re: What are some of your extreme movie nit-picks that make you irrationally angry?

Leaving in shots where extras stare right into the camera.

Especially in big films like The Godfather and Jaws.

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Then there's the action movies where the hero is in a firefight with 35 enemy soldiers and he's by himself, yet never gets hit when thousands of rounds are heading his way.

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I watched the 355 this weekend. It wasn’t terrible, but in the climax, numerous times the bad guys had the drop on the heroine from behind and then the heroine turned around and shot the bad guy. They are bad guys, they have no problem shooting somebody in the back. I saw the same thing in the final fight in Reacher.

It’s plot armor and it drives me nuts.

Anytime the hero is about to take on a group of bad guys in hand-to-hand combat and instead of bumrushing him and overwhelming him with their numbers, they attack him one at a time. Martial arts movies tend to be the worst offenders here.

Movies where a character gets shot and continues to maneuver as if a lead projectile isn't severely disrupting their body.

Also, how quickly they seem to recover from said shooting.

Virtually any war movies action scenes. Bad guys can't kill a guy with 1000 machine gun rounds shooting at him 20 feet away, fire ball explosions that throw someone through the air and they simply shake it off and get up without being riddled with shrapnel or their organs destroyed from the overpressure of the blast, mortars/artillery giving people a whistling warning before they strike, people being shot in the arm/shoulder and they're back in the fight fully using that arm minutes later, never having to reload, uniform patches and awards that make no sense, depiction of military members as mindless automatons blindly following orders, basically every single thing in the Hurt Locker, etc

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Movies where a character gets shot and continues to maneuver as if a lead projectile isn't severely disrupting their body.

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that's a good one. some of them react like they got bit by a mosquito.

Hackers can hack anything in less than 12 seconds.

Any presence of a cop is always preceded by a quick "wooop!" of a siren.

All grocery bags have a stick of french bread sticking out so the dumbass audience knows it is groceries. I hadn't noticed this one until someone here pointed it out, now it drives me crazy.

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Any presence of a cop is always preceded by a quick "wooop!" of a siren.

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cops are looking for a perp. they spot the perp from 20-30 ft away. perp doesn't see them.

cop shouts John Doe! police!

perp runs away and police have to chase.

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people never finish a cigarette or food and rarely finish a drink

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I watched an interview with some cast members of some show I can't recall YEARS ago that spoke to this. Basically said pretending to eat was always the hardest part of most dining scenes. The food is always cold from being placed on set long before the shoot and it's not natural as you can't eat and talk like a normal human, as it distracts from the dialog and creates bad shots.