OldBoy

when trailers are misleading.

Count Dooku

That's not trivial! You should sue.

digidoh

Here ya go!

Judge: Movie fans can sue over misleading trailer - DVD Talk Forum

OldBoy

right over your head...

milo bloom

Do you think people don’t get dressed again after sex? You know there’s cleanup and stuff and if it’s winter then they’re absolutely putting on some warm pajamas. And that’s if they completely disrobed to do the deed and that’s rarely a thing either.

Coral

Mentioned in similar threads in the past...

Computers make a tremendous amount of beeping noise when the data is being outputted to the screen... and usually in those case the words are being outputted a words at a time as if they were accessing a mainframe via a 1200bps modem.

On the flip-side, when someone's navigating through internet sites - the pages gets displayed instantaneously... as if they're working off local cached HTML pages.

Extremely fast typing without any typos - which goes in hand with the actor tapping random keys which looks obviously fake.

Someone tasting food and either liking or hating it the millisecond it goes in their mouth before they had a chance to actually taste it.

Josh-da-man

Yeah, in movies and tv, you never see a woman get up after having sex, do a kind of partial squat, and vigorously wipe her crotch with a towel.

John Galt

The gun stuff always drives me nuts. Like when their semi auto handgun is out of ammo and they continue to pull the trigger and it keeps clicking each time. And to tie Die Hard back into it, right on the freaking movie poster they show Bruce Willis holding a gun right next to his ear pointed straight up.

John Galt

On some of the websites they do a behind the scenes….oh, wrong type of movies.

stingermck

I was just talking about the 30th floor last night. You know they are the only ones there Mr security guy

One that always bugged me, why is Karl using the chainsaw when his small feet brother is trying to splice the phone lines? Hans has a plan and he's immediately off script.

Josh-da-man

Like a lot of the complaints in this thread, a lot of this comes down to storytelling shortcuts. You don't want to waste screen time having your lead character trying to find a parking space unless it's going to be a plot point later or you're trying to build tension.

The thing about trigger discipline, I think, is that the finger-on-the-trigger is a more dramatic gesture. And, if you're not familiar with the safe and proper use of firearms, it looks kind of weird.

One thing I find amusing is how Pulp Fiction plays with gun safety in movies. Vincent Vega presents a masterclass in how to not handle firearms: Don't leave you gun out unattended where a child or Bruce Willis can pick it up. Only put your finger on the trigger when you're ready to shoot. Don't point your gun at anything you don't intend to kill.

Decker

They kind of did in an episode of Mad Men, and it sort of blew my mind. They always said that Matthew Weiner was a stickler for the details.

GoldenJCJ

Going back to a specific movie, Home Alone was on this morning and I remembered a scene that bothers me. The famous shot of Kevin putting aftershave on and screaming. Macaulay Culkin damn near made an empire out of that bit but aftershave doesn’t burn your face unless you actually shave. Hence, he wouldn’t be screaming.

Everything else in that movie, I buy though.

RocShemp

The 30th floor doesn't bother me because the guard who pulls the holiday shift is unlikely to be the regular lobby guy and won't know who Holly Gennaro is, let alone if she's one of the yuppy schmucks partying on the 30th floor or someone from the other floors who already went home.

As for trivial stuff that bugs me, the "thwip" sounds silencers make in movies irks me to no end. You cannot sneak into a quiet room and fire a suppressed weapon without alerting everyone else in the room.

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That and I hate when Foley artists keep reusing the sound of a hammer being cocked every time a gun is pointed. Battle: Los Angeles did this multiple times with the same gun in the same shot/scene. And that's only one example off the top of my head.



EDIT: It seems you can get the movie silencer sound if you use subsonic rounds and fire from at least 150 yards away.

tanman

I think we've had a thread like this before. Medical stuff always bugs me. They always....ALWAYS shock on asystole. Even in medical dramas that have real doctors as advisors. I think I might have only seen it once or twice where they actually talk about using epinephrine instead of always dramatically using paddles. And it's always hand held paddles. Never pads. And of course it almost always works.

One particular scene that I thought was hilarious was in This Is Us

RocShemp

Here's a nice video about firearms BS in movies:

Shannon Nutt

I used to get annoyed with dial tones on phones after the person on other end hangs up (of course, you don't hear a dial tone when this happens).

NOW, I'm getting annoyed with movie characters picking up other characters' cell phones and using them, as if EVERYONE'S cell phone doesn't lock and demand either a code or face recognition after being unused for so many seconds.

Decker

Very specific thing to a problematic movie overall, but in the movie Yesterday, where the premise is that everyone forgets that the Beatles ever existed except the main character. After that event happens, he freaks out and googles The Beatles (no hits for the band), then several other bands like The Rolling Stones (still exist), but when he googles Oasis, they also don't exist (implying that without the Beatles, there would be no Oasis). Okay fine. But later it's revealed that the reason Lilly James fell for the main character was that she loved how he had performed "Wonderwall" in a childhood talent show. Clearly that is in direct conflict with the reality of the world they create in the movie. But they never even address it. So annoying.

orangerunner

In the real world that's been coined as "Kojak-Parking" when you find that prime parking spot directly in front of your destination in a crowded area. Of course it's always large enough that you can drive straight into it, no need to parallel-park!

Count Dooku

How to deal with a fucking temporal paradox

Richard Curtis had too much Oasis on the brain

Josh-da-man

Maybe with all of the timey-wimey, wibbly-wobbly stuff going on, she thought "Wonderwall" was an original song of his.

Decker

It would have taken all of one line of dialog to clear that up. But they didn't bother.

I also thought the ending "twist" was really gross. It offended the hell out of me. But I understand that I'm in the minority on that point.

Runaway

Perhaps that's why they didn't bother or they didn't even notice it themselves. Anyway, the movie was a wasted opportunity of a nice idea for a movie.

Ash Ketchum

Of course they were doing it in movies long before KOJAK. Just one example: In WHO WAS THAT LADY? (1960), Dean Martin, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh drive to a restaurant on Broadway in Times Square and park right in front. Earlier in the movie, Martin drives right onto the Columbia University campus (a real location, not a set) to pick up Curtis. I don't think that was allowed then or now. I'm sure I've seen this kind of "Kojak-Parking" in dozens of earlier movies and TV shows, but that's the only example that comes to mind now.

Double_Oh_7

When alarm clocks go off at odd times, like 7:23. No one sets their alarm for a time like that.