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

In action movies, the main character(s) will go through hell for about 3 days but they hardly ever rest or sleep. I would be like a zombie after about a day, even back in my younger days.
 
When siblings refer to each other as “Bro” or “Sis”
 
I cant stand when a couple is at a party or an event and something happens and they get in an argument and then leave the party. Why is it they start arguing the second they get home like it was the first time they've talked about it since they left the party?? Youre telling me they sat in silence on the drive home didnt argue about it in the car? Gimme a break. Anyway
 
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?
Sex of any kind
 
No, I’m serious! Great body




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Speaking of unrealistic movie stuff. Me hammering that without drugs or blackmail being involved.
 
I hadn't seen John Wick 4 and was watching on my Delta flight. Lets just say that entire franchise has become an eye roll. It's one thing to have him fight a few mooks but he ends up fighting like 15 in a row. He takes so many bullets from them which are stopped by his bullet proof suit that would be ground into a pulp.
 
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Any time the good guy gets captured instead of killed. Why is the good guy always trying to kill the bad guy, but when given an easy chance to end this thing, the bad guy always keeps the hero alive to do the heroing
 
How there is an awning under any window someone falls/jumps out of…and it safely breaks their fall.
 
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?
Just about anything military related in movies. Like in Armageddon when the security forces Airman needed to "I'm going to need your terminal, sir". Like what the heck is an SF troop going to do with it? The uniforms are almost always wrong, terrible saluting, and just overall a bad take on attitudes and behaviors of military members.

Now, in high budget films that have retained military advisors (like SPR), it's typically not bad. It's usually in TV shows where one episode has to do with the military, or in movies that may have a scene or two.

Also, when they show Intelligence operations centers, or 'Ops Floors'. They always look so high tech. The CAOC at Al Udeid was in a giant hanger with folding tables. I sat at an old metal desk with a stack of PCs next to me and four monitors covered in dust and an old leather desk chair that squeaked.

Lastly, when someone says, "Military Grade". LOL
 
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I can't watch military movies without rolling my eyes every few minutes. Even the best ones have issues with some things. Communication techniques, uniforms, how they wear personal equipment, how they carry/handle weapons, movement, using cover/concealment.

The good ones have minor things, the bad ones are laughably bad.
 
Almost anything medical. Especially CPR.

I'm not even a doctor but I did take a CPR course and that bugs me too. I sort of get it if you are acting out CPR on a live actor, you can't exactly do real CPR on a live actor.

But if you are working with a dummy, seems to me it wouldn't be that hard to take an actor aside for 5 freaking minutes and show them the proper way to do chest compressions.

Also in watching medical TV shows I'm pretty convinced most of the time they are just engaging in technobabble and not actually saying anything logical.

Oh and I think my favorite is how first year residents are helping their attendings develop ground breaking surgical plans on the fly. Most doctors will never invent a new surgical method in their entire careers, yet you have first year residents 2 months out of medical school developing never before tried surgical methods on a weekly basis.
 
Nobody ever says "goodbye" or "take it easy" when ending a phone call. They just hang up. Who does that? Drives me nuts
I do that and never realized it until dating my current wife and she told me how much it pisses her off. I never realized I did it.
 
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Movies must be really hard to watch for a lot of people that think they are going to be realistic. The over dramatics of real life is something I enjoy in movies.
 
When people take pills in movies, 95% of the time they don't take them with water. I know it can be done, but if you just watched movies you'd think everyone just slammed aspirin dry.
 
I don't know about that...she won an Oscar.

Over Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett. Doesn’t make sense to me. Obviously, it’s subjective….I get that you think she’s a good actress. I’m probably in the minority.
 
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