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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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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[–] FlashZordon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Die off-screen? Definitely alive and will show up the next act.

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[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago

You've clearly never been affected by an instant knock-out drug!

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Grenades. A hand grenade has a kill radius of 5 meters and an injury radius of 15 meters. You're not going to toss one around a corner and survive.

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago

It's Always Sunny makes a joke about this. They throw a grenade in a car, expecting it to be a huge awesome fiery explosion.

Instead, "poomf" and the car alarm and airbags go off with a little bit of smoke.

"That's it? Well maybe the cops will think we just like, disintegrated or something I don't know"

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

Bullshit happy endings.

[–] t_berium@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

When they are kissing right after waking up with that morning breath.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The super badass guy. Just seems so lame.

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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month 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 1 month 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."

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I have grown to really fucking hate deus ex machina in any form. Luck is always a factor, but c'mon. It usually comes down to lazy writing and they just couldn't be assed to come up with an explanation.

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