Things in films/on TV that REALLY annoy you??

25-01-2012 12:00AM

Anything with canned laughter arghh its ****e especially those funny tv clip shows really harry hill muppet . No wonder no one watches the ****e tv churns out.

Mance Rayder · 25-01-2012 12:00AM

ixoy wrote: »

The way computers are constantly beeping no matter what the user is doing. I'd have driven a hammer through the casing of any PC I had to use that did that.

Then the way the computers don't need human input either and can zoom, open files etc, just by staring at it because the character never uses a mouse but instead randomly presses some keys.

Oh and passwords are always easy to guess and the characters always displayed. Even in a high-security facility.

NERD RAGE!!!

Mance Rayder · 25-01-2012 12:02AM

pmcmahon wrote: »

where is hollywood?

West Wicklow

mikemac1 · 25-01-2012 12:02AM

If there's one thing I've learned from TV it's the best police detectives are bitter old men and raging alcoholics

Drink on gardaí, drink on

Mance Rayder · 25-01-2012 12:03AM

How I met your mother and 2 and a half men

NOT EVEN REMOTELY FUNNY

Nervous Wreck · 25-01-2012 12:08AM

People are always cocking guns. All the time. They point a gun at someone and then, to show they're serious, they cock it. Anyone who has the slightest idea of the mechanics of a firearm would be pissed off about this.

HeidiHeidi · 25-01-2012 12:10AM

Acacia wrote: »

When they show a couple in the sack after doing the bold thing, and the woman always has the duvet tucked up around her shoulders, hiding the bewbs, whereas the man always has his chest on show... love to know where they get those half- duvets! :pac:

Never mind the half-duvets - when they show a couple in the sack after doing the bold thing, and the woman gets up to get a drink of water/go to the loo/whatever - and has all her (sexy) underwear back on. Oh yeah, really?

bloopy · 25-01-2012 12:12AM

The first scene of "The Da-Vinci Code" movie - 2 french people, in france, speaking broken english to each other.

x43r0 · 25-01-2012 12:13AM

The 'Go Compare' ads :mad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aejccri4P0

Shy_Dave! · 25-01-2012 12:31AM

Most action movies/shows where the main hero kills some baddies and leaves their guns on them even though he only has a pistol, TAKE SOME AMMO OR ONE MACHINE GUN AT LEAST!"£

Seomra Mushie · 25-01-2012 12:38AM

A small, silly thing but I hate when people don't seem even a little bit happy when their food arrives in restaurants. It's hard to believe in it when normal human reactions are forgone.

Also sex is always so glossy. No sheet stains, no gakkiness. Sex is a great but messy experience, God bless it! :pac:

mikemac1 wrote: »

Forrest Gump was a lovely guy, kind and caring

As for that bitch Jenny

She spends a lovely day with Forrest and then leaves with some loser who hits her. Why are ladies attracted to these guys???

Rejects Forrest's marraige proposal. Spends the night with him but disappears the next day

Has a son but never informs Forrest, doesn't he have a right to know?

And only asks for Forrest when she's dying and needs him

Such a user
She deserved the guy who beat her

Forrest was a simpleton. Would you want to go out with a simpleton? Granted she should've told him about the kid.

Seomra Mushie · 25-01-2012 12:45AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

If there's one thing I've learned from TV it's the best police detectives are bitter old men and raging alcoholics

Drink on gardaí, drink on

I wish I was Sipowicz. *sulks*

languagenerd · 25-01-2012 12:45AM

That ad with Elle McPherson talking about her hair in a tone you'd usually reserve for talking about very sick children.
"I tried eeeeverything I could, but my hair just wasn't right" *sad face*
Piss off! It came on after one of those charity ads the other day... priorities!

Really obvious errors - like in the last Harry Potter film, Snape tells Harry he has his mother's eyes, but in the very next scene there's a flashback showing his mother with brown eyes, when Harry's are blue. How did nobody pick up on that when they shot those scenes?!

The way everyone in films has one of those answering machines that plays the message live, and that you can still pick up the phone midway through the message ("Johnny? I know you're there, pick up!") - do those even exist?!

bloopy wrote: »

The first scene of "The Da-Vinci Code" movie - 2 french people, in france, speaking broken english to each other.

Same as the first scene of Pirates of the Carribean 4, five Spaniards chatting away in English, no other people around.

dark crystal · 25-01-2012 12:48AM

chloexxcxx wrote: »

I watched Dirty Dancing last night... and once again I almost threw my laptop.

Firstly when Max Kellerman says "If it wasn't for this man I'd be standing here dead". Well NO... if you were dead you wouldn;t be standing there. Twat!
Secondly at the OTT patronising way Baby tells Johnny "No... It's a GREATTTTTT room". Bitch.

First off, Max was making a joke there... a bad one, but a joke all the same. The Houseman family even laugh at it.

Secondly, she never came off as patronising at all. She was nervous as f*ck in that scene and said it to be polite in reply to his mentioning the state of the room. She wasn't being a bitch at all!

(God, I've seen this film waaaay too many times

)

As for things that annoy me, I'd have to say TV channels (in most cases ITV), who schedule a film for 9 p.m, only to break for the news at 10 p.m and return to the film 30-40 minutes later. What's the point?? Either move up the news or schedule the film for a time when the news won't interrupt it!

cian68 · 25-01-2012 12:51AM

When dexter receives calls/texts. His phone is ridiculous

Marcus_Crassus · 25-01-2012 12:53AM

The way people hang up the phone without even saying goodbye. It's just good manners ffs.

Shryke · 25-01-2012 12:55AM

bloopy wrote: »

The first scene of "The Da-Vinci Code" movie - 2 french people, in france, speaking broken english to each other.

Loled. But be fair. That whole film/book was hilariously bad.

A lot of blockbusters really annoy me for their sheer stupidity. I can imagine people sitting around writing the next Transformers or some terrible crap like that, they turn and look at each other. One of them sweeps his hand over his face, his hand slightly shaking. Sweat beads his brow as he grits his teeth. "We need to go dumber..." right before he has a stroke and they wheel in a new guy with a pencil up his nose.

I hate car adds. They tell you absolutely nothing about the product. No specs. Most adds don't tell you anything about their product for that matter.

Trailers for things really piss me off. Pick any random film trailer and you're gaurenteed that at least one snippet from the ****ing ending is in it. If you actually pay attention to most film trailers then you don't need to watch the films. They've just shown you the whole film in 30 seconds, or at least done their best to.

Obligatory love interests when they're only there to shoehorn as many people into seeing it as possible. I mean look at the Hitman movie that came out ffs.

Chuck Norris being in the new Expendables. He was never a quality action movie star. He's in this film because of an utterly painful and ancient internet meme. No one can really argue otherwise. Walker Texas Ranger. ****ing seriously? It sickens me.

Any reality TV is poison. It's socially and culturally degrading sludge pumped into peoples brains.

Ryan Tubridy. Almost anything RTE put their hand to disagrees with me. The entire organisation seems to only cater to people 40+. 1 or 2 shows that try to be painfully hip made by people totally out of touch.
I might be wrong since I don't watch RTE much but the last half decent thing I saw them make was Pure Mule and that was a few years back now at least.

dazzlemoo · 25-01-2012 01:00AM

In a film when a man and woman (just friends) are sitting on the sofa laughing and then the laughing stops, their smiles fade and they lean in for the kiss..We all know it's coming!!

When someone dials a number, they're connected INSTANTLY and how when they're listening, they seem to hear a lot in a matter of seconds.
I.E "Hello? Oh hi...what? You say there's been a heist at the mall and I have to go down there right now?"
YOU HEARD THAT ALL IN A MATTER OF TEN SECONDS?!!!

And in TV soaps, when someone pays for something in a shop, they have the exact change all the time!
You never see people handing over notes!

Da Shins Kelly · 25-01-2012 01:02AM

When they show couples having sex and there isn't a bead of sweat between them.

gcgirl · 25-01-2012 01:02AM

Shryke you've obvisously have never seen Chuck Norris in Delta Force 1&2

gcgirl · 25-01-2012 01:03AM

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

When they show couples having sex and there isn't a bead of sweat between them.

And it's over in a minute oh wait

cocalolaman · 25-01-2012 01:03AM

That scene in transformers 3 where that ugly pighead made a shíte attempt at looking onwards into the distance with a 'shocked' face, with a whole fúcking city falling down around her in slow motion, and she doesn't get a single fúcking scratch on her. Just looking at feckin nothing with her weird nose and massive lips.

DUURRR

mikemac1 · 25-01-2012 01:05AM

All USA border control are very strict and by the book

All foreign border control are incompetent and can always be bribed :rolleyes:

Logical Fallacy · 25-01-2012 01:07AM

Running or driving through buildings that are collapsing. Sure why not! (Transformers/2012)

People committing casual assault and never going to jail or getting in trouble. (every movie ever where the nerd must overcome the jocks/cheerleaders/rich kids).

Havermeyer · 25-01-2012 01:11AM

The way in offices/police stations each character walks on screen to spout their lines as the previous character exits the screen - rinse and repeat - ala West Wing, Law and Order etc etc.

dark crystal · 25-01-2012 01:13AM

Hiring non-Irish actors to play Irish characters. Their terrible accents just distract from the character they're supposed to be playing.

Think Sean Connery, Tom Cruise, Richard Gere, Mickey Rourke, Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts, Gerard Butler.... all brutal.

The only decent one I can think of was Paddy Considine In 'In America'.

K-9 · 25-01-2012 01:17AM

Obviously, "I want to do a poo in Paul's house". Don't agree with punching kids in the face but I'd make an exception in this case!

I love BBC, no ads! So RTE or Dave or whatever stretching a 45 minute episode to a hour just shows how pointless ads are.
Even more annoying is Dave cutting the hour long Top Gear episode to fit into 45 minutes and crappy editing.

But the most annoying thing, by far, is Breakfast TV, Eamonn Holmes acting all pally and nicey, BBC News the same in the morning. The little jokes between the presenters and the weather presenter, so, so, so smiley and f*cking fake. I find it hard enough to raise a smile at 7.30, you aren't either after getting up at 3 in the morning after going to bed at 10.

PS. It's contagious. On the UTV and 6.30 BBCNI news now.

mikemac1 · 25-01-2012 01:18AM

Love of your life leaving you forever?

Fear not, just grab them at the airport gate and he or she will realize their mistake and stay with you for ever and ever

Staff at the gate will not mind that final boarding was called ages ago and will not rush you or hurry you along while you declare your love to each other.

Airport security will let you get airside no problem at all

Also the airport staff will not be angry that they now have to take baggage from the plane since your love is not getting on

smcelhinney · 25-01-2012 01:27AM

Ridiculously overcomplicated Flash based whizzing GUI screens for off shore bank accounts, that show money going down in one account, and going up in another..

KKkitty · 25-01-2012 01:31AM

No matter how many men a good guy has to take on in a film the good guy always wins with barely a scratch. The rain scenes in films annoy me a little. People never finish their meals. Hair dye and mascara ads get on my nerves toobecause of the lash and hair extensions used on the models. All soap neighbourhoods are doomed. As soon as you and your loving family move to Walford, Coronation street etc your family is slowly ripped apart. Your job if you have one is also a walk away.

Things in films/on TV that REALLY annoy you??

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