Things in movies that you find loathsome?

[willard3]

Characters who can walk up to a girl they've never seen before and sweet-talk her into a date and sex that very night. In the real world, this only happens with lots of alcohol. I'm giving James Bond a bit of a pass, because those movies are supposed to be pretty campy and tongue-in-cheek.

 

[CymTyr]

Gratuitous violence and gore just for the sake of having it in the film. If it is just there and doesn't really have a purpose, then it's loathsome for me.

 

[xChevelle24]

Every Arnold Schwarzenegger movie annoys me because they take his muscle to extreme limits and make him pretty much invincible.

Horror movies in general, because it's just a plot thrown together with random scares every 3 seconds.

Slow motion every 3 seconds, followed by bullet-time, then bullet-time in slower motion, with rotating cameras.

Movies where the stunts are just ridiculously overdone, to the point where they are inhumanly possible. It's annoying.

Movies where EVERYTHING blows up, that's just silly.

Disney movies.

 

[Kevvers]

Anything involving computers. The computer hacker who has seemingly magical powers, the computer AI who can be convinced to blow themselves up or give up through banal 'logic' or can be stopped by flicking a giant OFF switch, the shitty 'futuristic' UIs, the blatant use of computers as a deus ex machina, right down to the irritating way they pretend to be typing -- you know they aren't typing real words.

 

[Zombie Turtle]

I HATE it how all these henchmen are weak and shoot guns like they have a mask over their eyes. Like can none of them shoot a gun on target?

Plus, movies that may have some sort of gripping plot, but face it, you know they are going to win. For example, final scene of the movie, the 'Vigilante' is losing a fight in which the world will be destroyed if he lost. But! he'she has a flash back that boosts their morale to keep fighting! Villain dies, she cries and they live happily ever after..

Yeah I hate that...

 

[painfull2006]

When the main guy is running away from people shooting at him and never gets hit...

What, the main guy can kill 5 guys with one bullet but the bad guys have to empty clips into him just to make him run away?

 

[WinterSoldier]

Bad physics.
Like movies where a few bullets are shot from a pistol and the guy that gets shot goes flying.


And also the random displays that they show on computers to try and make it look cool. Hackers, governments, or anyone else in real life would not use a computer like that with random animated windows or automated stuff to look cool.

 

[VladBlok28]

I hate how almost all American war movies portray their enemies as cowardly genocidal rapist maniacs (weather it be the Russians, Vietnamese, Iraquis, or whoever) and portray themselves as brave cowboy-type patriot heroes with balls of steel, with the inevidable American flag thing at the end (already mentioned).
Anyone watched Red Dawn? The scene where civilians sing the US national anthemn while facing the (EVILL!!!) Soviet firing squad.. ugh...
I stopped watching it after the five highschool kids killed half the Red Army

 

[theshadowed1]

In comedy movies where they have the sad bit you know the bit where they get rid of comedy for some guy crying it just breas flow and is in EVERY comedy movie, it braks flow and it's just not funny

 

[SamuelT]

Once two people fall on love who have met each other two days before. Even 'Love on first sight' needs a week or two.

Oh! And a lack of continuïty.(Sorry if it is misspelled, I'm Dutch)
One second the main character is running in the woods, and it's midnight. The next second he is running out of the woods, and the sun is rising. That bugs me...

*Looks at Eragon*

 

[oktalist]

A final showdown between the main good guy and main bad guy, set in some overblown ridiculous place (Luke and Vader fight in the carbon freezing facility in Cloud City in the Empire Strikes Back; John, Sarah and the Terminator fight the T-1000 in a steelworks in Terminator 2).

Serenity did it as well, in pretty much the only thing I found objectionable about that film, Mal and the operative fight in the most contrived over-the-top derivative setting of Mr. Universe's backup transmitter/generator/reactor/whatever the hell that place is on the gangways hundreds of feet above some giant spinning rotors, with some conveniently-placed chains hanging down to allow them to swing across the gap like one of those games out of Gladiators. Man that pissed me off. Like baking the most beautiful delicious cake and then right at the end, just as it's about finished you stick a turd on the top.

 

[Montgomery_Burns]

What's with the completely over-the-top stunts that have no way of being physically possible in real life, usually involving a helicopter? Good stunts are fine. Badass stunts are cool. But some stunts in movies just take away from my willing suspension of disbelief. And they seem to involve helicopters lately. Like the one in Live Free or Die Hard--already the weakest movie in the series--where McClane smashes a car into a helicopter to blow it up. Or the most recent one in the Wolverine movie, where Wolverine smashes HIMSELF into a helicopter. Slightly justified by his regeneration, but still more than a little far fetched.

Remedy:
Jackie Chan movies.

The whole shaky camera thing. Do people realize that is not fun to watch!

AKA Cloverfield Syndrome.

As for me... I'd have to go with the hero always winning.