Annoying Things on TV and Movies That Get Your Goat.

Woden said:
Just how gratuitous are we talking? I might have to start watching!
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Honestly I just think they've ramped it up in the past few years. Stuff that wouldn't normally fly they've started to sneak in.

Example, I walked in on my wife watching Corrie at 7:30 with the kids, they had a scene with Todd and the Vicar naked in bed together with just a white bedsheet covering their modesty.

On another occasion they had 2 girls semi-naked in the back of a van all over each other. At the end of the day I don't want my kids watching this. I don't watch trash TV anyway but I was fuming that my 6 yr old and 9 yr old are seeing this.

It's not just me, Corrie received the most complaints it ever had after those 2 scenes and they issued an apology. They're not really sorry though. They're trying to push this stuff into everything now.
 
I have nothing whatsoever against Americans or America in general but I find it INFURIATING when we refer to Americans as "our cousins" in Movies...usually spy movies.

Utterly servile and sycophantic nonsense and something I have never heard from anyone IRL.
 
RevBillyG said:
If you're going to hide a bomb somewhere, always make sure it has a red flashing light and beeps.
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Red flashing lights for bombs, blue/green flashing lights for tracking devices.

That's worse. I'm pretty sure you don't want your tracking device to be found so why on earth would you fit a strobe light to it?
 
Whenever a blade is unsheathed it always makes a metal on metal withdrawal sound. Same goes for swinging a blade through air - there's always a swish of cutting through air. That irks me.
 
ianh said:
As an ex-military person
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Maybe you can confirm or debunk something for me.

Once it occurred to me I now cannot get it out of my mind when watching movies.

The scene-Character is in a building, trench, whatever

The Action-There is an incoming Shell/Bomb/Morter

The sound effects-A descending or falling whistle.

Surely, if you could hear anything at all, it should be an ascending one???

(The incoming will be falling towards you, and therefore accelerating. If it is making some sort of audible nose. Doppler effects should mean that you get a rising whistle rather than a falling one)
 
Superficial said:
I have nothing whatsoever against Americans or America in general but I find it INFURIATING when we refer to Americans as "our cousins" in Movies...usually spy movies.

Utterly servile and sycophantic nonsense and something I have never heard from anyone IRL.
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Independence Day. Whole world just waiting for team America to figure it out. Complete work the RAF waiting by the radio "about bloody time".
 
Image enhancement in almost any program these days. Having tried numerous times to enhance poor cctv stills at work (e.g. to find out which of our Trucks/Trailers have hit something lol) and failed miserably, what I wouldn't give for CSI Image enhancement.

Also almost anything from CSI Miami etc - latent Wifi signals still in the air hours later? LOL
 
Cop shows where the detectives are looking for a suspect and they see them across a park/store/playground etc and shout "Stop right there" giving them ample time to run away instead of sneaking up on them and just collaring them!
 
Armageus said:
Image enhancement in almost any program these days. Having tried numerous times to enhance poor cctv stills at work (e.g. to find out which of our Trucks/Trailers have hit something lol) and failed miserably, what I wouldn't give for CSI Image enhancement.
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Indeed, I'm old enough to have dabbled in the old photo technology of negatives, positives, enlargers and trays of chemicals.

The idea that a vital piece of evidence, a picture with a car in the far distance can be enlarged enough to be able to read the numberplate is
a stock plot device for many TV crime series and movies, it is also absolutely ludicrous.
 
Cars explode when they crash

When anybody approaches a microphone it always has to feedback

Actors pretending to smoke when you can see that they aren't.
 
Orionaut said:
Maybe you can confirm or debunk something for me.
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I've been at the receiving end of both Rockets (107/122/240mm) and some various sized Mortars while in Iraq (Basrah, Al Amarah, BIAP, various FOB's) and Afghanistan (Kandahar & various FOB's) and while I know that scientifically it's supposed to be based on the doppler effect, from my personal experience I could never tell any "Pitch" changes just "Volume" i.e. it just got louder as it got closer then got quieter as it passed (part of the doppler effect) but I don't remember the pitch increasing/decreasing at the same time, which is also part of the doppler effect.

So for example, if a rocket flew overhead there was a sound almost like a low flying jet going by (so the volume started quiet, got louder until it passed then got quieter) followed by a boom or bang sound (depending on how far away it anded) as it hit something. Bare in mind this happens over the space of a second or two at most. The closet I came to an impact was a small 107mm rocket hitting the blast wall about 6ft away from me (it hit the opposite side to where I had "hit the dirt") and there was no "noise" at all before hand, just a sudden air pressure increase with a massive CRACK sound (no boom to bang) all the same time followed by a metric ton of swearing :D

Mortars were the "weirdest" as you usually heard the "Thump" of it being fired a good few seconds before the impact and they did "whistle" as they came back down (again volume change but don't remember pitch so much) but to me that "thump" sound was exactly the same noise a chest freezer door makes when it's dropped shut, so the first time I heard it I spent those valuable few seconds while the mortar was in the air, not taking cover as I should but instead wondering who the hell had managed to get a chest freezer out to a small operating site and whether I find it and pop some water in it for a cool drink later. As the mortar landed a good 200m away my brain did a fantastic "Dads Army" impression as the two thoughts of "THATS NOT A FRIDGE DOOR" and "DON'T PANIC" both hit at the same time leaving me trying to burrow into the sand for cover like an startled ostrich whilst getting into an uncontrollable giggling fit over the situation and being found like that by a mate (who said I kept saying Fridge Door and then collapsing into giggles again) wasn't exactly my proudest moment :D
 
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