Someone Online Was Curious To Know “What Do You Wish Hollywood Would Stop Doing?” And Here Are 36 Of The Best Answers
Now that we're presented with multiple streaming platforms such as Netflix, HBO, Hulu, etc., that provide us with different TV shows and movies, it seems that everyone is giving their best recommendations left to right. Now that we have access to an unlimited number of movies, TV shows, documentaries, and other types of visuals, we’ve also become quite meticulous and picky about what we watch and what we expect from creators. One Reddit user @u/MainCrab1383 was curious to know from other internet users and movie lovers what are some of the annoying things they hate seeing on screen, so they asked: “What do you wish Hollywood would stop doing?” The question received 29k answers that stressed various issues in the movie industry.
A lot of us will agree that making a movie is a huge and very intricate project that requires a lot of attention, resources, and talent. Very often movies and TV series are created in a way to appeal to their audience, in some way appear relatable to what is happening in our everyday life. But sometimes all that relatability goes out the window the second we see an actor or an actress pretending to be drinking from an empty cup or driving a car and not properly looking at the road because they're having a heated argument with the passenger next to them. Not to mention “having a main character whose job/income level does not match their home or lifestyle at all,” as noticed by Reddit user @Stellathewizard.
Do you agree with some of the things mentioned in this list or maybe have something yours to add? In that case, don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below!
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Messing up the sound mix so that we have to constantly adjust the volume for music and dialogue.
And, although slightly off topic, that also goes for TV channels that whack the sound up when the adverts come on.
The music should never be louder than the dialogue. Commercials should never be louder than the average sound level of what its airing between. And there should always be captions / subtitles available to those who want/need them.
I have to use subtitles on films these days because there’s always so much noise and music over the speech.
Load More Replies...This is why I now watch literally everything with closed captions turned on.
I stopped going to the theater 20 years ago because the sound is two damned loud!
I know. And they say your hearing goes when you're older so it must be worse than I thought since it's still too loud for me.
Load More Replies...Having the music and the sound effects going to the main channel and the dialog going to the surround sound speakers seems to be happening more often. Of course removing the option for mono-channel sound does not help.
Or using music to "tell us" how to feel. We are FULLY aware of which parts are sad, intense or exciting.
Scenes that are too f*****g dark to actually see. If I wanted to listen to a show, I'd download an audiobook.
So then you turn it up only to have it blast out the next scene and give you a mini heart attack. So then you have to turn it back down, then the dialogue immediately gets too low to hear, so then you turn it back up, etc.
Load More Replies...Every damn Netflix drama, all these films, it is so annoying. What is happening? No idea!
Hey, did you seen Doom (2005)? Yeah, me neither. that movie is all dark and sound of gunshots.
I get wanting to make the movie suspenseful but dimming down the picture to almost a black screen just makes people want to skip forward until the next visible moment. The folks that edit these movies should have to watch the movie on their home TV's before it's released so everyone else doesn't have to end up dealing with it later.
I know the feeling. I have a movie called "The Relic" about a monster that needs to survive by eating the hypothalamus of humans. However, in the scenes where the creature appears, it's so dark I can barely see it.
Like Harry Potter movies. Director can't convey fear or dread without making everything dark, gloomy and grey.
I really noticed this with "Game of Thrones" and something else. I thought my settings were off. Nope. I started reading the books so that I could catch up with who was who since some looked alike or changed cast. That didn't help either. Makes me feel I'm going blind too early as I strain to keep up with what is on the screen vs enjoying it.
Having a main character whose job/income level does not match their home or lifestyle at all
He was so poor.. his wife was poor.. his kids were poor.. his maid was poor.. his gardener was poor.. his Butler didn't even own a Ferrari..
Load More Replies...I feel that's because nobody wants to think about work while watching mind numbing television, the whole point is to block out thoughts of work
Load More Replies...I think it's more of a fantasy, alternative universe where people can have lots of leisure time, with little work and still live like a queen.
I was watching Tv series, where one of main characters is woman in her twenties, and she's zoologist. She lives in huge, beautiful flat in London. No way she could afford something like that.
Theory She is selling exotic animals on the side illegally.
Load More Replies...YES. And this picture is very fitting. It really makes people think they are doing something wrong when they find they can't keep up with this. Or they try to match it because they want to *be* like this, and end up going into debt.
Absolutely. I watched a movie the other day that the main character lives in a very expensive apartment and there was no way his job was supporting his lifestyle. It ruined the movie for me because I spent 90% of it wondering what drugs he was selling on the side to fund his baller habits.
And who does their laundry. You never see a maid. Or do They just shop and wear?
This may sound ridiculous, but here it is:
I f*****g cannot stand characters who are driving and talking to a passenger but NOT WATCHING THE ROAD. They think the same courtesy rules of eye contact apply even when you are a conversant behind the wheel.
YOU'RE DRIVING A VEHICLE. WATCH THE ROAD, NOT THE PERSON TO WHOM YOU'RE TALKING.
I sometimes count to see how many seconds they go without looking at the road.
Load More Replies...Even better , the moving scenery in the background that jiggles wrongly
I feel this one. There isn't a road in this country where you can take your eye off the road for more than a few seconds unless you're wanting to clear ditches, kill a bunch of pedestrians, or turn a new species into an endangered one.
I hate when the driver just moves the steering wheel back and forth a little to simulate driving, but they move it far too much lol they'd be going from side to side in the lane if they did the wheel like that in real life.
This is my biggest pet peeves. I hate this kind of scenes.
They do that because every show has to have a car accident drama. especially in bad weather
Omg just watched end of the road of Netflix tonight and seriously, queen latifah literally goes minutes without looking at the road. My personal bugbare is people running upstairs to get away from intruders and women running through the woods and bloody falling over...... everytime
My father-in-law did that all the time when he was driving, scared the 💩 out of me. And my husband would do that driving down the highway pulling our camper at 70mph!!!
Female action stars that fight in high heels
How about male action stars fighting in high heals lolol ( Deadpool 2 )
When it's done for comedy, there's no complain to make against it! ;) Also, men look great in heels, they just need a little more confidence
Load More Replies...Running in high heels with boobs akimbo. I loved in Birds of Prey when one of them stopped to put their hair up. Between the long unbound hair, the skimpy/tight clothes/costume, and the heels on women in actions scenes I'd be freezing, eating my own hair" unable to see the blow coming at my inexplicably unarmored middrift, moving like Ross stuck in his leather pants, while nursing two broken ankles.
OMG yes! the hair in any movie/tv show for me!! Please put it up!!
Load More Replies...Or full on leather outfits like above and some of the marvel women. Leather is super heavy and uncomfortable and not to mention if you're running around you're going to get super hot. I get it looks sexy- on men, too- but seriously. I used to watch Alias and it wasn't very realistic, but it was a lot of fun. Jennifer Garner's character was a spy. She was at a fancy party and she was in a dress and I'll never forget a scene where she starts to run and literally kicks the heels off so she can do so. Then pulls the dress up a little so she can fight this other character. It was the most real thing ever, lol.
Or any skimpy outfit. You know how hard it is just to walk in leather? Or a skin tight dress? Let alone fight?
The thing that really gets me is that sometimes you see during the scene they are clearly wearing flats. They do such a bad job editing and you can see when they're doing the stunts the actor is wearing flats and then magically they're wearing heels again. It's so funny.
Load More Replies...And impractical clothes. No self respecting superhero is fighting crime dressed like a stripper!
Glamorizing mental illness. It f*****g sucks and is difficult to live with.
It's only glamourized because it's a gorgeous girl or guy. If these people weren't attractive they wouldn't be given the help, care or 'understanding' so many of these characters get. Not in real life, anyway. Less attractive mentally ill people are not empathized with.
This!! I've been told that it becausenof the way I look that people don't believe me when I speak up about trauma. Its sad and disgusting to only be seen if you're their idea of beautiful.
Load More Replies...Related: "Love can overcome mental illness and make everything okay." No. That's not how it works.
I live with PTSD and extreme anger issues. Not one time have I ever thought that it was awesome or that I might one day be a superhero because of it. Mental illness should be depicted as it is instead of glamorizing it.
Or making references to having a mental health issue... I am a military retiree/disabled Veteran, and I'm SOOO tired of watching characters state they have PTSD because their boss was pushy in a meeting, or they clean their desk because they have OCD. Same with panic attacks. If the writers had to spend 24 hours with the actual affliction they "joke" about, I doubt they'd get much writing done.
This!!! My husband has OCD and I hatw when people joke about it... It's no joke at all...
Load More Replies...The whole glamorizing mental illness seems to be a trend. Many girls will film themselves crying and talking about their anxiety and depression and post it to social media. Then everyone floods their comments with support. It's such a change from my mother's generation, where talking about mental struggles was so taboo.
It's good that the taboo is going away - a lot of people will be better able to get the help they need. I agree though that an unfortunate side effect is people using the awareness as a "trend" to get attention and sort of glamorizing the situation. I think it's worth it though, in spite of that.
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Making movies where the 1 good guy defeats 20 bad guys because the 20 bad guys attack the 1 good guy one by one.
It came from old Kung Fu films. The bad guys are bad guys but they aren't rude! Even the Yakuza in Kill Bill took turns (dying)
It's only polite. But then again, I'm Canadian. So... sorry about that.
Yep. I've never seen bad guys line up single file to get their one on one moment during a fight.
Evertime i see a scene like this "here we go again *eye roll*"
I always wondered "why are you just standing there and waiting to beat them up?" If you guys just would go all in and grab them we'd be done with this by now.
Me too. Which I guess is only one of many reasons why I'm not a director
Load More Replies...IMO, Jujutsu Kaisen is literally the only series where 2v1s are 2v1s
Anime is generally better at that kinda stuff than western media
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Making women “perfect” all the time. I don’t want to see a post apocalyptic world or a safari adventure where the women have their makeup done, hair styled and armpits shaved. It’s incredibly unrealistic but then again.. so is everything else
This has been examined extensively by feminist critics: instead of real humans with flaws and agency and character development, women are portrayed as sprung from the womb morally and physically flawless, their only purpose in life to be vessels of resentment against two-dimensional misogynists. That’s not a feminist movie. That’s a dumbed-down exploitation movie.
TBF I have been known to do when I was younger and got in late and drunk after a night out. Not something I did often even then though
Load More Replies...This!! I'm a film and TV makeup artist and when I tell the director or producer "hey..they just got out of bed, shouldn't they look like the hot mess we all look like when we wake up?" and the response? "It's not a documentary" UGH
That was me vs Walking Dead. How are all their teeth SO white? And everyone kept hooking up but not bathing. Yum! 🤮
I had to go to a mad max film with my son (forget which one; I think it starred Tom Hardy and Nicholas something was definitely there, possibly Charlize Theron too). What really got me were these women who were dressed in glowing white out in the desert and their clothes never got dirty!. It made me think of Alec Guinness in The Man in the White Suit!
Load More Replies...When I'm struggling for my very survival in a pitted, apocalyptic wasteland populated by idiots and zombies and lacking in crucial resources, my main concerns are always my hairstyle, makeup, and outfit.
This may be controversial, but I'm also tired of the 'badass' woman everyone tries to manufacture. Or including 'diverse' characters just to check off a requirement everyone is trying to fill now so they can pat themselves on the back. We need more diversity being represented for sure. But what they do is have a dramatic movie with a gay man and have him as effeminate as possible to make him comic relief. It's actually kind of offensive. I'm a woman/feminist and I don't want us taking a male character and changing it to female just to appeal to a demographic. Women are no longer allowed to be weak. Men can be weak all the time but women, even if vulnerable, have to come off as somehow 'strong' anyway. Stop engineering the 'flawed perfection' trope. I want original, complex characters. Don't take from a male idea, make it female and then talk about how amazing it is just because it's an all female cast and director. It doesn't really matter if your source material was cribbed from men!
You're movie or story isn't diverse if diversity is their only character trait.
Load More Replies...I never see anyone washing their bits either and yet this would be a necessity. At some point.
To be honest I’d probably save the water for drinking myself
Load More Replies...I love how all of them wake up in the morning or just supposedly had sex and not a single hair is out of order and makeup is perfect. Also, where in the zombie apocalypse do they get hair dye?! No one ever has roots or c**p hair!
Stop having people take like 1 bite of what they ordered then leave. It's a small thing, but I've never seen it happen in real life.
Like American breakfasts, a full table of toast, pastries, cereal, fruits, cooked meats, eggs etc then the character comes down says they are running late and just takes some toast and leaves.
And the person who got up at 4a.m. is perfectly fine with it. Not annoyed at all
Load More Replies...To be fair that food has probably sat there for hours during re-shoots and tastes terrible and or smells. Plus multiple takes means eating every take the human body can only hold so much. Why torture the actors.
Fair, but when you take "Big Bang Theory" and the characters CONSTANTLY "eating" by moving their forks around the plate, you start to notice and it is so irritating, that in the end it ruins the show for you, because you keep looking at the damn forks all the time. Why not just reduce the number of scenes involving food? How difficult is that?
Load More Replies...Especially when there's a table of food. There's always some mom cooking an entire buffet of food. And the juice is always in a pitcher. And the kid takes one bit of toast and leaves. WTH?
They actually do this so the actors don't get full and sluggish and uncomfortable, no matter how many takes they have to do.
I think they're just trying to convince the rest of the world Americans don't obsessively HAVE TO eat their entire giant meal. Not buying it.
Casting 20 somethings to play teenagers and then constantly putting them in sexual situations.
Even better, casting 30 somethings as teenagers, and 30 somethings as their parents.
TBF a lot of that has to do with child labor laws in general and all the additional stuff that Hollywood has to do when employing underage actors / actresses. Makes sense they'd avoid it if they could.
That makes sense, but why so much sexuality? Like I get that teenagers would be intrigued, but sometimes it's so, SO, off putting and weird
Load More Replies...This is mostly done to circumvent the child labour laws which states that anyone under 21 have to have their parents'/guardians' permission especially when it comes to filming sex scenes. When Jodhi May was filming 'The Last Of The Mohicans', they wanted to include a kissing scene between her and Eric Schweig but her mother was on set with her at all times and forbade anything remotely sexual. There are also horror stories like Judy Garland's mother who basically 'pimped her out' to Hollywood execs so nowadays, they just hire above 21 actors and actresses who can make their own decisions without the law or their parents getting in the way.
And then parents wonder why their kids dress and do makeup like they’re 20 instead of 12.
We just watched 10 Things I hate about you the other day with our kids, 15 and 12. I was curious so I looked up the main cast and they were actually 22 or younger when it came out, so a year or so younger than that when filming. I was honestly impressed. Then there's the whole "flash the teacher" thing which was always awkward, but I will give credit that they had the teacher be weirded out and not into it or going after her for the rest of the movie
I remember thinking I'd look like a twenty or thirty something in high school and was like, "Wait, what?" Lol
We will be free of watching adults impersonating teenagers when we permit filming of minors simulating sex, then find enough willing teens who aren't, in reality, awkward, pimply, half grown humans who haven't yet abandoned all dignity or desire for privacy in pursuit of personal profit.
Making it impossible to hear dialogue.
But the that is a fighting technique. Batman:aoaoaoao, Villian: What?? Batman: aoaoaoao. Villian: *comes closer* Huh, what? WHACK!!
Load More Replies...So many times I've been thinking that thank fudge I live in a non English speaking country so I can just check the subtitles if I miss something
They fixed it in the digital releases, but I went to see Dark Knight in the theater the day it came out and you could literally not understand a thing Bane was saying. It's so annoying.
Given the quality of writing in most entertainment, being unable to hear the dialog is a blessing.
Sometimes it's the actor's choice to mumble. Thank goodness for subtitles or else I wouldn't know what was going on in half the new streaming shows.
Casting attractive people in ‘ugly’ roles
*puts glasses and braces on an otherwise supermodel like woman* TAH-DAAAH! NOW SHE'S UGLY!
Also this is very frustrating for teen viewers who wear glasses and/or braces.
Load More Replies...Or make a biopic where the actor/actress is MUCH more attractive than the real person.
As someone who has worn glasses for 28 years and counting, that trope always rubbed me the wrong way. So just because I wear glasses, I'm ugly? F**k you people, then.
This happened to me IRL back in high school. When I got contacts everyone was suddenly like you're so hot, you're so pretty. Like dude, I look exactly the same, down to my baggy sweats. I got contacts, not plastic surgery.
Load More Replies...Ugh, she had a ponytail… and glasses! Did you see the paint on her overalls???
Load More Replies...I think a much better example would be, say, Rachel Leigh Cook in "She's All That". Stunningly beautiful girl takes off glasses, everyone is shocked that she's stunningly beautiful.
Steve Buscemi would beg to differ. Don't be silly.
Load More Replies...I get it's sometimes just because they want a certain actor. I can overlook it sometimes. But I always think about 'Not Another Teen Movie' making fun of She's All That where the ugly girl was Rachael Leigh Cook who is one of the most beautiful girls on the planet. Lol. There's a scene were Chris Evans character is trying to choose which 'ugly' character he's going to try and fix up, and he doesn't choose the humpback, or the conjoined-at-the-head twins. No, no- he chooses Janey Briggs because 'omg she has glasses!' The character literally just wears glass and takes them off and suddenly she's beautiful. It was so funny. I love the makeover trope.
Ty wasn't considered "ugly" in Clueless as a character. Just someone who didn't "fit in" with Cher and Dion's style standards.
Well, this is why they put a boy in a wig to be Buzz's girlfriend in Home Alone. They didn't want to hurt some poor teen girls feelings by calling them ugly.
Characters getting punched multiple times in the face in 1 scene and having no signs of the trauma in the next scene.
Character gets shoot or stabbed multiple times, they're bleeding all over place and still running and fighting like nothing happened. Dude, you should be dead.
Men never crying when they're getting beaten up or shot. Just a "AWOOOOoooooh s**t" then nothing. I've seen guys cry in pain. Hollywood can't fool us into thinking men are some invincible beings who feel no pain and just bleed out until dead.
On a similar note, completely 'knocking' people out and having them wake up fine and unharmed.
Surviving crazy car crashes, explosions etc with nothing more than a few bloody scratches and dirt marks
Murderous battles, kicks to the head, and a little scratch to the side of the face. A lot of TV shows are the same.
Remakes of good movies, I don’t understand why they remake good movies, when there are tons of flops that have potential, that they could remake
Because the original made good money so they think they can cash in on it and make more the second time around
True, but they almost never do because they ALWAYS want to reinvent parts of the story or characters. I hear the new Disney Live action Pinocchio disaster strips beloved songs and even messes up the whole ending. Hollywood seems to rather have some money from a bad remake than try something new that could be a blockbuster but isxa little risky.
Load More Replies...Kinda insulting to the original cast if you think about it, but there are many ideas and books I would LOVE to see remade in an even halfway competent way.
Load More Replies...Hollywood thinks the newer generations don't have the capacity to appreciate and watch anything older than 10 years ago if it's not "updated" to be relevant of today. Then you have Disney's commitment to fulfill Walt's wishes to release and recreate every movie to keep the copyrights active (or so the rumor goes).
1. The remakes create new copyrights. They do not extend the copyrights of the OGs. 2. Walt didn't even approve of sequels, which is why none were made in his lifetime. Lol The original Pinocchio flopped upon it's original release in 1940 because people were irritated it wasn't a Snow White sequel. The confusion comes from a Twitter post stating that Walt wanted his films to be rehashed every decade. However, that statement is objectively incorrect. In reality, Walt would have the older films re-released in theaters every decade or so, because home media was basically non-existent and that was the only time a lot of people could ever be introduced to the content. (Pinocchio, Bambi, and Fantasia all flopped during their first releases, but were cataclysmic successes during their later releases.)
Load More Replies...The reason for remakes, and other c**p films, is to hold on to the intellectual property. Another reason is to honor c**p contracts with actors, directors or producers. A great example of both is an old Fantastic Four movie (1994). From Wikipedia, "Speculation arose that the film had never been intended for release, but had gone into production solely as a way for Eichinger to retain rights to the characters; Stan Lee said in 2005 that this was indeed the case, insisting, "That movie was never supposed to be shown to anybody," and adding that the cast and crew had been left unaware."
In actuality, they just create new copyrights. They don't really maintain old copyrights.
Load More Replies...Every time a duplicate movie is made, we miss out on an original story. And then we all confuse each other when trying to discuss a movie, because there are so many different versions of it. Have a little courage, Hollywood - it's not like you're going broke anytime soon!
For the same reason they do comic book hero, popular video game, graphic novel, comic strip, old sixties/seventies, sitcom, or action t.v. rehash films. The proven formula for $$$$$ over art or originality.
Remakes suck. Especially modernized ones. But I do have a suggestion for Hollywood:: The Bible! "And Moses came down from Mount Sinai with 2 Samsung Tablets"
Like life itself in America, the purpose of films is to make the rich and powerful richer and more powerful. Statistically, sequels are all but guaranteed to make a predictable percentage of whatever the previous installment grossed. Except incidentally, there is no art in late stage capitalism, only product. We must be quiet, eat our salty sweet petrochemicals until we're too fat to rise from our national couch, and be grateful not to be left alone to think about the utter paucity of our pathetic lives. If we're good, we might be allowed to take the occasional break from consuming to post pictures of what we're consuming on social media.
Forcing a love story that makes no sense in a movie that has nothing to do with romance.
I wouldn't be sure about that, C3PO was particularly "fond" of R2D2
Load More Replies...But, then, they must immediately have sex..........???
Load More Replies..."Oh, we're two different genders. Guess we need to kiss right now!" So cringe
And then, immediately run to an adjoining room which has a bed so they can have sex!....??
Load More Replies...Dante's Peak. The Mountain Between Us. Any survival movie where the main plot is to just survive a disaster but there's a guy and a girl who just have to develop feelings because the writers think 30 somethings have teenage hormones.
Or worse, when they add a motivational corpse (add an unnecessary character that the protagonist is close to and then kill the character off almost in the opening credits)
In the original Star Trek they are called Red Shirts (security personnel) . They get killed early to show how serious the situation is.
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Just hanging up after a phone conversation with out saying "bye." Pisses me off for some reason.
Or when someone agrees to meet someone else without discussing a time or place
With a line like "I've discovered who's the killer, but I can't talk on the phone."
Load More Replies...saying CALL ME to someone they just met!!!! GIVE THEM YOUR DAMN NUMBER!!!!!!!
Yes. And the way they talk... there isn't enough time between sentences to get the sense they were listening to anything at all, and then they start hanging up before they even finish the last words they say. I also hate how so many characters close their apartment or house door without locking it.
Yeah, that! They pick up without saying hi and then ending a call by just hanging up, like what kind of attitude is that?
Not saying "I love you" before hanging up with a loved one drives me nuts. They rarely include that, especially when someone is about to die.
My best friend would do that and I would call her back complaining as to how I wasn't ready since I didn't say bye too and how rude it was for I was caught off guard and therefore still talking.
EMPTY CUPS. I hate seeing people holding cups and pretending to take drinks from obviously empty cups. Their hands never move right, or if it’s an open cup, you can literally see that it’s empty.
The ubiquitous take-away coffee cup with a lid. It's so obvious that they're empty - you could at least put water in it!
Then they put the cup down on a table and you hear that hollow paper cup sound.
Load More Replies...Plus women carrying a handbag that obviously has nothing in it.
Load More Replies...Or they barely fill the cup up when they are pouring from a pitcher or pot (of coffee).
I understand why this annoys people, but as someone who works in Wardrobe for film, and TV... actors are clumsy as f*ck. They will spill this on themselves, and if the show or film is cheap (they all are), you will not have a multiple of what they are wearing that day, so filming will get delayed, which gets really expensive, as the clothing is dried/cleaned, pressed, and steamed.
Also leaving Starbucks on the set of a medieval fantasy show can be disturbing too
Woah. I get yelled at by everyone I know because this drives me crazy, too! I always yell, "FAKE DRINK!" and I'm told WHO CARES! Watch the frickin' movie!" But seriously. If you're acting, why does the acting stop when you take a drink? They just tap their lips with it. They sometimes speak immedialty after this. There is no swallowing. I am so happy when an actor actually drinks in a movie. I don't know why I'm stuck on this. I'm happy to see I'm not alone.
Also, the "I'm pouring an alcoholic beverage" shots when the thing they're pouring is most *definitely* apple juice.
Spoiling the film in the trailers.
Or misleading trailers that make a movie seem one way and have it take on a completely different plot/feel.
Not putting people who appear in the trailer in the movie itself. Actor Stepehen Root appeared in the trailer for the movie Magnolia but when the movie was played in theaters, all of his scenes were cut from the movie.
That was the case with The Bone Collector. They put the killer's voice on the trailer. And that actor has a very distinctive voice. As soon as i saw him in the movie, i knew he was the killer.
Yup. Ever since they spoiled wonder woman and doomsday for batman vs superman, I only watch the initial yrailerd for movies and nothing else
Or having the trailer be nothing like the final film with cut scenes etc
Pretending people can actually have a conversation in a bar without yelling
Or when they walk into a bar and order a beer. They just say "I'll take a beer." What kind of beer? They have multiple taps in the background. I understand the name brand beers might not want their names mentioned in the movies but, at least make up a name for the sake of the movie. I don't know why that bothers me so much.
The only time this works(in the Philly area haven't tried it anywhere else) is when you ask for a lager, you will get a Yuengling.
Load More Replies...Seeing extras in the background only moving their lips and not making a sound. If they actually speak then they have to get paid more.
Who doesn't want to pay $20 to listen to people shout at each other, with every fifth word comprehensible. Movies exist because reality is lousy.
Medical shows without consulting medical people!
"His blood pressure is too high! Prepare the operating table, get me the defibrillator and get 10cc's of cortisone, this man is about go into anaphylactic shock! And sterilise those goddamn forceps!"
As a MD I cringe on a lot of medical stuff in movies and TV series. Such as defibrilating someone who flatlined, they do it over and over and over again. Or injecting adrenaline directly into heart. Sedatives that work almost instantly... One show that presents medical facts most acurately is suprisingly, Scrubs.
Ahh...Scrubs was a damn masterpiece for so many reasons. I love that show
Load More Replies...No one ever washes their hands or changes their gown and gloves between patients either
As a retired Respiratory Therapist, I laugh watching movies or tv shows where they are talking with an ET tube and on a ventilator. For those that don't understand, the ET blocks the vocal cords when inserted correctly, so the patient is unable to talk.
Medical shows, and medieval battle scenes as well lmao STEEL SWORDS CANT CUT A STEEL CUIRASS.
I worked on a show about coroners and we had an actual coroner as our tech advisor. It was a wealth of knowledge for me when creating realistic makeups. Only the real stuff looks totally fake, unfortunately.
Try this: Do a YouTube search for "nurse Blake medical shows be like"
On the subject for both medical, forensic and all sorts of crime: Wear gloves goddangit!! Who would EVER touch a dead anything without gloves?! Also: Dead.Peolpe.Don’t.Bleed! (It may tickle a bit, but definitly no squirts) Note-to-self: I could also just stop watching bad shows…
What makes me crazy are the Omnisurgeon. Thoraco-abdo-neuro-orl-trauma-pediatric-uro-cardio-maxillo-surgeon… and they are also anesthesiologist, cardiologist, specialized in emergency, gastroenterologist, psychiatrist…. The list never ends
I HATE when they're doing CPR and the monitor is flatline. If you're doing effective CPR it will be displayed on the monitor as 'waves'.
Shaky cam action fight scenes. No this is not artistic. Your choreography just sucks and you have to hide it
the Jason Bourne series are they fighting or is the cameraman drunk?
Ugh! Hated that in Bourne. I could never tell what was going on, but could tell it was exciting by the way the cameraman flailed about in an extremely excited fashion.
Load More Replies...And it's vcomit inducing and not good for people with mifraines or epilepsy
Man the quick cuts between two or more scenes back and forth do it for me. It's the same feeling I get when I have a migraine aura. Have to close my eyes
Load More Replies...Totally agree! Also the Hollywood style of filming action is a bunch of quick cuts and close ups. Making it impossible to follow and to see what’s going on. Hong Kong cinema used to be the gold standard when it came to filming a fight scene, but unfortunately they (for the most part) have adopted the Hollywood style. SMH
This bothers me a lot. I’ve made a career of choreographing fights for the stage and to see it so poorly executed in film is just…sad.
There's like two films I can think of that did shakey cam right. Kingsman 1 and Snowpiercer
Protecting predators.
Not sure if the post is referring to weinstein types or the predator that fights aliens. I opt for the second one and agree - let the predator and alien fight unhindered and stop protecting the predator alternatively bring Arnold to kick his a*s
Im sure they're other deviants similar to this one in Hollywood, just hiding since the serial one got caught. As far as I'm concerned, those who see and don't report, are just as guilty.
I was just reading a biography of David Geffen, a major record executive. He's kind of a perv on his own (extensive history of political connections, opting for much younger men, and sleeping with tons of prostitutes). But the promoters, agents, etc are some of the worst people who have ever lived. They are all abut hype, so for a long time the didn't really have to abide by any standards of decency, so they would openly sexually harass and body shame women in the office spaces. The tier of power over the artists have basically all-but created the addiction problems faced by a lot of stars. They give performers "uppers" and "lowers" so they can meet touring demands. (And the paparazzi are clearly a method of psychological torture. They stalk people, get in their space, openly invade their privacy, make their children uncomfortable, and face no repercussions for it.)
Load More Replies...Pretty sure it's Hollywood's protection of Weinstein & likewise predators. Seriously? Would YOU voluntarily f*ck that? The man is a poisonous troll.
Late stage capitalism exists to allow the few to exploit the many. That our neofedual overlords do so literally is hardly surprising. Sexual assault is nowhere near the worst of it.
Putting CGI first rather than the story
The problem with Cats (both the film and the stage show) is that there is no story. It's a collection of songs based on poems that are tenuously linked by some nonsense about the Heaviside layer. If you like the songs, great, but it's a really weak story.
Well it's a little unfair to the stage show to say that it has no story, but it's basically a series of character-introductions with a sorta-flimsy throughline in Memory. The stage show had it right: it's SUPPOSED to be a clusterfuck of fur, spandex, and dancing.
Load More Replies...They hardly even managed this with the trainwreck of Cats. Even Judie Dench's hand was missed...
I always wonder what drugs the writer was on in these fantastical tales. Or if they were entering their second childhood.
What is "story" in a functionally illiterate culture where spectacle exists solely to serve profit?
Casting the same 10 actors in everything. Let’s get some new blood in there!
When those same folks become too expensive, they start casting less well known talent that look like those same persons.
Load More Replies...I can't stand the fact jlo keeps getting gigs after such fails plus she's on the cover of vanity fair every other month. Ugh! Jennifer Lawrence, in any and everything. New people please.
And let's use mature female American actors, instead of throwing them away. The British know what to do with mature females.
I agree. I wish there were more actors with weight. The same actors keep getting hired because they're the ones bringing in the money. There's a reason Jennifer Aniston keeps doing all these romcoms, lol. Studios keep hiring her because she brings in the money. We need bigger actors to do more with unknown casts in major roles opposite them in order to expose unknown- but great- actors to a larger audience to build up a knowledge of them. I think studios want to do that but they can't afford to spend the capital on something they know isn't going to pay them back.
Actors are products. Unproved products are financially risky. Entertainment exists to profit the rich, not risk their status.
Casting really well known, good looking actors as voice actors. Why not hire someone that might have a harder time getting lead roles 8 in live action movies?
Especially if that actor isn't... a very good voice actor to begin with. The two require some very different skillsets.
Right?! There are some notable exceptions because they just great at both live action and voice work. (think Robin Williams, Mike Myers and Mark Hamill).
Load More Replies...According to Google, Vin Diesel was paid $54.5 million to voice Groot in the Marvel films. 54.5 MILLION DOLLARS to say a mixture of about 5 different words, and worst of all, the voice isn't even that recognizable as him. What a waste of money and talent!
I didn't even know that was him, yet you have actors like Schwarzenegger who take some of their money and actually help people, he paid for a bunch of those mini homes to be setup for homeless vets in i believe L. A.
Load More Replies...Also, destroying the careers of actually good actors because they wouldn't put up with abuse from movie executives. Brendan Frasier, for example. Also, relegating actually good actors to limited character roles. Judy Greer comes to mind.
I hate it when they cast well known actors as voice actors and I can't get the picture of them out of my mind. When I watch an animated movie I want to pay attention to what's happening and not the person voicing the characters.
It also bugs me that "famous" people are in commercials, too. 99% of the time myself and anyone I'm with goes, "Are we supposed to know who that is?" It's some "influencer", some TikTok person, someone who won some TV show. Who cares? Do people really run out and buy Cheetos because some guy walking down the street makes a mural appear on a wall and they're playing faint music in the back that's supposedly his? Hokay
Why do actors that make 20 million a year on movies do voice overs for every commercial ?
You appear to be confusing capitalism with fairness. What do you imagine entertainment is _for_?
Stop recreating bad versions of good classic movies.
Stop using spectacular CGI to distract from a subpar plot. I'm looking at you Disney.
Come to think of it, the Disney stories are pretty simple and straightforward. They're not necessarily bad stories, but they're too simple for the amount of drama and big effects thrown in, and then it becomes all about this "look what we can do" thing.
Agreed. It has no depth story wise/character wise. And I get that it’s for kids technically so it’s simple for a reason but maybe having a mix of some complex ones too since adults do also watch.
Load More Replies...I'm okay with a remake if it makes sense and/or has been a long time since the movie came out. Someone mentioned they were thinking of doing a modern reboot of Goonies and I'm just like, why??? The movie is perfect just as it is and there's no possible way to improve upon it so it's bound to be a failure. Remake some crappy movie and make it better--that's a good remake. Remaking the Batman films was a great idea because they did something totally new with it. Remaking the Ocean's films from 1960 was great because it had been a long time so it was a new movie to me. But remaking some movie from 5 years ago is ridiculous. It's also dumb to remake a good movie just because you want a female version of it. Stop trying to force diversity when you don't do anything to improve on the original.
The reason they, and specifically Disney, are doing this to our childhood memories is copyright. Re-release the movie as "live action"? Oh, I've just extended the copyright on the title for another 75 years!
And Disney will keep extending it forever just because so their copyrights will never end. Yes it will go on and on my friend. Some people go to see these film, not knowing what it does. So Disney will keep extending it forever just because so their copyrights will never end. Yes it will go on and on my friend. Some go to see these films, not knowing what it does. So Disney will keep extending it forever just because so their copyrights will never end. Yes it will go on and on my friend. Some go to see these films, not knowing what it does. So Disney will keep extending it forever just because so their copyrights will never end. Yes it will go on and on my friend. Some go to see these films, not knowing what it does. So Disney will keep extending it forever just because so their copyrights will never end. Yes it will go on and on my friend. Some go to see these films, not knowing what it does. So Disney will keep extending it forever just because so their copyrights will never end.....
Load More Replies...Disney has never had a single original idea in their entire existence. All they do is remake things.
Father of the Bride comes to mind. It's a classic no less, doesn't need Steve Martin's stunts.
Using that sandy brown filter on middle eastern cities.
Try an orange filter in Africa with dust and lone trees in the background. And if the soundtrack is not drums it is a man singing mournfully without words. Google the amazing essay, "How to Write about Africa" by Binyavaya Wainaina. Superb stuff!
Why does Mexico have the same colour as tangerine? Africa has a distinctive colour too and it's not like that all.
Or showing the middle east in winter and it's still blistering and dry. It snows in the desert people.
That I actually don't mind. a colorfilter gives a certain softness to the surroundings,
Treating child stars like s**t
Milking everything dry
Everything is a franchise now. How many sequels can we get out of this? I was so super excited when they announced the first Transformers film, it did not live up to its promise though, and the rest of the films? They have nearly destroyed my childhood love of the Transformers. They should just re release the proper Transformers Movie.
Absolutely haaaaaate the Bayverse Transformers designs. I'm sure they're meant to look impressive and 'advanced', but... my eyes don't know what to look at. They look like walking piles of scrap metal. They're also hard to tell apart. Give me designs like those in Transformers Prime or More Than Meets the Eye any day of the week. Those are good, cohesive designs with defined characters.
Load More Replies...Star Wars has grown jnto a beast that I no longer recognize. And it's not just the sequel trilogy (I saw the first 2 and liked them a lot). It's become too big for my taste, like the Marvel universe. I can't keep up. My mind is still populated with all the old, now retconned Extended Universe lore. It's hard to give all of that up.
It's unreasonable to blame the entertainment industry for embodying the core principle of the society and economy that created it. Have you _met_ a human being?
Fast & Furious series. The first one was good, every one after has just gotten worse, and less believable
*cough, cough* Star Wars *cough, cough* A lot of them are good, I loved Boba Fett and the Mandalorian, but the newer movies killed everyone off I loved and just reused a lot of character personalities and scenes.
Showing incorrect CPR
Somewhat related, asthma inhalers. I have never seen a single movie show a character with asthma using their inhalers correctly. As someone who has had asthma all my life it really irritates me.
Or nasal oxygen cannulas...my dad had COPD and used to point out to me it was upside down or not fastened behind the ears
Load More Replies...I'm a retired nurse. I have never seen a code blue event done correctly in any movie or TV show. Of course, there is always going to be variation in the procedure when trying to revive a person. But TV and movies can't even get the basics right.
I read somewhere that the chest compressions have to be fake because it would really hurt to do that to a conscious person. I worry because people see it so often they might think that's the correct way to do it and it won't be effective.
Exactly. Real CPR does break the sternum (breast bone) when done effectively. I've done it many times and you feel it under your hands as you compress
Load More Replies...The arms cannot be straight when doing tv CPR because of the high risk of maybe breaking someone's ribs...
Yes! Yes! Yes! Also, majority of people do not survive. Only like 3-5% of people actually come back from CPR. Without a defibulation within the first 3 minutes, the chances of being resuscitated are 12% on the high end. Even in hospital setting, only around 61% are resuscitated, and only 31% do not end up dying days later.
or making no real life saving effort at all, no wound compression, no calling 911, just crying and planning their revenge
I wish Hollywood would stop treating the medium of animation as something inherently inferior to live action. I also wish 2D animation was used more for movies.
CGI is "easier" as you can build digital models, which can be manipulated into movement. Coloured and layered into the scene. 2D as of now is still hand drawn. Meaning a s**t load of work, since you need several frames per second. That is why most of the world hasn't jumped on the anime bandwagon.
Load More Replies...Animation makes for just as compelling a story as live action, hence why Pixar became such a powerhouse, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hit just a little differently. As for 2D animation...that's going to be treated as an oddity, as expensive and time consuming as 3D animation is, traditional animation is much much worse when looking at something feature film length. The 2D animation that is still around today is mostly horrible looking, overly stylized and blocky, trying to look like a bad riff of some Japanese's anime that looks very much like it was done on a thin budget. Looking at the standard of current day 2D animation, it's hard to want to see more of it for longer.
I wouldn’t say all modern animation is terrible. Some artists I’ve seen online are absolutely insane and anime has some of the most incredible animation. Fernanda Dias is one such artist, as well as Emilyamiao, and some animes are Violet Evergarden, Jujutsu Kaisen, A Silent Voice, Demon Slayer, Belle, and Garden of Words.
Load More Replies...I would just like a film with a good story. CGI has its place, but everybody flying around with explosions and falling from impossible to survive distances. Please stop.
I've seen animated movies with more heart than any love action movie, just look at A Silent Voice.
Yeah. I mean it's mot like it takes an absolute mountain more work just to make it passable and yet is objectively the most timeless form of cinema? Say what you want but the old animated films look miles better than most live action films today
Screwing over special effects companies with contracts that won't keep the lights on, resulting in them going under, sometimes, right after winning an Oscar for their efforts.
Screwing over talent with contracts that offer points on the box office, and then claiming that their biggest hit of the decade made no money.
Screwing over the First Amendment with their aggressive litigation, DMCA abuse, and aggressive lobbying efforts to make the law value copyright over freedom of expression.
Hypocritically lambasting "the little people" for the impact of their infrequent travel and modest lifestyles, while themselves flying around the world to shoot movies or just turn up at social events to have their picture taken and get one of those swell swag bags.
Watering the luxurious lawns of their mansions during a severe drought, and exploiting undocumented labor to work on them for less than minimum wage.
Abusing the young, eager new talent that is constantly arriving in search of opportunities.
Engaging in the worst nepotism of perhaps any single industry.
Bringing in auteur directors, and trying to foist off a Batman reboot on them.
The copyright thing is a lot of bollocks, there's a youtuber who reacted to a DC movie trailer and was contacted by WB who told him they loved his reaction and asked for his permission to use it as part of their advertising campaign, the youtuber being a huge DC fan said yes in a heartbeat happy for WB to use his reaction only to discover that after praising him they issued a copyright claim on his video costing him money.
Let‘s add outsourcing to save money, so the big shots can keep making millions, while the artists are unemployed and can‘t survive. Making political statements like standing against Georgia for blatant discrimination, then going right back to filming there after the outrage dies down.
spot on also add shooting in states and countries (Canada) Giving HUGE tax breaks and the ability to circumvent Union rules and pay!
It's unreasonable to expect the entertainment industry not to embody the core principles of the society which created and supports it.
Unfortunately the "little people" in regard to America, have a GHG output that's 4-5 times higher than the global average. 16-20 tons, per person, per year, while the rest of the world averages out to 4 tons pp/py, the same amount that the "little people" output by driving their cars. 4.125% of humanity accounts for 11% of global emissions. Yes, the rich are markedly worse than "the little people" but that doesn't mean the little people aren't doing a whole bunch of damage that they need to address. Everyone is culpable, everyone needs to do better.
I think one of the biggest issues "the little people" have is when celebs make posts like "#gogreen #banplasticbags" and then spend five minutes in a jet for convenience and post it on social media. Or how most pollution actually comes from big companies who can decide to make themselves greener but blame the consumer for the choices that the company offers. Sometimes it's not easy to vote with your money because there is literally no other choice.
Load More Replies...Let's see if I can help you out here. Here are some things to check out. 1) Rhythm & Hues VFX studio. 2) Black Widow movie, Disney+, and Scarlett Johansson 3) movie companies are known to flag YouTube videos even when the creator uses it in fair use. 4) Leonardo DiCaprio. 5) Kevin Hart, Sylvester Stallone, and some Kardashians in California during the drought. 6) Everyone. This is literally part of the plot to Nope. 7) they are called nepo babies such as Maude Apatow. 8) I disagree with it, but he is talking about Matt Reeves and the new Batman movie. Hope that helps...
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The endless attempts at creating "universes". Please stop.
They're trying to skip the work of creating depth. Shows like X-Files, Buffy, West Wing, Supernatural, etc. and movies like LotR and Star Wars.... the reason why they're cult classics is because people dug into them on their own and started talking on message boards and having discussions, etc. The worlds were all very rich to begin with and grew over the course of years, in some cases. Movies/tv now are trying to get the same 'feeling' without the time and effort it takes to make it that. They think they're just going to manufacture it by putting a superhero in it and calling it a 'universe' when they haven't even flushed out the original movie yet to give it more depth and weight and character development. If you think about John Wick- there was an example of a movie that gave a lot of weight to the characters and the environment. The hotel, the money system, the women in the phone office... it had these great details that created a universe you wanted to know more about.
Same here, I already didn't like the marvel one and it's getting boring that everyone tries to do the same
Load More Replies...Honestly I'm getting tired of them too. Let's stop rebooting, except for flops (it would be easy to take the feedback of the collective Internet as to why a movie fails). Let's stop doing spinoffs, prequels, and unnecessary sequels. Also, not every movie needs lore and tie ins to everything
We get it guys, marvel made billions. But you aren't marvel, they had years to set it up.
We can endure the actual universe we've created for ourselves for free. The point of paying $20 is to escape the despair and tedium of what we actually are.
Thank you all! Why don't they try using our universe as a medium..like a flooded grand canyon full of dolphins squeaking us a better idea for how to make grilled cheese..
Adapting s**t into live-action movies when they should really be animated.
Examples include upcoming Mega Man, Pac-Man and Minecraft movies which are ***ALL*** set to be live-action.
Ok but this picture is of the movie Pixels and is perfectly hilarious
Kinda in the same vein, can someone please explain to me why Battleship was made, and what the f**k aliens had to do with the boardgame?
Whispering/mumbling dialogue then cutting to a chase scene.
Dramatic posing close-ups.
Or talking endlessly when there is danger. I’m looking at you The Walking Dead. Noooo what they have to say is sooooo important. Zombies are coming? Who cares? Let me regale you with a long tale.
Oh man, you don't delete a comment with upvotes on. Now I'm dying to know what the upvoters liked about it.
Load More Replies...Talking at different levels so half is too loud and the other half you can’t hear. Also, the music is always too loud theses days.
All great answers but what I've seen lately is just a lot of whacky decision making. There's multiple video game adaption movies and TV shows come out lately that miss the mark completely. Resident Evil/Halo Etc.
I know adaptations always have their quirks and things that would outrage a fan base but geez. The Halo TV show really felt like they just wanted to write their own story with already existing characters. It all comes down to executive decision.
I just wish the creators have more control over their projects. Instead of having execs with no creative abilities suggesting "Maybe you should make the super-soldier get out of his augmented power armor and instead just fight naked, also make him want to bang the enemy like Romeo & Juliette."
Every Stephen King movie adaptation seems as though the creative control was left to someone who never read his books.
UUUUUUUGH! YES!!! I was so frustrated with the remake series of The Stand that was done for CBS last year. I absolutely love that book (I think I've read the unabridged version a dozen times, at least!) and was excited to watch the series. However, I couldn't even make it three episodes in, it bothered me so much! I also REALLY wish someone would remake The Shining and actually do the book justice!
Load More Replies...A big issue with video game movies is that the characters you play as have to be a certain level of unkillable for the plot to move on, which doesn't translate naturally into a character to watch. It goes very unbelievable and over the top but then they want us to take it seriously (looking at you Resident Evil). I feel like most would be better set in the gsm UNIVERSE (the lore, tech, political climate, worlds) but not the direct storyline.
you should watch the Halo TV show: Red vs Blue. it's hilarious. and they don't try to make up some dumb plot with old characters. new characters, funny, there is definitely a plot that makes sense i swear, and funny, and funny and...
Rooster Teeth knew thier audiance and stuck with what worked. Now if only they could explain why there are six pedals and only four directions....
Load More Replies...Doing the exact opposite of what is logically the best course of action in a given situation. Horror films are the worst for this (there's a murderer somewhere in the house but instead of running outside and seeking help I'll lock myself in the bedroom and use a hairbrush as a weapon to defend myself).
I would never go into a dark basement at 2 am when I'm alone after hearing a concerning noise
Load More Replies...Misrepresenting the movie in the trailer. E.g showing the only two funny scenes but the actual movie is a drama
Or making you think the film is fantasy when it's really a sad film, I'm looking at you Bridge to Terabithia
Load More Replies...Showing birth as something that goes from zero to a woman screaming and a 3 month old baby popping out.
Not explaining something that would easily resolve a conflict. Rom-coms are the worst, but every movie is guilty of that nowadays. Also, orphans, prophecies and any other lazy writing trope that's just taken for granted. If you can't write something new, get out of the way for those who can.
1. The nerdy-looking guy who is looked down upon by everybody including the hot popular girl but at the end of the movie wins the heart of the girl. 2. Protagonist running towards the danger instead of running away from it. 3. The protagonist about to be thrown out of school, college, job, etc., until he/she makes an inspirational speech that gets the protagonist to stay.
I have to say for me, it’s incredibly bad science. I can gloss over the odd little bit of artistic license but “The neutrinos are mutating”? How about a biologist looking at a new species and immediately attempting to pet it? I’m looking at you Prometheus. Let’s not even get into the cartographer getting lost and the “just run sideways” moment.
oh and everyone magically understanding any language they encounter on different planets without any explanation.
Load More Replies...Doing the exact opposite of what is logically the best course of action in a given situation. Horror films are the worst for this (there's a murderer somewhere in the house but instead of running outside and seeking help I'll lock myself in the bedroom and use a hairbrush as a weapon to defend myself).
I would never go into a dark basement at 2 am when I'm alone after hearing a concerning noise
Load More Replies...Misrepresenting the movie in the trailer. E.g showing the only two funny scenes but the actual movie is a drama
Or making you think the film is fantasy when it's really a sad film, I'm looking at you Bridge to Terabithia
Load More Replies...Showing birth as something that goes from zero to a woman screaming and a 3 month old baby popping out.
Not explaining something that would easily resolve a conflict. Rom-coms are the worst, but every movie is guilty of that nowadays. Also, orphans, prophecies and any other lazy writing trope that's just taken for granted. If you can't write something new, get out of the way for those who can.
1. The nerdy-looking guy who is looked down upon by everybody including the hot popular girl but at the end of the movie wins the heart of the girl. 2. Protagonist running towards the danger instead of running away from it. 3. The protagonist about to be thrown out of school, college, job, etc., until he/she makes an inspirational speech that gets the protagonist to stay.
I have to say for me, it’s incredibly bad science. I can gloss over the odd little bit of artistic license but “The neutrinos are mutating”? How about a biologist looking at a new species and immediately attempting to pet it? I’m looking at you Prometheus. Let’s not even get into the cartographer getting lost and the “just run sideways” moment.
oh and everyone magically understanding any language they encounter on different planets without any explanation.
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