Anyone else get annoyed when actors don't act out reality?

[Dawsonforehead]

I'm talking about the small things in TV programmes or film. My main 2 annoyances:

When they are drinking a presumably hot drink out of a mug but forget to act it out as being full or heavy and wave the mug around.

When there is a driving scene and they spend about 10 seconds looking at the passenger during their conversation, oblivious to the road.

I get nervous about the looking at the passenger thing. Always make me tho k a car accident is imminent.

When they just pick the phone up and dial the number straight off.

When someone is leaving "for good " and the suitcases are clearly empty.

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The suitcase and mug situation are similar, never realised! They must have all missed the same lesson on filled vessels weighing something.

How do they always know the phone number!!!

Also when they just seem to book flights and have their boarding pass in their possession immediately. So many steps missing, not excluding the price comparison websites.

"Also when they just seem to book flights ..." Like the scene in Love Actually when Jamie decides, on a whim and at the last minute, to fly to the south of France (to propose to Aurelia) on Christmas Eve. Are there really that many available seats on that date? I could be wrong though!

People just meeting up for dates or lunch or whatever without any arranging or exchanging of contact info.

When they speak on the phone and don’t end the call the normal way - no “ok, goodbye, see you at the pub Saturday” type thing

This is not about the acting but how in soaps they buy a house and move in. Really quick. No issues with the chain. No mortgage issues. In within a week!

Absolutely any time the news or journalism is featured. Especially in £££ films - how much would it cost to run the ridiculous radio / TV news story past an actual journalist who could rewrite it so it didn’t sound like a stream of consciousness?

Not so much the acting but how everyone seems to live in expensive houses/apartments regardless of their job.

How about these lines from the Grumpy Cat Movie:

Girl: But I don't have the car keys.
Grumpy Cat: They'll be under the sun visor.
Girl: How do you know?
Grumpy Cat: We're in a movie!!!!!

everyone seems to live in expensive houses/apartments

And you never seem them cleaning unless they have OCD like Monica or are actually a cleaner.

Baby crying swaddled in arms when the swaddling is clearly inanimate. No baby cries without any movement.

Or clearly happy baby seen from behind with angry baby howling noise. I don’t want them to make a baby really cry but why not have baby off shot?

The coffee cup thing is my pet peeve. Once you start noticing it, it ruins everything!

My pet hate is when their clothes never get dirty or crumpled.

Definitely the phone thing. I always notice that and think how rude. They didn't even say goodbye!

I watched a film yesterday where she was brought up in New York, Dad owned a cafe, but she could instantly house ride (galloping etc) very well indeed. [Hmm]

"We want a baby" straight cut to what looks like a 12 week scan. No TTC period. No 2ww. No waiting for 12 weeks!

The classic just woken up shot - complete with a perfectly made up face and artfully ruffled hair.

But I have a policy of refusing to notice this stuff and honestly reality could be a bit grim. No one really wants the narrative flow to be interrupted by reality

Yes, but does anyone want to watch a half-hour soap which consists largely of people moaning about printer ink when printing boarding cards, interrupting crucial car conversations to check their wing mirror and notice the coolant needs refilling, arguing about which pub to meet in to have a dramatic showdown with the OW, and getting out the Yellow Pages every time they make a call?

Waking up with make up on
When people are in bed but there are lights on
Not locking cars or houses
Always finding a parking space outside where they're going

There's always a parking space just outside their destination, and it's one they can drive straight into without lots of manoeuvring.

I too hate it when the driver of the car is talking to and looking at the passenger. Does anyone do that in real life? I just can't concentrate on what they're saying because I'm waiting for the crash.

Their cars are also spotless inside. No random collections of coats, sweets, old parking tickets

What I have noticed is that any aspect of life I have knowledge of, ie jobs I have done, places I’ve lived, is always covered dreadfully in films and tv. Therefore I can only assume that everything is wrong.

For example - teachers leaving about 2 minutes after the children or being halfway through a sentence when the bell goes.
Shop staff getting their coats on when there are still customers in the shop.

@VisitorsEntrance Oh yes, teachers never being interrupted by the bell. The doorbell or phone always rings neatly after somebody finishes a sentence, e.g. "I wonder when my friend will call? (phone rings) Ah, that must be them now."

There's one episode of Vicar of Dibley where just about every cast member rings the vicar's doorbell; neatly after a sentence is finished. Every single time!

Mind you, having read many threads like these, a notable one is watching actors moving food around on their plates, without actually eating it. I saw a play in the theatre, and I watched carefully. Shock, horror, they actually ate their food!

At the beginning of the film Amelie, she herself comments on drivers in films not looking at the road, and how she likes noticing things nobody else would ever see (red circle appears around a fly on the wall). The director says in the commentary "nowadays, it's so easy to erase the fly".