Things you're tired of seeing in movies

What I've noticed has gotten popular in Hollywood, esp. on TV is people indexing their weapon (keeping their trigger finger on the side of the gun and not on the trigger) at all times. By all times I mean times where you would normally expect someone to have their finger on the trigger, like when pointing a gun at someone in some sort of stand off/hostage situation.
 
This isn't nearly as much of a problem as it was decades ago, but actors "throwing the bullet" out of the barrel. Not steady, aim, shoot, but slinging the gun as they fire. When you freeze frame, all the shots would have hit the ceiling.
 
Riceball said:
What I've noticed has gotten popular in Hollywood, esp. on TV is people indexing their weapon (keeping their trigger finger on the side of the gun and not on the trigger) at all times. By all times I mean times where you would normally expect someone to have their finger on the trigger, like when pointing a gun at someone in some sort of stand off/hostage situation.
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This is what happens when you take safety a little too far...
 
Riceball said:
What I've noticed has gotten popular in Hollywood, esp. on TV is people indexing their weapon (keeping their trigger finger on the side of the gun and not on the trigger) at all times. By all times I mean times where you would normally expect someone to have their finger on the trigger, like when pointing a gun at someone in some sort of stand off/hostage situation.
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There also seems to be an anachronistic practise of indexing on movies set in the past, such as WW2. I stand to be corrected, but this is a modern weapon holding practise and always takes me out of a scene when I see an actor holding their gun this way.
 
As a former competition three gun shooter, and combat veteran, seeing proper gun handling is a good thing. It may seem over the top extra safe, but for competition, that's exactly what you see. Keanu Reaves trained extensively in three gun for the John Wick movies, and it shows. I don't know if John Bernthal has, but it appears so. Finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire. Biggest safety rule in handling any gun. It may look weird to those who haven't had a lot of training, and are used to the typical Hollywood gun handling. But I smile when I see combat reloads, press checks, and proper handling. Makes me wish for warmer weather so my range thaws out.
 
Kovnyn said:
As a former competition three gun shooter, and combat veteran, seeing proper gun handling is a good thing. It may seem over the top extra safe, but for competition, that's exactly what you see. Keanu Reaves trained extensively in three gun for the John Wick movies, and it shows. I don't know if John Bernthal has, but it appears so. Finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire. Biggest safety rule in handling any gun. It may look weird to those who haven't had a lot of training, and are used to the typical Hollywood gun handling. But I smile when I see combat reloads, press checks, and proper handling. Makes me wish for warmer weather so my range thaws out.
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As a former Marine and long time gun enthusiast, I agree. However, I just find it silly in situations where you would want your finger on the trigger like when you're threatening somebody with your gun. But in a military context, even during WWII, I have no problems with fingers off the trigger.
 
In comedies whenever someone gets a bucket of water poured on their head, or they get slimed, or get a pie in the face they just stand there and take it. They never react normally and try to jump out of the way. Watch some real YouTube videos of that kind of stuff, no one just stands there for comedic effect.
 
I don't know. I saw a guy get hit in the face with a pie, and just stood there in shock with pie crust and filling all over his face. Just like in the movies. He got the nickname "Warrant" due to this incident... It was a Cherry Pie.
 
It’s a pretty wide spread faux paw in movies but I’m currently watching The Expanse and the fact that they call all military personnel “soldier” really bothers me when they go out of their way to uphold the nautical nomenclature for their Navies and Marine forces as a whole but don’t refer to the individuals within them as “sailor” or “marine”
 
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This one's certainly not going to a pet peeve for a lot of people unless you're a sub buff, like me. What gets me is seeing military subs cavitating all the time, you know, producing those little bubbles at the end of the prop. That's cavitation and that's bad because that creates noise from all of those little bubbles popping and sub drivers hate noise. The screws on mlitary subs are specially designed so that if a sub driver is doing things right, their sub won't cavitate.
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That cavitation also does damage to the props. Edit: The link did not go to the right spot in the video. The important bits for this discussion start at around the 7:00 mark.

I have seen this twice in the last seven days: Someone getting an injection in the neck.
 
Forgive me if this has been mentioned, I haven't read thru all 80 pages.
People getting hit in the head and/or face, repeatedly. Two or three blows to the head and you're not just gonna get madder, you are going to be silly for a while. I should know, I've been beat-up a bit...
 
Or worse yet, people who are in a fight for their lives, getting their face kicked in and kicking in the faces of the bag guys, who are none the worse for wear in the next scene. Anyone who has ever been in a fight knows the after effects of a serious adrenaline dump. They crash, hard.

The first Die Hard is about the only movie I can think of that gets anywhere close. That and Raiders of the Lost Arc, where Indy is on the ship escaping Cairo nursing his many injuries.
 
Old serials are really bad about that (although they really are in their own milieu and real world rules don't apply).
The Adventures of Captain Marvel, people get conked on the head constantly, sometimes more than once in a chapter. Billy Batson would've had serious brain damage after just a couple chapters, much less the entire run!
 
I have grown tired of divisive movies (and I am not going to list them) that have turned what used to be enjoyable popcorn flicks into movies that are less about entertainment and more about societal messaging debates.

The debates within fandom, regarding agenda-based genre movies (whether declared by the makers, inferred, or imagined) has become really tiresome, and has removed the escapist fun of what these popcorn flicks used to be.

With the release of each of these movies, the sides within fandom that have taken shape, take a much harder line in their position that has become the focus of these movies and causes me to just avoid these movies altogether.

It’s really sad to see what used to be a fun couple of hours turned into what they have become. I look forward to someday these films returning back to the purpose that they were meant to serve.
 
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Scenes that start where the conversation and/or plan has already been discussed, but let's repeat it for the audience.

"So, your plan is to".....(repeats plan)
"Let me get this straight, you want to"....(repeats plan)
So, that's my offer" (then repeats the offer)
"Let's run over this one more time"....(repeats plan)
 
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