Niggly details that get on your nerves/under your skin

[Rhymenoceros]

Basically this thread is for you to vent your thoughts and anger about little details in books, videogames, movies whatever that don't make sense.

For instance mine is that in the Harry Potter series all the adults can't dress as Muggles. Which makes sense from a narrative point of view but what annoys me is that to make the relationships and stories for the kids work they can dress as Muggles. So why would children lose the ability to dress as Muggles as they grow up.
That one detail has actually stopped me reading the Harry Potter series recently (I have read them before)

 

[Queen Michael]

That Edward Cullen doesn't have any acceptable reason for not wanting to turn Bella into a vampire.

 

[Cody211282]

When they show or say basic medical information wrong, or when they can't figure out how a military works, I hate watching a movie and seeing them shock someone who is flat-lining.

 

[Dango]

I hate it when people are extremely dedicated to picking out every single physical impossibility in a movie or video game. It is not real life, that is the entire point.

 

[Counter_Southpaw]

When they show or say basic medical information wrong, or when they can't figure out how a military works, I hate watching a movie and seeing them shock someone who is flat-lining.

This. As well as overused terms.

" He's Oscar Mike! We're Oscar Mike! I'm Oscar Mike! HOLY OSCAR MIKE, DANGER CLOSE!"


OSCAAAAAAAAAAAR MIKE!!!

It killed MW2 for me.

 

[MrSmish]

Basically, in any animated anything, how the girls fit in to their clothes. Most of them seem too top heavy to fit. Elastic, maybe?

 

[Rhymenoceros]

I hate it when people are extremely dedicated to picking out every single physical impossibility in a movie or video game. It is not real life, that is the entire point.

Hey! You just posted in my other thread! Stalker!

Also it's not that there is a slight deviation from reality it's more that it's a glaring gap that just irritates you no matter whether it's meant to be realistic or not.

 

[Cody211282]

When they show or say basic medical information wrong, or when they can't figure out how a military works, I hate watching a movie and seeing them shock someone who is flat-lining.

This. As well as overused terms.

" He's Oscar Mike! We're Oscar Mike! I'm Oscar Mike! HOLY OSCAR MIKE, DANGER CLOSE!"


OSCAAAAAAAAAAAR MIKE!!!

It killed MW2 for me.

Not to mention that about 50% of the people who play that have no idea that Oscar Mike means On the Move, or that Oscar kilo means ok.

 

[tomtom94]

I was just listening to your name. Awesome indeed.

I wait for someone to link us to the It Just Bugs me page on TVTropes. (I'm too lazy)

Anyway: the fact that the third Shrek film sucked when the first two were excellent got under my skin.

 

[MikailCaboose]

When some special name, like a deity or something, is absolutely ridiculous or just stupid. For example, in the new Arc Rise Fantasia, the two combating deities are...drumroll please...
Real and Imaginal! Just. Fucking. Brilliant.
I'm hoping that's a translation error, but God dammit!

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

I hate it when people are extremely dedicated to picking out every single physical impossibility in a movie or video game. It is not real life, that is the entire point.

It's far worse when a movie or a video game go to great and utterly horseshit lengths to explain a magic power. JUST SAY IT'S MAGIC! IT'S OKAY!

 

[Chancie]

Well, I always hate when they got dog breeds wrong or use the wrong kind of dog for a role.

Examples:
Winn-Dixie is supposed to be a mutt, but they used a purebred Picardy Shepherd for the movie.
In the movie Hachi, they used a Shiba Inu puppy in the beginning instead of an Akita.

I'm a dog freak, so stuff like that will drive me insane.

 

[Tharwen]

The way spaceships always have their engines on. If you were actually flying a ship through space, you would only need to turn the engines on to accelerate and decelerate (due to the almost frictionless vacuum). I haven't yet seen a film/show which depicts ships flying with their engines off.

 

[Haunted Serenity]

This one book i'm reading the main character which i grew to love and connect with became such a uncaring tosser in a nano second that it destroyed all that i had to love for him and i can't finish the seris or the book now because of his stupidity and lack of fucking compassion the dumb twit. I mean ooo your life sucks but when you have the chance to do something decent that you are constantly saying you will you just decide to sulk it away and be a tosser and let what happened to your little friend happen to someone else but be too dense and sullen to notice because the master assassian teaching you was a little rude to you and now you have to sulk you stupid bastard. And it was a shag that he turned down to which makes even less sense and screw i'm done with that.That turned into a longer rant than i was intending.

 

[Kinshar]

The lack of realistic back-blast for Anti-tank weapons is so painfully glaring in war movies.

 

[Jark212]

It's okay, he was just shot in the leg/arm he'll be fine...

It's not like women need real armor...

Watch as I kill you with hacking!!!

I will blame everyone for [insert tragic event here] but I learn that it was [a accident/my fault/bad guys fault] and will learn a valuable lesson...

Those are my main offenders...

 

[Wadders]

Reloading, or lack thereof in most action movies.

I must admit film makers are getting better at it, but older movies (Commando, I'm looking at you) have dudes firing constantly without reloading at all.

They dont have to be super accurate with it, just to see a guy put a new magazine in his rifle or slot a few fresh rounds into a shotgun now and again cant hurt surely?

 

[jopomeister]

When the book in question takes over a hundred pages to get started.
It's what makes Cell by Stephen King such an awesome book. You're on chapter 2 and the worlds gone mad :3

 

[Woodsey]

That Edward Cullen doesn't have any acceptable reason for lusting after someone ~100 years his junior.

I couldn't agree more, dear Sir.