If you have your favorite movie of all time, nobody can ever convince you it’s crap. Because film preferences are totally subjective, they vary from one person to another, and if you and your crush can’t find common ground about it, it raises a red flag.
All seriousness aside, some movies are genuinely nothing more than a piece of crap and it doesn't take another person to prove that to you. So when someone posted the question “What 100% ruins a movie for you every time?” the comments started to pour in on r/AskReddit and reached 20.8k in total.
The inquiry has surely resonated with 32.6k people who pressed upvote, and many felt relief that finally, we just laid it all out on the table. From flawed characters to self-explanatory dialogues that make viewers feel like they're first graders, these things will spoil any top-notch movie. Film directors, take notes.
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Having to constantly have my remote in hand to turn down the absurdly loud action scene, to then have to crank the volume for the next dialogue that is far too low.
I'm freaking sick of it.
When the movie calls for an ugly guy, they get an ugly guy.
When the movie calls for an ugly girl, they get a sexy girl and dress her in dumpy clothes.
The bit where hackers take 20 seconds of furious typing to disable a countries infrastructure.
or even alien computer, which is somehow, pretty similar to our earth computer.
In a world where every single opinion counts, getting your voice out about a movie you just watched may be quite hard. Luckily, we live in the world of reviews, and if it’s not you who writes one, then there will be film critics who do this job for us. Or you may simply go to Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregation website, that will tell you the truth about what it is that you'd like to watch.
According to Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer, the award for the worst movie of all time goes to Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002). Critics’ synopsis describes it as “A startlingly inept film, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever offers overblown, wall-to-wall action without a hint of wit, coherence, style, or originality.”
The second worst entry is One Missed Call (2008), as it’s thought to be “one of the weakest entries in the J-horror remake sweepstakes,” completely undone by bland performances. The third worst is the 2012 movie A Thousand Words, which is described by critics as a “painful mess” with “bland jokes.” So yeah, not all movies are born to be perfect, but some of them are hardly watchable.
"There's no time... save yourself!" when there's clearly ample amount of time for both characters to get to safety. made even worse by the fact that they usually waste a minute or more arguing about it, saying teary-eyed goodbyes, and making out before character 1 finally gets up and leaves.
Overused female tropes. The angry black woman, plus sized women always being loud and clumsy, and of course, the manic pixie dream girl. This isn't some feminist soapbox, it's just lazy and uninspired writing.
I can often tell when actors carry fake (well, empty) suitcases, and even when they carry empty to-go cups. There's just something different in the way their bodies/muscles work then.
Jesus Christ, it's a 50 million dollar movie, how hard would it be to fill the cup and toss a couple of bricks in the suitcase?
Unnecessary sex scenes.
This one so, so much. I don't mind people have sex. I don't mind if the story calls for it. Do I need to see it? No. There are certain types of films just for that.
Women wearing heels through out an action movie where they are running constantly and never once take them off.
If the dog dies.
Whenever I see thriller/action when some maniac stalks the leading girl and it turns out she has a dog or a cat I stop watching, immediately. I know, I just know, poor innocent puppy or kitty is going to end up killed first as a stupid "warning". I hate this cliche!
Added love story to an adaptation of a book with no love story.
Or create one in a story based on a historic event. Titanic is a prime example. I’ve been a Titanic buff since I was a teenager. Saw the movie in the theatre, hated it, and have never watched it again. The true stories on that ship are so much more interesting than the fake ones, but the true stories were pushed to the background or completely changed. Just so the fake characters could be pretty, have sex, and one of them—-but only the young female, even though there was an attractive male character too—-could be seen fully nude. Totally detracted from the more gripping true story.
When things explode for no reason. “Vehicle had minor collision or simply rolls over and spontaneously explodes”
When the premise for a major conflict in the movie is something that any sane person would have just said "oh no there's a misunderstanding" and they all have a laugh and go on with their days... But instead it turns into some convoluted drama.
Fake snow and low temperatures that never matter. Like in Game of Thrones where nobody wore a goddamn hat on the wall. I was watching “his dark materials” the other day and I almost started to applaud when heroes actually got dressed for the cold weather.
Also, Russia in snow. We have summer too.
People are outside in freezing temperatures wearing a light jacket and no gloves and they're not dead yet! Also why can't we see their breaths?
Sex scenes. They're always really cringey to me and I prefer the implication rather than the blatant butt shots. Idk, sex scenes to me always seem kind if unnecessary.
They're really not necessary. There are other movies people can watch for that kind of content, so please focus on plot.
How else would they fill the time? Uh, no, that would mean a decent script.
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Yes yes 1000 times yes. So often I’m watching and it draws me right out of the story thinking about two naked people in a room with twenty people watching, wondering if they really understood what was in their contract.
Anyone who has achieved experienced adulthood doesn’t need to have it graphically portrayed. Example: A Streetcar Named Desire. After the poker game, Stanley and Stella argue and Stella runs to the upstairs neighbor’s place. Stanley cools off, misses Stella, goes into the courtyard and stands at the bottom of the staircase to the upper floor, in a torn tee shirt showing his chest. He cries out Stellllllaaaaaa! Hey Stellllaaaa! Stella appears at the top of the stairs. Their eyes are intensely locked on each other. Stanley falls to his knees crying for his girl. (The script for the play called for them to make low moaning sounds as Stella descends the steps.) Stella reaches the bottom and Stanley throws his arms around her waist and buries his face in her slightly rounded pregnant belly. Then he raises himself up and kisses her, passionately. He lifts her up, carries her back into their apartment, and closes the door behind them. Sexy as is. No need to show them in bed. We already know.
All modern sex scenes usually have the woman on top and she keeps her bra on ! ?
This is the second duplicate. Bad & unrealistic sex scenes irritate me. Sex scenes in general do not. I’m more bothered by excessive violence where it’s unnecessary. The US has so much anti-sex bullshit... women’s nipples are treated like some kind of doomsday weapon... but showing someone’s eyes gouged out, face melted off, or multiple bullets to the face, people being disemboweled, tortured, raped, murdered, etc... that’s all fine for most television? Violence on TV doesn’t make people violent, but it does desensitize people so that they don’t have the proper response to violence in the real world. I much prefer the normalizing of sex, over the creeping normalizing of violence.
They are too intimate and I feel bad for the actors and their family so usually I fast forward, it is hard tho because like in GOT often important dialogue occurs then. I want the action and plot not the sex please.
The worse the film or TV show, the more they need sex scenes to keep people in those seats.
In regards to sex scenes...Less is more...Mystery is more...allusion is more....
Sorry, I like the butt shots or the artfully lit and draped bodies. Sometimes it is part of the plot - the characters becoming more intimate with each other. I am more offended by the language. THAT is something not necessary unless you are trying to do actual representation of real people that talk that way everyday.
To me, sex scenes are just there because the director/writer thought - uh, what can I put in here to jazz things up and take up some time??
I think the Wonder Woman movie did a really good job of that, the implication that it had happened.
I enjoy a real looking love scene, passion does not need nudity. It is especially disconcerting when there is some nudity, but the character is wearing some sort of underwear or swimsuit. You can tell right away they had a no nudity clause in their contract.
Can I vote yes to this, about 50 times. Those scenes are so un-needed!
Especially when every other scene is a sex scene.... I interpret that as meaning the creators of the show have very little imagination or creativity....
Or when the woman still has her bra on, IN HER OWN BED. Yeah, we all do that.
"They always make me cringe." "Cringey" isn't a word. Really. Yes, I felt that was necessary.
Let's remove all the violence and death too. That always makes me cringe. I mean I've had plenty of sex, and I prefer it private, but I don't see blown up bodies and people getting shot and bombs in buildings well, ever so that is totally unrealistic.
Yep, rather imagine then see it actually happen. You do know what a crocodile with two heads is?
Just make it Steampunk. Then you don't need to add anymore steaminess.
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When there is a timer and it takes longer to count down than the time that was called/shown. It drives me crazy.
Generic example, 50 seconds until a bomb explodes. Dialogue for 30 seconds. Timer is showing 30 seconds left. More dialogue for 40 seconds. Timer is at 5 seconds. Quick one-liner, bomb defused with one second to go.
Sometimes, timer show like 20 sec but characters talk and they are kissing and talking for minutes. And yet, there are still some seconds left. Bomb is always defused in last 3-5 seconds, never like when there is 30 minutes left.
When one character who's an expert in some field stops to explain the most basic concepts to another character who's also an expert on the same subject.
Maybe not 100%, but close to it. Fight scenes where someone make a big blow(usually the villain), but instead of finishing the deal by smashing the brains out they start talking, bragging or some other cocky sh*t. And woops, the fight is back on like nothing happened..
"We only use 10% of our brain"
A lot of people believe that 10% thing. Movies just reinforce it.
The whole "america good, russia/middle east/any other f**king (insert noun here) bad" trope. It's such a tired and obnoxious ego stroke. Case in point... Independence Day. People are shooting at the aliens with all sorts of guns and they don't even flinch... Willy punches one wearing a full space suit and somehow knocks it out cold?! Then says "welcome to erf!" Ugh... cringed so hard it hurt.
The US is extremely US-centric, so if that's where the movie came from... 🤷🏻♀️
When there’s a 20+ year age gap between the leading actor and actress and it’s not addressed in the movie, especially when the movie pretends like they’re around the same age.
“We’re both experienced, leading scientists in our fields, even though I look like a grizzled war veteran and you’re fresh off the set of High School Musical.”
Like I wanna see gnarled old Jack Nicholson with a woman half his age.
The very strong/smart main villain turning weak/dumb in the end fight so the heroes can win.
The lesson we have learned from all of those movies is that you kill your enemy by simply filling them up with lead. Forget those contraptions, no pools with sharks or bombs with a timer so you can escape in your airplane. Shoot the hero and live a long and happy life as a successful villain.
When all you have to do is beat the boss and the entire army just collapses. Pretty much every alien and robot-using invasion has this hive concept.
When it's very obvious when someone isn't actually having a conversation on the phone. They just say their lines without giving enough pause for the other person to respond. I also hate when you're supposed to be looking at security footage but it's clearly just a previous shot that's had a filter put over it.
Also, when someone phones someone, the person being called answers within a second.
Just 10 seconds left before the bomb explodes. The hero is taking all the time in the world to kiss and hug his girlfriend a last goodbye before returning to deactivate the bomb..
Badly implemented product placement. Product placement itself doesn't bother me. If there's a character driving a Toyota, or eating a Pizza Hut pizza, I don't care. If there's a pointless shot in the movie that shows the f**king Bud Light logo for 10 seconds, I mind
Product placement that's been forcibly inserted too. James Bond has to drive an Astin Martin or whatever - it's part of the spy fantasy. The British Secret Service would be in dire straits if Q gave him the keys to a Ford Focus, even one with exploding rockets behind the headlights! But if, when he makes his regular drink order, he says "Vodka martini, shaken, not stirred. And use Grey Goose, it's smoother", James Bond just became The Truman Show. (Which I think captured the weirdness of forced PP just beautifully)
I know it sounds cliche, but movie clichés. Like in hallmark films. Busy business woman doesn't have time for love. Goes home for Christmas because something is wrong and could be her parents last Christmas. She meets a guy. Too busy to enjoy life. A parent dies. She realizes she needs to enjoy life more. Gets together with guy. You can just tell the way s**t is going to go because the movie is already cliché. Or in action films. Oh let me guess, X is behind that door isn't he? Or he was. Look at that.
Teenagers who sound like screenwriters trying to sound cool.
Never in the history of humanity have two 15 year olds randomly recited 18th century poetry to each other on the day they met, and all those snarky remarks makes the kids sound insufferable and annoying a lot more than clever.
Also notice that somehow every clever 15 y.o. always listens to music that was huge when the screenwriter was growing up, never something that is... you know... listened to by 15 year olds... as if there was no good music around presently.
PS. Also the whole sarcastic genius with no social clues...yes we get it Dr. House was a hit 20 years ago, now can we get Cumberbatch to play any other freaking role?
Or when a character has a job which requires a 5+ year long higher education, 2-3 years of speciality training, and further 2-3 years of experience is needed, but that character is also 22 years old. Example: in 50 Shades of Gray, Mr Gray is a certified helicopter pilot, finished college, runs his company and apparently is excellent at it, developed all the kinks, - at 27 years old.
When they explain the plans like...to an 8 year old.
I like movies where things just happen.
It depends. In a sport movie it's good for non-fans. But fans will be like why is the coach teaching an elementary move at half time in the final?
Killing or hurting dogs.
Sometimes it’s just to show just how “bad” this character is.
Everyone hates this! And cats too! It makes me stop watching that movie.
When the jokes are so forced. They're just trying hard to be funny but they isn't. Or when they're offensive or just downright stupid. Totally ruins it. Unfortunately a lot of comedy movies have tons of this so I tend to steer clear of comedies.
Any movie with children where the bad guy would be defeated in the first act if any nearby responsible adults would just verify what the children are saying. A Series of Unfortunate Events made me want to tear my hair out.
If I watch a horror movie and theres a group of college kids, I already know its going to be party, sex, and someone dies in that order.
Horror films that are all the same! 5 teens, on spring break, decide to spend time at an abandoned/haunted/isolated place. There’s a jock, a bimbo, a nerd a slut and a token black/Asian character. It’s so insulting and annoying. Also, the ‘Token’ character always dies first.....
When bad guys have no redeemable qualities. It’s too convenient and unrealistic.
There's a saying in writing that no one thinks they're the bad guy. Think Thanos in Marvel. He views himself as the savior of the universe. He's not really redeemable, but he certainly is interesting. Bad guys in movies that are just "I'm doing it because I'm EVIL!!!" really aren't.
Forced moral messages, like really forced, the kind of messages that feel so unnatural that nothing can justify
Even worse that many modern movies seem to propagate completely immoral things as the perfect way. I'm not talking about things like GoT, because everyone knows people there are supposed to be immoral. I mean action flicks like "London has Fallen". There they convey it as completely OK to bomb terrorists with their whole family including countless women, children and innocent wedding guests. It's never questioned. In one scene the protagonist tortures and kills a wounded terrorist just to piss of his brother who is listening via radio.
It was a dream.
Character A: (Perfectly understandable explanation for something technical or scientific, that anyone who managed to dress themselves this morning could comprehend.)
Character B: "In English, please!"
Character A: (Extremely dumbed down version because screenwriter assumes audience are idiots)
Or the opposite, a string of gibberish jargon we are supposed to accept as meaningful dialogue.
Unnecessary love scenes where the main character and a side character fall in love just cause, despite having known each other for like five minutes.
Insane plot armor. It’s okay for a main character to die.
Game of Thrones made killing off your favorite character(s) almost get boring. They showed it's actually a pretty easy thing to do.
Its becoming more and more annoying to me to see schools and teachers acting like they never took educational psychology to figure out why a kid has suddenly started being late, distant, and depressed. They just shove the kid into detention.
"Your child has become more and more distant in class, not participating, and not doing homework over the past week. We put them into detention... deal with it at home or we'll call the cops."
Seriously? you don't ask about the sudden change? send them to a counselor? call the parents/caregivers? I know some teachers would be pricks, but that frequent representation pisses me off.
A woman and man who have good chemistry end up falling in love with each other. Not every movie needs to be a fcking love story. Also, platonic relationships are cute
Also, the person losing out in love the the protagonist does not need to be a total jerk, just so that you don't feel sorry for them and get angry at the protagonist.
Sci fi that just throws "QUANTUM" in to explain whatever they cant explain with good writing and storytelling.
In endgame Tony just starts randomly saying maths-physics words and acting like hes solved the whole thing. When hes discussing the "quantum realm" he just starts saying shit like "so we take the eigenvalue of a mobius strip". Its absolute nonsense.
If you're going to have science fiction, make it fiction dont use actual science terminology wrongly. He also uses the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky theorem entirely wrong, its disrespectful at best and lazy at worst. Don't do it, instead create something new.
using kids as the comic relief. they're always written way too quippy and articulate than an actual kid would be. drives me crazy because it pulls me out of the immersion, and so many people fall for the schtick where the kid is their favorite part of the movie
And it's always the endearing floppy haired tyke with the glasses that makes the single parent's romance come together against all natural odds
Breaking its own rules.
Like Star Wars how stormtroopers are supposedly elite yet none can shoot for s**t while some random pilot can solo entire destroyers and outgun dozens of troopers with a pistol
Also “I can’t kill” theme shoved down over and over to try to make them look like a good guy. If someone is trying to kill you, you’re just being stupid if your only play is to talk them down
Back in 1991 when Lucas launched the Star Wars EU that Disney deleted from SW Cannon, they solved this issue. There are two grades of troops, Storm Troopers and Imperial Troopers. The first are elite, the second are half trained conscripts using a lower quality gun that is less accurate at the same time. It was solved a long time ago.
when dead people dont stay dead
Bad exposition dialogue
"As the son of [GOODPERSON] you shouldn't do drugs here.."
"Kleetus, you're my [SIBLING]. I've taken care of you since [PARENT] died and [OTHERPARENT] left us. Remember how we would play at [HOMEPLACE] but you had to move away because [JOB]?"
"Well, well, well, Micky, the [MOSTWANTEDCRIMINAL], at my doorstep. What's the matter, didn't your [PARENT] cut you any more slack, so you've traveled here from [PLACE] to see your [SIBLING], my [SPOUSE]?"
When the villain is always a few steps ahead of the hero for no reason. Somehow, the villain has managed to predict every move the hero and is going to make.
The only time I liked this was in The Emperor's New Groove. Izma gets to the secret lair first, and everyone's questioning how it happened. Even Kronk pulls out a map showing where they all were and is like "yeah, it doesn't make sense".
Twist villains where the bad guy is revealed in the last 10 minutes of the movie.
Exactly! They spend the whole movie making the viewer think the bad guy is one of three possible people and then it turns out it was the crazy cat lady at the end of the street that was introduced once in the beginning....
"video games" in movies that are set after 1988 yet they all sound like pacman or space invaders.
Although there was a particular sound to 1980's arcades, a wonderful mix of Space invaders, asteroids, galaxian, defender, pacman and all the rest. It's a real trigger for me, I went to a 'Classic' arcade in London last year, walking in the sound literally brought tears to my eyes.
They hang up the phone without any warning. Like "Bob, we discovered a nuke on it's way to Washington". Click.
Or someone answering the door within a couple seconds of knocking.
These thing completely break me out of the movie and are hard to recover from.
Better still: Man meets woman for the first time and says "How about dinner tonight?" Woman: "Yes, ok" Man "Ok. I'll pick you up at eight." And off he goes... How TF does he know she's not married or engaged and how does he know where she lives?
Action scenes with lots and lots of cuts, that make it obvious (or appear like) the actors can't do the fight choreography.
Or where its completely unrealistic, like a 90lb girl able to throw a 260lb wrestler against the wall. Fine, if you've introduced a valid reason for this break to expectations (e.g. Buffy being unique - Willow couldn't do it pre-Wicca), or if it's a full part of the fantasy setting, but if it's just Jason Bourne's girlfriend, I'm not buying it. For the record, I DISPISE the damsel in distress trope too - women in high adrenaline situations can hold their own for a while, but at some point reality will kick in and they will lose. (Again, if she gets the right attack to his eyes or groin, go for it - I'm talking about the trading of roundhouse punches)
Unneeded sequels.
Yes. Especially when the first movie told a complete and satisfying story. No need to beat the dead horse.
In horror movies: too many jumpscares.
Yes, I like to be scared by something ACTUALLY scary (psychological, etc.) but trust me ANYONE would scream if a dead body jumped out at you in the middle of the night.
Unbelievably lame names for technology/resources/concepts in science fiction.
I'm looking at you Avatar. "Unobtainium." Give me a break. It was already an engineering joke. Why did you try to make it a real thing?
Sounds bad but an actor’s voice can really ruin a movie for me, so bad voice acting
Forced diversity.
Alternately: People who complain about forced diversity when really they just wrote the script and/or picked the best actors for the job without needing everyone to be white. The pictured example seems to me to be a great example of moviemakers finally moving past the "token [whatever]" trope and including actual human beings who are allowed to be main characters with flaws and traits outside of their gender/race... and we're supposed to be mad about it?
When the annoying brats survive - Jurassic Park series I'm looking at you!
A bad ending. If a movie was great but has a bad ending, then the whole experience is ruined.
Or NO ending, where you have to guess what happened afterward after sitting for two hours to find out. Makes me angry.
Bad acting
From someone you know only got the part because they’re 1) not an actor, 2) related to someone with clout, 3) sleeping with someone with clout, 4) someone with clout wants to sleep with them, 5) they’re popular right now and their name is a big draw, but they’re totally 100% wrong for the part.
A random assortment of music. I didn't realise how jarring it was until I saw suicide squad - going from rap to metal, to slow to fast paced... Made me feel like 10 people couldn't agree on one song, so they took 30 seconds each for the song they liked. It annoyed me
Also sudden character turns - your bad, but now good because you feel like it...oh okay cool, let's not build upto it or anything just yep good now.
No one could agree on anything in Suicide Squad...except that Epstein couldn't possibly be in it
When they have sex with full clothes on
Slammed up against the wall because they can't hold off long enough to get to a flat surface
When they have the chance to easily finish the bad guy off (no not like that) but they run away.
The only film I remember that didnt was a British film called Severance. A character literally runs back with a shotgun and blows his head off as he’s stuck.
"No, I'm not going to kill you, I'm going to let you live with the guilt from your crimes!"
Fast-talking techno-jargon to show how intelligent the smart character is supposed to be compared to the others. Or, randomly mashing a keyboard = hacking the mainframe.
Character running, trips.
I'm out of bullets, I need to throw away the gun because it's not possible for me to find ammo later.
Main character jumps through multiple hoops to defeat the demon, monsters, etc. Surprise! None of it worked in the end. Rendering the entire story pointless just for a cheap "jumpscare" that every horror movie has done.
Major character is always bored or sarcastic/snarky towards everything. Either for "humor" or because the writers thought they would look badass or super cool compared to everyone else. They're actually flat and boring to watch.
"So bad it's good" movies gain some attention, so they make multiple sequels that get worse and worse and lose the original charm of the first.
I call it sucking the life out of a movie. Hero beats villain. The End. Sadly the movie becomes a hit so there's a sequel: Turns out Hero didn't really beat the villain so he has to do it again. The end. Rinse and repeat and it goes on even when the Hero is in wheelchair with an oxygen tank attached and the villain is so senile that he thinks he is the president and they stole his presidency.
when the voices are way to quiet and you can't understand anything the actors are saying because any other sound overpowers them
I am Norwegian, so I watch all foreign movies with Norwegian subtitles. Some times there are subtitles with just some distant mumbling voices at sound lever 1, and I always wondered how the heck English speaking audience could possible get what they are saying. Actually, I sometimes need to put on subtitles on Norwegian films as well because they speak so fast and unarticulated.
Forced romance subplots in a non-romance based movie. A BaBY A hero I'm supposed to root for because???? They're the protagonist??? The villain doesn't have a reason, they're just Random and CRaZy
GinnyXHarry made sense in the books, NOT the movies
Phones that ring and ring and ring, and the character just won't answer it. The sound drives me up the wall, esp. with old corded phones, and in a lot of films the character just stares. I get that filmmakers use this to ramp up suspense, but imo it's the sort of anxiety that takes me OUT of the movie, not into it.
Romantic subplot with main characters. I don’t mind romantic subplots with side characters because they don’t detract from the story, they’re often there for laughs. Modern movies have been getting better about this but there’s still lots of offenders.
Well, Tom Crooze sucks anyway. He managed to make an already failing NASCAR into a punchline with Days of Thunder He should just go to whatever heaven that his bullshit religion promises and give movie fans a rest.
When your watching a movie, and no matter what the plot/storyline is, when your taken out of the movie mentality world and think “yeah no way that could happen.”
Unnecessary camera angles and movements. Grounded camera work is the basis for almost any good scene. Makes you feel like your witnessing whats happening. Instead of being on a stationary rollercoaster with props and actors whizzing by.
Shaky Cam. I get that they're trying to show the scene from a running character's POV, but it makes it so I can't even tell what's happening.
Also, when water splashes on the camera or the camera tips over in an obvious way that breaks the 4th wall.
When I hear the Wilhelm scream. I remember watching Lord of the Rings when the epic war in the third part is happening, and one the guys falls off the Oliphant and the scream happens. It took me out of the movie for a moment.
*that one metal door opening* *that one train whistle* *that one hollywoodedge crash sound* *that one f*cking eagle* *stuka sirens on a spaceship that is the titanic* *the same baby cry*
Pointlessly high stakes to make up for s*it writing. Suicide squad being a prime example. Ohh the world's at stake, okay and what exactly can these dipshits do that that better superheros can't do? Oh right, plot bullshit. You didn't need the world to be at stake to create tension. Whiplash being a prime example of the opposite. Nothing major at stake, just a guy wanting to be a good jazz drummer and a teacher obsessed with creating a great. Nothing that couldn't happen in the real world but creates such tension I didn't realize I was holding my breath at the the end.
And in the end, it's a trio of misfit fourth graders including a geek and a fat kid that end up saving the entire world
When it is acceptable if a traditionally white character has been recast as a black character while the whole world loses its ass when it is the other way around.
I have no problem with either black or white washing as long as it’s fits social and historical context. I hate hate hate these black actors inserted into historical movies playing in the European Middle Ages. Yes, there were a handful of black people, but they sure as hell were not doctors or nobles or knights.
when the "hero always wins" cliche come in. I like finding movies where the heros aren't actually invincible and still get their asses handed to them, like in infinity war. It makes up for your movie to a get a part 2 about revenge and increase your overall income from one story.
Whenever the bad guy is only "truly bad and hateable" after he hurts a dog, after hurting other humans.
Kills 15 people in an elevator. "Yeah I can relate to this guy." Kills puppy: "The monster!!!!!"
Demonic Possession/ Ghost movies that use upside down crosses as satanic imagery.
Action movies that don’t actually have action until the end (cough cough power rangers cough)
i used to love power rangers when i was young....tbh, they began to be kind of predictable... they fight the nighlok guys in the first round, one of them gets beat up, the nighlok dries begins to dry up so leaves while one character gets emotional and beat the guy in the next round and then they bring out big robots.... oof
Random sex scenes or kissing scenes.
Again, read the comments before posting. This has been mentioned SO many times.
Unnecessary/bad CGI. Watched The Greatest Showman last night, during the final score suddenly there are clunky elephants and lions appearing and then disappearing one camera angle later. Completely breaks my immersion in the movie and it's just lazy filmmaking.
That movie was so terribly awkward and herky jerky that I couldn't watch more than the first half hour.
The girl getting giddy at the random guy she just met, and a smooch by the climax that only happens for the picture
Fake food props. Like ice cubes that fall to the bottom of the glass or those weird eggs Clark Kent was cooking for Lois.
Someone who thinks they aren’t spoiling stuff by constantly going, “watch what’s about to happen!”
I have a writer in one of my writing groups who is constantly foreshadowing. Stop foreshadowing and get to the friggin point!
That person that always talks through it
A comedy of errors... im sorry, no one is that inept.
There has been a tendency in comedy movies over the last 20-25 years where some 2/3rds into the movie they shoehorn some drama in for some reason... The only times this works is when they do it subtly enough not to clash with the plot, but most of the time it just feels extremely forced.
Goes further back than 25-30 years. Look up Irving Thalberg at MGM. He came up with the “formula” that he thought guaranteed a movie had something for everyone in the audience, by inserting drama, and/or songs, and/or a love story in comedies (in any combination), and comic relief or songs in dramas—-whether it made sense for the plot or not. On paper it sounds like a pretty good idea, marketing-wise, but in practice just ruins a picture. The Marx Brothers are a prime example. Their Paramount comedies are so much funnier than A Night at the Opera and after, because Paramount had the sense to leave them to it (a lot of it was ad lined, btw). Thalberg just ruined them by diverting attention to a bland romance or drama or singing that makes no sense to the story—-both of which make most people want to fast forward back to the comedy.
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The movies I've enjoyed the most have almost always been the ones I know nothing about ahead of time.
Old war movies have silly-sounding gunfire sound effects that I can barely stand. Ruins a lot of classic movies for me.
Mentioning other movies, especially when an inferior movie brings up a superior movie it was clearly inspired by (except this works in comedies... sometimes)
"enhance the picture"... Zooms in, magic happens, somehow detail is added that wasn't f*****g there.
One of my favorites is when the hero is taking on someone with god-like powers who is more powerful than the hero by orders of magnitude but somehow the hero manages to win through sheer determination and force of will. What should happen is the god-like opponent should crush the hero in a second without any effort at all like a person stepping on an ant only more so.
Amen. Have you read "The Magic Goes Away" by Larry Niven? The premise is that a sword-swinging, muscle-bound barbarian is going to lose when he goes up against a wizard whose greatest weapon is his smarts.
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Flashlights in movies always cast a very narrow, dim beam that only lights a small part of the room, and they always have dead batteries.
Another annoying trope: if a mentor or old character coughs in one scene, they will be dead from that in the next scene.
What I hate most is when the protagonist spontaneously gives a public speech in front of a large audience at the end of the movie, shortly before they get together with their romantic interest.
Person enters a bar, orders a drink (expensive one mostly) .. suddenly a friend/collegue/someone shows up. They talk, discuss. Person leaves bar. The drink.. untouched. Every- freaking - time.
Yeah, I could buy dinner for the price of that drink. Two dinners probably.
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Yes, and lock it, too! Countless times I've seen someone answer the door, then close it, and NOT lock it.
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A couple of mine: 1) When knocking the doorknob off a door opens the door. 2) When shooting a padlock causes it to spring open. 3) When someone shoots at an object or a person when other people are standing behind or very near the target, as if the bullet is only capable of striking the target, then stopping instantly.
Super smart small and funny child who talks like a really feisty granny. Child of like 6 or 7 pulling out references from like 1970's or 1980's or crushing ultra funny jokes that would need a team of experienced screenwriters to come with. Not funny, not cute. That is not how children talk. And no, it's not cute. Food. They bring like hot pizza or cold ice-cream and just put it on table then talk and talk. No one eats, food just sits there spoiling. It annoys the crap out of me. They sip "coffee" from obviously empty cups, and sit in restaurant with ton of food in front of them but no one ever eats. They just talk, then leave, leaving all the food there. I know it's difficult to work with food props but if you can't at least make it believable, then don't create scene with foods.
I’m not a gun nut. That said, I HATE stupid & ignorant handling of firearms in TV/movies. I’m not just talking about infinite ammo. Everything! From just sheer irresponsible handling (which dumb people mimic), to the repetitious threat-cocking (people would be ejecting unspent bullets constantly), to the clickity-clack rattly loose metal parts sound effects that foley artists insert so that the mere PRESENCE of a firearm somehow makes noises when moved or touched in the slightest. FFS, if your weapon is that rattly, I suspect it could explode in your face rather than launch a lead slug into the bad-guy.
When the movie's lighting is so dark you have no idea what is actually going on in the scene. For the whole movie. When someone who doesn't believe in god, suddenly believes in god. They just needed to see a miracle, or some other bs. The chances of a grown adult suddenly believing in the easter bunny again, those are the same odds of an atheist suddenly beliiving in a god again.
Pregnancy tests- the woman will walk around with it, not being careful where she touches it and not wash her hands after she puts it down. We have to urinate on those, these are not magically clean. Gross.
Using chess as a plot device while the screenwriter has no clue how chess works. Either the board is set up wrong, or most annoying, A: "Check" B:"Checkmate"
Have you seen The Queen's Gambit yet? Proper chess in that, they really paid attention to the details and based some of the matches on famous ones from tournaments.
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People walking through flaming buildings with just a squint and an arm held up above their face. Have you never stood close to a bonfire? You can feel your eyeballs drying out and your skin crackling just from that, and you move away. Unless it was to rescue your children, like an article I saw recently about a woman who did just that and suffered massive burns, I don't think most people would get very far into a burning building before turning tail
1) When subtitles don't match up with dialogue (I have bad hearing so I use closed caption in case I miss something a character is saying) 2) Obvious use of green screen
In a pitch black cave or something similar. Someone flicks their Bic and shazaam it's high noon.
I hate it when someone is alone and hears an ominous sound. Why, oh why do they always feel the need to call out "Hello?"
I hate it when it's a period picture but all the women are wearing current hairstyles. For instance, like a Victorian drama, and women have long, wavy hair tumbling down their backs. This was something only immature females wore. It indicated childhood or adolescence. A grown woman always wore her hair up. Or something from the 1920's where a fashionable woman has long, cascading locks. No, women wore short bobs, or fastened into buns, or in tidy waves.
Million dollar computers and software and nobody using a mouse or a touchpad. They keep typing on the keyboard even if there is a video or photo on the screen. Or when the surveillance software reports that they have found the stranger via facial recognition and a second later they already know everything about him.
The one that really gets to me without fail every single serie or movie, they just have to f*ck!n say it, the ‘I got this’ line
Someone once pointed out that in American movies/TV shows, characters are always lying down on the bed with their shoes on. Small thing, but now I notice it all the time. People don't actually do that in real life, right?
Only on a really, really weird day. I don't wear my shoes in the house, let alone lay down with them still on.
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This character is genius because we said so! Said character is dumb as a brick.
Repeating annoying fantasy cliché. Example: Step 1. Our heroes land is impoverished, people are poor, hungering and turning to crime. Step 2. Enemy army invades, the land is conquered by evil warlord villain. Step 3. Our hero slays the warlord. Step 4. The invading army is magically disappearing, with the basic problems of the land. Everyone is happy, rich and decent.
There are Youtube channels that constantly make fun of these (and more): Pitch meeting, Honest trailers and Cinema Sins. Even though, the last one became more and more a parody of itself.
I don't watch movies/series anymore.Nobody talks/acts like people in the movies.
Edge of Tomorrow is quite satisfying if you like watching Tom Cruise suffer.
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I hate it when there are bad and unnecessary fight scenes. I watched The Invisible Man (the one that came out earlier this year) and I thought it was really good until the big fight scene which defied all logic and it ruined the whole movie for me :/
Re: #1. This is why I have captions on all the time. Re: #2. This is why when I first got glasses I didn't want to wear them, though I 'luckily' have straight hair. To make a pretty girl ugly they always add glasses and give her Hermione Granger levels of curly hair. Then to pretty her up she wears contacts and straightens her hair. I can't imagine how that makes curly-haired girls feel, and it must be awful for curly-haired girls who also wear glasses.
Agree with forced diversity. It is okay, in fantasy, for example, to have races of different skin colour. In the book, if the main characters all come from one tiny, isolated village, it's okay if they're all white (or brown, or black) - that village has had no cultural immersion, there is no reason for there to be white, brown and black community members - but on their worldly journeys, they will come across other communities and cultures that have different skin colours, and that's okay!
when the president is always the hero and just happens to have super soldier level of capability lets not forget the horror movie cliches, you could fill another list just with those lol
I hate when the main character listen to someone in another language, and suddenly speak it perfectly, even though there is no reason why they learn that language and they will never use again.
The road is straight, car is going forward. So why can't the actor leave the steering wheel alone
Fade in on a quiet, empty room. Pan slowly across various objects in the room, eventually revealing an electronic gadget of some kind - a pager, timer, bomb, etc. - and it’s making a beeping sound. But for some reason, we couldn’t hear it until after it appeared on-screen....
When an actor randomly looks down to look for their mark. Like they will be walking and suddenly they look down and take another step.
Inconsistent fighting skills. One scene the hero*ine is set uop to be an aamazing fighter. A few scenes later he/she loses against some crazy old woman. I've just suffered through Deadly Class and that just drove me crazy (plus lots of other issues, but nvm)
I think everyone should not be so hypocritical and just watch the movie as a movie. Unless it is stated it is with historical facts, Read the book if you want it the way it was written. Now if you want to point out bad writing hit the news medias.
But what about movies that has been filmed based on the book, but there's to much difference between them?
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They forgot the annoying part when theres a significant time skip and the actor's appearance doesn't change AT All. Example; Teen Actor is a teenager through most of film, theres a time skip and they're supposed to be adult with kids, same teen actor is either completely unchanged, or obviously in heavy make-up/costume to look like adult, when they aren't.
Also when a much younger person plays an older person's character.
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For me, people pointing out the lack of realism in movies are funsuckers. Especially sci fi or zombie movies. Stop trying to explain how zombies are in " real life". 😒😛
I would say that ESPECIALLY in sci fi, it needs to be realistic. After all, science fiction should be plausible based on the science known at the time, although every seems to silently agree that time travel and faster-than-light travel speeds both get a pass in SF. If it's not realistic, it's not sci fi - it's either an action film (set in space), a space adventure, fantasy, or just plain really bad SF.
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"enhance the picture"... Zooms in, magic happens, somehow detail is added that wasn't f*****g there.
One of my favorites is when the hero is taking on someone with god-like powers who is more powerful than the hero by orders of magnitude but somehow the hero manages to win through sheer determination and force of will. What should happen is the god-like opponent should crush the hero in a second without any effort at all like a person stepping on an ant only more so.
Amen. Have you read "The Magic Goes Away" by Larry Niven? The premise is that a sword-swinging, muscle-bound barbarian is going to lose when he goes up against a wizard whose greatest weapon is his smarts.
Load More Replies... Flashlights in movies always cast a very narrow, dim beam that only lights a small part of the room, and they always have dead batteries.
Another annoying trope: if a mentor or old character coughs in one scene, they will be dead from that in the next scene.
What I hate most is when the protagonist spontaneously gives a public speech in front of a large audience at the end of the movie, shortly before they get together with their romantic interest.
Person enters a bar, orders a drink (expensive one mostly) .. suddenly a friend/collegue/someone shows up. They talk, discuss. Person leaves bar. The drink.. untouched. Every- freaking - time.
Yeah, I could buy dinner for the price of that drink. Two dinners probably.
Load More Replies... Yes, and lock it, too! Countless times I've seen someone answer the door, then close it, and NOT lock it.
Load More Replies... A couple of mine: 1) When knocking the doorknob off a door opens the door. 2) When shooting a padlock causes it to spring open. 3) When someone shoots at an object or a person when other people are standing behind or very near the target, as if the bullet is only capable of striking the target, then stopping instantly.
Super smart small and funny child who talks like a really feisty granny. Child of like 6 or 7 pulling out references from like 1970's or 1980's or crushing ultra funny jokes that would need a team of experienced screenwriters to come with. Not funny, not cute. That is not how children talk. And no, it's not cute. Food. They bring like hot pizza or cold ice-cream and just put it on table then talk and talk. No one eats, food just sits there spoiling. It annoys the crap out of me. They sip "coffee" from obviously empty cups, and sit in restaurant with ton of food in front of them but no one ever eats. They just talk, then leave, leaving all the food there. I know it's difficult to work with food props but if you can't at least make it believable, then don't create scene with foods.
I’m not a gun nut. That said, I HATE stupid & ignorant handling of firearms in TV/movies. I’m not just talking about infinite ammo. Everything! From just sheer irresponsible handling (which dumb people mimic), to the repetitious threat-cocking (people would be ejecting unspent bullets constantly), to the clickity-clack rattly loose metal parts sound effects that foley artists insert so that the mere PRESENCE of a firearm somehow makes noises when moved or touched in the slightest. FFS, if your weapon is that rattly, I suspect it could explode in your face rather than launch a lead slug into the bad-guy.
When the movie's lighting is so dark you have no idea what is actually going on in the scene. For the whole movie. When someone who doesn't believe in god, suddenly believes in god. They just needed to see a miracle, or some other bs. The chances of a grown adult suddenly believing in the easter bunny again, those are the same odds of an atheist suddenly beliiving in a god again.
Pregnancy tests- the woman will walk around with it, not being careful where she touches it and not wash her hands after she puts it down. We have to urinate on those, these are not magically clean. Gross.
Using chess as a plot device while the screenwriter has no clue how chess works. Either the board is set up wrong, or most annoying, A: "Check" B:"Checkmate"
Have you seen The Queen's Gambit yet? Proper chess in that, they really paid attention to the details and based some of the matches on famous ones from tournaments.
Load More Replies... People walking through flaming buildings with just a squint and an arm held up above their face. Have you never stood close to a bonfire? You can feel your eyeballs drying out and your skin crackling just from that, and you move away. Unless it was to rescue your children, like an article I saw recently about a woman who did just that and suffered massive burns, I don't think most people would get very far into a burning building before turning tail
1) When subtitles don't match up with dialogue (I have bad hearing so I use closed caption in case I miss something a character is saying) 2) Obvious use of green screen
In a pitch black cave or something similar. Someone flicks their Bic and shazaam it's high noon.
I hate it when someone is alone and hears an ominous sound. Why, oh why do they always feel the need to call out "Hello?"
I hate it when it's a period picture but all the women are wearing current hairstyles. For instance, like a Victorian drama, and women have long, wavy hair tumbling down their backs. This was something only immature females wore. It indicated childhood or adolescence. A grown woman always wore her hair up. Or something from the 1920's where a fashionable woman has long, cascading locks. No, women wore short bobs, or fastened into buns, or in tidy waves.
Million dollar computers and software and nobody using a mouse or a touchpad. They keep typing on the keyboard even if there is a video or photo on the screen. Or when the surveillance software reports that they have found the stranger via facial recognition and a second later they already know everything about him.
The one that really gets to me without fail every single serie or movie, they just have to f*ck!n say it, the ‘I got this’ line
Someone once pointed out that in American movies/TV shows, characters are always lying down on the bed with their shoes on. Small thing, but now I notice it all the time. People don't actually do that in real life, right?
Only on a really, really weird day. I don't wear my shoes in the house, let alone lay down with them still on.
Load More Replies... This character is genius because we said so! Said character is dumb as a brick.
Repeating annoying fantasy cliché. Example: Step 1. Our heroes land is impoverished, people are poor, hungering and turning to crime. Step 2. Enemy army invades, the land is conquered by evil warlord villain. Step 3. Our hero slays the warlord. Step 4. The invading army is magically disappearing, with the basic problems of the land. Everyone is happy, rich and decent.
There are Youtube channels that constantly make fun of these (and more): Pitch meeting, Honest trailers and Cinema Sins. Even though, the last one became more and more a parody of itself.
I don't watch movies/series anymore.Nobody talks/acts like people in the movies.
Edge of Tomorrow is quite satisfying if you like watching Tom Cruise suffer.
Load More Replies... I hate it when there are bad and unnecessary fight scenes. I watched The Invisible Man (the one that came out earlier this year) and I thought it was really good until the big fight scene which defied all logic and it ruined the whole movie for me :/
Re: #1. This is why I have captions on all the time. Re: #2. This is why when I first got glasses I didn't want to wear them, though I 'luckily' have straight hair. To make a pretty girl ugly they always add glasses and give her Hermione Granger levels of curly hair. Then to pretty her up she wears contacts and straightens her hair. I can't imagine how that makes curly-haired girls feel, and it must be awful for curly-haired girls who also wear glasses.
Agree with forced diversity. It is okay, in fantasy, for example, to have races of different skin colour. In the book, if the main characters all come from one tiny, isolated village, it's okay if they're all white (or brown, or black) - that village has had no cultural immersion, there is no reason for there to be white, brown and black community members - but on their worldly journeys, they will come across other communities and cultures that have different skin colours, and that's okay!
when the president is always the hero and just happens to have super soldier level of capability lets not forget the horror movie cliches, you could fill another list just with those lol
I hate when the main character listen to someone in another language, and suddenly speak it perfectly, even though there is no reason why they learn that language and they will never use again.
The road is straight, car is going forward. So why can't the actor leave the steering wheel alone
Fade in on a quiet, empty room. Pan slowly across various objects in the room, eventually revealing an electronic gadget of some kind - a pager, timer, bomb, etc. - and it’s making a beeping sound. But for some reason, we couldn’t hear it until after it appeared on-screen....
When an actor randomly looks down to look for their mark. Like they will be walking and suddenly they look down and take another step.
Inconsistent fighting skills. One scene the hero*ine is set uop to be an aamazing fighter. A few scenes later he/she loses against some crazy old woman. I've just suffered through Deadly Class and that just drove me crazy (plus lots of other issues, but nvm)
I think everyone should not be so hypocritical and just watch the movie as a movie. Unless it is stated it is with historical facts, Read the book if you want it the way it was written. Now if you want to point out bad writing hit the news medias.
But what about movies that has been filmed based on the book, but there's to much difference between them?
Load More Replies... They forgot the annoying part when theres a significant time skip and the actor's appearance doesn't change AT All. Example; Teen Actor is a teenager through most of film, theres a time skip and they're supposed to be adult with kids, same teen actor is either completely unchanged, or obviously in heavy make-up/costume to look like adult, when they aren't.
Also when a much younger person plays an older person's character.
Load More Replies... For me, people pointing out the lack of realism in movies are funsuckers. Especially sci fi or zombie movies. Stop trying to explain how zombies are in " real life". 😒😛
I would say that ESPECIALLY in sci fi, it needs to be realistic. After all, science fiction should be plausible based on the science known at the time, although every seems to silently agree that time travel and faster-than-light travel speeds both get a pass in SF. If it's not realistic, it's not sci fi - it's either an action film (set in space), a space adventure, fantasy, or just plain really bad SF.
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