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What's your pet peeve when it comes to tropes? What bothers you when you see it in a show or a movie? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/moviesandtv@lemm.ee

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I'll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter's intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there's the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

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[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ever try holding your breath for as long as a TV or movie character is getting smothered to death? It’s not even uncomfortable.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

YES, another one of mine. To be fair though, most TV shows and movies don't have the time to dedicate to an actual strangling or suffocation. Those things take a while.

Funny story. I took my dad to Saving Private Ryan. After the movie was over and we're walking away he turned to me and said...

"You know the actual D-Day took a lot longer than that."

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The super badass guy. Just seems so lame.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Those guys definitely exist irl.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

The worst is when a show or movie establishes that X can't be done, because Y. Then in a later scene X is done without addressing anything about Y. It's actually pretty common, especially when run time needs to be padded with a side quest.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Fridging, it's just plain lazy.

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