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Pet peeve in movies/TV

Posted on 8/20/25 at 3:41 pm
Posted by xBirdx
Member since Sep 2018
2106 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 3:41 pm
Watching sons of anarchy , and has a scene where the sheriff is smoking a joint in his office….

Does no one smell it?!? I see this periodically, like just go around the corner and burn one…

Man that would smell up the place for at least half an hour…at least make it realistic
Posted by Funky Tide 8
Bayou Chico
Member since Feb 2009
55727 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 3:49 pm to
They are in Northern California. Everyone does pot up there, and no one cares.
Posted by xBirdx
Member since Sep 2018
2106 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 3:52 pm to
I mean… the sheriff, in his office? During the middle of the day?

That should ring a bell…
Posted by Madking
Member since Apr 2016
65654 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 3:54 pm to
Normalizing and glorifying degradation is a staple of mainstream Hollywood
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
40365 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:03 pm to
Yea, that's really dumb.

I get why they do it but constantly using the characters name in every single sentence is pretty annoying writing to me.

Friday Night Lights (which I love), was the worst at it.

Lyla Garrity: Jason, I don't know Jason, why do you think Jason? Jason do you love me or are you just playing with me Jason, Jason I can't take it anymore Jason!

Holy hell, we get it, his name is Jason.
Posted by Zap Rowsdower
MissLou, La
Member since Sep 2010
15447 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:14 pm to
Kind of generic

When a character gets caught in compromising circumstances that has a very simple explanation and either

A. Says “I can explain” and doesn’t
B. The person catching them absolutely refuses to let them explain.
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
33529 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:45 pm to
quote:

Pet peeve in movies/TV



any "hacking" scene
Posted by dallastiger55
Jennings, LA
Member since Jan 2010
32723 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 5:33 pm to
When every time they park its right in front of the place they need to go, even in LA and NYC.

When they just make a call and close their phone. Nobody ever says bye

That nobody ever checks security cameras or CCTV. Hunters Wives spent the whole season brainstorming who entered a building and who was where at what time and never mentioned security footage or phone pings

Characters cocking guns when not needed.
Posted by LSUBoo
Knoxville, TN
Member since Mar 2006
103384 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:19 pm to
quote:

Friday Night Lights (which I love), was the worst at it.

Lyla Garrity: Jason, I don't know Jason, why do you think Jason? Jason do you love me or are you just playing with me Jason, Jason I can't take it anymore Jason!

Holy hell, we get it, his name is Jason.


Clearly you haven't watched Outer Banks. Half the script is "John B"
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
119977 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:27 pm to
My ultimate one is in horror movies when someone runs upstairs to escape the murderer. It’s pretty much destroyed me in the genre.
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
SouthEast... you figure it out
Member since Aug 2021
41457 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:32 pm to
Characters stating facts that each of them knows and so does the audience.

It's lazy AF writing.
Posted by Sidicous
NELA
Member since Aug 2015
19296 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:36 pm to
quote:

My ultimate one is in horror movies when someone runs upstairs to escape the murderer. It’s pretty much destroyed me in the genre.


Running upstairs or downstairs from the ground floor, running into the woods instead of into town, running into the darkness instead of the light… fleeing in general, just pull out a gun and stand your ground backed into a corner.
Posted by Willie Stroker
Member since Sep 2008
15519 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:12 pm to
Bigoted cops.

30+ years in law enforcement in multiple states and jurisdictions. Never encountered a single one.

Seems to be a Hollywood trope that people think is real.
Posted by lsufan112001
sportsmans paradise
Member since Oct 2006
11038 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:22 pm to
Bully scenes. Just tired of that. Bad guys being dealt with is one thing, but the movie bully stereotype is now tiresome.
Posted by calcotron
Member since Nov 2007
10017 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:27 pm to
Investigators leaving a scene where they learn something, but they don't start the dialog about what they figured out until they are getting out of the car after driving back from the scene to some other place. Like they just didn't talk about it the whole ride and waited until 20 minutes later getting out of the car.

Or the opposite, they are headed to question someone, and they don't talk out the game plan until they are walking up to the door after the drive. Just didn't bother to figure it out in the way there I guess.
Posted by KingofthePoint
Member since Feb 2009
10784 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:28 pm to
People trying to outrun large, non-agile creatures or vehicles in a straight line. Zig zag, cut in between cars, duck into a building, something.
Posted by sledgehammer
SWLA
Member since Oct 2020
6610 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:32 pm to
When something needs to get fixed under the kitchen sink, some one ALWAYS has a pipe wrench. I have never brought a pipe wrench under the sink to tighten the nuts. Either hand tighten or use a pair of channel locks to tighten or loosen the nut.

The cliche’ rich white clique verbally or physically harassing the minority or weaker group. How often does this happen? Personally, I didn’t see this growing up in school.
Posted by CHGAR
Haile, LA
Member since Aug 2022
1207 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:38 pm to
There is an episode where he says he has a card. Believe he supposedly had cancer throughout the show.
Posted by Madking
Member since Apr 2016
65654 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:46 pm to
Buddy Repperton running from Christine always irks me but the shot of Christine on fire is iconic.
Posted by Chardee MacDennis
Pennsylvania
Member since Jan 2024
285 posts
Posted on 8/20/25 at 9:01 pm to
Synchronized dancing at the prom

Will they/Won't they relationships

Holding a conversation in between blows of a fight sequence
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