As someone who is a bartender, almost any scene in a bar in any show or movie. I swear it gives people bad habits about how bars actually work.
Example? Geniunly interested.
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People magically get drinks, often without ordering or waiting and then don’t pay. Also overly vague orders, there’s probably near 10 options for a “whiskey neat” at your average bar, but there’s never a clarification.
“Gimme a beer”
Hot or cold?
With ice please
When a single person is fighting multiple assailants but they still only attack one at a time while the others just stand there trying not to look odd while waiting for their turn.
No, no, they’re wincing and recovering and holding the spot they got hit at while being disoriented.
This annoys me too. Especially when it is “their turn” and it’s the slowest most predictable combat move.
Bad physics. Totally pulls me out of immersion.
No, Captain America cannot lean back and hold a helicopter that is lifting off. It doesn’t matter how strong he is - he will be lifted once there is enough force generated from the propellers. Basically anything Batman does that involves gravity in the Nolan films is similar.
The magic I can get behind. The mutant stuff or dragons or even time travel in superhero movies doesn’t bother me. It’s the lack of sensible mechanics on an alleged Earth that I’m bothered by.
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If the railing was strong enough, seems possible.
Yes! This seems like the right movie. For a few seconds before he grabs the pole, he does just lean back, right? That is the part that concerns me the most. At least this in the image seems doable if somebody is cap strong and angry.
I don’t think he’s able to stop it by just leaning, I thought it was pulling him along.
Edit: yeah, doesn’t look like he’s stopped it till he grabs into the railing. https://youtu.be/1ccey7IJLCM
He isn’t heavy enough to make that much of a difference before he grabs the ledge, is he? If the helicopter can manage lift, his 200 lbs shouldn’t make that much difference. It’s the part before he grabs the ledge that bothers me in this clip
Maybe Captain America’s real power is that he is really heavy.
Yay! I’m a superhero!
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Variable density would be a really convenient (but weird) super power
Only way to explain Thor hammer that can’t be lifted by others
Freaking Gravity…
Ant man surfing through pressurized water pipes. Would have been a lot more interesting and realistic as a scuba dive.
I get your point, but I will say the Captain America scene isn’t completely out of the realm of possibility. Cap weighs the helicopter down for a few seconds, and grabs a support beam for the helipad as soon as he can. If Cap can keep a grip on both the beam and the helicopter, then the propellers will only lift him if either Cap or the support beams break.
Of course, whether he should have had that much effect on the helicopter for those first few seconds is another matter entirely and I’m not enough of a physicist to make that call.
It’s those first seconds I am referring to. The pole does make more sense to me. Also not a physicist, but it irks me just the same.
Badly performed CPR. Extra point if it’s surprisingly/unrealistically/impossibly effective.
Watch Grey’s Anatomy and take a shot every time you see limp compressions
And a person jolting when getting shocked to restart the heart
Pretty sure real CPR risks breaking a rib
Real hospital CPR is eerily calm too, actually. There’s no frantic screaming of random adrenaline medication names and bogus doses. No defibrillator is hastily setup next to the patient. There’s no aggressive ECG beeping. IRL the whole ordeal is done calmly and almost in silence. It does calls all the doctors available to the patient and everyone self appoints to a specific job, one install the breathing pump, another monitors the pulse, a third prepares and administers medication if needed, nurses walk family away and set up curtains around the patient, etc. They take turns on compressions every minute and a half or so because properly done CPR is physically tiring. The time is kept by the most senior doctor who decides the time to stop and pronounces the dead after a set amount of CPR time without patient response. You either come out of it or you don’t. There’s relatively little drama involved.
If you’re doing it right, you will. And if you don’t feel like you’re going to break the ribs, you’re not doing it hard enough
Agreed, but you can’t do real CPR on a live person.
They should just not show it. Plenty of opportunities for cuts in a scene where CPR is necessary.
Lots of scenes with two parties exchanging gunfire, often with like full machine guns, no one’s wearing ear protection, and they’re always urgently yelling shit at some teammate standing right next to them.
Even though they’re yelling, the only thing the dude you’re talking to is going to hear is “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE” cuz his ears are now FUCKED.
Many people don’t realize how loud guns are. Shooting a rifle without hearing protection is physically painfull. I don’t get how people who’ve been to war are able to hear anything after that.
Even as someone who spends a good amount of time at the range, I never thought of this until Bill Burr did that bit about why he has a smaller pistol for home.
It didn’t ruin John Wick, but any of the indoor scenes, especially the one where they’ll have low gravely emotionally loaded dialogue… I have a hard time suspending my disbelief.
Sound in space.
People never use toothpaste
I suppose in a similar vein…people drinking from obviously empty cups!
Someones never seen iconic cheerleader movie Bring It On
Wait. What? They don’t typically shower or floss or clip their nails or wipe their butts either.
What am I missing?
I’m guessing if OP is bothered in the same way as me: it’s because they still brush their teeth. It’s not (like people showering/ pooping) that they just don’t show the activity. It’s that they have the actor brush their teeth as part of the scene, but there’s no toothpaste involved.
Oh. Yeah. Now I feel dumb. Awesome!
People obviously fake-playing musical instruments. Either get a double who can play it or have a pro spend a few hours a day with the actor for 2 weeks to get them to at least have the basics down enough to look somewhat convincing.
On the flip side of this, I noticed “master of puppets” in last season of stranger things was a small bit different. Our boy Eddie was playing it.
Injecting medications into necks.
Medical things are rarely accurate, but Jesus this one is absolutely infuriating. There’s no anatomy in a neck that you could even inject anything INTO. You’re not aiming for a jugular vein on the fly and there’s not enough tissue in a neck to receive an intramuscular or subcutaneous injection. If your needle is too long, you’re definitely hitting something critical. It’s feasible that you could squirt medication into someone’s trachea or esophagus or - god forbid - spine if you actually tried this nonsense.
Arms, people, ARMS. This is where we inject things into people who are not interested in receiving an injection. Arms or butts, right through the clothes. You’re aiming for the deltoid muscle or the glutes. I’m even willing to concede the inaccuracy of a medication affecting someone instantly (they don’t), if Hollywood would just stop having characters inject things into people’s necks.
On our next episode of medical things that make me crazy: People getting shot through the shoulder with zero consequences.
This always bugs me on police dramas. On Chicago PD the characters are constantly on gunfights, get in and out of hospital almost everyday, get shot multiple times on back to back episodes, get beaten up, concussions, cuts, stab wounds, bullet wounds in all sort of places. Yet, every episode they’re fine and working the field, and clearing building like a fucking ad-hoc Swat team. Not a limp, no cronic pain, no painkiller addiction.
In reality, the whole force would be on medical leave, on a desk job for disability or plain out of the force due to medical unfitness by the season’s midpoint. The cases would have to be finished by an entire new batch of officers every few episodes, including the captain.
My wife is a nurse and any time someone is getting a shot in the arm she starts yelling at them to find the shoulder bone first three 3 fingers down!
What is your medical opinion on people who get lofted 30 feet through the air by an explosion only to get up and walk away? On a scale from molasses to beetroot soup, how runny will their organs be?
Shoehorned romantic stories.
Just give me my damn movie.Top Gun for example.
It really really bothers me when a character puts something down, and then walks away without picking it up, especially if they show them with it again later.
Something not so small that bothers me is when a victim is running from a bad guy or monster and then happens to knock them down, like with a baseball bat or something, and then they just take off running again. Fucking finish the job, you dumb ass! Hit him a few more times and he won’t catch up to you again in 30 seconds when you unsurprisingly trip over your own feet.
Just watched an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. In the episode, the ship’s security officer, La’An, enters the bedroom of Khan Noonien-Singh when he is a small child. Proceeds to put a loaded gun down on his desk, have a conversation, then leaves the room. You’re the chief security officer, and you just left a loaded gun in a child’s bedroom!
Yeesh! That’s lazy directing.
Similarly when they walk in the house but don’t shut the front door again, or open the fridge but never close it. I’m like waiting the whole scene to get back to that and missed the entire dialogue.
Right? Act like normal people, you hooligans!
Sex scenes. Usually opening the door while passionately kissing and hastily undressing. So boring, i fast forward
Killing animals
Women having no function other than being a brainless stereotype
The black or asian guy dies
American movies not hiring actual actors who natively speak a foreign language
Treating mental conditions like you can simply come back from it.
Depending on how you interpret that, can refer to something like brain trauma (think of all the times people were knocked out) or something like someone’s state of being (e.g. I’m probably the only one in the world who thinks Pokémon Horizons is rushing with how they treat Dot).
Oh god, my eye roll when depression is ‘cured’ after a bottle of myserty pills and a single ‘therapy’ session physically hurts. Similarly, the symptoms are always so stereotypical and often false - see OCD and cleaning a lot. Sure, cleaning can be an OCD trait but it’s much more likely that the person has to touch every ceiling tile 3 times before they can focus on a conversation.
When people and places that should be dirty are clean and kempt. Pirates on the seas should be dirty. Soldiers in the field should be dirty. Cowboys on a cattle drive should be dirty. Swamp cultists should be dirty. I appreciate realistically dirty characters. It distracts me every time when characters are clean and showered with their hair done on day three of being lost in the woods or some shit. It’s one of the many things Our Flag Means Death nails. Even Stede gets grimy, because piracy is grimy work.
Or women with foundation, mascara, and lipstick when it makes no damn sense. Like wow, didn’t know Sephora survived the nuclear apocalypse.
It’s the perfect white teeth that throws me off in those scenes.
No, she has one spot of mud perfectly placed on her cheekbone.
Always seems to happen when a woman is in an explosion or something too. One cut or scratch in the same place or just above the eyebrow, and in the next scene it’s got a butterfly bandaid over it.
