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    Things that bother you in movies and shows

    They never use a mouse. Something needs to be manoeuvred remotely, like shutting down a hatch in a dam or switching train tracks, they always hammer away on the keyboard like they're writing the code from scratch. It's on the screen, clickable you donkey.

    How they drink beer. Never like normal people. Always filling their mouth, puffing up the cheeks like a hamster, then swallowing. It's not mouth wash, it's beer. If you can't drink it properly stay away from beer.

    Rhyming in conversations. This seems to be a very American thing because you see it in non-fiction as well where people rhyme two words to come across cool and like they've just written a new great american novel.
    - Rack'em, stack'em and pack'em
    - You need to keep cool not to be the fool
    - Fake it til you make it
    Any crap will do it seems, as long as it rhymes.

    #2
    Generally, how people always have money, even with no visible means of support.

    Specifically, how people always have enough cash on them for any given situation, and no one ever says 'hold on, I'll have to go to the cash point over the road'.

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      #3
      Mechanics.

      In most soap operas, there are at least three qualified car mechanics living on the same small street, be it Coronation St, Albert Square or Lindenstrasse.

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        #4
        Drinking coffee. They neck it like schnapps, but never swallow it.

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          #5
          Watching television. Nobody, particularly in soap operas, appears to watch soap operas.

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            #6
            .

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              #7
              In procedurals. Some one is murdered. It is snowing. Case gets to trial. Still snowing. getting any case to trial takes a lot longer than that.

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                #8
                Jimmy Stewart the other day managed to get someone who had served 11 years, out from life in prison before the bloke's kid had a birthday. It was based on a true story but I don't believe they told the truth there.

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                  #9
                  When someone finds the evidence that someone is innocent they're released the next day, no retrial or appeal

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                    #10
                    Why do you never see anyone taking a shit? Everyone must have impacted bowels.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View Post
                      Why do you never see anyone taking a shit? Everyone must have impacted bowels.
                      Do you really want to see Phil Mitchell take a dump? His head might go more purple than usual.

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                        #12
                        Wasn't there that notorious Crossroads scene in which Miss Diane had a dump on Schughie McFee's foot?

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                          #13
                          Lethal Weapon II had a scene right after or before he took a dump.

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                            #14
                            Real beer drinking in Ice Cold in Alex, though. John Mills got through several glasses before they finished the scene.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Pietro Paolo Virdis View Post
                              They never use a mouse. Something needs to be manoeuvred remotely, like shutting down a hatch in a dam or switching train tracks, they always hammer away on the keyboard like they're writing the code from scratch. It's on the screen, clickable you donkey.
                              Real Developers Use Keyboards. Powershell, command line, done.

                              However, on a related note: The sound of keys clicking versus what is actually typed.

                              *five seconds of clicking, indicating typee has just done the first chapter of War and Peace
                              Screen: LOGIN.

                              Honestly. It's like the million footsteps in late 60s James Bond movies.

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                                #16
                                Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View Post
                                Why do you never see anyone taking a shit? Everyone must have impacted bowels.
                                Here ("Les Babas Cool", a French comedy (1981) about a middle-class, stuck-up man – the one on the toilet, Christian Clavier – who stumbles upon a hippie commune in the Ardèche and discovers their strange and uninhibited ways, such as no locks in the toilets and people casually talking to you while you’re having a shit. Hippie communes were common in the Ardèche and a few other places in France in the 1960s-70s, hence the film).

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                                  #17
                                  My pet hate is no-one ever locks their car. And they can always park it right outside the important location.

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                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by Eggchaser View Post
                                    Real beer drinking in Ice Cold in Alex, though. John Mills got through several glasses before they finished the scene.
                                    I love John Mills a little more after reading that. Even if he’s indirectly responsible for fuckin Kula Shaker.

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                                      #19
                                      John Mills can't be held responsible for that lot. Just as John Wayne can't be held responsible for that mouse with t*ts on The Monte Carlo Show...

                                      But anyway, shouldn't these posts have been incorporated into that ongoing 'TV/movie clichés' thread elsewhere?

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                                        #20
                                        Not all clichés are annoying.

                                        I hate it that barely anyone finishes a meal. Just get up and walk away from that plateful of food...

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                                          #21
                                          Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View Post
                                          Why do you never see anyone taking a shit? Everyone must have impacted bowels.

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                                            #22
                                            When someone is searching in a drawer for something in a film/TV show they always just quickly pull out the drawer and shove a few things out of the way, and that's the end of their search.

                                            The thing they're looking for could easily actually be in the drawer and it does my head in that they don't look properly.

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                                              #23
                                              Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View Post
                                              Why do you never see anyone taking a shit? Everyone must have impacted bowels.
                                              Han: The bog's back there, Princess. But I'd give it ten minutes if I were you, Chewie's just been in there.

                                              Chewie: RAAAOOAAGH!!

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                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View Post
                                                Not all clichés are annoying.

                                                I hate it that barely anyone finishes a meal. Just get up and walk away from that plateful of food...
                                                ...which was a point that I made early on in that previous thread!

                                                It is annoying though. Especially in soaps or dramas where the bar/restaurant/whatever is going to be a continuing focal point of the action.

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                                                  #25
                                                  Image enhancement in "action" films, where a shitty photo can always be improved to show the mole on someone's cheek or where a satellite image can somehow be resolved to show a license plate. Also, how there's always a satellite exactly where these people want it looking exactly at the right location (with no cloud cover). It's such a lazy plot device as well as being obviously wrong.

                                                  (I also tend to hate most "computer" stuff, where the token tech-nerd in a show is somehow competent at absolutely everything, in every language and architecture, at network hacking and coding and any other vaguely tech related things, and can hack into any system anywhere and control it almost immediately, yet when they copy a small list of names it takes 2 minutes and there's a huge bar in the middle of the screen telling you the percentage of the thing that's been transferred. And so on, and so forth).

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