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If you have your favorite movie of all time, nobody can ever convince you it’s crap. Because film preferences are totally subjective, they vary from one person to another, and if you and your crush can’t find common ground about it, it raises a red flag.
All seriousness aside, some movies are genuinely nothing more than a piece of crap and it doesn't take another person to prove that to you. So when someone posted the question “What 100% ruins a movie for you every time?” the comments started to pour in on r/AskReddit and reached 20.8k in total.
The inquiry has surely resonated with 32.6k people who pressed upvote, and many felt relief that finally, we just laid it all out on the table. From flawed characters to self-explanatory dialogues that make viewers feel like they're first graders, these things will spoil any top-notch movie. Film directors, take notes.
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#1
Having to constantly have my remote in hand to turn down the absurdly loud action scene, to then have to crank the volume for the next dialogue that is far too low.
I'm freaking sick of it.
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#2
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.
#3
The bit where hackers take 20 seconds of furious typing to disable a countries infrastructure.
Biljana Malesevic 3 years ago
or even alien computer, which is somehow, pretty similar to our earth computer.
In a world where every single opinion counts, getting your voice out about a movie you just watched may be quite hard. Luckily, we live in the world of reviews, and if it’s not you who writes one, then there will be film critics who do this job for us. Or you may simply go to Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregation website, that will tell you the truth about what it is that you'd like to watch.
According to Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer, the award for the worst movie of all time goes to Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002). Critics’ synopsis describes it as “A startlingly inept film, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever offers overblown, wall-to-wall action without a hint of wit, coherence, style, or originality.”
The second worst entry is One Missed Call (2008), as it’s thought to be “one of the weakest entries in the J-horror remake sweepstakes,” completely undone by bland performances. The third worst is the 2012 movie A Thousand Words, which is described by critics as a “painful mess” with “bland jokes.” So yeah, not all movies are born to be perfect, but some of them are hardly watchable.
#4
"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.
#6
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.
#7
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?
#8
Unnecessary sex scenes.
Kisses4Katie 3 years ago
This one so, so much. I don't mind people have sex. I don't mind if the story calls for it. Do I need to see it? No. There are certain types of films just for that.
#9
Women wearing heels through out an action movie where they are running constantly and never once take them off.
#11
If the dog dies.
Biljana Malesevic 3 years ago (edited)
Whenever I see thriller/action when some maniac stalks the leading girl and it turns out she has a dog or a cat I stop watching, immediately. I know, I just know, poor innocent puppy or kitty is going to end up killed first as a stupid "warning". I hate this cliche!
#12
Added love story to an adaptation of a book with no love story.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Or create one in a story based on a historic event. Titanic is a prime example. I’ve been a Titanic buff since I was a teenager. Saw the movie in the theatre, hated it, and have never watched it again. The true stories on that ship are so much more interesting than the fake ones, but the true stories were pushed to the background or completely changed. Just so the fake characters could be pretty, have sex, and one of them—-but only the young female, even though there was an attractive male character too—-could be seen fully nude. Totally detracted from the more gripping true story.
#13
When things explode for no reason. “Vehicle had minor collision or simply rolls over and spontaneously explodes”
#14
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.
#15
Fake snow and low temperatures that never matter. Like in Game of Thrones where nobody wore a goddamn hat on the wall. I was watching “his dark materials” the other day and I almost started to applaud when heroes actually got dressed for the cold weather.
Also, Russia in snow. We have summer too.
troufaki13 3 years ago
People are outside in freezing temperatures wearing a light jacket and no gloves and they're not dead yet! Also why can't we see their breaths?
#16
Sex scenes. They're always really cringey to me and I prefer the implication rather than the blatant butt shots. Idk, sex scenes to me always seem kind if unnecessary.
#17
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.
Biljana Malesevic 3 years ago
Sometimes, timer show like 20 sec but characters talk and they are kissing and talking for minutes. And yet, there are still some seconds left. Bomb is always defused in last 3-5 seconds, never like when there is 30 minutes left.
#18
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.
#19
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 sh*t. And woops, the fight is back on like nothing happened..
#20
"We only use 10% of our brain"
Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
A lot of people believe that 10% thing. Movies just reinforce it.
#21
The whole "america good, russia/middle east/any other f**king (insert noun here) bad" trope. It's such a tired and obnoxious ego stroke. Case in point... Independence Day. People are shooting at the aliens with all sorts of guns and they don't even flinch... Willy punches one wearing a full space suit and somehow knocks it out cold?! Then says "welcome to erf!" Ugh... cringed so hard it hurt.
Lord Mysticlaw 3 years ago
The US is extremely US-centric, so if that's where the movie came from... 🤷🏻♀️
#22
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.”
Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
Like I wanna see gnarled old Jack Nicholson with a woman half his age.
#23
The very strong/smart main villain turning weak/dumb in the end fight so the heroes can win.
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago (edited)
The lesson we have learned from all of those movies is that you kill your enemy by simply filling them up with lead. Forget those contraptions, no pools with sharks or bombs with a timer so you can escape in your airplane. Shoot the hero and live a long and happy life as a successful villain.
#24
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.
#25
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.
Steve Barnett 3 years ago
Also, when someone phones someone, the person being called answers within a second.
#26
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..
#27
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**king Bud Light logo for 10 seconds, I mind
N G 3 years ago
Product placement that's been forcibly inserted too. James Bond has to drive an Astin Martin or whatever - it's part of the spy fantasy. The British Secret Service would be in dire straits if Q gave him the keys to a Ford Focus, even one with exploding rockets behind the headlights! But if, when he makes his regular drink order, he says "Vodka martini, shaken, not stirred. And use Grey Goose, it's smoother", James Bond just became The Truman Show. (Which I think captured the weirdness of forced PP just beautifully)
Beth McFadden 3 years ago
Bond has driven Audis and BMWs, Bentleys, Mustangs, and even a Toyota, to name a few, so Aston Martin is not a constant, but it's still a good point.
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Dave P 3 years ago
it is how studios subsidize film costs, some films are purely funded by product placements. Remember movies are first and foremost there to make money for the studios so they can go to their shareholders. Entertaining you is secondary to them. So money for shareholders come first. It is just business.
Michael Capriola 3 years ago
"It's 2 o'clock in the morning and you're pissing against a dumpster. It's Miller time!"
Perfumista Perfumista 3 years ago
Yup, the other day I was watching a TV movie where they kept going back to a lingering shot of an name brand baking ingredient for no reason.
Asper Rated 3 years ago
OMG I said the same. That "sexy" Ford Focus being crammed into the movie was too much.
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Spencer McClure 1 month ago
My go-to for a good example of this is the Burger King advertisement in the first Iron Man movie. Some people might not even know what I'm talking about, and that's the point. When Tony arrives for the post-kidnapping press conference, Happy Hogan holds out a Burger King bag with the label conveniently pointed to the camera to fulfill the product placement obligations. But it fit within the story, it fit with the character, and it wasn't obnoxiously obvious.
Allan Fairbairn 3 years ago
michael bay films are notorious for this. a prime example is "the island". such blatant product placement almost ruined a good film. almost.
Oliver Pumera 3 years ago
In a mission: impossible movie, the whole city was full of renaults!
Asper Rated 3 years ago
OMG the WORST was in one of the Bond movies. He arrives on an island speeding through paradise to his luxury hotel in a compact Ford "something" . There was at least 7 to 10 shots in succession of this unremarkable car with the Ford logo front and center. It was insulting product placement.
Mary Haynes 3 years ago
companies pay for those product placements--and the logo is always front and center.
#28
I know it sounds cliche, but movie clichés. Like in hallmark films. Busy business woman doesn't have time for love. Goes home for Christmas because something is wrong and could be her parents last Christmas. She meets a guy. Too busy to enjoy life. A parent dies. She realizes she needs to enjoy life more. Gets together with guy. You can just tell the way s**t is going to go because the movie is already cliché. Or in action films. Oh let me guess, X is behind that door isn't he? Or he was. Look at that.
#29
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?
Noez 🇸🇪 3 years ago
Or when a character has a job which requires a 5+ year long higher education, 2-3 years of speciality training, and further 2-3 years of experience is needed, but that character is also 22 years old. Example: in 50 Shades of Gray, Mr Gray is a certified helicopter pilot, finished college, runs his company and apparently is excellent at it, developed all the kinks, - at 27 years old.
#30
When they explain the plans like...to an 8 year old.
I like movies where things just happen.
What do you think ?
Chris 3 years ago
"enhance the picture"... Zooms in, magic happens, somehow detail is added that wasn't f*****g there.
Paul K. Johnson 3 years ago
One of my favorites is when the hero is taking on someone with god-like powers who is more powerful than the hero by orders of magnitude but somehow the hero manages to win through sheer determination and force of will. What should happen is the god-like opponent should crush the hero in a second without any effort at all like a person stepping on an ant only more so.
Michael Capriola 3 years ago
Amen. Have you read "The Magic Goes Away" by Larry Niven? The premise is that a sword-swinging, muscle-bound barbarian is going to lose when he goes up against a wizard whose greatest weapon is his smarts.
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Dirk Daring 3 years ago
Flashlights in movies always cast a very narrow, dim beam that only lights a small part of the room, and they always have dead batteries.
Katinka Min 3 years ago
Yes, and whne people go on a really dangerous mission in the dark with a flashlight that already doesn't work properly at the beginning. AAAAAAArrrrrgggh!
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Cian Thomas McHugh 3 years ago
Another annoying trope: if a mentor or old character coughs in one scene, they will be dead from that in the next scene.
No you didn't 3 years ago
What I hate most is when the protagonist spontaneously gives a public speech in front of a large audience at the end of the movie, shortly before they get together with their romantic interest.
VeryDarkMatter 3 years ago
Person enters a bar, orders a drink (expensive one mostly) .. suddenly a friend/collegue/someone shows up. They talk, discuss. Person leaves bar. The drink.. untouched. Every- freaking - time.
Lúthien 3 years ago
Yeah, I could buy dinner for the price of that drink. Two dinners probably.
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Marnie 3 years ago
Yes, and lock it, too! Countless times I've seen someone answer the door, then close it, and NOT lock it.
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C. Mayo 3 years ago (edited)
A couple of mine: 1) When knocking the doorknob off a door opens the door. 2) When shooting a padlock causes it to spring open. 3) When someone shoots at an object or a person when other people are standing behind or very near the target, as if the bullet is only capable of striking the target, then stopping instantly.
Biljana Malesevic 3 years ago
Super smart small and funny child who talks like a really feisty granny. Child of like 6 or 7 pulling out references from like 1970's or 1980's or crushing ultra funny jokes that would need a team of experienced screenwriters to come with. Not funny, not cute. That is not how children talk. And no, it's not cute. Food. They bring like hot pizza or cold ice-cream and just put it on table then talk and talk. No one eats, food just sits there spoiling. It annoys the crap out of me. They sip "coffee" from obviously empty cups, and sit in restaurant with ton of food in front of them but no one ever eats. They just talk, then leave, leaving all the food there. I know it's difficult to work with food props but if you can't at least make it believable, then don't create scene with foods.
Jace 3 years ago
I’m not a gun nut. That said, I HATE stupid & ignorant handling of firearms in TV/movies. I’m not just talking about infinite ammo. Everything! From just sheer irresponsible handling (which dumb people mimic), to the repetitious threat-cocking (people would be ejecting unspent bullets constantly), to the clickity-clack rattly loose metal parts sound effects that foley artists insert so that the mere PRESENCE of a firearm somehow makes noises when moved or touched in the slightest. FFS, if your weapon is that rattly, I suspect it could explode in your face rather than launch a lead slug into the bad-guy.
Helen Haley 3 years ago
When the movie's lighting is so dark you have no idea what is actually going on in the scene. For the whole movie. When someone who doesn't believe in god, suddenly believes in god. They just needed to see a miracle, or some other bs. The chances of a grown adult suddenly believing in the easter bunny again, those are the same odds of an atheist suddenly beliiving in a god again.
Rae Black 3 years ago
Pregnancy tests- the woman will walk around with it, not being careful where she touches it and not wash her hands after she puts it down. We have to urinate on those, these are not magically clean. Gross.
Dirk Daring 3 years ago
Using chess as a plot device while the screenwriter has no clue how chess works. Either the board is set up wrong, or most annoying, A: "Check" B:"Checkmate"
H Edwards 3 years ago
Have you seen The Queen's Gambit yet? Proper chess in that, they really paid attention to the details and based some of the matches on famous ones from tournaments.
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Caroline Driver 3 years ago
People walking through flaming buildings with just a squint and an arm held up above their face. Have you never stood close to a bonfire? You can feel your eyeballs drying out and your skin crackling just from that, and you move away. Unless it was to rescue your children, like an article I saw recently about a woman who did just that and suffered massive burns, I don't think most people would get very far into a burning building before turning tail
Victoria 3 years ago (edited)
1) When subtitles don't match up with dialogue (I have bad hearing so I use closed caption in case I miss something a character is saying) 2) Obvious use of green screen
Kenny Kulbiski 3 years ago
In a pitch black cave or something similar. Someone flicks their Bic and shazaam it's high noon.
D.M. Avery 3 years ago
I hate it when someone is alone and hears an ominous sound. Why, oh why do they always feel the need to call out "Hello?"
Gilda Farrell 3 years ago
I hate it when it's a period picture but all the women are wearing current hairstyles. For instance, like a Victorian drama, and women have long, wavy hair tumbling down their backs. This was something only immature females wore. It indicated childhood or adolescence. A grown woman always wore her hair up. Or something from the 1920's where a fashionable woman has long, cascading locks. No, women wore short bobs, or fastened into buns, or in tidy waves.
Umberto Cavallaro 3 years ago
Million dollar computers and software and nobody using a mouse or a touchpad. They keep typing on the keyboard even if there is a video or photo on the screen. Or when the surveillance software reports that they have found the stranger via facial recognition and a second later they already know everything about him.
Yannick Yuniq 3 years ago
The one that really gets to me without fail every single serie or movie, they just have to f*ck!n say it, the ‘I got this’ line
H Edwards 3 years ago
Someone once pointed out that in American movies/TV shows, characters are always lying down on the bed with their shoes on. Small thing, but now I notice it all the time. People don't actually do that in real life, right?
Marnie 3 years ago
Only on a really, really weird day. I don't wear my shoes in the house, let alone lay down with them still on.
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Lara Verne 3 years ago
This character is genius because we said so! Said character is dumb as a brick.
John Leriel 3 years ago
Repeating annoying fantasy cliché. Example: Step 1. Our heroes land is impoverished, people are poor, hungering and turning to crime. Step 2. Enemy army invades, the land is conquered by evil warlord villain. Step 3. Our hero slays the warlord. Step 4. The invading army is magically disappearing, with the basic problems of the land. Everyone is happy, rich and decent.
SykesDaMan 3 years ago
There are Youtube channels that constantly make fun of these (and more): Pitch meeting, Honest trailers and Cinema Sins. Even though, the last one became more and more a parody of itself.
ivan bolitekurac 3 years ago
I don't watch movies/series anymore.Nobody talks/acts like people in the movies.
H Edwards 3 years ago
Edge of Tomorrow is quite satisfying if you like watching Tom Cruise suffer.
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SirPatTheCat 3 years ago
I hate it when there are bad and unnecessary fight scenes. I watched The Invisible Man (the one that came out earlier this year) and I thought it was really good until the big fight scene which defied all logic and it ruined the whole movie for me :/
Ann Mohrmann 2 years ago
Re: #1. This is why I have captions on all the time. Re: #2. This is why when I first got glasses I didn't want to wear them, though I 'luckily' have straight hair. To make a pretty girl ugly they always add glasses and give her Hermione Granger levels of curly hair. Then to pretty her up she wears contacts and straightens her hair. I can't imagine how that makes curly-haired girls feel, and it must be awful for curly-haired girls who also wear glasses.
Girl Anachronism 3 years ago
Agree with forced diversity. It is okay, in fantasy, for example, to have races of different skin colour. In the book, if the main characters all come from one tiny, isolated village, it's okay if they're all white (or brown, or black) - that village has had no cultural immersion, there is no reason for there to be white, brown and black community members - but on their worldly journeys, they will come across other communities and cultures that have different skin colours, and that's okay!
SilverSkyCloud 3 years ago (edited)
when the president is always the hero and just happens to have super soldier level of capability lets not forget the horror movie cliches, you could fill another list just with those lol
Giulio Verdekiwi 3 years ago
I hate when the main character listen to someone in another language, and suddenly speak it perfectly, even though there is no reason why they learn that language and they will never use again.
Alina Lightwood 3 years ago
The road is straight, car is going forward. So why can't the actor leave the steering wheel alone
Brian Leahy 3 years ago
Fade in on a quiet, empty room. Pan slowly across various objects in the room, eventually revealing an electronic gadget of some kind - a pager, timer, bomb, etc. - and it’s making a beeping sound. But for some reason, we couldn’t hear it until after it appeared on-screen....
Jessica Cifelli 3 years ago
When an actor randomly looks down to look for their mark. Like they will be walking and suddenly they look down and take another step.
Katinka Min 3 years ago
Inconsistent fighting skills. One scene the hero*ine is set uop to be an aamazing fighter. A few scenes later he/she loses against some crazy old woman. I've just suffered through Deadly Class and that just drove me crazy (plus lots of other issues, but nvm)
Perry Anderson 3 years ago
I think everyone should not be so hypocritical and just watch the movie as a movie. Unless it is stated it is with historical facts, Read the book if you want it the way it was written. Now if you want to point out bad writing hit the news medias.
Metaniel 3 years ago
But what about movies that has been filmed based on the book, but there's to much difference between them?
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Jenifer Riggs 3 years ago
They forgot the annoying part when theres a significant time skip and the actor's appearance doesn't change AT All. Example; Teen Actor is a teenager through most of film, theres a time skip and they're supposed to be adult with kids, same teen actor is either completely unchanged, or obviously in heavy make-up/costume to look like adult, when they aren't.
Jenifer Riggs 3 years ago
Also when a much younger person plays an older person's character.
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Mari Bryant 3 years ago
For me, people pointing out the lack of realism in movies are funsuckers. Especially sci fi or zombie movies. Stop trying to explain how zombies are in " real life". 😒😛
Marnie 3 years ago
I would say that ESPECIALLY in sci fi, it needs to be realistic. After all, science fiction should be plausible based on the science known at the time, although every seems to silently agree that time travel and faster-than-light travel speeds both get a pass in SF. If it's not realistic, it's not sci fi - it's either an action film (set in space), a space adventure, fantasy, or just plain really bad SF.
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Chris 3 years ago
"enhance the picture"... Zooms in, magic happens, somehow detail is added that wasn't f*****g there.
Paul K. Johnson 3 years ago
One of my favorites is when the hero is taking on someone with god-like powers who is more powerful than the hero by orders of magnitude but somehow the hero manages to win through sheer determination and force of will. What should happen is the god-like opponent should crush the hero in a second without any effort at all like a person stepping on an ant only more so.
Michael Capriola 3 years ago
Amen. Have you read "The Magic Goes Away" by Larry Niven? The premise is that a sword-swinging, muscle-bound barbarian is going to lose when he goes up against a wizard whose greatest weapon is his smarts.
Load More Replies... Dirk Daring 3 years ago
Flashlights in movies always cast a very narrow, dim beam that only lights a small part of the room, and they always have dead batteries.
Katinka Min 3 years ago
Yes, and whne people go on a really dangerous mission in the dark with a flashlight that already doesn't work properly at the beginning. AAAAAAArrrrrgggh!
Load More Replies... Cian Thomas McHugh 3 years ago
Another annoying trope: if a mentor or old character coughs in one scene, they will be dead from that in the next scene.
No you didn't 3 years ago
What I hate most is when the protagonist spontaneously gives a public speech in front of a large audience at the end of the movie, shortly before they get together with their romantic interest.
VeryDarkMatter 3 years ago
Person enters a bar, orders a drink (expensive one mostly) .. suddenly a friend/collegue/someone shows up. They talk, discuss. Person leaves bar. The drink.. untouched. Every- freaking - time.
Lúthien 3 years ago
Yeah, I could buy dinner for the price of that drink. Two dinners probably.
Load More Replies... Marnie 3 years ago
Yes, and lock it, too! Countless times I've seen someone answer the door, then close it, and NOT lock it.
Load More Replies... C. Mayo 3 years ago (edited)
A couple of mine: 1) When knocking the doorknob off a door opens the door. 2) When shooting a padlock causes it to spring open. 3) When someone shoots at an object or a person when other people are standing behind or very near the target, as if the bullet is only capable of striking the target, then stopping instantly.
Biljana Malesevic 3 years ago
Super smart small and funny child who talks like a really feisty granny. Child of like 6 or 7 pulling out references from like 1970's or 1980's or crushing ultra funny jokes that would need a team of experienced screenwriters to come with. Not funny, not cute. That is not how children talk. And no, it's not cute. Food. They bring like hot pizza or cold ice-cream and just put it on table then talk and talk. No one eats, food just sits there spoiling. It annoys the crap out of me. They sip "coffee" from obviously empty cups, and sit in restaurant with ton of food in front of them but no one ever eats. They just talk, then leave, leaving all the food there. I know it's difficult to work with food props but if you can't at least make it believable, then don't create scene with foods.
Jace 3 years ago
I’m not a gun nut. That said, I HATE stupid & ignorant handling of firearms in TV/movies. I’m not just talking about infinite ammo. Everything! From just sheer irresponsible handling (which dumb people mimic), to the repetitious threat-cocking (people would be ejecting unspent bullets constantly), to the clickity-clack rattly loose metal parts sound effects that foley artists insert so that the mere PRESENCE of a firearm somehow makes noises when moved or touched in the slightest. FFS, if your weapon is that rattly, I suspect it could explode in your face rather than launch a lead slug into the bad-guy.
Helen Haley 3 years ago
When the movie's lighting is so dark you have no idea what is actually going on in the scene. For the whole movie. When someone who doesn't believe in god, suddenly believes in god. They just needed to see a miracle, or some other bs. The chances of a grown adult suddenly believing in the easter bunny again, those are the same odds of an atheist suddenly beliiving in a god again.
Rae Black 3 years ago
Pregnancy tests- the woman will walk around with it, not being careful where she touches it and not wash her hands after she puts it down. We have to urinate on those, these are not magically clean. Gross.
Dirk Daring 3 years ago
Using chess as a plot device while the screenwriter has no clue how chess works. Either the board is set up wrong, or most annoying, A: "Check" B:"Checkmate"
H Edwards 3 years ago
Have you seen The Queen's Gambit yet? Proper chess in that, they really paid attention to the details and based some of the matches on famous ones from tournaments.
Load More Replies... Caroline Driver 3 years ago
People walking through flaming buildings with just a squint and an arm held up above their face. Have you never stood close to a bonfire? You can feel your eyeballs drying out and your skin crackling just from that, and you move away. Unless it was to rescue your children, like an article I saw recently about a woman who did just that and suffered massive burns, I don't think most people would get very far into a burning building before turning tail
Victoria 3 years ago (edited)
1) When subtitles don't match up with dialogue (I have bad hearing so I use closed caption in case I miss something a character is saying) 2) Obvious use of green screen
Kenny Kulbiski 3 years ago
In a pitch black cave or something similar. Someone flicks their Bic and shazaam it's high noon.
D.M. Avery 3 years ago
I hate it when someone is alone and hears an ominous sound. Why, oh why do they always feel the need to call out "Hello?"
Gilda Farrell 3 years ago
I hate it when it's a period picture but all the women are wearing current hairstyles. For instance, like a Victorian drama, and women have long, wavy hair tumbling down their backs. This was something only immature females wore. It indicated childhood or adolescence. A grown woman always wore her hair up. Or something from the 1920's where a fashionable woman has long, cascading locks. No, women wore short bobs, or fastened into buns, or in tidy waves.
Umberto Cavallaro 3 years ago
Million dollar computers and software and nobody using a mouse or a touchpad. They keep typing on the keyboard even if there is a video or photo on the screen. Or when the surveillance software reports that they have found the stranger via facial recognition and a second later they already know everything about him.
Yannick Yuniq 3 years ago
The one that really gets to me without fail every single serie or movie, they just have to f*ck!n say it, the ‘I got this’ line
H Edwards 3 years ago
Someone once pointed out that in American movies/TV shows, characters are always lying down on the bed with their shoes on. Small thing, but now I notice it all the time. People don't actually do that in real life, right?
Marnie 3 years ago
Only on a really, really weird day. I don't wear my shoes in the house, let alone lay down with them still on.
Load More Replies... Lara Verne 3 years ago
This character is genius because we said so! Said character is dumb as a brick.
John Leriel 3 years ago
Repeating annoying fantasy cliché. Example: Step 1. Our heroes land is impoverished, people are poor, hungering and turning to crime. Step 2. Enemy army invades, the land is conquered by evil warlord villain. Step 3. Our hero slays the warlord. Step 4. The invading army is magically disappearing, with the basic problems of the land. Everyone is happy, rich and decent.
SykesDaMan 3 years ago
There are Youtube channels that constantly make fun of these (and more): Pitch meeting, Honest trailers and Cinema Sins. Even though, the last one became more and more a parody of itself.
ivan bolitekurac 3 years ago
I don't watch movies/series anymore.Nobody talks/acts like people in the movies.
H Edwards 3 years ago
Edge of Tomorrow is quite satisfying if you like watching Tom Cruise suffer.
Load More Replies... SirPatTheCat 3 years ago
I hate it when there are bad and unnecessary fight scenes. I watched The Invisible Man (the one that came out earlier this year) and I thought it was really good until the big fight scene which defied all logic and it ruined the whole movie for me :/
Ann Mohrmann 2 years ago
Re: #1. This is why I have captions on all the time. Re: #2. This is why when I first got glasses I didn't want to wear them, though I 'luckily' have straight hair. To make a pretty girl ugly they always add glasses and give her Hermione Granger levels of curly hair. Then to pretty her up she wears contacts and straightens her hair. I can't imagine how that makes curly-haired girls feel, and it must be awful for curly-haired girls who also wear glasses.
Girl Anachronism 3 years ago
Agree with forced diversity. It is okay, in fantasy, for example, to have races of different skin colour. In the book, if the main characters all come from one tiny, isolated village, it's okay if they're all white (or brown, or black) - that village has had no cultural immersion, there is no reason for there to be white, brown and black community members - but on their worldly journeys, they will come across other communities and cultures that have different skin colours, and that's okay!
SilverSkyCloud 3 years ago (edited)
when the president is always the hero and just happens to have super soldier level of capability lets not forget the horror movie cliches, you could fill another list just with those lol
Giulio Verdekiwi 3 years ago
I hate when the main character listen to someone in another language, and suddenly speak it perfectly, even though there is no reason why they learn that language and they will never use again.
Alina Lightwood 3 years ago
The road is straight, car is going forward. So why can't the actor leave the steering wheel alone
Brian Leahy 3 years ago
Fade in on a quiet, empty room. Pan slowly across various objects in the room, eventually revealing an electronic gadget of some kind - a pager, timer, bomb, etc. - and it’s making a beeping sound. But for some reason, we couldn’t hear it until after it appeared on-screen....
Jessica Cifelli 3 years ago
When an actor randomly looks down to look for their mark. Like they will be walking and suddenly they look down and take another step.
Katinka Min 3 years ago
Inconsistent fighting skills. One scene the hero*ine is set uop to be an aamazing fighter. A few scenes later he/she loses against some crazy old woman. I've just suffered through Deadly Class and that just drove me crazy (plus lots of other issues, but nvm)
Perry Anderson 3 years ago
I think everyone should not be so hypocritical and just watch the movie as a movie. Unless it is stated it is with historical facts, Read the book if you want it the way it was written. Now if you want to point out bad writing hit the news medias.
Metaniel 3 years ago
But what about movies that has been filmed based on the book, but there's to much difference between them?
Load More Replies... Jenifer Riggs 3 years ago
They forgot the annoying part when theres a significant time skip and the actor's appearance doesn't change AT All. Example; Teen Actor is a teenager through most of film, theres a time skip and they're supposed to be adult with kids, same teen actor is either completely unchanged, or obviously in heavy make-up/costume to look like adult, when they aren't.
Jenifer Riggs 3 years ago
Also when a much younger person plays an older person's character.
Load More Replies... Mari Bryant 3 years ago
For me, people pointing out the lack of realism in movies are funsuckers. Especially sci fi or zombie movies. Stop trying to explain how zombies are in " real life". 😒😛
Marnie 3 years ago
I would say that ESPECIALLY in sci fi, it needs to be realistic. After all, science fiction should be plausible based on the science known at the time, although every seems to silently agree that time travel and faster-than-light travel speeds both get a pass in SF. If it's not realistic, it's not sci fi - it's either an action film (set in space), a space adventure, fantasy, or just plain really bad SF.
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