Little Things that Annoy You on the Screen?

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Probably already mentioned, but historical inaccuracies, like a Greyhound bus from the late 70's early 80's in a movie that was supposed to be set in the 60's . The movie "The Queen" was supposed to be set in 1997, but there's a scene where you can see a Mercedes S class that didn't arrive on the market until 2000… I point these out as we watch so it annoys my wife!

I can't stand when there is a driving scene in "New York City" and it's obviously another city (usually Toronto). In one movie (Kick Ass 2) you could VERY clearly see they were at the intersection of Yonge and Grosvenor Streets in downtown Toronto.

Doesn't help that traffic lights are one of my obsessive interests. Yes, I am that guy who blurts you "they say it's set in Chicago but only Ohio uses those style of traffic lights."

People who fake eating. There's a commercial for those stand-alone (or, whatever they're called----the shells stand upright, so you can fill them, more easily) taco shells, and there's a little girl who fakes taking a bite of the taco; and, it's soooooo fake----at least, she TRIED to make a chewing motion, but.....

This commercial drives me NUTS!!

I'm exited for when someone gets good with filming with a drone!
I have a tendency to try to figure out if it is a drone filming, or with a crane, so much that I can't focus on what that clip is trying to say
I have caught myself commenting to myself on the camera movement and transitions that I know could have been done better, even though I don't know specifically how!

one special episode i liked was when they filmed how they did the "new" intro to "gold rush" on discovery channel, that was made all with drones. flying in and out for portraits, and amazing areal filming.

sorry if I was a bit OT

Fake drinking, especially hot beverages.

When people look directly into the camera----ooo, it gives me the WILLIES!!

Two prime examples: Helen Mirren in "The Queen" (at the beginning, when she's sitting for her portrait); Meryl Streep in "Mama Mia" (when she's sitting on the sink in the bathroom).

I sort-of get an electric charge that shoots straight to my belly-button!! LOL I don't know WHY that IS----like, why does it go THERE? Someone with alot more knowledge than ME, in Biology, maybe, could answer that!?!

^ It gives me the willies too. I think it's down to my problems with eye contact.

House MD kind of annoyed me. They didn't really do a great job of connecting everything and the ending to every episode was always the same. House sparks an idea and he's always right. It was good for the first four seasons but it shouldn't have been carried on for eight. So I guess what annoys me are characters who are supposed to be realistic but end up just being too smart.

Am pretty easy going about movies compared to you all.

But there have been memorable things that bother me.

When you are at the beach looking out to sea you will notice breakers breaking against the shore. Those are the waves with the linear crests- long pipe shaped waves- that break against the shore (the waves you wade in). But beyond a hundred yards or so those kinda waves stop, and you see regular ocean waves that come to points (like little mountains). Beyond the breakers thats what the ocean looks like for the rest of the 3000 miles until you reach the other continent's breakers. You dont hafta to be an oceanographer to be aware that breakers stop near the shore.

So why is it that in the movie "The Perfect Storm" everyone raves about how 'realistic' the big rogue wave is at the climax of the movie? It maybe realistic in some ways, but...it has a long linear crest like a breaker at the beach (and the story is set hundreds of miles out in the middle of the ocean). The story is not about extreme surfing (near the shore). Its about a mid-ocean disaster. So why is the roque wave linear shaped, and not mountain shaped? It makes no sense.

Also in that movie Marky Mark falls overboard, and is suddenly helpless in the water. So George Clooney jumps in the water, grabs him, and swims back to the boat rescuing him. Now we all know that real fishermen would never jump into the sea to rescue someone (you stay on the boat and throw them a lifeline). But that picayune fact is forgivable to ignore in a movie. But what bothers me is..if Marky Mark is rendered helpless when he hits the water, why isnt George Clooney rendered equally helpless when he hits the same water? They coulda done something to differentiate the two swimmers-like have them tie a rope around clooney's waist, and tie that to the ship, before clooney jumps in to explain his lack of helplessness.

I can't remember if this has been mentioned already, but here goes. I am a big fan of western animated movies. They're highly appealing, cute and funny. But all the singing that always comes with Disney cartoons really get on my nerve.
I just find it embarrassing when characters in a show or movie start singing. Music in the background (score) is fine, but not the characters singing as part of the movie.

I can tolerate most clichés, but "don't you die on me!" should never be spoken in a film again.

Terrible fake Southern accents. Most people don't have a real one and wouldn't know a real one if it bit them on the ass. They always do a mixture of Appalachian backwoods and Tidewater upper class. Those two do not mix. I'm from Alabama and I'm always aware of the fake accents and can tell a real one from a fake. It's very rare that you hear a decent fake one. A lot of people don't know this but you can actually tell a lot by a Southern accent. You can tell what state they are from, and even what region or city and in some places like NOLA you can tell where in New Orleans they are from. A Yat accent is very different from a Creole for example. You can also usually tell whether or not someone is educated (just by the accent not by what they say) and what class they are.

So bad Southern accents is my number one issue.

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People who instantly sit up straight when they wake up from a really bad nightmare. Is there anyone who actually does this?

Crime scene investigators who look (and pose) like models.

Those silly characters who think it's a good idea to place a revolver down the back of one's pants.

Ignorance of basic physics, like the fact that if a nuclear reactor has a meltdown it will NOT explode like a thermonuclear bomb (ex. in the film K-19). Nuclear reactors and bombs are not at all alike, they operate on different principles, they have virtually nothing in common apart from atom-splitting.