What scenes annoy you in TV shows/films?

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For me it's when the police or FBI screech up to the "perp's" house, sometimes in a hostage situation, with sirens and lights blaring thereby announcing their arrival to the bad guy. Criminal Minds does this every week.

And when characters speaking on the phone hang up without saying bye

It was blu tacked at the top, the poster just fell that way, it wasn't going to roll up? It had been there for years!!

I really think you have gone too far by criticizing that movie, I am going to report your post.

I'm sure it was blu tacked at the bottom, too.

at reporting the post!

It was pulled tight, and blue tacked at the bottom too. It hadn't been there for years, he pulled it back every day to dig a bit.

Americans driving "stick" always shows an obligatory gear change shot. Why?

Also, how in sex scenes do they always manage to orgasm at the same time? Is it easy to do as we've never managed to do that.

FBI/NCIS/Bones any other American law enforcement show always put out a BOLO and then they find the person. How do they all remember all the BOLOs they are looking for? There must be thousands everyday.
YY to the stumbling around in the dark with a torch when you have just screeched up in a dozen police cars with the sirens blaring - they know you are there just put the bloody light on.
Glorified cops who insist on being called agent soandso (or special agent or detective)and get sniffy at officer or Mr, and they say Brits are obsessed with titles.
Stuff set in the 17th or 18th century when they all have perfect teeth.

When someone has a cut face, and a family member sits them at the kitchen table with the first aid kit and a small bowl of water to bathe the cut with cotton wool balls, accompanied by lots of wincing from the victim. Why the bowl of water, why not just use the tap?

Enhancing the grainy photo that was taken from a mile away in the dark. Just press a few keys and suddenly you can see a thumb print on a gnats arse.

In crime scene/ cop shows they never put on the latex gloves, they hold the glove and use that to pick up something, it would be so much less awkward to just put on the bloody glove!

CSi Whatever - why do the tech's never have booties on at a crime scene, why are they flicking their long hair everywhere, why aren't they wearing giant all in one coveralls so as not to contaminate the evidence?

A 'symbolic' knocking over of a photo. And the glass in the frame breaks usually the photo features a happy couple who've just broken up or something.
Thins always bugs me. It's just a photo frame it can be replaced for £2.50 in asda. The photo isn't broken.

I'm sure it was blu tacked at the bottom, too

Somehow, I don't think they even had blu tack back then.

Even more of a reason to think its a bollocks inconsistency donemek

The amount of pub drinks that relatively poorly off people seem able to afford in soap operas-including constantly buying drinks for other characters.

And re soaps snice I remember in Eastenders years ago Mark and his wife (Ruth?) embarked on fostering. They got their first foster child after a lengthy process and much on-screen emoting. So foster-child arrives, and that evening they are both in the pub! Wouldn't you think that if you had a foster child just move in with you that day, you might spend a bit of time helping them settle in, reading them a bed time story etc on the first night? Not dump them with professional lemon-sucker Pauline Fowler and piss off down the pub.

Every TV detective who ever lived will never manage to eat an actual meal. As soon as they sit at the table with a lovely plate of food in front of them, their mobiles will ring and they'll have to go into their 'I don't believe it!' routine with lots of huffing, puffing and rueful grimacing.

Also (and I've said this before on a similar thread) US films are particular offenders in scenes showing characters driving along typical, long, straight American roads. They're pretty much guaranteed to start wrenching the steering-wheel around as though they're negotiating a hairpin bend.

All police procedures followed in Hawaii 5 0. And why is the police woman dressed in skinny jeans and halter neck tops all the time. You're at work, love.

On soaps when they get lovely flowers or chocolates and just throw them in the bin because they are mad at whoever gave them.

When they throw incriminating evidence in the bin and leave it in full view at the top for someone to find. Just shove it under all the other crap FFS!

CSI- Put The Lights On! When you enter that house/warehouse/your office fgs there is a light switch right there.
CSI Miami- why are these detectives who work around blood, grime and fingerprint powder all dressed in pale pastel colours?

When I was a teenager, the lengths producers would go to to avoid teenage couples having premarital/illicit sex was annoying. It meant Scott and Charlene had to get married at 16, and Wicksy had to sleep in a chair just so that he could be around in the morning for Sharon to explain that she wasn't ready. And Damon had to run away every time he was in the same room as Debbie for more than about 30 seconds.

These days I look back and am quite touched by all this.

A woman (always a woman) closes a door and then leans her back against it to show contemplative face to camera.

No one EVER does this. Try it yourself and see how unnatural and awkward it is. In films, it usually follows "significant" conversation with man outside the front door/office door/bedroom door.

When the police arrest the guilty person who has carried out horrific crimes and is evil personified and within two seconds they have a full and frank confession, because a person as bad as that would just breakdown and confess the minute they set foot in a police interview room.

As another pp said when the bad guy has the good guy at his mercy and then launches into a long spiel detailing all the whys and wherefores allowing our hero to escape or talk the baddie round. In reality they would do as Tuco advised in 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' - when you come to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

Not putting lights on, going outside in the dark leaving the front door open coming back in and locking it having let the bad guy in and you are now locked in there with him.

When male dectectives wear a 3 peice suit and possible a coat like it -3 c but female co-star will be wearing tiny shorts and vest top.

When films have the wife cooking stacks loads of food and a huge never eat that in a month of Sunday's salad, then proceed to have s tiny leaf each.

Ditto huge breakfast and breakfast tables all laid out , who really eats 800 calories for breakfast?

No one ever has their period so whenever they met the love of their life/one night stand they can jump into bed and be ready for action.

I never see anyone locking car doors they just saunter off without a care.

When people decorate.. ooh we'll just wear our best clothes paint each others noses and roll around the floor having sex. Yeah that gets the room painted.

Miraculous recoveries from serious illnesses.

Also the way in soapland that people have a really difficult time and suddenly remember they have a grandma/aunt/best mate in some sunny far off location and just jet off there to get over it. Then return with their job/housing/child's education completely unaffected by it.

Similarly, the way people appear in soapland to visit some distant relative or long lost friend then decide to stay there with no apparent repercussion from wherever they were living/working before.

Also, there are no credit ratings, people go from being completely skint and in debt to being perfectly ok and get a new mortgage/rental/car immediately when they have money again.

When the someone is trying to escape someone else (although they haven't seen them yet) and they run madly through the crowds, shoving people out of the way. Surely if they walked normally, and possibly popped into a shop/took off their hat/coat/bag, they wouldn't be so obvious and could just cruise past?

HeartsTrumps that's known as Batman parking around our place - cos Batman always gets the park directly outside. I'm a bit jammy for that one and DP always wants to know if I've "got my Batman undies on" when we go out and are looking for parking.