cars cruising down a highway at 25 mph as if full speed

“be careful “

They will spend millions on amazing effects shots, then tie them to a script that doesn't hold together or has some "WTAF?" moments.

If it's not on the page, it's not on the stage.

but insist on using their flashlights instead of turning the house lights on.

Oops, you meant movies. Mine would be overwhelming music and mumbling actors.

You have to put captioning on to understand the mumbling.

Every time someone steps up to a microphone to speak to a large group, it squeals when they start speaking

Also when they don't pay at restaurants.

they always enter the house through the front door, and rarely through the door from the garage.

the killer is lurking in the garage or that's where the bodies are being stored?

I prefer to watch docs, dramas that are essentially true to life and foreign films.

I avoid the action/thriller genre because of all the shoot 'em up silliness and preposterous stunts. The storylines are too repetitive too, IMO.

They say when you watch a movie, you should be prepared to suspend your sense of disbelief. I have great difficulty doing that.

If a movie contains elements too incongruous for suspension of disbelief, it’s ruined for me. The most recent example was The Death of Stalin. I just couldn’t accept Steve Buscemi as Krushchev.

to try to read it.

Perhaps it makes sense in a period piece but all dark all the time is aggravating. Are they trying to save on the set property???

People carrying obviously empty suitcases. You can tell they are empty. Full suitcases make a different sound when you set them down than empty ones

Here's another: anytime a great distance has to be driven, it's almost always over back roads. Hardly anyone ever takes the interstate.

it's always right at the beginning of the song. Yet another reason to love Groundhog Day.

- Someone is always from, is trying to get back to, or dreams of going to NYC.

- Anytime a character goes back home to or visits a small town, that town always has a town square bustling with shops and everyone knows everyone else.

Unless of course the patients guts are backwards. .Very rare.
The other is showing an MRI and saying it's a CT scan or visa versa.. Poor attention to detail
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WTF?

tons more but I view few movies at the theater. too overpriced

Of movies, popcorn and a coke. Not doing that again.

I can get it. Then as soon as you do that, they talk about the message, so you were gonna know anyway.

Along with dozens of people shooting at the SAME person & ALL of them missing (I'm looking at YOU John Wick movies)
Getting shot/stabbed but "I'm fine!!" & continuing
Of course in superhero or Marvel type movies its understandable.

They don't work that way. (Each one has a meltable link in it... which melts and lets the water flow)

Also... crawling around inside ductwork. Most would require a belly crawl and most would barely stand up to the weight.

Soundtrack or special effects way too loud compared to the dialogue.

Characters making obvious, absolutely mind boggling, awful decisions. It's as if horror/slasher/zombie/etc movies never existed in their universe.

Grenade explosions with giant fireballs.

People getting shot and knocked back 5ft. Apparently physics are different lol.

Shooting in indoor spaces or inside cars, or just in general with zero hearing protection and they have normal conversations right after.

Characters being close enough to an explosion to get thrown or singed, but no other injury.

It really is an otherwise excellent film, and important for people to watch. Still, that hideous screeching attempt deeply damaged this very good movie for me.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1070874/

or rather hear, Kevin Costner in "Thirteen Days?" He was supposed to be Boston pol and JFK confidant Kenneth O'Donnell.

My ears begin to bleed again just thinking about it.

Funny! but skip the very end if gunshots shake you.

As a former--but not native--Bostonian, I approved this message.

Or worse, when Boston actors turn up the fake accent.

Spontaneous sex in rando gross bathrooms.
Posted up unto sinks, against walls and doors.
What woman does not dream of this?
Just sayin.

A man and a woman are running away from the bad guy and the woman trips and falls.

Two people are having a conversation and one of them just walks away instead of closing off the conversation in some way.

Whenever a woman discovers something disturbing like a dead body, she screams and screams like a banshee instead of just gasping or saying OMG, stepping back and calling 911 like a normal person would do.

A character (usually a woman) is trying to drive away from danger and her car doesn't start until suddenly it does, just as the bad guy appears at the window.

Movie characters hardly ever have pets, or if they do, it's a dog who appears at the beginning and is never seen again, or else is killed off.

Nobody ever has to go to the bathroom.

at all without reading them. In theaters the volume is on 150% and the AC is set at 55 degrees.

can’t nail the accent … or their accent takes so much effort that it flattens the rest of the performance

Never a realistic portrayal of traffic.
Airbags almost never go off.
Guns that never run out of ammo.
Houses are always too clean and well decorated. Apartments that look like Martha Stewart and Marie Kondo are roommates.

Some of these require a bigger willing suspension of disbelief than the plot line.

Regards,
Sorghum Crow

Cop shoots bad guy and nails him on the first try.

She's always pregnant.

1. Moviemakers: Women do not wash their hair every single time they get in the shower. They do not stand there, head back, with the water falling on their heads, slicking their hair back with their hands. You may find it sexy, but once in a while a woman takes a shower without having to go through a long hair drying process afterward. I do not believe I have EVER seen a woman shown in a G-rated shower scene where she was not slicking wet hair back with her hands.

2. Casting Directors: Ok, you have a type. You love women with long straight dark hair parted in the middle. Or men with wavy brown hair parted on the side. So, during the lengthy process of casting your movie, you always select the actors auditioning that are your type. Every time. And we, the moviegoers/watchers, are left saying "Is that the wife or the mistress? Or the maid? Is that the mailman or the boss?" Stop hiring people who look identical, even if you like them all best.

3. When a driver is having a conversation, they are typically in a car on a road moving quickly. They are not in a studio in front of a green screen. So they cannot have long conversations with the passenger that involve staring at them for minutes at a time.

The driver looks at the passenger for what feels like 15 seconds and I’m like NO NO YOU WOULD DRIVE INTO A POWER POLE, WTF!!! Or DRIVE OFF A CLIFF!! Or RUN INTO THE CAR IN FRONT OF YOU!!!!! STOP THIS!!

Makes me cray cray to see someone STARING at their passenger for more than 2 seconds, max!!
Arrghhh!!

Talking to you, Will Farrell!

They just burn time.

In colors that don't look good on the wearer. Haven't these people had their colors done?! ( I know, don't yell at me.
Alot of people haven't. But wouldn't a wardrobe professional know that stuff?) Weird set designs, huge apartments or homes when the character is supposed to be on the poor side. I just notice backgrounds and surroundings. Oh, and bad acting.

The bad guy and the hero(ine) have been shooting at each other for the last few minutes. Shooting to kill, presumably. Suddenly they are face to face, guns drawn … “Drop your gun!!” “No, you drop your gun!!!” And they have a 10-second stare down. Ridiculous. You and I both know that in reality, that confrontation is over in milliseconds, with a dead body hitting the floor. Do they think we’re idiots?

Where the evil mastermind captures the hero and while said hero is restrained, explains his entire nefarious plot in detail and at great length (giving the hero time to get loose using the screwdriver/hairpin/pliers/other tool he/she concealed up a sleeve or in a shoe). In the real world the evil mastermind would just have killed the hero immediately.

After the villain and hero shoot at each other for several minutes, they end up dropping their weapons and end the film in hand to hand combat. ALWAYS!

A woman gives birth to a baby by the side of the road in 5 minutes, moans or yells only once, and is delivered by someone with no medical training whatsoever who innately seems to know what to do. And the baby comes out looking like a 4-month old. Easy peasy, right, ladies?

Don't they make enough money already? I pay twice as much to go to the theater as it costs to buy a box of microwave popcorn and a Blu-ray movie.

Silencers in real life make guns less loud. Silencers in movies change what guns sound like. How does that work?

and he wipes the shaving cream off with a dry towel.