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.

Detective shows where they go and chat to witnesses/suspects who blithely carry on what they’re doing like they have chats with the police all the time. You want to chat about the murder next door? Ok but I’m going to carry on washing my car

Lol yeah the driving thing really pisses me off.

When they don't shut doors behind them, even when there's a killer on the run or similar.

I hate when a friend stays over they always make up the sofa despite living in a massive house

Yes, I remember in the film Blind Side (which was a true story) that the young African American boy they took in slept on the sofa even though they were millionaires in a huge house.

Or when the husband is kicked out of bed and goes to sleep on the sofa even though they are in a massive house with no dc. (That said my DH does that if he can’t sleep despite there being a fully made up king sized in the spare room).

Yes to the driving thing. Also when they leave a fridge open for ages and ages.

Also when someone is watching the TV news and a report about something really vitally important to them comes on (their murderer ex has just escaped from prison sort of thing) and they turn it off half way through! What if there was more vital information following???

L-shaped bedsheets to cover a woman's boobs!

And the way people always sleep with an arm fully outstretched or bent underneath - er, dead arm much?

Morning breath?

And why they always decant milk or orange juice into glass jugs? Everyone else puts the Tesco 2 pinter or juice box on the table

When someone comes rushing in or phones to tell the person to turn the TV on. And when they do (on magically the right channel) , the highly relevant news item is always just starting.

So how did the caller know?!

When they get their hands dirty (ie blood) but don't feel the need to wash, just carry on as normal. I have OCD so this bothers me.

Also if someone is captured or locked in a room, where are they peeing or pooing?

They never lock car doors!

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.

Yeah, that's just ridiculous. Skip the sex scene, they're superfluous at any rate. Or be more creative with it if you have a no nudity clause.

When people pass out newly purchased takeaway hot drinks without any weight and they’re not hit or dribbling ever!

The way they all either go to Roy's Rolls or The Caff for a bite to eat and a coffee. Barinh in mind they all live and work on the street/square.
They arrAnge a night out its on the Vic or the Rovers.
You wont fall off the edge of the world if you step one foot over the Square or the street.

The way Harvey/Vinnie's mum just got her 250k inheritance money. No probate no nothing.

No one ever has to sign on. Jobs are never mind 10 a penny a million a penny.

They all know each others birthdays and phone numbers.

You can fake your own death and no one bats an eye lid

Children can very easily find their way home from Blackpool to Manchester by following time tables ect and again no one bats an eye lid when they're traveling alone.

But don't you just love old movies from the 40s/50s/60s and possibly 70s when there's a couple driving along in a car - the backdrop out of the rear window is clearly a fake road unwinding behind them - as previously filmed by a camera on the back of a truck?! DP and I always yell at the TV "they're not really driving down that road"

I'm sure the same happens in modern movies, but CGI is so much better these days!!!!!

@sunflowersforever - to be fair that is addressed in the Blind Side, Leanne explains that Sean complains about the bed in the spare room as it is a sectional and presumably either comes apart or something. She figures Mike will be more comfy on the sofa because of that and also possibly due to his size too, he destroys the sofa which later turns out to be worth $10,000 itself. Eventually they buy Mike a futon for his own room ("I've never had one before" "A room of your own?" "A bed"). Yes it might be my favourite film ever.

"Let's meet up tonight and discuss it"
"Alright, see you later"

WHERE?
WHAT TIME?

Aaaaarrrrggghhhh.

When they magically know someone's mobile number even when there was no logical reason to ask for it.

People who leave their jobs/flats on a whim, without anyone caring about legal niceties like giving notice, let alone packing their belongings up. Also people getting taken on for new jobs without any form of recruitment procedure. Casualty/Holby, I'm looking at you.

You don't need any quals or experience. The way Toyah just became a counselor.

Couples waking up in the morning and having a great big snog before brushing their teeth.

The way any pregnant woman's waters break out of the blue and then they're instantly in agonising labour.

If anyone is taking the trash out it's always big puffy bin bags that look like they're full of air. No recycling!

Gilmore Girls was just ridiculous sometimes. The bit at the end where the whole town, including vast swathes of people never seen before in all twenty seven series, go to a street party and give Rory a standing ovation for getting a graduate job. Really?!

Also in Dr Foster when the OW gets pregnant while they're still supposedly happily married and then she's still pregnant when their divorce comes through. I'm not divorced but I swear it takes longer than that!

bonnyblithe, that reminded me of all the things where the protagonist spends basically the whole film or episode alone/with just a partner and then an occasion comes up, like a birthday, and suddenly they've rustled up 75 friends to crowd into a room and have a massive party. Where did they all COME from?

On soaps, particularly Coronation Street, no one is ever slobbed in front of the telly with wine in one hand and chocolate in the other.
Again on soaps, the small children are always somewhere else. Watched Coronation Street the other day and Sarah, mother of a young child was in work at 7.30, dressed impeccably, worked a full day then down the pub. She has some great child care that’s for sure.
Still on Corra, these workers, few of whom seem to have jobs commanding huge wages, seem to eat the majority of their meals in the pub, cafe or bistro
And the final point, it’s amazing how many wealthy people can buy out the factory or whatever, and have the cash available the same day. That knicker factory has been bought and sold so many times..

I watch Coronation Street quite a lot

merry was it A Christmas Prince you watched? I think that in that film, how does she know how to ride?

In pre mobile days, when using a phone actors would hold the receiver miles from their ear and never speak into the mouth piece.