Scenes in films which irrationally annoy you

[Toomuchtooyoung01]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (original version)
Every single time I've watched the scene where the golden ticket winners are touring the factory and enter the area where everything is edible, I get genuinely irritated that none of them actually get stuck in! None of them really try anything! They just dip their finger in something and keep walking! Surely you'd take full advantage and pig out? Or at least sample everything?!

In horror films when somebody is in a really dark room or house whilst there’s scary noises or whatever and they never switch all the lights on like most people would.

This really annoys me too. Surely the first thing you do when you walk into a room is turn on the light.

In a lot of crime dramas they show the labs being really dark with just low light, now I've never worked in a lab but surely good lighting is pretty fundamental in a laboratory environment.

Anything with Hugh Grant. How anyone finds him attractive or talented is beyond me. He's irritating and one-dimensional.

Every single scene in The Holiday and Titanic. Jack Black is insufferable.

Any supposedly male gay love scene with the exception of those in Maurice (probably because it was directed by actual gay men), they always seem afraid of each other and it's funny how full nudity is commonplace in hetero scenes but not in those featuring two men.

Love scenes with women wearing their bras. Just skip the whole scene or use a sheet.

Any scene where a person or animal has a whole body plaster cast after an accident. Supposed comedy, I know, but any film is ruined after this for me .

In fact, any sex scene where the woman has an orgasm five seconds after the guy gives her a quick peck and sticks his dick in her. eg French Lieutenant's Woman...

Yeah, there's a scene in Red Sparrow where Joel Edgerton just porks Jennifer Lawrence 3 times and there she is having a massive orgasm.

Seth Rogan's always having sex with a woman 10x more attractive than he is, too.

Bend it Like Beckham annoys me hugely. Keira Knightly is so painfully thin. I wish they had cast someone with a proper athletic physique.

@AnneLovesGilbert. ‘See you later’ is an informal way of saying goodbye round here (south London). A less romantic version of Au Revoir I suppose. I caught myself using it at the end of a phone call to a friend earlier today when the lockdown means I won’t be seeing her later at all. God knows when I’ll see her again. 😕

Rita sue and bob too is just vile the whole thing
OMG yes. And dull with it!

Any scene where a character travels round London and they go the most bizarre way just to get famous landmarks in shot (Bridget Jones, I'm looking at you here).

Anything with Hugh Grant. How anyone finds him attractive or talented is beyond me. He's irritating and one-dimensional

I'm not a great fan, but I think he's been cast in lots of similar things that require him to play similar characters, usually a bit "bumbling".
He was excellent as Jeremy Thorpe. I was impressed.

The female lead on Me Before You - supposed to be working class and so obviously not, try as she does to drop a few T’s.

Any scene in London where the characters park their car right outside their destination without any problem.

Most scenes in The Graduate

Hugh Grant's actually a decent actor who allowed himself to get typecast because he was cute (in a very specific niche way).

I've heard good things about his Jeremy Thorpe (was not interested in the concept myself) and loved him in Paddington, and there was a recent one where he was playing someone very unpleasant and was apparently good with that too. And I'm sure I saw something about the Romantic poets made in 1987 or thereabouts. Google. Oh, apparently it was him in Maurice! He's played Chopin but that wasn't what I'm thinking of, nor is the Lair of the White Worm.

He was also in An Awfully Big Adventure which is chiefly notable for an entry scene by Alan Rickman that (without a word being said) made me slide off the settee and onto the floor.

Anyway, almost back on-topic:

There is so much wrong with Love Actually, but when Thomas Sangster first appeared on screen I actually cooed.

I'm sure I'll remember the things that annoy me once this thread is dead.

I see someone has already mentioned sliding doors but I rewatched this recently (first time in about 20 years). John Hannah is so annoying. The worst bit is right at the end when he and Gwyneth Paltrow have just resolved their huge and tearful misunderstanding (again, standing in the rain, pissed wet through - why, just why?!) and he says "permission to engage with the enemy" whilst going in for a snog. Presumably because he's so 'hilarious'. I felt rage I tell you.

That scene in The Holiday when Jack Black Says " Oh- accidental boob graze" while Kate Winslet giggles - VOM VOM VOM

Yes. Especially as he pronounces it 'boob grace'. I also hates that he kisses her twice and lingers the second time - he's meant to be in love with his girlfriend? Also the DVD shop is painful. But they have no chemistry whatsoever. Also, when Kate Winslet's stuck between the 2 women on the plane, just say 'Would you like to sit together?' (which they obviously would, being friends) and move to the aisle seat! While I'm bashing The Holiday, why does Cameron Diaz drive like a bloody lunatic? Surely, if you're driving in a foreign country, in snowy conditions, with oncoming cars scaring you, you SLOW THE FUCK DOWN! It's like she's got her foot rammed down on the accelerator. And yes to her just abandoning the dog.

As for Friends, the way Emily just nipped back over the Atlantic every few days. I know she's supposed to come from a wealthy family, but who even has the energy to fly internationally to visit their new boyfriend a couple of times a week? Also agree with whoever said Ross is happy to just let Emma go. But what really gets on my wick is Ben dropping out of existence after Emma comes along. Even if they couldn't think up a special storyline for them, at least mention him here and there. And the fact that Phoebe's 'real' parents are never really mentioned again, even though supposedly she develops a bit of a bond with her birth mother. Also, as lovely as it is that they always spend birthdays/Christmas/Thanksgiving together as a group, isn't it a bit sad for their families? Ross' parents bob along for Emma's birthday but Rachel's don't bother.

There was a film I saw once, I can't remember what it was now, (The day after tomorrow?) but one of those 'end of the world' films, where they were saving GIRAFFES. I mean, I love animals, giraffes are awesome and wonderful creatures, but if a handful of humanity are escaping the apocalypse wouldn't animals who take up less room/eat less/reproduce faster/be safer to handle/make good eating be rather more sensible?

For general films/TV though I agree wholeheartedly that it's ridiculous how unattractive men end up with beautiful women, but it's never vice versa.

Another niggle, one of the most irritating things ever is when a baddie feels the need to stand there for half an hour holding the goodies at gunpoint, telling them how he's going to kill them (and usually all the crimes he's committed, where the stolen loot is, who his connections are and where the headquarters is located - all very useful info for the cops when the goodies invariably escape) instead of just going ahead, pulling the trigger and getting it over with.

Vanilla Sky - cannot bear the way Cameron Diaz kisses Tom Cruise whilst they’re sat in the car. You can hear every slap of her lips and she’s got this creepy, dreamy expression while he looks like he’s being face raped.

All films with horses that have the sound of hoofbeats added on. They never get it right. Why don't they just record the actual sound and be done with it?

All action films where the character has to drive somewhere and park - firstly, how come they always manage to get a parking space right outside where they're going, and secondly, why do they never actually lock the car? They just jump out and dash off.

I watched My Best Friend's Wedding recently and Julia Roberts was really a class-A bitch and not much of a friend- but she was in wuv...

See also: Serendipity.

Obviously there has been a lot of mention of Love Actually, but it’s just so. damn. annoying. in so many ways that I’m going to weight in as well:

• YY to Keira ‘Ooh, I look quite pretty’ Knightley. Also all the coy lip biting. Just act like a fucking grown up. And take that awful hat off.

• Also Martine McCutcheon. No one says ‘piss it’, Martine.

• Most of all Colin for me, though - have to fast forward.

Emma Thompson is the exemption, obvs.

In every film where they sit down to eat a sumptuous meal, have one tiny teeny bite then leave the rest and go out. Who the fck makes an entire meal, eats one bite then leaves?

Love actually where Laura Linney leaves snogging the hot dude to speak to her brother on the phone. He’s in hospital - he’s safe. She doesn’t need to sacrifice her entire life for him fgs.

Zara’s death scene in Jurassic World (the babysitter). She didn’t seem that bad of a character and then to get that death!!

Anyone else seen 'Yesterday'?

Where do i start?

The Beatles have never existed but somehow The Fratellis, Radiohead and Ed Sheeran all do?! How the fuck would any of those bands / artists have existed if the Beatles hadn't?! And the only band that magically disappears because the Beatles never existed was Oasis! I feel like the writers had never even seen Back to the Future tbh. - And it's a Danny Boyle film ffs!

And what with the coke/cigarettes/harry potter disappearance subplot that was never explained?

Oh gawd - I hate Emma T in Love Actually.

And I hated every minute of The Holiday.

Has anybody mentioned Brokeback Mountain yet, and all the bleeding mumbling?

The whole Bridget Jones baby movie, where the hell was the midwife! Unless she went private, she wouldn’t have had a personal doctor. She would have been stuck in clinic with the rest of us with her urine sample!

Also, while we’re at it, Grey’s Anatomy! I’ve worked in healthcare many a year, and I’ve never seen a patient helped to mobilise by three docs post surgery!

My friends always thought I was weird that I hated anything by Richard Curtis. Glad to see I wasn't actually alone at that!

I can't watch any of the Fast and Furious films. Husband loves them; I cannot bear them at all. So ridiculous, and the acting is shit making the storylines even less believeable. I get angry watching them, so I don't anymore.

Nothing made me more livid though than Sigourney Weaver deigning to take part in The Assignment with Michelle Rodriguez. Male hitman is imprisoned and when he wakes up, he has undergone a sex change. After the usual action shit, 'she' (Michelle) ends up having a relationship with a casual shag buddy he knew as a man.

It was so bad. So, so bad.

I just thought of another Love Actually one. You know the bit where Emma T lightly says 'Doesn't mean I'm not terribly concerned that your wife just died' and later, 'Get a grip, no one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time'. That's just downright nasty. He lost the love of his life to cancer like a fucking week ago! If he was a half decent bloke he wouldn't even be wanting to think about shagging anyone. Yeah, also, the end of the film where he meets a new woman. I mean, I know his wife's been dead a whole month by then, but even so...