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What’s something that happens in movies that always makes you roll your eyes?

This is going to sound really right wing of me but movies are a traditionally left wing industry so here goes.

1. The addition of token LGBTQ characters. So often they put in a character who is not the main character and makes sure to make it clear that character is LGBTQ. Usually the character's sexual orientation has no impact on the plot of the movie.

2. Any religious Christian is quite often guaranteed to be a bad person.
 
Any good guy gets shot - it’s in the shoulder and barely phases him.

Need a scene about a sad or depressed character - stand in the rain.

Or happy? - play Solsbury Hill or Walking on Sunshine

Driving to a hot bar or restaurant - open parking space right in front.

Meet a new hottie - she’s not dating anyone.

Young kid in NY or LA or Chicago, and working retail? Home is a $4 million loft apartment.
 
Too much steering wheel movement when driving, which makes it clear they’re not actually driving.
 
The punching sound...and no I'm not talking about this...

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75 bad guys spraying bullets towards the hero, without a single one ever hitting him; while dodging 75,000 bullets, hero manages to pick off all of the bad guys, never needing more than one shot at any of them (even though he has a pistol and is shooting at them from 100+ yards)
 
I’ve got two - the first is when someone shoots a gun forever without reloading. Come on.

The other is it seems everyone can hold their breath for a minute or two, while swimming wildly or fighting underwater. I’m lucky if I get 30 seconds sitting in my chair.

Whatcha got?
The first one was a huge problem with movies in the 80's and before. It's like no one actually understood how guns work. I still think Platoon is a great movie but when I see them firing M16's from the hip it kind of pisses me off now. However, any movie since the 2000's seems to have corrected this and will at least show them reloading every now and then. Even just showing it once acknowledges that these people are in fact reloading their weapons, even if we don't see every time they do it. They also all look like they have at least held a gun before in modern movies. It kind of angers me when I see them just throwing a clip to the floor though, especially if there's no reason to do that (like they aren't currently under fire). I don't know how much clips cost but given how expensive guns are I have to think they aren't so cheap that just throwing them to the ground is the best option.

As for the 2nd one, yeah, that kind of irritates me too.

Another one is when they are driving in the car having a conversation and the person driving the car goes the entire conversation looking at the passenger and not the road. They should show the car driving off the road and through someone's yard because they weren't paying attention to where they were going.
 
Mary Sue characters who are inexplicably stronger, smarter and generally more useful than any male counterpart despite no progression/training arc. See pretty much any recent marvel/Disney movie.

Any time a character is clearly recast to change their race, gender, sexual orientation, etc for no relevant plot reason other than irl implications/politics.
 
It used to be when they were riding in cars and they would (poorly) green screen the scenery / cars outside the window

Now it’s anytime the foreshadowing is too obvious.
 
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Nobody ever says "goodbye" or "take it easy" when ending a phone call. They just hang up. Who does that? Drives me nuts
This is one u was going to say.

Also everybody shoots tequila with no chaser, no grimace, no reaction whatsoever.

Also said before but when a lady that's 90 pounds kicks the crap out of some big guy. One punch would literally break her in half but somehow she's tougher than everyone else.
 
I’ve got two - the first is when someone shoots a gun forever without reloading. Come on.

The other is it seems everyone can hold their breath for a minute or two, while swimming wildly or fighting underwater. I’m lucky if I get 30 seconds sitting in my chair.

Whatcha got?
High speed chases in Manhattan or Chicago. Anyone who’s driven in either would understand.
 
This is one u was going to say.

Also everybody shoots tequila with no chaser, no grimace, no reaction whatsoever.

Also said before but when a lady that's 90 pounds kicks the crap out of some big guy. One punch would literally break her in half but somehow she's tougher than everyone else.

On I always like how female heros when fighting men almost always use a move where they put his head between their legs.

No sexual innuendo there...
 
Any good guy gets shot - it’s in the shoulder and barely phases him.

Need a scene about a sad or depressed character - stand in the rain.

Or happy? - play Solsbury Hill or Walking on Sunshine

Driving to a hot bar or restaurant - open parking space right in front.

Meet a new hottie - she’s not dating anyone.

Young kid in NY or LA or Chicago, and working retail? Home is a $4 million loft apartment.
This reminds me. Every bad guy is easy to shoot except for the MAIN one.
 
This is going to sound really right wing of me but movies are a traditionally left wing industry so here goes.

1. The addition of token LGBTQ characters. So often they put in a character who is not the main character and makes sure to make it clear that character is LGBTQ. Usually the character's sexual orientation has no impact on the plot of the movie.

2. Any religious Christian is quite often guaranteed to be a bad person.
The Other Two had a really good bit on this where they made a show about 5 girls, but that was too many girls, so they made one of the parts a gay guy.
 
Most of the fight scenes are long, drawn out violent affairs whereas in real life they would be both gasping for air and injured/gimpy/confused in two minutes. And both participants are not getting up after being thrown into <insert furniture item that breaks>they keep smashing.
 
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