Random things that bug you in movies and TV

[TheRay]

The audience doing absolutely nothing but being frozen in place when the camera is on them.

[mr_crisp]

People who are portrayed as being too dumb to live. These are your idiot characters who don't even understand basic functions of something.

[Kirby101]

People who are portrayed as being too dumb to live. These are your idiot characters who don't even understand basic functions of something.

Have you not been paying attention to America the last four years?

[Captain Smith]

The common plot of the lone wolf super solider who has to fight against the vast government conspiracy. Invincible in hand to hand combat, never misses a shot, if a woman can punch out much bigger men. Without Remorse is a current example.

Another thing is the general incompetency of the military, such our one hero has to save the day.

[DrNewGod]

The incalculable processing power in movie/TV laptops

[TheRay]

People chasing after a moving bus.

[DrNewGod]

People chasing after a moving bus.

Ooooo. Good one.

[Osiris-Rex]

People chasing after a moving bus.

Or even better if they catch the bus and get on.

[TheRay]

The movie probably shows the 1 in 100 times that actually happens.

[green_garnish]

All plastic cups with straws in them have a quarter inch of fluid in them

[TheRay]

College parties being like the center of the universe and absolutely everybody is there. Not everyone goes to those or even there’s not just one massive one.

[Kirby101]

College parties being like the center of the universe and absolutely everybody is there. Not everyone goes to those or even there’s not just one massive one.

So true. Maybe at a small college with a couple of thousand students there is a BMOC everybody knows or a Frat that has well known parties. But most State Universities have tens of thousands of students and as a student, you wouldn't know at least 90% of them.

[TheRay]

Or even care. It's not like the next day people would be like "were you at that party last night" because none of them are particularly memorable anyway.

[Cyke]

The audience doing absolutely nothing but being frozen in place when the camera is on them.

Oh, one I'll be noticing from now on: an audience of reporters at, say, a press conference, and we get reaction shots of the audience -- but the "camera" filming them is one of the news cameras. News cameras will almost never get a reaction shot from the reporters; their attention will always be at the center of the news. Obviously, that's how you know the movie's news segments were filmed by a movie director, and not a news crew.

[DrNewGod]

College parties being like the center of the universe and absolutely everybody is there. Not everyone goes to those or even there’s not just one massive one.

So true. Maybe at a small college with a couple of thousand students there is a BMOC everybody knows or a Frat that has well known parties. But most State Universities have tens of thousands of students and as a student, you wouldn't know at least 90% of them.

Depends. There's probably not a single house party that everybody attends, but most campus towns have a district crammed with bars where a significant percentage of the students turn up on the regular. Probably a bit different in campuses located in major metro centers. It's been one of the things driving university administrators bonkers in trying to address covid; their students are throwing vast super-spreaders 3-4 times a week.