Little Things that Annoy You on the Screen?

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This is not really annoying, but.....

I think it's really interesting how many shows use the "Where are you going?" as a "bridge" for the another character's line.

When characters change their hair

The fact that they edit a lot of stuff in older syndicated shows just so they can pack in more commercials. Like The Golden Girls - the jump cuts are just terrible. And cartoons where they now show nothing but the title instead of making an actual intro to put in more commercials. It's just sad.

And female protagonists who have just been in an action scene where they should be all dirty and have their clothes messed up but instead they look like they just got out of a spa. Actually I saw that just yesterday while watching EWW the modern King Kong movie where that lady slides down a big, muddy hill and not only is she not even hurt but her clothes and hair look perfect.

And overuse of CGI in live-action movies. I can so tell that's not real water they're sailing on, or a crowd of real people standing in a village square, or even real steam coming out of the actor's mouths on a freezing cold night.

Some of those family films where they make the dad a really funny character, by making him as immature as the kids. If I had a dad like that I would be so embarrassed.

Probably already mentioned, but historical inaccuracies, like a Greyhound bus from the late 70's early 80's in a movie that was supposed to be set in the 60's . The movie "The Queen" was supposed to be set in 1997, but there's a scene where you can see a Mercedes S class that didn't arrive on the market until 2000… I point these out as we watch so it annoys my wife!

I can't stand when there is a driving scene in "New York City" and it's obviously another city (usually Toronto). In one movie (Kick Ass 2) you could VERY clearly see they were at the intersection of Yonge and Grosvenor Streets in downtown Toronto.

Doesn't help that traffic lights are one of my obsessive interests. Yes, I am that guy who blurts you "they say it's set in Chicago but only Ohio uses those style of traffic lights."

People who fake eating. There's a commercial for those stand-alone (or, whatever they're called----the shells stand upright, so you can fill them, more easily) taco shells, and there's a little girl who fakes taking a bite of the taco; and, it's soooooo fake----at least, she TRIED to make a chewing motion, but.....

This commercial drives me NUTS!!

I'm exited for when someone gets good with filming with a drone!
I have a tendency to try to figure out if it is a drone filming, or with a crane, so much that I can't focus on what that clip is trying to say
I have caught myself commenting to myself on the camera movement and transitions that I know could have been done better, even though I don't know specifically how!

one special episode i liked was when they filmed how they did the "new" intro to "gold rush" on discovery channel, that was made all with drones. flying in and out for portraits, and amazing areal filming.

sorry if I was a bit OT

Fake drinking, especially hot beverages.

When people look directly into the camera----ooo, it gives me the WILLIES!!

Two prime examples: Helen Mirren in "The Queen" (at the beginning, when she's sitting for her portrait); Meryl Streep in "Mama Mia" (when she's sitting on the sink in the bathroom).

I sort-of get an electric charge that shoots straight to my belly-button!! LOL I don't know WHY that IS----like, why does it go THERE? Someone with alot more knowledge than ME, in Biology, maybe, could answer that!?!

^ It gives me the willies too. I think it's down to my problems with eye contact.

House MD kind of annoyed me. They didn't really do a great job of connecting everything and the ending to every episode was always the same. House sparks an idea and he's always right. It was good for the first four seasons but it shouldn't have been carried on for eight. So I guess what annoys me are characters who are supposed to be realistic but end up just being too smart.