Couples waking up: Morning breath is never a thing either, they always seem to breathe all over each other without wanting to brush their teeth first. I'm not really cross about female characters waking up with a bra on though, or clutching a sheet or towel to their torso as actresses are pressured into too much nudity as it is. I'll put up with some unrealistic scenes if it gives actresses a more comfortable working environment.
Law enforcement officers or sometimes other people connected with law enforcement who aren't even meant to be tackling villains (profilers etc) so often end up confronting the baddie on their own, isolated in some rundown house or alley with no realistic chance of success. Why not take someone with you? Honestly it would be easier.
Silly horror movie tropes like 'it was only the cat' or 'let's split up' are so ubiquitous and well-known that filmmakers now use them ironically, and I think we've come to expect and even enjoy them, though maybe not, judging by the complaints on IMDB.
Filmmakers cannot show rats on film without a constant squeaking noise. But in reality rats are (apparently) quiet as most of their vocalisations are pitched too high for us to hear.
It is apparently illegal to film any nighttime scene out of doors without loud cricket sounds being played. I've often been out at night and not heard crickets but expect to be arrested for this shortly. 😁🦗
Always amuses me watching actors in meal scenes doing everything they can to avoid having to stick horrible food that's been out under hot lights in their mouths. Endless cutting motions and twiddling of forks and bringing a forkful of food halfway to their mouths and then moving it away whilst saying a line of dialogue. Warwick Davis said how nasty the food got in the Great Hall scenes in HP as they'd bring out the same food day after day..... smelly and quite lethal I'd imagine.
Actors are often much much too close together when there's a closeup of a conversation. When's the last time you talked to someone other than a partner/child with your face 3 inches away from theirs?
Stock sound effects or Foley sounds where kissing noises are magnified to unpleasant levels. Slurp slurp squeeeeeeeeeeech. Imagine if this was done regularly with chewing noises as well (of course it's sometimes done, but not every time any character eats). Meal scenes would be a horror when the actors were fake chewing.
@Tarkan 'Any time there's a soaring bald eagle and you hear the long screechy noise. That's not what a bald eagle sounds like.'
I've heard it in real life, very impressive sound! It's made by red-tailed hawks. Once saw a film or show where they played this sound in a dark forest at night for atmosphere and I thought 'what's this hawk doing out at night?'
@magicmole 'Am left wondering if it's the same for (say) Spanish speakers and they're shouting at the screen when people are meant to all be from the same family but are speaking completely different Spanish dialects.'
No expert on different kinds of Spanish but I do remember noticing that the Faun in Pan's Labyrinth (set in Spain) was mysteriously from Argentina.