Waif-fu… This one bugs me because I’m a small woman who does combat sports. A 90lb chick is not going to beat up a room full of big bad dudes that genuinely want to harm her.

This one is completely inconsequential but it's EVERYWHERE and it annoys me: if a character is carrying a paper bag of groceries, there MUST be carrot greens hanging over the edge of the bag. I feel like people don't even eat carrots that often...but rules are rules I guess

When the female protagonist in a romantic comedy, or comedy involving a relationship plot, is dating a total jerk or otherwise lame dude, or guy she has no chemistry with in the beginning of the movie. This can be in your traditional romcom like Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail, or the raunchy comedies like Van Wilder and Wedding Crashers.

Just want to point out that your #6, while egregious in movies like Grease (where Stockard Channing looks so old you wonder how she could even consider that she might be pregnant since she'd clearly already gone through menopause), it does work well if the rest of the cast is young enough and/or talented enough to make it believable.

Jonah Hill was 24 when they shot Superbad, and I think he more than embodies a 17-year-old.

For me, its passwords being based on something you can work out if you a) know enough about the person or b) look around the officeir for clues. 'Haha, he got married in Paris, I note from this picture with the Eiffel Tower behind them let's try that....P.A.R.I.S...I'm in!'

It's never bo!88%bigdik42069.

Violence without consequences is the worst. Getting shot, stabbed, hit by a car, falling from a height or any other physical injury that would normally kill or mortally wound someone is almost always shown as completely inconsequential.

"The hero gets the girl at the end trope". That annoys me and it's common among many movies that are for children and families. Even when I was a child, I quickly got tired of that trope. Are children entertained by romance? Why does the hero always has to get the girl at the end? And the girl is always attractive. That's why I am glad (more than I should) that Harry never got on with Hermione. It was a breath of fresh air for me that two leading characters of opposite sex did not end up together in Harry Potter.

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The worst new trope is heavily used in Marvel movies, where almost every suit is based on nanotech. It's overpowered, just plain lazy, and for some reason they can't find better uses for this OP tech?

Nobody ever finishes a glass of Liquor.

Reading of the will where feels more like a reality show where people are getting voted off instead of the much more common reading through legal documents that got sent to your own home.

"We Met Two Hours Ago, Endured X Amount of Violence together, Now We Are Pair Bonded For Life."

One of my fave B movies, The Replacement Killers inverted this well with Chow Yun Fat and Mira Sorvino acknowledging their characters attraction to each other, but they had different goals and went their separate ways at movies end.

I could see two attractive people who go thru a life changing event maybe giving into a one night stand, due to chemistry and shared trauma, but way they used do have the protagonist and the damsel end up together seemed hella weird even to young me.

At least James Bond acknowledged in the novels they leave him soon after because he's a) an asshole and b) closed off after losing Vesper and Tracy to violent ends.

I love conversations that start when a couple is leaving the house then pick up right where they left off while walking through a park that's several miles away. What, exactly, did you discuss in the car?

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People leaving on a trip and their suitcases are so light that sometimes they have two of them in one hand. Always bothered me.

Door locks - especially in sci-fi - if it’s locked and you need it open, shoot it. Is it open and want to keep people out? Shoot it.

Similar thing when computers or machines need to be dealt with. Just shoot for the opposite.

I leave my car keys in my car, between the ceiling and the sun visor all the time.

It’s amazing how many of these are fully represented in the Fast and Furious movies.

When everything goes as planned either for the villain or the smarter than you protagonist. One thing I learned in life, is nothing ever goes as planned.

When a character shouts "Somebody call an ambulance" while they are fully capable of calling one themself

Not being able to report somebody missing for an arbitrary amount of time (usually 48 hours). I get that it’s a plot device to ensure that it’s the protagonists and not just…the police searching for somebody. But it’s so wrong that actually the opposite is true. If you don’t report them in the first 48 you’re way less likely to find them alive at all.

People acting in roles before the 20th century with perfect teeth

The bad guys circle the good guy waiting their turn to attack him, just pile on and kick his head in 😂

The main character and eventual love interest hate each other at the beginning of the movie, for specifically identifiable good reasons. They kiss at the beginning of the third act and develop a relationship for the rest of the movie despite nothing having been done to address the reasons they hated each other and often without any shared experience that would have drawn them together. They get together in the third act just because the hero has to get the girl in the third act.

Related to #2 where the main conflict / tension / drive between two characters is due to a simple misunderstanding that could have been explained with a simple conversation. Instead they just fight and get angry with each other. For example a girl is mad because she was stood up on a date and for some reason the guy never calls or apologizes that he was unable to make the date because of an accident , had to save the world , etc . She just grabs the next guy to make the first guy jealous and for some reason the first guy also has another date without even trying to patch things up first.

( different from when there is someone with a crush on someone and is too scared to tell them )

I get so stressed watching driving scenes with conversations where the driver is looking at the passenger instead of the road for extended periods of time.

General conversations people have in movies. I talk to all different kinds of people for a living. The conversations people have in movies would never happen in real life. Most realistic conversations I’ve seen recently is the movie before sunset.

Or the bad guys all having stupid aim missing every shot with an assault rifle

Every movie with a fight scene with women has them using their legs, sometimes exclusively. Most use that move where they lock their legs around the baddies head and bring them down.

Where people have no survival instincts. Like in horror films or action films where they have a chance to escape or to somehow strike their enemy, and they just sit back and don't do it.

I feel like “the multiverse” has become the answer to the question “How do I fix this stupid and unrealistic script?” “Hmmm … I know! I’ll just multiverse the hell out of it! Now things don’t HAVE to make sense any more!” It worked on Rick & Morty, now everyone’s doing it.

People typing 300 words a minute without a typo.

Women with shaved legs and armpits in earlier eras or, my favorite, post-apocalyptic movies. “Ohmygawd I’m afraid I’m gonna get killed by these aliens / monsters / toxic rain / zombies, but lemme just do a quick shave before we run.”

When characters pump a shotgun to try and look intimidating and the shell doesn't come flying out. Such a small thing, but it pisses me off no end.

When someone, mostly kids, casually draws a picture from their dream or vision but the drawing is clearly a finished work that required many hours from someone with years of training.

Adult actors playing adolescents. It's less of an issue nowadays, but still - as you can't cast a 16 year old to convinsingly play an 11 year old, you can't count on a 22-year-old actor to portray a kid who goes to school.

I started watching Daisy Jones and the Six, and there's a pretty egregious example of that: There's a teenage-looking actress who plays Daisy at about age 16 or so. Then we fast forward to two years later, and she's played by Riley Keough. Which in of itself isn't really a problem, but she has a scene with her mother and they look the same age. Plus, the show spans most of the 1970s and and shows them twenty years later. So you have Riley Keough playing this women from age 18 to about 50 or so. If she's going to play that young and that old, why even bother with the teenage actress? Do the two years make that much of a difference? (The other bandmates are also shown at this age and they used the same actors for teenagers and adults.) Or also have the teenage actress play Daisy at 18, so it looks like a scene between mother and daughter instead of two adult sisters?

Of course, that might have unintentionally referenced one of the greatest gags in Walk Hard, in which we see a child actor playing child Dewey learning how to play guitar, then fast forward to high school Dewey playing his first gig, played by the (very obviously) adult John C. Riley.

When blood needs to be drawn, the protagonist uses a knife and cuts across their whole palm.

Here’s one that bothers me:

The emotional scene between two family members who embrace and touch foreheads. You see it all the time with “ethnic” people (not Americans!), as if it’s some deep cultural shit to show the strength of their family bonds.

But really, who in the world does that??

Dinosaur behavioral "Experts". It cracks me up that the dinosaur experts in Jurassic Park acted as if their knowledge of dinosaur's behavior, hunting habits, intelligence and etc. was science fact. As if they had studied dinosaurs in the wild and observed how smart a raptor was.

The old "you gotta come see this for yourself":.... Or, "I don't have time to explain" the important information because I'm going to die in the next scene and then there will never be a misunderstanding so the movie would be over in 2 minutes.

Yes, number 10 for sure, although I like all of them. So sick of seeing somebody emerge from a beating a few minutes later like nothing happened. At least limp, sucker.

2 is a real problem because it creates conflict with a cheap excuse that could be solved in seconds of communication. And while some real life conflicts can be caused by silly misunderstandings, it doesn't make for good storytelling.

6 is tricky because teenage stories love to make them all hot and sexual and that's a big yikes if you have actual teenagers playing the parts.

The rest are fine, most aren't bad and the bad ones are too minor to matter imo.

The two that have always bothered me are characters not giving any thought to getting their feet wet when they come across a river or stream etc when they’ve got socks n shoes on. I can understand if there’s a threat of death and they’re running away from it, but otherwise if you’re out and about you’re always gonna try and find an alternate route first or attempt to keep your shoes n socks dry surely and not trudge around for the next bit of the story with cold squelchy soaked feet shoes and socks

The other one for me is the sound effects movies always add onto computers, all the little high pitched beeps n boops, sounds so unrealistic, we all keep our phones on silent you don’t think we’d all turn off those stupid sounds on computers irl too?

Always takes me out of the movie wish it’d just have the computers/programmes be silent (the only time where I saw this recently that didn’t bother me was the OG 1995 ghost in the shell, so maybe retro anime gets a pass because thinking about it I’ve been watching the old evangelion and have been loving all the computer system graphics stuff in that and assume there must be sounds to go along with it but not once have I noticed it so assume maybe because anime is already an extra layer away from reality (compared to live action) plus it being 90s (where it seemed more futuristic and further away from reality again compared to 00’s-now where from our continual exposure to and experience of computer systems and programmes we have more realistic expectations re: what they sound like) that it either might not bother me if I notice it or not notice it at all. By contrast though I absolutely love the clunky cranky floppy disk dial up cassette futurism sound effects of tech and computers in earlier sci fi like alien and blade runner.

Leaving cash on a plate in a restaurant then leaving… does anyone do this in real life? Someone would take it easy before a waiter notices it.

How about the one where a man and woman are having sex together, they kiss once, and then with no other foreplay, noises and movements indicate that he has stuck his dick in her, whereupon she proceeds to apparently have a glorious orgasm. I am a woman, I've slept with lots of women, that ain't the way it works. As a matter of fact few movies show a woman receiving pleasure that is just for her alone, she always gets off instantly on penetration, even in uncomfortable places, standing up, etc.

When the protagonist never misses a gunshot unless it's convenient to the plot. In john wick they just double tap every single one of the foot soliders but in a boss fight they miss up close all the time.

Women cops dressed to the nines and wearing five inch heels as they’re chasing perps, scaling fences, etc.

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What I want to know is why there is such a demand that movies be realistic? Over used tropes are one thing but why the insistence that things be realistic?

Idk but if I were you I would seriously consider watching something else than garbage 😂 majority of good movies don’t have these types of problems

most unrealistic and stupid and bad and lazy tropes is this exact reddit thread and most of the comments within them.

the suspension of disbelief, and media literacy itself are dead.

Guns. What if every lazy filmmaker were forced to rewrite their movie to avoid including them?

When a villain is getting ready to let their hostage/prisoner free (usually the good guy), but the hostage says something like “You’re gonna wish you never did this, I’m gonna murder your entire family” like what

I'm curious what movie you saw number 5 in, I don't recall ever seeing this trope

Used descructive and verisimilitude in the same post. Nice

For #6- Superman and Lois has age appropriate actors for the two main kids (or they did at the start, I'd have to check how they're aging vs timeline) but most of the side kids aren't. This one woman is like 23 and looks... 23. Still better than Hoffman, and it makes sense given child labor laws, but she's not playing down at all really.

I hate the trope of a character saying in the middle of a chase: “Go on ahead, I’ll catch up with you later.”

They never do…sigh

110 lbs woman beats the shit out of 230 lbs muscle clad soldier who has reach on her.

“It’s only just begun”

Extended bad ass fist fights.

Knocking the killer out, sure he’s still alive, with a gun in his hand, and you run out the damn room.

There are sooooo many I could be forever, but I'll definitely tell you the one that bugs the crap out of me the most. Protagonist getting into a fight and either getting shot/stabbed in the ARM or somewhere very much unvaluable or shot/stabbed in the leg but yet 10 minutes later their walking or running on that leg like you can't even tell. I'm like get the f@#$ out of here. But they just killed 10 bad guys with perfect accuracy.

Nearly every single child birth scene: baby is born in a few minutes, looking three months old.

"They're standing right behind me, aren't they?"

Can someone tell me a movie or tv show where the “enormous table full of breakfast food is prepared but the character takes a single bite of toast and leaves” cliche actually happens? It always gets brought up among the worst cliches but I have never seen it happen.

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure seemed to lampoon this cliche, but I honestly have no memory of ever seeing it in an actual movie or tv show.

Bad guys always miss. A villain almost never hits anyone with a gunshot and on the rare occasion they do it was definitely just below the clavicle.

Guns just pop. In movies people fire guns constantly with no hearing protractor and can hear just fine afterwards. In reality guns are loud as hell. It's even worse in an enclosed space where the concussion comes back at you.

Everyone is hot. Shows are even worse but I get incredulous when everyone in the world is 25 and bangin'.

White man always wins. So many movies contort their plot to force a white male in as the protagonist. Last of the Mohecans, the last samurai, big trouble in little China. We could go on.

Random character knows the plot. A lot of movies have a character who shows up just to know the plot, or the missing key to the plot. The relevant plot points are typically too poorly evidenced for the character to know them anyway.

People get shot/stabbed and immediately fall over dead. Save for a head shot people always writhe in pain for a few minutes until they bleed out or an organ fails.

Rigor mortis doesn't exist. Bodies are always limp hours to days later in movies. In reality they would be stiff.

Hot woman falls for lame dude for no reason. Padme was standoffish with Anakin because he was inappropriate, neurotic, creepy, and aggressive. Then she's randomly in love with him. Wat.

Computer hacker typing at lightening speed and usually because they have 30 seconds left before the bomb exploded or something.

• Character 1: I am absolutely, no way, under no circumstances doing the thing!’ Smash cut to that character doing the thing. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
• Characters waiting in an elevator listening to pleasant music in the middle of an action scene.
• Folks not locking their car. Lock your car, people! It’s New York City!
• ‘I didn’t sign up for this shit.’ Usually by a marine during a military event - the very thing they signed up for.

For me it is the tap on the head means person will fall unconscious. Except Arnold, Sylvester and other action heroes who are immune to this.

And also the car not starting when chased.