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Recently over on the Ask Reddit subreddit, u/BlitzDarkwing asked, "What are you absolutely sick of seeing in movies?" And the people of Reddit did not disappoint. The comments were full of tired topes, annoying clichés, and other things that tend to take someone right out of a movie. Here are 17 of the best responses:
1. "When kids wake up in the morning before school, and it looks like high noon outside while the mom is cooking all of the food in the fridge for breakfast."
"And then nobody eats that breakfast because they are 'running late.'"
2. "When characters are at a restaurant and they order 'a beer' or 'wine.' What kind?"
3. "The main character getting shot and then just carrying on about their day with a slight limp."
"In Scream VI, after Mindy had been stabbed, the next time we see her, she's completely okay and can move normally. It ruined the movie for me."
4. "Action scenes with so many jump cuts it’s hard to follow."
"I think the frantic jump-cutting during action sequences is so they don't need to choreograph any fight scenes and you can't tell how bad the fights are. It's sloppy."
5. "When two characters are in a car having a conversation, and the driver looks over at the passenger while talking and takes their eyes off the road for too long of a time."
6. "Women going into labor by having their water break dramatically and then immediately having the pain ramp up to a thousand. And then they give birth without drugs within fifteen minutes. I get it, realistic childbirth makes for mundane movies and television. But for the vast majority of people, labor is kind of a slow process."
"Also that labor only starts after the water breaks. I was in labor for over 10 hours before my water broke."
7. "When someone is explaining something using words slightly above a fourth-grade reading level, and the response is 'umm...iN EnGliSh PleAse.' Will the cringe never cease?"
8. "Keys in the overhead visor. Literally no one has done that since the '70s. Stop it."
9. "I'm not necessarily sick of it, but in every movie where the protagonist has a dead wife, she's always shown under white bedsheets, laughing and rolling around. And we get a first-person view of it. It's as common as the Wilhelm scream at this point."
10. "That friend in teen movies. You knowt the one who writes for the school paper and cares about the environment. She usually has different or colorful hair and wears either brightly colored clothes OR all black. She has weird hobbies and will drop everything for the main character."
11. "Here's one for animated films: Characters getting thrown up into the air towards the camera and everything slowing down so we can see their exaggerated 'hilarious' reactions."
"The Super Mario Bros. Movie does this way too many times to the point you can see it coming a mile away in any given action sequence."
12. "Someone wakes up in a hospital bed after a gnarly accident, and they immediately rip out their IV, monitoring devices, and other things that, for all they know, might be keeping them alive."
13. "Having someone typing at a keyboard and speaking what they're writing at the same time for the viewer's sake. No person speaks it as they type."
14. "The need to make everything a bigger universe. My Cousin Vinny is a great movie. I'm sure they could have done a decent sequel, or turned it into a series, a connected universe, etc. But they didn't, and it's all the better for it."
15. "The interrupted kiss cliché. It pisses me off so much. How often does that happen in real life compared to movies? Not much."
16. "Bathos. Let serious scenes be sincere, and stop undercutting the drama for played out jokes."
"Like in Thor: Love and Thunder, when Jane is in bed dying of cancer and Thor comedically smashes a vending machine."
17. And finally, "No one ever ends a phone conversation by saying 'bye' or 'I’ll talk to you later' or whatever. Everyone always just hangs up. Always. Every single time."
Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.
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