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How about movie and tv show pet peeves?

I have so many, but 2 of them are:

They NEVER shut the door!! Why? Film school grads, is there some hidden meaning to this? It drives me crazy. No one does that In real life.

When brushing with an electric toothbrush, where you are supposed to let the brush do most of the work and you just slowly move it along, people brush as though they were using an old-fashioned toothbrush. Why? It's distracting! It happened most recently in "Force Majeure". About 5 times!

by Anonymousreply 544April 20, 2018 11:53 PM

The inevitable fruit cart being knocked over during a chase scene. I think Ebert even had an award for it or something. How many fruit carts do you see any more these days anyway?

by Anonymousreply 1March 27, 2015 7:53 AM

When a couple is eating and one of them, usually a female, has some sauce on her lips or the side of her mouth and the man wipes it off with his fingers while they both laugh a little and make mumbling sounds right before making it a romantic, sexy moment.

I would feel self-conscious and a little embarrassed upon finding out I had food on my face, and the last thing I would want would be more attention about it and for my date to wipe it off for me. And the last feeling I would have if he did would be sexual.

by Anonymousreply 2March 27, 2015 7:53 AM

Nobody says "Goodbye" when ending a phone call. It's just, "I'll be right over," and they hang up.

by Anonymousreply 3March 27, 2015 7:54 AM

When someone comes home with a bag of groceries, there's always a loaf of French bread sticking up. Yet they never eat it, or even take it out of the bag. They just set the grocieries aside and forget about them for the rest of the movie.

by Anonymousreply 4March 27, 2015 8:00 AM

When someone is secretly in love with someone, and all the hijinks that ensue. Never an interesting or funny plot device.

by Anonymousreply 5March 27, 2015 8:00 AM

Cats that will tolerate anything. In "Gone Girl,' the cat is unfazed by the 10 police cars outside the house with sirens and flashing lights. In "An Unfinished Life" (2005), two cats sit and calmly watch a gunfight. In reality, cats would vanish at the first loud noise and hide under a bed.

by Anonymousreply 6March 27, 2015 8:08 AM

I think I'm going to love this thread. How better to do it than we, huh?

by Anonymousreply 7March 27, 2015 8:18 AM

Along with the loaf of French bread r4 are the bunch of carrots with the greens still attached. Where I live you can't even buy them like that anymore. I also hate when two guys are forced to share a bed for some reason and they wake up spooning each other. They then make a big deal about how terrible that is.

by Anonymousreply 8March 27, 2015 8:24 AM

Movies about show business where the star rises to the top by acting like an unprofessional ass, only the audiences in the movie think it's adorable. Like Dustin Hoffman ad libbing his way to fame and feminist glory in Tootsie, as if ad libbing were even tolerated on soap sets. Or Julie Andrews in Star! drawing praise as a beginner by making a shambles of her fellow performers' efforts in a musical number.

In Funny Girl you have to believe that opening night in NY is the first time Fannie has ever faced a live audience in her "Beautiful Reflection" number and she is still fretting that they'll all laugh. Like there were never any rehearsal or tryout audiences to let Brice or Ziegfeld know how the number went over when performed straight. Then Fannie gets away with sabotaging the costly and well-rehearsed Ziegfeld grand finale by making a coarse mockery of the proceedings, as though that were a praiseworthy thing to do.

They use this same phony device twice in Funny Girl, as Fannie also steals the spotlight by wrecking the Roller Skate Rag number. Only this time we have to believe that even though the choreographer told Fannie he would teach her the routine that day, somehow she kept her inability to skate from him right up until the minute the number went on. And again, we're supposed to believe that being charmingly inept and disruptive is a recipe for stardom.

by Anonymousreply 9March 27, 2015 8:25 AM

R9 is a hard act to follow, especially with my meager offering, but I hate the sound of fingers clicking on a computer keyboard in movies, especially when the typist is staring at the screen quickly solving a mystery.

by Anonymousreply 10March 27, 2015 8:39 AM

Wet streets at night.

Always.

TV shows, Movies, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Death Valley....

Always wet.

by Anonymousreply 11March 27, 2015 8:46 AM

Disaster movies. Do I have to say more? I will anyway. JUST ONCE I wish it would be impossible to save the bratty daughter to overly-curious son and lose them in a burning inferno.

by Anonymousreply 12March 27, 2015 8:49 AM

The cloud of glowing blue low-hanging fog that always finds ots way into a night scene outdoors. Has that ever happened in real life?

by Anonymousreply 13March 27, 2015 9:07 AM

When running away from a bad guy, how easily women trip and fall.

Maybe it's the high heels. Who runs in high heels? Take them the fuck off, lady!

by Anonymousreply 14March 27, 2015 9:09 AM

How Lucy can put on a fake mustache and go unrecognized.

by Anonymousreply 15March 27, 2015 11:23 AM

Two people are having a conversation. In the midst of it, one of then wanders away to gaze meaningfully out a doorway, into a mirror, or through a window (streaked with rain, optional). They never miss a beat in the conversation, while in real life the other person would be like "What the hell are you looking at?? Pay attention when I'm talking to you!"

by Anonymousreply 16March 27, 2015 11:33 AM

This is perfect thread idea, OP.

I have so many, I think literally everything pisses me off, lmao.

by Anonymousreply 17March 27, 2015 11:41 AM

The set designs so often don't make much sense.

Sets where the stairs to a second floor don't rise much higher than a step ladder.

"Mansions" with the size and aesthetic of a Sears furniture showroom.

by Anonymousreply 18March 27, 2015 11:59 AM

Parking spots always, always magically available right in front of the building. No driving around, no waiting for some guy to pull out of a spot. Just drive right up and park, right in front of the door.

by Anonymousreply 19March 27, 2015 12:06 PM

Tears rolling down the face - no one ever wipes them away...oy!

by Anonymousreply 20March 27, 2015 12:10 PM

When someone is trying to break a password on a computer, especially on a TV crime procedural, they will try a few wrong choices and then a relative will say something like, "His nickname for me when we were kids was 'sunny.' Try that!" Of course it works everytime!

When a prisoner is being transferred in police custody, often from a prison to the courthouse for their trial, no matter how large the police escort is, someone will be able to free the prisoner en route.

Same goes for robbing an armored van after picking up a bank deposit.

If a witness has to be taken to the hospital (usually after an attempt was made on his or her life) a random police officer will be placed to guard the hospital room door. When the lead detectives come to visit the witness the guard will always be missing or dead and the witness will dead or missing too. (Sometimes a killer is caught in the act of trying to suffocate the witness with a pillow and chase ensues through the hospital.)

by Anonymousreply 21March 27, 2015 12:12 PM

Has anyone else noticed the absence of screens on the windows? They like to be able to have people climb in and out easily, also screens obscure a person's face if they want to shoot them starring out a window. So they just pretend it's commonplace for people not to have screens.

by Anonymousreply 22March 27, 2015 12:12 PM

Arranging to meet up, but they never say what time. Just "I'll meet you there."

by Anonymousreply 23March 27, 2015 12:18 PM

Drivers that look at their passengers when talking to them. Look at the road! You're going to get in an accident!

by Anonymousreply 24March 27, 2015 12:24 PM

Really popular in black movies and TV shows; all problems are because the main character was molested. If someone is a slut, murderer, drunk or cheats on their taxes, we will see a dramatic scene where it's revealed they were abused as a child for years "and you did nothing to stop him!!!!"

by Anonymousreply 25March 27, 2015 12:28 PM

Characters who don't lock their car doors or roll up the windows when they park them somewhere. No, they just leave their cars wide open for anyone to steal.

What sort of world are these people living in??!

by Anonymousreply 26March 27, 2015 12:31 PM

R19, my friends and I have always called that "Doris Day parking", because it seems that in every movie she ever did, if there was a scene where she went downtown to shop or to the grocery store, etc, there was ALWAYS an open spot right in front at the entrance that she drove right into - even at Christmas when the parking lots or street parking was full! So anytime we're out running around and happen, by chance, to get a prime parking spot near the store entrance, we usually call out "Doris Day parking!".

by Anonymousreply 27March 27, 2015 12:32 PM

I have no idea why this annoys me as much as it does...

When two people are talking on the phone, when one hangs up, you do NOT get a dial tone. All you hear is a click.

I get that they need a way to signal to the audience the person on the other end hung up, but it still works my nerve.

by Anonymousreply 28March 27, 2015 12:39 PM

I hate that too, R11 - and on a similar note, I hate when there's a scene of them driving in the rain and the camera is in front of the car and looking at the driver and any passengers through the windshield ... so here they are, driving along the freeway at 60 or 70 miles per hour, and the rain is running DOWN the windshield instead of being blown up the windshield towards the roof of the car. Do the directors not have any elementary understanding of airflow dynamics? Have they never personally driven a car in the rain? For God's sake, put some fans on the set!

by Anonymousreply 29March 27, 2015 12:40 PM

[quote]They use this same phony device twice in Funny Girl, as Fannie also steals the spotlight by wrecking the Roller Skate Rag number. Only this time we have to believe that even though the choreographer told Fannie he would teach her the routine that day, somehow she kept her inability to skate from him right up until the minute the number went on. And again, we're supposed to believe that being charmingly inept and disruptive is a recipe for stardom.

It'a also ridiculous that a few moments later, when she bursts into "I'd Rather Be Blue" she's skating gracefully, gliding across the stage, and with no problem at all, when we just saw that she was having a hard time getting the hang of it seconds before.

by Anonymousreply 30March 27, 2015 12:46 PM

- When a character turns off the light to go to sleep and it's still bright enough to read under

- When characters don't close the front door upon entering the house

- When characters order at a restaurant/diner/bar and one or both of them storm out in disgust (i.e. an argument ensued) or in a rush (i.e. they got an urgent phone call) before the food/drinks arrive or after taking a few bites/sips

- When the bell rings to end class and the teacher yells out the next day's due assignment/homework, as students quickly (and noisily) file out of the room; in reality, teachers let you know beforehand and leave ample room before the class ends

- When kids in high school TV shows/movies have lengthy conversations in the hallway and don't go to their next class until the bell rings again; in reality, students have to be in the classroom before the bell rings

by Anonymousreply 31March 27, 2015 12:48 PM

- When someone is driving and takes their eyes off the road for longer than 2 seconds to turn and talk to the passenger beside them; sometimes they even turn their head around to talk to the passenger behind them when they could easily (and realistically) look into the rear-view mirror (e.g. Hilary Swank in CONVICTION turning around while driving to talk to her sons in the backseat about the impending divorce)

by Anonymousreply 32March 27, 2015 12:49 PM

- When they give fictional love interests to historical women, as if actresses can't carry movies on their own. For example, the character of Harry in FRANCES played by Sam Shepard, who's always there for Frances Farmer (Jessica Lange) in her times of need, or in IRON JAWED ANGELS when suffragist Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) is romantically linked with a dashing newspaper journalist (Patrick Dempsey) who is also a single father, if only to emphasize the point that Paul had to choose between a married/family life or her ambition to pass the 19th Amendment. In reality, Paul had no such inner conflict and in fact was rather single-minded in her quest for women's suffrage. Furthermore, there is speculation that Paul may have been a lesbian and she and Lucy Burns may have had something going on (neither married) although they're portrayed as just BFFs in the film.

by Anonymousreply 33March 27, 2015 12:51 PM

When they put glasses on a woman to make her "ugly" or plain and then she takes them off and is beautiful. Nope, she was still beautiful with the glasses on.

by Anonymousreply 34March 27, 2015 12:56 PM

- Continuity errors, especially when it's so blatant, like in PRETTY WOMAN when Julia Roberts is eating a pancake and in another shot she's holding a croissant and then back to the pancake again. I mean, don't they have people who keep track of this sh!t? I could understand if they used different sized pancakes for various shots, but croissants and pancakes look nothing alike.

Same goes for Brad Pitt in OCEAN'S ELEVEN. In one scene, he's holding a cocktail glass of shrimp, then in a different shot it becomes a non-glass plate, and then back to the cocktail glass. Those two things look nothing alike, either!!!

How hard is it to remember (or jot down) what the person was holding/eating?

One of the worst offenders was in ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE AYMORE. She's in the restaurant holding a tray of various meals and dishes that change orders on every shot when it cuts back to her.

by Anonymousreply 35March 27, 2015 12:56 PM

I hate when people with cell phones answer a call as though they don't have caller ID. They never know who's on the other end.

There are a lot of lower-budget and indie movies (especially horror films) where the entire plot is strained because no one has a cell phone with them, and it doesn't make any sense.

And a lot of shows and movies have flashbacks to "20 years ago" which look like the 1970s instead of the 1990s. "Dexter" was really bad about that in the first season flashbacks. They made him look like he was a teenager in 1976.

by Anonymousreply 36March 27, 2015 12:57 PM

I hate sex scenes (straight ones) where two people come into a house or room and have sex up against a wall without taking off their clothes other than the pants and make loud noises. Not remotely sexy but used in many movies and tv shows. Has anyone ever done this in real life?

by Anonymousreply 37March 27, 2015 12:57 PM

- When people dial a number and immediately talk to someone even though in reality it would've rung a few times before someone on the other end picked up? Even today, when people always have their cell phones on them at all times, they don't answer immediately.

Or when they get the answering machine (or these days, it goes to voice mail) after just one ring.

by Anonymousreply 38March 27, 2015 12:58 PM

When talking on a telephone, the mouthpiece of the receiver is almost always held way below the mouth so the actor's face can be better seen.

by Anonymousreply 39March 27, 2015 12:59 PM

When people answer the door nearly straight away, like a few seconds after someone knocks. Or the person knocking gets really frustrated if the person doesn't turn up after like 5 seconds. Are they waiting/meant to be waiting right beside the door or something? In reality, you'd still be putting on pants or something 30 seconds after the door bell rang.

by Anonymousreply 40March 27, 2015 1:01 PM

How most of the cast in most movies and TV shows are slim and well-presented. It's not very realistic.

by Anonymousreply 41March 27, 2015 1:02 PM

I hate it when they make me run.

by Anonymousreply 42March 27, 2015 1:03 PM

- When extras don't react to a big fight or some other incredibly distracting thing that's going on with the main characters. My go-to example is KNOCKED UP. They're practically screaming in the restaurant. In real life, the other patrons would tell them to STFU or get a waitstaff to relay the message. They would also stare in their general direction, possibly giving them the stinkeye. It's so funny, those two women directly behind Seth Rogen are so oblivious to the flare-up.

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by Anonymousreply 43March 27, 2015 1:03 PM

Horror movies where there's a group of kids and one of them is an ignorant asshole/bitch that gets killed first, and the surviors must be one girl and one boy.

by Anonymousreply 44March 27, 2015 1:05 PM

Not so much now, but the driver of the car would either get in the car or exit the car on the passenger side.

by Anonymousreply 45March 27, 2015 1:08 PM

Men in their 50s and even 60s can easily kick the asses of men in their 20s who are built like brick shithouses. In fact, they don't even break a sweat.

by Anonymousreply 46March 27, 2015 1:21 PM

I find it very annoying and distracting when the camera is very clearly trying to avoid showing nudity when people are obviously naked.

For example, Steve Carell's head blocking Ryan Gosling's junk in the locker room scene in CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE.

That's kinda weird, but it's a self-consciousness that instantly reminds you you're watching a movie and that's dumb.

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by Anonymousreply 47March 27, 2015 1:24 PM

The horrible action movie / TV series trope of being seconds away from killing your sworn enemy, pointing a gun at them or whatever... and instead of pulling the trigger, talking to them long enough for someone else to come and get you, or for them to get away.

There was a variation of this in an episode of BREAKING BAD, which I am currently watching. It's from the third season, and the two Mexican twins start shooting at Hank in his truck. He manages to pin one of them with the car and get out to fight it out with the second twin, but the other twin shoots him a couple times, and as Hank lays there helpless, the twin points the gun at him, ready to shoot, but then he says "Too easy" and goes back to his car to get an ax, apparently to hack him to death. In that time, Hank manages to reload his gun and shoots the twin dead when he returns. I was like, "Give me a break!" I was disappointed that the otherwise excellent writing had to stoop so low.

by Anonymousreply 48March 27, 2015 1:33 PM

When people pretend to drink from obviously empty coffee cups. This happens all the time. They'll pick up the cup, pretend to drink, but then put it down on the table and it makes a loud, hollow sound b/c there's nothing in it.

Or when they're carrying a drinks tray with 4 large coffee cups to go and they only use one hand, and do something else, like open a door with the other. In reality, you'd have both hands on the tray b/c its a bit heavy.

Is it really that much of a problem to fill the cups with water or something? This is something that has always distracted me

by Anonymousreply 49March 27, 2015 1:41 PM

A couple is having hot sex in bed. The woman wears a lacy bra all through it.

After sex, the man gets up. He is wearing underwear or even long sleeping pants.

The woman gets up from the bed and takes the entire sheet to wrap herself in, wrapping herself until she looks like she's wearing a full length Greek goddess gown.

The man goes to bed and wakes up wearing a t shirt and pajama bottom after sex. The woman is always wearing a sexy, tiny negligee.

The couple talks in bed after sex. The sheet is up to under her armpits and covers him to the waist.

And of course, the sheets are almost always white.

by Anonymousreply 50March 27, 2015 2:06 PM

I hate it when the production design team do not get obvious things right. Why does the Cheesecake Factory on Big Bang look nothing like any Cheesecake Factory. Couldn't they at least get the uniforms correct?

by Anonymousreply 51March 27, 2015 2:14 PM

This always happens in detective/cop shows. People leave their car doors unlocked and, at some point, get in their cars and have some madman hiding in the backseat who puts a knife to their throat or a gun to the back of their head.

First: Who leaves their car doors unlocked?

Second: If I am getting into my car, I can see my backseat clearly, even if I am not looking directly at it. Why can't THEY see someone lying in their back seat? It's so stupid. I always hate that insult to my intelligence.

by Anonymousreply 52March 27, 2015 2:21 PM

Sex in the shower or on the beach is always presented as totally easy to pull off - in the real world it's VERY uncomfortable (I know)

by Anonymousreply 53March 27, 2015 2:32 PM

Writers have no clue.

Everyone lives above their means. Waitresses and cops live in loft apartments that they could NEVER afford.

If a show or movie is about a group of friends, one or more of them are: in show business, aspiring to be an actor, a model, a detective, a fashion designer, an architect, a lawyer, a writer. No one is ever a store manager, a construction worker, a graphic designer, etc.

Characters who live in walk-ups in NYC have their car parked right outside and hop in and easily drive all over town. In reality they would be stuck in traffic all day.

by Anonymousreply 54March 27, 2015 2:32 PM

- Shots from the house outside and every light in the house is on

- When movies/shows use the "555" prefix for telephone numbers

- When movies/shows use recognizable yet unbranded/rebranded products (e.g. Nickelodeon sitcoms using a pear logo instead of Apple, GameGuy on THE COSBY SHOW instead of GameBoy, Pounce fabric softener on ROSEANNE instead of Bounce)

- When customers order a wine or beer without specifying

by Anonymousreply 55March 27, 2015 2:36 PM

Police Officers are ALWAYS alcoholics who cannot maintain a marriage or relationship. They drink on the job, show up to work drunk/hung-over, and still keep their jobs.

I have been a police officer for 20 years. I do not drink, I am not abusive or neurotic, I am in shape, healthy, and have never drank a drop of alcohol.

by Anonymousreply 56March 27, 2015 2:38 PM

- A single conversation across various settings, usually devising a plan (but not always). I think filmmakers think it's snappy editing, but what the hell are they doing in between each line as they get to a new place???? Sitting/walking in silence and waiting til they can say what they want to say??

by Anonymousreply 57March 27, 2015 2:43 PM

People turn on the radio or television just in time to hear/see a news story in which they have a vested interest. Still in use today.

by Anonymousreply 58March 27, 2015 2:47 PM

- Endless supply of bullets and no need to ever reload. Recent example, the AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW finale.

by Anonymousreply 59March 27, 2015 2:48 PM

R56 you do know you are a rarity, right?

by Anonymousreply 60March 27, 2015 2:49 PM

The infamous "Doris Day parking": the protagonists can always park as close as possible to the front door of wherever they're going.

by Anonymousreply 61March 27, 2015 2:54 PM

The fruit bowl on the counter. Many many shows always have a full fruit bowl with red apples, green apples, oranges, etc. All of them fresh and perfect looking. Just once I'd like to see a fruit bowl with a couple bruised looking apples, pears or spotty looking bananas, or a bowl with only one piece of fruit in it.

Not all suburban households have fruit bowls like this, Hollywood.

by Anonymousreply 62March 27, 2015 2:56 PM

- I've recently become slightly annoyed with conversations that switch between languages and subtitles for absolutely no good reason. This really bothered me in THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING when Jane is talking to the doctor in France. They start off speaking in French, which was fine an all but suddenly when it got all dramatic with the reveal that Stephen had to have a tracheotomy, she switches to English and the doctor perfectly speaks English accordingly. I was already bothered by the film, but that just seemed so goddamn stupid and pointless to me.

by Anonymousreply 63March 27, 2015 2:56 PM

- When characters cock the gun sideways to shoot, especially the thugs/gangsters. Firearms are designed to be fired in the traditional position. Re-orienting the weapon actually interferes with proper chambering and ejection in semi- and full-auto weapons. Pumps and lever actions also have problems in the “sideways” orientation, thus making mis-feeds and jams commonplace.

by Anonymousreply 64March 27, 2015 2:58 PM

Like an earlier poster said, everyone lives far above their income level. One exception, school teachers are usually shown to live in delapidated houses or crumbling apartment buildings in the ghetto.

Granted, we are not paid as we should be, but we are not destitute. Waitresses and receptionsists live in beach front loft condos and teachers live in hovels.

by Anonymousreply 65March 27, 2015 2:58 PM

Things that need to be obvious are just too obvious.

Like when the killer picks up a bottle of something it will say 50% ALCOHOL in letters equal to the size of the brand name.

Or how come the ugly one isn't gay, like in real life.

by Anonymousreply 66March 27, 2015 3:00 PM

Entire episodes or movies based entirely on some stupid mis-communication that could have been resolved had the characters just ACTUALLY TALKED TO EACH OTHER.

by Anonymousreply 67March 27, 2015 3:02 PM

You guys need to stay away from movie theaters and throw out your TVs. If everything you're bitching about were eliminated there'd be nothing to watch. Most of these thing are minor or inconsequential to the story being told. If you want real life go sit on a park bench somewhere and just watch people.

by Anonymousreply 68March 27, 2015 3:05 PM

That tired and ancient romantic-comedy plot device wherein a man and woman HATE each other, have nothing in common, and are abusive to one another, who magically realize they are in love in the last 15 minutes of the movie. Then they get married and drive off into the sunset to live happily ever after. Yeah, right!

by Anonymousreply 69March 27, 2015 3:05 PM

The rugged, masculine protagonist with a deep psychological or emotional issue who "doesn't want to talk about it".

Inevitably, a female character (girlfriend, wife, sister, cop partner) will beg him to "Let me in". Not only is it annoying and stereotypical, but the dialogue between the characters is never realistic.

Real people don't say things like "You need to let me in" and "You can't just shut me out"

by Anonymousreply 70March 27, 2015 3:08 PM

Am-fucking-nesia! I hate that plot line. Every TV series, no matter how good, eventually gets around to it. The amnesia plot line was old and tired in 1958!

How many of us have ever know anyone with am-fucking-nesia?!?!? On TV it is epidemic!

by Anonymousreply 71March 27, 2015 3:11 PM

I hate the scene in a movie where some helpless woman is trying to flee her attacker, trips and falls (which she ALWAYS does), then sits, cowering and whimpering while said attacker catches up to her. (Note to fleeing woman: GET THE FUCK UP AND KEEP RUNNING, YOU IDIOT!)

by Anonymousreply 72March 27, 2015 3:13 PM

I live way below my means

by Anonymousreply 73March 27, 2015 3:14 PM

Horror movies: How whenever kids go into the woods it’s the silicon pumped stupid girls, the asshole jock guy, the black guy, the nerdy guy, and the guy & girl next door. Guess which two survive and also fall in love.

If only a single girl survives, she was the virgin prim and proper girl.

by Anonymousreply 74March 27, 2015 3:16 PM

"Or how come the ugly one isn't gay, like in real life."

Or how about ugly straight trolls like you?

by Anonymousreply 75March 27, 2015 3:16 PM

- Anytime I'm watching a movie/tv show where people are playing cards are you hear "i'll see your ten, and raise you 50." - you would not be allowed to do this in a casino as it'd be considered a string bet. i want to claw my eyes out whenever i hear this phrase constantly overused in films. just say "raise." that's it just "raise"

by Anonymousreply 76March 27, 2015 3:16 PM

I HATE when paper cups being held in scenes are obviously empty. Drives me nuts. I can't focus on anything else in the scene.

by Anonymousreply 77March 27, 2015 3:17 PM

Women can't stop feeling themselves up when they're in the shower. It's as if they've discovered their breasts for the first time.

Women come home and immediately strip down to their underwear.

by Anonymousreply 78March 27, 2015 3:18 PM

When someone is tied to a chair and the killer is about to torture the victim they always plead, "You don’t have to do this." or "Why are you doing this?" ISN’T IT FUCKIN’ OBVIOUS!!? HE’S A PSYCHOPATH! I think he knows that he doesn’t have to do this, he just wants to.

by Anonymousreply 79March 27, 2015 3:21 PM

I really hate the amnesia thing too. I will usually turn the channel when a show goes there. It was old when they used it on The Guiding Light 60 years ago.

by Anonymousreply 80March 27, 2015 3:23 PM

Mostly in sitcoms - a character is talking and goes to the fridge to get a bottle of water....keeps talking all the time.

If you would shut up, you wouldn't be so damned thirsty.

by Anonymousreply 81March 27, 2015 3:23 PM

The bag of groceries with the french bread and carrots - who carries ONE brown bag of groceries, ever?

Car windows are ALWAYS down. Why?

by Anonymousreply 82March 27, 2015 3:26 PM

Rom-Coms: The sweet child who uses their charms to get the bickering man and woman together.

by Anonymousreply 83March 27, 2015 3:27 PM

[You do realize that this is a troll, right? You might want to stop talking to it.]

by Anonymousreply 84March 27, 2015 3:28 PM

[You do realize that this is a troll, right? You might want to stop talking to it.]

by Anonymousreply 85March 27, 2015 3:29 PM

[quote]- who carries ONE brown bag of groceries, ever?

City dwellers.

by Anonymousreply 86March 27, 2015 3:30 PM

A speeding cop car can get from Torrance to Santa Monica in ten minutes flat.

by Anonymousreply 87March 27, 2015 3:30 PM

They think no one recognizes specific locations in LA, R87.

by Anonymousreply 88March 27, 2015 3:35 PM

R3 the never saying "goodbye" on the phone also bothers me. I hope I can describe this right: it always looks really strange to me when someone's eyes do this quick darting left to right thing when they're talking to someone, usually in a dramatic scene. Maybe it's an actor's trick to ham it for the camera or something but it just looks funny. And generally, I can't stand how polished most characters look in most anything filmed in the last 20 years or so, it's one of the reasons I like older TV and movies, people looked like people then. Also, most characters have no real money issues and everybody is a writer, photographer, singer, doctor, lawyer, etc, rarely do they work the wage slave grind.

by Anonymousreply 89March 27, 2015 3:39 PM

The person being chased by the knife-wielding killer on a rainy night runs frantically to their unlocked car, jumps in, locks the door, and fumbles for the keys. They finally get the keys into the ignition and it won't start.

by Anonymousreply 90March 27, 2015 3:40 PM

Extras wh reappear. There is a scene towards the end of "Only You" where the same guy, in the same clothes, walks across the background at least 5 times.

by Anonymousreply 91March 27, 2015 3:40 PM

Groups of friends that are too different from each other.

In real life, friendships and circles of friends tend to form between people who are very similar to each other.

by Anonymousreply 92March 27, 2015 3:44 PM

The way actors usually don't exhale any smoke when they're dragging on a cigarette, so unrealistic.

by Anonymousreply 93March 27, 2015 3:45 PM

1. Ok, I know there is going to be a lot of eye rolling about this one, but why can they never get the dolls and teddy bears right in period films? You can have the most carefully researched and designed period film and the dolls and teddy bears are from the dollar store. Can't they at least make an attempt. The Brits are as bad about this as anyone, e.g., Call the Midwife and Mr Selfridge.

2. The use of Cyan (blue) filters for flashbacks or to indicate history. I guess the thought is to replicate a modern CMYK print that has faded so only the Cyan remains. I guess they assume nobody remembers sepia, but I find it really annoying.

3. The extensive use of American English in British TV shows so they can be syndicated in the USA.

by Anonymousreply 94March 27, 2015 3:46 PM

What always cracked me up in old '70s TV shows and movies was when the characters entered a rock club or a disco and the music was always brass-heavy, jazzy sounding stock music. I always cringed and laughed about it.

by Anonymousreply 95March 27, 2015 3:46 PM

R92, Absolutely. Jocks and Nerds. Gays and Straights. Good Girls and Sluts. That bothers me too.

by Anonymousreply 96March 27, 2015 3:48 PM

r95, I always laugh at the "stock music" you hear in low budget movies when they can't get the rights to a popular song

by Anonymousreply 97March 27, 2015 3:48 PM

[quote]The extensive use of American English in British TV shows so they can be syndicated in the USA.

Examples, please. I haven't seen a British show that didn't require closed captioning.

by Anonymousreply 98March 27, 2015 3:48 PM

When someone is driving, they are always moving the steering wheel even though they are driving on a straight stretch of road. If they actually drove like that they would be veering all over the road.

by Anonymousreply 99March 27, 2015 3:49 PM

I hate it when people's clothes go from clean to dirty with no explanation whatsoever. Was the continuity girl asleep?

by Anonymousreply 100March 27, 2015 3:55 PM

R98, Ripper Street.

by Anonymousreply 101March 27, 2015 3:58 PM

r35, back when I was in the business, we used to call the person who kept track of those things the "continuity cvnt" because that person had to be so detailed as to hand positions, body position, position of prop. It could really wear you out.

by Anonymousreply 102March 27, 2015 4:02 PM

This probably bothers nobody but me, but living in New York, it drives me crazy when locations don't match up.

I just saw PLEASE BE NORMAL, where Louis Cancelmi is on his way to his girlfriend. He boards a downtown subway train at 110th Street, getting on a 60s era Brightliner C train. The next thing, he's on a new, circa 2008 E train car at 23rd Street in Chelsea.

I suppose he could've gotten off the C train at 42nd Street, waited around for an E train, and then finished his trip to 23rd, but wouldn't he just have stayed on the same train all the way to 23rd?

The next scene has him crossing East 59th Street, walking uptown on Lexington, in front of Bloomingdale's, which is on the Upper East Side. How did he end up way over there?

When I lived in San Francisco, the audience would laugh out loud at car chases in movies like DIRTY HARRY, BULLITT, and WHAT'S UP DOC? where a car would go careening around a corner only to appear in the very next scene clear across town.

by Anonymousreply 103March 27, 2015 4:03 PM

[quote](Note to fleeing woman: GET THE FUCK UP AND KEEP RUNNING, YOU IDIOT!)

Yes. And if you're outside, stay outside. Don't run INTO the house and up the stairs, leaving the front door open behind you.

by Anonymousreply 104March 27, 2015 4:04 PM

Women always fire a gun with two hands. Always! It's like it's a Hollywood law. Women can't use just one hand to fire a gun.

by Anonymousreply 105March 27, 2015 4:07 PM

[quote]This probably bothers nobody but me, but living in New York, it drives me crazy when locations don't match up.

I just saw PLEASE BE NORMAL, where Louis Cancelmi is on his way to his girlfriend. He boards a downtown subway train at 110th Street, getting on a 60s era Brightliner C train. The next thing, he's on a new, circa 2008 E train car at 23rd Street in Chelsea.

I suppose he could've gotten off the C train at 42nd Street, waited around for an E train, and then finished his trip to 23rd, but wouldn't he just have stayed on the same train all the way to 23rd?

No, you're not the only one. My husband grew up in Brooklyn, and it drives him crazy when films and TV shows get the subway line or street wrong. He's always bitching at the screen "No, no take the Lexington Avenue line, idiot!!"

by Anonymousreply 106March 27, 2015 4:14 PM

In period pieces set in the distant past, women always have perfectly coiffed and conditioned hair (even if they are supposed to be homeless Victorian prostitutes or something)

by Anonymousreply 107March 27, 2015 4:15 PM

Gah, quote fail above!

by Anonymousreply 108March 27, 2015 4:16 PM

"People turn on the radio or television just in time to hear/see a news story in which they have a vested interest. Still in use today."

Or r58, when someone sees a newstory and quickly calls someone else "Turn on channel 5" and the person on the other end of the phone gets the entire gist of the news story which is already half over.

by Anonymousreply 109March 27, 2015 4:18 PM

Repeats of "L&O: The Original" have added incessant phone ringing in police-station scenes.

by Anonymousreply 110March 27, 2015 4:19 PM

R4 R8 R82 There is usually a big bunch of celery sticking out of the single grocery bag too. I read a comment somewhere pointing out the clichéd absurdity of the standard grocery bag prop; written by a comedy writer perhaps? Someone who does standup? I think the writer was planning to get a tattoo to immortalize that dumb bag of groceries. It was very funny.

I was surprised when Dumbledore announced he was going to the bathroom in one of the Harry Potter films. (He'd just unmasked a former professor who was hiding, disguised as an armchair.)

It seems RARE to hear anyone on tv say they're going to the bathroom. Sometimes you hear the toilet flush but that's usually off camera. I understand that codes for tv wouldn't have allowed that even in the 70s, but why isn't it commonplace now? It would be refreshing to hear some character say emphatically, "I need to take a dump," as he grabs a magazine on his way to the bathroom. (It'll be a while before he could say shit instead of dump.) It would be just about what to expect in the current US culture. I think the Barney Miller show played around with the shitting bit with Fish but there it was mostly implied.

I was surprised at the beginning of Secaucus Seven to see the guy's face over the flushing toilet he'd just cleaned. (Doubly surprised because I recognized the guy as a kid I went through elementary school with -I had no idea he'd become an actor. We figured he'd become a dentist like his dad.)

by Anonymousreply 111March 27, 2015 4:30 PM

When characters are likable and intelligent, and then use the phrase "Thank God the calvary arrived in time!" The word is cavalry, you fucking idiot! Cavalry, as in an elite, mobile, reconnaissance military unit. "Calvary" refers to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Also in a military vein, I want to smack the character that ends the radio conversation with "Over and Out." Conversations in progress are "punctuated" by each speaker saying "over" when he has completed a thought and is ready to hear the reply. The conversation is terminated when one person--usually the one with the higher rank--ends his statement with the word "out." The phrase "over and out" is never used in the real world, and never has been, but apparently Hollywood never got that memo.

by Anonymousreply 112March 27, 2015 4:32 PM

"Sometimes you hear the toilet flush but that's usually off camera. I understand that codes for tv wouldn't have allowed that even in the 70s"

Actually, All in the Family was the first tv show where you heard a toilet flush.

by Anonymousreply 113March 27, 2015 4:41 PM

Chopstix. Everyone who has Chinese take out eats it out of the carton with Chopstix even though place give you perfectly good forks. Or to the extreme, On "The Big Bang Theory", they all constantly play with their food, raking the fork through it. In the entire run, through all the take out meals and work cafeteria scenes, not one actor has ever taken a bite of food.

by Anonymousreply 114March 27, 2015 4:46 PM

First cousin to the empty cup thing? LUGGAGE! There is never anything inside suitcases or boxes or containers in movies or on TV. "Here's the cake Aunt Martha made for you" and then they just sit a paper thin empty box down. You can tell it is an empty box. Why the hell don't they rehearse a bit and be directed to at least ACT like there is some weight, some heft to those things. Coffee cups are bad enough. "Here's your latte" and they sling them an empty cup! What IS that?

by Anonymousreply 115March 27, 2015 4:47 PM

The bad guy, whether human or not, has no sense of self preservation. They could be shot, beaten and burned and instead of running in fear of death, have an uncontrollable need to continue to pursue and kill you.

by Anonymousreply 116March 27, 2015 4:49 PM

Food goes bad under hot lights. Besides if actors mouths are full of food their speech is effected. Retakes cost money.

by Anonymousreply 117March 27, 2015 4:54 PM

R114 on ROSEANNE, you actually saw them eat the food (and talk during it).

Also, on ROSEANNE, they sat people with their back to camera, because in reality that's where the wall would be, so no one cares. It always irked me that on THE GOLDEN GIRLS they left the chair facing its back to the camera empty and someone else (usually Sophia) would just get a stool and sit next to the others, facing the camera.

by Anonymousreply 118March 27, 2015 4:57 PM

The actor is thrown in a pool, caught in a downpour, or muddy water from the street splashes all over him. Next scene, he is in his apartment, dry. Maybe his hair is a little disheveled and curlier, but not much. Now the raincoat has dry mud stains, or the clothes are a little rumpled. But bone dry.

At best, the hair is slightly damp and looks like it's been dried with a towel, and all the same clothes are dry.

by Anonymousreply 119March 27, 2015 4:59 PM

To go off of someone who mentioned the teachers always shouting out the homework assignment after the bell rings and students are leaving the room-

The scene usually begins with something like, "John, what are the main themes of Romeo and Juliet?" John begins to answer when the bell rings and the teacher says, "We'll have to pick this up tomorrow where we left off."

Why, with 30 seconds left of class would the teacher even ask such a general question about the themes of Romeo and Juliet? That question would be posed at the beginning of the period and could take up 10-15 minutes of discussion.

by Anonymousreply 120March 27, 2015 4:59 PM

R92 just to piggyback on that sentiment: multiracial gangs, i.e. whites, blacks, Asians, Hispanics in one gang.

by Anonymousreply 121March 27, 2015 4:59 PM

- When a movie takes place in the distant past (i.e. Ancient Rome) or in a fantasy land (i.e. GAME OF THRONES) or in a foreign-language European country (e.g. Germany, France, Russia) the people almost always have a British accent, even though they aren't British or in Britain or even are supposed to be speaking English.

by Anonymousreply 122March 27, 2015 5:00 PM

- I hate when movies or TV shows are not shot on location, i.e. shot in Toronto but taking place in NYC. It takes away something, IMO. I can't look at a movie/show the same way again once I know/learn it was shot elsewhere.

by Anonymousreply 123March 27, 2015 5:04 PM

R122 We also have the Nazis who speak English with what's supposed to be a German accent. Shouldn't they either be speaking German or speaking standard English?

by Anonymousreply 124March 27, 2015 5:06 PM

[quote]The fruit bowl on the counter. Many many shows always have a full fruit bowl with red apples, green apples, oranges, etc. All of them fresh and perfect looking. Just once I'd like to see a fruit bowl with a couple bruised looking apples, pears or spotty looking bananas, or a bowl with only one piece of fruit in it.

With a bunch of fruit flies buzzing around it.

by Anonymousreply 125March 27, 2015 5:08 PM

I hate the repressed guy meets the free-sprit/hippy girl dynamic, or the "Dharma and Greg effect" I call it.

I also hate that most young actors are from the "School of Dean and De Niro." Lots of looking around, smoking a cigarette, hyper masculine but soft spoken and monosyllabic.

by Anonymousreply 126March 27, 2015 5:12 PM

R120, LOL, always! That always makes me crazy. No real classroom is like that.

by Anonymousreply 127March 27, 2015 5:13 PM

Tv shows every week the case is always tied up and solved.

by Anonymousreply 128March 27, 2015 5:13 PM

I hate it when the camera is behind the character, looking over her shoulder, and following her everywhere while she holds out the kitchen knife and looks for the killer. We follow her as she searches the first room. Then we go into the second room. It's at this point that we're saying "look behind you, dumbass! The killer is behind you!" but no, she searches another room, lets her guard down, sighs, then turns around and screams when she discovers the killer is behind her!

by Anonymousreply 129March 27, 2015 5:19 PM

R115 I remember the first time I noticed empty cartons/bags. It was when I was 8 and saw Home Alone. Kevin is walking home from grocery shopping carrying 2 plastic bags. He had just bough milk, a big jug of laundry detergent, boxed dinners, etc. the bags are apparently so heavy they break and all the products fall on the ground.

I remember thinking, "there's no way a little string bean kid like that could carry those heavy bags and not be dragging them." Kevin was merrily bouncing along, showing no sign of faigue. They were clearly empty and it just made me unreasonably mad.

I like this thread. Many of these things I do notice and they bother me. Quick poll- how many people here have white sheets?

by Anonymousreply 130March 27, 2015 5:20 PM

"Shouldn't they either be speaking German or speaking standard English?"

Like the movie Swing Kids. German teenagers all speaking perfect, unaccented English.

by Anonymousreply 131March 27, 2015 5:25 PM

R131 or THE READER, all the German characters speaking English with a German accent. Except Ralph Fiennes, who speaks with a British accent even though his younger character spoke with a German accent, and that's because David Kross, a German actor, learned his English lines phonetically.

by Anonymousreply 132March 27, 2015 5:28 PM

R132 I should've added that THE READER takes place in Germany and the characters are, for all intents and purposes, speaking German, but it was an American production so the dialog is in English.

by Anonymousreply 133March 27, 2015 5:36 PM

R113 Thanks for the reminder. That toilet flushing bit on All In The Family was a pretty groundbreaking thing, like so many other aspects of the show.

by Anonymousreply 134March 27, 2015 5:37 PM

R121 = antidiversityist!

by Anonymousreply 135March 27, 2015 5:38 PM

R113/R134 I remember reading in an article or book about THE BRADY BUNCH that they weren't allowed to show a toilet, so when they had a scene in the bathroom it was sans toilet.

by Anonymousreply 136March 27, 2015 5:41 PM

I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet, but what about police stations, labs, etc which have the floaty, in the air computer screens which people usually operate with just a flick of a finger in the air? For that matter, why do so many police stations seem to have super high tech computer systems? (SEE: Hawaii 5-O, Bones. I'm excusing Agents of SHIELD because that at least takes places in a fictional universe.)

by Anonymousreply 137March 27, 2015 5:51 PM

i need help, i never understood how Rory from Gilmore Girls, allegedly didnt graduate from Yale. ive since looked up all the graduates since 2007, which was supposed to be her graduating class according to Edward Gilmore. i cant find her name or Paris either as graduates. what happened. ive gone thru all the classes name from 2007-2014 and neither name appears.

by Anonymousreply 138March 27, 2015 5:51 PM

That the unseen ugly girl at school (who has a crush on the hero of the story) always has an anachronistic first name with both first and last name starting with the same letter. For example Henrietta Huffington.

by Anonymousreply 139March 27, 2015 5:54 PM

The 52 year-old midget with an oddly-proportioned, barrel-chested body is the the United States Government's #1 top secret agent.

by Anonymousreply 140March 27, 2015 5:56 PM

The populations of New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago are 99% white and heterosexual.

Also, New York City looks amazingly like Toronto and Los Angeles looks amazingly like Vancouver, complete with pine trees.

by Anonymousreply 141March 27, 2015 5:57 PM

Space shows and movies, even the brilliant Star Trek: All the extra-terrestrial species they encounter speak perfect and fluent English. Hell, most of the people on Earth don't even speak English. LOL.

I do realize that the plots would be considerably slowed-down if they spent most of the movie/episode trying to translate languages.

by Anonymousreply 142March 27, 2015 6:01 PM

"I remember reading in an article or book about THE BRADY BUNCH that they weren't allowed to show a toilet"

It's funny what could and couldn't be shown on tv. There's an episode of I Love Lucy that shows Ricky in the shower, you see him from the chest up taking a shower. But no shows could show a toilet. It's just weird.

by Anonymousreply 143March 27, 2015 6:04 PM

Was always annoyed by kitchen scenes in shows with large families, like The Brady Bunch, where they reach into the refrigerator and pull out a quart of milk. What family that size would use a QUART of milk???????

by Anonymousreply 144March 27, 2015 6:05 PM

I hate how the bombs which are strapped to a building's main support always has a digital timer on it counting down until detonation. First of all, if I made this bomb and am the criminal, I know when the fucker is going off, so why do I add a device which is only going to divulge this very helpful info to the people who oppose me and will try to disarm my creation?

Next, why do I give them a fucking hour? I mean, in addition to not including the time display, I am only going to give myself enough time to be away from any chance of danger, so maybe 15 minutes tops. You can be miles away in a 15-minute taxi ride. Hell, you'd be plenty safe with a 15-minute [italic]walk[/italic].

Last, this whole overdone "do I cut the blue wire? Or the red one?" bullshit. Jesus Christ, why even let them fuck with the bomb in the first place? In addition to not having a digital timer display, nor having an hour's worth of time, I'm rigging the son of a bitch to respond to touch. Something touches the bomb, and KABOOM! the fucker goes off.

by Anonymousreply 145March 27, 2015 6:07 PM

[quote]When someone is driving, they are always moving the steering wheel even though they are driving on a straight stretch of road. If they actually drove like that they would be veering all over the road.

Even worse, when they spend more time looking at their passenger than watching the road. They do it in heavy traffic, and they do it when they're flying along on a highway. It makes me nervous and takes me out of the scene.

by Anonymousreply 146March 27, 2015 6:21 PM

Everybody who lives in NYC lives in Manhattan, the outer boroughs do not exist. And the Manhattan apartments are always way out of the financial means of the characters' socio-economic level.

by Anonymousreply 147March 27, 2015 6:23 PM

The obviously empty cup thing drives me nuts too. Also, cups that contain what is supposed to be a hot beverage but there's no steam.

Filter-tip cigarettes in movies set before the 1950s.

by Anonymousreply 148March 27, 2015 6:29 PM

Usually typical of period films of the 50's and 60's and most notably in musicals, I absolutely HATE when they use contemporary makeups and hairstyles when the period of the film would dictate otherwise. Case in point, Funny Girl. Love Streisand and the movie in general, but Christ, what woman of the 1910's or 20's would be caught dead wearing poker straight, side-parted bobbed hair or heavy egyptian looking eyeliner?

by Anonymousreply 149March 27, 2015 6:29 PM

It's just as bad in Chicago, R147. Those cops and firemen on the new Dick Wolf series can afford some serious decorators.

by Anonymousreply 150March 27, 2015 6:30 PM

The 100mph car chase through the streets of Manhattan that miraculously does not encounter gridlock or crowds of pedestrians. And no cop cars are anywhere to be seen.

by Anonymousreply 151March 27, 2015 6:32 PM

Men in the military with long-ish haircuts that are completely not regulatory. You can almost guess the credit order of the actors - the more of a "name" the actor is, the longer and more styled his hair is.

by Anonymousreply 152March 27, 2015 6:35 PM

The thing where a guy walks into a bar and tells the bartender to give him "a beer." The bartender produces "a beer" with no mention whatsover of what kind of brand of beer is desired. It's always like there's one beer available and only one.

by Anonymousreply 153March 27, 2015 6:35 PM

Being thrown through a window or glass door is only mildly uncomfortable, and does not result in serious and/or life-threatening injuries.

by Anonymousreply 154March 27, 2015 6:39 PM

Other examples of movies about showbiz that get showbiz annoyingly wrong inlcude The Sunshine Boys. Matthau and Burns are supposed to be a legendary comic duo from vaudeville. But when we get to see them do their great "doctor sketch," it's not particularly funny and it doesn't provide either character much chance to show off their legendary comic timing. Moreover, the sketch is too smutty to have played vaudeville which was restricted by design to be a family-friendly medium. The act would have been right at home in burlesque. Voluptuous nurses bending over and displaying their tits and ass was not a feature of vaudevillian entertainment. Many former burlesque stars turned "legit" in movies and TV, so why pass off the act as vaudevillian?

So often in films about comedians the material that has the audience in the movie roaring in the aisles is tepid or just plain stupid. Like in The Producers when the ineptly directed cast of dismal actors take an abominable script and improvise it into something so groovily funny that an outraged audience rushes back to its seats to soak up the Laugh-In-style hilarity of it all. But the movie viewer has to pretend that the dum-dum show within a show is side-splittingly funny.

by Anonymousreply 155March 27, 2015 6:39 PM

One thing movies and TV shows get wrong about San Francisco is not enough gays or Asians

by Anonymousreply 156March 27, 2015 6:42 PM

R149 I noticed that about MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, too. They got the costumes right, but the women are wearing elaborate 1940s updos with bangs.

by Anonymousreply 157March 27, 2015 6:43 PM

R156 Ahem!

by Anonymousreply 158March 27, 2015 6:45 PM

[quote] It's funny what could and couldn't be shown on tv. There's an episode of I Love Lucy that shows Ricky in the shower, you see him from the chest up taking a shower. But no shows could show a toilet. It's just weird.

Actually, in 1957 Leave It To Beaver featured an episode where Beaver and Wally keep a baby alligator in the toilet tank. Censors allowed them to show only the tank, not the bowl.

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by Anonymousreply 159March 27, 2015 6:48 PM

Period films made in the 1960s were the worst for not paying attention to period detail. No matter what time period it was, the Victorian era, Ancient Rome etc. the women all had wing-tip eyeliner, blue eyeshadow and big bouffant hair.

by Anonymousreply 160March 27, 2015 6:48 PM

Finally, the "not enough Asians on LOOKING" troll has surfaced, in R156.

by Anonymousreply 161March 27, 2015 6:49 PM

When one character invites another to dinner but doesn't say what time, or where.

by Anonymousreply 162March 27, 2015 6:50 PM

[quote] One thing movies and TV shows get wrong about San Francisco is not enough gays or Asians

In the season 2 finale, either Patrick or Kevin looks around the neighbor's party and comments that everyone there is white...and good-looking.

by Anonymousreply 163March 27, 2015 6:53 PM

Has anyone mentioned the driver looking at the passenger yet?

by Anonymousreply 164March 27, 2015 6:57 PM

R159 in the 1998 film PLEASANTVILLE, where Reese Witherspoon and Toby Maguire are zapped into an old 1950s TV show, there's a scene where Reese goes into a diner's bathroom and there's a stall but no toilet. haha

by Anonymousreply 165March 27, 2015 7:00 PM

On television, no one goes out in a car unless they're going to get in a crash.

by Anonymousreply 166March 27, 2015 7:01 PM

A character walking calmly away while a mammoth explosion erupts directly behind him or her. That's a stock scene in action movies.

by Anonymousreply 167March 27, 2015 7:13 PM

A couple wakes up in bed in the morning and immediately starts having sex. Nobody ever has disgusting morning breath, and nobody ever has to take a morning piss or dump.

by Anonymousreply 168March 27, 2015 7:21 PM

Pet peeves that have been mentioned but I'll give examples.

In Waterfront Eva Marie Saint and Brando having a conversation in a park in Hoboken from one angle then in the exact same conversation they are shot from another angle and they are in another park on the other side of town.

In Bullitt McQueen and Bissett are in bed after having sex. Bisset has the sheet practically up to her neck and Mcqueen is in a full set of pajamas! Right.

Laughter is one of my biggest pet peeves. Always so forced and a total comedy killer. The worst example of this because the film is so great is in Sullivan's Travels at the end where everyone is laughing hysterically at an unfunny(most of them are) Mickey Mouse cartoon. Even though it's the point of the movie that comedy is as important as drama the laughter is so forced it kills it. Sturges was usually so unsentimental that this scene surprised me in its' ineptness.

by Anonymousreply 169March 27, 2015 7:21 PM

Characters watch or listen to the news because it's about them ("Robber fled heading north on Broadway") but they switch off the TV or radio in a huff ("They're on to us") before there's any indication the segment is done.

Everyone sits on the couch facing me, the TV viewer.

Knocking on a door, repeatedly instead of just waiting. Give it a minute. I swear if anybody knocked on my door over and over I would call the cops.

Food fights or flinging food. I'm immigrant; the idea of throwing food for fun turns my stomach. It's a note of hilarity in family scenes (more so in the 80s and 70s though) that always looked so fucking stupid.

Crying and taking a new tissue with every sob. Wasteful.

Overexplaining: Detectives and lawyers don't need to clarify shorthand or jargon they use with one another:

"Molyneaux, your honor." "Yes, fruit of the tree something about being poisoned... that's correct. Inadmissible."

by Anonymousreply 170March 27, 2015 7:21 PM

Really bad accents. So many are so bad, especially "southern" accents. British, Irish and Australian can be pretty bad. The "Kennedy accent" is hard to copy and most actors fail. People in New England do not talk like that.

by Anonymousreply 171March 27, 2015 7:25 PM

One more: The guilt-interrupted breakup:

"Listen, there's something I need to say."

"There's something I need to say too. The past few weeks have been so difficult, but you've been a rock, and I couldn't have made it without you. Truth is, I wouldn't have wanted to make it without you. Now, what was it you wanted to say?

by Anonymousreply 172March 27, 2015 7:27 PM

The couple who just moved into a new house, sitting on the floor in an empty room...why are they always eating chinese food with chopsticks?

by Anonymousreply 173March 27, 2015 7:30 PM

The perky, I'm in such a rush to get dressed, modern woman who is hopping on one foot trying to put her shoe onto the other foot with one hand while attaching an earring with the other hand.

by Anonymousreply 174March 27, 2015 7:30 PM

I first noticed this on "Boston Legal" and now see it on almost every prime time drama. Overly bright beams of yellow light through windows, supposedly the sun.

by Anonymousreply 175March 27, 2015 7:33 PM

R172 and the first person always changes their mind about what they were initially gonna say and instead responds with something really stupid like, "I... I just wanted to know what you wanted for dinner" or if Person #2 is eating something the response is, "I... I just wanted to tell you you have a bit of ketchup on your lip." Hate that!

by Anonymousreply 176March 27, 2015 7:35 PM

No one uses keys. When someone leaves their house or apartment, they never lock a door. Characters who enter a car on a street or in a parking lot, never unlock the door to get in.

by Anonymousreply 177March 27, 2015 7:38 PM

Everyone's houses always look inspection ready. I'm not a major slob, but if you come over unannounced, there will probably be dishes in the sink, a few socks in the bathroom, cat hair in the living room, trash that might need to be taken out, etc.

Just once I'd love there to be a bathroom shot of a roll of toilet paper sitting on top of the holder, with an empty cardboard roll still on the holder. That happens all the time at my place and it drives me nuts. A realistic touch like that goes a long way.

by Anonymousreply 178March 27, 2015 7:39 PM

Another example of one of my biggest pet peeves. When the villain is going to kill the hero and then decides to give a full dissertation on why he wants to kill him when the hero already knows damn well why the villain wants him dead thereby giving him enough time to escape.

When I was a kid I just once wanted whomever to off Batman and Robin. I might have been the only child who felt this way but at the end of the first part episode I was always kill the fuckers already!

by Anonymousreply 179March 27, 2015 7:41 PM

In The Following, roving gangs of black-clad, knife-wielding, mask-wearing killers attacking restaurants, automobiles, art galleries, etc. in broad daylight. Nobody fights back and everybody dies.

It's really a crappy show.

by Anonymousreply 180March 27, 2015 7:44 PM

On "Law and Order" street addresses in the middle of the Hudson or East River. The Ricardos were the first TV couple to live in .the East River.

by Anonymousreply 181March 27, 2015 7:46 PM

I love those apparently 24-hour churches that exist in Hollywood where our ethically torn protagonist can kneel and pray and wrestle with their decisions. They are always alone, and there is always a kindly priest who apparently has absolutely nothing to do but wait for drop-ins. Most churches are locked down tight, and if you do manage to get in after hours, the police will be called to throw you out.

by Anonymousreply 182March 27, 2015 7:47 PM

All movies made before 1960 had a character named Mr. Bigelow.

by Anonymousreply 183March 27, 2015 7:47 PM

555-555-5555

by Anonymousreply 184March 27, 2015 7:48 PM

Somebody once mentioned that taxi drivers are always 40 something white men who talk like it was 1944.

by Anonymousreply 185March 27, 2015 7:52 PM

Cell phone batteries that never need to be charged, even if you are trapped in a cave-in for days.

by Anonymousreply 186March 27, 2015 7:55 PM

Stock footage used that has a completely different look than the footage shot for the film. Edward D. Wood, Jr. used a lot of stock footage. The opening credits of the MASH tv series had a brief shot of a truck that was obviously some old, dirty film thad had been found.

by Anonymousreply 187March 27, 2015 7:55 PM

The taxi drivers also have about a day's growth of whiskers, and usually are chewing on a toothpick.

by Anonymousreply 188March 27, 2015 7:57 PM

The solution to a mystery will only come to a man when he peeks through venetian blinds, out the window overlooking the city, staring into space. Then when he "gets it," he suddenly turns towards the room.

by Anonymousreply 189March 27, 2015 8:02 PM

R171 That's so true. Most people I know here in MA don't have a noticeable accent. The Kennedy accent is a mix of Harvard with South Boston "lace curtain Irish." My dad and uncle were upper class Harvard guys (graduated in the mid-30s) and the Harvard accent was such a class based thing (and it's pretty much extinct now.)

The typical Boston accent that people think everyone uses here is nearly impossible to learn. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck do it well. Casey Afflect does about the best generic Boston accent. Because they grew up around it! But you can tell they didn't grow up talking exactly like that. The locals in GONE BABY GONE really show how hard core the real thing can sound.

Cliff Clavin from CHEERS was so bad it was laughable.

by Anonymousreply 190March 27, 2015 8:03 PM

The black lady on the park bench, while merely trying to impart a little grandmotherly advice, inadvertently provides a major clue to the plot puzzle.

by Anonymousreply 191March 27, 2015 8:04 PM

And, by the way, what were they planning to make out of the French bread, carrots and celery? Bánh mì thịt nguội?

by Anonymousreply 192March 27, 2015 8:11 PM

Hearing the same old sounds effects for cars speeding away, tyres squealing etc. Like whenever a car brakes to a halt, there's always a tyre squeak when in reality there would no noise unless you really slammed on the brakes. Also throaty V8 engine noises for vehicles that wouldn't have a V8 eg. light vans and small cars.

by Anonymousreply 193March 27, 2015 8:17 PM

R186 In which case you wouldn't get a signal anyway.

by Anonymousreply 194March 27, 2015 8:19 PM

I think some things are done just to save time, like characters not saying "Bye" when ending a phone call. It's a somewhat boring, everyday thing that adds nothing to the story, thus it's skipped. Same with not naming a place or time to meet up somewhere. I think it's weird to not include those things too, but that's why.

I hate HATE HATE when drivers don't watch the road or turn and are looking at the passenger almost the entire time. This is so unrealistic and I have no idea why not one single fucking person in the entertainment industry hasn't piped up at all in the last 100 years and corrected this!!

by Anonymousreply 195March 27, 2015 8:25 PM

[quote]I hate HATE HATE when drivers don't watch the road or turn and are looking at the passenger almost the entire time. This is so unrealistic and I have no idea why not one single fucking person in the entertainment industry hasn't piped up at all in the last 100 years and corrected this!!

Hear, hear! When I started driving, I always felt insecure about my driving skills because I could never drive and look at the person beside me, simultaneously. If I took my eyes off the road for two seconds, I would start to veer off. Thank god I never tried to further challenge myself!

by Anonymousreply 196March 27, 2015 8:33 PM

[quote]Overexplaining: Detectives and lawyers don't need to clarify shorthand or jargon they use with one another.

R170, the CSI shows built an empire doing just that. If they took out all the stuff people should already have known, each script would have been 23 minutes. Drove me nuts. Could not watch. But some idiots need to have it spoonfed.

by Anonymousreply 197March 27, 2015 8:35 PM

Black female judges!

by Anonymousreply 198March 27, 2015 8:38 PM

Everybody in Texas talks like a hillbilly in TV and movies. Texas women sound like Scarlet O'Hara. The men have drawls. The accents are outrageous. Very few people in Texas have any kind of accent at all anymore. A small percentage of people in VERY small towns have those accents, but the rest of us sound just like Californians.

by Anonymousreply 199March 27, 2015 8:39 PM

Coffee cradlers!

by Anonymousreply 200March 27, 2015 8:39 PM

Sgt. Van Buren and Capt. Creagan on L&O telling cops how to proceed with the investigation, when any cop just out of the Academy knows each step in solving a case.

by Anonymousreply 201March 27, 2015 8:45 PM

That's Lieutenant Van Buren, R201.

by Anonymousreply 202March 27, 2015 8:49 PM

.People speaking Spanish in movies set in Brazil or Portugal. Signs are often in Spanish, too.

.African princesses in remote parts of the jungle wearing weaves or straightened here.

.Weaves and extensions, generally. Women in TV all have too much hair. It doesn't look natural.

. Cheap Prosthetic features in sci fi that defy credibility.

by Anonymousreply 203March 27, 2015 8:58 PM

Hookers on skid row who have all the clues.

by Anonymousreply 204March 27, 2015 8:59 PM

Every single Helmeted spacesuit

Astronaut

Hazmat

Diving

Has a big giant glass dome in the front with interior lighting for occupant's faces.

I've never seen these suits in real life. Do they even exist?

by Anonymousreply 205March 27, 2015 9:06 PM

[quote]Weaves and extensions, generally. Women in TV all have too much hair. It doesn't look natural.

I've noticed this, too. Even with kids. Must be a new millennium thing. My niece watches those teen shows, including Nick and Disney sitcoms, and the teen girls all have hair extensions. If ROSEANNE were set today, I'm afraid they would give Darlene and Becky hairpieces, even if it went against their socioeconomic backgrounds. Not even the rick Cosby kids or Full House girls had extensions/weaves.

by Anonymousreply 206March 27, 2015 9:08 PM

The Wilhelm Scream

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by Anonymousreply 207March 27, 2015 9:13 PM

Rick = rich

by Anonymousreply 208March 27, 2015 9:13 PM

I first noticed those helmets with interior lighting being worn by the fighter pilots on Battlestar Galactica, R205.

It's probably better than not seeing anyone's faces because there's no ambient light, but it took some getting used to.

by Anonymousreply 209March 27, 2015 9:14 PM

[quote]I also hate when two guys are forced to share a bed for some reason and they wake up spooning each other. They then make a big deal about how terrible that is.

But that IS how straight guys would react if that happened to them.

by Anonymousreply 210March 27, 2015 9:14 PM

R207 yes, good one. That shit needs to stop.

by Anonymousreply 211March 27, 2015 9:15 PM

Will Farrell

by Anonymousreply 212March 27, 2015 9:17 PM

Barely any Mexicans in most movies set in Los Angeles even though they're half the city's population.

by Anonymousreply 213March 27, 2015 9:20 PM

Black teenagers that somehow manage to teach older blacks how discriminated they are. Somehow these older blacks manage to make it to 40 or 50 years without ever knowing this.

by Anonymousreply 214March 27, 2015 9:20 PM

R207 How can that peeve you? That sound never gets old! Besides with every film since Star Wars, it's put in as a deliberate injoke/homage.

What bothers me more is the OTT bullet ricochet noise you always hear in old Bond movies etc.

by Anonymousreply 215March 27, 2015 9:26 PM

R211 why?

by Anonymousreply 216March 27, 2015 9:26 PM

R214 what movie was that?

by Anonymousreply 217March 27, 2015 9:27 PM

R209 I think Gravity got some flack for that (without those gold visors the sun would burn your eyes out)

by Anonymousreply 218March 27, 2015 9:29 PM

If it's not already been said:

People who do not live in the house just walking in without knocking or ringing the doorbell.

Did Ethel just walk in hoping to see Ricky naked?

Did Jackie just walk in hoping to see Dan naked?

by Anonymousreply 219March 27, 2015 9:35 PM

[quote]Horror movies where there's a group of kids and one of them is an ignorant asshole/bitch that gets killed first, and the surviors must be one girl and one boy.

The heterosexual agenda.

by Anonymousreply 220March 27, 2015 9:39 PM

[quote]Hookers on skid row who have all their teeth.

Fixed it for you, R204

by Anonymousreply 221March 27, 2015 9:39 PM

[quote]Did Jackie just walk in hoping to see Dan naked?

That was addressed on ROSEANNE in the first seasons. Dan complained about Jackie constantly being there, letting herself in, eating their food, using their washer/dryer, etc.

Roseanne said that Jackie is her sister and best friend and she was family and needed no invitation.

by Anonymousreply 222March 27, 2015 9:41 PM

Horror movies - When the characters didn't bother to switch on the light in their own house to check what's going on but no electricity blackout occurs.

by Anonymousreply 223March 27, 2015 9:56 PM

The CSI shows do the same thing. They go into an obviously inhabited dwelling, but they don't turn on the lights. For some strange reason, they prefer little their LED flashlights.

by Anonymousreply 224March 27, 2015 9:59 PM

[quote]Actually, All in the Family was the first tv show where you heard a toilet flush.

Could someone explain why it was not used before then? I mean something that's an actual reason that makes sense, rather than another version of "that's just the way it was."

by Anonymousreply 225March 27, 2015 10:13 PM

R225, how difficult is it to understand the sound of a toilet flushing might have offended someone's delicate sensibilities?

by Anonymousreply 226March 27, 2015 10:18 PM

It was considered uncouth

Just like in the 50's married couples had separate beds on tv. Sex and bodily Functions were not to be implied.

by Anonymousreply 227March 27, 2015 10:20 PM

[quote]I also hate that most young actors are from the "School of Dean and De Niro." Lots of looking around, smoking a cigarette, hyper masculine but soft spoken and monosyllabic.

You must have hated Jordan Catalano.

by Anonymousreply 228March 27, 2015 10:22 PM

R227 While in Britain Morecambe and Wise shared a bed.

by Anonymousreply 229March 27, 2015 10:23 PM

So people are ignoring r225's specific request? The point of the question, r226 is WHY would it have offended "sensibilities." I can't imagine there are those who have never heard the sound of a toilet. And r227, WHY would it have been "uncouth"?

by Anonymousreply 230March 27, 2015 10:25 PM

R230 Because it hints at pooing or peeing.

by Anonymousreply 231March 27, 2015 10:35 PM

When someone lives in a high rise and has a visitor where they have to let them in with a buzzer, the visitor is at the door a second later as opposed to the minutes it would take to either climb stairs or wait for an elevator.

by Anonymousreply 232March 27, 2015 10:42 PM

Agree with earlier point about TV police departments being impossibly high tech with fashionable furniture/lighting.

Did anyone ever see 70s cop shows like Kojak? Their facilities were the absolute opposite. Apparently police are WAY overfunded now.

Also today, at least on broadcast TV, cops are glorified, almost relentlessly to the point that it's like soviet style propaganda. The old shows showed good cops too, but there was a lot more realism and skepticism shown toward them by the public.

by Anonymousreply 233March 27, 2015 10:54 PM

[quote]Because it hints at pooing or peeing.

But what would be considered WRONG with pooing or peeing? What's the REASON for thinking that is a bad/inappropriate thing?

by Anonymousreply 234March 27, 2015 10:55 PM

50 years ago, R234? Network censors assumed viewers would be offended.

by Anonymousreply 235March 27, 2015 10:57 PM

R203: Straightened here? Straightened where?

by Anonymousreply 236March 27, 2015 11:00 PM

I didn't read the whole thread, so not sure if someone has already mentioned this. 99% of the time, no one says "bye" before hanging up the phone. In real life, you usually would not hang up without some sort of farewell - it would be considered rude.

by Anonymousreply 237March 27, 2015 11:01 PM

R234 Yeah, you're right, there's nothing wrong with it, it's completely natural. In fact I'd like to see people wiping their asses on screen and probably you would too.

by Anonymousreply 238March 27, 2015 11:01 PM

Too bad you didn't read the thread, R237. That was covered by an early post.

by Anonymousreply 239March 27, 2015 11:02 PM

People never look in their key hole to see who has knocked on it.

Nuns in full makeup.

Characters with off screen children who have endless amounts of free time to spend with their co workers, see Carla on Cheers or Elaine from Taxi.

Characters who never are never mentioned again such as Chuck Cunningham, Bobby Martin, Lucy Carmichael and Doris Martin's kids, etc. Florida's fiance, John Burns from Taxi, little girl from Family Matters and The Bonnie Hunt show.

Family pets also go AWOL, King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond...

by Anonymousreply 240March 27, 2015 11:03 PM

When during a angry phone call someone gets hung up on, they then hold the phone and look at it angrily. In real life, no one ever looks at the telephone.

by Anonymousreply 241March 27, 2015 11:09 PM

They're mostly about heterosexuals and their messy lives and their destruction of sacred institutions like marriage.

by Anonymousreply 242March 27, 2015 11:13 PM

R117, their speech is AFFECTED, not effected. Misuse of those words is my pet peeve!

by Anonymousreply 243March 27, 2015 11:15 PM

They're spelled chopsticks, R114 - not chopstix .

by Anonymousreply 244March 27, 2015 11:20 PM

[quote]A couple is having hot sex in bed. The woman wears a lacy bra all through it.

That one drives me nuts. And I'm a gay man. But women show their tits during sex. It's just, how they do it.

by Anonymousreply 245March 27, 2015 11:21 PM

Plucked eyebrows on women in movies about people of 1800 living in the prairies.

by Anonymousreply 246March 27, 2015 11:25 PM

Yeah, the woman wrapping herself in the bedsheet after sex is just stupid. He just fucked your brains out, and now you're suddenly modest?

by Anonymousreply 247March 27, 2015 11:27 PM

*people of the 1800* era

by Anonymousreply 248March 27, 2015 11:27 PM

FALSE COLORS in movies. I can't believe no one's mentioned this. Increasingly for the last 8 years or so everything is becoming aqua/teal and orange! It's like there's only two colors. It's rare to find a movie where all the colors aren't washed out and bland or are this stupid mix of orange and light blue.

by Anonymousreply 249March 27, 2015 11:27 PM

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by Anonymousreply 250March 27, 2015 11:33 PM

This was just in last night's episode of "Bones" but it's somewhat common -- whenever a show or movie features someone who has recently died and that show has a young child in it, the child will have an "imaginary friend" who has characteristics or knowledge that the dead person had.

"Daddy, my invisible friend Maurice said that he's sorry you lost your big business account today."

"*gasp* My best friend from work Maurice died yesterday. And I DID lose a big account today!"

by Anonymousreply 251March 27, 2015 11:38 PM

Everyone goes to sleep in full make-up.

Men wearing 1950's button shirt and full pant pajamas to bed.

by Anonymousreply 252March 27, 2015 11:38 PM

Let's gang fuck this R9 bitch!

by Anonymousreply 253March 27, 2015 11:39 PM

2 of mine are:

They NEVER shut the door!! Why? Film school grads, is there some hidden meaning to this? It drives me crazy. No one does that In real life.

When brushing with an electric toothbrush, where you are supposed to let the brush do most of the work and you just slowly move it along, people brush as though they were using an old-fashioned toothbrush. Why? It's distracting! It happened most recently in "Force Majeure". About 5 times!

And, whenever anyone answers the door(unless looking really terrible is part of the plot point) they are dressed "smart casual". Coiffed hair, showered, full make-up, clothing and shoes that are appropriate to walk out the door wearing at a moment's notice... I don't know about you, but if I am hanging at home, I am wearing at shirt and boxers.

by Anonymousreply 254March 27, 2015 11:46 PM

R82

"The bag of groceries with the french bread and carrots - who carries ONE brown bag of groceries, ever?"

And where are the handles? I haven't seen brown paper grocery bags without handles for 20 years!

by Anonymousreply 255March 27, 2015 11:50 PM

to the guy complaining about wet streets in night scenes on film an tv: they do that because reflections of lights (from lampposts, windows, neons and such) on a wet street make the scene look prettier and more "alive"

by Anonymousreply 256March 28, 2015 12:06 AM

Top secret government files that contain top secret documents and/or nuclear launch codes that can blow up the entire planet are accessed via a 5-digit password that can easily be guessed in one minute.

**FACEPALM**

by Anonymousreply 257March 28, 2015 12:39 AM

Here's an oldie. My dad, a journalist, used to crack up at old movies which had a ubiquitous nosy reporter shouting questions, furiously jotting down notes, many times with the nickname of "Scoop" and always wearing a rumpled looking hat with some kind of paper stuck in the hat band with "press" printed on it.

by Anonymousreply 258March 28, 2015 12:43 AM

r257, it's 6 digits if you actually want to launch the missiles

by Anonymousreply 259March 28, 2015 12:45 AM

The one that kind of bugs me is when people are in knock down, drag out fights that should leave their battered faces swollen and bruised for weeks and the next day they might sport a bandaid at most.

by Anonymousreply 260March 28, 2015 12:56 AM

R254 that was mine as well. When I have a day off and don't have to go anywhere, it's t-shirts and pants at home. Maybe socks and shoes, maybe not. If i havent brushed my hair ill pit a hat on before answering the door. A lot of shows have people fully dressed at all times. And in nice clothes, too. Especially the women, it's like they don't own ratty t-shirts.

by Anonymousreply 261March 28, 2015 1:02 AM

Female sex crimes detectives often wear low-cut cleavage revealing tops, skin tight lowrider jeans and 5-inch heel fuck-me shoes.

by Anonymousreply 262March 28, 2015 1:07 AM

So many of these things people are complaining about are just to make the show more interesting, do you really want to watch someone driving around looking for parking place, then walking two blocks to get to their destination?

That would bother me much more than the unrealistic parking spot right in front of some place.

by Anonymousreply 263March 28, 2015 1:09 AM

Endings that come out of nowhere like Halle Berry's abrupt change of character in The Rich Man's Wife.

by Anonymousreply 264March 28, 2015 1:19 AM

[quote]do you really want to watch someone driving around looking for parking place, then walking two blocks to get to their destination?

You don't have to follow them for 5 minutes Gus Van Sant style. Just show they parked normally and skip to the entrance.

by Anonymousreply 265March 28, 2015 1:23 AM

I always laugh when Olivia on L&O SVU pulls back the sides of her jacket or sweater so we can see her boobs.

by Anonymousreply 266March 28, 2015 1:44 AM

Female scientists are young and gorgeous with big tits.

by Anonymousreply 267March 28, 2015 2:07 AM

[quote]Female scientists are young and gorgeous with big tits.

And cops and lawyers, etc. Then there's the matter of judges. Apparently most of them are black and female. Perhaps our law schools need some affirmative action so we can get some more caucasian male judges.

by Anonymousreply 268March 28, 2015 2:14 AM

In horror movies it's standard to have an animal, usually a nice dog, get killed. I don't know why that is; it adds nothing to the story and it's not scary at all. It's just awful and so unnecessary.

by Anonymousreply 269March 28, 2015 3:10 AM

It set a tone, R269.

by Anonymousreply 270March 28, 2015 3:19 AM

The scene where the hero/heroine stumbles across a scrapbook or box belonging to the villain, showing all his/her evil deeds (Yes, I recently watched Misery)

by Anonymousreply 271March 28, 2015 3:21 AM

"It set a tone."

It's boring and predictable. I'm sick of it.

by Anonymousreply 272March 28, 2015 4:17 AM

In old movies and tv show - (60s, 70s) - a character will break up with someone and leave, saying, "I'll send someone for my things" . Who do they send? And what things? How would this person know what to get? would always crack me up.

by Anonymousreply 273March 28, 2015 4:37 AM

I hate when an actor leaves a series, particularly if it on bad terms , the show never barely, if ever mentions that character ever again.. It leaves the viewer feeling that when a character quits or moves away that they cut all ties to their former life. Did Chrissy snow have a such a falling out with jack and Janet that she never contacted them or attended jacks wedding? The one that bothers me the most is when Chris Meloni left law and order svu ,his character goes completely Mia ..his character and Olivia were very close.. It seems odd that he wouldn't help when Olivia was abducted and the later trial of her attacker.. It also seems odd that he would not attended the retirement of Munch or Cragen..

by Anonymousreply 274March 28, 2015 4:41 AM

TV characters that start off fairly intelligent then become super stupid/airheaded/naive/ridiculous in the subsequent seasons.

by Anonymousreply 275March 28, 2015 4:56 AM

Me too, R275!

by Anonymousreply 276March 28, 2015 5:01 AM

College dorm rooms are really spacious and are in lovely old ivy-covered buildings and not cramped little cinderblock hovels.

by Anonymousreply 277March 28, 2015 5:20 AM

Unrealistic staffing at jobs.. Cheers looks like a busy bar, opening sometime in the afternoon, staying open til 2, yet most the time they only had three employees, (Rebecca was hardly shown working).. A busy bar like that would need several bartenders.. in shows that are set in hospitals, police stations, magazines, news room, there would be tons of personnel , not just 4 or 5 people.. Sometimes on shows like law and order and Murphy brown there are various people in background, but they never to interact with the other characters or attend things like briefings or meetings.. And in that instance why did David Spades character who was a secretary on Just Shoot Me always attend the meetings , but not people who helped put together the magazine.?

by Anonymousreply 278March 28, 2015 5:23 AM

Airports and airlines are never depicted accurately ... Even in movies and shows set after 9/11, security always seems to be a breeze and characters can disrupt operations on a plane and never seem to face consequences .. Didnt Rachel basically say their was a bomb or something so that the plane would go back and meet Ross?

by Anonymousreply 279March 28, 2015 5:28 AM

r278, have you visited a hospital lately? I've been to too many that resembled the scene in "The Godfather." TRY to find a nurse!

by Anonymousreply 280March 28, 2015 5:32 AM

Another example, R278, is the TV show Alice where the diner was busy enough to need three waitresses, but only Mel worked in the kitchen with not so much as a Mexicano dishwasher to aid him.

by Anonymousreply 281March 28, 2015 5:33 AM

People arguing in restaurants or other public area and no one around them seems to notice until it gets physical.

by Anonymousreply 282March 28, 2015 5:34 AM

R247, yes, women don't usually want to lie around topless post-coitus.

And the gripe about a "lacy bra" is ludicrous, considering men are NEVER shown "bottomless" in a sex scene!

by Anonymousreply 283March 28, 2015 5:37 AM

Speaking of the really insanely well put-together, has anyone else noticed that every cop on "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" has perfect, large, neon-white teeth? And the amount of time that must go into doing Rosa's hair is insane.

Scully and Hitchcock are supposed to be schlubs but they look mostly normal while everyone else looks like they're done up for a cocktail party and just need to change into their formal wear.

by Anonymousreply 284March 28, 2015 9:22 AM

R59 on Archer, they have a recurring bit where he tells the bad guy he's out of bullets, because he counted shots. I love that.

Computers where people exclusively use the keyboard instead of using a mouse.

Quirky alterna girls with piercings and tattoos and funky fashion sense who have high-clearance government jobs. Looking at you, CBS. These agencies do have dress codes.

Broad daylight when kids are going to school. Every scene of a school bus stop looks like it was shot noon, not 8am.

by Anonymousreply 285March 28, 2015 3:37 PM

My biggest pet peeve is when stuff happens that could never happen in real life. Because TV and movies should be EXACTLY like real life. In fact, they should just eliminate scripted entertainment and put up live streaming cameras all over the world so we can watch nothing but reality.

by Anonymousreply 286March 28, 2015 3:39 PM

[quote]Quirky alterna girls with piercings and tattoos and funky fashion sense who have high-clearance government jobs. Looking at you, CBS. These agencies do have dress codes.

A young woman who fit that description was working at the reception desk at the local IRS office last week. Dress codes are mostly about covering one's body, they do not dictate one's fashion sense.

Piercings and tattoos have nothing to do with getting a security clearance.

by Anonymousreply 287March 28, 2015 3:46 PM

In any workplace environment, there's an underling who will talk back, cause problems, wreck havoc, etc especially towards a boss or supervisor and yet that person will never be reprimanded or fired. It's always a "misunderstanding", everyone will have a laugh and so on.

by Anonymousreply 288March 28, 2015 3:53 PM

"" Wet streets at night.

Always.

TV shows, Movies, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Death Valley....

Always wet. ""

Mad Magazine addressed that something like 40 years ago. Last panel of their version of the old TV series "The Fugitive".

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by Anonymousreply 289March 28, 2015 5:59 PM

R11: Wet streets reflect the lighting better & make a more interesting visual than if they were dry.

R19: This is referred to as "Princess Parking". lol

by Anonymousreply 290March 28, 2015 6:37 PM

R25 is a dumb ass bitch and a liar.

by Anonymousreply 291March 28, 2015 6:42 PM

When people have obviously just had sex, in either movies or on a TV show, they all seem to have magically put their underwear back on. almost instantly.

Or the woman had sex with her bra on.

Movies taking place completely in foreign locales: everyone speaks fluent, perfect English. Even to each other, although they're not in an English-speaking country.

Horror/thriller movies especially: People enter darkened rooms & don't turn the fucking lights on, preferring to stumble around & of course, get themselves killed.

by Anonymousreply 292March 28, 2015 6:44 PM

R219: In Frasier, who lived in a very high end building, allegedly with a doorman, everyone showed up, unannounced, to his apartment front door.

by Anonymousreply 293March 28, 2015 6:53 PM

Mostly on TV shows: The whole family is up, dressed, cheerful & having a full, cooked breakfast...and it's like 6AM

by Anonymousreply 294March 28, 2015 6:55 PM

R171: Olympia Dukakis' Claree in Steel Magnolias was a great example of how to ruin a movie with a badly faked accent.

by Anonymousreply 295March 28, 2015 6:58 PM

Presumably since I never hear a southern accent except in movies, Claree didn't take me away from enjoying the movie one bit, R290. Now, the fact that Dylan McDermott could have done SO much better than Julia Roberts, that's another story.

by Anonymousreply 296March 28, 2015 7:01 PM

R296: Nope, in that town, Julia Roberts was a good as it got. But I like the way you think.

by Anonymousreply 297March 28, 2015 7:05 PM

Why is it that a ghost can go through a wall but will never fall through the floor?

by Anonymousreply 298March 28, 2015 7:12 PM

R298: NO MORE CALLS, FOLKS. WE HAVE A WINNER!

by Anonymousreply 299March 28, 2015 7:17 PM

Aren't ghosts usually hovering?

by Anonymousreply 300March 28, 2015 7:22 PM

Beautifully wrapped gifts! ALWAYS!!!

I have tried for years to make gifts look so nice. It is futile.

And "the female side by side slow motion model walk to a pop song"

In any female comedy there is that moment where all of the main female characters are in slow motion doing a model glamour walk in slow motion to a pop song.

by Anonymousreply 301March 28, 2015 7:34 PM

[quote]Beautifully wrapped gifts! ALWAYS!!!

[quote]I have tried for years to make gifts look so nice. It is futile.

And they're usually easy to unwrap. Just lift off the lid. Who he fuck wraps the bottom and the lid separately?!

by Anonymousreply 302March 28, 2015 7:38 PM

[quote]Aren't ghosts usually hovering?

Hazel Burke's ghost is usually Hoovering.

by Anonymousreply 303March 28, 2015 8:18 PM

R295, when Gene Shalit reviewed STEEL MAGNOLIAS, he said that Olympia Dukakis is as southern as South Boston.

by Anonymousreply 304March 28, 2015 8:34 PM

R304 Olympia Dukakis is from Lowell, Mass.

by Anonymousreply 305March 28, 2015 8:39 PM

I saw "Convicts 4" in the theater back in the '60s. Ben Gazzara is walking in prison, and he asks Roland La Starza, as a fellow convict, what his name is. La Starza, a young boxer in perfect shape, and reclining in his upper bed seductively replies, "Paradise". It was shown on TCM, and now the La Starza says different lines, but includes the word, "Paradise", as if he's reading off a prompter.

The same with the recent, "Monsoon" airing. In the movie I saw, there is George Nader, dripping wet during the monsoon. His well-shaped body accentuated. Now, in the recent showing, there's little showing the "monsoon", and Nader is dry.

by Anonymousreply 306March 28, 2015 9:25 PM

Disaster movies. Seems there always has to be a little girl crying and holding a doll.

by Anonymousreply 307March 28, 2015 9:27 PM

The high school nerd is always dark-haired, with dark-rimmed glasses. Yet, on "Jeopardy", some of the champs are blond and don't wear glasses.

by Anonymousreply 308March 28, 2015 9:32 PM

If a scene shows Native Americans, here comes the inevitable flute music in the background.

In a movie about Italians, there has to be a dinner scene, with shouting and critical comments from the parents; mainly, the papa.

by Anonymousreply 309March 28, 2015 9:35 PM

[quote]Who the fuck wraps the bottom and the lid separately?!

Soap opera production assistants, R302, since time immemorial. They once offered a course in it at the School of Visual Arts.

by Anonymousreply 310March 28, 2015 9:36 PM

Some jerk holds open the elevator while he/she has a talk with somebody else. And the other riders don't utter a word of protest!

by Anonymousreply 311March 28, 2015 9:37 PM

[quote]Horror/thriller movies especially: People enter darkened rooms & don't turn the fucking lights on, preferring to stumble around & of course, get themselves killed.

And why do they always go down to the basement no matter how loudly you're yelling no.

by Anonymousreply 312March 28, 2015 9:56 PM

Every action/adventure movie does not need to have a pretty woman written into the script as being a heroic character or critical enabler/lover. Some of it looks so forced and detracts from the fundamental plot. Sure, attractive, sexy women add to viewer appeal, but is it necessary to have female beauty on a toppling oil rig or rolling with an avalanche?

by Anonymousreply 313March 28, 2015 10:04 PM

supposedly well trained people will fire dozens of bullets at each other while merely jogging from one corner to the other - but the hero will not get hit. dude, no way, this is an automatic rifle. bitch will hit you after the 3. attempt.

by Anonymousreply 314March 28, 2015 10:07 PM

"Parking spots always, always magically available right in front of the building."

No, it's called "Doris Day parking."

by Anonymousreply 315March 28, 2015 10:16 PM

R310 I mean normal people, which actors in these movies/shows are supposed to represent. When was the last time you were given a gift by a friend or relative that was wrapped like that?

by Anonymousreply 316March 28, 2015 10:18 PM

That kissing noise - you know, the smoochy lip smacking - that would never happen in real life (and if it did, I'd ask you to leave.)

When cars are driving fast down a dirt or gravel road, slam on the brakes and come to a screeching halt (conversely, squealing the tires accelerating on a dirt or gravel road)

by Anonymousreply 317March 28, 2015 10:19 PM

Julianne Moore tries to do a Boston accent throughout her appearances on 30 Rock and it is cringe worthy.

Another pet peeve is when someone is conducting a stakeout and it's basically two grown men sitting in the front seat of a car on an otherwise empty suburban street looking completely obvious.

by Anonymousreply 318March 28, 2015 10:23 PM

Roger Cook, the gardener/landscaper on This Old House, has the greatest Boston accent.

by Anonymousreply 319March 28, 2015 10:27 PM

Speaking of cars and driving, I totally LOATHE the rear projections they used for driving scenes in movies until the late 1960s, especially when it didn't match the steering wheel movements. Whenever a character makes a turn onto another street, the rear projection looks like the car is spinning out of control.

by Anonymousreply 320March 28, 2015 10:28 PM

This one doesn't bug me much, but it does make me laugh. When characters on a tv show go out to eat, restaurant tables seem both way too big and way too far apart. Maybe that makes sense in Wyoming? But for shows set in NY or other big cities, it's weird as heck.

by Anonymousreply 321March 28, 2015 10:32 PM

R3, ya beat to it. Not saying bye to end a phone conversation drives me crazy.

Why don't people in movies say goodbye on the phone?

by Anonymousreply 322March 28, 2015 10:40 PM

A beautiful girl is walking in a seemingly deserted area. Nobody around; then a close-up of the girl, as a pair of gloved hands cover her face.

by Anonymousreply 323March 28, 2015 10:45 PM

When "Kojak" was riding in an NYPD squad car, it turned a corner and we could see palm trees in the background.

by Anonymousreply 324March 28, 2015 10:46 PM

Children who are made to sound like Catskills comedians, all zippy comebacks and colorful put-downs. This is made worse when the writers expect the child actor to replicate the inflection as well as the words of a Borscht Belt comic.

"What am I, chopped liver?"

by Anonymousreply 325March 28, 2015 10:51 PM

In the film IN THE BEDROOM, I didn't like the part where, after visiting her son's grave, Sissy Spacek is walking back and you see that someone's watching her, and just as she's about to get into her car, a hand comes out of nowhere and grabs her, spooking her. Turns out it was the priest and they have a nice conversation.

I didn't like how they set it up like a horror movie, in a cemetery no less. Besides, who approaches someone like that? People who know each other call out the person's name to get their attention, not creep up behind them and grab their shoulder. So hokey.

I've seen this "scare tactic" in other films before, but this one's the one that came to mind at the moment.

by Anonymousreply 326March 28, 2015 10:52 PM

[quote]That kissing noise - you know, the smoochy lip smacking - that would never happen in real life (and if it did, I'd ask you to leave.)

by Anonymousreply 327March 28, 2015 11:18 PM

In The Walking Dead (and other shows and movies) where they keep adding metal sheath sound effects every time someone is stabbed. The blade is going into soft flesh, not a metal sheath, it would never make sounds like that.

Heavy breathing whispery voices whenever some of the characters are discussing something serious. You can literally hear every wheezing sound of their breath - it's total overkill.

When they show young people supposedly living in an apartment in New York, and it looks like it's at least 2500 square feet - as if they could really afford something that big.

TV shows where the homeowners have modest paying jobs, but somehow are living in what would easily be a $1.5 - $2MM home.

by Anonymousreply 328March 28, 2015 11:37 PM

Yes, R316, I know (in fact, I also know they really [italic]didn't[/italic] offer a course in it at SVA).

by Anonymousreply 329March 28, 2015 11:48 PM

[quote]TV shows where the homeowners have modest paying jobs, but somehow are living in what would easily be a $1.5 - $2MM home

Very true, and movies are the same as well. I can't remember the last time I saw a movie where the characters are supposed to be middle-class and actually lived in a middle-class dwelling. They're all in big houses in pristine neighborhoods.

by Anonymousreply 330March 28, 2015 11:53 PM

The black teenager with a chip on her shoulder. No matter what happens or what she gets in life, she will never be free of that chip.

by Anonymousreply 331March 29, 2015 12:05 AM

Going through a box of family mementos in the attic. Why must it always be done in the attic? Why can't you bring the box down to the living room and be comfortable on the couch?

by Anonymousreply 332March 29, 2015 12:06 AM

The Tired Professional Woman. A doctor, lawyer, or other highly-paid professional, who is tired. Always tired. Often attractive but too tired to go out on a date. Now that we have covered this, if you'll excuse me, I'm very tired.

by Anonymousreply 333March 29, 2015 12:09 AM

Men or women coming to the pool or ocean surface with perfectly slicked back hair.

On police procedural shows, there is the on foot chase scene. I have no experience with good or bad police, but I'm sure as heck not going to run from an armed policeman. I wonder if wannabes see this and think it's the cool thing to do.

Characters who pour tea or coffee in a scene. When was the last time you poured, unless asked to, a half or less cup of anything?

by Anonymousreply 334March 29, 2015 12:14 AM

The required romantic subplot in any action, adventure or sci-fi film. Even "Independence Day" had a wedding. They do this just so the wives or girlfriends will buy a ticket along with the male moviegoer.

by Anonymousreply 335March 29, 2015 12:29 AM

[quote][R170], the CSI shows built an empire doing just that. If they took out all the stuff people should already have known, each script would have been 23 minutes. Drove me nuts. Could not watch. But some idiots need to have it spoonfed.

Yes. And the it's not just clarifying info. The interaction is fake and distracting. They stand there in a group like they're middle schoolers on stage for the first time reading their lines in a play. Everyone takes an orderly turn saying things that NOBODY in those situations would say. I've come to despise most American broadcast television. It's unwatchable.

Then there's the casting.... always the same TYPE of people, DRESSED the same way, wearing celeb/fashion type clothes. They're "diverse" as PC requires, but the diversity only applies to race. They exclude what I'd call real normal people.

by Anonymousreply 336March 29, 2015 12:42 AM

[quote]And the gripe about a "lacy bra" is ludicrous, considering men are NEVER shown "bottomless" in a sex scene!

I've seen Brent Corrigan do it numerous times.

by Anonymousreply 337March 29, 2015 12:58 AM

In pop culture horror movies, all the teenagers split-up rather than hanging together to be safer. There's always the one jerk teen. Of course, one cute girl is the hero-type after so much chasing and abuse, and her hunky boyfriend re-appears, very hurt, after he was presumed to be killed earlier. The boyfriend, or girl, slays the villian, as the other was about to succomb.

by Anonymousreply 338March 29, 2015 1:27 AM

Pink boxes from the bakery...why are they always pink and never have the bakery's name printed on them?

by Anonymousreply 339March 29, 2015 1:29 AM

After watching Looper this evening, I've thought of a couple of new pet peeves for dystopian future sci-fi movies - present day cars dirtied up with black cladding and solar panels added, corny retro stuff (in Looper they've got Gats which are big Dirty Harry-esque revolvers - why would they want to use revolvers in the future?) and corny buzzwords.

Looper was OK but the rave reviews baffle me, it felt like it was full of stuff I'd seen before (surely movie critics would feel this even more) and the latter part of the movie on Emily Blunt's farm bored me a little. Agricultural settings also feel like an overused thing in recent sci-fi movies.

by Anonymousreply 340March 29, 2015 1:34 AM

When it is raining at a funeral everyone has perfectly appropriate black umbrellas. Never any of the brightly colored ones with advertising on them that you get for free.

by Anonymousreply 341March 29, 2015 1:35 AM

Presents are always wrapped so the lid is wrapped separately and the recipient just pops off the top.

by Anonymousreply 342March 29, 2015 1:38 AM

Whenever I bring an umbrella anywhere, R341, it is black.

by Anonymousreply 343March 29, 2015 1:43 AM

R341 Because then it would look comically inappropriate. In "I'm Alan Partridge", Patridge (Steve Coogan) goes to a funeral in a black puffa jacket (probably because he doesn't own a dark suit) and when he turns around we see that it has "Castrol GTX" written on the back in big yellow letters.

by Anonymousreply 344March 29, 2015 1:45 AM

A lot of times at funerals you get caught by surprise when it rains and you grab whatever umbrella you have in the car which many times could be a golf umbrella with neon colors!

by Anonymousreply 345March 29, 2015 1:52 AM

The living room rarely has a TV set.

by Anonymousreply 346March 29, 2015 1:54 AM

The portrayal of cops. Hollywood used to have cop characters speak with a sing-song Irish brogue. Somewhere around 1965 or so, this has slowly been replaced with "duh workin' man Bronx accent, what's it to ya?" accent.

The police stations are brightly lit and filled with typing cops (wtf?) and telephones ringing, and the stereotypical gum-chewing thug being escorted in handcuffs past the protagonist. There is a central office with frosted glass walls where someone inside is shouting angrily. We know who it is even before the door opens: it's the ANGRY, SHOUTING AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLICE CAPTAIN!

by Anonymousreply 347March 29, 2015 1:58 AM

Most of the criminals are white. TV must feed the PC fantasy.

by Anonymousreply 348March 29, 2015 2:02 AM

Romantic subplots in action and sci-fi films can be irritating when they really have nothing to do with the overall story and are obviously shoe-horned in to attract a female audience and to reinforce that the male lead isn't queer.

by Anonymousreply 349March 29, 2015 2:03 AM

Front doors are never locked, even in apartments and houses in cities.

People never say "Bye" or "Talk to you later" when hanging up the phone.

by Anonymousreply 350March 29, 2015 2:07 AM

[quote]Front doors are never locked, even in apartments and houses in cities.

Thus allowing the annoying neighbor to barge in, unannounced and unexpected. Seinfeld drove me nuts because Cramer always needed stuff from Jerry's apartment. Most of it was very common stuff so why didn't he have his own?

by Anonymousreply 351March 29, 2015 2:10 AM

R349 It's not just action and sci-fi films. In A Few Good Men it actually feels quite mold-breaking that Tom Cruise and Demi Moore don't end up in a relationship at the end of the movie, she just gives him an impressed look (for spectacularly winning the case) and that's it. Though they do go on a "date" at one point.

by Anonymousreply 352March 29, 2015 2:12 AM

And that made the movie better r352.

by Anonymousreply 353March 29, 2015 2:16 AM

In The First Wives Club Elise Elliot tells the bartender "Sean Connery is 300 years old and still gets the babe". It is so true. They continually hook geriatric actors with hot young twenty-somethings.

by Anonymousreply 354March 29, 2015 2:21 AM

"Pink boxes from the bakery...why are they always pink and never have the bakery's name printed on them?"

That's an L.A. thing, R339.

by Anonymousreply 355March 29, 2015 2:26 AM

All plain clothed US law enforcement officers, whether it's police detectives or FBI, CIA, DEA, ATF or NSA agents, ALWAYS drive an unmarked FORD CROWN VICTORIA. Even when undercover. Is this the way it is in real life?

Also it looks funny when police officers take their squad car home with them. In the Fargo TV series, Colin Hanks has his (marked) Crown Victoria parked outside his apartment at night. Surely in real life it would end up getting vandalised?

by Anonymousreply 356March 29, 2015 2:31 AM

R356

Most departments lease through Ford, for some reason. Crown Vics have been common for both marked and unmarked cars for many years.

Also, many departments have a take home program and although it probably happens that someone's car might get vandalized, I've never heard of it happening.

by Anonymousreply 357March 29, 2015 2:54 AM

I'm going to be an extra in the new Steve Jobs movie starring Michael Fassbender tomorrow. The scene is the unveiling of the imac in 1998 and I'll be in the audience. They told us to not wear anything with logos and no black clothing. They're not very uptight about our wardrobe choices, so I wonder what it'll look like on screen (for instance, clothing that clearly looks like 2015 instead of 1998). It should be a fun day!

by Anonymousreply 358March 29, 2015 2:58 AM

I'm starting to tired of the horror movies using the type of filming that the Blair Witch Project started. As if the characters are holding a camera and it's all shaky and fucked up. Too many do it now.

by Anonymousreply 359March 29, 2015 3:07 AM

Cops, and in some cases spies, are known by every person on the street, informants, shopkeepers, bartenders, etc etc and yet they always go undercover and no one recognizes them.

by Anonymousreply 360March 29, 2015 3:58 AM

Middle-aged fat slobs with young, skinny and hot wives.

by Anonymousreply 361March 29, 2015 4:00 AM

R341 - in fact, it always seems to be raining at funerals.

by Anonymousreply 362March 29, 2015 4:08 AM

If a woman is pregnant, you can bet she will give birth before the movie is over. "Fargo" was the only exception, that I know of.

by Anonymousreply 363March 29, 2015 4:13 AM

On cop and law dramas, they will often work late and order in Chinese food and eat out of the to-go containers with chopsticks.

Watch next time: one of the male characters WILL talk with his mouth full.

On SVU, it Sam Waterston used to be THE open-mouthed-lo-mein-eater. But Linus Roache did it a few times too.

by Anonymousreply 364March 29, 2015 4:14 AM

r363, you should see The Last American Virgin.

by Anonymousreply 365March 29, 2015 4:20 AM

The (super-)villain has a secret base which is so immensely large that it really shouldn't be hidden, either by satellites, heat signatures, sheer manpower going in and out, the amount of maintenance and upkeep, etc

by Anonymousreply 366March 29, 2015 4:20 AM

Nuns in full habit. I work for a Catholic agency. It is rare to see a nun with a veil; even more rare to see a nun with a modified habit. Come to think of it, all the nuns that I know are all old enough to collect social security.

In a related matter, confessionals. When a character goes to confession, it is in a traditional confessional box with screens and curtains. Contemporary Catholic churches have reconciliation rooms that look like the waiting room at my doctor's office, but smaller and without magazines.

by Anonymousreply 367March 29, 2015 4:54 AM

I met a nun on a plane who was dressed in a black mid-calf skirt, dark hose and dark blouse with no headgear on. She just looked like a dowdy librarian. Is that normal now?

by Anonymousreply 368March 29, 2015 4:59 AM

Yup [R368}

by Anonymousreply 369March 29, 2015 5:05 AM

*Pregnancy tests left RIGHT IN THE BATHROOM TRASH CAN! (No way--those things get wrapped up and thrown away at a gas station!)

*People who open doors without looking through the peephole--so dangerous.

*As others have mentioned, the chopstick thing is annoying but I actually find the eating out of the carton part worse. Who does that? People usually share Chinese food--why does everyone on a TV show get their own? (That goes for ice cream cartons too.). Which brings me to...broken-hearted girls crying on the bed eating Haagen Daz from the carton. This NEVER, EVER happens in real life!

by Anonymousreply 370March 29, 2015 5:12 AM

R124, on the flip side of what you said there is the movie SHINING THROUGH. Michael Douglas plays an American posing as a Nazi soldier. I guess he couldn't even do a typical Hollywood/German accent, so he had a big bandage on his throat. Whenever someone asked him something that necessitated a response he pointed to his bandaged throat.

by Anonymousreply 371March 29, 2015 5:50 AM

R367, working for a Catholic Agency you should know that "nuns" live in cloistered communities. The women you refer to are "Religious Sisters."

by Anonymousreply 372March 29, 2015 4:13 PM

R106, On New York buses, when an actor says a line we see a view out the window. When the actor in the next seat replies, the bus is ten blocks farther. With CGI this kind of mistake could be eliminated.

by Anonymousreply 373March 29, 2015 4:31 PM

Probably been mentioned already but... if a movie or show takes place in Paris, a window will almost always feature a view of the Eiffel Tower; if it takes places in New York City, it will feature a view of the Empire State Building.

by Anonymousreply 374March 29, 2015 6:43 PM

Usually seen in romantic comedies -- grown adults having pillows fights with feathers flying everywhere around the room as they laugh. First of all, how many people actually buy feather-filled pillows these days? Secondly, doesn't the pillow fight leave a huge mess? And thirdly, who's going to clean up that stuff?

by Anonymousreply 375March 30, 2015 1:56 AM

Just saw this one and it reminded me how many times I've seen it. Whenever someone is awoken in the middle of the night with a light going on, by someone barging in their bedroom, they are surprisingly spry whereas most people would be groggy and blinded by the sudden light, blinking and rubbing their eyes. Hell, I bump into door jambs and stagger like a drunk trying to walk to my bathroom in the morning.

by Anonymousreply 376March 30, 2015 4:34 AM

Television shows have gotten much better when it comes to depicting protagonist/antagonist fist fights. In the 40s and 50s, just one left hook casually thrown by our hero would instantly knock out the opponent. Then, in the 60s, there was the ubiquitous Judo chop to the back of the neck, a single blow that would likewise drop an opponent to the floor.

by Anonymousreply 377March 30, 2015 1:05 PM

I think action shows still get it wrong when the heroes mount an assault on the enemy fortress. They sneak up on the sentries around the perimeter and disable them with a single blow to the jaw or back of the head, and the sentry conveniently falls to the ground, unconscious for however long it takes the heroes to storm the fortress and escape with the girl, the datachip or the diamonds.

In reality, people don't suddenly go limp unless you have given them a serious brain injury. But they're shown being knocked out so the heroes remain the "good guys" and don't have to kill them.

I've often thought it was kind of funny, too, that the evil genius always has an army of minions ready to give their lives for his nefarious scheme. How do you recruit for something like that? Typical mercenaries are not going to lay down their lives for someone else; they're out to save their own skin.

by Anonymousreply 378March 30, 2015 2:00 PM

[quote]In reality, people don't suddenly go limp unless you have given them a serious brain injury.

So what does happen?

by Anonymousreply 379March 30, 2015 2:05 PM

Well, R379, they usually get really pissed off and fight back.

by Anonymousreply 380March 30, 2015 2:19 PM

I live in Chicago and see nuns in full penguin suits all the time.

by Anonymousreply 381March 30, 2015 2:24 PM

R346 I thought those were phased out? Where I Live (central Mass.) they usually just wear the headscarf thing.

by Anonymousreply 382March 30, 2015 2:28 PM

Torn Curtain isn't a good movie, but there is a fight sequence in it that is surprisingly realistic. Hitchcock wanted to show how hard it is to subdue and kill a person. None of this magically dropping people to the ground with one blow-- it seems to take forever. Pretty harrowing to watch.

by Anonymousreply 383March 30, 2015 2:30 PM

On Match Game, when everyone knew the obvious answer and Brett Somers always messed it up with some lame answer that was designed to get a laugh rather than help the contestant win the game.

by Anonymousreply 384March 30, 2015 2:37 PM

A real fight scene would look like Colin Firth and Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones' Diary.

by Anonymousreply 385March 30, 2015 2:39 PM

When there were three different Billie Jos and two different Bobbie Jos on my favorite TV show Petticoat Junction. I was so confused.

by Anonymousreply 386March 30, 2015 2:46 PM

"When there were three different Billie Jos and two different Bobbie Jos on my favorite TV show Petticoat Junction. I was so confused."

And then Bea Benadaret went to Old Lady Heaven and June Lockhart shows up as a doctor and acts all motherly.

by Anonymousreply 387March 30, 2015 3:31 PM

I haven't read the entire thread yet so forgive me if someone else already mentioned this -

- Characters who manage to get their Chinese food delivered in cartons. Granted I live in NJ but the only things that come in cartons are white/brown rice and, depending upon the restaurant, egg foo yong patties. For some reason, the food looks so much "yummier" eaten with chopsticks from carton.

Also, with R117, you don't know how many takes you have to do so eating is chancy. If any of you watch "Mike & Molly," you may have noticed that Victoria (played by Katy Mixon) is now almost the twin of Melissa McCarthy!

I read that she was heart-broken that she and Bobbie Dean had to end their relationship as M&M is shot in CA and Bobbie wouldn't/couldn't relocate. I assumed her initial weight gain was due to the breakup. However, she and Swoosie Kurtz are routinely seen eating pizza, Chinese food and chocolate. They also consume mass quantities of wine, at least portray it that way. I'm sure it's not real wine but if it's grape juice or something like that, it's may be calorie-laden.

by Anonymousreply 388March 30, 2015 3:56 PM

A phone rings. The actor always looks at it before getting the phone. Why - is it gonna grow a face and talk to you??

by Anonymousreply 389March 30, 2015 4:22 PM

R354 haha, it's funny how when a character hears s phone ring they take forever to answer it, and yet when you see them dial a number it only rings once before someone on the other end quickly picks up or goes to voicemail. Always.

by Anonymousreply 390March 30, 2015 4:36 PM

To piggy-back on R334 - whenever a cop or someone else "drops" by, it's no trouble to offer a cup of coffee as "I just made a fresh pot." Who the hell keeps making coffee??!! I would have loved to have worked with some of these people. Back in the 90s, I worked in a small office and we used a Mr Coffee drip coffee maker. More often than not the NEAR EMPTY pot was left on the burner and only removed when someone smelled burnt coffee.

When the coffee is served, it's on a tray with short bread cookies or freshly made cookies. I'm an emotional eater. If you come to my apartment to ask me questions about my recently murdered spouse/partner/loved one, I've already eaten all the cookies and cake in the house!

by Anonymousreply 391March 30, 2015 4:54 PM

"whenever a cop or someone else "drops" by, it's no trouble to offer a cup of coffee as "I just made a fresh pot."

r391, I've also seen this on British tv except with tea. Someone can come running into another person's house saying "Get out, your house is on fire" and the person will say, "Would you like a nice cup of tea?"

by Anonymousreply 392March 30, 2015 5:00 PM

R356 you made me think of another pet peeve of mine. When the cops come around to ask questions, the people never stop what they're doing. Just continue folding laundry, cleaning, raking. Even if they go to confront someone at a restaurant, the waiter/waitress continues bringing food to customers and stuff while being questioned. Who does that? And why don't the cops make them sit down and give them their undivided attention?

by Anonymousreply 393March 30, 2015 5:02 PM

R393: What I find interesting in those situations is that those being questioned never seem to tell the cops to fuck off.

They can't "make" you sit down, because they really can't "make" you talk to them, involuntarily.

You're legally not required to speak to cops if you don't want to. In fact, you shouldn't, esp if you don't have a lawyer present.

But TV shows would never promote that. Interesting.

by Anonymousreply 394March 30, 2015 5:08 PM

When characters visit other people or arrive somewhere and their hair isn't mussed a bit, or no one sweats.

by Anonymousreply 395March 30, 2015 5:19 PM

What do you mean?

by Anonymousreply 396March 30, 2015 5:22 PM

I too am sick of the hand-held camera. Maybe it worked for one movie or one episode of NYPD Blue, but that's it. On a big screen, it gives me motion sickness. On any size screen, it calls attention to itself and thus detracts from the story. Bad filmmaking.

by Anonymousreply 397March 30, 2015 5:24 PM

"On any size screen, it calls attention to itself and thus detracts from the story. Bad filmmaking."

They just did this on the last episode of The Middle. Everytime the daughter Sue looked at the computer, it was as if the computer was looking at her through the computer screen. It was really poor filmmaking and took me out of the storyline.

by Anonymousreply 398March 30, 2015 5:38 PM

Ditto, r397 ... I absolutely hate the hand held camera affect.

by Anonymousreply 399March 30, 2015 6:08 PM

She ain't no straight. She ain't no lez

She only does what her mommy says

What her mommy says

What her mommy says

What her mommy says...

by Anonymousreply 400March 30, 2015 7:18 PM

Period pieces where the actors and actresses have been lifted, fillered and Botoxed to hell and back. Takes me right out of the damn movie.

by Anonymousreply 401March 30, 2015 7:19 PM

Flipping through the channels today and watched a scene of Days Of Our Lives and was reminded of another pet peeve: actor and actress are having a heated discussion. Actress unleashes a barbed retort and flounces out and before actor can go after her, he is sidelined by another actress with a problem and can't go after actress 1.

by Anonymousreply 403March 30, 2015 10:04 PM

Adrienne and Lucas, R403?

by Anonymousreply 404March 30, 2015 10:15 PM

R404 I don't know the names. The guy was behind a bar, actress 1 flounced out and actress 2 came up saying someone wanted the manager.

It's a cliched scene, though, I've seen it over and over.

by Anonymousreply 405March 30, 2015 10:30 PM

R403: that sounds like Dr. Drake Remore'

by Anonymousreply 406March 30, 2015 10:35 PM

r403, Paul must really love Sonny. He was the only one who donated blood to Sonny when he was in the hospital.

by Anonymousreply 407March 30, 2015 10:36 PM

Yeah, period pieces frequently feature well-fed actors with perfect skin and teeth and luxurious manes of hair playing starving peasants and other unfortunates. Hell, even RICH people back in the day had rotten teeth and bad skin.

In movies and tv bizarre behavior is considered to be endearing and appealing. The movie "Benny and Joon" is about a "cute" mentally ill couple. The male lead, Johnny Depp, does a Charlie Chaplin bit called "the dance of the rolls." In "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", Kate Winslet plays a kind of Manic Pixie Dreamgirl; she's an annoying wackadoo, but Jim Carrey is smitten with her (her spontaneity and whimsy help loosen up the uptight Carrey). And if I recall this correctly on "L.A. Law" Harry Hamlin wins Susan Dey away from her fiancé by dressing up in a gorilla suit and showing up on the day she's supposed to get married. Mental illness and bizarre behavior, in actuality, is not attractive or appealing at ALL. But in movies and tv it doesn't matter if you're weird or fucked up or suffering from severe mental illness; someone will fall in love with you because you're just so UNIQUE.

by Anonymousreply 408March 30, 2015 10:51 PM

None of this ever happened.

by Anonymousreply 409March 30, 2015 11:13 PM

Paul's the only one who had Sonny's blood type that day, R407.

by Anonymousreply 410March 30, 2015 11:46 PM

Speaking of John Burns from Taxi, I wondered if they draped him in that scarf in every shot because of his enormous dick.

by Anonymousreply 411March 31, 2015 7:44 AM

The Gays kiss, and that's it. Sooo, howcum we get so agitated about them. What's wrong with a sweet little kiss between two handsome boys, huh?.

by Anonymousreply 412March 31, 2015 7:46 AM

The teeth situation is getting especially ridiculous with this whitening trend. Every actor, no matter how scuzzy, has a glorious, brilliant set of teeth.

by Anonymousreply 413March 31, 2015 7:48 AM

Judging from the tv series, 9th century Vikings had excellent dental care.

by Anonymousreply 414March 31, 2015 7:53 AM

Using time travel to fix things in sci-fi programs. argghhh

by Anonymousreply 415March 31, 2015 8:06 AM

How do we know John Burns had a bit unit? Bulge wise, Alex Rieger wins that contest.

by Anonymousreply 416March 31, 2015 3:44 PM

My pet peeve is seeing minority actors in subservient roles.

Still!

by Anonymousreply 417April 1, 2015 3:35 AM

People dying with their eyes wide open and some caring person does the hand wipe, closing the lids in respect.

by Anonymousreply 418April 1, 2015 3:50 AM

a car spins wildly out of control, crossing lanes, side swiping barriers and ending up in the median. The actors get out and continue the scene yet nobody stops to see if they are okay and the police never show up.

by Anonymousreply 419April 1, 2015 4:41 AM

There's a whore in the TV series Black Sails who has such blindingly white, perfect teeth that it totally takes you out of the 1700s Nassau setting.

Another pet peeve is when cars blow a tire or some such thing and wind up going airborne and flipping over. This just happened on The Flash the other night when a character set up a row of spikes across the middle of the road to cause an accident. In actuality, the most that would happen, based on the rate of speed, is that the car would careen out of control and run into something, not take off like it had a rocket launcher in the trunk.

by Anonymousreply 420April 4, 2015 3:22 PM

When someone gets punched in the nose or mouth and they immediately start bleeding. And it's usually quite a bit of blood.

Just saw this again in the Shameless finale. Lip got punched in the mouth by Amanda, he turned his head away, and when it came back into frame his whole mouth was bleeding, and enough for him to spit a mouthful of blood.

I've gotten hit in the mouth a few times playing sports, and not once did I get more than a minor cut with minimal blood.

It seems every time a character gets punched it's an immediate gushing bloody nose or mouth. Unrealistic.

by Anonymousreply 421April 7, 2015 6:54 PM

- THE LONGEST RIDE reminded me of one today. When people just shut their laptops without closing the windows they have up.

- When movies state at the beginning "This is a true story" or some variation. I don't want to be reminded that I'm watching a dramatization of an actual event.

by Anonymousreply 422April 12, 2015 5:44 AM

When movies show captions of the city the characters are in , even thought it is pretty easy to tell when they show the Eiffel tower, it is pretty easy to assume the characters are in Paris .. You don't need to tell us ..

by Anonymousreply 423April 23, 2015 4:08 AM

Small towns always have extremely high murder rates ..in movies and tv shows all the main characters and anyone associated with those characters all attend the same church or all frequent the same bars and coffee houses.. Like in friends , all 6 friends, their respective relationships , family, long lost friends and family would some how end up at central perk at the same time

by Anonymousreply 424April 23, 2015 4:16 AM

No matter what your job , everyone seems to have long stretches during the day to hang out at home , the local watering hole , or coffee house ..

by Anonymousreply 425April 23, 2015 4:20 AM

I also expect a fleeing target, tripping and taking his/her time getting up to get out of there.

And then there's always a speeding car careening and knocking over the inevitable food cart.

by Anonymousreply 426April 23, 2015 7:50 PM

Cop shows the cops have some amazing psychological powers and can get criminals to tell them whatever they want to know. None of the criminals ever keep their mouths shut.

by Anonymousreply 427April 26, 2015 5:53 PM

Seeing a promo for NBC's "Aquarius", brought to mind the following movie and tv trope -- if you are setting a film or show in the 1960s and want to focus on the dark side of American culture, always use The Doors song as the soundtrack. (And speaking of "Aquarius", could David Duchovny NOT look any more like a police detective in the 1960s if he tried?)

by Anonymousreply 428April 26, 2015 6:00 PM

The multiracial gang thing was pretty glaring the original "Assault On Precinct 13".

Other odd Hollywood attempts at reality:

Girl seems crazy guy at gas station pumping her gas. When it looks like he's threatening, she bolts just as she was trying to tell her someone's in the back seat of the car. She of course gets offed.

Square pats of butter on stacks of pancakes. The butter must be shipped from Charon since the pats stay perfectly cool and never melt from the heat.

Someone with something to hide sewing/slicing food...when the person they are hiding stuff from says they will investigate themselves, the hider always slices/chops/pokes an appendage carelessly in fear (and stupidity).

by Anonymousreply 429April 26, 2015 6:16 PM

"Cop shows the cops have some amazing psychological powers and can get criminals to tell them whatever they want to know. None of the criminals ever keep their mouths shut."

Cold Case is a pretty bad offender here! You'll have these guys confessing to 50-year-old murders even though the cops have zero physical evidence to convict them

by Anonymousreply 430April 26, 2015 6:34 PM

"Small towns always have extremely high murder rates"

Cabot Cove, Maine is America's murder capital!

by Anonymousreply 431April 26, 2015 6:38 PM

One of the worst for taking me out of whatever show or movie I'm watching is when the charecter goes into a bar and orders a beer with no specification, no brand name, no on tap or bottle, just a beer.

by Anonymousreply 432April 26, 2015 6:44 PM

And yet r213 movies and tv shows more recently filmed in NYC seem to have Mexicans as the representation of the Latin community as opposed to Puerto Rican and Cubans.

by Anonymousreply 433April 26, 2015 6:46 PM

Major American cities that are shown to have a population that is 99% white and heterosexual. That one bugs me.

by Anonymousreply 434April 26, 2015 6:55 PM

It annoys me when the post-script text of a movie is small, forcing you to squint to see it, i.e. ZODIAC.

On a similar token, it also irks me when a foreign-language film's subtitles blend in with the background, rendering it useless, i.e. white subtitles against a light-colored background or bright sky.

I decree all subtitles should be yellow henceforth!

by Anonymousreply 435April 26, 2015 6:59 PM

Not knowing character names until at least halfway through the movie or even later. Sometimes not knowing the name of a character at all. e.g. the names of the "assets" in BOURNE ULTIMATUM and SUPREMACY are only revealed during the end credits.

Also, LONE SURVIVOR. I can't remember any time that any of the character's names were clearly said aloud, and so I began identifying each one by which actor was playing them.

That in itself is another issue in that you have to identify the character solely by their actor rather than by their personality, which takes me completely out of the experience.

by Anonymousreply 436April 26, 2015 7:03 PM

When a woman walks into their home or apartment after shutting the door,they never lock the door or turn the deadbolt. That's why they always get murdered.

by Anonymousreply 437April 26, 2015 7:10 PM

when people who work at coffee shops, dog walkers etc etc have fantastic apartments or houses especially in NY

by Anonymousreply 438April 26, 2015 7:17 PM

White teeth. Face lifts. Lip injections. Botox.

by Anonymousreply 439April 26, 2015 7:39 PM

"Men in the military with long-ish haircuts that are completely not regulatory. You can almost guess the credit order of the actors - the more of a "name" the actor is, the longer and more styled his hair is."

Stripes - everyone else (including John Candy) comes back from their haircut appointment with the skinhead look - Bill Murray and Harold Ramis look like a couple of hippies. Then Ramis actually makes a Hare Krishna joke.

by Anonymousreply 440April 26, 2015 7:40 PM

"The teeth situation is getting especially ridiculous with this whitening trend. Every actor, no matter how scuzzy, has a glorious, brilliant set of teeth."

Not always. THIS is why you never see Mads Mikkelsen smile with his mouth open on "Hannibal".

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by Anonymousreply 441April 26, 2015 7:43 PM

Me too, r348. On the VERY rare occasions when I'm watching a movie or tv show that's set in NYC and the apartment actually reflects the character's socioeconomic situation realistically, it makes me sit up and take notice. I think "wow, they actually got it right." It's kind of a weird feeling to see an accurate living situation in NYC, because it's so rare.

by Anonymousreply 442April 26, 2015 7:48 PM

R438, have you ever watched CHICAGO FIRE or CHICAGO P.D.? Everyone has a decorator.

by Anonymousreply 443April 26, 2015 7:52 PM

Female sex crimes detectives who wear cleavage-revealing tops, skintight jeans and fuck-me heels.

by Anonymousreply 444April 26, 2015 7:53 PM

If driving, there is always a empty parking space..in front of a hospital, building, apartment. pure fantasy.

by Anonymousreply 445April 26, 2015 7:54 PM

"Doris Day Parking," R445.

by Anonymousreply 446April 26, 2015 7:59 PM

R440 Another cliche is boot camp movies where the recruits turn up with almost shoulder length shaggy hair and then they have to have it all shorn off (which is made to look like a traumatic experience). Why do none of them at least have a fairly short haircut before they arrive? Even if they get mandatory crewcuts anyway, it's like they don't seem to realise they've joined the military and looking like a hippy is hardly going to endear them to their mean drill sergeant.

Or they do other silly things like talk to each other when they're standing at attention and the DI always hears this and makes them do 50 push-ups.

by Anonymousreply 447April 26, 2015 8:13 PM

The morning breath situation is another thing. No one ever seems to have it. If it's already been mentioned, then it bears repeating.

by Anonymousreply 448April 26, 2015 8:24 PM

Hot beverages that emit no steam.

by Anonymousreply 449April 26, 2015 8:56 PM

R441 I still would. His teeth don't put me off at all. I also didn't realize that Mads looks a bit like Viggo Mortensen. They could be cousins.

by Anonymousreply 450April 26, 2015 11:40 PM

The use of black-rimmed glasses to indicate the intelligence of a character. Totally takes me out of the scene. Are no people with good vision smart? Do smart people who need glasses never pick any other frame?

On a totally unrelated note, I just watched a rerun of "Lizzie Borden" with Christina Ricci. For one brief moment, you can see a pair of flip-flops peeking out from underneath her floor-length skirt!

by Anonymousreply 451April 26, 2015 11:51 PM

Women who are shown waking up with full make up on and it's not smeared at all. Also no one wakes up with bed head hair unless it's a comedy

by Anonymousreply 452April 27, 2015 12:08 AM

Plants in flower in the wrong season bothers me. The Gilmore Girl's house has permanently blooming wisteria along the porch roof. I guess its fake but it's annoying. A major plot point in Breaking Bad involved poisoning with convallaria which comes from the red berries after the lily of the valley has bloomed, but the plant was shown in flower in a pot exactly like a gift from a florist.

by Anonymousreply 453April 27, 2015 5:26 AM

I call it "Let's Have the Wedding in the Diner!" after the one at Mel's on Alice, but it's any comedy where they scrimp on the set budget by throwing a wedding in an unlikely living room, back yard, or workplace. Because of course a woman like Diane Chambers would want to get married at the bar where she's a cocktail waitress.

by Anonymousreply 454April 27, 2015 5:48 AM

When people give gifts, it's always out of the original packaging. They just hand over a laptop or camera without its box.

"I hope you enjoy this new digital camera."

"Did you get it off eBay? Is it used? Why is there no original sealed packaging?"

Modern Family did this when they lined up at the Apple Store to get Phil an iPad and when they presented it to him, it was just an iPad with no box. What gives them the right to open someone else's iPad? I would have been pissed!

by Anonymousreply 455April 27, 2015 8:54 AM

What drives me nuts is when a closeup of a turntable is being shown, the label of the record playing never matches the song we're hearing.

by Anonymousreply 456April 27, 2015 11:09 AM

People always drink their liquor neat, straight out of the bottle (or the crystal decanter). No one ever uses a mixer, or even ice.

And bartenders obligingly leave the bottle on the bar so the customer can pour his own. Yeah, that happens!

by Anonymousreply 457April 27, 2015 2:08 PM

I absolutely hate it when Obama interrupts my soap opera, especially during the last ten minutes. As if he couldn't wait. My time is valuable, too!

by Anonymousreply 458April 27, 2015 2:24 PM

Good one, R456.

Bush I was awful that way, too, R458. He was always breaking in during the last ten minutes of Guiding Light.

by Anonymousreply 459April 27, 2015 2:35 PM

Along with R457, people walk into a bar and ask for a scotch or double vodka and the bartender never asks what brand. Granted, the character can't walk in and ask for a Dewars on the rocks, but still.

Also, who the hell keeps liquor in decanters on a bar cart??

by Anonymousreply 460May 7, 2015 1:42 PM

[quote] but the plant was shown in flower in a pot exactly like a gift from a florist.

And it appeared to be summertime. LoV is a springtime plant. That's when it blooms and that's when it's sold by florists and garden centers. You cannot get a pot of LoV in summer.

by Anonymousreply 461May 7, 2015 2:25 PM

King Henry VIII fell off his horse in Wolf Hall. Everyone thought he was dead. But he woke up and didn't have a scratch or a bruise on him, nor did he even walk with a limp.

I don't know if they were trying to recreate the real life fall Henry took off his horse, but IRL Henry was very badly injured and that's where he got his leg wound which never healed. People conjecture it may have been unhealed because of diabetes, but I think it may have been osteomyelitis and cellulitis.

A couple of years ago, my mother fell in an airport and scraped her leg. She is obese. She got cellulitis. We had to go to the walk-in clinic 3 times for antibiotics before it finally cleared up, plus she kept her legs elevated for weeks.

Imagine being a king in the 1500s who had a horse fall on him, who is obese, who has no antibiotics and who has to appear at different functions, which require him to walk and where he cannot not sit with elevated legs. Like, ow. I don't think he's be striding around like the Henry in Wolf Hall.

by Anonymousreply 462May 7, 2015 2:44 PM

R427,

[quote]Cop shows the cops have some amazing psychological powers and can get criminals to tell them whatever they want to know. None of the criminals ever keep their mouths shut.

Actually the cops usually first explain why it's in their best interest to cooperate, and it doesn't always work.

by Anonymousreply 463May 7, 2015 2:59 PM

Oh my, oh me, have I got a list:

1)@22 screens are my biggest peeve. As someone terrified of insects I cringe at all these open windows. Also floor length windows or doors being left open all night. What?

2)Speaking of Wolf Hall, no one dresses right. Sleeves were not attached. No one wore long leather boots up to the knee when not riding. It was flat shoes or shoes with small heels and tights because men were proud of their calves. It was considered a sign of virility.

3)Everyone hanging out together all the time after work/school even if they are married or have other obligations. Also everyone moving to the same place or getting the same job or going to the same college.

4)No coaches or advisors. Cheerleaders, bands, choirs, clubs are all left on their own with no supervision. Not in any organization I was in.

5)Casino's and minors. Especially in the Pit. Yeah, right.

6)Servers with hair in their faces. Points off the health inspection for THAT one. In fact most TV and movie restaurants would be closed down.

7)Instant internet when someone opens a laptop. Also no one ever has to boot a computer unless the plot specifically calls for it--then it will be as slow as dial up. Also, sites never need passwords.

8)Mental hospitals with lamps, curtains, blinds. This one is a peeve of my son who has spent time in them. Pool cues laying about? Also shoes. First thing that happens is your shoes get taken away and you are not allowed out on the grounds until you earn levels. And even then you don't have shoelaces. Also, hospital gowns? Don't think so. Most wear street clothes with any sharp point objects taken off or away.

9)Changing facts because they think we are too stupid to know. Example The Tudors changed history outright by eliminating Henry's eldest sister. That's just one, too many to list as this is long enough.

by Anonymousreply 464May 8, 2015 3:31 AM

Oh one more:

Everyone has an IPhone. Android's do not exist on screen. No Samsung, no LG. Nope. All IPhone's. As an Android person, this bugs me as well.

Also people having the phone number of someone they just met--and never actually bothered to get their number. It's just automatically known.

by Anonymousreply 465May 8, 2015 3:35 AM

[quote]Speaking of Wolf Hall, no one dresses right.

So they all dress to the left during that time period? Hot.

by Anonymousreply 466May 9, 2015 9:44 AM

Cop goes into a bodega or Chinese market and is offered free coffee or gum as clues that they walked into a robbery in progress. I am sure this has happened but it happens an awful lot in movies and tv shows.

by Anonymousreply 467May 9, 2015 3:15 PM

It drives me nuts when characters appear to age at different rates. I was watching the 1936 Show Boat last night. Much as I love that version, I can't get past the way Irene Dunne and Allen Jones end up looking like two glazed donuts in their silvery old age makeup as Magnolia and Gaylord, while her parents, Cap'n Andy and Parthy, who appear to be pushing sixty in 1887, only look seventy or so after forty years have supposedly passed. Surely they both ought to have died before 1927.

The original Upstairs, Downstairs did the same thing in its fifth season, which was all the more annoying in a series that prided itself on its realism. James Bellamy aged twenty-seven years, meanwhile his father, Richard; Hudson, the butler; and especially Mrs. Bridges the cook, who all appear to be in their fifties or sixties in 1903, are still spry and active in 1929, as though only one decade had passed, rather than nearly three.

by Anonymousreply 468May 10, 2015 3:09 PM

I really hate when people play themselves in reenactments.

by Anonymousreply 469May 10, 2015 3:21 PM

The one I always notice is the use of knife and fork in the "continental style" (fork kept tines down in the left hand, knife in the right) by American characters who wouldn't probably be doing this in real life. I was watching the HBO miniseries "Olive Kitteridge" last night and Frances McDormand's character was doing this.

Always strikes a false note for middle- and lower class characters to me, unless they are supposed to be social climbers and putting on airs.

by Anonymousreply 470May 10, 2015 3:49 PM

R470

I think most people just hold knives and forks the way they feel most comfortable. This depends on the food and whether you are right or left handed.

Who the hell even knows that there are "styles" of holding knives and forks.

(I do not think even the lowest of lower class would ever hold their forks with the tines pointing up. Never saw it. Looks weird. Looks agressive. Any liquid on the fork will drip down onto your hand.)

by Anonymousreply 471May 10, 2015 4:33 PM

R471 I would disagree on that. Most Americans (even wealthy ones) born at least before the 1980s were taught the "correct" way to use the knife and fork was/is to hold the fork in the left hand only while cutting food (with the knife in the right), and then switching the fork to the right hand to bring the food morsel to the mouth.

Perhaps nowadays kids are taught/allowed to do what "feels natural" but certainly the continental style was not used by regular everyday Americans, most of whom did not have wide experiences of other cultures or international travel.

by Anonymousreply 472May 10, 2015 5:36 PM

may have been said already, but dragging out endless credits well into the show while you're supposed to be paying attention to the set-up

by Anonymousreply 473May 10, 2015 5:42 PM

The interiors seldom match the exteriors.

by Anonymousreply 474May 10, 2015 5:44 PM

As a TV writer, this thread is awesome! I just hope you all realize so much of what you're talking about is budgetary in scope, like jumping from Torrance to Santa Monica in ten minutes. Or being on the wrong subway in NYC.

Some of it's laziness, like leaving door open when fleeing the bad guy.

Most TV writers, or at least this one, hate things like wet streets at night and French bread in grocery bags, which, btw, is usually set design and isn't in most manuscripts.

Carry on!

by Anonymousreply 475May 10, 2015 6:27 PM

A silly one here, but it's always bothered me: when drawings are meant to be done by young kids, but are obviously done by adults making it look like kids' work.

The adults scribble and don't color everything in intentionally, but the pictures are always so neat and uniform. Real kids' work is a lot more scratchy and all over the place in regards to sizing of things.

Here's an example from Children of the Corn. There's no way this drawing is done by a young kid.

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by Anonymousreply 476May 10, 2015 7:01 PM

When men get home, the first thing they do typically is take out their wallets, take the change out of their pockets, leave their cellphone on a table, take off their watch, etc. And there's usually a place for that just inside the front door or in the bedroom.

I've rarely seen that happen on TV or in the movies.

by Anonymousreply 477May 10, 2015 7:09 PM

R476, when I read your post about "children's" drawings in movies and tv, the first thing which came to mind was how they almost always have reversed letters in them as if the child were retarded.

by Anonymousreply 478May 10, 2015 7:52 PM

American here who eats continental style. Switching forks from left to right is wasted motion IMO. It's awkward and doesn't feel natural.

by Anonymousreply 479May 10, 2015 7:59 PM

Co-workers who know your address and show up at your door at all hours of the night. I would be absolutely shocked if a co-worker showed up at my door. I would be like, you couldn't have just called or texted me whatever it is you wanted to tell me? Not that they would even have my number. Whatever they needed to say could probably have waited till the next day at the office.

by Anonymousreply 480May 10, 2015 8:34 PM

R472 I am one American born long before 1980 who never heard of styles of using silverware and who has never seen anyone poking their fork up in the air.

I do not understand why you are suggesting switching hands with a fork. Maybe some people do, but I am sure it is an unconscious move.

My fork stays in my left hand. I do not see a point in moving it to my right each time I cut meat.

by Anonymousreply 481May 10, 2015 10:23 PM

R465 Some TV shows will occasionally show characters using Android or other types of smart phones. The Vampire Diaries is known for its product placement of Windows Phone.

by Anonymousreply 482May 12, 2015 4:29 PM

High school football teams love choreographed dance routines and Motown sing-alongs

by Anonymousreply 483May 12, 2015 6:48 PM

High school girls look like 25 year old strippers. In Clueless Dionne wore a skirt in one scene that barely covered her twat and ass cheeks.

by Anonymousreply 484May 12, 2015 6:54 PM

dead mom

dead parents

aliens have names that start with a z or x - because they're so different from us, see?

yeah, the bread and celery leaf poking out from the paper grocery bag

fake chewing, it's always obvious. Just chew real food. Actors love to drone on about the drastic sacrifices they made for their craft - why not chew a bite of fucking food for your art if the scene calls for it? A grape, even. Just put something edible and not gross in your mouth to make me believe. No? Can't do that?

the wacky neighbor who everyone is mean to. Dicks. We're supposed to like these people?

serious music cuing me in to when I need to be sad.

the sunset romance on a beach scene with music. That is how we know the characters are falling in love - music and no talking, And they are backlit.

Women with male names, so that you know they are tough!

by Anonymousreply 485May 12, 2015 7:04 PM

Actors drinking from coffee cups that are obviously empty.

Kudos to NCIS for making fun of themselves on this point.

by Anonymousreply 486May 12, 2015 7:21 PM

No one has headrests in their car.

Did they all get stolen?

by Anonymousreply 487May 12, 2015 7:22 PM

Offbeat and smug but yet lovable interloper advises professionals on how to best do their jobs and solve crimes. In the real world, said dude would be tazed and hogtied before lunch on day one.

Emo, tragically smart geniuses who have mental breakdowns because of their gigabyte brains, yo.

Small talk at the urinal

School plays... rehearsing that kiss!

Donning the garb of this or that country a character has just returned from

by Anonymousreply 488May 12, 2015 7:32 PM

My mother is a big fan of British mysteries so when I visit I will watch with her. We have a running joke of "oh, it's night and there's the person skulking in the shadows" because in every single show the person who gets killed will have someone watching them from the shadows at night while someone else sees the skulker. My mom will say "for a small English village there are a hell of a lot of people lurking around in the dark".

by Anonymousreply 489May 12, 2015 7:41 PM

R486 how did NCIS poke fun at themselves? I don't watch the show...

The empty cup bothers me, too. Also, when someone has a tray with 4 coffees in it, and they carry it easily with one hand. Sometimes they push open a door with the other, and it so obvious theres nothing in those cups.

I guess actors can't focus on their lines/marks/whatever if trying to maneuver beverages at the same time.

by Anonymousreply 490May 12, 2015 8:27 PM

I swear nearly all to-go coffee cups in celebrity paparazzi photos are empty. There is just something about the way they hold them, you know there is only air in it.

by Anonymousreply 491May 12, 2015 8:37 PM

Characters who say "mmmm" as they are swallowing their liquid refreshment and are about to make their point.

by Anonymousreply 492May 12, 2015 9:01 PM

Established, successful lawyers eating Chinese takeout at the office, at night. Don't the dump a lot of work on underlings? Don't they have lives?

by Anonymousreply 493May 12, 2015 9:08 PM

[quote] In Clueless Dionne wore a skirt in one scene that barely covered her twat and ass.

And now she's paid to be a twat and an ass. Coincidence?!

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by Anonymousreply 494May 12, 2015 9:13 PM

That Jessica Fletcher sure has a lot of nephews, nieces, and cousins who are accused of muhrdehr!

I just have to drag this up EVERY time MSW gets a mention here, because it's so shittastic: the sheriff, who for years talks like a Massachusetts lobsterman, is from fucking KENTUCKY in later seasons. Weak and shitty. I guess his contract negotiations fell through and they wanted to punish him.

How the hell does a guy from Kentucky sound like he's from south fucking Boston?

by Anonymousreply 495May 12, 2015 9:19 PM

R485 [quote]Just chew real food. Actors love to drone on about the drastic sacrifices they made for their craft - why not chew a bite of fucking food for your art if the scene calls for it?

As R117 said, food goes bad under hot lights and furthermore the actors need to talk. You could be shooting a scene with a lot of people eating for hours. As a kid this used to bother the hell out of me until I started acting myself. However, I'd add that one of the biggest reasons people have to be careful of (and things you don't want to fuck up) is continuity.

It really depends on the style of what you're shooting and how many takes you're going to do. You may have a shot, a reverse shot and a master shot of a person talking to another person. You can't have something on your plate in one take and something not there in the next because if things get changed or mixed up, it takes people out of the scene.

At the beginning of my career I did a scene where I was supposed to drink coke out of a glass. I had a few lines. (I was a random friend of the lead.) I was at a table with a few other people. Twenty takes of various ones of us later ... I wanted to die. I probably drank the equivalent of about 10+ bottles of coke. (It was diet.) I couldn't "not" keep it up exactly or else I'd fuck everything up if that glass was in a shot. I had the option of spitting it out but we were too squeezed for me to maneuver to do that.

R464 [quote]3)Everyone hanging out together all the time after work/school even if they are married or have other obligations. Also everyone moving to the same place or getting the same job or going to the same college.

TV shows generally aren't day to day. So just because they're at Central Perk on every episode of Friends doesn't mean they were there yesterday or even that last week's episode took place immediately before this one. Shows allude to time passing between episodes but they never usually say it outright. It's usually implied. When it is stated, there's a reason why, "They broke up three months ago" when it just took place two weeks ago viewer's time.

As for moving to the same place, getting the same job or going to the same college; that can happen. I had a group of friends I did that with when I was younger. Every now and then we lost one but there was still a core group. College with 6 of them, then 5 of us moved to NYC, then 4 of us lived in the same building and then they all met people at various times and started their own families. I was the gay.

If you mean like on Glee that was complete bullshit.

R492 [quote]Characters who say "mmmm" as they are swallowing their liquid refreshment and are about to make their point.

That's called "indicating" and it is totally shit acting and writing. If it's written down for the character to say then the writer sucks. If the actor is saying it on their own then their acting sucks. It is so annoying.

I'll add one my friend and I came up with when I mentioned NCIS. His response was, "Not that many people die in the Navy, weekly for 10 years." It is so ridiculous.

by Anonymousreply 496May 12, 2015 10:18 PM

In writer parlance, the post-coital white sheet is dubbed "the L shaped sheet".

by Anonymousreply 497May 13, 2015 6:06 AM

@ r 482 everyone knows only bad guys use Droids.

by Anonymousreply 498May 13, 2015 6:06 AM

Empty coffee cups - in both TV and Movies. It is the absolute norm and it drives me fucking crazy!

Also, empty suitcases.

by Anonymousreply 499May 13, 2015 6:46 AM

If you guys didn't watch so much crap this thread wouldn't be filling up so fast. You're acting like these are new observations.

by Anonymousreply 500May 13, 2015 6:56 AM

R490....it's easier to just post the character dialog from wiki to explain to joke.

McGee's stunned at the thought of DiNozzo actually drinking coffee because they're on stakeout at the moment. DiNozzo defends himself, stating that he was up late night and that he's tired.

At McGee's eyeroll, DiNozzo states, "What?".

McGee then tells DiNozzo that is Probie 101 stuff and that you don't actually drink before stating that he calls it the Gibbs sip. McGee then takes a sip and asks DiNozzo if he saw that. DiNozzo states that he did.

"Looks like I'm drinking", McGee replies.

"Yeah", DiNozzo repeats.

"Not actually drinking", McGee says.

DiNozzo states that he's been.. before stating, "You know, come to think of it, it always looks like Gibbs is drinking but he never has to take a-". His words are interrupted by Gibbs himself who tells DiNozzo to change the subject.

by Anonymousreply 501May 13, 2015 7:07 AM

I found the Smurf character names a tad lazy. Also the story arch between Smurfette and Sassette wasn't given enough time to resolve believably. Do the writers think I am some kind of asshole over here?

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by Anonymousreply 502May 13, 2015 7:17 AM

I find it absurd when Skeletor tarries and delivers some masturbatory monologue about what he's going to do to He-Man. Why doesn't he just kick He-Man's (meaty) ass? He's an old hand at martial arts and ass kicking, even though he is a bitch-ass skeleton.

Doesn't he know that He-Man can get away? Will he ever learn?

Does he NOT want to kick He-Man's man ass?!

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by Anonymousreply 503May 13, 2015 7:23 AM

Cops, who are public servants, driving really nice cars while on the job. I think one of the cops on Chicago P.D. drives a Cadillac. Not an older one either, a freaking NEW one! Someone else drives a Chrysler 300.

by Anonymousreply 504May 13, 2015 2:49 PM

Does Greyhound Bus Line still exist? I find it annoying when people are obviously on chartered buses that are supposed to be scheduled bus lines. Other than MegaBus and those China Town buses I hear about I doubt people travel by bus that much anymore.

by Anonymousreply 505May 13, 2015 4:10 PM

"Does Greyhound Bus Line still exist?"

Apparently, it had 18 million passengers last year.

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by Anonymousreply 506May 13, 2015 4:20 PM

How about siblings who refer to each other by brother or sister. Rarely by their given name. The originals and vampire diaries are really bad about this. Like having been alive for over 1000 years they are going to forget that they are family.

by Anonymousreply 507May 13, 2015 4:57 PM

[quote]Cops, who are public servants, driving really nice cars while on the job.

Cops earn 6 figure celeries. They start at $65K, go to $80K after they're not a rookie and go up from there.

by Anonymousreply 508May 13, 2015 11:04 PM

Are these the same celeries that poke out of paper grocery bags, next to the baguette, r508? Exactly. No way could these guys afford shi shi cars on six figure celeries.

by Anonymousreply 509May 13, 2015 11:48 PM

You could totally afford luxury cars on 6 figures.

by Anonymousreply 510May 13, 2015 11:56 PM

"Other than MegaBus and those China Town buses I hear about I doubt people travel by bus that much anymore."

Why are dataloungers so out of touch with the rest of the world? Yes, people still take the bus

by Anonymousreply 511May 14, 2015 12:09 AM

Cops can only solve crimes with the help of mystery writers, fake psychics, criminals, and eccentric geniuses

by Anonymousreply 512May 14, 2015 12:10 AM

Every time a TV cop takes a bullet to the chest he bleeds out and dies because he's not wearing a bulletproof vest.

I don't know one cop that doesn't wear a vest while on patrol.

by Anonymousreply 513May 14, 2015 3:27 AM

R508 & R510, my pet peeve isn't that they OWN the cars, it's that they USE them for car chases!!! How do they explain to their insurance company that their $50K Cadillac CTS was broadsided and then shot up by a fleeing suspect?

by Anonymousreply 514May 14, 2015 1:49 PM

[quote]No one has headrests in their car.

Or rear view mirrors.

by Anonymousreply 515May 15, 2015 1:38 AM

r447 -- I wondered about that too until I saw a photograph of a seventies era group of young men ready to enter the Air Force, and they all showed up at the receiving center with long hair and sideburns...

by Anonymousreply 516May 15, 2015 4:53 PM

I was very impressed when Terri Garr did this in "Young Frankenstein" R470

by Anonymousreply 517May 15, 2015 4:58 PM

Not only when the old lead actor gets a cute young girlfriend, but when the older actor is playing to type and is a fat, ugly, penniless alcoholic and he still has a cute young blonde girlfriend.

by Anonymousreply 518May 15, 2015 5:07 PM

The establish a scene set in Europe, listen for the police sirens. Almost every single time. Even Mad Men did it when Betty and Don went.

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by Anonymousreply 519May 15, 2015 5:14 PM

[quote]Mental illness and bizarre behavior, in actuality, is not attractive or appealing at ALL. But in movies and tv it doesn't matter if you're weird or fucked up or suffering from severe mental illness; someone will fall in love with you because you're just so UNIQUE.

I was thinking about this over the weekend, when I watched LOVE & MERCY. In the '80s section of the movie, when Brian Wilson (played by John Cusack) first meets his would-be wife Melinda (played by Elizabeth Banks), he looks very schlubby and speaks incoherently yet she (a blonde knockout) finds it endearing and continues seeing him, even as he continues to act stranger. and stranger.

I realize the movie is based on the real life of Brian Wilson, but it made me wonder if the Melinda character probably wasn't that hot. Later, I couldn't find any photos of her from that era, just recent ones at the premiere as a woman pushing 70. But Banks is so gorgeous-looking in this film and Cusack is so fat and ugly and weird. I also looked up Wilson during the mid-'80s and he still looked fairly good. He reminded me of Jeff Bridges in STARMAN.

I wonder if the filmmakers made him look/act worse for dramatic effect and beautified Melinda because that's what they do in Hollywood?

by Anonymousreply 520December 24, 2015 3:47 AM

[quote]I really hate when people play themselves in reenactments.

Like the 1994 TV movie TEARS & LAUGHTER: THE JOAN & MELISSA RIVERS STORY, which dealt with the suicide of Joan's husband and their struggle to overcome it. Both Joan and Melissa played themselves. I truly recommend it for the camp factor.

by Anonymousreply 521December 24, 2015 3:50 AM

Several people have mentioned the empty suitcase. I recently rewatched THE SOUND OF MUSIC, and I had to stifle a laughter during the "I Have Confidence" number, when Maria travels from the abbey to the Von Trapp villa, while singing the entire way, she's holding a guitar case in one hand and a suitcase in the other, yet she's swinging them around and prancing around and never breaks a sweat, nor does it slow her down.

by Anonymousreply 522December 24, 2015 3:53 AM

Meeting his girlfriends father for the first time the nervous suitor makes an ass out of himself, digging himself deeper and deeper meanwhile , oblivious girlfriend does absolutely nothing to calm situation. Whereupon everyone hates the boyfriend.

by Anonymousreply 523December 24, 2015 4:00 AM

The only way out of a locked room is through an extra large air vent that's spacious enough for two people to crawl side by side having a conversation. The air vent screen can be easily pulled away from the wall never requiring a screwdriver.

by Anonymousreply 524December 24, 2015 4:12 AM

I'd hate to derail the topic for a moment, but could someone please tell me how to unblock myself? Over the weekend, I accidentally hit the icon on my post with the orange silhouette of a person with a slash on it, and now I can't see any of my posts. But they must appear to other people, because I've had some people reply to them in other threads. TIA.

by Anonymousreply 525December 24, 2015 4:25 AM

When a character is being chased, the character gets into the car and has trouble starting the car. It always happens, so fucking dumb!

by Anonymousreply 526December 24, 2015 4:37 AM

R525 Look at the top bar (black). See where it says "ignore"? Click that.

Find "ignore poster." Find your number (you'll see what I mean). Click that "x." Return to DL. You should no longer be on "ignore."

by Anonymousreply 527December 24, 2015 8:10 AM

The woman always goes to sleep with a full face of makeup and perfect hair. Or she wakes up that way...She has to get up for some reason in the middle of the night. She's wearing some long nite gown and she must put on the matching robe before she moves her ass. Lady....there's a prowler in the house or your kid just croaked in the next room ... Do you really need your robe ????

by Anonymousreply 528December 24, 2015 8:59 AM

Pet peeves include: Laugh tracks, and at stupid jokes. Wives on sitcoms who hen peck their husbands, with hand on hip, doing an eyeroll. There always has to be 4 friends. People who sit with their streetclothes on the bed. Large dogs on sofas, getting their ass-smell all over the place. Couples who keep meeting cute in Manhatten. There are 8 million people, what are the odds running into someone you just met, at an event miles away?

by Anonymousreply 529April 20, 2018 12:22 AM

Finishing a meal - at home or at a restaurant - with more than half of the food still on the plate. Or just anything that involves wasting food. Have you seen how much wine and juice those bitches in CMBYN left at the beginning of the movie? Who does that?!

However, my biggest pet peeve is seeing people wear shoes or sneakers while at home. Their poor, poor feets deserve so much better.

by Anonymousreply 530April 20, 2018 1:05 AM

I get why they do it, but people hanging out at home in stylish fashionable clothing.

A few DL queens aside, the rest of the world has on sweatpants and a t-shirt when they're home and not expecting anyone.

by Anonymousreply 531April 20, 2018 1:12 AM

People who can't spell Manhattan. (Hint: no "e.")

by Anonymousreply 532April 20, 2018 1:54 AM

R199 , surely you jest. Texans most definitely do have accents, and not Californian.

by Anonymousreply 533April 20, 2018 2:19 AM

Can't stop laughing at R238.

by Anonymousreply 534April 20, 2018 2:28 AM

R92 reminds me of the TV show, Alice. I just caught up with it recently and it dawned on me that there's no way in real life that a slutty Southern belle redneck, wise cracking Jew, flaky ditz and belligerent chauvinist would've ever worked more than a day together without killing each other, getting fired or quitting.

by Anonymousreply 535April 20, 2018 2:53 AM

My movie pet peeves:

Any movie that takes place in NYC, with rare exception. The details are always 99.999% wrong, either in terms of train lines, demographics, neighborhoods, travel distances, etc.

The one horribly miscast actor in an otherwise perfectly cast and directed movie (Melanie Griffith in Lolita, Anthony Hopkins in Nixon).

Inaccurate tropes that have long since been corrected onscreen but are being used. You'd think that after over a decade of ER showing defibrillation accurately, writers would stop showing a flat line being shocked, but nope.

My TV pet peeves:

"Six months later..." opening out a season premiere after the series finale ended on a cliffhanger. F.U. Even the brilliant show, Hannibal, pulled this stunt.

The unrealistically laid out apartment and house sets. I get that the logistics of shooting made it difficult to lay everything out more realistically but it just bugs me how everything's laid out like a stage.

Travel episodes. Have always hated these, especially the ones where the characters travel to Hollywood, when everyone knows damned well that the show is shot in Hollywood.

Very special episodes, especially if it involves something very horrible happening to a sweet character. I loathe both the Edith almost gets raped episode from AITF and have never watched the infamous Gordon Jump episode from Diff'rent Strokes episode since it first ran.

by Anonymousreply 536April 20, 2018 3:45 AM

On SATC Carrie was always running around her apartment in high heels. Every woman I know kicks them off as soon as they get home.

by Anonymousreply 537April 20, 2018 3:49 AM

You did not live downstairs from this particularly cunty neighbor I once had, r537.

by Anonymousreply 538April 20, 2018 1:49 PM

You’re right, R420, when you get a blowout, nothing happens. Absolutely nothing. And if something does happen, it’s the driver’s fault.

by Anonymousreply 539April 20, 2018 8:42 PM

[quote]A few DL queens aside, the rest of the world has on sweatpants and a t-shirt when they're home and not expecting anyone.

Or unnerbritches and a tank top.

by Anonymousreply 540April 20, 2018 8:45 PM

A nurse leaving a hospital with her cap on. They haven't worn caps since the '80s and would never wear it outside of the building

by Anonymousreply 541April 20, 2018 8:52 PM

Poorly recreated NYC subway cars. The seats are the wrong color or in the wrong place. In a current sitcom, whose name I can't recall, there was a 1960s subway map inside the car. And when they do use a real subway, you can see they're in Canada.

by Anonymousreply 542April 20, 2018 9:34 PM

movie pet peeves:

1. the audience

2. the sound leaking in from the theatre next door

by Anonymousreply 543April 20, 2018 11:34 PM

My pet peeve may not even really fit with the theme of this thread, since it concerns re-broadcasts of syndicated television shows, or their release to DVD sets. I'm obsessive-compulsive about the original ending logos, which are often cut off or replaced with whatever currently holds the rights.

A related peeve is about the credits being compressed into a small window, sped up, or otherwise interrupted with next show advertising. It just kills me.

by Anonymousreply 544April 20, 2018 11:53 PM
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