If you watch enough movies in your life, you begin to see patterns over and over again.
They might be of the romantic variety or maybe it’s something that seems to happen in every action movie you watch.
And some of them are so unrealistic that they make folks go a little bit nuts.
People on AskReddit shared what happens in movies that drives them crazy.
1. Truth!
“That EVERY sh**ty movie nowadays is set up as the first part of a possible trilogy.
So what ends up happening is the first movie is non-committal and vague as a result.
Ugh.”
2. Lame.
“Male lead and female lead with no chemistry end up together “just because”.
Lame.
Come on writers! Try harder!”
3. See it all the time.
“In romantic comedies, the two love interests are usually bad for each other.
So, to make them seem less bad for each other, when they go through that period where they break up and try dating other people, the other people are the weirdest, most unlovable freaks anyone has ever laid eyes on. Men are instantly abusive, women behave like spoiled children.
It’s the stupidest trope.”
4. Yeah, I got it.
“Over explain the plot.
Like a recap so you are not confused.
Usually accompanied by flashbacks you just saw ‘live’ minutes ago.”
5. Always happens.
“”What happened?”
“I dont know, lets check on the news…”
TURNS ON TV…
in perfect timing
“If you are just joining us, here is the plot wrap up of the thing that the heroes need to know”
Cuts TV off immediately after important newscaster dialogue.”
6. You’re not convincing me.
“They hold supposedly full coffee cups like they are empty, always holding them at a tilt.
I know they are just stage props but they can at least act like there is coffee in their cups.”
7. Totally unrealistic.
“Car keys “hidden” behind sun visor
Of all the hundreds if not thousands of cars I’ve been in across my lifetime, I have met precisely zero people who stow their car keys this way.”
8. Can we have a minute, please?
“When two people want to talk privately, instead of them going into the hallway, they make the other 20 people leave the room.”
9. Two things.
“When some thing is foreshadowed and then revealed later in the movie, but instead of just letting you realize it yourself, one of the characters say it out loud. Like the audience is too dumb to make the connection.
Biggest pet peeve is the fact that EVERY comedy has to turn sad in a very cliche way halfway through the movie. It’s the guy loses girl and has to win her back formula that’s in every damn comedy.”
10. Lucky!
“After someone gets s**t in the chest, they always stand up, and triumphantly remove their jacket to reveal the bullet proof vest.”
11. We’re taking over.
“When the FBI shows up to “take over” the case and then the cops butt heads with them.
This does not happen.
Cops are more than happy to let someone else do their work for them.”
12. Do some research!
“Poor research.
When a part of the plot is in a different country than the movie itself is from and they show a regional/cultural aspect of the visited country and fail.
Don’t they have Google?”
13. Surprise!
“I have noticed in movies that involve a new house, it is often a “surprise” for all but the member of the family that apparently acquired or purchased it without any input from the rest of the family. Did the one person just buy it online or sneak away and just go through the purchase process and closing?
The family pulls up to the house, dad gets out and says, “let’s see the new house”, kids go run and pick their rooms and partner has never seen the house before. Why is this? It seems completely unrealistic and it bugs me every time.”
14. I don’t like this.
“I’ve noticed this a lot more lately, the fact that horror movies are super dark.
And I don’t mean dark plot-wise, I mean dark in the sense that I can’t see what the f**k is going on.
I get that horror is creepier at night but how can I be scared when I can’t see what’s happening on the screen?”
Are there certain things that happen in a lot of movies that drive you crazy?
If so, tell us about them in the comments.
We look forward to it!
