Things that piss you off...in movies!

[marcooos]

Just watch Skyline it pretty much sums up all my current hatreds, bad charcacters, the aesthetic is fucked, there is spontaneous super powers and my current big one which is people looking directly at a nuclear explosion without side effects...

 

[-KC-]

In horror movies:

"Hey let's split up!"


-.-

 

[imnot]

Not in movies so much, but thanks to tv tropes I piss myself off during movies, I juts keep listing the tropes in my head over and over again, I can predict what tropes a game or movie will have after playing it once HELP ME

 

[legend of duty]

When the music stops when a joke is said during the trailers. Also when little kids are in comedys.I'm sorry but your kid isn't funny!

Oh and relying on 3D or Dolby surround sound for action movies. Think about it would you've still watched Avatar if it didn't have those things and it had to go on nothing but its Pocohauntas script?

 

[MetalDooley]

-3D added to a movie in post production.It usually adds nothing to the movie.For example I went to see Clash of the Titans in 3D and I genuinely can't remember a single moment where the 3D "stood out".It's just a dick move so they can charge a couple of extra euros for a ticket

-Handheld shaky camera bullshit.Yes I'm sure the director thinks it looks dramatic and immersive but it's kinda hard to concentrate when the camera is jerking around like it's being held by someone suffering a fit.I'm sure Cloverfield is a decent movie but I couldn't enjoy it as the shaky cam made my eyes hurt after about half an hour

-Stereotypical characters particularly in horror movies as it signposts who's going to live/die.Slut,Jock,Cheerleader,Stoner it was nice knowing ye guys.Nerdy virgin stop screaming you're going to survive

-Kids outsmarting adults such as in Home Alone.In reality the kid would have gotten the shit knocked out of him by the burglars.Yes I understand that movies of this type are generally aimed at kids but even when I was a kid myself they pissed me off

-Kids in movies in general.Maybe it's just me but I find most "movie kids" to be annoying little bastards

-Musical numbers.Nothing annoys me more than people bursting into song for absolutely no bloody reason.This is probably the main reason why I've never really enjoyed Disney movies

 

[Violator[xL]]

Giant gasoline explosions, Shia LeBeouf.

 

[JamesStone]

Sequel retconning everything from the 1st moive, and McGuffins being pulled out of asses when they where never mentioned before.

The one thing that pisses me off the most is "chemistryless" romances. For example, that show Nikita. She has absolutely no chemistry for her new love interest, but has a shit full of it for her partner, Alex. And it bugs me that they don´t have the balls to do something about it, because every time Nikita and the other guy get "close", she looks like an Elcor:

M: I think I love you, but I can´t, you´re a traitot
Nik: With no interest: No, please stay. I love you sooooo much.

And it´s really really annoying. This kind of thing can limit a otherwise great movie/show.

 

[Hiroshi Mishima]

Randomly killing off people (but this applies to other mediums) simply because you didn't know what to do with them or because you thought it'd make people react in a given way.

Obligatory sex/nudity in movies where it doesn't belong. This was especially true in the original Resident Evil and was one of the things that made me dislike it.

Pop music placed in scenes where there should either be no music or low incidental music. This was a problem with the first Pokemon movie, if I recall.

Retcons that don't bother to explain differences/departures of characters.

 

[2HF]

Every time I see 2 characters on screen using webcams I want to murder someone. Why? Because when the person they are talking to moves around the person on the other side of the webcam will look around their own room as if the person was there. That is not how webcams work!!! The other person is still only visible on that tiny screen in front of you no matter where they move.

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

I think Yahtzee pointed this out, and I didn't notice this until later, but American movies/games always trying to somehow have some romantic plot in the movie/game regardless of whether it actually fits the story being told. Seriously, a horror movie does not need to have romance in it.

 

[TheDooD]

- Stereotypes in movies. Especially if they indeed die off rather quickly.
- The "decent guy and girl" always surviving
- Chase scenes that take forever
- The standard love interest

That pretty much covers your basic SyFy channel made for TV movie right there. Which is something I expect from those types of movies and sometimes it works. Yet when Hollywood thinks that it's blockbusters should follows these basic troupes it's sad and a waste of time.

 

[Asmundr]

The one things that pisses me off in movies is that the characters act like they've never seen a movie before. Ever.

"Hey guys, I thought I saw something down that hallway. I'll be right back, gonna go check it out." ,says some Character who then precedes to go down said hallway that has flickering lights, strange sounds, unnaturally quite, etc.

Yeah...I find it annoying when characters are just dumb as hell. Except in a few, and they were well done. Like Evolution (2001) xD

 

[MisterM2402]

It's a tiny thing but it always gets to me when Lightning and Thunder occur simultaneously. Sure it could be happening directly overhead but it still bugs me.

What if a flash of lightning occurs at the *exact* same moment as the thunder for the previous flash becomes audible? Maybe that explains it

 

[fgdfgdgd]

Skyline, Skyline, Skyline, a million times Skyline, that movie is the epitome of terrible, it's as if they new how bad it was going to be and then went 'we will fuck with them, have it end on a cliff hanger'

Oh, and movies that try way too hard to make you hate their 'villains' Case and point, 2012, the Russian father, they were just one quick edit away from showing him eating babies because they weren't sure that we hated him enough, and then the step father just sort of quietly gets crushed by a giant fucking gear and it's never mentioned again.

 

[elcamino41383]

It almost seems unnecessary to say it today, but that damn shaky-cam bullshit is something I will never forgive in an action movie. If you, as a director, are setting up an awesome, badass fight sequence then I, as your audience, would like to actually be able to see the Goddamn fight!

This is my biggest peeve as well. I also hate it when everything is too dark in a movie. I know darkness is supposed to add a feeling of fright to a movie because things are "scarier in the dark" and all. But let's take the albeit crappy movie, Devil, that came out last year. All the cool stuff that was in the movie HAPPENED IN COMPLETE DARKNESS. If they would have showed what was going on instead of the aftermath, that movie would have been SO much better. This kind of crap happens in too many movies where they just make it too dark to actually see what is going on and leaving it to your imagination. I think it's bullshit because you go to a movie to SEE stuff happen, not have to imagine it.

 

[Browbeat]

Playing on the audience's ignorance of a given prop to cheat it. You know, six-shooters firing off many more rounds for sake of action, sound effects (foley) forcibly inserted into an action that is obviously subtle/silent, punching up the effects to ludicrous exaggeration.

Also, missed timing on physical gags, comedy, scares. The awkward stare, the hanging smile, etc.

 

[aba1]

Second: In Prequels, when they show characters that are in the chronologically second movie "in mortal peril". That just ruins any sort of suspense for me, because I know they'll survive one way or another. Example is in the Star Wars series.

So my fellow Escapians, what pisses you off in movies?

I always felt it was not what happened that makes a story interesting but how it happened.

OT: One of the things that bother me the most if when characters do things that nobody would do naturally, you see this a lot in movies. For example in horror movies terrible things are happening so what does everyone do split up and investigate I dunno about you people are getting killed I call the cops and leave the area so I to don't die just saying.

I hate over use of CG that just takes you out of the moment. You see it a lot in today's movies they will use CG to animate a character so they don't need to hire a stunt double and you can blatantly see the person is animated either by the lack of details and poor textures or just the unnatural movements.

Ok I know I could go on and on but the thing that bothers me more than anything is poor dialog. I hate when people get into this huge fight all because one character refuses to just sit down and explain themselves and would rather just be really vague about everything as to confuse the other party. This is especially bad in anime.

 

[Randomperson9999999]

in movies where theres a misunderstanding and the 2 heroes break up

 

[Piorn]

Second: In Prequels, when they show characters that are in the chronologically second movie "in mortal peril". That just ruins any sort of suspense for me, because I know they'll survive one way or another. Example is in the Star Wars series.

Are you familiar with a certain fan theory where Obi-Wan from movie 4-6 is actually OB-1, Ben Kenobi's clone from back in the clone wars? (Doesn't remember R2-D2 etc.)
Imagine if they had Ben kenobi's life threatend, and everyone thinks he'll survive because he's in the "Sequel", only to let him actully die, THAT would be a great twist.

 

[kidd25]

love interest, and simple plot lines. Also annoying camera angles and bad acting... oh yeah things that don't get answered or fully explained.(Unless it's horror or a thriller)