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Post by Cela on Nov 15, 2011 17:16:59 GMT -5
The advertisement at the bottom of the screen that often takes up half the viewing area. Worse when they talk.
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Post by Some Guy on Nov 15, 2011 17:33:35 GMT -5
Showing characters being considerably younger in the past, and instead of recasting for a younger lookalike or using advanced CGI (which Fringe did really well with John Noble), they just slap a wig on the character and call it a day. The most annoying examples I can think off of the top of my head were with Ben on the 5th season of Lost, and Dexter from a couple of seasons ago with a mophead.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Nov 15, 2011 18:20:34 GMT -5
Showing characters being considerably younger in the past, and instead of recasting for a younger lookalike or using advanced CGI (which Fringe did really well with John Noble), they just slap a wig on the character and call it a day. The most annoying examples I can think off of the top of my head were with Ben on the 5th season of Lost, and Dexter from a couple of seasons ago with a mophead. Plus if the character is bold, then in flashback he would have a lot of hair.
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Post by Citizen Grimm on Nov 15, 2011 18:35:28 GMT -5
On television? Shoving gay characters down our throats. If you cant do anything with gay characters beyond "difficult coming out"or "flamboyant attention whore" then just don't even bother putting them on TV. I cant believe that in the 2000/2010s this is supposedly a more open minded era, yet it was in the 90s when Friends gave us the single best depiction of homosexuality on a sitcom ever in Carol and Susan. There have been too many cliched gay characters on TV, a lot of which suffer from the damage that Jack McFarlane left on Will & Grace. And of course in English soap operas, we've had a boatload of them with their "realistic" and utterly depressing coming out stories. I just feel that gay characters end up being destined to become PSAs or one dimensional stereotypes. ATTENTION TV NETWORKS: LGBT folk are regular people too. They do regular things. Run with that. The worst offender of this, by far, has to be Kurt from Glee. The episode where he repeatedly hits on Finn to the point where Finn loses his cool and calls him "faggy." While Finn is clearly in the wrong referring to Kurt like this, Kurt is clearly to blame due to him making multiple passes at someone despite it being very clear that he is not gay.
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Post by Shamar James on Nov 15, 2011 18:46:21 GMT -5
On television? Shoving gay characters down our throats. If you cant do anything with gay characters beyond "difficult coming out"or "flamboyant attention whore" then just don't even bother putting them on TV. I cant believe that in the 2000/2010s this is supposedly a more open minded era, yet it was in the 90s when Friends gave us the single best depiction of homosexuality on a sitcom ever in Carol and Susan. There have been too many cliched gay characters on TV, a lot of which suffer from the damage that Jack McFarlane left on Will & Grace. And of course in English soap operas, we've had a boatload of them with their "realistic" and utterly depressing coming out stories. I just feel that gay characters end up being destined to become PSAs or one dimensional stereotypes. ATTENTION TV NETWORKS: LGBT folk are regular people too. They do regular things. Run with that. The worst offender of this, by far, has to be Kurt from Glee. The episode where he repeatedly hits on Finn to the point where Finn loses his cool and calls him "faggy." While Finn is clearly in the wrong referring to Kurt like this, Kurt is clearly to blame due to him making multiple passes at someone despite it being very clear that he is not gay. And the worst part is people ADORE him for this! Kurt's the gay equivalent of a Tyler Perry movie, yet Hollywood can't stop drinking his Kool-Aid.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2011 18:50:09 GMT -5
That time that they were playing a Twilight Zone marathon and at the end of some of the episodes as Sterling was explaining what went down, they smashed the screen really tiny and played an advert for some atrocious show.
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Post by Jiren on Nov 15, 2011 19:33:19 GMT -5
The talking over the end credits of Doctor Who, After an episode I like to listen to the music.
I don't give a crap about Strictly come dancing or any other Reality search Crap
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Nov 15, 2011 20:22:20 GMT -5
1. Trailers that tell you nothing about the movie. 2. Trailers that tell you absolutely everything about the movie, including Castaway and Quarantine both of which used the FINAL SHOT IN THE FILM IN THE TRAILERS. 3. 'Next time on...' clips that show absolute bullshit or single lines taken out of context to seem like more than they are. 4. Cheap character death cop-outs.
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Post by dlg3000 on Nov 15, 2011 21:31:51 GMT -5
The fat girl is usually invisible, humiliated, or always eating. Why is that? The fat white girl on Glee annoyed me to no end. Why does it seem to be a mystery that just because someone is fat, they are not always a victim, greedy, or lazy?
Heavy product placement is okay on American Idol, but on telenovelas? They are far more blatant.
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Post by The QC Loser on Nov 15, 2011 21:37:34 GMT -5
The fat girl is usually invisible, humiliated, or always eating. Why is that? The fat white girl on Glee annoyed me to no end. Why does it seem to be a mystery that just because someone is fat, they are not always a victim, greedy, or lazy? Heavy product placement is okay on American Idol, but on telenovelas? They are far more blatant. I noticed the product placement thing on The Biggest Loser. Been watching them on streaming on Netflix the past couple days and season one was nothing. By season two every damn time the trainers came to the house they were bringing in some product that was just so great for them and always sitting in the background and always what they were eating with the box right next to the dish or bowl.
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Post by dlg3000 on Nov 15, 2011 21:47:36 GMT -5
The product placement thing is quite a bit much, but someone is making money off of this, so I don't see that going away soon.
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Post by Throwback on Nov 15, 2011 22:00:34 GMT -5
What annoys you about certain things in movies and shows? For me it's the hawaii episode. It is such a lame gimmick. The most recent example I can think of is Modern Family having a hawaii episode. I also dislike films and shows set entirely there because the premise is based on a gimmick. Forgetting Sarah Marshall was in Hawaii and didn't focus on it much. I hate it when there are forgotten characters like Judy on Family Matters
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2011 22:21:59 GMT -5
The traditional "It's a Wonderful Life" episode. Every show has done it, and it never feels fresh.
Even Psych and Married....With Children are guilty of this.
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Post by The QC Loser on Nov 15, 2011 22:32:13 GMT -5
The traditional "It's a Wonderful Life" episode. Every show has done it, and it never feels fresh. Even Psych and Married....With Children are guilty of this. I did like the Married with Children spin where Al wanted to live because his family and everyone had it better with out him and he wasn't going to let them be happy.
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Post by The Line on Nov 15, 2011 22:47:04 GMT -5
These are common around award season.
When a critically acclaimed TV show or Film ad is shown, and they're running down all of the awards it won/was nominated for, followed by an un-related clip of one of the actors "reacting" to all the praise. Don't know why, but they've always come across as super smug and pointless. I'd rather hear the awards they're nominated for, and then maybe a snippet of a scene showing why they're nominated.
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Nov 15, 2011 22:52:58 GMT -5
On television? Shoving gay characters down our throats. If you cant do anything with gay characters beyond "difficult coming out"or "flamboyant attention whore" then just don't even bother putting them on TV. I cant believe that in the 2000/2010s this is supposedly a more open minded era, yet it was in the 90s when Friends gave us the single best depiction of homosexuality on a sitcom ever in Carol and Susan. There have been too many cliched gay characters on TV, a lot of which suffer from the damage that Jack McFarlane left on Will & Grace. And of course in English soap operas, we've had a boatload of them with their "realistic" and utterly depressing coming out stories. I just feel that gay characters end up being destined to become PSAs or one dimensional stereotypes. ATTENTION TV NETWORKS: LGBT folk are regular people too. They do regular things. Run with that. The worst offender of this, by far, has to be Kurt from Glee. The episode where he repeatedly hits on Finn to the point where Finn loses his cool and calls him "faggy." While Finn is clearly in the wrong referring to Kurt like this, Kurt is clearly to blame due to him making multiple passes at someone despite it being very clear that he is not gay. Spin City had an openly gay character and they wrote him very well. That's about the only one I can think of, however...
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Post by Cela on Nov 15, 2011 22:56:28 GMT -5
The worst offender of this, by far, has to be Kurt from Glee. The episode where he repeatedly hits on Finn to the point where Finn loses his cool and calls him "faggy." While Finn is clearly in the wrong referring to Kurt like this, Kurt is clearly to blame due to him making multiple passes at someone despite it being very clear that he is not gay. Spin City had an openly gay character and they wrote him very well. That's about the only one I can think of, however... 6 Feet Under did to, because they treated them like real people. Not the GAAAAY BESSSST FRIEEEEEEEEEND!
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Post by Mozenrath on Nov 15, 2011 23:07:34 GMT -5
After several hours investment you've just seen the hugely emotional final episode, the screen fades to black, the credits come up and some well-selected sombre music is playing , you take a quiet moment to reflect on what you've just witnessed and then some stupid continuity announcer ruins the moment by informing you that celebrity farming is about to start. Also just once I'd like to here that a sequel/new series is lighter than the one that preceded it, well actually I think that sort of happened with S3 of being human but seeing as the lightest episodes in that centred around the deaths of parents I'm not sure it counts. Neon Genesis Evangelion kinda did that with Angelic Days.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2011 23:14:35 GMT -5
Whitewashing. Even in films that would feature people who are white, they still overdo it, such as all the movies about Ancient Greece or Rome having nothing but American, Canadian, Australian, British and Irish guys and women in the roles. Really? You can't find one decent Mediterranean actor or actress? One?
That's one thing I really liked about The Godfather. All of the actors were believable, not just because they were a talented bunch, but because they all looked and sounded the part. You could lose yourself in the context of it because many of the characters were being played by people of Italian background (some exceptions of course, such as Sonny, but nobody who really stuck out like a sore thumb) and it helped flesh out that universe.
So when I see all these obvious Anglophones in movies not about Anglophones, I cringe because of their ridiculous accents and their out-of-place complexions and features. It just seems so fake and kills it for me.
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Post by JDviant on Nov 15, 2011 23:19:00 GMT -5
Spin City had an openly gay character and they wrote him very well. That's about the only one I can think of, however... For a sec I couldn't remember, then it hit me Carter was gay. Usually the only mention of the gay stuff was made to show what a moron Stuart was, despite being his best friend.
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