Movies Name Things You Hate When Watching A Movie

[TKing]

Bad death scenes being allowed into the final product (The Dark Knight Rises for example, the chick who played Talia)

Setting a movie up for a sequel, if the movie sucks that might be it with no sequel, some movies could simply use a definitive ending. I'll add in unnecessary sequels, as a horror fan those get stretched out heavily.

Family movie, table full of breakfast, let me drink a sip of orange juice and leave.

 

[666]

I hate how the main protagonist that's really likeable just doesn't die a half hour into the movie and they just roll the end credits.

 

[Sobek]

People breathing when they are supposed to be dead.

Poor cgi. Especially blood etc.

Unrealistic explosions. 80s movies had awesome explosions.

Political correctness or messages (DEI etc) in film.

Boss girls or chicks fighting multiple dudes.

Movies ripping off other movies and lacking originality.

Actors being miscast.

 

[Bob Gray]

More of a plot device i can't stand.

The hero finds themselves in an absolutley impossible scenario with ghosts, demons, monsters, etc. So when they ask someone for help, they just tell the truth and act like everyone is crazy for not believing their story about their house being haunted or something.

Just once id like to see the hero lie to the police about terrorists or something so they come and kill the vanpire/ghost/supernatural threat with a SWAT team

Not just supernatural stuff either. Basically, the hero tells the truth when the truth is something that obviously no one in their right mind would believe.

 

[Ardaric]

Helicopters (or sometimes planes) flying incredibly close to massive monsters for no reason and getting swatted out of the sky.

 

[B0l0joe]

Pretty popular girl who is really nice dates douchebag jock over the smart sensitive nerd who ends up “stealing” her from him.

100 pound chicas beating down on trained men in movies. Amanda Nunes is a beast but even she would have her hands full against one trained Marine in top condition

Token black flamboyant characters in movies/tv. It is possible to make a gay black men who doesn’t act effeminate. Omar was hands down the best character on The Wire and he never acted like a stereotype. It can be done

Omar was awesome. Was just watching season 5 when that little rat Karnard wastes him. Marlo calling him a ‘dicksuck’ did make me chortle though.

 

[Brother Numsi]

Omar was awesome. Was just watching season 5 when that little rat Karnard wastes him. Marlo calling him a ‘dicksuck’ did make me chortle though.

Or when Stringer called him a f***** when he saw Omar in court lol

Hated Karnards little Shiesty ass. It’s strange so many people who I’ve talked to who watched The Wire disliked a little kid so much

 

[Brother Numsi]

Helicopters (or sometimes planes) flying incredibly close to massive monsters for no reason and getting swatted out of the sky.

Man, it’s like what the hell are they thinking flying that close to a gigantic fire breathing lizard?!

 

[Gigacardio]

All Hollywood cliches, a lot of which are supposedly 'tropes' not cliches.

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

2 characters are talking, one of them says something that causes the other to realize the key to their whole ________ conundrum upon hearing it. (Kinda lazy but no problem so far)

But when they then say "Say that again?/ What'd you just say? No not that part, the part before that?"

Literally never seen this ever happen in any conversation ever, happens in movies and TV constantly.

 

[DrederickH8m]

Gratuitous sex scenes. If they're going to show some fucking there better be someone taking a shit on them too

 

[shorinryu86]

I don't have the energy to finish a 2 hour film in a single seating, I always fell asleep.

 

[TeTe]

When I'm watching a movie at home with my wife and she doom scrolls on her phone for fifteen minutes, only to look up after something important happens and is like "wait what happened?"

 

[horc00]

Pseudo-intellectual dialogue.

Getting a cab instantly walking out the building.

People running away from killers and falling and turning back to look at the killer while slowly getting up.

 

[horc00]

Token black flamboyant characters in movies/tv. It is possible to make a gay black men who doesn’t act effeminate. Omar was hands down the best character on The Wire and he never acted like a stereotype. It can be done

This has gotten on my nerves as well. This happens even in tv shows and I'm tired of it. I saw it most recently in Black Doves where the black guy plays the effeminate one while his lover is a contract killer.

Or the sassy black chick with multitude of hand gestures.

Or the asian chick with purple/blue hair.

Or the white-passing half-asian actor in the rare event the story needs a cool asian dude.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

The ground is hot lava.
People fall from like 800 ft. but as long as they stop themselves inches above the ground, they’re fine, no matter how abrupt the stop, or how it would have snapped them in half or ripped their arms off.

Batman does a lot of this.

 

[whocares]

Aliens
Outer Space
Any dumb shit from "the future" (and they're always wearing some gay ass outfit that is supposed to look futuristic but is just retarded)
Superheroes
Animation


Anything that plays like it was dreamed up by a 7 year old can fuck right off

 

[HereticBD]

An out of place romantic subplot in a non-romantic movie. I get the gist. No need for a 10 minute dinner date scene.

Although, I figure they're like tit shots in a romantic comedy to keep the men somewhat amused.

 

[ufcfan4]

-No selling death

In action and horror movies especially, close friends and family are killed usually quite cruelly and unexpected…yet the characters move on pretty quickly and don’t exhibit the characteristics of a grieving person. Even if it’s a fast paced movie and the chase is still on. There should be some selling.

This goes for injuries too. If I jump out of an upstairs window I’m done for the day…even if it didn’t kill me.

-Excessive sex scenes.

There is rarely even one sex scene that ever advanced the plot of a film.. so a movie that is littered with it is telling me they don’t have a lot of ideas.


-The Generator

This is a niche one but in every movie it happens. When the power is cut and generators kick in. A character will always say “the generator is turning on” or simply “the generator”

clearly because they think most people watching have no clue why any lights could be coming on during a power outage. But in the movie everybody should usually be aware of the place they’re at having generators.

-The failing flashlight

I just don’t buy that your flashlight is having trouble turning on right when you need it. Same with the failing car but a piece of shit car is more believable than a dud flashlight.


-Hollywood breakfast

The worst. Nobody finishes their fuckin meal in the movies.

-The climax montage/Music video

Donnie Darko started this trend with the “Mad World” and so many movies and TV dramas ended each episode/movie with essentially a sappy music video that tied up the plot. I hate it.

Great call on the no sell but I guess it's sort of the nature of those genres. I agree though, it would be nice to see a bit more empathy and emotion in character interactions after those types of situations. As great of a horror film as Scream is, it's guilty of that, too, with the big house party literally days after what happened to Barrymore and her boyfriend.

Conversely, despite its flaws (and it's not on the level of Scream as an overall film) I thought I Know What You Did Last Summer actually did quite an effective job of showing the trauma and pain impacting the four main characters a year after the their accident. The viewer can see pretty plainly how they are struggling to deal with their actions and the adverse consequences to their lives.

 

[The Clark]

The sci-fi obsession with making everything transparent, even when doing so would make NO SENSE. Why would you ever want a cell phone with a transparent/translucent screen? To make it harder to see while also exposing your personal info to everyone in the room?

Placing text on the screen, especially the name of the location or the time. The absolute laziest shit ever, with the added bonus of being super insulting to your audience. "The Next Day". Yeah, I know. The previous scene was at night, and now it's broad daylight. I got it. And they always put the name of the city up there as they are doing an overhead shot of some of the most famous landmarks in the world. Fuck you.