Things that irrationally annoy you in films?

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

Always annoys me

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

We should get our dhs together, @PoppyOppy - mine is just as bad. They can enjoy themselves critiquing all the little details, while we drink gin and ignore them!

You're on! I'll bring chocolate, too.

Someone moves in with colleagues and all their stuff fits in a large duffle bag over their shoulder.

Another one is pretending to drink something when it is so obvious the mug is empty.

Nobody ever needs the toilet. Car chases and getaways and they always seem to have a full tank of petrol that never runs out

Sex scenes where no contraception is discussed or used. There's no fumbling for a condom, just straight down to it and consequences be damned! Similarly when people have sex straight after a long day at work or a night out - don't any of them have a sweaty crotch that needs a quick freshen up first??

Also films where there is a time limit on something (like a bomb is about to go off in 30 seconds) and the characters stand chatting or having a heart to heart instead of running away/doing what they need to do!

Gratuitous neighing. Horses don't generally neigh while walking/trotting along. Or being led into/out of a stable.

We can see that it is a horse. No need to hammer home the point with an unrealistic sound effect

Whenever a man is being attacked by a baddie and is in serious need of help, the female character isn't allowed to intervene until her male co star is in the verge of death. I'm quite sure if someone was beating the living daylights out of my son, id take my chances and smash the baddies face in.

Christmas Rom-Coms set in twee American small towns with Christmassy-names, a wise stranger that looks like Santa and lots of snow.

People drinking out of empty cups.

Practically all children in movies are 12 and under. No one has a stroppy 15 year old.

When people ply electric guitars in movies/music vids and there are no cables connecting the guitar to the amp.

When extras interact with the main cast, but just nod vigorously, or take off to do their bidding without a word. It makes me laugh, because I think background actors need to be paid more if they're given any lines to speak, so it's just the producers being tight .

Oh, and I n detective dramas, there's usually a scene in which the head of the investigation briefs a full room, then says something like "Tony, I want you on CCTV; Janet, can you check out his alibi? Right, let's get to work!" The whole team rushes off busily, but how on earth do the rest of them know what they're supposed to be doing?

Sex with their bra on.

Or they get up from bed after six with their knickers on.

Women “waking up” in the morning with a full face of make up!

I also spend a time thinking? “What have they done with their children?!”

When people are driving and they're wobbling the steering wheel. The car should be doing little zig-zags down the road! David Boreanaz in Bones is the worst for that.

Also any film involving archery and someone says "Fire!". You don't fire an arrow, you Muppet, you loose it.

Dance films where they don't cast dancers. And even when they do, the woman inevitably fails to prep her feet properly for pointe work (in spite of apparently being at a major professional dance school) and winds up with bleeding feet.

Period pieces where all the cars are clean as whistles.
Not finishing off the baddie when you have the chance.
House using his walking stick on the wrong side.

Drinking out of obviously empty cups! How hard would it be to put some water in them!
And age gaps that don't add up.
Disproportionate amounts of slim attractive women too!

Oh and pregnant women always go into labour really suddenly and dramatically often with waters breaking. No slight twinges on and off and wondering if this could be labour or not for a few hours / days 😂

Actresses with fringes that cover their eyes.
Cups of tea that are barely half full.
Actors who apparently leave luggage on trains (Grace Kelly in High Noon at the end of the film - couldn’t concentrate on the drama for wondering about her bags on the train)
Then there is the lack of lights when someone is obviously in danger.

PS Background music or sounds which interfere with speech.

I have loads and most of them have already been mentioned;

Drivers not watching the road
People not turning lights on when the go int a house
People not finishing meals - someone said earlier about a character will hand cook a huge breakfast and the other characters will just come in take a bit and rush out again, who has the time to cook breakfast on a work day?
Baddies patiently taking their turn to fight the good guy.
In action films people sustaining life changing or life threatening injuries just get up and continue running.
If someone does get an injury its an artfully positioned graze to highlight the actor's beautiful cheekbones.
Doctors in hospitals who apparently do everything, deliver the baby, perform open heart surgery, stitch up the nasty cut, dispense the medicine and discharge the patient.

Making a phone call and it being answered immediately meaning the other person must have had the phone in their hand at the time. Then they never say goodbye at the end of the call which is just fucking rude.

When people are running away from something falling . eg a tree, and running along the path that the tree is falling into. Run to the side idiots- the tree is not suddenly going to fall in a different direction.

Any scene where the actor shouts "hiiiYAH!" while performing a fake karate pose/strike.

And scenes where multiple, presumably trained, police officers/marksmen are trying to shoot one bad guy but all miss, and then then hero dispatches the bad guy with one shot.

Oh and seen a lot on the Big Bang Theory- meals for two people where enough food for at least 10 has been set out on the table.

I don't know which I dislike more, bad accents or actors who stick to their own accents when playing a foreign character, both are very distracting.

Women stranded on desert islands or in jungles are perfectly waxed smooth and manicured with not a hair out of place and perfectly clean teeth.

@Shodan

Oh and seen a lot on the Big Bang Theory- meals for two people where enough food for at least 10 has been set out on the table.

I noticed that on an episode of Designated Survivor too Shodan, enough Chines takeaway for the whole department for two people...... they didn't eat any of it.

Oh yes the food thing is always ridiculous. Stick thin women with groaning cupboards and fridges, full of food. Thin and healthy DCs being prepared massive cooked breakfasts as a matter of course.

Huge banquets appearing on a table, but kitchen is not carnage and smiling women who also have a demanding professional career have prepared this. The children then eat what is provided without complaint, and nobody but nobody ever goes to the toilet before or afterwards unless it's to wash their hands.

@emilybrontescorsett

Whenever a man is being attacked by a baddie and is in serious need of help, the female character isn't allowed to intervene until her male co star is in the verge of death. I'm quite sure if someone was beating the living daylights out of my son, id take my chances and smash the baddies face in.

You'd like Bad Samaritan. The female "victim" thwacks the bad guy round the head with a shovel and says "That's how you rescue someone asshole!" to the drippy male lead. Unfortunately you have to put up with David Tennant pretending to be American the whole time.