Things that irrationally annoy you in films?

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I’ll start

Brand new baby born...size of a 3 month old, wide awake and smiling

Always annoys me

Dr Karl Fucking Kennedy used to piss me right off in neighbours...

Bog standard GP yet was performing brain surgery one day, delivering a baby the next, administering chemotherapy... ridiculous!

Also Pando taking his fucking pants off all the time in Bing!!!

Oooh good topic....

Female superheroes/supervillains with ridiculous pneumatic breasts (that don't move, even when their owner is backflipping over trucks and leaping across canyons.)

Characters who live in uptown city apartments, Kensington mews etc that they could never afford in a million years on a waitress/delivery guy/junior copywriter salary

Anything where the lead character runs a cupcake bakery....

And having a landline phone next to your bed.

I have never ever met a single person that keeps a landline next to their bed.

The thing that annoys me themost is when women [and it usually is] take off their glasses they go from nerd to drop dead gorgeous.

Same vein, Superman his disguise is a pair of glasses.
And the side parting in his hair.He parts his hair on a different side for Clark Kent/Superman.

@BatleyTownswomensGuild

And having a landline phone next to your bed.

I have never ever met a single person that keeps a landline next to their bed.

I do!

I do too! Well, it’s in DH’s side.

My parents did.

Jack Black in the Holiday. Its one of my favourite films but I hate him in it. He seems wrong for the part. I have to shout at him every time I watch it. Really irritating!

How medieval people are always sparkling clean.
How cowboys are never dirty.
How people always find a parking space right outside their door or the shop

Everyone always goes for drinks after work. No one just dashes off as they have to pick up the kids etc.

Stunningly attractive individuals who are, apparently, struggling with everyday life like everyone else - NO ..... I do not believe it, if you are stunningly attractive people fall over themselves to be your friend, hire you for the job, give you the break, get a date - Julia Roberts for one.

This annoys me about tv progs - wildlife progs about Scotland which never include a monster windturbine or a windfarm in the distance or a run of giant electricity pylons - come on film makers, be honest, they are everywhere!!

I've been watching a lot of Asian dramas.

They never turn off the light when they go to bed. Never. I mean if there's going to be some romantic action fair enough we might need the light, but scenes when they're just getting into bed to sleep or lie there talking then sleep, light on in full.

It drives me potty.

They have so many situations where people are jilted at the alter. Does that ever happen in RL?

YES, happened to my poor aunt in 1942. She went on to lead a busy but single life

Much ground covered already! I get what you say about the dogs. I was watching a drama the other day set in the early 80s in London, and the criminal had a Staffordshire bull terrier. Both my husband and I remember German Shepherds being the dog of choice amongst ThugLife in those days.

Woman having the sheet all the way over their boobs and the man only up to his waist to show off his magnificent pecs.

American films and TV having a British villain. Is it the accent?

When you've read the book and the film is vastly different. Or dumbed down.

Overplay of British awkwardness. I'm looking at you, Hugh Grant.

They never turn off the light when they go to bed.
And if they do,the room is still really bright.

@thismeansnothing

One flick of a light switch on the wall and ALL the lights in the room switch on. Side lights, table lamps, every single one.

A lot of lamps and side lights are wired up to a main light switch in America though so that is realistic

Star / planet charts that are stationary / on paper.

If you have the tech too be flying between planets then you should have the tech to show planets moving and that flight times' are going to vary.

Entire planets that are icy, or jungle or desert but have people living there. OK I suppose with jungle you have food and water but on an ice planet?

I have never ever met a single person that keeps a landline next to their bed.

I did. In the days before mobiles.

When my mum was ill I got a set of 2 cordless phones so that my parents could have one upstairs

All the cops and baddies in films can easily leap over high fences.

@TwoDrifters2

When a character is on the phone trying to find something out and they pause for all of two seconds whilst the person at the other end presumably speaks, then they hang up and say: “Yeah they know the guy, his name is Brandon Willoughby and he usually hangs out at a bar called The Prancing Pony on Thursdays after work. They say if we get going now he’ll probably be there. He’s wearing a green flannel shirt and he drives a red Pontiac”. The other person literally had time to say yes or no.

Do I detect a Tolkien fan? And the side parting in his hair.He parts his hair on a different side for Clark Kent/Superman. I never noticed that-I did notice in Superman 2 that he stood up straighter when he 'revealed' himself to Lois at Niagara Falls.

Yes there was an odd mix of Tolkien and Austen in my post wasn’t there

All sex scenes. I just find them so uncomfortable to watch, even with my husband. If I'm alone, I fast forward through them. I'm not prudish, I just don't see the point. They're never original or interesting, they never develop the plot in any meaningful way, they're just pointless.

"How medieval people are always sparkling clean."

And the women always have shaved legs/pits.

Talking of wedding scenes. Someone will object to the wedding proclaiming their love for the groom/bride after a few seconds the bride/groom will fall into the new persons arms and the jilted bride/groom will just shrug and accept it. They then kiss and all the guests break out into applause. Then they carry on as normal and the vicar marries the new couple. So realistic!
Also it never rains on anyone’s wedding day or blows a gale force wind. It’s always warm and sunny and still.

Sex scenes... they add nothing to the storyline.

@FunkBus

"How medieval people are always sparkling clean."

And the women always have shaved legs/pits.

Or if the characters have been stranded somewhere for ages the women are all hair free with shaped eyebrows, and the men have groomed beards.