Your Pet Peeves in Movies

[coreymb16]

What are your pet peeves you regularly see in movies?

I finished watching today's episode of AMC Movie Talk and a viewer asked a question to them about what their pet peeves they regularly see in movies. I thought it was a fun, good idea to ask the question here.

Some of my pet peeves are:
Revolvers firing more than six shots, assault rifles firing 800 round magazines the same size as standard ones.
Incompetent villains who could easily defeat the heroes at one point but instead go for a more elaborate or dramatic decision.
When I can clearly tell the actor isn't really driving the car and outside the windows are just cheap green screen effects.
A character easily and quickly knocking someone else unconscious.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

My Pet Peeves

1.Characters that do really stupid and illogical things that any normal person wouldn't do (particularly in horror movies).

2. Way to many convinces. Like the villan in the movie has a personal history with the hero etc. I down for it if it makes sense, but most of the time it feels forced in most cases.

3. Random subplots that do nothing to service the story in any way.

Those are my biggest Pet Peeves with movies.

 

[MadVillainy]

My biggest pet peeve that comes to mind is movies that present events as dark and have terrible things (mass city destruction, millions of death) happen and then all of the main characters are smiling and moving along like nothing happened

 

[warhorse78]

Shaky cam.

Chicks are either naked or nearly naked while the guys keep their clothes on. X-Men First Class was one of the biggest offenders.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Any time supposedly smart characters say something stupid. Like "humans only use 10 percent of your brain".

Looking at you, Morgan Freeman in Lucy.

Also lazy writing, like the USS Enterprise being built in Iowa... for some reason.

Seriously, Star Trek has always had lazy writing, but why the hell is the Enterprise –*or any starship for that matter – being built in Iowa? Besides to set up a shot of Kirk looking at it, I mean.

 

[Deserana]

Yeah never ending gun ammo irks me more than most things.

Bruises and broken bones healing between scenes.

 

[Warhammer]

One thing that bugs the s*** out of me is when people go through windows and aren't cut up. I can't stand it.

 

[Galactus10]

Shaky cam.

Chicks are either naked or nearly naked while the guys keep their clothes on. X-Men First Class was one of the biggest offenders.

Then I suppose X-Men Days Of Future Past made up for that discrepancy by exposing Wolverine, no?

 

[Spider-Fan83]

bad guys shooting off like 50 rounds and never hitting their target... where the good guy always kills them in one shot (usually while siding across the floor, in free fall, or without even looking)

if movie bad guys had better aim, most heroes would be die in the first 10 mins of any action movie lol

 

[Ipodman]

When the characters cuss and swear for no good reason

 

[MadVillainy]

Shaky cam.

Yeah, Ive seen some movies that use it to good effect. Peter Berg is good with it (save for Hancock where it was really jarring), but with Friday Night Lights, Lone Survivor, etc. where it was supposed to have a documentary type film it worked.

I hate it for hand to hand fight scenes. It's a real shame where nowadays I feel the need to give a film points for actually having a clear hand to hand combat scene.

When the characters cuss and swear for no good reason

Just curious: what constitutes "no good reason"

 

[Loki882]

-Villains explaining their big plan in detail to the protagonists, thus telling said protagonist exactly how to beat them.

-Characters doing stupid/illogical plans for no other reason than the plot won't work otherwise (mostly a problem in Horror films, but hardly unique to that genre).

-Movies filled with unlikeable/*****e characters (again a problem in a lot of Horror films).

-Bad guys cannot hit the hero despite all logic dictating that the should, but heroes can hit targets without even really aiming (they just kind of point the gun in the general direction of their target). Action movies have this problem a lot.

-Schitzophrenic editing so that you cannot tell WTF is going on (coughMichaelBaycough).

-Characters who are important in one movie are just gone in the sequel with absolutely NO attempt whatsoever to explain where they went (see Nicole Kidman disappearing without a trace in-between the two Schumacher Batman movies, or Nightcrawler in-between X3 and X3, etc). This is actually one of by biggest pet peeves, I HATE it when movies or TV shows do this. It's really freaking lazy.

 

[GreenKToo]

when they "kill" the villain and don't bother to check and see if he is really dead. ( they always get up )

when a car/truck/whatever is damaged in a crash and in the very next scene the damage is gone.

when a bomb is discovered by the hero it's always deactivated with one/two seconds left.

 

[titansupes]

Hero gets the hell knocked out of him without even a grunt. Later, he sits shirtless/in a tank top as the love interest tends to his wounds - That's annoying in and of itself, but even more when said hero winces and says "Ow, watch it!" and she calls him a big baby or something. A-nnoy-ing.

 

[bullets]

The evil boss killing his henchemen has become an inevitable cliche in action films. I'll always hope they are going to do something different because it's rarely effective anymore.


The heroes running through hails of bullets and not getting hit. At least John Wick got one in the leg or something like that. Some films do this shamelessly and it takes me out of it. A more recent example of that was The Last Stand , they didn't sven try to make it seem plausible when two cops were being shot at early in the film. When I was in Iraq we did get shot at one time from someone with an Ak and he completely missed. At first we thought it was stray bullets , so it was kind of comical in that sense , but lookng back it's almost miraculous no one got hurt that day. In the movies it's a common occurrance

 

[Ipodman]

Just curious: what constitutes "no good reason"

Like when a character throws swear words out and it doesn't add anything to the story, it doesn't really show anything about the character, it just shows how childish and desperate the writer is

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

Villains intentionally getting themselves caught as part of their plan

Big name Actors being used for small roles but advertised prominently

Studios announcing movies over five years in advance

Sequels with the original cast returning after 30+ plus

Remakes and reboots that try to get by on name only when they'd have been better as original movies

 

[PalmerTheThing]

When every house or family in modern tv shows or modern movies come off as extremely wealthy. I can't think of a specific example right now, but I watch so many movies or tv shows where the family is struggling with money problems and they're sitting in a half million dollar home, and every child has a macbook and a iphone.

No.friggan.way.

 

[batman44]

annoying kids

 

[Octoberist]

When every house or family in modern tv shows or modern movies come off as extremely wealthy. I can't think of a specific example right now, but I watch so many movies or tv shows where the family is struggling with money problems and they're sitting in a half million dollar home, and every child has a macbook and a iphone.

No.friggan.way.

What about the realistic family of the award winning Transformers 4?

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

When every house or family in modern tv shows or modern movies come off as extremely wealthy. I can't think of a specific example right now, but I watch so many movies or tv shows where the family is struggling with money problems and they're sitting in a half million dollar home, and every child has a macbook and a iphone.

No.friggan.way.

Add to this that in most sitcoms they have money but are almost never shown to be going to work

 

[Ravenna]

when a villain is this close to defeating the hero or achieving his plan and instead of doing it he decides to yammer on for half an hour and disclose his plan

edit: actually scratch that because someone already said it and because I remember another one.

my biggest pet peeve ever is the ''strong female character trend''

why would I be annoyed by that, you might ask? because it is all smoke and mirrors and because it is a lie.
a strong character is one who has a personality and 3 dimensions and is actually useful in the story and not used as a prop or just there to be a love interest to a hero.

in the last few years every time a new blockbuster is promoted someone uses the words ''she is not like other female characters, she is strong!!''

and then you watch the movie and she is exactly like every female character in a blockbuster ever, except she gets a scene were she kicks a man's ass. or she knows how to use a gun. or a sword. or she has a scene where a man a man insults her and she punches him.

she still has no personality. she is still the only woman in the movie in a sea of men. she is still only there to hook up with the hero. or be kidnap/end up in some kind of danger.
of course there are exceptions, but they are very few.

but what can I expect when all of those movies and tv shows are written by men who think that a woman can only be strong if she acts like a man. (*cough* D&D *cough*)

 

[kedrell]

Oh boy, there's probably too many to name for me but the first and foremost one that comes to mind is the whole Deus Ex Machina, this happens because the movie needs it to happen or because I the filmmaker says that's what happens and that's all the reason that is given(that makes any sense, that is). That bugs the hell outta me.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Villains intentionally getting themselves caught as part of their plan

I noticed that a lot in recent movies. Avengers, Skyfall, Star Trek, The Dark Knight, etc.

 

[kedrell]

I don't think Hannibal Lector qualifies.