Entire plot lines hinging on people not explaining themselves which would take about 5 seconds.
The idiot plot.
Animes abuse this trope all the time. Plot only happens because MC don’t say what he wants/feels.
I think it’s more the miscommunication trope, which is kind of a sub-trope of the idiot plot
Great video by osp on the topic if you prefer to consume your information that way.
So… every season of Bridgerton?
Wait you think that’s unrealistic? Tell me you’re single without telling me you’re single
I’m a software engineer, so basically anything involving software/hacking. It’s always inaccurate. (Because accurate hacking is incredibly boring.)
Mr Robot has some pretty accurate hacking and social engineering in it.
I’ve never seen that one. I think that’s my new favorite line.
Mr. Robot
So you don’t type 90 wpm your way into the mainframe for work? You might need chew some more gum and change your laptop theme to black and green.
No, you need two people typing on the same keyboard to prevent a hacker from infiltrating their system.
People driving while staring intently at their passenger for way too long.
I have vague memories as a kid of my dad doing this IRL and my mom occasionally telling him to look at the road. But idk if I just made up the memories or not. I guess my point is maybe these people do exist out there? Lol!
Bad physics. Totally pulls me out of immersion.
No, Captain America cannot lean back and hold a helicopter that is lifting off. It doesn’t matter how strong he is - he will be lifted once there is enough force generated from the propellers. Basically anything Batman does that involves gravity in the Nolan films is similar.
The magic I can get behind. The mutant stuff or dragons or even time travel in superhero movies doesn’t bother me. It’s the lack of sensible mechanics on an alleged Earth that I’m bothered by.
Maybe Captain America’s real power is that he is really heavy.
Variable density would be a really convenient (but weird) super power
Only way to explain Thor hammer that can’t be lifted by others
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Freaking Gravity…
If the railing was strong enough, seems possible.
Yes! This seems like the right movie. For a few seconds before he grabs the pole, he does just lean back, right? That is the part that concerns me the most. At least this in the image seems doable if somebody is cap strong and angry.
I don’t think he’s able to stop it by just leaning, I thought it was pulling him along.
Edit: yeah, doesn’t look like he’s stopped it till he grabs into the railing. https://youtu.be/1ccey7IJLCM
He isn’t heavy enough to make that much of a difference before he grabs the ledge, is he? If the helicopter can manage lift, his 200 lbs shouldn’t make that much difference. It’s the part before he grabs the ledge that bothers me in this clip
Concussions. Especially when they are used as plot vehicles where someone is knocked out, and they wake up in a jail cell or whatever.
If you got hit THAT hard on the head that you’re unconscious and unresponsive for hours? You are going to wake up dizzy, nauseated, and disoriented with a huge headache, loss of motor control, and a disorienting tinnitus. Possibly permanently. Your brain swelled up and cut off blood flow. You might look like a stroke victim. You will not wake up, rub your head, then pick a lock in a dark room and construct a bomb with a gum wrapper and a smoke detector battery. You will weep, vomit, and be unable to walk straight until you get real medical attention.
Some action stars get knocked out almost every episode. I think MacGyver would have been mentally incapacitated after just a few shows.
Im not a medical professional, but I thought if someone was knocked out for mote than a few minutes there’s a good chance they just wont wake up again?
It’s a probability thing. It’s used as a proxy indication of the severity of the concussion. A person who can’t stay awake after a head injury is an immediate rush to the trauma room, they probably have internal bleeding and their brain tissue is dying.
Duh. Magruber is cannon. It makes sense now.
It really really bothers me when a character puts something down, and then walks away without picking it up, especially if they show them with it again later.
Something not so small that bothers me is when a victim is running from a bad guy or monster and then happens to knock them down, like with a baseball bat or something, and then they just take off running again. Fucking finish the job, you dumb ass! Hit him a few more times and he won’t catch up to you again in 30 seconds when you unsurprisingly trip over your own feet.
Similarly when they walk in the house but don’t shut the front door again, or open the fridge but never close it. I’m like waiting the whole scene to get back to that and missed the entire dialogue.
Right? Act like normal people, you hooligans!
Just watched an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. In the episode, the ship’s security officer, La’An, enters the bedroom of Khan Noonien-Singh when he is a small child. Proceeds to put a loaded gun down on his desk, have a conversation, then leaves the room. You’re the chief security officer, and you just left a loaded gun in a child’s bedroom!
Yeesh! That’s lazy directing.
I work in the film business. Im one of the on set tech worker bees and the thing that annoys me most in movies is making them. What a shit industry. In the past +5 years of so, it has really gone down Hill. I’m an IATSE member and year after year these big studios have taken everything from us, refused to give reasonable raises, even if only to keep up with inflation, and the daily production demands get bigger and bigger, putting so much pressure on the crews. On top of all that, they brag about setting record profits every year while pretending to be shooting a huge film on a shoestring budget. I hate it and I’ve been trying to get into another industry but it’s so hard. It’s hard for me to enjoy movies anymore because I’m so resentful. I work on the big big stuff too so it’s not like I’m getting screwed over my little indie shit stain prod cos. These are the jobs people dream of and it’s not what you think it is and everyone hates it once they get here. It’s not the work itself though, it’s those you work for. Ignorant peanut counters and the precious shareholders ruin everything.
Um excuse me OP said minor, not what are the life crushing things that annoy you about movies.
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To be fair what you’ve described is just about what any public facing for profit business is heading for lately it seems. Your experience is not dissimilar to mine in engineering.
Characters repeatedly “dying” but then surviving again. That’s why I liked game of thrones so much when I first watched it
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Haha fair enough you got me there
This is so important! People like to be surprised by inciting incidents, not by the consequences of them. Showing a character dying and then not having them die is a good way to make the audience think you’re lying when you’re not.
Game of thrones, feels like a kid whimsically thought about a classical story then killed the main characters. Everyone would normally think it’s too immature for a story. Instead it became one of the most watched shows. Except the “killing off characters” thing ,the show was well made.
Lots of scenes with two parties exchanging gunfire, often with like full machine guns, no one’s wearing ear protection, and they’re always urgently yelling shit at some teammate standing right next to them.
Even though they’re yelling, the only thing the dude you’re talking to is going to hear is “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE” cuz his ears are now FUCKED.
Many people don’t realize how loud guns are. Shooting a rifle without hearing protection is physically painfull. I don’t get how people who’ve been to war are able to hear anything after that.
Even as someone who spends a good amount of time at the range, I never thought of this until Bill Burr did that bit about why he has a smaller pistol for home.
It didn’t ruin John Wick, but any of the indoor scenes, especially the one where they’ll have low gravely emotionally loaded dialogue… I have a hard time suspending my disbelief.
Characters needing to talk “privately” when in a location with others. The solution is always to take a few steps in one direction. They’re still clearly within easy hearing range of anyone who isn’t massively hard of hearing. Yet apparently the other characters in the room all just go temporarily deaf.
Conversely, people talking to each other in normal voices in a loud environment - e.g. a concert venue or club.
I really fucking hate this too
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*insert Wilhelm scream
I was going to mention this. This squeaky metal door/gate noise is so overused in the XFiles that if I hear it in a movie today, I want to walk away. It’s been 30 years! Get a new door sound.
Holy shit, I know exactly what sound you are talking about and it’s more than just XFiles. I never really watched XFiles, and I know what noise you are talking about. this one! . I can’t even find a name for it.
That’s the Willhelm Scream of hinge noises
Okay so there is also a wilhelm scream of police radio chatter. Its a female voice that trails off. Its the sound that plays when you click on a police station in simcity 2000. Ive never been able to figure out what the voice says but its in so many tv shows and movies.
If anyone knows, please… help.
I was watching Generation Kill, absolutely immersed because it’s amazing, then all of a sudden I’m hearing the baby cry from an interlude track on Ænima by Tool. I’ve listened to that album countless times so that was very very weird and distracting
“Dr. Davis, telephone please. Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair. Dr. J. Hamilton, Dr. J. Hamilton…”
There is a specific growling sound that I hear in movies sometimes that I’m sure I’ve heard in WoW and the original Doom.
Ooh gun shot sounds from 80 movies were a bang. Doesn’t matter if Clint Eastwood is in far west or 80 LA, they are the same sounds.
I’d laugh my ass off if an actor racked a slide, or pumped a shotgun, and it kicked out a round because it was already loaded.
Big Trouble in Little China. Russell racks out about an entire mag of rounds punctuating sentences throughout the sewer scene. Still love that movie, tho!
I don’t think anyone making movies understands how guns work. I’ve seen people in movies chamber rounds 5 times as if to intimidate. If you did that in real life, you’d just be wasting ammo by expelling 4 rounds out of the side of the chamber.
It also bugs me when people are shooting an obvious 8 or 10 round pistol and fire off 30 rounds without ever having to reload.
John Wick, of course, deserves a mention. Despite being a superhuman badass, with really nice guns, he still deals with malfunctions.
Ever seen The Way of the Gun? Crazy movie, but the gun play is spot on. If you blink you’ll miss it, but in one scene Benicio Del Toro casually clears a stove piped 12-gauge.
(And after all these years, I just realized the title basically means, “live by the sword, die by the sword”.)
Ever seen The Way of the Gun? Crazy movie, but the gun play is spot on
That’s a great movie. I never see it mentioned anywhere
Ex-wife and I used to randomly download whatever off TPB. 2-minutes in, we were like, “WTF is this?!” LOL, just that opening scene is enough to suck you in.
“Shut that cunts mouth or I’ll come over there and fuck start her head!”
The random downloads were also how we saw Taken before it hit theatres. Thought we were tripping when we saw ads for it 3-weeks later.
When hackers/IT people in a movie have a fully mobilzed datacetner/networking/rack gear they’ve seemingly configured in a matter of minutes or hours, not days or weeks. Forget stabilizing custom software, too. It just works. AND you can hack any protocol with it!
When hackers/IT people in a movie work in a room that has a bunch of server racks blinking away and it’s not 90db of whirring fan noise. Datacenters are LOUD.
And it would be so hot as well. Server racks expel uncomfortable heat. Without an industrial sized HVAC system your improvised datacenter would become a sauna in a matter of minutes. There’s a reason datacenter would be a warehouse sized fridge if it wasn’t for the extreme heat that the server racks output. You need thick coats to enter those places for how cold they are, but only because they’re battling the heat from all those chips and other electronics.
People obviously fake-playing musical instruments. Either get a double who can play it or have a pro spend a few hours a day with the actor for 2 weeks to get them to at least have the basics down enough to look somewhat convincing.
On the flip side of this, I noticed “master of puppets” in last season of stranger things was a small bit different. Our boy Eddie was playing it.
Nobody in film seems to understand motorcycles. I’m tired of seeing sport bikes rumble like cruisers, Im tired of seeing 4-stroke bikes sounding like two-strokes, and people riding open-piped cruisers jn situations where they need to be quiet. There was that recent attempt at cashing in on Indiana Jones, set in the late 1940’s, and someone is riding a bike with fuel injection, overhead valves, and disc brakes. I’ve seen it too many times where an “old bike” was needed and it’s obvious someone bought a Softail off craigslist and expected that nobody would notice the difference between a ten year old bike and a 70 year old bike.
Just take all that and substitute horse for motorcycle. Though it is nice to occasionally actually see someone who can ride.
Man do I hate it when they ride a horse with fuel injection and over head valves. It’s like they don’t care
Exactly. Everyone knows horses are still carbureted
