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Few things ruin a movie as badly as a cliché. It can break our suspension of disbelief in just a second and completely undermine all the good work everyone on the project has done.

In an attempt to find out which of them infuriate people the most, Reddit user Gosenco posted a question on r/AskReddit, saying "What's a movie trope you absolutely HATE?"

From painful exposition in dialogue to lazy plot conveniences, continue scrolling and check out some of the most upvoted answers.

#1

40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" Turning on the TV at the exact moment a relevant news report starts.

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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even worse, characters have time to call someone, go to another room, convince the other characters to turn on the TV, and when they do, several minutes later, the relevant news is still on, and relevant

Isabella
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

... and turn it off before the news report is over.

WiTchY_WoMaN
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But who wants to watch 5-10 minutes of the person flipping through channels?!

Johnny
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it's cable news, that's not unrealistic the way they play significant news stories over and over all day long

Erne Guevara
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and turning off the tv right after they heard the relevant news

InfectedVoice
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well we do have round the clock news channels now that are just news, no ad breaks, so not totally implausible.

Marlowe Fitzpatrik
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"now" being the imperative word here. The movie-trope is very old already...

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third molar
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the exact channel. It's actually the hardest thing. Choosing a channel

Janice Blaufox
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

PBS channels do not have commercials.

backatya
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's to save time and film.

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    #2

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" "You have to trust me" or "there's no time to explain". In 9 out of 10 cases, there's definitely time to explain, and the explanation would take less time thay trying to convince the other party to blindly trust you.

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    Star of the world
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    like NO im not gonna go with you thats HIGHLY suspicious

    Marlowe Fitzpatrik
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But it's the Doctor! Also, you usually meet the Doctor right as some metal-guys with attachment-issues, genocidal salt-shakers or a giant rift in space appear and you are about to die. I'd rather go with the Doctor in that case and take my chances with them.

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    Sian Edwards
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If I can see a working TARDIS, I'm going with the Doctor. No questions.

    Linda Adamo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i'll follow The Doctor without question!

    Joley Hidaka
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, if it WAS The Doctor then well yeah, I'd trust him...just not anyone else! :D

    NinjaWolfy94
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doctor Who is a bad example pic.. You should always trust The Doctor. HE'S THE DOCTOR! xD

    EQXL
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sorry but he's the doctor period.

    denzoren
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But it's the Doctor! Even though all the adventures end in near death and they are saved because....okay...now I see your point.

    Leo Domitrix
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Come with me if you want to live".... RUN!

    Susan Mercurio
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After reading all 40, guys, you reminded me why I don't watch movies

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    #3

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" Domestic violence against men = Comedy

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    Dre Mosley
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep. It's all fun and games when the victim is male, once it's female here comes the outrage and white knights.

    Foxxy (The Original)
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I saw a snippet of Fools Gold last night and Kate Hudson’s characters hits Owen Wilson’s character with a walking stick across the head. I said to my hubby, now imagine if it was the other way round. I was also appalled recently when I watched the movie Think like a man. There were so many jokes and laughter about Chris Browns character being abused by his ex wife. At the end of the movie they get back together and she still abuses him.

    Biljana Malesevic
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, that's stupid and it should be left in past. It was stupid back then also.

    I'm lay sheep in China
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bullying anyone: comedy Cheating on wife: comedy Bullying someone for their colour: comedy That's what I learn from Indian movies

    Hans
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, in general, slapping or punching is seen as a reasonable point of an argument. Like the main actor was insulted or betrayed by a friend with whom he must continue working, there will be a single punch in the face without resistance, and then the conversation goes on.

    New Prometheus
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder if these are usually written to the stories by men... Toxic masculinity.

    New Prometheus
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you think it's men or women who mostly write these into stories?

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    #4

    The sexy teacher trope. I spent two years teaching high school as a young woman fresh out of college. I had many very uncomfortable interactions with male students, who thought it was funny. TV makes it seem like it's okay for teenagers to be lusting after their teachers if they're young and reasonably attractive. It's a joke, it's funny. The TV dads hit on their kids teacher, make comments about their dress or their body. It transfers to the real world. It is never, ever okay to sexually harass someone at their occupation. This include teachers, wait staff, flight stewards....anything.

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    Agnes Jekyll
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Equally gross is the dreamy male teacher who is not depicted as a predator for dating his students.

    InfectedVoice
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Any teacher dating students is a predator by default.

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    K.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember how excited the girls were about a new history teacher. He was young and attractive. One of my male classmates interviewed him and asked how he felt about the attention and being talked about. It goes both ways. Don’t make it awkward for people to do their jobs by harassing them.

    Anne Mitchell
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is never ok to sexually harrass anybody no matter who, where or when,

    Stacy Rae
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you! I opened this from Facebook and had to change to the website because I wanted to see if anyone else thought the same as me.

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    Alex Luiz
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a teacher, this trope always annoys me-especially when teachers are depicted as enjoying the attention.

    kjorn
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    so many stories goes out these days about teacher who sleep with student. i guess many student wish this happen to them

    Johnny
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not sure you can blame it on movies, it's hormones.

    Stacy Rae
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uh... Um... No. No hormones DO NOT cause or excuse sexual harassment.

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    Sherryist
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never thought of it this way but that's got to be difficult to deal with. I remember when I was in boot camp, we had on trainer that looked like the Rock so the women made passes at him all the time. It was so uncomfortable. Let the man do his job.

    Mascha Claessens
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fortunately, I've never experienced this as a teacher. I feel weird just thinking about it.

    DC
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's also not ok to do it outside of their profession. Just don't. No guy NEEDS to think with his d**k ... but, tbh, it doesn't seem like using their brain would be a great improvement...

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    #5

    Girl: Does something athletic. Guys: Confused and surprised. Girl: I have four brothers/my parents wanted a boy.

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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, and unfortunately I have met many people who seem to believe this stereotype.

    Karin Jansen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also: "wow, she is so not like the other girls!" (because apparently, the rest of us just sit around coloring our nails or something?)

    Bread King
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ugh stereotyping girls, im a boy but i know thats still wrong

    Grace Skerp
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The only reason any woman becomes a cop is daddy was a cop. Also applies to any woman in the military, daddy was a hot shot officer.

    I'm lay sheep in China
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or she trying to show her ex bf, what heartbrok turn her into

    *insert funny name*
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When a guy does something athletic then everyones like "Wow so talented"

    Felicia Baxter
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want a version of this where she says "what? I just like sports" and isn't a big deal

    Jessica Martin
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What's wrong with having brothers????

    Karen Lyon
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually, the four brothers trope is not as overrated as you think. A great example: Jane Austen knew how to play cricket -- you can't tell me she would have learned that if she hadn't had 6 brothers. I grew up with 3 brothers, played baseball(hardball) and football with them, despite a minor disability. I NEVER threw "like a girl", know how to stand at the plate, and understand both games as well as my brothers do. It's not that girls don't get that from their dads -- I taught a girl in Kindergarten who is a now a junior in HS and a really good softball catcher, and she has no brothers. But there is a difference between girls growing up in a houseful of men, and those who don't. This trope is just a really poor way of introducing the idea.

    Celtic Pirate Queen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, because we couldn't possibly enjoy being athletic.

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    #6

    Overworked dad who rushes through the kitchen and only grabs a triangle of toast even though his wife prepared a goddamn IHOP-worthy breakfast complete with meat and pancakes and orange juice and coffee. "i'm late."

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    Scagsy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This also applies to the kid/s

    Jjjane20
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    + a paper bag with a snack for kids that mom hands over to them

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    Sushi Monster
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be honest it seems rude everytime

    InfectedVoice
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Always, and in soaps when I was a kid they would go to the cafe before school for a milkshake and always leave the milkshake, why would you leave a milkshake Summer Bayers?

    Pamela Blue
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This would only happen once in my house.

    The Deez
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, nobody ever eats the fantastic breakfast in movies or shows!

    Danie
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yea, such a waste of good food.. 🙄😆

    Jane W.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does the family EVER eat those breakfasts?

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'll stop by for breakfast and some hot coffee.

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Screw the Tonight Show. Get up on time, you slug.

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    #7

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" Everyone with Autism is a super genius.

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    SCP-096
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bro i have autism and i am an absolute dumbass

    Javiera Gotelli
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a 14 year old autistic son, and the most common thing people say to me is something like "I heard these kids are reaaaallly smart, like genius smart"... I know they're being kind and misinformed, but I really do blame the movies for this misconception.

    Toko Danganronpa
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, many are talented in certain fields, but autism can be a burden. Very overdone stereotype.

    GaeFrog
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yesssss this is so annoying

    GaeFrog
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok I've done some thought on this and I came to realize many autistic people (myself included) have things that they are very invested in, I call it a special interest, they collect information about it and do a lot of research. Usually, the movie is based on their special interest so even though they seem like super geniuses it's really just knowledge centered around what they have researched a lot about

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    denzoren
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one gets me every time...there are people with autism that function just like everyone else, like those with Asperger's.

    Felicia Baxter
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i'm pretty smart, by my moms standards at least, and she's a teacher so i'd say i'm pretty smart, but mostly at stuff I like, which is most certainly not math

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    #8

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" When the LGBTQ+ character comes out and suddenly being LGBTQ+ is their entire personality and story arch.

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    El muerto
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Question: do you have any hobbies generic gay person? Answer: being a generic gay person

    Becky Samuel
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also see 'fat person', 'poc character', and often for no reason 'red-head'.

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    Xylle Flora
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your sexual orientation is a rather small part of your life, especially when you're a kid

    elliot
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ugh yeah i hate this :/- Pls I just want a badass gay character where coming out is only apart of their story (other than Sydney Novak my beloved)

    HooowlAtTheMoon
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Omg yes, I hate this. Like, can't we just have a group of gays who are all still individuals and interesting. I definitely don't talk about being gay 24/7, neither do my friends, why should the gay characters in TV shows have to?

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "They ought to put all you queers on an island somewhere." "They did, darling, and they call it Manhattan." -- from the comedy album "Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Groom"

    Capelli rosa e patate
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lordy I hate this in shows. Is it seemingly impossible for people to write a character that just happens to be LGBTQ+?? I’m theory you would be able to write an interesting character that is not defined by their sexuality; no matter what it is. It’s like if a character dyed their hair green and instantly couldn’t speak of anything else. It’s absurd.

    Marlowe Fitzpatrik
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    they did on the Umbrella Academy. (at least first season, haven't seen the second yet)

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    Steve in Denver
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of my fave LGBTQ movies is a German film, THE CENTER OF MY WORLD. At the beginning of the film, the high school boy is already out. He knows who he is, his family and neighbors and schoolmates know. The story leaps over all the self-discovery stuff to real problems: crushes and finding true friends.

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tis a big deal and if that's the storyline. Well?

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    #9

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" if any woman between the ages of 16 and 50 vomit, it means they're pregnant

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    Sandra Libertad
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, in real life, anytime I said that I feel nausea or vomit along my life, slmeone said "uh oh, maybe you are pregnant". Eventhough now that I'm 45 and menopausic from 3 years. This literally happenes this week

    New Prometheus
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They say that because of the movies. I have never witnessed anybody suffering from nausea during pregnancy, still I as well do that connection...

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    Aria Whitaker
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, 50. Janet Jackson just did it a couple of years ago. Natural conception AND birth by her. It is not common, but definately can happen...if a woman is still menstruating, pregnancy is possible.

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    Biljana Malesevic
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But if you cough or your nose bleeds you are probably dying.

    Lilsomms
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or how their water breaks before ZERO contractions and they're just like, "oh my the baby's coming teeheehee!" Bitch please.

    InfectedVoice
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the 40yr old virgin, a character throws up over Steve Carrell because she was drunk, in bridesmaids they had food poisoning, I can't think of any other examples.

    Leo Domitrix
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And if they're not between 14 and 50, they hvae cancer. UGH

    Vicky Z
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And also you cannot go into labour if your water don't break!! Well, it doesn't happen all the time and sure not so often as in the movies!

    RaroaRaroa
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, that's another one. The water always breaks into a big puddle on the floor. Don't know how often it's that messy in real life, especially before any sign of contractions.

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    DC
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... first thing I think when I see someone vomiting without knowing the reason, my guess is they've eaten something they shouldn't have ... unless they look or act intoxicated. Then, that.

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    #10

    A fat girl wants to go out with the attractive man, let's make her either sexually aggressive or a laughingstock!

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    Aria Whitaker
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or...have her well-meaning friends give her a "makeover" and she loses half her body weight, gets new clothes and makeup....and becomes unrecognizable.

    Gustavo Di Salvo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And with "Bond" type protagonists, the female scientist/policewoman/etc. are always very attractive.

    Brandi VanSteenwyk
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Instead of just letting things naturally occur like it would with a "different" woman.

    Steve in Denver
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or the sloppy nerdy guy who eventually the cheerleder is sorry she missed out on "this."

    May
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't think I've seen this trope. What type of movie is it found in?

    Siah avis
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now it's in reverse. Has anyone seen Sierra Burgess is a loser? Trash film where if the genders were reversed, they'd have had a social media witchunt.

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    #11

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" A male or female character love bombing/stalking their love interest into a date or relationship. Like their attention and affection will just wear down the other person until they capitulate. That stuff isn’t cute or sweet, it is definitely not attractive, and does not make for good cinema. I’d like to see a movie where the would-be love interest runs the heck away and gets the police involved.

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    Leo Domitrix
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    THIS. Stalking is not romantic. It's scary.

    A.E. Marlowe
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "love bombing" - https://www.healthline.com/health/love-bombing

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    I want cake
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For those unfamiliar with the term 'love bombing' it's a type of manipulation where one person overwhelms someone else with expressions of affection, making them the center of their world, often someone who is insecure or traumatised. For the 'bombee' it can often be the first time someone's looked at them twice and it feels wonderful initially, to be so important to someone, and by the time they realise anything's amiss, they're in so deep that it's extremely hard to get out.

    Vicky Z
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Too many things are considered cute in movies but are serious signs of problematic behaviours and this is why we still think that those things are normal and that they show affection!

    Robert Bailey
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Especially with a guy that's a few hundred years old and a 16-year-old girl.

    LaughingCat
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate this, too, after many rejections the "Grand Romantic Gesture" wins over the victim of repeated stalking behavior. These kinds of movies tell stalkers to keep trying and keep amping up their efforts. It's a terrible message.

    François Carré
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And it would be such an interesting plot development to see the main character getting over the fact that their love interest was not reciprocated and learning to be happy and find a good life only by themselves. It would make us grow out of all these toxic and unrealistic relationship expectations we have got into our heads because of romance movies.

    Aamna Shah
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just don't like the term love bombing at all.

    Steve in Denver
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Police OR PARENTS… can't a girl tell her parents and they call his parents?

    Euni Hinojosa
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And why do they have to have their mouths open like a fish out of water? CLOSE YOUR MOUTH!!! IT'S NOT SEXY.

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    #12

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" Prosecutor introduces a "surprise" witness or evidence in a middle of a trial. You would get disbarred for pulling something like that.

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    Hans
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "We hid her in the cellar just for this moment!"

    InfectedVoice
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they burst through huge double doors to gasps from the courtroom.

    Jim Day
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, not disbarred but, the judge would be unhappy and the proffer of your witness would be denied by the court. But, you got to remember, I saw him kill two men in a bar, with a pencil.

    velocirrober
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is that Hillary Clinton in the jury?

    WhatEvenIsLife
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    LOL. Once had a person representing themselves pro se insist we meet in person to swap all our "evidence" so that there would be "no surprises at trial." Haha, my man, that is not how ANY of this works.

    Steve in Denver
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Okay, this picture brings up an issue: ANYONE can be an attorney or scientist or doctor.

    ravn
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At the very least, the judge would grant a mistrial.

    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's only a two hour movie, got to do something.

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    #13

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" Not exactly a trope, but nobody has a problem finding a parking spot in a movie.

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    Queen Mab
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exactly - on the busiest street in the city.

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    Trillian
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But how is that annoying? Would you watch a movie where people look for a parking spot about 50% of the total running time?

    Sherryist
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seinfeld technically did this for an entire episode and it was brilliantly funny. It happens.

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    Casey McAlister
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not a trope, it's just skipped for convenience. I can't speak for everyone, obviously, but I really don't find the process of looking for a parking space so exciting that we need to show it in the movie(unless it's relevant to the plot, I guess)

    Elly Clifton
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How boring would the movie be if we had to sit through them looking for parking??

    Helen Johnston
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the roads they drive down are always empty with no traffic jam unless they are racing for a plane

    El muerto
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    is a trope, everything is there at the right time when the characters need it...you know, run into the street and stop a passing car exactly as the other guy accelerate to ludicrous speed...no body has to wait unless is the plot, waiting

    Diane Abplanalp
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Evelyn Couch had to really work for that parking spot in Fried Green Tomatoes.

    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Laughed at this one. It is true. But again, you only have x-number of minutes to watch this thing, do you want to spend the whole time driving around looking for a spot?

    Dawn Adams
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Except "Green Fried Tomatoes". Kathy Bates got one.

    backatya
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess people didn't have enough problem finding their own parking so they want to watch endless film watching someone in a movie do it also...

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    #14

    Hey let's take a popular movie and remake it with a black cast I want to see black stories, not rehashed white ones.

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    Scagsy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most remakes are pretty bad as well. Ghostbusters?

    Samantha Lomb
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some remakes work well. I am currently teaching a unit on the influence of Spaghetti Westerns on modern cinema and movies like Back to the Future 3 do things like a shot for shot remake of the end of Fist full of dollars but still make it funny and authentic to the characters. And the best genderswap remake is Chicken Run, which is a remake of the Steve McQueen film, the Great Escape but with chickens, who are ladies.

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    Fact Perils
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At the same time movies with black actors don't have to be just about slavery or discrimination, they can just be about the same thing as movies with white actors, which often does involve discrimination if portrayed by a black person but that doesn't have to be the main focus

    Sherryist
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This! It's like when someone would mention the Black community to Trump, his response was always, "I worked on jail reform." Um...we are not all in jail. I know that's what people like to think but I've never been to jail. I've never been to court. I don't have a record and I'm a homeowner. Now what?

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    Daria B
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you want to see black stories, remaking popular films is not a good idea. Rather, let's make genuine black stories, new films, and get all the best PR to get them become popular. I mean, the 1990s were filled with the American TV series featuring black families as protagonists, after all, it can be done and it would be very welcome.

    M.A.D.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think that's what the author meant.

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    CatWoman312
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I also hate when they cast people of color in movies/shows just for inclusion even though it’s not accurate to history or the actual book it came from. I agree we need to be more diverse in movies, but why completely ruin a character arc just to save face?

    Random Panda
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This! I really can't wrap my mind around why they are doing stuff like this instead of making something new based on mythology or history from cultures outside of Europe.

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    Hans
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want to see movies with a human touch and with actors who are good people in real life, not such flicks that try to cast actors out of political correctness. That said, there is too little diversity in films.

    Random Panda
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ugh, same with remaking movies with an all-female cast. Just remakes in general. Give me original stories!

    elStiJneriNO
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Remakes in general. There are way too much nowadays ... Looking at you disney

    Jeremy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They've been remaking movies and shows since the 30's

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    El muerto
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    even better, created by black (any group or ethnicity) people...you know, not just a symbolic act

    C.S. E.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The only exception I can think to this is Death at a Funeral. There are many of the same lines, many of the same shots, even, but visually and how the story is told is SO different. Chris Rock did an excellent job to translating the story from a white British family to a black American family gathering. I thoroughly enjoy both for very different reasons - they both tell the same story through very different lenses. In fact, the only person who shows up in both is Peter freakin' Dinklage! Because, of course!

    J. F.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Political correct" remakes in general

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    #15

    I hate this: A self-destruct timer gets started by the bad guy with a 5 minute countdown. Half an hour of action later, the good guy shuts off the timer with 1 second left on it. F***ers should have died 25 minutes earlier.

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    Ozacoter
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, they never save the world five hours befire the limit.

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    Hans
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, the fact that there is a visible timer at all. For which purpose would the bad guy even waste his time soldering one on?

    uber mensch
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Related: why put that nice BRIGHT timer clock on your device?

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate it when there's only minutes to spare, and they waste it having a last-minute conversation.

    Vicky Z
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's one reason I loved the TV show 24 because it showed the action in real time

    Diane Abplanalp
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exactly how long do you want this movie to be?

    Luna Lovegood!
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And, it will say 3 seconds or something, and then there's a scene that's like...20 seconds long about the character not knowing which wire to cut, then cutting it at the perfectly perfect time.

    Shawn Barry
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    always at the last second. never a good full minute, or even 10 sec before.

    Steve in Denver
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a great Irish TV series called MOBIUS. The handsome guy from the bomb squad tells everyone to get out and works on the bomb. Then it goes off. The next scene is the captain telling a roomful of sad officers, "We lost one of the best." That REALLY kicked off the action!

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yea and it's always well known from the beginning.

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    #16

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" If your plot can only be maintained by your characters not having a simple conversation to resolve things, you're a bad writer and I don't like you.

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    idraax poission
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Isn't the plot of every romcom based on the characters not having a simple.conversation?

    Vanta Black
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that's why romcoms are s**t. Except Shaun of the Dead, because that's a zomromcom.

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    I’m A Black Cat
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That whole Joey accidentally proposed to Rachel plot in Friends. It's so annoying I even skip the episode every time I rewatch

    Aamna Shah
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But in real life people are pretty terrible at communication which leads to major issues in relationships. I don't see how a movie about misunderstandings and miscommunication between a couple or anyone else for that matter is bad writing. You might not like the idea of it but it's realistic if not stretched too much.

    Grace Smith
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hoenstly it makes me so fuckingn mad when this happens, LIKE JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER

    InfectedVoice
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every show and film has a character that is too awkward or it becomes too late to say the thing that would've stopped the events of said show or film.

    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Simple conversations don't seem to be the thing in movies. There are revelations and then flashbacks to explain the revelations.

    backatya
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would have said good for him and then killed him

    Jane W.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No one is capable of communication in those plots.

    Steve in Denver
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The rule for good movie dialogue: "SHOW IT, DON'T SAY IT." Dialogue that has to be explained or characters who think aloud are called "expository," and the term is used derogatorily.

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Voting, Yea and the bill is passed.

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    #17

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" Everyone's home is spotless & well decorated.

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    CatWoman312
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And everyone is rich even if they’re a waitress or a grocery store clerk

    Tenley Samson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yeah no i agree but not with the example you gave us. its supposed to look over-perfect

    Declan Herendeen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that was kind of the point for it to look fake in wandavision

    Honu
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they're still in nice clothes. Sorry, when I get home, yoga pants go on.

    Anxiety
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well my house is well decorated and spotless, if it’s not I will make it well decorated and spotless, nothing can stop me from making my place well decorated and spotless.

    Mewton’s Third Paw
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same!!! If it weren’t decorated and spotless, it wouldn’t be my home. Fück that.

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    hi myself
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why does the picture have to be WandaVision? She used her powers to create the perfect home, and that is all. Please don't use anymore Marvel movies for pictures, there are good reasons for them.

    Cape EniEer
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But Wanda's show is literally supposed to be a perfect life show

    Druck (not spuck) He/Him
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, the image used isn't accurate because of what the show is about.

    Steve in Denver
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same with wardrobe. Some movies FAIL to look "lived in."

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    #18

    CPR. I'm an EMT and I get it, you can't actually have someone do chest compressions coz you'll cause serious damage to the actors. But trust me, when your heart stops, one or two pushes and 'CMON MAN, BREATHE!' don't do it. Same with shocking a flatline and they jump up with a gasp. You actually can't shock a flatline, it literally will not work, and ain't no one jumping up fine after they were DEAD A MINUTE AGO. Even medical programs get this stupid trope sometimes.

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    Leo Domitrix
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    THIS. In real life, CPR is effective, when done properly.... not that often. And shocking is used to convert a heart rhythm. No rhythm? You do your best, and then you have to ontify the family. I *hate* when this is done wrong.... People get so upset with doctors b/c they have the trope in their head.

    Aria Whitaker
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I HATE the flat line...shock...alive again troupe as well. The thing is called a "defibrillator" for pete's sake...meaning it is for use when the heart is in FIBRILLATION...not a flat line. Drives me nuts as a medical professional when I see it!

    May
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't watch most medical shows - I end up screaming at the tv. "That's not how it works!"

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    LesAnimaux
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not uncommon to crack a rib while performing chest compressions. I had it happen on a dummy during training, that CRACK is just hoooorrrible.

    qwerty
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They say it feels like bubble wrap. POP POP POP.

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    K.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m also an EMT. Chest compressions require a lot of work/energy. This post is spot on, but the reason I took another moment to comment is: PLEASE learn CPR and basic first aid. My youngest sister is a teen and a stick, but she learned and understands that she’s just doing what she can (not getting over her head) until help can arrive.

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    Jayne Kyra
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    CPR saved my mum after she flatlined. Worst minute of my life.

    K.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m glad that you still have each other.

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    C.S. E.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also, where's the vomit? There's a reason you're told in CPR training to quickly turn them to their sides once breathing starts again. Also, also, when doing CPR on a drowning victim, WHY DON'T THEY TURN THEM ON THEIR SIDES?! Now they're just coughing water back into their mouths!

    Sherryist
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My favorite: the person is on a ventilator with an ET tube literally breathing for the person yet the person is fully awake and speaking. Never!

    Vicky Z
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a physiotherapist I feel the same when I see them standing up and walking after being months in a coma! That's literally impossible! At least show some exercises and give them a cane for a while to be more believable!

    Eric Forster
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love how people in intensive care are not hooked up to life saving machines.

    Ingrid Collender
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My pet peeve in medical movies / TV ... the intubated patient speaks... around the tube...that is lodged in his voice box! One of many examples of this: "John Q". Great actors, crap researchers.

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    #19

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" Character 1: *Explains something in technical language* Character 2: "Uuuhh, in English?" Painfully unfunny and overdone.

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    troufaki13
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also, 9 times out of 10 the other guys is in tech too and they probably have encountered stuff like that numerous times

    Ozacoter
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also most of the times what it was said is not complex at all.

    C.S. E.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, that wouldn't be worn out for a dude born in 1918.

    Christine
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like how the accompanying photo is one of the few times it was probably an appropriate response. Engineering genius talking to person frozen in ice since the 40s. Maybe the genius should have known better than to speak technical jargon, but it's not every day you meet someone frozen in ice for 70 years even in the MCU.

    Jods
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But it can be funny. Red Dwarf, for instance. Kryten: “Let me think of a cogent paradigm.” Cat: “I’d rather have a good example.”

    Christine
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love Red Dwarf!!! Now I want vindaloo.

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    Daniel Marsh
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For a purpose: talk in specific, technical language to satisfy the geeks who will demand to know how the plot makes sense, then give a TL/DR to the less technical people.

    Leo Domitrix
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The *only* time this worked for me was the first couple seasons of "Numb3rs".

    Veronica Vatter
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Cap's defense, Tony was speaking gibberish to a guy from the 40s

    Marlowe Fitzpatrik
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *shrugs* I don't mind this at all. I mean, they could maybe use a different dialogue sometimes so it doesn't get repetitive, but I am NOT a mechanic or a computer-scientist. I AM a scientist, but that doesn't mean I know everything. Why not use that trope if it easily shows the viewer that one person is an expert (supposedly... ) and the other not. Also, it can easily written into funny changes, like one of the characters explaining in tech-language and the other then arguing that their tech is wrong. Or one explaining it "like to a child" and the other saying "Oh, you mean ...*tech-speak*?". There's just so many options for that little scene!

    SeidWolf
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    in the US, ignorance is celebrated

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    #20

    First kiss leads to hot steamy sex leds to the woman covering her chest with sheets and then running to the bathroom wrapped in said sheets. It's been what, 60? 70 years? even more?... that we get to see sex scenes in movies. If you can't imagine a creative and realistic way to not show a woman's breasts or private parts, don't shoot a sex scene.

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    Susanne Müller
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or how about get over it and finally show women’s nipples too.

    Honu
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do agree that people make way too much of a big deal about showing a nipple. In some countries, it radically changes how a movie can be shown. However, I do think it's good to have options for actors who don't want to show that much of their bodies.

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    LivingTheDream
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How about gratuitous sex scenes in general? What do they actually contribute to the story? We don't need to actually watch them bumping uglies.

    Mewton’s Third Paw
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How about how they ALWAYS stumble all over the house hurriedly force-kissing each other in an almost-panic? Like that’s the only way writers know how to express passion.

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    Julie Daly
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    American women a seem to have sex with their bras on.

    InfectedVoice
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or they just lie there talking like there is no wet patch and we don't both have to pee, which is very important for women especially.

    Carole Reid
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And all the guy shows is a naked butt. Toned, of course.

    lemsip
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Symbolism used to be used to show that a couple had sex so they weren't even shown in bed.

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Liked when we simply implied sex and weren't bored watching someone else get a little on screen.

    Johnny Rodriguez
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The biggest porn-industry in the world is afraid of nipples, but has no problems with slow motion blood and gore killing/torturing movie scenes..weird

    Lyone Fein
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How about leaving the sex out of it? Most of the time it is not that relevant to the plot anyway.

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    #21

    Damn I hate the funny fat best friend or the quirky black guy on the side or the smart Asian kid that has a cameo, like damn marginalised people can be the main characters in stories that aren't just about their trauma!

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    your local lesbian
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    heck. yes. so overused! there’s one in pretty much every movie so that they’re ‘inclusive’. it annoys the heck out of me

    Someone
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Has anyone else noticed how shows and movies now have their minority of choice also play a member of the LGBTQ+ community? You can literally close your eyes and choose any comedy/romance/drama/coming of age story and I can guarantee that the black or brown person is also the LGBTQ+ character. Each deserves their own role. Like...they're trying to check off all the inclusion boxes with one character. I'm looking at you, Netflix.

    Kyle
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember a movie where a black actor said near the beginning of the film that he’d be gone soon because he was a sidekick...

    Lauren Caswell
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or on scary movie when the black characters run for it coz "they killing white people". One of the few movie spoof flicks I actually enjoy

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    CatWoman312
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They do this for the lgbt+ population too

    Honu
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And so many stories about the trauma that non-white people go through end up being more of a white person redemption narrative. White person witnesses trauma. White person has realization. White person gets it now so I guess that's a happy ending.

    Anita Pickle
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would you be down voted... You just explained like 90% of movies that have a person of color play an awesome character. But the movie does not celebrate that, no they celebrate the white character realizing the person of color is awesome. It is so bad how many white guilt movies there are, they never focus attention where it is deserved.

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    J. F.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One really fiiting thing I heard last week "... and his Marvel assigned black friend". Can't remember where , though

    Daria B
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Marvel created Black Panther, though... Yeah, sometimes their stories feature these stereotypes too (like Peter Parker's "funny fat best friend"), but they also make stories that satisfy the demands of everyone who wants to see the heroes being part of a marginalised group. I mean, X-Men is all about that after all. So, I wouldn't poop on Marvel so much.

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    Abigail Hill
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This isn't television but a book series I love: Renegades trilogy by Marissa Meyer. The two main characters are a smart artistic black guy with gay dads, and a Philippina/Italian girl with a bunch of villains as her family. It's super cool and I love the representation.

    Steve in Denver
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even worse: fat slobs with smokin' hot wives or girlfriends. What's the message there?

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yea! let's get it awesomely right. Fat kid gonna screw cup. Black guy get eaten first and Asian kid is a computer whiz. White hero has shinny teeth and the heroine is crazy hot. Can't we do something different and still make producers money.

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    #22

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" Jumping/being thrown through a window and emerging without any cuts.

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    troufaki13
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And immediately stand up and run.

    Leo Domitrix
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Real life: Jump through window. Get concussion bouncing off the glass and wooden frame of the sash (as in pic above) and hitting floor. Maybe break a collarbone. Lie whimpering on a gurney for hours while paramedics laugh and drink coffee. B/c, y'know, really, dumba**? Yes, I've seen people who have done this. Windows are shockingly not that easy to bust through.

    Ripley
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or "I'll just break out this small window with my elbow/fist" and they tap the glass fairly gently and lo! broken window. I locked myself out of the house once, and I was smacking that small window next to the lock WITH A BRICK and the m**o wasn't breaking.

    Vicky Z
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same when escaping from a building in fire or when you get hit from an explosive wave!!

    EQXL
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, the few real attempts I've seen people would bounce back 😅

    Paul Z.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or, like in John Wick 8 times, one after another... they were display cases, but still... glass.

    Chewie Baron
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They worked out that 23 of the injuries the baddies received in Home Alone would have resulted in death immediately.

    no_name
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Once I was accidentally thrown through glass door and emerged without any cuts :D Door was done for sure though. Anyway, plastic windows these days are lot thicker with more layers than regular good old wooden ones, so I can't really imagine how much force they'd have to put to actually break it.

    El muerto
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    breaking a window is a lot harder that in the movies, and those with frames would even break

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    #23

    Teenagers being ripped beyond belief looking like they’re 26.

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    Lara Verne
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    4 years ago

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    Because actors are in their twenties.

    Daria B
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    About this one, many of you will disagree with me, but there really are teenagers with big muscles. As well as teenagers that are skinny and slim. And teenagers that are chubby. The problem isn't really with the ripped teenagers themselves, but with this being a standard, while in reality, there is no standard when it comes to teenage and pre-teen years. In real life, you can have a group of all, say, 15 year-olds, all same age, and yet, one is tall, one has big boobs, one still looks childish, one will have tons of body hair, one will have huge and defined muscles, one will have a belly and thick tights etc. And yet, all of them same age classmates and all of them perfectly normal for their age.

    Melody Mar
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dwayne Johnson was this in real life. All his classmates thought he was an undercover narc.

    lemsip
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I expect the actors to be about three to four years older than their characters but not more than ten years older as some of the actors were in Grease. I think the youngest actor playing a 17 year old in that film was 23. The actors playing the 16 to 18 year old main characters in The Inbetweeners were in their early to mid twenties. The actors playing the supporting characters were in their late teens.

    Chewie Baron
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stockard Channing was in her 30s!!!

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    your local lesbian
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...middle schoolers being portrayed as... not middle schoolers.

    Steve in Denver
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I also hate high school movies whre NOBODY HAS ACNE.

    Wendell T Sasaki
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was a ripped teen, and I am a ripped senior.

    Steve in Denver
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The movie SING STREET was cast age-appropriate, and it looks like it. And all the young musicians can actually sing and play instruments. It is loaded with charm and vigor.

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sometimes the daughter looks older than the mom.

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    #24

    Taking off your glasses and dressing smart is supposed to make you go from a 5 to a 10 oh gee you were hot all along!

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    Nicky
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Superman and Wonder Woman hide their identities using glasses. Who would recognize them?

    Tabby_Sohee
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Someone seriously needs to make something where someone puts glasses ON and becomes confident with themselves...

    Mewton’s Third Paw
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But not smarter! Just hotter. The whole “glasses = smart” thing needs to go.

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    InfectedVoice
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or glasses completely rendering someone unrecognisable to people who know him well, I'm looking at you Clark Kent.

    Michelle M
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The ugly girl always wears glasses and braces. I see you teen movies

    Naima Valdez
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, like, " oh I'm a nerd no one want's to go out with me no one likes me" * takes down hair and takes off glasses * and then poof everyone likes you like bruhh

    Enuya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a stupid trope. When I am taking my glasses off, I go from a 7 to a 3. The same applies to my sister. Some people just look better in glasses.

    Siah avis
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, grooming can take someone from a 4 to an 8 but I find it hard to believe that super hot people don't know they're hot!

    Anxiety
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wel I have been told I look better without glasses, but at mainly because it’s a different look.

    Annelise
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm an unattractive nerd who wears her hair in a pony-tail with glasses but as soon as my glasses are of and my hair is down I'm your new love interest because i'm soo hot, even though you always ignored me when my hair was up and I was wearing glasses and modest clothing. I'm very unique and this has happened to no other girl in any other movie ever. -absolutly no one

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    #25

    When two characters walk into a house or apartment, having just went to a restaurant. “Wow, that was a great dinner!” “Yeah, I am really stuffed!” Did they not talk at all in the car???

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    idraax poission
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They were too busy chilling out to the music.

    K.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When it’s a great meal. I’m talking about it more than once. Sometimes we get sidetracked by other conversations.

    Miradona
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actully me and my bf do this often. We talk about all kind of stuff in the car, maybe even continue the conversation from dinner. And at the door on of us just starts: ”Damn, that was sooo good, I am stuffed”

    Marcellus the Third
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To busy swearing and gesticulating together at the other road users? I know we are.

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not in my Uber. Distracts me driven.

    Uchiha Haziq
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well sometimes we do this. after dinner , we just go to the car and start talking something else. but when we arrived home, we feel stuffed while walking form car to home. so yeah then we talk about dinner ealier

    Kattie0530
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They were listening to X and Juice in the car UwU

    LesAnimaux
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was wondering if anyone clocked this.

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    #26

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" Characters about to kiss for the first time -- get interrupted. Every damn time.

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    Hans
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Be sure to more gently before, with a little resistance occasionally. Gentler i say. And more slowly, there might someone come around the corner. MORE SLOWLY NOW! (In case there is no interruption, the gentle kiss will directly turn into wild grabbing and undressing while porcelain is wiped off tables etc.)

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yea, at last it happened, yet, only two that couple\ after fourteen retakes.

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    Lumpy Space Princess
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    More than this I hate when they do get to kiss and everyone around is applauding... the applauding part is something that makes me actually angry!

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hollywood just running out of things to come up with

    Steve in Denver
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A friend wrote a musical and two of the characters are 20-ish and gay. They meet in a bar and talk all night. I said, "Uh-uh, they hook up and talk later." She asked a few more gay friends and they said the same.

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's good the anti-kissers are around.

    Michael Capriola Jr.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Bobby! Are you kissing that girl?" "No, Ma. I'm conducting a gynecological examination."

    hi myself
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tony Stark is a busy guy, okay? He is a superhero, and supervillains can come up anytime.

    Patrice Bourget
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is definitely the worst. It should be prohibited.

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    #27

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" Female characters only written to display how they’re a strong feminist female. It’s f***ing cringe. If you want an actual strong female character, then show that through her actions as a person without drawing back to meta s**t. Not everything has to be “wow and she is a FEMALE doing this.” It’s counterintuitive and only disvalues her character.

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    Random Panda
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's why I love characters like Sarah Conner and Ellen Ripley. They were s**t-scared normal people that overcame their fear and kicked ass. When women say we want "strong female characters" we mean we want well-written ones, not a thousand versions of female Rambo.

    Keegan Pearson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I agree with this, but I personally felt that Captain Marvel was done well. I get far more upset when strong female icon is a woman that boils down "She's like, soooo sexy! Oh, she punches people too! While looking sexy! ;) boobs".

    Jessica Martin
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You thought a bland Mary Sue was done well???

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    whateves
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OMG! Yes! Captain Marvel 'women power scenes' made me want to curl up and hide.

    Dre Mosley
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did they not learn anything from Ripley in the "Alien" films in terms of tough female characters?

    blugeagua
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We want feminist characters who are complex and interact with other female characters and support each other. We don't just want characters who only know martial arts and only want to be around guys as the "exceptional girl". Yuck

    J. F.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Being a woman (or LGBQT+, of any ethnicity, etc.) isn't a superpower, it's a character trait. Does Ripley survive because she's a woman? Do Jill Valentine and Claire Redfield (Resident Evil) survive because of their double X chromosomes? - NOPE

    Siah avis
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why did people downvote Dave P?

    Steve in Denver
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A lot of critics play into this. Woman in a latex suit shows some initiative and suddenly it's GIRL POWER. I haven't read where the sexualization is called out.

    Mewton’s Third Paw
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Eh. I don’t mind it if it’s done right.

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    #28

    Getting shot in the shoulder is practically a lucky break. You can continue fighting!

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    Kira Okah
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This and subduing someone by shooting them in the legs are very annoying. Thoe absolutely can kill someone too, very easily.

    ravn
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never mind that shoot-to-wound is not something they teach in either basic training or law enforcement academies.

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    Leo Domitrix
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Shoulder shots kill, or disable for life. I hate this trope. Yes, i have an MD. Yes, I can't watch action films or medical shows.

    Danger Noodle
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Women always looking so perfect in the middle of a fight has always annoyed me... one shot their hair is some what messy, the next it's nicely curled again

    Perfumista Perfumista
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And a future episode or sequel will show them shirtless without a scratch

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Being shot anywhere can be traumatic. A hot piece of lead slicing through your body at 1500 or so feet per second will get your attention. Also a bullets graze can put you in painville. Then again, I know a man shot seven times who kept on a walk'n. Saw his blood and fainted.

    May
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'Tis but a flesh wound

    Zoe Vokes
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Action characters can be shot, be in car crashes, be hit by a car and carry on without worrying about blood loss, concussion, internal bleeding...

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Best one was bruce willis got shot in the upper chest and gets grabbed by the bad dude behind him. So Bruce shoots him through his previous wound and kills him. But he's standing around latter on like nothing happened.

    Steve in Denver
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or getting stabbed. Nobody bleeds out or has internal organs.

    Michael Capriola Jr.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The right way to handle a gunshot to the shoulder is in the film "Lawrence of Arabia." He actually acted like it hurt and someone else how to take out the shooter.

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    #29

    Having sex and then hopping out of bed and just throwing your clothes on and running to work... Sex is messy. Clean that sh*t up first.

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    K.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Please relieve yourself after, especially females/women. Get extra sheets and water resistant ones, have fun 😉

    blugeagua
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just say women. Not females. We're not a herd of cows.

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    CrunChewy McSandybutt
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your coworkers would appreciate it if you rinsed off before coming in. Nobody wants to smell that all day.

    Hollysmom
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And making out or going to work without brushing your teeth.

    Steve in Denver
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is funny, because IT'S TRUE. Rom com directors have missed a golden moment where someone sniffs a person and asks, "Did you just come from an orgy?"

    Carmen Honacker
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep, jump out of bed, throw on clothes, and not a single hair or her makeup are out of place. No one looks like that after sex

    Celtic Pirate Queen
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or women who keep their bras on during sex (in her own bed) Seriously? Absolutely NO ONE does this.

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I did it. It dries up and your good to go see your other squeeze lol

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Sorry, late for work. I'll take the toast with me and call you sometime . . .", she said, as the door to my future closed behind her.

    DC
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I shower after effing every single time. If I wouldn't, the cat would jump into my bed, fight herself through or under the blanket and bite my d**k or something.

    marianne eliza
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Prizzi's Honor, Jack Nicholson does a legitimate scrub off with a wash cloth after hot fast sex with Kathleen Turner.

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    #30

    I hate it how people who were shown to be of relatively limited means are somehow always able to buy last minute plane tickets across the globe when it furthers the plot.

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    troufaki13
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They also have unlimited wardrobe, like wth doesn't anyone wear the same outfit twice??

    Grumble O'Pug
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or they have one suitcase or a backpack and yet never wear the same outfit twice.

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    Melvin Dragvelk
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How about movies where people are planning on stealing something worth a few million dollars, and how they do it and what they use, costs more than what they are stealing.

    Steve in Denver
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nobody in movies gets "bumped." I think it would be hilarious for an assassin to get bumped on flights or canceled.

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Credit cards my friend. Tham again we won't make a movie without them.

    Great Panda Mamu
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they just happen to have their passport even though they have already admitted they never travel. I can see where you would need it in, say, the EU where the international border is an hour drive away. But I know a lot of Americans that have gone their whole lives without a passport.

    Cranky Pants
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    or the opposite, cartoons always in same clothes

    Sherryist
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or they can fly a plane all together!

    Basil Ignatov
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought the tickets were like $10 or something. aren't they?

    Ula
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or have a big house and car etc

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    #31

    Hollywood hacking. IRL, hacking isn't "pounding on four keyboards at once while random green bytes flash by on the screen." It's generally more along the lines of "intermittently types for a couple hours, then takes a break and comes back in a day or two to see what the other target's cybersecurity has done in response"

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    El muerto
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    type faster that the other guy...and chew on a pen you are not even using

    Daniel Marsh
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In all fairness, I constantly chew on pens while programming.

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    Christine
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you don't yell, "I'm in!" are you really a hacker?

    Dre Mosley
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As an IT guy, how computers and tech are represented in TV shows and movies makes me cringe.

    fogharty
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You forgot “guess someone’s password by seeing a photo of their lost sweetheart/family member/pet and get it right almost the first time (or third if you want drama) with no alternative spelling or anything” trope. For example, Barbara Gordon would have been screwed if Uncle Alfred had used “p3G-40427” as his password instead of his dead sister’s name “Peg” (which is too short for a password anyway!) Sorry, obviously that’s been preying on me for a while.

    Hans
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    On top of that, hacking hardly ever includes fancy graphics where items fetch into each other and wherethe hack is completed when the visual are completed.

    Jupittance
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I've got three of the letters in the password!" visually presented on a projection screen. No, you don't get passwords one letter at a time.

    kjorn
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yeah... never use a mouse either.

    The 5-star rated 5-star rating system
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh yes, I hate this trope. Especially when the "hacker" is alone but randomly saying what they are doing while the are doing it.

    Lizard Gaming_YT
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Movies be like: ;fkljdsad;kfjdfjdlfkjasdbfh;encawkejcnewocunaweiucn398c3qn9ucn3uiocqno9cuno3wqnn89c3apwcnp I'M IN!

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    #32

    Looking away from the road to have a full conversation while driving. It's almost satisfying when there is a crash.

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    Kno
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It gives me great anxiety to the point where I refuse to look at the scene until it ends. I've been in a nasty crash so that might explain it tho

    Vivian Davis
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is because either the car is being towed or still and the background is moving.

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    casper
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    one time i was sitting in the backseat and fighting with my brother... my mom turned around to tell us off for 5 seconds, almost went off the road, and nearly pissed her pants. i have no idea how movie protagonists have 10-minute-long heated conversations/arguments like this without dying. although i guess that would be a very short movie if it was realistic haha

    ravn
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is a pharmaceutical commercial I absolutely love, because they show the guy driving with friends, and his eyes never leave the road.

    Jennifer De Casterle
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I scream at the screen "keep your eyes on the effing road".

    M Kate McCulloch
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mom and hubbins both do this. I watch the road and have a hand hovering towards the steering wheel every single time... Friggin terrifying.

    Steve in Denver
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or a driver drops their cell phone and can't wait to retrieve it, so they take their eyes off the road and BAM! BIG BAD CRASH.

    RedPanda
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember one episode in 911 where there was a car crash into the lake because they kept talking to each other while driving. I kinda saw it coming but doubted it because they always do that in movies. (talk for like 5 mins straight without looking at the road)

    I'manoob!
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a habit of looking at their eyes every.single.time XD

    LesAnimaux
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think they have eyes in the side of their head. Like a chameleon.

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    #33

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" Romance for the sake of romance. Man? Woman? LOVE! Nooooo. For f***s sake. Now is not the bleeding time. As an aside lots of these romances are just downright s**t because there is absolutley NO time put into the relationship, it's not like movies DON'T put time into relationships, friendship/buddy stories are VERY fleshed out. But because it's a straight romance, and it's just expected that they fall in love, no bloody effort goes into it. Leading to hundreds upon hundreds of boring, non fleshed out romance plots that are not organic in the slightest and come out of absolutley nowhere. Frankly it's a trope used to hide lazy writing imho.

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    Ozacoter
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate the norm that if there is a male and female protagonists they need to end up together. F**k its so predictable

    Sarah Simons
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What if there are two protagonist, male and female, and they go to a new school together. Nobody else at the school knows that they know each other, but they see them spending time together a lot. But, plot twist, this is because they're twins. Brother and sister. And when someone does ask if they're dating, the two start laughing. Like, embarrassingly hard. One of them manages to get out, "No... we're... we're twins!" and the entire plot of the movie is turned on it's head.

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    Honu
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It seems like it rarely occurs to writers that you could have your male and female lead characters work together and just be friends, partners, or colleagues. You could have a compelling story without having to toss some forced sexual tension into the mix. I think this also leads to a narrower variety of roles for female actors as they get older. They want a younger actress because that sells the sex angle (not enough space to get started on that one). Then you get the annoying trope of how the female lead is constantly the youngest to ever make detective/make captain/make it into whatever advanced job they have a 28 year old actress playing, that to attain real life she'd more likely be at least 10-15 years older.

    Melody Mar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And how you end up with a 50 year old male lead and a 22 year old female lead. It would have been more fresh and exciting to have a 50 year old female lead to play opposite, instead of such a large age gap. (I know that large age gaps happen in real life, but they are not very common and I think it is a little creepy in movies, there is no reason not to cast a female actress the same age as the male actor).

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    Marcellus the Third
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's one thing I liked about the Matrix --- yes heavily implied "feeling" but no stopping the action for some frolicking around while the world is about to fall. Good. Then Matrix2... arghrh, here we go with the pointless frolicking.

    Daria B
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Million Dollar Baby had no romance at all, for that matter.

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    trans_ylvania
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And, yet, same-sex relationships ((I would say a relationship that would, in society's eyes, appear 'straight' but in reality one or both are bi(sexual/romantic)/pan(sexual/romantic)/other, but, let's be real, that never gets representation)) are dismissed as "sort of forced" no matter how much chemistry they have.

    Zoe Vokes
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Marvel movies always seem to add a romance element. The Hobbit films added a non-Tolkien female character so they could add romance. Most action films seem to waste screen time with a romance, in order to appeal to the ladies. I choose to watch action, fantasy and sci fi films because I like the genres, not because I’ve been reluctantly dragged along by a boyfriend.

    Daria B
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You have a good point and I agree with your general statement. However, Marvel films don't always add a romance, sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, but when they do, it's mostly to add what's at stake for the hero. It's to add tension, not to appeal to female audiences. Just like in the comics, after all. Also, it's to make the heroes more relatable to the target audiences, which is usually teenage boys living an average life, having secret crushes and lots of dreams and hopes for a grandious future.

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    2WheelTravlr
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I really hate it when writers feel like they have to throw in some sort of love interest in action, science fiction, and historic books and movies where the storyline absolutely does NOT need romance. This is especially frustrating in movies made from books which either had no love interest initially, or the love interest was a minor part of the storyline. It's such a lazy way of padding out a storyline. Boooooring.

    Siah avis
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why I love the show Elementary. 7 seasons, 0 romance. They love each other, they're partners, friends, support each other. They're straight, heterosexual, male and female and good-looking, similar ages and interests. They're friends!

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    #34

    Post-apocalyptic settings in which everyone looks clean-shaven and showered. Ancient warfare depicted as chaos instead of ancient military formations and tactics.

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    LesAnimaux
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or kidnapped girls in a dungeon with perfectly shaven armpits

    Cindy N
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and their hair looking awesome, like it's been freshly cut and styled by a professional

    J. F.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or medival peasants with perfect teeth and body hygiene

    Melody Mar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ooh, another trope! That medieval people had bad teeth and hygiene! They actually brushed their teeth every day and peasants bathed regularly (nobility did not because it was a sign of wealth not to get sweaty). They also wore linen chemise under their clothes that wick away moisture and oil, keeping them and their clothes clean for longer. Don't even get me started on corsets and how Hollywood portrays them COMPLETELY wrong.

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    Jeremy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And old west movies where their teeth are white and always have a close shave

    Dre Mosley
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's always an abundance of working vehicles.

    casper
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yeah, let's be realistic... in a real-life apocalypse, everyone would be hairy, sweaty, wearing the same (probably very torn-up) clothes almost every day, and smelling like s**t. not your generic "aesthetic badass" apocalypse movie protagonists (this goes especially for the female protagonists, for some reason they're almost always perfectly clean, shaven and well-dressed in movies, no matter the circumstances.)

    Nyneva Kyte
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they all have perfect teeth

    Steve in Denver
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or underground bunkers have rooms and hallways, and nobody goes to the bathroom.

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most fire fights, at least in recent time take minutes. However there are those times when they continue for 15 or more years. difference is a skirmish, a battle or the war.

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    #35

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" •"We're not so different, you and I" or any variation of that •Person is fighting another person, falls to the ground, reaches with their hand and magically there's something there that ends the fight •Two people get in a fight -- the guy who is obviously winning just throws the other person from place to place (nobody fights like that) in between basically taking breaks to state long-winded monologues •WHhhhaattt??/!!! She's a LeSbIaN! And oh wow she can toss around guys who are 100 pounds heavier than her and she don't take no shit?! Never saw THAT coming. I bet she can drink shots like all the boys and never get drunk and has promiscuous sex after grab-assing at the bar. Because that's what guys are like, right? But she's a GIRL so it's like really progressive! •Main character randomly saved by some other character we haven't seen for the last 20 minutes who just sneaks up from behind and shoots / hits the villain over the head. And literaly NOBODY heard them coming. Even if it's wide open in a field -- this magical person just pops up out of nowhere and saves the day. •Guns that have no recoil. Those are some of the ones that make me roll my eyes the hardest.

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    Hans
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nice compilation...

    Daria B
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The "we are not that different" one worked good in Batman: the Killing Joke, though.

    casper
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    •Two people get in a fight -- the guy who is obviously winning just throws the other person from place to place (nobody fights like that) in between basically taking breaks to state long-winded monologues -sans:-

    CatWoman312
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Usually it’s a minor character who was mortally wounded and miraculously recovered just in the nick of time

    General kenobi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Except empire strikes back. That had almost every one of them, and it was still an unbelievable movie.

    Kerikat
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jeebus Murphy...even super soakers have kick.

    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the person comes back over and over again til they are chopped up by a machine.

    Lorelai Purvis
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the third to last one was really the only one i read... wth is wrong with the people who actually put this kind of crap in their movies

    Steve in Denver
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And every time fighting pauses, or the death blow is delayed, becuse someone has something they have to say… and it takes several sentences.

    JP Doyle
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Martial art battles that take forever. A typical martial art fight is done in less than a minute. It doesn't matter what art they are fighting. It all comes down to the one who is better at their art wins. Also, one person takes the other down, then waits for them to get back up to "honorably finish the fight." NO. Kick 'em when they are down. It's easier.

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    #36

    •Everyone having perfect social skills, unless it's a huge part of their personality. •The main protagonist having an easy time finding a partner. Just once I'd like to see a protagonist who is single by choice, or even someone who struggles finding a date •Mental illnesses/trauma in general are really misrepresented in movies.

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    Jaime
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ohhh yeah, I hate when mental illness is romanticized in movies

    Honu
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And when it's magically fixed by True Love.

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    Carolina Fernández González
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But if woman is single by choice she ends up accepting that it was a mistake.... .

    JP Doyle
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh gods! I swear if I see another movie feature a Tourette's person and their only symptom is raucous swearing I will go ballistic. Coprolalia is the most widespread symptom experienced at some time or another by 60% of people, but it is only likely to be encountered less than 15% of the time in real life. I'm almost 60 and I've NEVER had this symptom and am considered to be a moderate to severe Tourette's patient. Tourette's has so many varied symptoms, but they always show the vulgar one for outrageous or comedic effect.

    Pamda Panda
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Part of the reason why I love the Hunger Games is because the characters' trauma is so we'll done.

    Pumpkin Spice
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *raises purple flag* WE NEED AROACE REPRESENTATION!

    Steve in Denver
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's what I like about the Dragon Tattoo series: Elisbeth doesn't NEED anyone. Sometimes she wants sex and gets it, from men and women. Then she's off.

    Anonymousplease
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The last one, definitely. In a lot of movies about teenagers, there js either nobody with any mental illnesses, or the fact that they have one consumes the whole character

    R. Lynx
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Swingers" has the first two examples. Great film.

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    #37

    Something is falling towards them. DON'T F***ING RUN THE SAME WAY IT'S FALLING ! JUST RUN TO THE LEFT FOR 5 SECONDS TO DODGE IT INSTEAD OF RUNNING 2 MINUTES FORWARD ! I love prometheus, the alien movie

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    LesAnimaux
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have never seen something fall TOWARDS somebody before. But I do agree in the case of car pursuits

    backatya
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He told you what movie it was that it happened in his last part of the point.

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    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was thinking the same thing about Prometheus. Hey girl - you are the daughter of a genius...ROLL FAST!

    J. F.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Prometheus School of running away - Straight ahead to safety! XD

    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have watched "Prometheus" many times. Every time I say - "run the other way Charlize"! Or someone running from a shooter - "Serpentine you fool, serpentine!"

    Grace Smith
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one really does grind my gears

    Caroline Overill
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Someone pushes a huge stone or something off the top of a building or a cliff and the person they are trying to kill looks up and goes ooo there's a rock heading towards me. I'd better just stand here and let it kill me because I'd hate for whoever to have gone to all that trouble and it didn't work.

    Caroline Driver
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That rolling ship, shaped like a wheel, she could have just jinked to the side, but noooo, keep running in a nice straight line. Also, David's head must've been magnetised, or it would have bounced around like a stone in a biscuit tin, but nooo, it's right where he left it.

    Steve in Denver
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People can out-run explosions, a rush of water, runaway trains, cars, murderous individuals and gangs.

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yea, seems kinda stupid and anti climatic.

    Paula Carr
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or something is falling towards them, and they just stand there watching it fall, when they could just take one step away.

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    #38

    Teen comes down to a full breakfast, blinds open, sun is out and bright. Everybody’s at the table, mom, dad, siblings. Then they’re like “Nah i’ll just grab this apple” Everything about those scenes are completely wrong. Who has time to make a sunday breakfast on a random school day before they go to work? And damn I went to school in the dark. I go to work in the dark. The sun just doesn’t come out that early.

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    Elena Ktmr
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People wake up and sun is out, they go jogging, they shower, have a full breakfast, and then they leisurerly go to work or at school and it is still morning. Do they wake up at 4 am to a full sunlight?

    lemsip
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Scotland and Scandinavia in mid summer they do.

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    LesAnimaux
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If my kid was gonna grab an apple and run I'd drag him back and tell him to appreciate this damn six-course breakfast I prepared.

    InfectedVoice
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a kid, we would've wasted that food once and it wouldn't have been made again.

    Mascha Claessens
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even now, in March, when I get up at 6:30/7am, it's light outside (northwestern Europe). Not really "sun's up high" light, but still "sun just got up" light. ;-) I definitely don't have (or make) time to make such a breakfast every morning, though. (and by the time we leave daylight saving, next weekend, it'll be dark outside again until like 7.30, unfortunately...).

    casper
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the weirdest thing is that the family actually... eats together? at the table? and it's a normal occurrence? i don't know a single family that does that every day. it's so unrealistic-

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    Siah avis
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And why are teens such d***s unless they're the goody-two-shoes girl?

    Honey
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sun is up and bright in the warmer months in Canada. Rises around 530 and sets between 10-11 pm. Just sayin.

    CrunChewy McSandybutt
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I live in Louisiana. We get a lot more sun down here than y'all do in the north of England (or wherever you are).

    Carrie Laughs
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Was curious as I don't know Louisiana so looked up some comparisons. North of England we have daylight roughly from 4:30 am to 9:30pm in the summer (longest day it's about 10pm). Average rainfall in North of England is 3.cm in June compared to Louisiana (according to website I'm looking at) in June is 17.7 cm. Was a bit surprised by that.

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    Verena Abt
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This depends on where you live and what time you need to get up. Over here we usually have breakfast when the sun is out, just not between,say, October and February.

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    #39

    When a date is made, and they just conclude by "Ok, see you tonight at 8!". Like, where are we meeting? What are we going to do? Do I have to have dinner before? Will it include drinking, so do I leave my car at home? What do I wear?

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    Draco Malfoy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    there is an snl skit on this it's pretty funny haha

    qwerty
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgfiXtvej7Q

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    Bei Stenhaug
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As of lately I have noticed that they say "I'll text you the details!" which is a quick way to fill that gap. They should always do that

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For the woman wear a thong under a hot tight short dress

    DetongLhamo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Often they don’t even make a time and they never swap phone numbers in modern movies.

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    See you at 8 is possible code for an overnighter, while expecting Sunday breakfast at 8am.

    Lynn Morello
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also like everyone knows that the average office closes at 5pm, Everyone is shown working feverishly hard towards the end of their shift and it is a pitch black night outside.

    Siah avis
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know these are important but you don't want to be watching all this extra s**t in a show/movie. There's limited time

    despayre
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always figured those were boring details they'd discussed already, too insignificant to put in the film *shrug*

    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is a good one. NOBODY in the real world says this.

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    #40

    I've always hated ridiculously over the top action scenes and fights. Like you're really gonna take a baseball bat to the face and jump right back up and whip someone's a**. No, you're gonna lay there and bleed and hope you can find a good plastic surgeon.

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    LesAnimaux
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People really are punching bags in movies. I'd be down after a single slap. No ma'am, that hurts.

    Melody Mar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And how do they find so many minions who are so loyal that they are willing to get back up and keep fighting? You would think they would go, "oh hell no, I am not paid enough for this sh*t" and take off running. No one is willing to get their butt kicked that bad for someone else's evil scheme.

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As I saw the bat about 3 inches from me face, I quickly tried moving away while the bat continued it's journey toward my forehead. As I heard and felt the connection I was resolute that I would not fall. Instead I was going beat some sense into the attacker. I crumbled to the ground abandoning all thought except a blank screen. The EMS people were very nice , several hours later, offering me a coke-a-cola. Never did find who done the deed and gave me so much respect for a bat in hand.

    Piper McLean
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yesss! If someone were to slap me I would be acting like a baby not winning a battle 50 against one

    J. F.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same with getting shot - the hero can take a few bullets and not only walk but also fight 50 henchmen off. Just saying, not gonna happen....

    Anthony Mann
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    While most of the Jack Reacher film falls in this category, the scene where he takes the baseball bat to the back of the head... it was a glancing blow (mostly absorbed by the door frame), and Reacher looks like he was about knocked out. One of the few of the somewhat realistic parts of the entire fight in the house.

    backatya
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    lol I like this person's comment. Add in rapist gets hit in the groin and just jumps back up at full speed to get woman. No way.

    Capermom
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's why I love Daniel Craig as James Bond. The other JBs just smoothed down their hair and were good to go after a tough fight.

    EQXL
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Than again the hero takes out 5 people with a slight wrist movement untill meeting the antagonist.

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    #41

    The guy and girl hate each other at first sight but end up falling in love later on.

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    Carrot dude
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like this trope if it's done correctly

    LivingTheDream
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    as opposed to reality where you fall in love, get married and then learn to hate each other

    Sofiia Melnikova
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's better than the cheesy "love at first sight" trope

    Anxiety
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If done correctly it’s good. But ONLY if done correctly.

    Death Metal Kitty
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oooh Hollywood loses out to the Japanese in tsundere characters.

    Caroline Driver
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The basis of every Mills & Boon, and Barbara Cartland romance....book, EVER.

    backatya
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    kind of possible, but typical hollywood

    turtledove
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Main character : " We will never be friends!" 2 hours later theyre a couple

    K.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That sometimes happens in real life.

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    #42

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" The "evil guy sacrifices himself in the end so he is good right!" Trope. Like wtf, because he died doesn't erase the soon time of abuse/murder/terror/terrible acts that they already committed. They don't get done lovely pass for being a "good guy in the end". Duck no and it's absolutely not healthy way to portray people in real life either, that because someone dies for a good reason that they didn't do terrible bad sh*t and that they weren't terrible people

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    Kira Okah
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like messing with this - people think that those in my stories who did bad are going to "redemption by death". Nope! They're going to live with it and have to face the consequences of their actions ad those they wronged.

    Fact Perils
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most of the time i consider the evil person like 5% less evil if they die sacrificing themselves, but only if you can see into their heads (first person) and know they're doing it for good and not for some other reason

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    Daniel Marsh
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Christian allegories of redemption (yes, like Darth Vader) look strange once recycled for sequels minus the Christian allegories. In the original series, Darth Vader's death saved the galaxy. Now, it was just one battle in a war that went on for generations.

    Gwen Parker
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Holy run-on sentences and grammatical/spelling errors, Batman!! Doesn't anyone at least know how to use spell-check???

    Piper McLean
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love Snape but he wasn’t necessarily good, he abused Harry for years and was too dramatic about lily. I understand why but still

    Ella Greenman
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    YES NOBODY LISENED TO ME WHEN I SAID KYLO WAS NOT REDEEMED

    K.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People are complex and so are the legacies they leave behind. For the rest of us who aren’t on the extremes, just because we’ve made mistakes or were a minor bad person doesn’t mean we have to stay that way. Even if we don’t have the traits of a hero, why should it deter us from trying to create some good in the world?

    Vicky Z
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also they don't need to have a tragic past that justifies them being assholes! It's possible they are just assholes for no reason!!

    LesAnimaux
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm reminded of Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi from the Lego Movie 2. She has an entire SONG about how she's not evil, sung super malicious of course, and she turns out to be a good person- uhm, lego piece.

    LesAnimaux
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The song is my alarm in the morning, that's why I randomly think of it.

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    #43

    Female action heroes who have long hair and high heels. Women who "aren't like other women."

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    kjorn
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and just get out of beauty parlors. even in the morning

    Annamagelic
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not just action heroes. Just about every woman, doctor, scientist, cop ect walking around in absurdly high heals with their hair down. No, in the real world they'd be wearing practical shoes and have their hair tied back.

    Pantea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also: women with long hair wearing them open while working/fighting etc. Every woman knows you tie your hair before you do anything remotely physical/serious.

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gotta love em. I want to be rescued by long haired hotties in real high heels. They my heroes.

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    lol they can kick ass in high heels and they have to be hot. Actually I like the hot part. No one wants to see Rosanne Arnold with her fat self kicking ass

    Michael Capriola Jr.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believe high heels were invented by a man going thru a nasty divorce

    M Kate McCulloch
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Long hair is fine - but long hair is hard to manage and so it should only be perfect in the few moments before they walk out the dorr of their house - then it slowly fails, tangles and gets in the way the rest of the time until in a pique fit of total frustration they do what us long-haired women do - tie up all that fliipin hair and get it out of my face and off my neck bygod it's hot....

    Lynn Morello
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like women running in stiletto's

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    #44

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" Nobody ever just has a cough. My all time hated version of this trope is when it is followed by a shot of a tiny drop of blood on a handkerchief that the person quickly shoves into a pocket. lazy film shorthand for yeaah, don't get too attached.

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    Hans
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of some side kicks being introduced just before some dangerous misson starts and you directly know: "all main actors are coming back, but this side cast will not".

    J. F.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same with "Daddy we miss you", "I'm 2 days aways from retirement" or "I'm a veteran, I saw enough s***" characters

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    Daria Z
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every time someone coughs in a movie it means they're gravely ill and will die very soon. But if they cough AND sneeze, then it's just a cold. Ugh...

    Verena Gitterle
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So- not only redshirts but redhandkerchiefs

    LivingTheDream
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and it's always lung cancer..... Despite other cancers being much more common. I guess blood when you cough is much more movie centric than blood in your stool though.

    Carrie Laughs
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, unless set in the times when consumption (as it used to be called) or TB was more of a problem. Moulin Rouge is the most recent movie I can think of when a character had that.

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    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one is all too common. As soon as a character starts out with a small cough - you know they are going to die from "consumption". Let's try a different tack.

    Analyn Lahr
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is that Giles from Buffy in that picture?

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Beam down they said. It'll be fun they said." (click on photo) 9a8b1fd327...182c6e.jpg 9a8b1fd327ce2df183eda501446a513b-6057d58182c6e.jpg

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    Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yeah, expect this person to die in a heroic way to save everyone

    Linda Adamo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    like being a red shirt and part of the landing party.

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    #45

    This is too specific, but it bugs me: -Latina, and attractive? she has a child and she is a single mother. -Latina, and has a strong personality? she is a lesbian.

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    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sometimes, it seems, both . . .

    Analyn Lahr
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read a book series with Latina side characters, one is in fact, a lesbian and she's the one who fusses over everyone. The other who's straight is a weapons expert.

    Siah avis
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Asian? Nerd/computer sci wizz/doctor/scientist -- incel (women and men) Black? Villain/the serious dude/gay This is why the UK does diversity WAY better. Every single POC you can root for and they're awesome. And if they're not, you can still like them in their villainy bc they're not based on stereotypes!

    Piet Puk
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Latina and a space soldier? Not even a real Latina!

    Scagsy
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    4 years ago

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    Jennifer Lopez and Michelle Rodriguez might have something to say about this one.

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    #46

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" "Legend says, a chosen one will defeat Big Bad Guy and lead our people to freedom." THANKS FOR SPOILING IT, YOU OLD BAT

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    Hans
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "legend", "the prophecy" etc. Where would it come from? It is better without the myth unless the myth is worked out like Tolkien did it.

    Paul Budhram
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i mean harry potter spoiled it but Trelawney said it so we know where it came from

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    JLH
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Any time a story plot reveals that it centers around a prophecy I'm immediately done with that story. It was fine for awhile, but it's been done. It's lazy. Move on. Harry Potter was the last exception imo. Same goes with orphans. Just lazy.

    I'manoob!
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Avatar the last airbender legendly got away with it tho XD

    Steve in Denver
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would be cool if the "expected hero" was eliminated, and nother character discovered THEY had to pick up and carry on.

    Xylle Flora
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I liked it when it was done in Avatar the Last Airbender because the whole thing was so well written

    InfectedVoice
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doesn't matter, still an amazing set of movies.

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You were suppose to be the chosen one, line from Star Wars

    Annabeth Chase
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is just every prophecy in Percy Jackson, except less cryptic

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Old bats do have a way of munching up the plot.

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    #47

    The space scientist takes their helmet off, right before trying to pet the new organism they've found.

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    kjorn
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and never forget, female scientist are all top model. Guy are all weirdos

    blugeagua
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even though it could easily be the other way around.

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    Jo Johannsen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Oh, look at the cute little YEOW IT BIT ME."

    casper
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oh yeah... i was a prodigy genius and was literate and studying space from the age of 3. i probably have like 3 PhDs and an IQ of 180. but yeah, i'm just going to take off my helmet on an unfamiliar planet to make physical contact with a creature i've never seen before. nothing wrong here.

    J. F.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Alien Prometheus and Covenant come to my mind.... To word it like Honest Trailers: "This isn't a colonization program, it's a project to get rid of the world's biggest idiots"

    Nevid
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That reminds me of this scene in The Expanse in which a character explores an empty space station, and when entering a room, someone tells him "There's air here, you can take off your helmet", and the other guy answers "I prefer not". This very minor detail in the series made me very happy for some reason.

    backatya
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Space movies lol. No astronaut can just quickly don a space suit and go out into space. The have to go into a pressure chamber for an hour before leaving. Same thing when returning

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How else can hero get a unknown disease and bering back to earth for study. Gosh.

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    #48

    Not a movie trope per se, but why is the dad in nearly every sitcom a dumb f***ing dimwit?

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    El muerto
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    dads can only be "cute dumb", "wise" or "neglectful"...there are no in-betweens in movies

    your local lesbian
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and always “har har me wife never lets me drink wit’ the boys har har”

    Thorfin Wolfsbane
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is how commercials are: dads are just another irresponsible child the wife has to look after.

    Thomas Turnbull
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ex husband and ex wives at the start of a movie suddenly back together at the end after heroic action.

    Sasy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I noticed recently that most US sitcoms always have the multiple children and one is always too dumb to be left alone and one of the others is always highly intelligent, or very savvy. I understand the comedy and hijinks but it gets a bit much it is like a recipe at this point.

    Actually I’m Sundew
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My least favorite character is always that dad trope.

    eezycheezes101
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ESPECIALLY Mike's dad in Stranger Things! He's absent in all his children's lives! No wonder his wife was about to. . . well, you know what with an 17/18 y.o

    Michael Capriola Jr.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I wear the pants in this family and Father Knows Jack." -- Rosanne

    hi myself
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not in Wandavision. Of course, the part that is sitcom.

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    #49

    A pregnant woman always has to go into labor at the most cosmically inconvenient time possible.

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    Laura Würker
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the baby comes out after 1/2 hour pushing.

    Grace Skerp
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And immediately wrapped in a blanket and handed to mom to hold. No blood or gunk, no umbilical cord, baby is never crying, head is perfectly shaped

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    Kira Okah
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and then the baby emerges after a few seconds, with a couple of pushes, completely clean, no umbilical cord, and suddenly a few months old.

    Pamela Blue
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    YES! That drives me crackers when they hand a 3 or 4 month old baby to its mother, passing it off as a newborn. Sheesh!

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    WhatEvenIsLife
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "My water just broke!" and then bam, baby. The water usually breaks hours into active labor.

    Julie Daly
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And every single pregnant woman insists on having her feet massaged. It's weird; Every Single Time Touch my feet, you die.

    lemsip
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like having my feet touched. I don't like having my head touched as that can bring on a migraine.

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    kjorn
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yeah. and the woman don't poop during.

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Yeah, I'm still working at eight and a half months. Oh, the elevator's broke. I'll take the stairs."

    casper
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    quiet place: write this down, write this down!

    JitkaBlitka
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and with water breaking like waterfall. like,yeah, that's exactly how it works...

    Temma Tainow
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the very new newborn looks 3 months old

    backatya
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Star Trek movie Staring Chris Pine was a good example.

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    #50

    Guys getting kicked in the balls. It is apparently the funniest form of sexual assault.

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    your local lesbian
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and everyone laughs at them for being in pain! cruel and heartless.

    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't laugh. I think it would incredibly painful.

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    CrunChewy McSandybutt
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was in late middle school (right around the time boys hit puberty), I saw a boy get hit full force with a baseball in the groin. He turned his head, puked, then fainted. I decided then that I would only punch a man in the nads if I was in physical danger.

    CATMONSTER2018
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Please rephrase.. Sorry, i don't really understand your paragraph.

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    JP Doyle
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And in many cases it doesn't take the guy down in one shot. It angers them even more.

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ball Bruising is big on TV show called "Ridiculousness".

    Bobbo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Especially in action movies. The hero gets kicked, goes down for only a minute or two, and then gets up to continue on.

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All comedy is about some form of pain, either your own or someone else's.

    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seems like the quickest way to "immobilize someone".

    aaron burr sir
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't want to seem rude, but sometimes it can be a bit funny in a karma sort of way, Like if he was grooming someone, then sometimes, a little chuckle will come out at that karma.

    Pups Illegally Robbing Hearts
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s what I do when someone tries to assault me. I kick them in the privates

    DC
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ow My Balls was a great show - stupid, but great.

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    #51

    Everything about being "knocked out". In real life, if your head is hit hard enough to render you unconscious, it's called a "concussion". It's not something you can just wake up from.

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    Kira Okah
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And certainly not several hours later in another country. No, that makes people dead.

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tasers don't knock a person out either. It just renders them not being able to move until a very short while after the electricity stops.

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    Leo Domitrix
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You get hit that hard, you are lying down for a week, and may feel aftereffects for *years*. Post-concussion syndrome.

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not only wake up, but kick ass in the process.

    Eric Forster
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've had a concussion, they're not fun.

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Damn straight. For someone with a mild (didn't lose consciousness) concussion, take some aspirin and lie in a dark room for a couple of days and only then come back to work. It's not something you just shake off.

    Delicate Flower
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ugh, this is like my biggest pet peeve. Just a "little" concussion, no big deal. :P

    Wordfloe-Acid-Test
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because as Ryan George would say,"the movie needs to happen."

    Wendell T Sasaki
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nonsense, I have been "knocked unconscious without a concussion.

    DC
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've had a mild concussion (google translates "Gehirnerschütterung" to "concussion") two times ... one time in 1st grade from a fight in school, 2nd time some 2.5 years ago when I thought I could use the front brake of my bicycle with only one hand on the bar, while turning down the volume of my music device ... which can work out, but it doesn't need much to knock you off, and likely, that not much will happen. I was unconscious in the second event for, like, 5 seconds or so ... not completely, but blurred vision and slowly getting to know what just had happened ... and then, thinking "damned, why do I never have an accident that is NOT totally stupid?". And then, I went to work instead of to the doctor's, because there was a routine, a certain doctor to chose, ... didn't do any overtime that day, but less then the usual 8 hours, got nothing done, while going to the doctor would have got me 8 hours as standard assumation for missed days with a proper excuse.

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    #52

    The perfectly diverse friend group. Every age, sex, ethnicity and orientation is represented in their group of six.

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    Star of the world
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    its either that or that one stereotypical black guy

    Grace Marraffa
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep, he has to be strong, tall, clear skin and does sports but then something happens and he shows he is smart and people are surprised, or he is tall, dorky, smart, and does something to save the day, and the hottest girl falls for him

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    Delicate Flower
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You're right. Lets just go back to all white casts. Seriously though, what's the other option? There can only be so many characters. It depends on how it's done, there is nothing wrong with the idea of a diverse cast, just poor execution of characters.

    Julius Martin
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    thank you, like stop complaining and come up with sum type of compromise

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    lemsip
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not so in Gavin and Stacey and The Inbetweeners on British television. Then people called them out for being racist but in reality that's what it's like especially where those sit coms were set.

    Sinkvenice
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's an enormously dumb thing to say but I can see why people would be inclined to say that about The Inbetweeners as it's set in London. Gavin and Stacey is silly though. I used to live in a small town in Wales, population 12000 and about an hour away from where G&S is set. I was one of about ten brown people. The amount of racist abuse I got was staggering.

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    Julius Martin
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wait but when its not diverse, you guy complain about it not being diverse enough, like pick, im not trying to be racist, im just asking what the compromise is

    despayre
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My school was like that. Not everyone has that but it's not offensive to me, our school is awesome.

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love when in movie about blacks in a black hood, there is a white kid who just exists. Fair is fair.

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And it's worse if they're an inter-racial street gang. How often do you see that in real life?

    Jack Candy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a "sign of the times". If the production does not cast the main characters that way, you can be sure that some "woke" people will call it racist or homophobic or sexist.

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    #53

    "It was all just a dream". Thanks, now the entire movie was pointless. It's sometimes followed with "...or was it a dream?" which somehow makes it even more annoying ending.

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    Jo Johannsen
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate "The End....or is it?" endings to horror movies.

    Susan Widomski
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This has become extremely redundant. The first couple times it was used it was kind of fun - we don't need to see it anymore.

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    Aroace tiger
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes! This is such a boring ending. I've always despised this.

    Scagsy
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anybody old enough to remember Dallas?

    Christine
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup. RIP Bobby...oh, wait...wake up, Bobby!

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    Xylle Flora
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was younger, I read this book about how to write a book and one of the things they said was to not make the whole thing a dream

    Analyn Lahr
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The entire series of Newhart was a dream.

    Michael Capriola Jr.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The only time this works is in "The Wizard of Oz" and the final episode of the 2nd Bob Newheart series.

    Danieletc
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Welcome to your existence, stop bitching about it.

    Tim Haight
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They did this at the conclusion of the show St Elsewhere, where the entire show was all in the imagination of the austistic boy looking at a snow globe. Worst ending of a show ever

    Tim Haight
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was funny on Married with Children when they spoofed the "it was all a dream" to explain why Peg was not pregnant anymore.

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    #54

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" When a character saves the day by sacrificing themselves and then reappears safe a few second later. That's why I love reading A Game of Thrones, if someone does something or gets in a situation where they should die... they die. Keeps the tension and you actually worry about the characters. Rest in peace Robb Stark.

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    Manuel Delgado
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sure You mean A Song of Ice and Fire...

    El muerto
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the series is called "a song of ice and fire", but the first book on the series, that inspire the tv show is called "game of thrones" there are a lot of books in the series, haven't got to third of it myself

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    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still think Jon and his aunt would have had the perfect baby. Ah well.

    Premislaus de Colo
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you have most definetely not heard about Lady Stoneheart

    Jon S.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's what I was thinking. At least 4 GoT characters come back from the dead.

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    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jon Snow? I would like to see the character of Danaerys come back. Was a terrible ending, but then I am a romantic.

    Caroline Driver
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unless they're Beric Dondarrion. Or Lady Stoneheart. Or Jon Snow.

    starhunter64
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I agree its so much more interesting and engrossing when you know that if they die then that's it so you better pray they dont and if the author choices to bring them back then both you and the rest of the characters are like, WTF?! bud you DIED, then the Author has an actual explanation of what happened by like, mentioning things and artifacts previously mentioned that is plausible. its just a better read/watch.

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ahh hello Robb Stark is a character and not a person. So how can he rest in peace?

    Thomas
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wrong pic: Goku actually died that time, and he also totally subverted the "let's use the Dragon Balls to revive everyone!" post-fight thing.

    MiaOokami
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My friend has a rule: Never assume a character is dead until you see their death. Then we watched 7 Deadly Sins.

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    #55

    Bad guys who have kidnapped their target whom they want dead, and have the opportunity to kill them. So do they do that? No, instead they give a big long monologue detailing their evil genius plans which gives the victim enough time to be rescued or to escape. My favourite movie villains are usually the ones who actually make genuine attempts to kill without too much wasting time or messing around unnecessarily.

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    Kira Okah
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Absolutely. Save the gloating until after the hero is dead.

    Lili
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Honestly, if I were a villain... I wouln't be able to resist the temptation of explaining my genius plan too. I mean, what's the point of having a genius plan if you can't toss it on your opponent's face all high and mighty?

    Tamera Shippuden
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    UM, the point is doing it. What's the point of planning it out, just to not even be able to do it because you have a big mouth? You can talk about it later.

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    Analyn Lahr
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Let me explain my myriad of reasons I want you dead while you work yourself out of your bindings."

    Michael Capriola Jr.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here's another one: Hero says, "Can I ask one question?" And the villain answers, "Sure. Why not?" And then lays out his evil scheme. The correct response to "Can I ask one question?" is to shoot the hero and then say, "No."

    Tamera Shippuden
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the one I was looking for. It happens every time.

    Seabeast
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was spoofed in the Austin Powers movies.

    Athletic_Girl
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or when they waste time telling them EVERY DETAIL of their plan, leaving the protagonist with enough time to get away

    Michael Capriola Jr.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They made fun of this in one of the Austin Powers films. Dr Evil starts describing his elaborate method of executing Powers when his son interrupts with, "Why don't you just shoot him? Take a gun and blow his brains out. I've got a gun in my room -- I'll go get it and kill him for you." etc.

    The Deez
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of my favorite things about Sons of Anarchy was that they DIDN'T monologue! If those guys were heading out to off someone, it was gonna happen without a lot of talking!

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    #56

    Bad guys horrible aim.....except shoulder shots.

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    Scagsy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Case in point: Star Wars Stormtroopers

    Scott
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually, from https://www.quora.com/How-accurate-is-the-average-soldier-in-combat: "In World War II, the United States and its allies expended 25,000 rounds of ammunition to kill a single enemy soldier. In the Korean War, the ammunition expenditure had increased four-fold to 100,000 rounds per soldier; in the Vietnam War, that figure had doubled to 200,000 rounds of ammunition for the death of a single enemy soldier. The risk to noncombatants is apparent. In contrast, United States Army and Marine Corps snipers in the Vietnam War expended 1.3 rounds of ammunition for each claimed and verified kill, at an average range of six hundred yards, or almost twice the three hundred meters cited above for combat engagements by the average soldier. Sniper Use of Open-Tip Ammunition, 12 October 1990, by Parks W. Hays, Colonel, USMC, Chief of the Judge Advocate General's International Law Branch, Retrieved from: http://www.thegunzone.com/opentip-ammo.html"

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    Susan Egan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How about never ending ammo. Reloading is only used when you know they will run out at the worst time. Why don't they ever pick up the bad guys guns?

    Michael Capriola Jr.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Someone once suggested that the Imperial Stormtroopers must all be on Quaaludes because they can't hit the broad side of a barn. (and I just noticed Scagsy's comment below. meh)

    Sasy
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and with Machine guns often, how do you miss with a machine gun?

    Ripley
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When the bad guys spray the scene with a machine gun and hit nothing, and the "good" guy drops everyone with a single shot from a handgun. 🙄

    Paul Z.
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...never headshots. Always in the BP-vest, that magically stops every bullet and attracts them... Being shot in the leg or knee and keep fighting. Sure. Take a 30cm knife in your upper leg, pull it out and use it against your attacker. All the while not bleeding out or falling over...

    Jeremy
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Obi says these shots are too precise they can only be imperial stormtroopers der

    thetacotruckman
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    storm trooper training: here is gun, here is safety, and here is trigger that shoots. congratulations you have completed your training.

    The Deez
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or they have fantastic aim, except when it counts! I see this in The Walking Dead a lot. They can't hit the bad guys right in front of them but can take out a dozen walkers with head shots at 50 feet. *eye roll*

    LivingTheDream
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Especially with a rifle. Handguns are much harder to aim but with a rifle you should be able to nail someone with a little experience.

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    #57

    I hate when "Badass" Character walks into a scientist's laboratory demanding they work faster and then breaks a test tube or something as a threat. It's like "hey A-hole, if you'd stay the f**k out of my lab, we'd be done by now." That equipment is expensive. He just set them back weeks, if not months.

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    Xylle Flora
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Especially when the thing they're demanding physically breaks the laws of physics

    casper
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oh noo! they're not working fast enough! let me just help them be more productive by destroying what they were working on for me so they have to hurry tf up

    Marie Vallier
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or when they go "- how long to do this? - 5 months - and if I pay you triple? - 2 weeks". Like I read somewhere else, the real answer would be "5 months, but with food"...

    J. F.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Could be hilarious though . "You know that there was Carborane acid in that, right?" (strongest acid available so far)

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe that is when were not living on Mars, yet.

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    #58

    After the MC is done murdering a hundred people he won't kill the main guy because he would just be like him if he does that/the bad guy would win somehow/he isn't a murderer

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    Kira Okah
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never gotten why killing the henchmen is not counted. Billy the Hench-guy might have had a wife and kids. The baddie might have even known them personally - I mean they aren't going to go get someone from the Henchman Hires place to guard their keys, they would give it to someone they know and trust.

    Pezor Zass
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and why when there's a main bad guy with henchmen do they kill all of the henchmen first? kill the main guy! Most likely the henchmen are there for pay and with their meal ticket gone, they'll probably scatter

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    Rainy Day Wolf
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and all the people that die as colateral while the hero is saving the city... but would never kill the bad guy he's not like him ¬¬

    Geo. Tirebiter
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't recall seeing any movie where the master of ceremony kills even one person let alone a hundred.

    Geo. Tirebiter
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't remember any movie where a master of ceremony even kills one person let alone a hundred.

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Be'n so tired of that mentality.

    Susan Widomski
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    it is a money-making proposition. If the henchman is a star or doing a "cameo", his character is unimportant.

    Al Christensen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because they need to bring back the villain for the sequel or for a spin-off.

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    #59

    A character, having never shot a bow or used a sword, suddenly picks is up and is able to defend themselves. NO. Speaking from experience, it takes years of practice to get proficient at using a bow or a sword.

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    CATMONSTER2018
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Im So-So with a bow/sword since I spend most my time practicing with axes... Throwing and Melee

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    CrunChewy McSandybutt
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A bow especially. That thing is difficult to use. A sword, I guess you can get lucky but you won't be d'Artagnan.

    Marlowe Fitzpatrik
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually, you can learn how to USE it fairly easily. Learn about the stance, the arms and how to position your fingers and you're good to go. It's AIMING that is the thing, and being able to judge distance and wind-effect to still make the shot count. Also, if you are unlucky and pick up the bow of some seriously strong person, you might not be able to even draw properly.

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    casper
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this also fits with like the "you're a natural/you're the chosen one!" trope where a character discovers a craft or item, tries it, and is instantly better than their mentor who has been practicing for years and is regarded as a master of the craft. like no, it is possible to be naturally good at something but not to that extent, you still need to practice to nurture the skill and get better at it.

    Marissa Voleta
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How 'bout any body just hopping onto a motorcycle and speeding away? Takes some time to learn how to ride one....

    magnadar
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also when someone is a badass, he/she can pick up any kind lf weapon and use it like a pro, even if they never handled that weapon or type. Also in like cars

    EQXL
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once entered a bow shooting competition and ended with the same result as my enemy. We were in a bowtie

    Abigail Hill
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I *could* use a bow. I know how. Could I hit my target? Maybe. Would I be proficient? Not in the slightest.

    Siah avis
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But not if it's a woman. If it's a female, she cannot even pick up a knife to defend herself and must be rescued. ARGH

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    #60

    Making it look like someone is gonna die unless the bullet is removed asap. And then they are all better when it is out. This is ridiculous and false. Most of the time we don't even care about the bullet itself.

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    LivingTheDream
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And don't forget how healing it is to pull out the knife/spear/sword... instead of leaving it in until you are prepared to stop the blood flow.

    Caroline Driver
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And people getting dragged out of car crashes and then just hobbling away with a bit of a limp and a cut forehead. Broken neck anyone?

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    true the bullet isn't the problem any more. It's the damage it caused like ripping through an artery or larger veins, nerves and flesh. The pain and infection if it the movie goes on. Last you don't just remove the bullet and sew him up and everything is fine. Blood vessels have to be stopped from bleeding etc.

    DC
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's the hole, not the drill!

    K.
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it’s an exit wound, we’re more worried about hemorrhaging. Bullets that didn’t exit can travel in the body and do some damage. Edit: more

    Julie Daly
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah especially when brave hero gets shot in another scene and just gets up again, sure I'm grand. Also falling when you've been shot.

    J. F.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or being punched backwards a few meters

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    #61

    Love triangles, 95% of them are all the same and usually go like this. “Hello my name is generic rom com protagonist, I am an average person just like you and I have a problem, I’m in love with 2 boys/girls.” “Hello I am generic love interest number 1, I am likely the childhood friend who wishes the best for my best friend, I have been yearning for their love and have been patient for their affection, alternatively I may be the rich person as well who promises a life of luxury and stability who will do anything for my one true love.” “Hey, The name’s generic love interest number 2, unlike the bore that is generic love interest 1, I have a more wild and Exotic personality, I may be the bad boy, the manic pixie dream girl or whatever my role is, I may be poor but I will give generic rom com protagonist excitement as routine is so lame and I will probably win anyways and if I don’t, I’m sure the fanbase will make fanfictions where I am the winner anyways.” “Oh no whatever shall I do, I’m only at the mercy of the writers who has to pad this conflict out for 90 minutes and I am sure that there will be no needless dramas or misunderstandings.” TL:DR love triangles are always the same plot line over and over again

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    Laura Würker
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that is not even a "triangle". Only if there is something going on between the two love interests from the protagonist. Than it's a proper love "triangle"

    K.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Legend of Korra. The two former girlfriends start dating each other instead of the male. They all care about one another, and that’s the important thing to me.

    Daniel Marsh
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How about the incumbent boyfriend is suddenly revealed to be a creep when Mr. Right appears, so the audience doesn't dislike the romcom star for ditching her boyfriend to "trade up."

    Michael Capriola Jr.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here's a twist. I forget the name of the film (and didn't go see it), but the premise was that a young woman gets 2 marriage proposals at nearly the same time. One from her best friend, and one from her lover. She spends 90 minutes trying to decide which one she should marry. Obviously, you marry the friend if you want the marriage to last. You're already getting the most out of the lover, and there's nowhere to go but down. There. I just saved you all 90 minutes and the price of a ticket.

    casper
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i hate the bad boy/manic pixie dream girl characters, they're so toxic when you think about it (although the bad boy trope doesn't require much thought to see how it's toxic) and i hate how we're normalizing this with movies and other media

    Lathari
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Soviet love triangle: Boy loves girl, but girl loves tractor. Here's a good dissection of different types: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TriangRelations

    InvincibleRodent
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read this a little while ago- "A love triangle without something going on between the two love interests is a love corner, and there's usually a woman backed into it."

    starhunter64
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    here's a REAL plot twist, they all get into a polymorphus relationship(did i spell that right?)

    Ednineson Vertus
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Haha sex education with otis, maeve, and ola (except ola is not really rich and none of them are childhood friends but he is good friends with maeve)

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    #62

    No movies having any concept of how guns actually work. Eg. Unlimited ammo, bullets not penetrating things the would go straight through like car doors, No recoil silencers making the gun too quiet etc.

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    Busy_D
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    John wick actually does a good job at these kind of things.

    Dave P
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    silencer take guns from the volume of death metal concert to a car backfiring of the decible scale. Using a pillow doesnt muffle it like that either. Plus they have no concept of how guns operate physically, aim, etc or how bullet wounds work. It is why most people have a warped idea of how guns work or silencers work. At leas the John Wick moves did a good job with most, but still have the ficitonal hollywood style silencers

    LivingTheDream
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like persistent shooting of a large caliber handgun with absolutely no hearing impairment, not even temporary. Apparently, according to Hollywood, the only way to damage your hearing with a firearm is to literally hold it right next to someone's ear... which causes profuse bleeding.

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    Duke Ferris
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also, everybody who is shot just falls over dead. Nobody rolls around on the floor screaming in agony and dying for minutes or hours.

    Paul Z.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    John Wick actually spot on round count!

    Susan Widomski
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gun holds hundreds of rounds of ammo.

    Jeremy
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ya it's loud when a gun goes off especially in a room

    Linda Roy
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or bullets fired into the water go in a perfectly straight line and usually hit the person they were aimed at. No! Mythbusters proved this isn't true.

    Joshua Selbitschka
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "If my weapon can stake the vampire hiding behind an engine block, I am not allowed to have it"

    Jane Petersen
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They chamber a round... dialogue... chamber again. So annoying! LOL

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    #63

    All men are perverts/evil. Seeing it a lot more lately because lazy/bad writers can't write strong women as strong women so they default to making all dudes awful instead.

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    K.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah!! You can be a perverted decent person, and be a women. You can be perverted and still respect people’s boundaries.

    Joshua Selbitschka
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a reason the "Chilvarous Pervert" trope exists.

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    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    or women who are evil and killers which there is in reality

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yea, I tired of be'n portrayed as awful instead of awesome.

    Ednineson Vertus
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OMG this!!! In a anime a female character would walk into a guys room with a towel mistaking it for her room and call him a pervert hit him and run when he is not the one at fault here.

    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can think of a lot of men that are represented well in the movies. The most popular ones seem to make the hero and heroine partners that complement each other.

    CrunChewy McSandybutt
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Lifetime channel has made a fortune off of this trope. Also, all women are victims of men's evil ways. Seriously, the producers at the LIfetime channel all need intensive therapy.

    LivingTheDream
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    especially blonde blue eyed ones... holy s**t, they are all painted as rich douchebag misogynists

    J. F.
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    4 years ago

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    How to make a woman look strong, clever, etc? Surround her with perverted apes that can't get nothing done! - "Female remakes" in a nutshell

    Delicate Flower
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How to make women look strong, clever, etc? Make her act like a man because that's what society perceives as strong and clever.

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    #64

    When going through a database of criminals, the screen flips through mug shot by mug shot. No software works that way.

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    Bananic
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ahhhh good old csi

    backatya
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    NCIS doesn't have the equipment to hijack any camera in the vicinity and watch a recording of who was there. Most cameras aren't even set up wifi or to record except maybe store cameras.

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    LesAnimaux
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How about the 'zoom in on that tiny reflective screw on the license plate of this blurry CCTV-footage and ENHANCE to a perfect 4K- quality photo of the murderer!"

    Paul Z.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Computers all make bleeping noises, for any process! All the time...

    Valley Girl
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or someone just so happens secretly get on a police computer by guessing the passcode and then knows exactly how to use to software to find what they need.

    JP Doyle
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A woman who frequented our local bar was also a State Police crime scene tech. Fastest way to really destroy her mood was to have CSI (or NCIS, or any other show which has techno-weenie forensic science) come on the TV. She would go into an hour long rant about every. single. problem. with how they presented the science. Her favorite rant was at the time you couldn't get a full DNA comparison in less than a month or two. But no, they had result in 15 minutes AND eliminated the majority of people in the US to identify the donor. (Sometimes I think people changed the channel just to see her get righteously indignant.)

    Lutz Herting
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not only does no software work that way, a software working that way would be SLOW AS HELL. The time difference between comparing some data and rendering a picture on the screen is in the order of several hundred times slower.

    JosePP
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually UK police database is like this, takes absolutely ages to find someone

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    #65

    Fight scene where the giant and more powerful bad character picks up the hero and throws them a few times, normally over a table or through whatever. It's a tool to show the audience how much stronger they are and thereby raise tension/ humour even, but it's SO unrealistic it just irritates me. If you were physically capable of literally tossing someone across a room so they go fully airbourne, surely the most efficient way of winning the fight would be to just grip their windpipe and destroy it or just straightforward pulverise their face and head into oblivion with forearms and knees in 3 seconds. But no. Pick them up and throw them a few times, because LoOk, StRoNk!

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    Thomas Turnbull
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was bullied at college and one day the bully shoved a door in my face I lost my temper saw red and actually lifted him of the ground and threw him across the room I don’t know how I managed it I just had that red mist in my eyes. He never bothered me again and kept his distance after that.

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Another one is a martial arts battle where people get kicked around and come back for more. Karate is more like a fencing match where blows are parried until one opponent slips thru the other's guard and lands a knockout blow. So I've been told. I did see a karate demonstration in which someone held a board for the other guy to demolish with a leaping kick. The kicker was off target and hit the board holder in the face. Poor guy went down like a sack of laundry.

    hi myself
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's the opposite in the first Avengers movie....Puny god.

    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's movies, it's television, it's a fantasy! You want real drama, watch a documentary.

    JosePP
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Upvoted for OP username

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seen and been in some fights and they do not last very long. Most are a few seconds.

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    #66

    All bartenders are capable of remembering every customer they have had in last six months in full detail if you give them enough 100 dollar bills.

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    M Kate McCulloch
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you'd be surprised at how much we (former) bartenders do recall...) But not everyone.

    Freya the Wanderer
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or someone goes Into a bar and orders a beer. Just a beer. Not any brand, or any type, just "a beer." Do this in a real bar and the bartender will ask for specifics such as brand and style (IPA, stout, lager, etc.)

    Linda Roy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you!! This pisses me off so much...and i dont even drink the stuff!

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    backatya
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not me I hardly remember what I ate for dinner the night before. And that's food which is easier to remember

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'll remember if have to make it up.

    Analyn Lahr
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or threaten them with obstruction of justice.

    Jeremy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because the same people go to the same bar

    LivingTheDream
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    4 years ago

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    Well how else do you thing they eventually become Senators?

    Sinkvenice
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't get the joke, I'm not from the US.

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    #67

    •People never, NEVER saying goodbye on phones. •The weird clapping thing (I know it is to not make sound to have raw sound from the actors, but come on..) •Drivers not paying attention to the road when talking to their passengers

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    El muerto
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you don't use raw sound...everything is dubbed, actors reread the lines in a studio, over the film...so is most sound, like doors and steps. everything is in later to get that perfect sound

    M Kate McCulloch
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, that's not entirely true. Most actors wear a lav on set and on location, and there are boom mics, etc... for capturing sound. The only time I've had to to ADR or over dubbing is actually coming up - because we shot with a drone, outside, near a highway, and the lav mics and the mics picked up the drone noise and the highway noise - and we want a quiet, peaceful, pastoral scene - hence - ADR (overdubbing).

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    casper
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i think they mean like the slow-clap thing? idk

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    velocirrober
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I also hate that they never say goodbye.

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Leroy Gibbs is an a**hole. He never says goodbye or give an attempt saying that he's hanging up. Like it's suppose to make him look like a badass or something.

    Jennifer De Casterle
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or looking at the phone after hanging up. Who does that?

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    #68

    If a person ever tells you, "Trust no one," just go ahead and shoot that person.

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    Norma
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Save you both a lot of time/pain!

    Ty Stratton-Quirk
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unless they're Nicholas J. Fury. Then someone else will probably do it in the next minute or so.

    PuRPleDrAgON1
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sooo.... what ab Gravity Falls? What should have Dipper done? The journal said "Trust no one"...

    Julie Daly
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or asks "have you told anyone?"

    Jo Johannsen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Always answer yes, I told three newspapers, six TV reporters, put it on a dozen websites, oh, and I told your mother!

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    Danieletc
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sure, but the one that hears that, they usually shoo two dozen people before that in that movie. Work the numbers.

    Grace Smith
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wouldn’t it be funny this actaully happened in a movie? Like: “Trust no one,” “Okay,” *GUNSHOT* “Dude!!! What the hell?!??! I didn’t mean me!!!!”

    starhunter64
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Man, if they tell me not to trust anyone I'm gonna jump out the car, burn the evidence the government wants gone, sign an NDC and move to Canada

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    #69

    This is a minor one, but in movies if anyone went to the store for groceries, they came back with one paper grocery bag, which ALWAYS has a baguette sticking out the top. On some occasions they may be carrying two at the same time but this usually results in them either comically unable to use their hands, or they end up dropping them everywhere. No one ever has plastic grocery bags that they bring in multiple trips or, as is more realistic, grab all of them at once for one trip.

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    casper
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    fr like how many baguettes do these characters need? what are they doing with them? why do we never see them eating said baguettes? are these some sort of sacrifice to an unreferenced god? how valuable are the baguettes in the movie universe? so many questions

    Jennifer De Casterle
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not exactly a trope but the suitcases are always empty. How hard can it be to put some weights in?

    kjorn
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    or always have chinese food leftover in the fridge

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sure, Otherwise there is no comic relief. Sides the writers are on drugs and think'n its a funny.

    M Kate McCulloch
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    On the subject of grocery bags - I'd like to see more of the reusable ones - but not all alike, ya know? A real collection; One with lemons, one with a cartoon map of the city, one with the grocery stores logo - a variety of bags that don't match and can be used again.

    lemsip
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Neighbours they had reusable bags even in the early 00's.

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    #70

    people just park anywhere. running into city hall or the courthouse or the police station or an airport or whatever the f**k? no worries...just park here literally right in front of the front door. not only is that illegal, it's not even physically possible in most cities/towns. they never show our heroes schlepping it from a parking garage 2 blocks away.

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    N G
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Conservation of narrative momentum. Do you really want to watch a movie in real time where a guy queues for 4 hours at the DMV? No, the movie magically make it so there's no one else in the building so he gets service immediately. Same thing with finding a parking spot - would it be more realistic to show our main character stumbling for change at a parking meter if it doesn't advance the plot? Yes. Would it be entertaining? No, and if you were to include all the little details, the movie would be about 9 hours long.

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The way to handle it would to show someone hurrying into a courthouse saying, "Thought I'd be here earlier, but I had to park 2 blocks away." Or something like that. One would skip the whole getting out of the car bit.

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    Jonathan Clark
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or the opposite where someone parks half a mile away from a farmhouse even though there's a driveway near the door. Sad excuse to justify an outdoor location setup.

    Susan Widomski
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How long would you sit in a movie theater if you had to sit and watch someone walk two blocks from a parking garage?

    Zoe Vokes
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You could have somebody leave the spot just as the character arrives or have the character park three spaces away, rather than the best parking space directly in front of the building always being left empty. Plus they drive straight in, no parallel parking needed so several empty spots needed.

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    #71

    When main characters kiss first when they are literally near death or out of time to save themselves. They have 12 seconds left to live but they talk their feelings first and kiss or do something dramatic like isn’t that already more than 12 seconds? How are you still alive? Lol I hate watching these scenes they take too much time in the middle of a near death scene. Another is a female character who is mean or bitchy for literally no reason at all, they are just mean. You know those female teenagers who hates school and practically everyone and everything. And at the end of the movie or series they get kind to the main character and everyone she was mean to. I know it’s character development but characters like this are overused. Applies for mean boys too (although I mostly know mean female characters).

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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know why those kiss-in-a-life- threatening-situation scenes still exist. The characters sometimes just become dumb because there "needs" to be a random romantic, dramatic moment...

    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or we finally get to hear why the person is messed up and we can forgive them.

    The Deez
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this CAN work if there's actual character development in between. However, the writers rarely seem to take the time to do that!

    Michael Capriola Jr.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, I hate that, too. There should be a 3rd person present who is fidgety and keeps looking at his/her watch. "Goddammit!!! Let's get going!!!"

    Linda Roy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The first part reminded me of Dark Knight Rises...I love that movie except when Talia is dying, everyone stands around listening to her speech, even though there is less than a minute before the nuke goes off and has to be flown out of city limits.

    Jessica Martin
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why only girls? You're acting like male tsunderes don't exist or something.

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    El muerto
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    4 years ago

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    girls are mean...boys are bullies

    blugeagua
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mean and bullies apply to all genders.

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    #72

    See-through monitors in futuristic movies. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I want to see what's displayed on the monitor, not what's behind it, and I think future humans will feel the same. That sort of defeats the purpose. Yet every single damned one of them does this.

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    Honu
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm pretty sure future me wouldn't want everyone around me knowing I was looking at cat videos instead of working.

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How about way into the future and the video or audio is still disrupted like it was in the 70s. I guess they can go to far away planets but not make good communication equipment

    DetongLhamo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, especially when cops are investigating a serious case and want to keep things under their hats but there are dozens of random people walking behind it and seeing all the gory details.

    M Kate McCulloch
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    - it is so we can see the expressions on the faces of the characters as they see the information displayed - otherwise it's profile shots and the very unrealistic turning away from the screen to show a reaction. Although OTS the screen could show the reactions...

    Caroline Driver
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It works in the Expanse because everywhere is so damn dark.

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    YES! Let's do everything possible to make future equipment look non user-friendly.

    Thomas Turnbull
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s so we can see the character from the other side facing forward or the stuff they do would be hidden from view.

    btaglln
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And still we are curently working on see-through monitors ! But it could be used for some other thnigs

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    #73

    The sassy black girlfriend. I may be snarky at times, but I don't adhere to what they think it means or look like on a black woman. She often is so cliched/stereotyped that she doesn't have any character development of her own. Also, it's a sad ploy to make the vanilla protagonist look cooler than she is.

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    Jeremy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's the same the other way, just gotta always be so extreme

    J. F.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every christmas love story movie

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Robin Williams suggested sending in a black sister from Brooklyn to liberate the women of Afghanistan. "Honey, you don't have to dress like a bee-keeper."

    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like some of the "sassy" black characters. Helps me think I can develop some of my personality to be a little bit more fun.

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    #74

    When two people wake up and don't remember that they got married the night before because it's Vegas and they were drunk. It doesn't work like that, dammit!

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    marianne eliza
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or 2 people wake up together and don't know if they had sex. IRL it's usually pretty obvious, at least from the receivers point of view.

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Agree, hope I'm never to out of it to enjoy and remember.

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    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your final comment: "dammit" makes me think you have things that never left Vegas.

    Wandaluzt
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They have never left Reddit to come here and read your comment. Because they don't know its here. They never posted here.

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    s. vitkovitsky
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they're both appalled by it, until thry realize that they were In Love All Along, so it's ok!

    Batwench
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If they were that drunk I am sure that the official wouldn’t marry them.

    Caroline Driver
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or, someone wakes up somewhere strange and has NO memory of how he/she got there or who they even are. Very tired of this one

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Heck, I was sober, in Vegas and woke up married. Yep did not work.

    Ruby Rochelle
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    actually....sometimes it does lmao. Id say its rare to have a legit black out night where nothing is remembered but I definitely have had them.

    #75

    The guy that bullies the gay kid ends up being gay. Even worse when they end up with the kid they bullied.

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    Sushi Monster
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can downvote if you like but things like this actually happen in real life, due to internalized homophobia.

    CrunChewy McSandybutt
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I knew a homophobic bully in High School who ended up gay. A lot of self-hate there.

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    Scagsy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Um... don't think I've seen that one?

    Lili
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The first part, pretty common in real life actually, the second part, nope.

    Analyn Lahr
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That happens a ton in fan fiction.

    JP Doyle
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And Glee... But the bully didn't end up with Kurt. (Thank goodness.)

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    Jane Petersen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep. See the new Roswell series...

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh! My! Oh! My! Did not see that com'n.

    Euni Hinojosa
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Glee. But, aside from that, I have always believed that anyone going around bragging about how many men/women they've f*@&$% is secretly gay. Same with bullies. There's a saying in spanish and I'll try to translate: lo que no te gusta en tu casa, lo has de tener. What you don't like in your house, you will certainly have it.

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    #76

    Short guys ALWAYS being dorky pathetic losers who get bullied or otherwise picked on. No one can be short in a movie without an issue being made of their height. They can’t just exist as a short person. *I guess how controversial this comment is speaks to why this is such a popular trope. It's apparently very important to some people that short guys are portrayed this way. What does that say about them?

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    howdylee
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well at least in the comics Wolverine is short, even if they ignored that for the movies (but we'll forgive Hugh Jackman)

    fogharty
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Think about the first Shrek movie where the message, if there was one, was how appearances can be deceiving and don’t judge a book by the cover.... unless you are short! Then you can mock and make compensation jokes all you want because it’s funny because it’s the bad guy!

    Zoe Vokes
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can have a short actor (like Tom Cruise) but then you have to make sure all the female co-stars are shorter than them because it’s “manly” to be taller. And some shorter actors stand on boxes for scenes.

    backatya
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    it's not a man doing this women are the ones that want taller men even if they look like small trolls next to them.

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    Susanne Müller
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Idk, Tom Cruise is pretty short isn’t he? Never noticed this trope in movies.

    CrunChewy McSandybutt
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, but he is always portrayed as a taller man with camera angles and other Hollywood magic.

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    Anthony Mann
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I knew a Drill Sergeant in Army Basic Training - 5ft 5in, and could kick just about anyone's ass. Unarmed combat instructor for our BCT company, too.

    Random Panda
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    RDJ wearing high heels in the MCU lest he appear shorter than the other characters....sigh.

    Billybobjoe
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Have you seen my boy Captain Levi for Attack on Titan

    Analyn Lahr
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Michael J. Fox is 5'4" according to Google and I don't think his height was addressed in Back to the Future.

    Lindsey Judd-Bruder
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love short guys!! My husband is shorter than I am. He's not dorky or pathetic, though. Anybody can be that way, height has nothing to do with it.

    Ty Stratton-Quirk
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Funny, you just described me in elementary school. And junior high. And high school.

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    #77

    Dorky female lead gets a makeover and saves the day. Eye roll.

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    LesAnimaux
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a soft spot for Never Been Kissed though

    Ricky Omo
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've actually started having a serious problem with this trope cause now all my friends expect me to get some kind of makeover and become beautiful. Like No. I don't want to. I'm fine with how I look and how i am. Stop it already Hollywood. Don't want to date the jock either because their lifestyle is exhausting.

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like movie "Pretty Woman". So realistic, at the end, I cried.

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    #78

    Just as the villain is about to deliver the death blow, they take a moment to threaten the hero’s SO. This gives the hero the resolve to keep going and defeat the villain. Dude, don’t gloat. Just keep your mouth shut and pull the trigger.

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    Sophia Coe
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or, when they decide they are going to make the hero watch them kill their love interest, even though they literally are not the one they spent months trying to kill, and then, BAM, hero saves them and they both get away to some cheesy scene where they confess their love in the middle of a friggin battle

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yea and pull the f'n trigger three times, making certain the hero never is so annoying again.

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    dude you're not texting here. Just spell it out and quit being lazy

    #79

    This one often appears in anime. Where the (main) character stumbles and falls head/hands first between the chest of a girl/woman

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    CrazedFalcon17
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah yes we can't forget about that

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I keep on a try'n that one and I'm getting ridiculous rejections.

    Vanta Black
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Except Meliodas. That dude will motorboat Elizabeth before anyone can blink. Same with sticking his head under her skirt, or groping her boobs.

    Ednineson Vertus
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    haha yes but did it never occur to him she is other age ( in that life at least) and he is literally 3000

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    kjorn
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    or if the woman takes a shower she has to drop the towel at some point

    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Happens in movies as well - "Romancing the Stone", but it wasn't her chest.

    Grace Smith
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh god I hate it when this trope is used in anime, I also hate it when a girl has huge badonkadonks that is unrealistic for her body type

    A
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bonus points if the girl/woman also ends up having feelings for the (main) character

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Slapstick comedy is the lowest and most popular form of comedy. meh

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    #80

    How do we know the main male character is a tortured genius? Because he writes on the windows/walls and stares at his work pensively, and is a jerk to everyone around him while he processes this (or any) information. Genius does not necessarily equal jerkitude.

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    El muerto
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    or they are total nerds with weird behaviour and no social skills

    Honey
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    NOT ALL, but in some cases they portray these genius characters as autistic. NOT ALL but some autistic people lack people skills, and they have different ways of doing things. My brother is autistic and although he doesn't write on walls or windows, he has to stop and think about what he is going to say and yes, sometimes he sounds like a jerk. No fault of his own. Again, I know they aren't saying that the MC is autistic. Just saying sometimes that's what it is.

    #81

    When a character suddenly becomes incredibly well-spoken so they can deliver a powerful speech. The dumb dumb whose email password was “boobies” earlier in the movie will say some s**t like “You know, maybe I’ve just been projecting my own subconscious insecurity about my career advancement onto you, Lance. It’s not fair to you, and in the future I’ll endeavor to rectify my past grievances.”

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    K.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds about right. Give people a chance and they will rise to the occasion. I’ve seen and heard a lot of good coming from humanity too. In the state I’m from, we’ve had a lot of people step up... Not everybody feels the need to be well-spoken and intelligent all the time. When you dismiss someone for being silly as an idiot, you make a fool of yourself.

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pains me to be agree'n and your right, I do believe.

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    M Kate McCulloch
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    guy with the boobies password will probably retain his charming 11-year-old pre-pubescent humor and dialogue - if I was writing it anyway...

    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is also a good way to live your life: don't judge others.

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    #82

    Car chase/shoot outs. Car takes thousands of rounds and works fine, and the driver doesn’t have a scratch.

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    Becky Samuel
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the damage on the car changes from shot to shot.

    J. F.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or the opposite: Shoot at a car, and even if it only hits the trie, the whole thing explodes

    backatya
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    LIES! small caliber bullets will go though doors, trunks and glass. And when using a rifle forget it. Only place to hide is maybe behind the engine

    Athletic_Girl
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or when they shoot at the dash board and manage to getmultiple bullets through a millimeter from their head but never hits

    Michael Capriola Jr.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When Bonnie Parker was killed, the rounds from the BAR went past the open driver's door, passed thru Bonnie, and exited thru the passenger's door. My father was checked out on a Browning and he said that you can chop a tree down with that thing.

    Grace Skerp
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And car can fly 50 feet through the air, hit the pavement and keep on working

    Hollysmom
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And no bystanders are injured

    Tim Haight
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the car chase at the end of the Blues Brothers is classic. Hundreds of cop cars destroyed.

    #83

    Closing of dead characters eyes by waving a hand passed them, grinds my gears

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    Jo Johannsen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do people's eyes really stay open when they die? Seriously , wouldn't that mean you'd need to tape your eyelids to go to sleep?

    Luiza NP
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They stay the way they were when you died. Usually a bit open

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    backatya
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Supposedly they touch their eyelids of the dead person and close them.

    DetongLhamo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep- a stupid lie for the sake of showing concern.

    Laura Maeflower
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is done to cover the actors eyes twitching from being touched. It's still annoying to watch though.

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    #84

    A kid saving the day in an adult situation...perfect examples: the last Predator movie..the kid figured out alien technology in 10 minutes.....the first jurrassic park movie..the girl solves the computer system in a minute. I realize why directors do this is because it makes kids watching feel like they can relate to the kids on screen...or they need a kid hero for the kids watching.....whatever it is, its dumb and removes me from the movie.

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    J. F.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Star Wars Episode 1 - god I hate Anakin (the character, not the actor)

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh, why not, such a dumb scene. Totally unnecessary for development or anything. Remarkable they paid a writer well for that scene.

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    Henry Cheves
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a kid, I hated the kid heroes doing things like that because it made me feel inferior.

    ravn
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, at least in Jurassic Park she prefaced her moment with "It's a UNIX system, I know this!" And you know what, cheers for not resorting to full exposition.

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True. Oddly enough, there's a woman who runs a Cyber-Security company who, at age ten, got in trouble with the FBI for hacking into FBI and DOD databases. She said she didn't think at the time that what she was doing was all that bad because it was so easy.

    Jessica Martin
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What's wrong with having a mature and smart kid?? I'd rather have those the kids who do nothing but scream and throw tantrums.

    Grace Smith
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I kinda like this trope but I guess that’s because I’m biased

    Lorelai Purvis
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this is kinda shown in the netflix movie "we can be heroes" but not really

    Flisey
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wasn't the kid in the last preditor movie Autistic????

    Bisexual Tiger
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I actually think 'We Can Be Heroes' portrays this well! But still, there are some cases where the child magically knows, and everyone else who ignored them now love them.

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    #85

    When someone coughs blood they’re a goner.

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    Kuroka
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    no I just bit my tongue really bad. Sure feels like I'm dying tho.

    Grace Smith
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What would be funny is if they used this, like: *character B coughs blood* Character A: “oh my god no!! Stay with me!!” Character B: “what? No I just bit my tongue really hard”

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    casper
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yeah, they couldn't at all just have a nosebleed and some of the blood is in their mucus! everybody knows you don't cough blood once throughout the course of your life unless you're about to die

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    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And not a moment too soon. (I never liked him, you know.) :D

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    #86

    When a character has no simplistic ability to help themselves out of a situation and need to be rescued. All of a sudden they become these useless twats. This is seen with the type of characters using university level language and they have full out stem educational backgrounds but all of a sudden forgotten all about their masters degrees, and all the tools they have at their disposal... Because the lights went out.....

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    Caroline Overill
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why do all the law abiding characters get called to a house or somewhere thinking it is a friend, in spite of the fact some loony is after them, and they creep around in the dark going hello is anyone here hi John etc etc . Why don't they turn the f ing light on?????

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Heard off a few unused ones and yet never heard off or seen a useless one. Must soon see more movies.

    #87

    Anything having to do with any aspect of medicine. The worst though is that arm slings cure everything

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    your local lesbian
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yes! broke your arm in seven places? just put it in a sling, it’ll be fine! and a broken rib, it’s bandaged and fine now! you don’t bandage broken ribs, they have to heal on their own, there’s virtually no medical measures that can be done with a broken rib. (now three or more ribs, that’s a different story that usually requires hospitalization)

    Lindsey Judd-Bruder
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doctors DID used to bandage broken ribs, back in the day. Before they knew it was more counterproductive than supportive. So older movies can be forgiven this mistake, I think.

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    Nanci York
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What gets me is when they give drugs/take blood by sticking the needle straight into the elbow pit or the neck. Seriously folks, have you never had blood drawn? The only way to hit a vein is to go parallel to the arm, and your neck is not one big artery.

    Sophia Coe
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ikr. Oh, you broke your leg? Arm sling! Oh you have the flu? Arm sling! Oh you are probably going to die in about 10 minutes? Arm sling!

    Mickie Shea
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Silly, how any medical condition, in a movie, is handled by an arm sling or something to eat.

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here's one I saw recently on "Rizonni and Isles." Rizonni is recovering from a gunshot would but she's complaining about sharp pains in her right side. Dr. Isles and everyone else thinks it may be related to her surgery for the gunshot. Even though Rizonni is pressing her hand right on the spot WHERE HER APPENDIX IS !!! Morons.

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    #88

    40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?" There are no police unless they serve the narrative. People get into fistfights, they shoot at one another, they start fires, they break windows, but the cops never come... unless they serve the narrative. Also, — technically this isn’t a trope but the absence of something, — where are the toilets on the Enterprise? Babylon 5 has toilets. Battlestar Galactica has toilets. Why doesn’t the Enterprise? Yes, the recreation at the Hilton (or wherever) has one, but it never appears in the TV show or movies. I feel this should be part of a sci-fi Bechdel Test.

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    Kira Okah
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Enterprise has toilets, certainly Enterprise D and E - they are mentioned multiple times in dialogue. The Original Series was released at a time where showing or mentioning a toilet was a big no-no in television. Voyager mentioned the toilets too. There are technical drawing type layouts drawn of all the main Star Trek vessels that mark the toilets too.

    CrunChewy McSandybutt
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you, Kira, I was going to chime in but you handled it perfectly.

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    Hollysmom
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Star Trek was earlier and they pretended people didn't use a toilet. In early tv and movies, even if they showed a bathroom they didn't show a toilet. Like all married couples sleeping separately in twin beds. Sex and poop don't happen

    Bird Mom
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hot Fuzz was made with the intent of making fun of action movie tropes. Great movie just because they exaggerated the tropes so much. Maybe not the best photo for this trope.

    lemsip
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Especially with the line up of superiors of the main character in the Metropolitan police all played by actors who normally are in lead roles such as Bill Nighy and Steve Coogan.

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    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sometimes it's due to budget restrictions. A script for an episode in the original ST series had to be changed because the writer had Kirk splashing water on his face in his quarters. Someone said something like, "We had to cut that because we made no provision for a sink or a fire hydrant in Kirk's cabin." Money is usually why something isn't part of the set. Quarters were small because of budget. And there's filming considerations. The corridors on the original Enterprise were very spacious in order to easily accommodate the cameras and crew.

    Anthony Mann
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The other question is.. no one gets caught in the bathroom in the Star Trek universe, during an emergency. It definitely happens in real life. 😂. (I was in a shower in Iraq when a mortar attack started... fastest I ever got dressed!!!)

    Batwench
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fasten then zip.

    Scagsy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also, if the police are just there for a chase they ALWAYS fall down/crash/get tired/die

    Iapetos
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is called the toilet test.

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    #89

    "As you know" "As you know, I conducted a raid on the Great Library which many people said didn't even exist." I hate it when movie characters say this because it is the worst way of explaining exposition to the audience.

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    Susan Trevaskis-Owen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ranks right up there with "remember" or "don't forget." As in, "Sis, don't forget to come by on Christmas morning for Mom's fresh cinnamon rolls. Remember, it's our family tradition that we've done all our lives."

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sure as hell does. I'd like to see a scene in which a character says, "Tom, if you tell me one more thing I already know, I'm going to put my boot so far up your ass you will taste shoe leather."

    Dolly Abson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Truly hate when someone says 'Look at me'. Ugh.

    casper
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yes, also info dumps! when characters spend like 5 minutes explaining their whole backstory to another character in what's supposed to be a normal casual interaction where the other character already knows their backstory, just to let the audience know what's going on. it's just lazy writing tbh, can't you use more subtle hints throughout the course of the movie, maybe one or two short flashbacks, to explain the character's backstory? why do they always have to tell someone the whole thing at the start of the movie? and it always sounds so well-rehearsed too and not casual in the least

    Caroline Overill
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is one thing that really pd me off about 24. The number of times people said "Earlier today" in case you couldn't remember what had happened from one episode to the next.

    Ty Stratton-Quirk
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "As you know, that line is from Shyamalan's 'The Last Airbender' which many people pretend doesn't even exist."

    Xylle Flora
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just watched a trailer for a movie by M. Night Shymalan and I'm not his biggest fan because of how he absolutely butchered Avatar

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    #90

    the idiot plot. basically the main problem in a movie stems from the fact that the protagonists are really completely f***ing stupid and fail to do things any regular person would do. As in, "oh hey, I wonder if it's raining", well then, the only way we can find out is if we get naked, go outside and if you feel water falling on your body, then it's raining

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    LesAnimaux
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And it's never a drizzle. Always a freaking shower.

    JP Doyle
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, that does have a real world reason: Rain doesn't normally show up on film unless they add glycerin to the water tank to make really HUGE drops. Which is why they always use special rain machines when it is a plot point that it is raining.

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    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Hello, Police? There's naked people on the lawn across the street dancing in the rain."

    J. F.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a thing that bothers me in Zombie movies - "Oh no, a single zombie slowly stumbles towards me! Well, guess I die..."

    casper
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i knoww! especially after the character just took out a whole-ass horde of zombies, but the one zombie they didn't notice coming at them at like 1/2 a mile an hour from 10 feet away is treated as some life-threatening dilemma, unless it's directly shot down from another character behind them

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    Lorelai Purvis
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if you want to tell if it's raining you just stick your head outside

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Told my girl friend the above and she closed and locked the door when I went first. Hope we can get back together, soon. I so wet.

    #91

    Character either gets mad or they’re “looking out for themselves” and leaves the group only to come back and help in the final battle anyway. It worked with Han Solo and its been predictable ever since.

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    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is a movie ploy going waaaaay back. Builds a little momentum to make it more dangerous for the antagonist.

    Michael Dönges
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's perpetually repeating the storyline from Homer's Illiad about Achilles withdrawing from fighting with the Greek.

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is actually used a lot in fiction writing. It works if it's believable. Someone's conscious gets the better of them. Sometimes there's two guys who walk away, but one later hesitates and says he's going back to help. The other guy calls him an idiot and continues on his way. Something like this was in "Gettysburg." Of the 6 remaining mutineers, when asked one last time if they'd pitch in, 3 stand up one by one. "Well, it's boring just sitting here." "No man will call me a coward." "Why not?"

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh! Han Solo, the stories he could tell.

    Analyn Lahr
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They did that in Moana with Maui.

    Mark Anthony Brennan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Robert Vaughn in The Magnificent Seven. So it didn't start with Star Wars.

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    #92

    Dumb kids in movies, like they have to put everyone at risk to get there stuffed teddy bear or get lost at some point in a disaster movie

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    Becky Samuel
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ugh. Nah, kids are just dumb animals with no sense of self-preservation. Walk out in front of a car - yeah, sure. Run full speed off a cliff - no problem. Climb some huge rock - seems like fun.

    casper
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    depends on the situation and age of the kid, if they're a younger kid (like 5 or 6 at oldest) or it's a more subtle sign that something is wrong, then sure, they could be somewhat oblivious and just want to continue their everyday life. when it's like a 12-year-old, the sky is yellow and there's a thunderstorm, but they just want to go get their bike from school, that's where it gets annoying. no kid that age isn't going to be at least a bit aware that something is wrong and right now probably isn't the best time.

    JP Doyle
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Babylon 5's reaction to the cute kid trope was to kill the kid by the end of the episode and traumatize the doctor who had saved him from a minor defect but not from the kid's religious culture.

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Soon as there is kid in a movie I watch something else. Cause the movie is then predictable.

    #93

    Fake jump scares. Building all that tension and suspense, then an incredibly loud music sting for a cat jumping in front of someone.

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    Susan Trevaskis-Owen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Followed by the startled person turning around and whooops THERE'S THE KILLER RIGHT BEHIND THEM.

    Linda Roy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Especially when they close the medicine cabinet

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    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The fake cat jump is one of the worst. You want to yell at the screen: "Quit throwing the damn cat!"

    Paul Budhram
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    at least they don't kill the cat

    JP Doyle
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love how Arthur C Clarke made a joke about cats in horror films in the 2010: Odyssey Two novel.

    Mickie Shea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah! Kitty Cats, always the scene stealers.

    Kuroka
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've always thought that jumps scares are cheap tricks. ANYONE would be startled if anything jumped out at them. The best movies are the ones that make you feel scared without resorting to things popping out on screen.

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    #94

    Grenades with the power of 4 blocks of C-4.

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    Honu
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Huge fireballs that the main character can outrun.

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    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember a scene from an old TV show in which a grenade lands near a man hiding behind a bush with one leg is exposed, and he suffers no injury. A WTF? moment.

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    #95

    Not limited to movies but the master manipulator whose overly elaborate plan requires them to be not so much intelligent insomuch as be basically clairvoyant so that nearly everything falls into place exactly as they need for the plan to work. Random chance and bad luck are non-factors, because if they were the plan might end up falling apart in stage one.

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    El muerto
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    but only person can stop them....because they're cool

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Recently watched an Episode of NCIS in which a meticulously planned jewelry heist goes off track almost immediately due to a bit of information the criminal master mind didn't know.

    Thomas Turnbull
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Villains who never kill the hero when they could so easily do it and leave them with the henchmen or in a locked room that they escape from and they come back and kill the villain.

    #96

    People hanging their phone mid conversation People leaving their house/car doors open People knocking other people out with a casual punch, like “yeah go to sleep”

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    CrunChewy McSandybutt
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A well place jaw punch will knock a person out because of the shock to the vegus nerve.

    Linda Roy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where is the vagus nerve? And will it knock a person out?

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    DetongLhamo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People answering the telephone and repeating ver batim what they’ve supposedly been told so we all know what’s going on.

    Michael Capriola Jr.
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There've been times when I yell at the TV, "SHUT THE BLOODY DOOR !! WERE YOU RAISED IN A BARN ?"

    Melody Mar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Them leaving the door open bothers me and it happens A LOT.

    Susan Widomski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My question: why the hell doesn't anyone have curtains or draperies on their windows or screens to keep out the bugs? This is THE one that bothers me. They must be exhibitionists or think they live alone on the planet.

    casper
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    it annoys me so much when they leave the doors open, it's just like this itch on the edge of my consciousness for the rest of the scene, i know they logically would have closed it by now but why didn't they close it in the first place? how do we know it's not still open? AGHHH

    #97

    Someone running, in a panic going "nononononononono!!!!" It seems like it's been a thing since the first Transformers movie where Shia LeBeuf did it all the time. I hate it so much! Also when something purposely hits the camera lens. It was a thing done effectively in Children of Men, as the scene was immersive (the refugee camp scene) but it happens a lot now, and it immediately takes me out of a movie or TV show.

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    magnadar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My brother hit the camera lens once while running towards it, when we were young and making our own movie. My eye hurt for hours, but it looked very funny in the movie :D

    𝔹𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕒
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In every movie that involves guns, the bad guy has the perfect opportunity to shoot the good guy, but they don’t so they end up getting defeated. It’s like BRUHHH YOU COULD’VE WON THE BATTLE!!!

    backatya
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How about a movie scene where the door is open or the person knows the killer is out to get them. So they're stupid enough to say Hello, is anyone there? DUMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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