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.
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Turning on the TV at the exact moment a relevant news report starts.
But who wants to watch 5-10 minutes of the person flipping through channels?!
Well we do have round the clock news channels now that are just news, no ad breaks, so not totally implausible.
"now" being the imperative word here. The movie-trope is very old already...
Load More Replies...And the exact channel. It's actually the hardest thing. Choosing a channel
"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.
like NO im not gonna go with you thats HIGHLY suspicious
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.
Load More Replies...If I can see a working TARDIS, I'm going with the Doctor. No questions.
Well, if it WAS The Doctor then well yeah, I'd trust him...just not anyone else! :D
Doctor Who is a bad example pic.. You should always trust The Doctor. HE'S THE DOCTOR! xD
After reading all 40, guys, you reminded me why I don't watch movies
Domestic violence against men = Comedy
Yep. It's all fun and games when the victim is male, once it's female here comes the outrage and white knights.
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.
Yes, that's stupid and it should be left in past. It was stupid back then also.
Bullying anyone: comedy Cheating on wife: comedy Bullying someone for their colour: comedy That's what I learn from Indian movies
I wonder if these are usually written to the stories by men... Toxic masculinity.
Do you think it's men or women who mostly write these into stories?
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.
Equally gross is the dreamy male teacher who is not depicted as a predator for dating his students.
Any teacher dating students is a predator by default.
Load More Replies...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.
It is never ok to sexually harrass anybody no matter who, where or when,
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.
Load More Replies...Uh... Um... No. No hormones DO NOT cause or excuse sexual harassment.
Load More Replies...Fortunately, I've never experienced this as a teacher. I feel weird just thinking about it.
Girl: Does something athletic. Guys: Confused and surprised. Girl: I have four brothers/my parents wanted a boy.
Yes, and unfortunately I have met many people who seem to believe this stereotype.
In fairness, I *am* the stereotype. My dad wanted a son, didn't get one, decided I'd do. Luckily, I enjoyed being outtside, etc., but.... my poor sister? No.
Load More Replies...Also: "wow, she is so not like the other girls!" (because apparently, the rest of us just sit around coloring our nails or something?)
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.
Or she trying to show her ex bf, what heartbrok turn her into
When a guy does something athletic then everyones like "Wow so talented"
I want a version of this where she says "what? I just like sports" and isn't a big deal
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.
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."
+ a paper bag with a snack for kids that mom hands over to them
Load More Replies...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?
Everyone with Autism is a super genius.
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.
Yes, many are talented in certain fields, but autism can be a burden. Very overdone stereotype.
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
When the LGBTQ+ character comes out and suddenly being LGBTQ+ is their entire personality and story arch.
Question: do you have any hobbies generic gay person? Answer: being a generic gay person
Also see 'fat person', 'poc character', and often for no reason 'red-head'.
Load More Replies...Your sexual orientation is a rather small part of your life, especially when you're a kid
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?
"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"
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.
they did on the Umbrella Academy. (at least first season, haven't seen the second yet)
Load More Replies...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.
if any woman between the ages of 16 and 50 vomit, it means they're pregnant
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
They say that because of the movies. I have never witnessed anybody suffering from nausea during pregnancy, still I as well do that connection...
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...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.
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!
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.
Load More Replies...A fat girl wants to go out with the attractive man, let's make her either sexually aggressive or a laughingstock!
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.
And with "Bond" type protagonists, the female scientist/policewoman/etc. are always very attractive.
Instead of just letting things naturally occur like it would with a "different" woman.
Or the sloppy nerdy guy who eventually the cheerleder is sorry she missed out on "this."
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.
"love bombing" - https://www.healthline.com/health/love-bombing
Load More Replies...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.
Especially with a guy that's a few hundred years old and a 16-year-old girl.
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.
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.
Police OR PARENTS… can't a girl tell her parents and they call his parents?
And why do they have to have their mouths open like a fish out of water? CLOSE YOUR MOUTH!!! IT'S NOT SEXY.
Prosecutor introduces a "surprise" witness or evidence in a middle of a trial.
You would get disbarred for pulling something like that.
And they burst through huge double doors to gasps from the courtroom.
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.
Okay, this picture brings up an issue: ANYONE can be an attorney or scientist or doctor.
Not exactly a trope, but nobody has a problem finding a parking spot in a movie.
But how is that annoying? Would you watch a movie where people look for a parking spot about 50% of the total running time?
Seinfeld technically did this for an entire episode and it was brilliantly funny. It happens.
Load More Replies...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)
How boring would the movie be if we had to sit through them looking for parking??
the roads they drive down are always empty with no traffic jam unless they are racing for a plane
Evelyn Couch had to really work for that parking spot in Fried Green Tomatoes.
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?
Hey let's take a popular movie and remake it with a black cast I want to see black stories, not rehashed white ones.
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.
Load More Replies...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
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?
Load More Replies...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.
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?
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.
Load More Replies...Ugh, same with remaking movies with an all-female cast. Just remakes in general. Give me original stories!
Remakes in general. There are way too much nowadays ... Looking at you disney
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!
I didn’t know there was a white version lol.
Load More Replies...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.
Yeah, they never save the world five hours befire the limit.
Load More Replies...I hate it when there's only minutes to spare, and they waste it having a last-minute conversation.
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.
always at the last second. never a good full minute, or even 10 sec before.
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!
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.
Isn't the plot of every romcom based on the characters not having a simple.conversation?
And that's why romcoms are s**t. Except Shaun of the Dead, because that's a zomromcom.
Load More Replies...That whole Joey accidentally proposed to Rachel plot in Friends. It's so annoying I even skip the episode every time I rewatch
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.
Hoenstly it makes me so fuckingn mad when this happens, LIKE JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER
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.
Simple conversations don't seem to be the thing in movies. There are revelations and then flashbacks to explain the revelations.
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.
Everyone's home is spotless & well decorated.
And everyone is rich even if they’re a waitress or a grocery store clerk
yeah no i agree but not with the example you gave us. its supposed to look over-perfect
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.
Same!!! If it weren’t decorated and spotless, it wouldn’t be my home. Fück that.
Load More Replies...Well, the image used isn't accurate because of what the show is about.
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.
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.
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!
I can't watch most medical shows - I end up screaming at the tv. "That's not how it works!"
Load More Replies...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.
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.
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!
I love how people in intensive care are not hooked up to life saving machines.
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.
Character 1: *Explains something in technical language*
Character 2: "Uuuhh, in English?"
Painfully unfunny and overdone.
Also, 9 times out of 10 the other guys is in tech too and they probably have encountered stuff like that numerous times
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.
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.”
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.
The *only* time this worked for me was the first couple seasons of "Numb3rs".
In Cap's defense, Tony was speaking gibberish to a guy from the 40s
*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!
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.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
Liked when we simply implied sex and weren't bored watching someone else get a little on screen.
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
How about leaving the sex out of it? Most of the time it is not that relevant to the plot anyway.
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!
heck. yes. so overused! there’s one in pretty much every movie so that they’re ‘inclusive’. it annoys the heck out of me
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.
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...
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
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Load More Replies...One really fiiting thing I heard last week "... and his Marvel assigned black friend". Can't remember where , though
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.
Load More Replies...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.
Even worse: fat slobs with smokin' hot wives or girlfriends. What's the message there?
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.
Jumping/being thrown through a window and emerging without any cuts.
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.
They worked out that 23 of the injuries the baddies received in Home Alone would have resulted in death immediately.
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.
Teenagers being ripped beyond belief looking like they’re 26.
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.
Dwayne Johnson was this in real life. All his classmates thought he was an undercover narc.
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.
...middle schoolers being portrayed as... not middle schoolers.
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.
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!
Someone seriously needs to make something where someone puts glasses ON and becomes confident with themselves...
But not smarter! Just hotter. The whole “glasses = smart” thing needs to go.
Load More Replies...Or glasses completely rendering someone unrecognisable to people who know him well, I'm looking at you Clark Kent.
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
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
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???
To busy swearing and gesticulating together at the other road users? I know we are.
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
Characters about to kiss for the first time -- get interrupted. Every damn time.
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.)
Yea, at last it happened, yet, only two that couple\ after fourteen retakes.
Load More Replies...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!
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.
"Bobby! Are you kissing that girl?" "No, Ma. I'm conducting a gynecological examination."
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.
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.
Except for Monica Ramboux, because she is good.
Load More Replies...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".
OMG! Yes! Captain Marvel 'women power scenes' made me want to curl up and hide.
Yes I know! That one scene in endgame, omfg
Load More Replies...Did they not learn anything from Ripley in the "Alien" films in terms of tough female characters?
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
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.
Getting shot in the shoulder is practically a lucky break. You can continue fighting!
This and subduing someone by shooting them in the legs are very annoying. Thoe absolutely can kill someone too, very easily.
Never mind that shoot-to-wound is not something they teach in either basic training or law enforcement academies.
Load More Replies...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.
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
And a future episode or sequel will show them shirtless without a scratch
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.
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.
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.
Please relieve yourself after, especially females/women. Get extra sheets and water resistant ones, have fun 😉
Just say women. Not females. We're not a herd of cows.
Load More Replies...Your coworkers would appreciate it if you rinsed off before coming in. Nobody wants to smell that all day.
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?"
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
Or women who keep their bras on during sex (in her own bed) Seriously? Absolutely NO ONE does this.
"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.
In Prizzi's Honor, Jack Nicholson does a legitimate scrub off with a wash cloth after hot fast sex with Kathleen Turner.
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.
They also have unlimited wardrobe, like wth doesn't anyone wear the same outfit twice??
Or they have one suitcase or a backpack and yet never wear the same outfit twice.
Load More Replies...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.
Nobody in movies gets "bumped." I think it would be hilarious for an assassin to get bumped on flights or canceled.
Credit cards my friend. Tham again we won't make a movie without them.
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.
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"
type faster that the other guy...and chew on a pen you are not even using
In all fairness, I constantly chew on pens while programming.
Load More Replies...As an IT guy, how computers and tech are represented in TV shows and movies makes me cringe.
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.
"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.
Oh yes, I hate this trope. Especially when the "hacker" is alone but randomly saying what they are doing while the are doing it.
Movies be like: ;fkljdsad;kfjdfjdlfkjasdbfh;encawkejcnewocunaweiucn398c3qn9ucn3uiocqno9cuno3wqnn89c3apwcnp I'M IN!
Looking away from the road to have a full conversation while driving. It's almost satisfying when there is a crash.
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
That is because either the car is being towed or still and the background is moving.
Load More Replies...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
Mom and hubbins both do this. I watch the road and have a hand hovering towards the steering wheel every single time... Friggin terrifying.
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.
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.
the myth of love at first sight...they are perfect for each other, just because.
I hate the norm that if there is a male and female protagonists they need to end up together. F**k its so predictable
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.
Load More Replies...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.
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).
Load More Replies...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.
Million Dollar Baby had no romance at all, for that matter.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
Post-apocalyptic settings in which everyone looks clean-shaven and showered. Ancient warfare depicted as chaos instead of ancient military formations and tactics.
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.
Load More Replies...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.)
Or underground bunkers have rooms and hallways, and nobody goes to the bathroom.
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.
•"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.
Usually it’s a minor character who was mortally wounded and miraculously recovered just in the nick of time
Except empire strikes back. That had almost every one of them, and it was still an unbelievable movie.
And the person comes back over and over again til they are chopped up by a machine.
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
And every time fighting pauses, or the death blow is delayed, becuse someone has something they have to say… and it takes several sentences.
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.
•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.
But if woman is single by choice she ends up accepting that it was a mistake.... .
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.
Part of the reason why I love the Hunger Games is because the characters' trauma is so we'll done.
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.
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
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
I have never seen something fall TOWARDS somebody before. But I do agree in the case of car pursuits
He told you what movie it was that it happened in his last part of the point.
Load More Replies...I was thinking the same thing about Prometheus. Hey girl - you are the daughter of a genius...ROLL FAST!
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!"
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.
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.
People can out-run explosions, a rush of water, runaway trains, cars, murderous individuals and gangs.
Or something is falling towards them, and they just stand there watching it fall, when they could just take one step away.
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.
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?
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.
When I was a kid, we would've wasted that food once and it wouldn't have been made again.
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...).
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).
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.
Load More Replies...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.
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?
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
Often they don’t even make a time and they never swap phone numbers in modern movies.
See you at 8 is possible code for an overnighter, while expecting Sunday breakfast at 8am.
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.
I always figured those were boring details they'd discussed already, too insignificant to put in the film *shrug*
exactly. A movie can't show every single thing.
Load More Replies...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.
People really are punching bags in movies. I'd be down after a single slap. No ma'am, that hurts.
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.
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.
Yesss! If someone were to slap me I would be acting like a baby not winning a battle 50 against one
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.
The guy and girl hate each other at first sight but end up falling in love later on.
as opposed to reality where you fall in love, get married and then learn to hate each other
Oooh Hollywood loses out to the Japanese in tsundere characters.
The basis of every Mills & Boon, and Barbara Cartland romance....book, EVER.
Main character : " We will never be friends!" 2 hours later theyre a couple
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
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.
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
Load More Replies...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.
Holy run-on sentences and grammatical/spelling errors, Batman!! Doesn't anyone at least know how to use spell-check???
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
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?
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.
The song is my alarm in the morning, that's why I randomly think of it.
Load More Replies...Female action heroes who have long hair and high heels. Women who "aren't like other women."
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.
Gotta love em. I want to be rescued by long haired hotties in real high heels. They my heroes.
I believe high heels were invented by a man going thru a nasty divorce
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....
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.
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".
Same with "Daddy we miss you", "I'm 2 days aways from retirement" or "I'm a veteran, I saw enough s***" characters
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
"Beam down they said. It'll be fun they said." (click on photo) 9a8b1fd327...182c6e.jpg
yeah, expect this person to die in a heroic way to save everyone
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.
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.
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!
"Legend says, a chosen one will defeat Big Bad Guy and lead our people to freedom."
THANKS FOR SPOILING IT, YOU OLD BAT
"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.
i mean harry potter spoiled it but Trelawney said it so we know where it came from
Load More Replies...It would be cool if the "expected hero" was eliminated, and nother character discovered THEY had to pick up and carry on.
I liked it when it was done in Avatar the Last Airbender because the whole thing was so well written
The space scientist takes their helmet off, right before trying to pet the new organism they've found.
Even though it could easily be the other way around.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
How else can hero get a unknown disease and bering back to earth for study. Gosh.
Not a movie trope per se, but why is the dad in nearly every sitcom a dumb f***ing dimwit?
dads can only be "cute dumb", "wise" or "neglectful"...there are no in-betweens in movies
and always “har har me wife never lets me drink wit’ the boys har har”
This is how commercials are: dads are just another irresponsible child the wife has to look after.
ex husband and ex wives at the start of a movie suddenly back together at the end after heroic action.
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.
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
"I wear the pants in this family and Father Knows Jack." -- Rosanne
A pregnant woman always has to go into labor at the most cosmically inconvenient time possible.
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
Load More Replies...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.
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!
Load More Replies..."My water just broke!" and then bam, baby. The water usually breaks hours into active labor.
And every single pregnant woman insists on having her feet massaged. It's weird; Every Single Time Touch my feet, you die.
I like having my feet touched. I don't like having my head touched as that can bring on a migraine.
Load More Replies..."Yeah, I'm still working at eight and a half months. Oh, the elevator's broke. I'll take the stairs."
and with water breaking like waterfall. like,yeah, that's exactly how it works...
Guys getting kicked in the balls. It is apparently the funniest form of sexual assault.
and everyone laughs at them for being in pain! cruel and heartless.
I don't laugh. I think it would incredibly painful.
Load More Replies...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.
Please rephrase.. Sorry, i don't really understand your paragraph.
Load More Replies...And in many cases it doesn't take the guy down in one shot. It angers them even more.
All comedy is about some form of pain, either your own or someone else's.
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.
That’s what I do when someone tries to assault me. I kick them in the privates
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.
And certainly not several hours later in another country. No, that makes people dead.
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.
Load More Replies...You get hit that hard, you are lying down for a week, and may feel aftereffects for *years*. Post-concussion syndrome.
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.
Ugh, this is like my biggest pet peeve. Just a "little" concussion, no big deal. :P
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.
The perfectly diverse friend group. Every age, sex, ethnicity and orientation is represented in their group of six.
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
Load More Replies...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.
thank you, like stop complaining and come up with sum type of compromise
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Load More Replies...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
Love when in movie about blacks in a black hood, there is a white kid who just exists. Fair is fair.
And it's worse if they're an inter-racial street gang. How often do you see that in real life?
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.
"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.
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.
Load More Replies...Yes! This is such a boring ending. I've always despised this.
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
The only time this works is in "The Wizard of Oz" and the final episode of the 2nd Bob Newheart series.
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
It was funny on Married with Children when they spoofed the "it was all a dream" to explain why Peg was not pregnant anymore.
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.
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
Load More Replies...I still think Jon and his aunt would have had the perfect baby. Ah well.
That's what I was thinking. At least 4 GoT characters come back from the dead.
Load More Replies...Jon Snow? I would like to see the character of Danaerys come back. Was a terrible ending, but then I am a romantic.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Load More Replies..."Let me explain my myriad of reasons I want you dead while you work yourself out of your bindings."
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."
Or when they waste time telling them EVERY DETAIL of their plan, leaving the protagonist with enough time to get away
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.
Bad guys horrible aim.....except shoulder shots.
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"
Load More Replies...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?
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)
...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...
storm trooper training: here is gun, here is safety, and here is trigger that shoots. congratulations you have completed your training.
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.
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.
Especially when the thing they're demanding physically breaks the laws of physics
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"...
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
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.
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
Load More Replies...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 ¬¬
I don't recall seeing any movie where the master of ceremony kills even one person let alone a hundred.
I don't remember any movie where a master of ceremony even kills one person let alone a hundred.
it is a money-making proposition. If the henchman is a star or doing a "cameo", his character is unimportant.
Because they need to bring back the villain for the sequel or for a spin-off.
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.
Im So-So with a bow/sword since I spend most my time practicing with axes... Throwing and Melee
Load More Replies...A bow especially. That thing is difficult to use. A sword, I guess you can get lucky but you won't be d'Artagnan.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
How 'bout any body just hopping onto a motorcycle and speeding away? Takes some time to learn how to ride one....
I *could* use a bow. I know how. Could I hit my target? Maybe. Would I be proficient? Not in the slightest.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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"
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.
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."
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.
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."
here's a REAL plot twist, they all get into a polymorphus relationship(did i spell that right?)
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)
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.
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
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.
Load More Replies...Also, everybody who is shot just falls over dead. Nobody rolls around on the floor screaming in agony and dying for minutes or hours.
"If my weapon can stake the vampire hiding behind an engine block, I am not allowed to have it"
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.
Yeah!! You can be a perverted decent person, and be a women. You can be perverted and still respect people’s boundaries.
There's a reason the "Chilvarous Pervert" trope exists.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
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.
especially blonde blue eyed ones... holy s**t, they are all painted as rich douchebag misogynists
How to make women look strong, clever, etc? Make her act like a man because that's what society perceives as strong and clever.
Load More Replies...When going through a database of criminals, the screen flips through mug shot by mug shot. No software works that way.
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.
Load More Replies...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!"
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.
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.)
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.
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!
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.
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.
It's movies, it's television, it's a fantasy! You want real drama, watch a documentary.
Seen and been in some fights and they do not last very long. Most are a few seconds.
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.
Some bartenders are experienced and have these skills. It's believable to me based on experience.
you'd be surprised at how much we (former) bartenders do recall...) But not everyone.
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.)
Thank you!! This pisses me off so much...and i dont even drink the stuff!
Load More Replies...•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
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
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).
Load More Replies...If a person ever tells you, "Trust no one," just go ahead and shoot that person.
Unless they're Nicholas J. Fury. Then someone else will probably do it in the next minute or so.
Sooo.... what ab Gravity Falls? What should have Dipper done? The journal said "Trust no one"...
Always answer yes, I told three newspapers, six TV reporters, put it on a dozen websites, oh, and I told your mother!
Load More Replies...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!!!!”
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
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.
Or the pop of green parsley or flowers out the top of the brown bag.
Not exactly a trope but the suitcases are always empty. How hard can it be to put some weights in?
Sure, Otherwise there is no comic relief. Sides the writers are on drugs and think'n its a funny.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
How long would you sit in a movie theater if you had to sit and watch someone walk two blocks from a parking garage?
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.
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).
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...
Or we finally get to hear why the person is messed up and we can forgive them.
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!!!"
Why only girls? You're acting like male tsunderes don't exist or something.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
- 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...
YES! Let's do everything possible to make future equipment look non user-friendly.
It’s so we can see the character from the other side facing forward or the stuff they do would be hidden from view.
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.
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."
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.
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!
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.
Agree, hope I'm never to out of it to enjoy and remember.
Load More Replies...Your final comment: "dammit" makes me think you have things that never left Vegas.
They have never left Reddit to come here and read your comment. Because they don't know its here. They never posted here.
Load More Replies...And they're both appalled by it, until thry realize that they were In Love All Along, so it's ok!
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
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.
The guy that bullies the gay kid ends up being gay. Even worse when they end up with the kid they bullied.
You can downvote if you like but things like this actually happen in real life, due to internalized homophobia.
I knew a homophobic bully in High School who ended up gay. A lot of self-hate there.
Load More Replies...And Glee... But the bully didn't end up with Kurt. (Thank goodness.)
Load More Replies...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.
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?
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!
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.
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.
Load More Replies...Idk, Tom Cruise is pretty short isn’t he? Never noticed this trope in movies.
Yes, but he is always portrayed as a taller man with camera angles and other Hollywood magic.
Load More Replies...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.
RDJ wearing high heels in the MCU lest he appear shorter than the other characters....sigh.
Michael J. Fox is 5'4" according to Google and I don't think his height was addressed in Back to the Future.
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.
Funny, you just described me in elementary school. And junior high. And high school.
Dorky female lead gets a makeover and saves the day. Eye roll.
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.
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.
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
Yea and pull the f'n trigger three times, making certain the hero never is so annoying again.
This one often appears in anime. Where the (main) character stumbles and falls head/hands first between the chest of a girl/woman
Except Meliodas. That dude will motorboat Elizabeth before anyone can blink. Same with sticking his head under her skirt, or groping her boobs.
haha yes but did it never occur to him she is other age ( in that life at least) and he is literally 3000
Load More Replies...Happens in movies as well - "Romancing the Stone", but it wasn't her chest.
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
Slapstick comedy is the lowest and most popular form of comedy. meh
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Pains me to be agree'n and your right, I do believe.
Load More Replies...guy with the boobies password will probably retain his charming 11-year-old pre-pubescent humor and dialogue - if I was writing it anyway...
Car chase/shoot outs. Car takes thousands of rounds and works fine, and the driver doesn’t have a scratch.
Or when they shoot at the dash board and manage to getmultiple bullets through a millimeter from their head but never hits
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.
And car can fly 50 feet through the air, hit the pavement and keep on working
the car chase at the end of the Blues Brothers is classic. Hundreds of cop cars destroyed.
Closing of dead characters eyes by waving a hand passed them, grinds my gears
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?
They stay the way they were when you died. Usually a bit open
Load More Replies...This is done to cover the actors eyes twitching from being touched. It's still annoying to watch though.
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.
Oh, why not, such a dumb scene. Totally unnecessary for development or anything. Remarkable they paid a writer well for that scene.
Load More Replies...As a kid, I hated the kid heroes doing things like that because it made me feel inferior.
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.
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.
this is kinda shown in the netflix movie "we can be heroes" but not really
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.
When someone coughs blood they’re a goner.
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”
Load More Replies...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.....
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?????
Heard off a few unused ones and yet never heard off or seen a useless one. Must soon see more movies.
Anything having to do with any aspect of medicine. The worst though is that arm slings cure everything
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)
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.
Load More Replies...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.
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!
Silly, how any medical condition, in a movie, is handled by an arm sling or something to eat.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you, Kira, I was going to chime in but you handled it perfectly.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
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!!!)
"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.
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."
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."
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
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.
"As you know, that line is from Shyamalan's 'The Last Airbender' which many people pretend doesn't even exist."
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
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
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.
Load More Replies..."Hello, Police? There's naked people on the lawn across the street dancing in the rain."
That's a thing that bothers me in Zombie movies - "Oh no, a single zombie slowly stumbles towards me! Well, guess I die..."
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
Load More Replies...if you want to tell if it's raining you just stick your head outside
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.
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.
This is a movie ploy going waaaaay back. Builds a little momentum to make it more dangerous for the antagonist.
It's perpetually repeating the storyline from Homer's Illiad about Achilles withdrawing from fighting with the Greek.
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?"
Robert Vaughn in The Magnificent Seven. So it didn't start with Star Wars.
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
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.
Very true, kids don't have the mental development to be able to sense danger.
Load More Replies...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.
Soon as there is kid in a movie I watch something else. Cause the movie is then predictable.
Fake jump scares. Building all that tension and suspense, then an incredibly loud music sting for a cat jumping in front of someone.
Followed by the startled person turning around and whooops THERE'S THE KILLER RIGHT BEHIND THEM.
The fake cat jump is one of the worst. You want to yell at the screen: "Quit throwing the damn cat!"
Grenades with the power of 4 blocks of C-4.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”
A well place jaw punch will knock a person out because of the shock to the vegus nerve.
Where is the vagus nerve? And will it knock a person out?
Load More Replies...People answering the telephone and repeating ver batim what they’ve supposedly been told so we all know what’s going on.
There've been times when I yell at the TV, "SHUT THE BLOODY DOOR !! WERE YOU RAISED IN A BARN ?"
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.
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
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.
For me it's that all female characters (unless it serves a narrative) have super model bodies. They can be 50yo, mom of 3 and still be smoking hot. Are there such women in real life? Sure. Is it the norm? I don't think so. I really like to see women I can relate to. Women that are not beautiful but ok-ish, that don't have flat tummies, that their hair isn't always impeccable, and they are the main character not just a sidekick.
And this is woman, so and so, a leading expert in her field. Ahh no, she's 22 she's only out of university.
Load More Replies...For me is that most female superhero/action lead has a long, wavy, impeccable hairstyle that always lands perfectly on their shoulders after the fight that involves martial arts, or flying w/o getting sucked, tangled, grabbed etc
I used to be amused by the long hair on Baywatch. If you swim with long unbound hair, it flops in front of your face the minute you lift your head to breath, but they'd be swimming with it streaming perfectly behind them.
Load More Replies...The one I hate the most is the "Approval Person". That is the person the main character spends the entire movie attempting to prove something to. At the end the Approval Person nods approvingly. Screw that. I've been working my ass off to get to where I am and if it's not good enough for you that's your problem. I'm not doing jack to gain your approval you egotistical jack-ass.
For me, it's that all girls who aren't skinny as a stick MUST be loud, hilarious, obnoxious, kinda dumb, etc.
My most hated trope: Injuries never maim or kill, and amnesia resolves perfectly.
For me it’s that in action movies a woman can easily kick every man’s ass, but when she faces another woman, it suddenly becomes very though fight. The same is with the good guy vs main bad character. He can beat everybody up, but with the final boss it’s always a huge fight. Even though the bad guy is half the size..
What I find annoying is the kind of scene, where there’s some kind of emergency and one character drives like hell to get somewhere, defying all traffic laws and endangering all other motorists, then squeals to a stop at the FAR END of the road or driveway and gets out and runs to the house/person usually screaming their name. Drive all the way, man. Why stop and sprint the last 100 yards? Also done with tender reunion scenes like the end of “The Color Purple”. You see a car coming along the road, the road that goes right next to the house, but it stops a few fields away and the people get out, forcing these two elderly women to run to each other. Couldn’t they just have driven all the way to the house?
Once the female lead has gotten into danger, usually by kidnapping, she no longer has a name. She's just "the girl". As in "where's the girl?" "I want the girl" "The girl stays/goes free".
For me it's that all female characters (unless it serves a narrative) have super model bodies. They can be 50yo, mom of 3 and still be smoking hot. Are there such women in real life? Sure. Is it the norm? I don't think so. I really like to see women I can relate to. Women that are not beautiful but ok-ish, that don't have flat tummies, that their hair isn't always impeccable, and they are the main character not just a sidekick.
And this is woman, so and so, a leading expert in her field. Ahh no, she's 22 she's only out of university.
Load More Replies...For me is that most female superhero/action lead has a long, wavy, impeccable hairstyle that always lands perfectly on their shoulders after the fight that involves martial arts, or flying w/o getting sucked, tangled, grabbed etc
I used to be amused by the long hair on Baywatch. If you swim with long unbound hair, it flops in front of your face the minute you lift your head to breath, but they'd be swimming with it streaming perfectly behind them.
Load More Replies...The one I hate the most is the "Approval Person". That is the person the main character spends the entire movie attempting to prove something to. At the end the Approval Person nods approvingly. Screw that. I've been working my ass off to get to where I am and if it's not good enough for you that's your problem. I'm not doing jack to gain your approval you egotistical jack-ass.
For me, it's that all girls who aren't skinny as a stick MUST be loud, hilarious, obnoxious, kinda dumb, etc.
My most hated trope: Injuries never maim or kill, and amnesia resolves perfectly.
For me it’s that in action movies a woman can easily kick every man’s ass, but when she faces another woman, it suddenly becomes very though fight. The same is with the good guy vs main bad character. He can beat everybody up, but with the final boss it’s always a huge fight. Even though the bad guy is half the size..
What I find annoying is the kind of scene, where there’s some kind of emergency and one character drives like hell to get somewhere, defying all traffic laws and endangering all other motorists, then squeals to a stop at the FAR END of the road or driveway and gets out and runs to the house/person usually screaming their name. Drive all the way, man. Why stop and sprint the last 100 yards? Also done with tender reunion scenes like the end of “The Color Purple”. You see a car coming along the road, the road that goes right next to the house, but it stops a few fields away and the people get out, forcing these two elderly women to run to each other. Couldn’t they just have driven all the way to the house?
Once the female lead has gotten into danger, usually by kidnapping, she no longer has a name. She's just "the girl". As in "where's the girl?" "I want the girl" "The girl stays/goes free".
