Entire plot lines hinging on people not explaining themselves which would take about 5 seconds.
The idiot plot.
Animes abuse this trope all the time. Plot only happens because MC don’t say what he wants/feels.
The only good example I can think of where people actually explain themselves is Agents of SHIELD, which isn’t even a movie. It’s amazing. She doesn’t doubt his loyalty for a second and understands, given their situation, why he had to keep it a secret from her. You still get drama, but it’s drama from everyone being on the same dramatic page.
So… every season of Bridgerton?
I’m a software engineer, so basically anything involving software/hacking. It’s always inaccurate. (Because accurate hacking is incredibly boring.)
Mr Robot has some pretty accurate hacking and social engineering in it.
Except for that one scene in The Matrix Reloaded where we get to see actual vulnerabilities exploited.
That looks like the closest to realistic hacking I’ve seen, until you get to the graphical password box that starts flashing “access granted”. None of my SSH servers have ever done that.
But, credit where credit is due, at least she’s using realistic hacking tools.
I’m pretty sure we can do this with a bash script. Now I want it.
I’ve never seen that one. I think that’s my new favorite line.
It’d be remiss not to mention Mr. Robot somewhere in this conversation.
So you don’t type 90 wpm your way into the mainframe for work? You might need chew some more gum and change your laptop theme to black and green.
No, you need two people typing on the same keyboard to prevent a hacker from infiltrating their system.
Here’s some sugar for you
Such a good show. :D
Bad physics. Totally pulls me out of immersion.
No, Captain America cannot lean back and hold a helicopter that is lifting off. It doesn’t matter how strong he is - he will be lifted once there is enough force generated from the propellers. Basically anything Batman does that involves gravity in the Nolan films is similar.
The magic I can get behind. The mutant stuff or dragons or even time travel in superhero movies doesn’t bother me. It’s the lack of sensible mechanics on an alleged Earth that I’m bothered by.
I get your point, but I will say the Captain America scene isn’t completely out of the realm of possibility. Cap weighs the helicopter down for a few seconds, and grabs a support beam for the helipad as soon as he can. If Cap can keep a grip on both the beam and the helicopter, then the propellers will only lift him if either Cap or the support beams break.
Of course, whether he should have had that much effect on the helicopter for those first few seconds is another matter entirely and I’m not enough of a physicist to make that call.
It’s those first seconds I am referring to. The pole does make more sense to me. Also not a physicist, but it irks me just the same.
Maybe Captain America’s real power is that he is really heavy.
Yay! I’m a superhero!
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Ant man surfing through pressurized water pipes. Would have been a lot more interesting and realistic as a scuba dive.
If the railing was strong enough, seems possible.
Yes! This seems like the right movie. For a few seconds before he grabs the pole, he does just lean back, right? That is the part that concerns me the most. At least this in the image seems doable if somebody is cap strong and angry.
I don’t think he’s able to stop it by just leaning, I thought it was pulling him along.
Edit: yeah, doesn’t look like he’s stopped it till he grabs into the railing. https://youtu.be/1ccey7IJLCM
Freaking Gravity…
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People driving while staring intently at their passenger for way too long.
and the driver jerkily moving the steering wheel like they’re on a rally course instead of most likely just a long straight road
I have vague memories as a kid of my dad doing this IRL and my mom occasionally telling him to look at the road. But idk if I just made up the memories or not. I guess my point is maybe these people do exist out there? Lol!
People always hang up the phone without saying goodbye or anything. I read that it’s some time is money thing in film and TV but it just sounds like bullshit to me.
I thought that was just an American cultural thing.
In the UK, you have to say bye at least 3 times.
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson are still exchanging goodbyes to this day.
“I’m gonna let you go…”
That’s true in the States too, just not in the movies. Especially in the south or midwest
TV shows and movies only make you think it’s a cultural thing.
We say “bye” here in the US after essentially every phone call otherwise people would probably be confused at when the conversation ended or when you’re hanging up.
An exception I’ve had to this is when I’m getting a phone call where someone is trying to meet me at a location. I might hang up without saying bye if we both make eye contact in person and find each other. Because we’re going to continue the conversation in person anyway.
There are other rare exceptions like this, but it’s definitely culturally expected for you to say “bye” before hanging up!
Cutting the palm to spill blood. Typically followed by a huge battle scene where a gash in your palm isn’t going to affect your sword play/battle prowess
When people and places that should be dirty are clean and kempt. Pirates on the seas should be dirty. Soldiers in the field should be dirty. Cowboys on a cattle drive should be dirty. Swamp cultists should be dirty. I appreciate realistically dirty characters. It distracts me every time when characters are clean and showered with their hair done on day three of being lost in the woods or some shit. It’s one of the many things Our Flag Means Death nails. Even Stede gets grimy, because piracy is grimy work.
Especially when two people have to crawl through a pile of mud, or experience explosions or something and the guy is all muddy and torn up but the girl’s makeup is intact and her clothes are mostly clean.
No, she has one spot of mud perfectly placed on her cheekbone.
Always seems to happen when a woman is in an explosion or something too. One cut or scratch in the same place or just above the eyebrow, and in the next scene it’s got a butterfly bandaid over it.
It’s the perfect white teeth that throws me off in those scenes.
When hackers/IT people in a movie have a fully mobilzed datacetner/networking/rack gear they’ve seemingly configured in a matter of minutes or hours, not days or weeks. Forget stabilizing custom software, too. It just works. AND you can hack any protocol with it!
When hackers/IT people in a movie work in a room that has a bunch of server racks blinking away and it’s not 90db of whirring fan noise. Datacenters are LOUD.
Lazy plot setups. Main example: if someone coughs for no reason in the first 10 minutes, they DEFINITELY have a terminal illness that will be revealed shortly.
Similarly, there is only one reason for a woman to vomit in a movie.
Especially frustrating because vomiting isn’t even guaranteed with pregnancy! 20-30% of women make it through with no morning sickness, and then out of the 70-80% who do feel totally nauseous, not everyone actually vomits!
A necessary evil, though I agree very spoiler-y. People don’t respond well to left-field plot-relevant details. So when you have a story to tell and a limited run-time to tell it, you don’t get time to linger on atmospheric-but-not-plot-relevant details, and you have to include a satisfying level of foreshadowing. The result is that those foreshadowing details don’t get time to “breathe”.
This seems to go either one of two ways, depending largely on story pacing and overall quality: either it’s derided as predictable, or lauded as “right”. It’s a tricky, and largely subjective, line to walk.
Im honestly not super bothered by it. Why have an actor cough if it doesn’t mean something?
Not only in movies, in series too. Fake coffee. People takes hot coffee in a disposable cup, never burn their hand, can drink it like water or says damn it’s hot but the cup is empty, they never dropped a drop, never choke, never spill it, etc. They can drink it and talk at the same time, run with it, etc. I hate it.
I feel like actors wouldn’t benefit from an adundance of hot coffee they have to spill take after take. Especially if they have to run with it.
It’s a continuity thing, apparently. If the level in the cup keeps going up and down in a single scene, it’s more distracting than a clearly empty mug.
Also, obviously empty cups.
Just put water in it.
Badly performed CPR. Extra point if it’s surprisingly/unrealistically/impossibly effective.
Agreed, but you can’t do real CPR on a live person.
They should just not show it. Plenty of opportunities for cuts in a scene where CPR is necessary.
Watch Grey’s Anatomy and take a shot every time you see limp compressions
And a person jolting when getting shocked to restart the heart
It really really bothers me when a character puts something down, and then walks away without picking it up, especially if they show them with it again later.
Something not so small that bothers me is when a victim is running from a bad guy or monster and then happens to knock them down, like with a baseball bat or something, and then they just take off running again. Fucking finish the job, you dumb ass! Hit him a few more times and he won’t catch up to you again in 30 seconds when you unsurprisingly trip over your own feet.
Just watched an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. In the episode, the ship’s security officer, La’An, enters the bedroom of Khan Noonien-Singh when he is a small child. Proceeds to put a loaded gun down on his desk, have a conversation, then leaves the room. You’re the chief security officer, and you just left a loaded gun in a child’s bedroom!
Yeesh! That’s lazy directing.
Similarly when they walk in the house but don’t shut the front door again, or open the fridge but never close it. I’m like waiting the whole scene to get back to that and missed the entire dialogue.
Right? Act like normal people, you hooligans!
When a single person is fighting multiple assailants but they still only attack one at a time while the others just stand there trying not to look odd while waiting for their turn.
This annoys me too. Especially when it is “their turn” and it’s the slowest most predictable combat move.
No, no, they’re wincing and recovering and holding the spot they got hit at while being disoriented.
Treating mental conditions like you can simply come back from it.
Depending on how you interpret that, can refer to something like brain trauma (think of all the times people were knocked out) or something like someone’s state of being (e.g. I’m probably the only one in the world who thinks Pokémon Horizons is rushing with how they treat Dot).
Oh god, my eye roll when depression is ‘cured’ after a bottle of myserty pills and a single ‘therapy’ session physically hurts. Similarly, the symptoms are always so stereotypical and often false - see OCD and cleaning a lot. Sure, cleaning can be an OCD trait but it’s much more likely that the person has to touch every ceiling tile 3 times before they can focus on a conversation.
That every TV show and movie seems to re-use the same sound effects. Always takes me out of the story when I hear the same crying baby or fake “car clunking and breaking down” noises for the 1000th time.
I am more of a points at screen Leonardo Di Caprio from wolf of wallstreet kinda guy.
Hey! I know that sound!
I was watching Generation Kill, absolutely immersed because it’s amazing, then all of a sudden I’m hearing the baby cry from an interlude track on Ænima by Tool. I’ve listened to that album countless times so that was very very weird and distracting
I was going to mention this. This squeaky metal door/gate noise is so overused in the XFiles that if I hear it in a movie today, I want to walk away. It’s been 30 years! Get a new door sound.
“Dr. Davis, telephone please. Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair. Dr. J. Hamilton, Dr. J. Hamilton…”
Ooh gun shot sounds from 80 movies were a bang. Doesn’t matter if Clint Eastwood is in far west or 80 LA, they are the same sounds.
