Small things in movies/music that annoy you?

[OGBoardPoster2005]

What are some pet peeves you have in those categories? My biggest one movie wise is when they take a real life event and throw in fictional characters to romanticize it("The Black Dahlia and "Titanic" although the first one does it very poorly). Another small issue I have is when anyone covers the song "Bad Company" by Bad Company. Don't get me wrong I loved Five Finger Death Punch's cover but the fact remains the song is about the band Bad Company.

It just seems weird to me whenever a band covers that song because obviously no one calls them "Bad Company". Idk I'm weird like this.

[Johnny Truant]

Horror movies: relying on bitch-ass jump scares instead of, you know, being legitimately scary.

Music: When people breathe into the microphone. I don't like it.

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The thing about the Black Dhalia is that the Ellroy book does indeed feature fictional characters surrounding the murder.

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CGI stunt fighting still bug the hell out of me. It's why I've never watched more than a few minutes of The Matrix, hated Yoda flipping all around with his lightsaber, etc.

But even worst is awful stuntwork, namely incredibly bad wigs. The end of Big Fat Liar comes to mind when Frankie Muniz jumped off the roof.

[Hit Girl]

Music = Vocal gymnastics. Christina Aguilera is the worst offender.

Movies = "Slacker" stars. Seth Rogan for example.

[jrcz]

May 16, 2011 0:46:49 GMT -5 Johnny Truant said:

Horror movies: relying on bitch-ass jump scares instead of, you know, being legitimately scary.

This

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May 16, 2011 8:21:54 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

Music = Vocal gymnastics. Christina Aguilera is the worst offender.

Definitely this. Most pop songs on the radio don't even have a distinct melody now.

['Foretold' Joker]

Pointless scenic vista's to indicate time is passing, Gladiator did this a lot.

[Hit Girl]

Shoehorned pop culture references that will date after about a month.

Example: Every movie directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer

["Hollywood" Cactus Matt]

May 16, 2011 0:46:49 GMT -5 Johnny Truant said:

Music: When people breathe into the microphone. I don't like it.

I've never liked being able to hear the inhale. I understand how breathing works, and that inhaling is completely necessary, but can you please pull the mic away for a split second?

[Hit Girl]

Shaky camerawork and excessive jump cuts.

[angryfan]

May 16, 2011 9:30:52 GMT -5 @wvguitar said:

May 16, 2011 8:21:54 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

Music = Vocal gymnastics. Christina Aguilera is the worst offender.

Definitely this. Most pop songs on the radio don't even have a distinct melody now.

Yep, this, a million times over. Honestly, it's a mutation of the Whitney Houston Syndrome, where you must cram 94 syllables into every two syllable word, and make sure each instance covers the entirity of your vocal range.

Impressive feat? Sure, the first time, but after that I want to donate my eardrums to starving children in Kenya.

[Soultastic]

Movies where the characters find true love in less than a day. I'm all for romanticism but come on!

[Bam Neeley]

The orange/teal colouring they do nowdays to "enhance" the skintones in movies. If you don't know what it is here's a link theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html(warning, you can never unsee it)

Similarly, in music digital clipping. I use replaygain and my volume control in all my music anyway so brickwalling that new CD only makes it sound worse compared to the old ones.

[Hit Girl]

Music: Songs where one person sings.....followed by another person repeating the last word the first person sang.

Example: Timbaland. If Keri Hilson for example says "Baby I love you" Timbaland will then say "Love You", if Beyonce says "I need you tonight" Timbaland will say "Tonight"....in a deep voice.

[darthalexander]

Excessive shaky-cam work. That and cameras that don't "settle down" and constantly move. I know they're trying to get an effect here but sometimes I just want them to slow down a bit.

I don't like it when they take a great song and have someone do a piss-poor cover version of it for the end credits (or a montage). There are some exceptions but overall I usually like the original versions.

Lack of logic and common sense. Say the hero comes in to the sheriff's office in a panic. Obviously he/she is upset. He/she tells the sheriff that there is a mad killer out there and is after them. The sheriff chews on his gum, gets up slowly, says he'll "check it out", slowly goes out...then gets killed. I'd love to see the sheriff stop and say "this guy might be a nut but let me be careful just in case. I'll make sure to get my shotgun out and I'll call for backup before going out to check....."

[strykerdarksilence]

May 16, 2011 0:47:34 GMT -5 @irontyger said:

The thing about the Black Dhalia is that the Ellroy book does indeed feature fictional characters surrounding the murder.

Ellroy does a lot of that in his novels. American Conspiracy is set around the Kennedy assassination.

[Long A, Short A]

Music=singer that sleepwalk/stumble through songs. I will take vocal gymnastic any day over the half hearted BS. Sing a song like you F---- mean it.

Music=Hip hop beats that are 145% snare drum.

Movies=Pre-packaged ugly girls. Tacking Halloween Spirit accessories on a nice looking chick doesn't make her look ugly.

Movie=Figuratively beating down a movie heroin to make her a personable protagonist.

All forms of media=The "lovable" a-whole

Movies/TV=The enjoy your teen years speech. Most age groups aren't what they aren't what writers make them out to be. Don't listen to writers with rose colored glasses.

[bibboid]

Movies where the writers obviously put in a random word intending to come back and fix it later and just never got around to it. Such as: Han Solo made the Kessel Run in 12 "parsecs" and the mineral being mined in Avatar is called "unobtanium".

[Monty Dawson]

"Later that day" or "6 Months Later"

We're not idiots. Isn't there a more brilliant way a director can indicate a change in time?