Things on TV shows/movies that aggravate me

[utmck]

A car chase and when a car is going to make a "power slide U-turn" you can see the tire tracks on the road from the other 4-5 takes.

And the female always wearing a bra under her PJ's is laughable.

 

[beaVo]

speakin of phones... how many times have you seen someone get hung up on... and they hit the little "hang up button" 5 times real fast as if that's gonna reconnect the call.

has that EVER worked for anyone? ever?

 

[GRhino]

The CSI (Las Vegas) show where they never have any lights on. Not just at the crime scene when their looking for blood spatter (or whatever), but even in the office where there's no reason to have the lights off.

 

[utmck]

Could Jack on 24 please need to eat, use the bathroom or have his cell run out of battery just one time.

 

[Namewithheld]

How about going into a room where the light doesn't work but they will still plow on? Same goes for a basement where the lights NEVER work but hey let's go down there anyway.

Also in the old shows ie Perry Mason where nighttime is really daytime with a dark lens on the camera or sometimes you even see shadows from the sun while they are walking.

 

[Statalyzer]

I find it funny how in almost any old movie (and still in some recent ones) when someone is driving the director finds it necessary to tell them to rotate the steering wheel back and forth in a slow, steady rhythm as if every road on earth is built in wiggles instead of straight lines.

LOTR battles made plenty of sense to me. The Orcs are inferior in battle - their only advantage over humans/dwarves/elves seems to be climbing ability and perhaps absorbing pain, but their fighting ability isn't too good. They have to rely on vast numbers or on other powerful augments to win (wargs, the flying beasts the nazgul ride on, oliphaunts, battering rams, exploding magic metal spheres).

The Uruk-Hai that Saruman creates are much better at fighting. Once they come into the picture, in the first battle Boromir dies and Aragorn barely wins - and that's with most of the horde scattering to find the hobbits and capturing the ring rather than fighting. And they would have conquered Helms Deep if not for a last-minute cavalry charge.

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[kmac30]

i think you have to give the old shows a break.

i hate scenes where ppl are waking up.

also get annoyed with the background when ppl are driving. then they pull over and you see a different scene.

 

[OrangeChipper]

The token black guy or Homo guy. TO watch tv is to believe that 1/3 of the population is gay and about 40% of the population is black.

 

[The Drake]

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[RabidLonghorn]

When the best friend that lives next door they never ring the bell they just come on in.

 

[accuratehorn]

I like good car chase scenes, but if you have ever left the surly bounds of earth in a car, that is hit a bump where the wheels left the ground, and came back down, you would know there is damage to the suspension and your wheels are pointing in funny directions. You can't fly 50 feet off some ramp, come back down and continue chasing a bad guy, unless it is on foot. But I try to suspend disbelief and enjoy these shows, which are meant to entertain us, after all.

 

[Texanne]

accurate,

I wish I could suspend disbelief for the CSI shows, but I can't. They are just too much for me. CSIs don't run tests on their own: detectives tell them what tests to run. And CSIs don't questions witnesses. And they sure as hell don't interrogate suspects. That's what detectives do.

I know the shows are meant to entertain us, but that's asking a lot for anyone who has ever worked in a detective division, which I have. It's like my father, who was a doctor, would never watch a single medical show.