Things on TV shows/movies that aggravate me

Jay Leno constantly banging his pen/pencil on his desk while introducing someone.
The play fighting in Braveheart has alwys been funny.
When shows come back from commercial they recap what just happened before they went to commercial...Uh I was just watching, stop wasting time and get on with the show.
 
Accurate, that was a kick *** LOTR rant!!


What bothers me most about movies and tv is John Lithgow.
 
1.) LOTR doesn't bother me at all because most of the humans suck horribly at fighting. Gandalf, Legolas, Aragorn and Gimli are legendary badasses and the movie makes it clear that most humans are not. The hobbits are heroes too, and they mostly suck at fighting (except for the time when Sam goes off and kills like 3 orcs).

2.) Any time genetic engineering comes up. It's basically the same thing as computers, just with "genes" and "DNA". Contrary to popular belief, making a horrifying zombie virus would be essentially impossible even in the future when that sort of genetic manipulation is available. Bacteria and viruses already do a ton of really scary things, but "RND pump" and "MHC downregulation" don't play nearly as well with the target audience as "horrifying zombie virus".
 
Those stupid bleeping ads and/or animated logos that wander all over the screen when I'm trying to watch a show. TNT, AMC and FX are bad, but USA is the absolute worst. There was a funny youtube video linked here one time about that.

Same with those supposedly unobtrusive little logos, CBS has moved theirs up and to the left (out of the lower right corner) and made it more noticeable recently.
 
law and order is the worst.

any information can be pulled from a computer in just a few keystrokes.

Any paper file can be obtained by opening the nearest drawer.
 
I have never understood all of the spectacular car wrecks. Every auto I have ever owned came equipped with brakes.

That wimpy *THUMP* sound that mortars make in war movies.

When Hollywood really gets the history wrong. I make sure we sit close to the exit on certain movies. I had to leave Braveheart four times for a laughter break.
 
In tv and pg-13 movies, women having finished a long love-making session and are still wearing a bra. I know you can't show anything (so just do head and shoulder shots) but when's the last time anyone had sex for any length of time and didn't take off the bra (their own or their partner's)?
 
The starlet who is running away from a serial killer/monster/rapist and always falls down and hurts her ankle.

I don't watch horror movies, but they are cliche-ridden. "Hey, let's stay in this dark, run-down place being stalked by a violent killer - oh, and let's split up, too."
 
Morning scenes, man or woman gets out of bed hair in place, wide awake, instantly puts on clothes and is ready to go! It just ain't real!
 
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When the studio audience applauds the appearance of a character. I think this started with the Fonz on Happy Days. The first time he entered a scene was usually good for a couple of minutes of standing ovation. He didn't have to have a cool line either. It was like a Fonz tribute every episode.

I also think its pretty stupid when the audience cheers when a character does something moral, makes the right choice, etc. Like Johnny's good parents and fine upbringing saved him from marrying that meth addict stripper, not the guy who writes the script.
 
You've heard of the Wilhelm scream? We'll I'm pretty sure there's a car horn equivalent. Seems like in almost every show or movie that involves a scene with someone driving and another car honking their horn, it's the same double-horn sound in every scene.
 
I hate the "10 second death chokes". Most of the time, they don't even strangle them long enough to lose consciousness.

Also, apparently you can hit anyone in the general vicinity of their head/neck and knock them the **** out.

Fight scenes were the combatants hit each other 20-30 times w/ hay makers to the jaw and head, yet they never appear to do much damage to their hands or their heads.
 
Reality shows, that are supposed to be so dangerous..yet there's cameras, and people following you around. Like the person filming wouldn't step in and save someone in a dangerous situation. You want real survival, leave mofos on a deserted island for 6 weeks by themselves. Whoever shows up at the rendevous survives!
 
Mrs. ATF and I always get a kick out of the foot chases where the soon to be victim is running for their life while the monster/ghoul/drug crazed killer is limping along barely able to walk, but is about to catch them.
 
I know that it is sacrilegious to speak ill of Roadhouse, but it is a good example, also Quantum of Solace. I hate it when the guy who has a bodyguard is hard to kill even after you have just seen the hero kill that bodyguard. How does the nerd/rich guy end up having that mush fight in him..
 
I'll tell you what really irritates me-every week without question when UT is scheduled to play basketball, the first game runs over, and almost always goes into overtime. They never finish on time even if they don't go overtime. So we miss a good portion of the first half almost every time, while sitting there screaming at Valdasta State and Morehead Polytechnic to get their sorry asses off'n the TV screen in front of my vein-popping near exploding with rage screaming drooling eyes-popped hair pulling out face.
 
I find it odd that according to Hollywood every female police officer, detective, or government special agent is a borderline supermodel.
 
Fat or dorking looking guys who have hot chicks.

Examples:
Kevin James in that TV show with the cute chick from the oil commercials

George Costanza with every chick he has dated

Goerge Lopez in his TV show with his MILF wife
 
The appearance of newspapers in movies always kill me. They'll be looking at the local paper, and the front page won't have a single photo on it and impossibly long headlines. Or, if there is a picture, it's just a giant mug shot. Some movies do it better than, but TV shows always have the most ridiculous looking newspapers.
 
When someone on the phone gets hung up on and they hear a dial tone. When someone hits redial on a cell phone and you hear the numbers dialing.

Basically lots of stuff with phones.
 
Marksmanship in gun fights. The good guy(s) can run for ever with the bad guy(s) shooting at them and they are not hit even once. While the good guy(s) can turn around and take out a bad guy with one shot.

Roads and parking lots are almost always wet at night.

Wheels squealing on dirt roads.
 
I believe that CSI Miami purposely uses as many unlikely scenarios as possible and "every" perp confesses at the end of "every" show. The next time this show produces a surprise ending will be the first time. They also have a fingerprint data base that contains the fingerprints of virtually everyone on the planet. I could go on for awhile.
 
Outrunning explosions on motorcycles.

Havinga T-Rex chase you in a pickup doing 70mph and it is running 69 mph and almost catching you. Then you ditch the car and physically run what, maybe 5 mph, and the T-Rex runs 4.9 mph and just almost but can't quite catch you. What happened to running 69 mph? You should be eaten.
 
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