TV and Film Cliches That Get Your Goat.

When people hold a gun at arm's length rather than keep their arms close to their chest, particularly when rounding corners and going through doors. You can guarantee that the gun will be snatched from their hands.
 
ElliorR said:
Lots of The above and the biggest one for me is the wrong motorcycle engine sound. Not all bikes are inline 4s ffs.
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Wrong weapon sounds too. One that springs to mind is the minigun in Wolverine that uses stock sounds effects of what sounds like an M2. And then there's Hollywood suppressors.

Oh, and people armed with assault rifles who charge into melee range rather than just dropping their target from distance.
 
Gun shots where the bullet hits something (very close) nearly a second later.

That overused rising sound, like a whistle, whenever any piece of tech / night vision equipment is turned on. Also, the beepy sound when text is typed across the bottom of the screen.

Characters in the movie saying "This isn't a movie, this is real life!"
 
skyripper said:
When something is set in Paris.. the Eiffel Tower is visible on the horizon.
Similarly for Rome.. has to be a shot of the Colosseum..
And London.. has to have Big Ben's tower...
And Moscow.. always Red Square with the cathedral/church

Regardless of the fact these cities are all bloody huge.
Its almost as though without these landmarks, the audience would say "Its Fake!" and walk out.
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I'll give the Paris one a pass because you can see the Eiffel Tower from pretty much the whole of Paris, where's you're right with the others
 
seemingly infinite ammunition

the sound effects used for firearms, firearms are loud, people will temporarily have their hearing impaired if they're used in an enclosed space like inside a building, even more so if fired from within a vehicle... yet the sound of them in movies is pretty much nothing in most cases

exceptions being, for example, the famous shootout scene in Heat where they did make some effort to try and get the sound more realistic and the actors actually have to reload their weapons (well a couple of times at least).

 
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Movies where the hero is in the shower, leaning with one hand on the wall, head hung down low, water hammering down on the back of their skull, as they take a few loooooooooooong moments to reflect on whatever soul-destroying tragedy they're currently affected by....
 
It's not a cliche, but I hate it when characters in movies tell each other "Real life isn't like the movies"

My brain just goes "But I'm watching you in a movie right now"
 
After a night of debauchery and passion, the Woman is suddenly all shy about nudity and has to take the bedsheets with her to walk across the room. It's the same during said debauched passion too, she always has to strategically pull the covers up and hold on to them.
 
The variable abilities of a "hero" with super powers according to the storyline along side the complete lack of imagination any powered super hero has to use their powers. The exception being Chronicle where its a bunch of teens doing what real teens would do when they discover they have powers.
 
Good guy seemingly kills bad guy, but instead of putting a few more rounds/hits/stabs etc on the lifeless corpse to make sure, they stroll right up to inspect it and gets attacked again.

Group splitting up when there’s a killer on the loose.

Characters standing with their back against a window when there’s a killer on the loose.

Unnatural one-sided phone exposition: "He’s really dangerous you say? He’s armed you say? He’s at the old mill you say?"

Bad guy pointing a gun at good guy. *bang* *pause* Bad guy drops dead to reveal another good guy behind them with a gun.

Man and woman off screen, but you hear “that’s it, do it like that, that’s so good, right there, don’t stop!”, then the camera pans and reveals they’re doing something totally innocent.

Getting knocked unconscious by innocuous things. Groups of people regaining consciousness simultaneously.
 
ttaskmaster said:
Movies where the hero is in the shower, leaning with one hand on the wall, head hung down low, water hammering down on the back of their skull, as they take a few loooooooooooong moments to reflect on whatever soul-destroying tragedy they're currently affected by....
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I've just realised this is 90% of the entire run of Sons of Anarchy.

I'll add one to the mix, genius yet troubled central character has explored every avenue but just can't crack the case. Whilst having a seemingly innocuous conversation with his best friend and sidekick about what to order from Subway it instantly dawns on him (cue the conversation being turned down whilst the main character stares into the middle distance) that the patient must be suffering from Von Jalapeno Ranch Dressing Syndrome......I'm looking at you Hugh Laurie.
 
FortuitousFluke said:
I've just realised this is 90% of the entire run of Sons of Anarchy.
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Ehhhhh...... more like 50%.
Don't forget that 20% is someone stuffing up the latest uneasy truce, before Clay has to "Reach Out" to whoever they upset.
20% is people making a point of calling each other Brother and inserting MC cultural practices even though there's only about four members in teh Chapter at this point.
10% is jokes about who/what Tig had/is having sex with.
 
Malevolence said:
After a night of debauchery and passion, the Woman is suddenly all shy about nudity and has to take the bedsheets with her to walk across the room. It's the same during said debauched passion too, she always has to strategically pull the covers up and hold on to them.
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Or they wake up partly clothed.
Also using 192.168. As an IP address.
Andi.
 
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