Things that annoy you about movies

Post Reply New Topic

I don't know if there's a topic for this already or not, so sorry if there is. But I thought it would be a good place to list and talk about the things in movies that really annoy people.

American accents: I know I'm being biased here because I'm English, but since the US is dominant over the film industry, even the films that DON'T take place in the US will still have characters with American accents, unless they are set in the UK instead. Even if it takes place in some fantasy world, or a completely different time period, it still happens, ESPECIALLY animated movies (I know that Disney does it a LOT).

Interrupted kisses:This one doesn't need explaining much. 2 people are about to kiss without even thinking about it, but suddenly, they get interrupted, and probably won't kiss properly until the climax of the film, when they finally realise they're in love.

Women:Even though they are trying to get more strong and independent females into films, I don't think there are enough, or they're not the main characters, and some may even still need rescuing at some point, usually by someone who becomes their love interest later.

Time between release dates:Some films are already out in the US, but still won't show in other countries for about a week, possibly even a month, and in some cases, several months. With the internet today, this shouldn't be happening, because there is more chance of people accidentally stumbling upon SPOILERS before they can even see the movie.

Alright, that's all I have to rant about right now, what annoys you about movies?

-I hate how long they are. I mean seriously, there are movies that are three hours long now! They should be called buttbusters, not blockbusters.

The obligatory sex/romance and violence, they can just allude to it. I don't need to see the details. I feel the same way toward graphic vomiting.

I see very few conventional movies because I get bored by conventional plots, predictably unrealistic characters and flaccid, unimaginative ideas. It's a rare film that rises above doing what most other films do.

Many films use "winning the love interest" as a major goal of the story. Usually the main character attains some wisdom as well. It's not much like real life and I tend to prefer films that are realistic.

Actually one of the things that really annoys me are big action films where an average person becomes a great hero. All of the complexities that would actually occur if the situation were real are ignored.

it annoys me that every movie has some kind of love thing going on between 2 of the characters.

Unrealistic special effects are really annoying.

Lots and lots of explosions. They're meaningless after awhile.

i hate it when adults are casted as teenagers. it just makes the depiction of highschoolers in film even more unrealistic.

also not all movies need to have romance as part of the main plot to be good.

When films are too long, like the film ''2012''.

Too much suspension, which makes the film go on for longer than needed. Some suspension is good because it makes it exciting, but when it goes on for ages, where the camera keeps swapping to different angles in the same scene, it just takes so long and it adds unnecessary time to the film.

Fathers in films who seem like they are more childish than the kids, like Tom in ''Cheaper by the Dozen''. I hate it as well when men in films are skinny with a plain T-shirt or something underneath an undone, baggy shirt. I like men in films to be a little more serious and more manly too, like a proper father if they have kids in the film, a bit like Harry in ''My Girl''.

In most films I have with teenagers in, teenage boys seem prone to being bullied and lack in confidence. Rodrick in ''Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' seem quite confident instead of sensitive and shy, but when I watched the ''Dog Days'' one, he seems to lack confidence with girls and attracts nobody, although I thought a teenage boy as handsome as I think he is, with confidence and a strong interest in bands and has his own van would attract many girls and I thought he'd get a girlfriend in Dog Days.

I find old people quite boring in films, unless their character has Alzheimer's. I don't really know why I find them boring otherwise. Mind you, I quite like the grandparents in the Chocolate Factory films, especially Grampa Joe.

I dislike when physics or common sense is ignored.

specific things that bother me seem to most deal with guns:
Gunfire doesn't sound like that
entrance and exit wounds shown unrealistically
The hero always seems to hear the bullet before it hits them. Bullets travel faster than sound.

I'm from the US. The accents don't bother me, even accents originating from other countries, unless they're extremely strong.

I also dislike romantic subplots, unless it's established that the character have known each other for a while or fell in love before the events of the movie.

I hate montages. It's not that hard to show a progression of time.

Surprisingly, I enjoy marvel superhero movies, even when the above inaccuracies or dislikes are included. Except for one thing: If the actor looks extremely different from the character in the source material, particularly in a way that would have been easy to fix.