Random things that bug you in movies and TV

[Malvolio]

People asking who is it when someone knocks at the front door. I can't recall a time when I've ever done that.

I often do that as a joke when I know someone I know is coming over.

[babyblob]

People asking who is it when someone knocks at the front door. I can't recall a time when I've ever done that.

I have a little radio with a tape of the song Who can it be now by Men at Work that I play when someone is at the door. Well I do that for friends and family and it drives them nuts that I wont open the door for like a minute while I sing that song.

[Captain Smith]

People asking who is it when someone knocks at the front door. I can't recall a time when I've ever done that.

Where do you live? Jerry keeping his door unlocked in Manhattan so Kramer could just stroll in or Mary Tyler Moore doing the same thing? No, that's thing that that bugs me.

[Scott Taylor]

When movies explain all the watermelons, as if they matter. Some writers and directors need to chill out and just stop with that. Hardly anything really needs to be explained, I'm especially talking about fantasy, scifi or hero movies. And if you do explain something, show rather than tell, make it mainly for art's sake rather than story's sake and make it quick. Focus on character and plot, not explanations.

Watermelon reference is from Buckaroo Banzai, where the movie parodies what I am talking about (they never got around to explaining the watermelon):

[Conn Seanery]

Exposition phone dialogue. When you can't hear the person on the other end of the call, so the one you can hear repeats everything that they're being "told" so you understand what they're talking about.

Wasted drinks. Those scenes where someone arrives and they're offered something to drink, they accept it, but the scene ends or moves on so quickly that they don't actually get a chance to drink it and just leave it there.

[Malvolio]

Any movie or TV show that takes place in San Francisco, any time people are sitting in a restaurant, there's always a view of the Golden Gate Bridge. And any movie or TV show that takes place in Paris, every hotel room has a view of the Eiffel Tower.

[LordMikel]

When movies explain all the watermelons, as if they matter. Some writers and directors need to chill out and just stop with that. Hardly anything really needs to be explained, I'm especially talking about fantasy, scifi or hero movies. And if you do explain something, show rather than tell, make it mainly for art's sake rather than story's sake and make it quick. Focus on character and plot, not explanations.

Watermelon reference is from Buckaroo Banzai, where the movie parodies what I am talking about (they never got around to explaining the watermelon):

To me what is funny about this complaint, I hear people complain about when every little detail doesn't get explained. So really, damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[TheRay]

I often do that as a joke when I know someone I know is coming over.

That’s a reasonable thing to do though.

[Scott Taylor]

To me what is funny about this complaint, I hear people complain about when every little detail doesn't get explained. So really, damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Mainly what I am talking about is frustration with explanations when I've already accepted something without one and moved on. Explanations can be fine depending on context.

[MoneySpider]

I don't know if this is still a trend these days, but it wasn't too long ago where it seemed like every villain or bad person in a TV show or movie who got arrested actually WANTED to get arrested as part of a grand plan.

[LordMikel]

I don't know if this is still a trend these days, but it wasn't too long ago where it seemed like every villain or bad person in a TV show or movie who got arrested actually WANTED to get arrested as part of a grand plan.

Still a thing.

[gwhh]

Movie or tv person say: how you get this number? Does it really matter. Just talk to him.

[ed2962]

Movie or tv person say: how you get this number? Does it really matter. Just talk to him.

For what it's worth, in my real life job I sometimes have to call other businesses and occasionally someone will ask how I got their number. And not in a who referred you to me way, but in a I don't like getting calls way.

In my mind I'm thinking, "This is a major business with a website on the internet...! What do you mean how did I get your number?!"

[godisawesome]

Whenever a dude or a group of dudes write a bad romance or even just a badly written interaction between a guy and a girl, but try to hide behind “appealing to the female demographic” as a shield for it.

Something like the entirety of Rey and Kylo’s interactions after TFA is here: Rian Johnson started it by writing what was blatantly an introverted dude’s fantasy of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl onto Rey in TLJ, and then LFL made Abrams make it continue in TROS. Or how the DC CW shows often have bad romances.

I’m not denying he most vocal fans of those types of relationships are usually women… but sometimes it’s blatantly clear they’re a vocal minority (TLJ and TROS, where women actually dropped out almost as much as black fans) but it’s also often just a cover for lazy stupidity without at least a rational as emerging from a genuine female perspective.

[DanMad1977]

Exposition phone dialogue. When you can't hear the person on the other end of the call, so the one you can hear repeats everything that they're being "told" so you understand what they're talking about.

Wasted drinks. Those scenes where someone arrives and they're offered something to drink, they accept it, but the scene ends or moves on so quickly that they don't actually get a chance to drink it and just leave it there.

Same with food. I hate how they waste the food. Or they eat three fries and put the plate to the side to talk any further.