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.

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!

Ah but a play is different.
The reason they don’t eat in films is for continuity as they wil reshoot the scene from a different angle and it would look odd if the plate suddenly refilled.
Also they might have been shooting that scene for hours. Would you eat some food that had been sat in front of you for hours?

Not a problem in plays.

When people leave (particularly in Eastenders) the can get all of their belongings into one hold-all or suitcase. And have no problems lifting it. Also they can drink a hot drink straight away, they don't have to let it cool down.

Considering how Gilmore Girls features coffee in about 90% of all scenes they never mastered the art of making a coffee cup look like it was full even though it wasn’t.

It’s putting the silent, content baby into the playpen with no fuss, while they have adult conversations- often about really serious stuff, that annoys me.

I haven’t had a civilised conversation with an adult, in the presence of my children since the first one arrived 5 years ago! As for putting one of them in a play pen. Ha! They’d let me know pretty quickly that wasn’t happening!!

Not only do they live in fab houses/apartments, they never do any cleaning or houswork unless it is poart of the plot (except Medium and 2 and a half men).

I agree with empty drink containers, couldn't they just put water in?

When they use the wrong tool, I rewatched an episode of Hustle recently and Micky used the wrong pick for the type of lock, he should have been able to rake the lock but he used a hook without a torsion wrench (it won't work without the torsion wrench). OK that might be a bit niche.

In operating theatres where the surgeon's gown is pristine, not a drop of blood ever.

Yes - WHY don’t they fill the coffee cups or the china tea cups with some water, even? Fgs. It annoys me so much. Everything else seems to have been done well until you see the fake stupid drinking thing. Grrrrr

I’ve noticed that people often don’t close the door when they go in or out of a house/building etc-probably to let the camera follow them, but irritating just the same!

One thing I really enjoy in old movies is watching people find parking spaces in New York. Right in front of the Met? no problem. It is deeply satisfying.

Don't start me on Gilmore girls and food/ coffee wierdness! I am obsessed with the inconsistency regarding the constant eating crap and drinking coffee being referred to but rarely observed. They are not obese and pasty, their teeth are not stained, their boyfriends are not reeling from the horrendous coffee breath! They are also regularly drinking and driving after the Friday night dinner.

Dinner party or lunch scene and no one eats! They just continually move food around the plates. I'm guessing it's because given the number of takes the food is probably stone cold but I'm still like... eat yer ffecin food!

Birdy the door thing might also be to hide the flimsy sets. I love watching old TV programmes when someone slams a door and the walls wobble!

I used to wince in The Crown at the crashes whenever Claire Foy put her teacup down in its saucer - I am sure I remember reading somewhere that the "upper class" are trained from any early age to do this silently and to not be able to do so marked you out as lower class. So although CF's performance seems pretty fantastic I reckon there would have been a lot of people clutching their pearls about that aspect.

When they have sex then immediately jump out of bed and get dressed.

No going to the loo to wipe the gunk away. Just go off to work smelling of sex like it's a normal day.

The empty coffee cups always annoy me too. Something so simple to fix, and yet they never do.

In soaps, how they can all afford exquisite wedding dresses.

American mum (looking pristine) prepares every breakfast going, a jug of orange juice, scambled eggs. The rest of the family rush down stairs, grab a slice of toast and run out the door.

When they've just bought a drink in a pub and then walk out leaving it almost untouched. I know it's not real beer, but somehow I hate the thought of all that money/beer being wasted.

They get fired/made redundant and immediately pack "the box" and start walking to the car park. How is there to work to hand over? Where do the boxes come from? Do they bring one to work just in case it does the boss have a supply?

No work*

When they phone up and say 'Let's meet for dinner', and the other person says 'OK, see you tonight'. That's it - no other details are given. I'm always shouting at the TV "What time? Where are we actually going? What's the dress code? When is the table booked for? Are we meeting for a drink first? Who's driving?"

What about when someone is really, really drunk slurring and stumbling, then something 'shocking' happens and they are stone cold sober. So annoying!

There have always been boxes of printer/copier paper at every office I’ve worked in. Just take out the reams of paper and stack them somewhere and use the box.

I was watching an otherwise good movie in which she went for an early pregnancy scan and instead of a tiny blob with a pulse there was a fully formed baby that looked like it was about be born. I don’t know what they were thinking.

Yes, the empty mug/takeaway coffee cup thing pisses me off. It's so obvious that they're empty!

Also,I' with MrsMiggins here: arranging to meet for dinner/drinks etc. 'Dinner tomorrow night then?' 'Yes, see you tomorrow.' WHEN? WHERE?!?

Time is also weirdly elastic sometimes. I remember in Ugly Betty they'd leave work at (one assumes) 6pm or something and go straight to a bar/club where everyone would be partying like it was 2am. Also, when we cut to another character's story that same night, they'd be having a sedate dinner. Then they'd all get home at what seemed like the same time. And get up and go to work the next morning

The woman in bra and knickers immediately after having sex drives me nuts - sex, in bed, is a largely naked activity, no guy I know would be happy for his partner to keep her bra on when dtd.

I always find it strange how people can just walk into their friends/relatives/dp’s place of work for to wait for them or chat and no one bats an eyelid.

Even when I’ve worked in my own office etc non staff have never been allowed to just wander in past the front desk.

The telephone thing for me is when they dial and the other person picks up straight away. They’ve barely put the phone to their ear and already in the middle of the conversation.