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

Cups that a never filled and sound hollow when they're put down.

Morning sex 😷 neither of them have brushed their teeth so probably stink. Or when they get out of bed and get dressed without showering. Filthy bastards.

Oh and luggage, whenever there's luggage it always seems far too light.

How everybody seems to live next door to the airport/train/bus station...how else could they get there "just in time", taking into account traffic and parking?

Making up morse code translations.

‘Ginger is coming over the horizon what what’

When in reality it is psycho morse. Drives me nuts.

Never forgetting names! Same on tv shows, after a traumatic crime the character is introduced to 2 agents, a police officer, the safety inspector and a social worker and later on remember every single name and can address then confidentially and never go 'sorry agent what was it again?'

@HMSSophie That scene in Bridget Jones's Diary when she runs into the snow after Mark Darcy is one of the worst ones: Bridget is so obviously not cold, no shivering, no condensing breath to be seen. At least she is wearing trainers, rather than the heels women often wear for these scenes!

My other pet peeve is the way a doorbell or telephone always rings neatly after somebody finishes a sentence: they rarely interrupt anybody.

See tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfPerception for "Rule of Perception": effects which are deliberately added in, because audiences expect them.

Obviously fake snow.

The dubbed-on sound of horses' hooves not matching what they are actually doing.

Nobody ever needs to go to the toilet for its intended purpose.

The formulaic would-be-shag scenes that always go:

• Man & woman start snogging
• Man hoiks woman up to his waist
• Woman wraps legs around his waist
• Man staggers across to deposit the woman on to the nearest kitchen worktop.

In real life he'd put his back out, and she'd be swearing never to eat anything prepared in his kitchen...

When characters have an argument around the dinner table and usually one of them storms off leaving their food. Most real families aren't that dramatic and would carry on arguing or sit on moody silence into they'd finished eating.

SimonJT not a foreign language per se, but I was watching Highlander (the film) over lockdown, hadn't seen it for 20+years, when MacLeod introduces his sword as a Toledo Salamanca. It's literally just two unconnected Spanish cities.

Just lazy writing. Made Spanish DH and I laugh like drains, had to pause the film!

The empty take away coffee cups really annoy me, you can tell when they take a sip, there is nothing there, at least put some water in it or something.
Also when someone gives birth in films, it looks so fake, couple of pants and moans, boom baby is born!

Womens hair and make up never getting in a mess no matter what they go through.

Horror films - and i know they are just a fantasy, but - film makers are STILL making people:

• split up ''you go that way i'll go this way and ... '' well it's obvious isn't it?
• get up in the night to investigate noises without putting the lights on
• get up in the night to investigate noises without telling their partner
• go into the barn/loft/basement alone when there's already creepy shit happening
• stand with their back to open doors to dark areas when there's creepy shit happening
• go out of the house to investigate creepy shit and leave the house door wide open behind them
• not get in the car and just drive away when there's creepy shit happening
• not believe their children when they say creepy shit is going on
• put the kids back to bed alone when creepy shit is going on

I love a good horror. But for the love of god these cliches are SO old now.

Clumsy, crappy incidental music that's meant to either signpost how the character is feeling, or to manipulate the viewer's emotions. So annoying once you've noticed it, it can ruin a movie for me.

Agree with just hanging up without saying bye, same with just walking away from people after a conversation without saying bye.

When they lie on their bed or sofa in shoes.

Everyone had sex under the covers and emerges at end out of breath, in their bra like they have been playing a strange peekaboo marathon.

Someone sat next to me continuously picking holes in the plot

Anyone speaking a foreign language. They manage really complex sentence and then say 'what is this?' (insert any very common word you would learn in the first lesson)

Look up The Bechdel test which shows how little women are given dialogue in films even if they are main characters. Men tend to talk about activities and jobs etc women are more likely to talk about men and relationships.

Not a film but in The Walking Dead and other zombie films, the men look like shit but the woman have amazing eyebrows and manage to top up their lip fillers even years after the zombies have ravaged the earth. Where are the women with their Gallagher eyebrows and moustaches!!?? X

Scenes that are clearly not filmed where the film is set
The Crown was in the news for this recently. Australians were saying Australia looked rather Spanish in one of the scenes! (Filmed before the Pandemic

Gym toned bodies and faces made up in a contemporary way in period dramas.

Pregnancy is a breeze. No woman is running to be sick every half an hour or needing to pee several times a night

Birth...

Water goes, “oh no I’m in labour”..and then the baby is born not long after

Rarely like that in real life

When anyone throws up, they have their hands and often whole arms all over the toilet bowl.

Older men with younger women, but rarely the other way round.
They rarely cast a 40/50/60 year old man alongside a partner of the same age.

@Tallpaulwho

Driving but never looking at the road.

It’s because they tow the car on a low loader and film them pretending to drive. Apparently, not many actors can do it convincingly. When you think about it, I can see why.