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"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) When the movie calls for an ugly guy, they get an ugly guy.

When the movie calls for an ugly girl, they get a sexy girl and dress her in dumpy clothes.

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Final score:

352points

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Pedantic Panda 1 year ago

Remove glasses, change hair, apply make-up and you too will undergo a magical transformation. Awful.

93points

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) When the trailers reveal most of the plot.

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Final score:

344points

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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 1 year ago

This should be higher up. THE DAMN DISAPPOINTMENT ARRRGGG

68points

that weird wallflower is demi 1 year ago

...but I love spoilers!

1point

Daniel Atkins 1 year ago

Or when the funniest jokes in a comedy are in the trailer.

17points

Ken Beattie 1 year ago

Funniest jokes, or most exciting action. UGH! And double down when the quick blurb on the back of the DVD actually gives you ever major plot beat.

0points

Lance LaRocque 1 year ago

I have stopped watching trailers because of this.

13points

MotherRobinson 1 year ago

Same. Some trailers are so damn long and revealing they may as well have shown the whole movie.

3points

Powerful Katrinka 1 year ago

That's often the sign of a truly mediocre movie. What's in the trailer is all that they've got.

11points

Rocky Mom 1 year ago

I would agree but it's for every movie now. It's us, the race, becoming mediocre. Never demanding better or wanting to think, be surprised. Mainstream wants the coddled comfy entertainment as fast as possible, not worried about the quality. We are never going to be satisfied due to how fast information comes and go.

0points

Stephanie Goadsby 1 year ago

Similar, but opposite, when the trailer has nothing to do with the movie and none of the scenes are even in it. Feels like a bait and switch.

2points

David 1 year ago

ESPCIALLY when they also misrepresent the movie. Like making a movie look HILARIOUS by showing a bunch of funny scenes - and then you find out they were not only spoilers - they were every funny spot in the entire movie and the rest of the movie is actually a sad story about social injustice or some such.

2points

SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago

More like when the plot is so weak a 30-second trailer can fit it all in with room to spare.

2points

Tams21 1 year ago

Or have the best/funniest parts of the whole movie.

2points

Serial pacifist 1 year ago

Yeah. Death has become overrated and very relative also. A quick trip back through time, a bit of magic/ wonderous artifact application and all is fixed up.

2points

Ken Beattie 1 year ago (edited)

Depends on the movie. If it's a movie where it entirely revolves around time travel (Deadpool 2) I have no problem with it. But unless it's a main point of the movie it's annoying. And it's even more annoying when it's used in movie 1 but the sequel completely ignores it as an option.

0points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

I'm gonna be in trouble but... I like this. It saves me going to see movies...

1point

Sir Panda 1 year ago

That's why I try not to watch trailers.

1point

LangiStudios 1 year ago

For real. Are you trying to get me to pay to see the movie or are you helping me save money?

1point

Miss_H84 1 year ago

This is why I don't watch trailers anymore. I avoid them. I decide if I wanna watch a film based on the storyline/plot or if I have heard things about a film that seems interesting.

1point

BWC 1 year ago

Years ago I stopped watching previews for any movie that I had plans to see. Now I practically have to ignore most of the internet, including article headlines, to avoid spoilers. 🙄

1point

JPotts 1 year ago

When the trailers are the best part of the movie.

1point

Solidhog 1 year ago

When the trailers have more action than the film.

1point

Gypsy Lee 1 year ago

- When the trailers are better than the movie.

0points

Marty BlackEagle-Carl 1 year ago

i never watch trailers or teasers for that exact reason.

0points

Bree Piper 1 year ago

Or just as bad, contain every single funny line in a movie that’s supposed to be a comedy.

0points

ShadowStalker36 1 year ago

reminder Cowboys Vs Aliens, all the good bits were in the trailer and the majority of the movie SUCKED

0points

Eric Forster 1 year ago

It's an action movie, we already know the plot.

0points

Stacia 1 year ago

When the trailer is the whole movie basically

0points

Josh Gilland 1 year ago

And show the best parts too. Honestly I've watched trailers that made me feel i just watched the movie in fast forward

0points

Pamela Blue 1 year ago

Agreed. You see all the best action bits in the spoilers, and then the rest of the movie is blah. So annoying. Actually, the way they make movies these days has stopped me going to the movies, watching movies at home - or anywhere! I haven't watched a movie for years and years!

0points

jdtimid123 1 year ago

I don't watch the whole commercial if I can avoid it for this reason. Especially comedies. All the best punch lines are in the commercials.

0points

Hotomato 1 year ago

Wayne's World!

0points

Rocky Mom 1 year ago

I use to enjoy trailers as a teen. I'd go to apple cuz they had this whole special section and it was so exciting to see what was coming up. NOW, I will literally close my eyes, cover my ears.. anything to not get a single clue or idea cuz they're predictable enough... I hate knowing the details, if it's to be a good one. I am correlating them exposing the content as, a downgrade in quality most things are becoming, as well as the simplicity/laziness the human race is becoming. Enough of us don't demand better, everything is turning into a cheapened product. Tho, it is amusing that if my husband and I know we don't want to deal with the sitting, we will play the available trailer and count that as watching the movie and "getting it out of the way" lol

0points

Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago

And shows the only good parts...

0points

Worst Cop in Britain 1 year ago

The marketing behind Wreck it Ralph was genius. You go in thinking its one movie based on the trailers and it turns out its a completely different movie! A++

0points

Isaac Harvey 1 year ago

Trailers need to use the Kuleshov effect more often. Don't be afraid to throw a curve ball.

0points

The 0roburos 1 year ago

If a movie has a great trailer and no revies then yeah, you already saw the movie.. R.I.P Mario Brothers..

0points

TrippyBanana 1 year ago

This is why I've stopped watching most trailers.

0points

LeeAnne B 1 year ago

Saves me a few bob on actual tickets.

0points

John G 1 year ago

I'm looking at you Terminator 2. Great movie, but the trailer gave away Arnold's side switch.

0points

Maria Veronica 1 year ago

Trailers of 2 minutes or more is too much

0points

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) Overused female tropes. The angry black woman, plus sized women always being loud and clumsy, and of course, the manic pixie dream girl. This isn't some feminist soapbox, it's just lazy and uninspired writing.

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Final score:

289points

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TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago

The "strong & independent" girl boss that just walks over every obsticale with ease and is the most toxic person around...

111points

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) "there's no time... save yourself!" when there's clearly ample amount of time for both characters to get to safety. made even worse by the fact that they usually waste a minute or more arguing about it, saying teary-eyed goodbyes, and making out before character 1 finally gets up and leaves

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Final score:

274points

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Pedantic Panda 1 year ago

Or no room on the door for Jack.

86points

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) The bit where hackers take 20 seconds of furious typing to disable a countries infrastructure

KairiZero Report

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254points

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Monday 1 year ago

To be fair, do we really want to see a hacker running scripts and exploits for several hours? Would that really add anything meaningful to the story?

124points

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) When the premise for a major conflict in the movie is something that any sane person would have just said "oh no there's a misunderstanding" and they all have a laugh and go on with their days... But instead it turns into some convoluted drama.

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Final score:

233points

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Monday 1 year ago

Rather shouting "wait I can explain" 7 times...maybe just yell out "She's my sister!".

115points

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"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) The very strong/smart main villain turning weak/dumb in the end fight so the heroes can win.

Final score:

199points

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Serial pacifist 1 year ago (edited)

I hate the generic final dialogue when the genocidal maniac goes: “You and me, we are alike/the same.” and the hero “surprisingly” replies - “I am nothing like you!”

104points

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) When there is a timer and it takes longer to count down than the time that was called/shown. It drives me crazy.

Generic example, 50 seconds until a bomb explodes. Dialogue for 30 seconds. Timer is showing 30 seconds left. More dialogue for 40 seconds. Timer is at 5 seconds. Quick one-liner, bomb defused with one second to go.

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Final score:

194points

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Monday 1 year ago

Also can we defuse a bomb with more than a minute remaining at some point? Like have the bomb squad get it defused with 15 minutes still on the clock, we don't always need the high tension.

81points

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"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) When one character who's an expert in some field stops to explain the most basic concepts to another character *who's also an expert on the same subject*.

Final score:

187points

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TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago

Exposition *ding*

41points

#11

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) Unnecessary love scenes where the main character and a side character fall in love just cause, despite having known each other for like five minutes.

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Final score:

185points

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Monday 1 year ago

That does happen in real life though. We get very attached to people we survive high stress situations with. Long term those relationships don't tend to last, but it's very common for them to start.

63points

#12

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) When there’s a 20+ year age gap between the leading actor and actress and it’s not addressed in the movie, especially when the movie pretends like they’re around the same age.

“We’re both experienced, leading scientists in our fields, even though I look like a grizzled war veteran and you’re fresh off the set of High School Musical.”

warriorgramma Report

Final score:

174points

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TS Rhodes 1 year ago

This picture shows Alexander the Great and his mother. How is this relevant?

116points

#13

**Character A:** (Perfectly understandable explanation for something technical or scientific, that anyone who managed to dress themselves this morning could comprehend.)

**Character B:** "In *English*, please!"

**Character A:** (Extremely dumbed down version because screenwriter assumes audience are idiots)

LupinThe8th Report

Final score:

174points

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Eva Kašu 1 year ago

Well, they mostly are.

104points

#14

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) I can often tell when actors carry fake (well, empty) suitcases, and even when they carry empty to-go cups. There's just something different in the way their bodies/muscles work then.

Jesus Christ, it's a 50 million dollar movie, how hard would it be to fill the cup and toss a couple of bricks in the suitcase?

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Final score:

171points

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ADHORTATOR 1 year ago

Erich von Stroheim did this...and more: When his character wore a camera around his neck, there had to be a film in it, when there was a bell on the hotel counter, it had to be in working condition even when the bell wasn' t used in the scene.

66points

#15

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) Badly implemented product placement. Product placement itself doesn't bother me. If there's a character driving a Toyota, or eating a Pizza Hut pizza, I don't care. If there's a pointless shot in the movie that shows the f*****g Bud Light logo for 10 seconds, I mind

anon , Tony Webster Report

Final score:

166points

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David H 1 year ago

I remember when Stargate signed a deal with dell and everyone was afraid of over the top placement, but all it ended up being the back of every laptop and computer monitor had the dell logo like any dell product. It was all over the place, but it fit in normal

57points

#16

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) Maybe not 100%, but close to it.

Fight scenes where someone make a big blow(usually the villain), but instead of finishing the deal by smashing the brains out they start talking, bragging or some other cocky s**t. And woops, the fight is back on like nothing happened..

OldDonD Report

Final score:

160points

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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 1 year ago

I ducking hate these villains who start talking. For freaking glitter unicorn’s sake, just kill the person and be done with it

72points

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#17

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) A bad ending. If a movie was great but has a bad ending, then the whole experience is ruined.

Final score:

139points

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Arthur Waite 1 year ago

Or an ending that's really just a teaser for the next movie in the series; can't really kill anybody, we need that character in the sequel. If there is one.

60points

#18

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) It was a dream

Jackasaur Report

Final score:

137points

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Doctor Strange 1 year ago

I can think of a few movies where "and it was all just a dream" would have improved them.

74points

#19

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) When things explode for no reason. “Vehicle had minor collision or simply rolls over and spontaneously explodes”

Wow great response guys! The hatred runs deeper when I think of how easily bad guys “hot wire” cars in movies also!

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Final score:

132points

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TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago (edited)

We in Germany have a decades long running show called "Cobra 11" about a fictional autobahn police - and you guess it, every damn car is a rolling bomb that explodes even if they get hit in the tire

48points

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#20

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) Teenagers who sound like screenwriters trying to sound cool.

Never in the history of humanity have two 15 year olds randomly recited 18th century poetry to each other on the day they met, and all those snarky remarks makes the kids sound insufferable and annoying a lot more than clever.

Also notice that somehow every clever 15 y.o. always listens to music that was huge when the screenwriter was growing up, never something that is... you know... listened to by 15 year olds... as if there was no good music around presently.

PS. Also the whole sarcastic genius with no social clues...yes we get it Dr. House was a hit 20 years ago, now can we get Cumberbatch to play any other freaking role?

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Final score:

127points

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CheshirePhrogg 1 year ago

Well I did recite 19th century poetry at people at about 15... But they didn't return the favor and I was a pretty self ostracized socially awkward nerd that no one in their right mind would have made a movie about

57points

#21

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) When it's very obvious when someone isn't actually having a conversation on the phone. They just say their lines without giving enough pause for the other person to respond. I also hate when you're supposed to be looking at security footage but it's clearly just a previous shot that's had a filter put over it.

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Final score:

116points

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VonBlade 1 year ago

EVERYONE puts the phone down without saying thank you, or goodbye, or anything. AAAAAAAAAARGH.

115points

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#22

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) Just 10 seconds left before the bomb explodes. The hero is taking all the time in the world to kiss and hug his girlfriend a last goodbye before returning to deactivate the bomb..

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Final score:

115points

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Squiffle Noses 1 year ago

F you! I'm about to save all humankind by sacrificing my life and I want my fu@kin SNOG! I am earning it!!!

41points

#23

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) When all you have to do is beat the boss and the entire army just collapses. Pretty much every alien and robot-using invasion has this hive concept.

phoenix14830 , Arseny Togulev Report

Final score:

108points

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liam newton-harding 1 year ago

Robot Chicken did a riff on this about Star Wars. Oh well, the rebels have blown up the Death Star, they've won...What? We still have thousands of ships!...No, no. They destroyed the Death Star, they've beaten us...We still have millions of troops! We control every planet!...No. They've won. Best go home.

86points

#24

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) They hang up the phone without any warning. Like "Bob, we discovered a nuke on it's way to Washington". Click.

Or someone answering the door within a couple seconds of knocking.

These thing completely break me out of the movie and are hard to recover from.

trex005 , Görkem Dalgıç Report

Final score:

107points

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Mat Hall 1 year ago

On the flip side, if a character rings a doorbell and then we just have a shot of them standing around doing nothing for a minute it's not going to be particularly entertaining to watch.

38points

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#25

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) Sounds bad but an actor’s voice can really ruin a movie for me, so bad voice acting

Final score:

104points

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Elita One 1 year ago

Movies relying on famous actors to voice characters instead of professional voice actors.

65points

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#26

Characters who are supposed to be badass but only act like a******s and endanger everyone because they "don't play by the rules". Like James Bond, Han Solo and sadly most other action Heros as well. It's not cool or atractive to be a d**k plus it is a really lazy and over used character trait for a main character to have.

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Final score:

99points

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Kristal 1 year ago

I never found the "I know" to be romantic, I'm like, what a jerk response, acknowledge her feelings, man!

45points

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#27

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) Insane plot armor.
It’s okay for a main character to die.

Final score:

86points

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Pieter LeGrande 1 year ago

Or have a toilet break, catch a cold, develop cold sores or a pimple, trip and break a leg, go for a hair cut. Also why not be an innocent bystander caught up in someone else's drama.

54points

#28

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) When the jokes are so forced. They're just trying is hard to be funny that it isn't. Or when they're offensive or just downright stupid. Totally ruins it. Unfortunately alot of comedy movies have tons of this so I tend to steer clear of comedies.

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Final score:

83points

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Eva Kašu 1 year ago

Have you ever seen Friends? :D

18points

#29

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) I've got six things get me every time:

1. Motivation. The antagonist has to have a motivation that the audience can understand, and perhaps even sympathize with. The cardboard, "I'm a bad guy, because I like being bad and being bad is good - GRRRRR!" is so tiresome. I'll even accept the "banality of evil" like your Adolph Eichmann's, but the ones who make a display of relishing being bad? Not so much.
2. Violence without consequence. Sure, the good guy got beaten within an inch of his life, but the next day he'll get up and mete out justice, where he would normally be looking at 3 months of PT/OT. I have friends who've been on the wrong end of a physical trauma. It's not pretty.
3. War without consequence. War is brutal and ugly, and lots of people die in it. This should include multiple key characters in your movie. Not just the "we'll give this guy screen time with the stars and he'll be the one we kill off". Saving Private Ryan was fantastic in this regard, because they were willing to kill off characters and you cared when they did.
4. Timing/monologuing. Nobody delays the start, middle, or end of a fight for a monologue. If someone is intent on killing someone, the moment that opportunity comes, they're probably going to take it without launching into a 3 minute speech and give them time to rally.
5. Guns and gunfights that defy physics. The pistol that launches a guy 3 feet backwards when shot. The gun with a suppressor that makes a sound like a mouse farting from across the street. The guy who dies instantly from a gunshot to the chest. The gunfight in a confined space where everyone isn't deafened at the conclusion.
6. "BASED ON A TRUE STORY" is so abused. There's time when you have so much to tell that you have to abbreviate it or change the story to keep the key elements. HBO's Chernobyl is an example where they had to consolidate multiple characters into Ulana Khomyuk, and that's fine. But when there's a tapestry of fiction to make the thread of truth interesting, I'm out.

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Final score:

81points

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Temxas Red 1 year ago (edited)

Counter point: There are surpressors out there that can actually make guns really silent. They're basically rubber tubes attached to the barrel of a gun with no exit hole. The first shot is almost completely silent. The next 9 shots sound like a surpressed pistol in a movie. The 10th shot is no longer silent bc the surpressor is basically just ruined and no longer works. Counter point to my counter point: movies use the metal surpressors that don't work like the ones I mentioned

33points

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"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) Action scenes with lots and lots of cuts, that make it obvious (or appear like) the actors can't do the fight choreography.

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Final score:

75points

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VonBlade 1 year ago

If this really bugs you, check out Every Frame A Painting's analysis of why Jackie Chan works and Holywood doesn't. It's HUGELY informative (and not standard YT reacts type BS). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ

27points

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#31

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) Unnecessary/bad CGI. Watched The Greatest Showman last night, during the final score suddenly there are clunky elephants and lions appearing and then disappearing one camera angle later. Completely breaks my immersion in the movie and it's just lazy filmmaking.

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Final score:

24points

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jiajun xiao 1 year ago

CGI is generally bad nowadays because they replace the practical SFX; CGI is supposed to accomplish what SFX cannot do, not replace it

20points

#32

"What 100% Ruins A Movie For You Every Time?" (30 Answers) When the villain is always a few steps ahead of the hero for no reason. Somehow, the villain has managed to predict every move the hero and is going to make.

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Final score:

21points

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Patrick Linnen 1 year ago

It helps when the villain has been doing the thinking for the hero for most of the hero's life. To be fair in "The Emperor's New Groove", Emperor Kuzco did not transition from being the McGuffin narcissist to being a hero until two thirds of the way into the film. Yzma had to anticipate his thinking for or she'd be fired.

21points

#33

Unbelievably lame names for technology/resources/concepts in science fiction.

I'm looking at you Avatar. "Unobtainium." Give me a break. It was already an engineering joke. Why did you try to make it a real thing?

ehothegreat Report

Final score:

19points

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Doctor Strange 1 year ago

Except Unobtainium is a REAL scientific term, used by the actual scientific community. It is a term used for a substance that works as a room temperature super conductor, something that is thought to be 'unobtainable'. Hence the name. This one is NOT a Hollywood flop, it is Hollywood using real terms.

20points

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#34

"We only use 10% of our brain"

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18points

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TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago

Some movie writers even less

25points

#35

"video games" in movies that are set after 1988 yet they all sound like pacman or space invaders.

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16points

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Monday 1 year ago

Well we associate those sounds with video games. You hear them and you instantly know the person is gaming without needing to see a screen. Modern games sound (and ocassionally look) exactly like movies.

15points

#36

Slow-mo action scenes.

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10points

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jiajun xiao 1 year ago

Actually that could improve a fight scene

8points

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R Dennis 1 year ago

When the movie is so dark you can't see what's happening. Why spend all that money on visual effects when you won't let people see them?

41points

Janet C 1 year ago

Came here to say this! Too many movies and TV shows (**cough** GoT **cough**) go for time of day realism, meaning they use no additional lighting for night scenes. They are impossible to see. It's bad enough in theaters, which are almost pitch black and have giant screens. It's awful on a TV, where there's probably surrounding light and the screen is measured in inches and not feet.

3points

Literal Pigeon 1 year ago

When the villains have completely reasonable societal change proposals, but they need to make the audience not like them so they have them do something completely crazy out of left field to make people hate them and their opinions on society. It's a trope deeply rooted in propaganda, and it happens more than you think. (Looking at you, Marvel!)

15points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

so Bane?

1point

Pieter LeGrande 1 year ago

Does no-one get PTSD in the movies? or develop problems with all the head trauma?

11points

Lonely Tentacle 1 year ago

When they do, it's only part of the background story and added for drama. Psychological consequences aren't exactly portrayed properly...

0points

HelluvaHedgehogAlien 1 year ago

I particularly despise the part where the villain decided to give a very long speech. JUST KILL the main character goddamn it

11points

Persephone hates Pomegranate 1 year ago

I watched a show set in Alaska, and the main character flew into Jueanu and drove (DROVE!!!) into Anchorage in the span of an hour. Like have you done no research? I was laughingso hard as an Alaskan!

8points

majandess 1 year ago

I'm not even Alaskan, but I recognize the problem with that! Holy s**t, they did that?!

3points

Sarah Schumm 1 year ago

Or when the same thing happens between San Francisco and Los Angeles!

2points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

I laugh with you. Not Alaskan, but have seen similar insanities.... Where's their magic wormhole through time-space? I want one!

1point

Marcus Lynch 1 year ago

Guns that never run out of ammunition. Even cheap video games do a better job with this one.

7points

Mat Hall 1 year ago

A lot of these complaints seem to misunderstand how telling a story works. Sure, it's "unrealistic" that people hang up the phone without saying goodbye, answer the door immediately, the hero always recovers from serious injury quickly, a 3 hour drive only takes 15 minutes, etc., but if a chunk of your film consists of people doing banal stuff that doesn't have anything to do with the plot it's going to be pretty dull to watch, and if you've only got 90 minutes to tell your story it's a bit pointless wasting a load of it on realism for the sake of realism.

7points

Beruthiel45 1 year ago

We need our suspension of disbelief.😊

0points

BravePanda 1 year ago

When the characters are supposed to have distinct regional accent but sound like a blend of 7-8 areas in a blender and came out sounding wrong on all accounts.

7points

Sarah Schumm 1 year ago

My dad couldn’t watch “Fargo” because of this.

0points

Scott J 1 year ago

This is more a t.v. problem, but why can't anyone shut the dang door?

6points

Lonely Tentacle 1 year ago

THANK YOU!

1point

Glengoolie Blue 1 year ago

Beating dead-horse tropes forever, like movies about a doll that comes to life and kills people. I'm so damned tired of this as a horror movie.

6points

Jeff Mcelfresh 1 year ago

I don't know if M3GAN really counts as a 'killer doll' movie, but I think they actually did really well with the trope! Most of them though, yeah, they suck

2points

Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago

Julia Roberts.

5points

Sarah Schumm 1 year ago

I get it, there are certain actors I just don’t like and I can’t put my finger on why I don’t like them. I still haven’t seen “Valley Girl” because I can’t deal with Nicolas Cage, for example.

0points

RaRaPanda 1 year ago

When I can’t hear a character/actor because they mumble their lines and I have to turn on closed captions. I’ve just started watching with them on nowadays.

4points

Beruthiel45 1 year ago

I've turned them on in YouTube too.

1point

majandess 1 year ago

The hero justifying f*****g awful behavior by saying, "I did it to protect you". And then never changing. It has ruined so many shows for me because there's no character evolution beyond that, and it's so F*****G INFURIATING.

4points

John George 1 year ago

Audible explosions in deep space. When the two leads romantically pair up, one gives up their defining interest. Multiple takes of the same explosion.

4points

R Dennis 1 year ago

I like space explosions, side views and pew-pews of space lasers... all that...

2points

Cindy Lartigue 1 year ago

If an animal is abused or killed.

3points

Blue_Mouse (read bio) 1 year ago

How come no one mentioned when you can see a dead person breathing.

3points

Jeff Mcelfresh 1 year ago

When the hero forgives the villain at the end of the movie, even though the villain has done some extremely messed up things.

3points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

It's petty, but I truly despise the woman-in-heels-stays-immaculate-in-peril c**p. (Worst one I've seen was Jurassic World 1, Bryce Howard's characetr)

3points

Beruthiel45 1 year ago

That was so stupid. It got so I missed half the plot I was so focused on her moronic outfit. Afterwards I read that they did it on purpose. Why? 🙄

0points

DannX68 1 year ago

When someone says "You can't trust anyone". Hmmm, I WONDER who the bad guy is? When two people are talking and the angle cuts to the back of the head of the one talking and their jaws don't move. IT HAPPENS SO MUCH!!

3points

Rodney Bowie 1 year ago

When a TV is on, it's somehow always old black and white cartoons from around 1940. A: No channel airs these (I'm talking about loads of movies before streaming was a thing) B: Why does the character have this on tv? Why are they watching it?

3points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

maybe the producers do not want to pay royalties.

1point

Maxi 1 year ago

When the character is showed as a kid and looks NOTHING like the grow up Charakter, like, how is she supposed to have brown eyes as a child and has blue eyes as an adult???

3points

Pink kitty 1 year ago

I can't watch a movie when the lip synch is out. It's too distracting

3points

R Dennis 1 year ago

That half the fun of old kung fu movies. A thirty second monologue that shows up as a grunt after they finish speaking.

2points

Elizabeth Basinger 1 year ago

When the medical condition of a character is completely unrealistic/inaccurate. In "The Net," Julia Roberts was told her friend had been intubated. She then proceeded to walk into his room, where they had a whole conversation. Additionally, you don't wake up from a coma fully functional.

3points

ThatOmniCapybara(she/they) 1 year ago

I hate prophecies or the whole I'm-not-like-everyone-else trope, and/or the "chosen one" theme. It's overused and boring.

3points

Marley Nachi 1 year ago

I don't like it when the main character is a n00b who suddenly becomes 'the chosen one' and automatically think everything revolves around them or it's their job to save the world/ the damsel in distress despite there being more qualified people around.

3points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

true, but that's kinda the trope of every hero story since beowulf 1000 years ago.

0points

delightfuldragon 1 year ago

Raise your hand if you would like to see closed captioning become a thing at the movies!

2points

Lonely Tentacle 1 year ago

Extreme wokeness. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE inclusivity! But I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about when "oh look, we're showing a gay couple!" is forced in a way that draws attention away from the story (note: It's not about depicting gay couples. I'm pansexual, I love seeing all kinds of couples, but I like seeing them being treated like any other couple that isn't presented as if they're just put there to make a point). And it's not just that, it can be anything. Like that 90s Cinderella movie with Brandy where the prince was Asian, his mom was black and his dad was white, and the stepmother was white but one of her daughters was black. I know mixed race people and adoption exist, but in that setting combos like that would be highly unlikely.

2points

Sarah Schumm 1 year ago

This also bugs me. I feel like the forced diversity is like a new form of whitewashing, like “we’re going to cast diverse actors in a familiar Eurocentric story because we want to be inclusive but not inclusive enough to let people tell the own stories” And it ruined one cartoon I really was looking forward when the character just straight out said they were trans in the pilot. The character was obviously trans, there was no need to hit us over the head with it before we got to know them as a person! It was so much more impactful with something like Tales from the City, where you fell in love with the trans character and their journey before it was revealed. Give me more than 10 minutes to get to know the character before using someone’s gender as a character trait.

1point

Ivy at Eve 1 year ago

Endless police chases and nobody running out of gaz. Police enclosing the bad guys or crime in progress whit blaring sirenes keeping everyone awake in a mile wide radius but the criminals are oblivious. Oh and those 25 year olds with 3 PHDs, 2 doctorates and no apparent student debt.

2points

Tracy Wallick 1 year ago

Having the male lead's motivation come from a woman in his life being murdered and/or sexually assaulted. Having the badass female character's motivation be revenge for sexual assault. Always having to shoehorn female leads into the role of romantic interest (I respect the hell out of Mad Max: Fury Road and Pacific Rim for avoiding this trope in particular).

2points

delightfuldragon 1 year ago

When the music is so loud you can't hear the dialogue.

2points

htbq 1 year ago

when the actor is bad! the plot of the movie is great but the horrible acting will make the movie unwatchable. Same with CGI, bad CGI is very bad...

2points

Phillip Moderow 1 year ago

Current movies have WAAAAAAAAY too much political correctness if you know what I mean.

2points

Sarah Schumm 1 year ago

Or the other way: if a movie is gross or raunchy or offensive as an attempt to be funny and isn’t. It’s kind of the same thing, too much of any extreme isn’t surprising enough to be funny.

0points

Rosie 1 year ago

So many! 1) Going everywhere in a big city (especially NYC) in just a few minutes. Like, Manhattan to JFK in less than an hour (usually a whole lot more). I don't care if it's 3am & it's a Jewish holiday, it's not happening! 2) People get bad news & respond w/"What do you mean? or "What are you talking about?" 3) The ancient tropes of guns w/an unending # of bullets & bad guys who can't shoot straight. I could go all day, but those are my top pet peeves.

2points

Tjoori Vids 1 year ago

Any scene with a horse in it where the horse is basically just neighing, snorting, squealing etc etc etc. Worst I've ever seen was that King Arthur movie (don't recall the name) when he has a meeting with his opposing pagan king. Oh my effing God. Horses don't make anywhere near that much noise! It was like the horse was commenting on every sentence. Absolutely diabolical.

2points

Sarah Schumm 1 year ago

I wish I’d caught this list in time, because there’s one that drives me nuts that I see all the time and never gets mentioned: when someone is brushing their teeth, especially if they’re giving expository dialogue while brushing their teeth. No one ever does this in real life, there’s no reason to show it, but I see it in an incredible number of movies and television shows, and it never makes any sense, and it always ruins the movie for me.

2points

Elizabeth Tayler 1 year ago

Scenes that take place in a car, but the driver NEVER looks at the dam n road! Literally looking at the passenger for minutes at a time, doesn't even glance... How hard is it to at least glance or tilt your head a bit? Infuriates me.

2points

Me. 1 year ago

Random lady shows up and outdoes the best man at xxxx in the world. Okay if it is at a realistic best/second best, so small gap, and a realistic amount of films. But happens in way to many of the films I've seen. Books too.

1point

delightfuldragon 1 year ago

When the characters are in the Arctic and there are no cold puffs of breath. Plus, they're all bundled up except their faces because frostbite isn't a thing. lol

1point

EmBree 1 year ago

Instant trust and friendship\romance when in a dangerous situation. Strange dangerous thing happened, of course the character will blindly trust the stranger they just bumped into, and they will give their life for that stranger without ever questioning if it's a bad guy.

1point

Lara Verne 1 year ago

You forgot 'bad guy with tragic backstory'. Yeah, he's evil. But he's sole survivor of some disaster, so it's justified!

1point

Unpopular opinions 1 year ago

Yeah, every bad guy now a days need some backstory that “justifies” them being bad. Some people are just evil for no reason.

1point

Thor Haugen 1 year ago

Lens filters that are obvious. Horror movies are really bad about that. If you have to rely on a lens filter for a sense of fear rather than the acting or story, something is wrong.

1point

Thot Waffle 1 year ago

Different timelines. I don't mind if a story isn't in chronological order, but there should only be ONE timeline overall. Couldn't finish Russian Doll Season 2 because of this.

1point

Binky Melnik 1 year ago

I know this is absurdly petty, but it still drives me out of my mind EVERY TIME: Character uses a pay phone and when he hangs up, we can hear the coins drop into the count return (instead of inside the phone where they belong). The sound people can replace that with the appropriate sound, and yet I have never, EVER seen a pay phone scene where the coins DIDN’T go into the coin return slot when the phone is hung up! Grrr! This is what drives me crazy the most: small, simple things that could be fixed in less than five seconds, and yet no one bothers. The advice by which I live my life is “If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing right.” Have movie people never heard this? Is it impossible to take pride in their work?

0points

Dee 1 year ago (edited)

How the first 2 Harry Potter films were shot verses the remaining ones: the first 2 bright, brilliant color. The remaining movies dark, depressing filters. We get it. Ol' V-man was coming back but we'd like to see what's happening without the darkness. And each movie was directed differently: the director had to put their own original spin on the characters.

0points

Catherine Spencer-Mills 1 year ago

1. Female cop is chased by bad guy and runs screaming. Did you lose your gun? Flunk self defense classes? 2. An Apple II can talk to the mother ship and can kill it with a virus developed on the Apple. Do they recognize the same assembly language? Have the same number of bits per character? Same mother board configuration? 3. Romances in movies and books. 2 People meet, drama ensues, friends / lovers forever. blech

0points

Exotic Butters 1 year ago

Anything with a monkey

0points

AK to LV 1 year ago

An actor who goes in and out of an accent, Kevin Costner in Robin Hood. The main character keeps getting beaten up but is able to get up and run 5 minutes later, Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones Having to keep repeating to yourself 'It's in the script. It's in the script)

0points

Sherman 1 year ago

If they're driving in a car with green screen windows & it just looks super fake. I can't stand it. Just like... drive a car or don't film scenes in cars! I hate it.

0points

Sonja 1 year ago

When the 'good' character has a huge fight with a really nasty villain, I'm talking about a real baddie who has already killed lots of innocent people and there's no way he'll ever stop, and when they eventually corner them they let them go. Especially after huge fights that definitely have hurt or even killed tons of innocent bystanders. No! You're not showing superior morality here! You have to stop them. If you just let them go on, knowing perfectly well they'll keep killing people and destroying life, you're just a goody two shoes who doesn't care gor people. You didn't care for all the collateral killings before, now every other person suffering on that villains hands is on you! Yes you should have killed them when you had the chance! And no, you're not better than them for not doing it. It is understandable that a good person who never killed before just couldn't. That's ok, that's human. But don't make it into something good or neccessary of being good.

0points

Jane Alexander 1 year ago (edited)

'Thief of Baghdad' 1940. The dog has a major role, but the trainer/handler couldn't bother to clean up his eye before his close- up. Shame on somebody! Also that non-human actors were not given credits for their roles. I searched for 'Nosy' s name in the credits for 'The Raven', and still believe he had the title role. I found nothing.

0points

Kevin J. Henning 1 year ago

If movies were meant to have a basis in reality they'd be documentaries. After thinking it over, forget I said that.

0points

Thot Waffle 1 year ago

This is more of a book / tv series complaint, but when the big reveal is that the book/tv show was written by the main characters themselves.

0points

POST

R Dennis 1 year ago

When the movie is so dark you can't see what's happening. Why spend all that money on visual effects when you won't let people see them?

41points

Janet C 1 year ago

3points

Literal Pigeon 1 year ago

15points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

so Bane?

1point

Pieter LeGrande 1 year ago

Does no-one get PTSD in the movies? or develop problems with all the head trauma?

11points

Lonely Tentacle 1 year ago

When they do, it's only part of the background story and added for drama. Psychological consequences aren't exactly portrayed properly...

0points

HelluvaHedgehogAlien 1 year ago

I particularly despise the part where the villain decided to give a very long speech. JUST KILL the main character goddamn it

11points

Persephone hates Pomegranate 1 year ago

8points

majandess 1 year ago

I'm not even Alaskan, but I recognize the problem with that! Holy s**t, they did that?!

3points

Sarah Schumm 1 year ago

Or when the same thing happens between San Francisco and Los Angeles!

2points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

I laugh with you. Not Alaskan, but have seen similar insanities.... Where's their magic wormhole through time-space? I want one!

1point

Marcus Lynch 1 year ago

Guns that never run out of ammunition. Even cheap video games do a better job with this one.

7points

Mat Hall 1 year ago

7points

Beruthiel45 1 year ago

We need our suspension of disbelief.😊

0points

BravePanda 1 year ago

When the characters are supposed to have distinct regional accent but sound like a blend of 7-8 areas in a blender and came out sounding wrong on all accounts.

7points

Sarah Schumm 1 year ago

My dad couldn’t watch “Fargo” because of this.

0points

Scott J 1 year ago

This is more a t.v. problem, but why can't anyone shut the dang door?

6points

Lonely Tentacle 1 year ago

THANK YOU!

1point

Glengoolie Blue 1 year ago

Beating dead-horse tropes forever, like movies about a doll that comes to life and kills people. I'm so damned tired of this as a horror movie.

6points

Jeff Mcelfresh 1 year ago

I don't know if M3GAN really counts as a 'killer doll' movie, but I think they actually did really well with the trope! Most of them though, yeah, they suck

2points

Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago

Julia Roberts.

5points

Sarah Schumm 1 year ago

0points

RaRaPanda 1 year ago

When I can’t hear a character/actor because they mumble their lines and I have to turn on closed captions. I’ve just started watching with them on nowadays.

4points

Beruthiel45 1 year ago

I've turned them on in YouTube too.

1point

majandess 1 year ago

4points

John George 1 year ago

Audible explosions in deep space. When the two leads romantically pair up, one gives up their defining interest. Multiple takes of the same explosion.

4points

R Dennis 1 year ago

I like space explosions, side views and pew-pews of space lasers... all that...

2points

Cindy Lartigue 1 year ago

If an animal is abused or killed.

3points

Blue_Mouse (read bio) 1 year ago

How come no one mentioned when you can see a dead person breathing.

3points

Jeff Mcelfresh 1 year ago

When the hero forgives the villain at the end of the movie, even though the villain has done some extremely messed up things.

3points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

It's petty, but I truly despise the woman-in-heels-stays-immaculate-in-peril c**p. (Worst one I've seen was Jurassic World 1, Bryce Howard's characetr)

3points

Beruthiel45 1 year ago

That was so stupid. It got so I missed half the plot I was so focused on her moronic outfit. Afterwards I read that they did it on purpose. Why? 🙄

0points

DannX68 1 year ago

3points

Rodney Bowie 1 year ago

3points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

maybe the producers do not want to pay royalties.

1point

Maxi 1 year ago

When the character is showed as a kid and looks NOTHING like the grow up Charakter, like, how is she supposed to have brown eyes as a child and has blue eyes as an adult???

3points

Pink kitty 1 year ago

I can't watch a movie when the lip synch is out. It's too distracting

3points

R Dennis 1 year ago

That half the fun of old kung fu movies. A thirty second monologue that shows up as a grunt after they finish speaking.

2points

Elizabeth Basinger 1 year ago

3points

ThatOmniCapybara(she/they) 1 year ago

I hate prophecies or the whole I'm-not-like-everyone-else trope, and/or the "chosen one" theme. It's overused and boring.

3points

Marley Nachi 1 year ago

3points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

true, but that's kinda the trope of every hero story since beowulf 1000 years ago.

0points

delightfuldragon 1 year ago

Raise your hand if you would like to see closed captioning become a thing at the movies!

2points

Lonely Tentacle 1 year ago

2points

Sarah Schumm 1 year ago

1point

Ivy at Eve 1 year ago

2points

Tracy Wallick 1 year ago

2points

delightfuldragon 1 year ago

When the music is so loud you can't hear the dialogue.

2points

htbq 1 year ago

when the actor is bad! the plot of the movie is great but the horrible acting will make the movie unwatchable. Same with CGI, bad CGI is very bad...

2points

Phillip Moderow 1 year ago

Current movies have WAAAAAAAAY too much political correctness if you know what I mean.

2points

Sarah Schumm 1 year ago

Or the other way: if a movie is gross or raunchy or offensive as an attempt to be funny and isn’t. It’s kind of the same thing, too much of any extreme isn’t surprising enough to be funny.

0points

Rosie 1 year ago

2points

Tjoori Vids 1 year ago

2points

Sarah Schumm 1 year ago

2points

Elizabeth Tayler 1 year ago

2points

Me. 1 year ago

1point

delightfuldragon 1 year ago

When the characters are in the Arctic and there are no cold puffs of breath. Plus, they're all bundled up except their faces because frostbite isn't a thing. lol

1point

EmBree 1 year ago

1point

Lara Verne 1 year ago

You forgot 'bad guy with tragic backstory'. Yeah, he's evil. But he's sole survivor of some disaster, so it's justified!

1point

Unpopular opinions 1 year ago

Yeah, every bad guy now a days need some backstory that “justifies” them being bad. Some people are just evil for no reason.

1point