Silly or Annoying Things Done in Films or TV

[Alan Sex]

Coffee. Fucking coffee. 
 

You can see that they are holding empty cups by the angle etc. Also freshly brewed coffee is bloody volcanic heat so the cup hurts grab it no problem! - then comes a great big gulp. What, no 3rd degree burns to the throat?

[Mike D]

Bit behind the times here but the Minder series with Ray.

That constant background music, it was the same in London burning. 

[DalyanPete]

3 hours ago, Mike D said:

Bit behind the times here

Glad you finally got it off your chest though.

[DalyanPete]

On 28/06/2021 at 21:28, AngryOfTuebrook said:

That's what I said to da Vinci. He told me to fuck off. 

Just seen this.

Hasn't had the credit it deserves.

[DalyanPete]

American cops/FBI/Homeland security can't set up perimeters to stop the baddie escaping.

All the baddie needs to do is put different shoes on and just walks out.

[VladimirIlyich]

On 02/09/2021 at 18:02, Bjornebye said:

Hearing police sirens for ages when a crime is underway. The criminals always take ages to fuck off and we don't see the police for beards (if we even see them at all) 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 27/06/2021 at 21:02, Scottish Steve said:

People getting punched in the face & being instantly knocked unconscious. Midnight Run is a prime example, De Niro’s character goes ‘Marvin, Marvin, look out’ & then when Marvin looks away he knocks him spark out. On, like, three separate occasions. And his hand isn’t sore. So, that, & when people go to sleep their bedrooms are never dark

For context, here's some real-life punching (nicked from Gnasher on the Monarchy thread).

 

[Total Longo]

Perfect, calm death speeches after someone has just been shot/stabbed/blown up (delete as applicable).  

[Evelyn Tentions]

Peeve 1

As seen lately in Bosch Legacy.

The good guys running for their lives, the baddie is walking - and gaining on them.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

27 minutes ago, Evelyn Tentions said:

Peeve 1

As seen lately in Bosch Legacy.

The good guys running for their lives, the baddie is walking - and gaining on them.

Are you sure you weren't watching The Borrowers?

[Evelyn Tentions]

Peeve 2

Characters who go though a movie or TV show with the same 3 day growth of beard. Jason Statham, Douglas Henshall (in all the series of Shetland)

[Evelyn Tentions]

13 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Are you sure you weren't watching The Borrowers?

The last episode of Legacy. 

[Mudface]

2 hours ago, Evelyn Tentions said:

Peeve 1

As seen lately in Bosch Legacy.

The good guys running for their lives, the baddie is walking - and gaining on them.

I've only watched a bit of the first episode, but the way Maddie was running in the first few minutes, I'm not surprised they were gaining.

[manwiththestick]

Definitely been said before but when a character gets a pint or bottle at the bar, takes a sip then chucks the money down and leaves.

[VladimirIlyich]

8 hours ago, manwiththestick said:

Definitely been said before but when a character gets a pint or bottle at the bar, takes a sip then chucks the money down and leaves.

Food too. Sits with an expensive meal in front of them and doesnt touch a morsel before leaving.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

People carrying bags that clearly have nothing in them.

 

More of a production gripe, but it always annoys me.

[VladimirIlyich]

1 minute ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

People carrying bags that clearly have nothing in them.

Or drinking from empty cups of tea or coffee.

[JagSquared]

9 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Or drinking from empty cups of tea or coffee.

I don’t understand why they don’t just put water in it (maybe with some colouring) just so they have something in it at least. I could let the temperature thing go but empty cups look stupid. 

[Mike D]

Newsreaders shuffling papers.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2067990/Video-Awkward-moment-Chris-Ship-struggles-shuffle-papers.html

[Kevin D]

Mentioned it a few times, but when person A and B are in a blood fued, then person A hands a fully loaded gun over to B and says, “okay, then do it”, while the gun is pointed at their head.

 

It was great the first time I saw it in Lethal Weapon, as Riggs is mental and Gibson is terrific, but it makes no sense.

 

It makes even less sense when it’s episode 2 of a show named after the fucking main character.
 

Like he’s going to fucking kill Hannibal/Luther/Sherlock/Reacher/Bosch right at the start of the goddamn program. 

[Scooby Dudek]

11 hours ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

People carrying bags that clearly have nothing in them.

 

More of a production gripe, but it always annoys me.

Always annoyed the life out me. A pair of shoes and some tee shirts is not going to break the budget. 

[Paulie Dangerously]

The staff at cheers served up some awful fucking pints. Either 50/50 head or an absolute southern pint. 

[Scottish Steve]

People going off on holiday/returning. Suitcases never look full or even remotely heavy. Clearly just full of padding or whatever. V unconvincing. Fill them up! Make the actors have to properly lug them around

[Clem H Fandango]

Sex scene that lasts 30 seconds and the bra doesn't come off. 

[Trumo]

1 minute ago, Clem H Fandango said:

Sex scene that lasts 30 seconds and the bra doesn't come off. 

 

Sometimes there's no need for foreplay.