a happy life and not being a paraplegic like you, doesn't mean you can mess up my marriage.

Character A: Listen to me! We have to get rid of that fucking doll!

Character B: Fuck you. [Walks away with doll that will kill her the next scene].

 

[Zelenogorsk]

I hate speed ramping action scenes. I just dislike a lot of slow motion in general. A lot of times it feels like the director is trying to make you go "whoa dude" but for me it usually just feels out of place.

I hate those character exchanges in movies where one character tries to tell or warn the other of something important, but because of bad blood between them or a misunderstanding, the other character hears none of it and just cuts him/her off.

This makes my blood boil.

 

[Doc_Drop]

You take that back. Right now.

Its become a thing between me and 2 sons. Like our own lil inside joke no one else around us gets.

I didn't mind it so much in older,classic,or cult films. But every new film I watch, I know it's coming, then it hits, then I just shake my head.

But have your fun, at least you guys enjoy it

 

[DodgyGeezerFella]

The slight camera wobble/movement in what would otherwise be a still shot, it seems damn near every comedy show uses this now too.

 

[?oe?oe]

That stock rusty-door-hinge noise that seems to be in EVERY film ever made.

Plenty of stock sound in heavy rotation:
Wilhelm scream
The three horn truck
THE FUCKING KIDS LAUGHING

 

[Doc_Drop]

Plenty of stock sound in heavy rotation:
Wilhelm scream
The three horn truck
THE FUCKING KIDS LAUGHING

Seems like they've stopped using the cat trash can alley way effect thankfully

These stock sounds really only need to be used in comedies these days

 

[shawnbuddy]

People with no need to take a dump ever.

Worst, where do they shit on the Millenium Falcon? In an X-Wing?

It's to the upper left of the center of the ship, by the bunks, and labeled "Head."