Things on TV shows/movies that aggravate me

Texanne

Texanne

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This is nitpicky, I know, but I was watching an episode of Seinfeld the other day, and I realized how some things just piss me off.

1. When actors say "hello" before they actually get the phone all the way up to their mouth.

2. When someone on a show pours a glass of something to drink and only puts about an inch of liquid in.

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That Jay Leno butts in and finishes every story of every guest on his show...and that now he is going to be doing it earlier in the evening.













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When "they" take footage from some rinky-dink gas station surveillence camera, run it through a computer to "clean it up" and it goes from a grainy, blurry image to an image so crisp and clear it looks better than Blu-Ray. Usually breaks the case wide open too. Lazy writing and totally takes me out of the show.
 
for no explained reason, the driver of a vehicle sliding across the front seat and getting out of the passenger side door.

the old tv shows from the 60's do this all the time.
 
When someone shakes pills out of a pill bottle. Two always fall out. No more, no less.

Unless it's a dramatic scene about someone about to (or about to try to) commit suicide. And then, half the time, they spill the pills everywhere.

Computers that beep with every keystroke. especially in office settings.

Knives (or swords) that sound like they're being dragged across a sharpening stone or grinder when pulled from a sheath - even a leather or cloth one.

Cars without rear-view mirrors. Especially when they leave the little button on the window.

Another car one - Two people are driving down the road having a conversation. And the driver takes his eyes off the road for extended times without having a wreck. Oh, and if the other person is in the back seat, that's the only time the rear-view mirror is there. But again, the driver is looking constantly in the mirror instead of watching the road.
 
no matter how popular the place or how crowded the city, there is always a beautiful open parking space right there in front of the establishment the movie characters are going to.

I guess it makes sense, who wants to see a movie in which 30 minutes of it is a character circling the block 5 times, then giving up and parking 20 blocks away, and then walking to the place they want to go.

But it always takes me out of the movie. I am like, righhhhttt, there would be an open parking spot there. Sure.
 
Perhaps this is a hazard of my chosen profession, but I have always hated shows about civil legal matters.

The lawyers always take the case in, figure out all the evidence, and have the trial, usually in one episode, sometimes two, covering the span of a few weeks, at most. And the cases are ALWAYS tried, never settled.

Of course, I guess a show about 6 months of document production and motion practice wouldn't exactly be a ratings barn-burner.
 
High def makes poor acting by extras and others in the background much more noticeable. Recently watched Brave Heart again and the "play fightin" in the background of many of the scences was comical. I've noticed the same phenomenon in several other movies.
 
Telephone conversations where the person on the phone repeats everything the other person says so you can figure out what the conversation is about.
 
I find it very distracting when I notice things out of continuity, like a glass almost empty one moment and half full the next, or a cigarette almost a butt in one scene and an inch longer in the next.

Or, someone sopping wet one moment and dry the next.
 
When two characters are in bed, just having completed the deed, and one of them gets out of bed, taking great pains to cover their body in the process. Er, did y'all just do it with blindfolds on?
 
It's a bit hard to describe, but what bugs me is that guns have become so cliche that scenes in which guns come out have become far less dramatic than they would have otherwise.
 
People wake up in the morning and immediately give each other a deep and soulful kiss. Before brushing.

Yecccch!
 
I'm a technical guy, so any computer/hacking/image enhancement things always bring me out of a movie.

As for normal stuff, I always notice when people don't close doors behind them. Especially car doors. And they NEVER lock anything.
 
When someone is hosting a party or having a group over.
The doorbell rings once, the host goes to answer it. And every singler person has shown up at the exact same time.
 
i can't believe no one has mentioned this (or maybe it goes without saying)

the hero(s) of any t.v. show or movie can beat up ANY number of bad guys all by himself. the enemies often politely wait their turn and get beat up one by one.

as much as i love the lord of the rings movies... they are some of the WORST ever.

the dwarf, the elf, and airhorn, or whatever his name is... could have defeated the entire army of orcs by themselves.
 
LOTR is not a TV show, and you know nothing about elvish blades, it is clear. And the name is Aragorn. Dude, he's a dunedin, not some guy that fell off a barstool in a pub.
 
yeah. so, step off.

and i don't care what airhorn is. it's still lame to see him and his 2 buddies kill 800 orcs by themselves.
 
This doesn't bother me so much actually. Essentially classical "Heroes" were super heroes. The main characters of LOTR were intended to be greater than normal people.
 
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Speaking of Medium...Allison is in the shower last week, husband in the bathroom with her...she pulls back the curtain with a towel already wrapped around her. No one does that and steps out with a dry towel.

There was also an episode a couple of weeks ago where she sat down at the breakfast table...her daughter served her pancakes. The first camera angle is from her left...it shows the syrup bottle by her left hand. The second camera angle is from the opposite end of the table from where she is sitting...syrup bottle at that end by no one. The third camera angle is again from her left...she reaches to her right and picks up the syrup bottle.

This kind of stuff is really not aggravating to me. It's kind of fun look for uh-ohs.













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It irritated me in 24 when the blew up a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles, because all I could think of was damage to the Rose Bowl. How could they do such a thing?
 
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