What is something unrealistic that you often see in movies that annoys the hell out of you?

What is something unrealistic that you often see in movies that annoys the hell out of you?

‘Hollywood Ugly’

I’ve noticed that this one’s especially prevalent in teen movies. Imagine an exchange of dialogue like this

BRITNEY: Oh my god Janey tried to sit with me in the lunch room today oh my god what a loser

CINDY: I know, right! She’s just so fat and ugly. She’ll never get a boyfriend.

And then Janey looks a little something like this

Oh my god, ew, right guys? (wrong)

I know movies have to cast a pretty actor to make the makeover scene seem realistic, but my suspension of disbelief is pretty shattered when a cute - if unconventional - girl is being treated like she’s unbearably ugly by the other movie characters.

Zoom-and-Enhance Technology

Even recent movies like Avengers: Endgame are guilty of this. Characters are poring over video footage of some kind, when suddenly a character’s all like

THANOS: Wait up, sucka. Pause the video.

(sucka pauses the video)

THANOS: Now, zoom in on that!

(sucka zooms in on something, revealing an unintelligibly blurry image)

THANOS: Enhance footage!

(the zoomed-in footage somehow magically turns into 1080p or better)

How is this still a thing in fiction? Everyone knows you can’t zoom and enhance. Some fictional works even have the zoomed-and-enhanced footage looking better than the original footage it was zoomed in from.

Making something bigger doesn’t make it clearer.

Dialogue In General

With a very select few exceptions, movie dialogue is so polished and smooth. Characters come up with witty things to say and equally witty retorts without a moment of hesitation. Each and every thing a character says is conveniently cut for time.

Nobody rlly slurrrrs theiir words wehn theyr’e druunkk.

Nobody hiccups when they’re crying.

Nobody repeats themselves. Nobody repeats themselves. Nobody repeats themselves.

I get why it’s there, but the more unnaturally smooth a piece of dialogue is, the more I realise that this isn’t real, and that I’m watching actors say something they read in a script. It kinda takes me out of the movie.

That’s why I love scenes like this one. Characters stutter, they repeat themselves, there’s awkward lulls in conversation, people act like how real humans would in the same situation. That’s one thing the Amazing Spider-Man movies nailed.

Sharks, suckaaaaaaaaaa

This one doesn’t actually annoy me, but rather it annoyed my ex, and if I was educated enough on the topic, it’d probably annoy me too.

You see, movies seem to have people believing that sharks are vicious, bloodthirsty monsters, hellbent on ruining your swimming/surfing/fishing trip by mauling you and the other characters.

In real life, the vast majority of sharks are actually somewhat harmless. Only about 80 shark attacks are recorded worldwide every year, only a fraction of which are actually unprovoked and/or fatal.

That’s not to say I wouldn’t run to dry land at full speed if I ever saw one at the beach, though.

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