re: Dumbest things movies keep doing (that you hate).

I assume they were in traumatic accidents. And their skulls were replaced by lightweight plastic domes. So any Knock on the head and their brain just caves in.

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Every mindless monster gets a few seconds to pause dramatically and issue forth a huge roar, as if to say, "I'm a bad motherfricker, and you really should be scared of me." I don't know what's more tiresome; the act itself or the anticipation of its inevitability.

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Half the Godzilla trailer I saw on TV last night consisted of this.

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There's some other sound effects constantly used in movies....kids lauging, guy screaming.

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The Wilhelm scream!

It's almost become a meme within the filmmaking industry. It's been around for 60 years!

The scream of a hawk or eagle to let you know that the movie is now definitely in the wilderness (TV commercials are even worse about this cliche).

The use of bird songs in the background that don't actually occur in that location. OK, not many people will notice this one but it bugs me.

Pointless 20 minute fights between superheroes that are invulnerable for all practical purposes.

Wives, daughters, sons etc. in the middle of the situation room in disaster movies. All of whom have the 4 Star General's ear on Earth-saving decisions he could never make without their perspective of love.

Someone is being chased and is lost by their pursuers (usually in a crowd), hops in a car and instead of just pulling out into traffic and driving normal. Peels out or takes a turn around the next corner tires screeching so the pursuers can realize that they are in the car making all the noise instead of leaving them guessing which random car they are in traffic.

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Also, the hero can get shot a few times and get in 40 fistfight and be fine at the end of the movie. But literally everything kills henchman immediately. Being hit with any object in the head, any type of punch or kick combo, and a bullet anywhere instant death.

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Spinoff: What cheesy action movie abuses this the worst. My vote is for Hard Target with Jean Claude Van Damme.

Shailene Woodley is awesome.

I hate when they're doing the super happy ending, and every character has to hook up with another character and kiss, even if there was no inkling that they liked each other the entire time. It's just "Oh, why the hell not?"

Another one is when something happens, like people attack, and then a girl/woman handles it all by herself, and then everyone raises their eyebrows and they're like "Oh, she can handle herself." It's feminist slop. GTFO.

Interminable fistfights where the hero and bad guy face off and repeatedly throw haymakers and kicks which almost always strike the other, but none of which hardly ever have an effect greater than a mosquito bite. IRL, a single solid punch is likely to disable the opponent enough so that a rapid butt kicking can follow. Think about, too, how in martial art movies these ninjas are supposed to be able to break bricks with their hands, but have to punch and kick an opponent a hundred or so times before finally dispatching him.

Also, it amazes me how often helicopters of all kinds surprisingly, and apparently, covertly, appear to help the good guys. Who can't hear a helicopter coming from several miles away?