When a single person is fighting multiple assailants but they still only attack one at a time while the others just stand there trying not to look odd while waiting for their turn.
This annoys me too. Especially when it is “their turn” and it’s the slowest most predictable combat move.
No, no, they’re wincing and recovering and holding the spot they got hit at while being disoriented.
When they need a bit of blood for a pact or to prove they are human and they USE THEIR HAND - dude. So many ligaments and tendons in there you could accidentally cut not to mention it hurts super hard and you can just use your fleshy forearm instead and still be able to grab things afterwards with less of an issue. I know it’s because it’s easier to hide the fake blood and smear but you can just as easily do that on your forearm.
I know! And it would take forever to heal that wound.
1890 beggars with … Perfect teeth!
Cutting the palm to spill blood. Typically followed by a huge battle scene where a gash in your palm isn’t going to affect your sword play/battle prowess
Characters repeatedly “dying” but then surviving again. That’s why I liked game of thrones so much when I first watched it
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Game of thrones, feels like a kid whimsically thought about a classical story then killed the main characters. Everyone would normally think it’s too immature for a story. Instead it became one of the most watched shows. Except the “killing off characters” thing ,the show was well made.
When people and places that should be dirty are clean and kempt. Pirates on the seas should be dirty. Soldiers in the field should be dirty. Cowboys on a cattle drive should be dirty. Swamp cultists should be dirty. I appreciate realistically dirty characters. It distracts me every time when characters are clean and showered with their hair done on day three of being lost in the woods or some shit. It’s one of the many things Our Flag Means Death nails. Even Stede gets grimy, because piracy is grimy work.
Especially when two people have to crawl through a pile of mud, or experience explosions or something and the guy is all muddy and torn up but the girl’s makeup is intact and her clothes are mostly clean.
No, she has one spot of mud perfectly placed on her cheekbone.
Always seems to happen when a woman is in an explosion or something too. One cut or scratch in the same place or just above the eyebrow, and in the next scene it’s got a butterfly bandaid over it.
It’s the perfect white teeth that throws me off in those scenes.
It really really bothers me when a character puts something down, and then walks away without picking it up, especially if they show them with it again later.
Something not so small that bothers me is when a victim is running from a bad guy or monster and then happens to knock them down, like with a baseball bat or something, and then they just take off running again. Fucking finish the job, you dumb ass! Hit him a few more times and he won’t catch up to you again in 30 seconds when you unsurprisingly trip over your own feet.
Just watched an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. In the episode, the ship’s security officer, La’An, enters the bedroom of Khan Noonien-Singh when he is a small child. Proceeds to put a loaded gun down on his desk, have a conversation, then leaves the room. You’re the chief security officer, and you just left a loaded gun in a child’s bedroom!
Yeesh! That’s lazy directing.
Similarly when they walk in the house but don’t shut the front door again, or open the fridge but never close it. I’m like waiting the whole scene to get back to that and missed the entire dialogue.
Right? Act like normal people, you hooligans!
When they add the “pull hammer back on gun” sound effect and the character is holding a gun with no hammer (like a Glock). I first noticed this in one of the Fast and Furious movies, and I haven’t been able to watch any of them since.
People always hang up the phone without saying goodbye or anything. I read that it’s some time is money thing in film and TV but it just sounds like bullshit to me.
I thought that was just an American cultural thing.
In the UK, you have to say bye at least 3 times.
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson are still exchanging goodbyes to this day.
That’s true in the States too, just not in the movies. Especially in the south or midwest
Injecting medications into necks.
Medical things are rarely accurate, but Jesus this one is absolutely infuriating. There’s no anatomy in a neck that you could even inject anything INTO. You’re not aiming for a jugular vein on the fly and there’s not enough tissue in a neck to receive an intramuscular or subcutaneous injection. If your needle is too long, you’re definitely hitting something critical. It’s feasible that you could squirt medication into someone’s trachea or esophagus or - god forbid - spine if you actually tried this nonsense.
Arms, people, ARMS. This is where we inject things into people who are not interested in receiving an injection. Arms or butts, right through the clothes. You’re aiming for the deltoid muscle or the glutes. I’m even willing to concede the inaccuracy of a medication affecting someone instantly (they don’t), if Hollywood would just stop having characters inject things into people’s necks.
On our next episode of medical things that make me crazy: People getting shot through the shoulder with zero consequences.
My wife is a nurse and any time someone is getting a shot in the arm she starts yelling at them to find the shoulder bone first three 3 fingers down!
When historical clothing is really wrong/modern. Like if the movie is of the 1950s but the fabrics are stretchy.
That every TV show and movie seems to re-use the same sound effects. Always takes me out of the story when I hear the same crying baby or fake “car clunking and breaking down” noises for the 1000th time.
I am more of a points at screen Leonardo Di Caprio from wolf of wallstreet kinda guy.
Hey! I know that sound!
Ooh gun shot sounds from 80 movies were a bang. Doesn’t matter if Clint Eastwood is in far west or 80 LA, they are the same sounds.
I was going to mention this. This squeaky metal door/gate noise is so overused in the XFiles that if I hear it in a movie today, I want to walk away. It’s been 30 years! Get a new door sound.
inaccurate official subtitles
Shoehorned romantic stories.
Just give me my damn movie.Top Gun for example.
Treating mental conditions like you can simply come back from it.
Depending on how you interpret that, can refer to something like brain trauma (think of all the times people were knocked out) or something like someone’s state of being (e.g. I’m probably the only one in the world who thinks Pokémon Horizons is rushing with how they treat Dot).
