Things that bug you in movies...

Characters that prepare or order a meal only to not eat it.

Drivers who turn their heads to have a lengthy face to face conversation with their passenger. I clapped when I saw that stupid practice end the way it should in Bloodline S03E09.

Vomiting. It doesn't make things real. It makes things gross, and it's so fricking overused.

Empty coffee cups.

Millions are spent on special effects, but they can't put some damned water in a cup to make it look realistic when an actor handles it?

Here are examples: Empty Cup Awards

Runner up is when actors "cock" a semiautomatic pistol that has no external hammer. Movie-makers love that Matt Dillon cocking sound.

When people show up unannounced and knock on the door for something rather trivial.

In this day and age of cell phones, you're telling me you drive, ride the subway, fight with traffic, whatever and hope the person is home. No text saying, "are you home? I wanna stop by for...."

And of course they are always home. I never answer the door for someone unannounced. I don't even get off the couch to see who it is. My friends will call or text first. Like normal people

How wierd would it be if a friend who lives across town just randomly knocks on your door to discuss what happened at work???

The car peel out. Forgot about that one. What about when the tires squeal on gravel and dirt? Terrible.

Dancing and singing into hairbrushes or other props.


Susan Sarandon and the kids singing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" in Stepmom:





Kate Hudson and Ginnifer Goodwin singing "Push It" in Something Borrowed:







Or maybe I just hated those movies. There is a fine line and the mechanism rarely works for me. Perhaps only one actor was able to do it...

1.) Computer nerd movies where the computer nerds are all "beautiful people" (Angelina Jolie, Robert Redford, Sandra Bullock, Hugh Jackman) AND they throw killer parties, are experts at "extreme sports" (skateboarding, snowboarding, mountain climbing). Not to mention, they don't spend 3 months at a time in their mom's basement hacking the IRS Database and playing Warcraft.

2.) Unless poverty is a MAJOR plot point, NOBODY has to worry about money.

35-year-old single woman with a spunky 10-year-old son scratching out a living making cardboard flowers and selling vegetables from her backyard garden; lives in a small cabin off the beaten path. Plot of the movie/show is that somebody needs money and she is able to get it because she just happened to be a high powered attorney years ago before she left the rat race who won a bunch of big cases and still owns a 4-story brownstone in NYC worth millions.

Nobody has to check in with work to see if they can go off on a weeklong adventure, investigation, or there are no consequences when they return.

2-3 punks, with nothing but pistols, chasing a guy who has a pistol and him being panic-stricken and buildings, cars, big trees all around him!. All he has to do is take cover, and as they charge up, shoot a couple of them in the chest, prone and peeking his head around cover. He need not be exposed even 1 full second, then run some more to another point of cover they'll have no idea where to fire (in time) and the remaining pos will find someplace else that he'd MUCH rather be!

Someone breaks in an office and hacks into a computer, finds the critical file, and downloads it to a thumbdrive in 30 seconds or so. "Got it!"

Hell, most people can't log in to their own work computer that fast, forget finding a damn file.