You've researched your friends' recommended films on IMDB, watched their trailers on YouTube, and finally made the decision to commit a few hours of your attention to a particular production. Whether you're sitting in a dark cinema or enjoying the comfort of your home, the bare minimum you expect is to experience it.
However, as one Reddit post shows, all of that preparation can go to waste in an instant. Created by user u/pickanamehere, it asked everyone "What 100% ruins a movie for you every time?" and people did not hold back on this one. From stupid overused story tropes to aggressive product placement, here are some of the most-upvoted answers.
#1
Having to constantly have my remote in hand to turn down the absurdly loud action scene, to then have to crank the volume for the next dialogue that is far too low.
I'm f*****g sick of it.
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510points
#2
When the movie calls for an ugly guy, they get an ugly guy.
When the movie calls for an ugly girl, they get a sexy girl and dress her in dumpy clothes.
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352points
#4
Overused female tropes. The angry black woman, plus sized women always being loud and clumsy, and of course, the manic pixie dream girl. This isn't some feminist soapbox, it's just lazy and uninspired writing.
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289points
#5
"there's no time... save yourself!" when there's clearly ample amount of time for both characters to get to safety. made even worse by the fact that they usually waste a minute or more arguing about it, saying teary-eyed goodbyes, and making out before character 1 finally gets up and leaves
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274points
#6
The bit where hackers take 20 seconds of furious typing to disable a countries infrastructure
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254points
#7
When the premise for a major conflict in the movie is something that any sane person would have just said "oh no there's a misunderstanding" and they all have a laugh and go on with their days... But instead it turns into some convoluted drama.
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233points
#8
The very strong/smart main villain turning weak/dumb in the end fight so the heroes can win.
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199points
#9
When there is a timer and it takes longer to count down than the time that was called/shown. It drives me crazy.
Generic example, 50 seconds until a bomb explodes. Dialogue for 30 seconds. Timer is showing 30 seconds left. More dialogue for 40 seconds. Timer is at 5 seconds. Quick one-liner, bomb defused with one second to go.
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194points
#10
When one character who's an expert in some field stops to explain the most basic concepts to another character *who's also an expert on the same subject*.
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187points
#11
Unnecessary love scenes where the main character and a side character fall in love just cause, despite having known each other for like five minutes.
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185points
#12
When there’s a 20+ year age gap between the leading actor and actress and it’s not addressed in the movie, especially when the movie pretends like they’re around the same age.
“We’re both experienced, leading scientists in our fields, even though I look like a grizzled war veteran and you’re fresh off the set of High School Musical.”
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174points
#13
**Character A:** (Perfectly understandable explanation for something technical or scientific, that anyone who managed to dress themselves this morning could comprehend.)
**Character B:** "In *English*, please!"
**Character A:** (Extremely dumbed down version because screenwriter assumes audience are idiots)
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174points
#14
I can often tell when actors carry fake (well, empty) suitcases, and even when they carry empty to-go cups. There's just something different in the way their bodies/muscles work then.
Jesus Christ, it's a 50 million dollar movie, how hard would it be to fill the cup and toss a couple of bricks in the suitcase?
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171points
#15
Badly implemented product placement. Product placement itself doesn't bother me. If there's a character driving a Toyota, or eating a Pizza Hut pizza, I don't care. If there's a pointless shot in the movie that shows the f*****g Bud Light logo for 10 seconds, I mind
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166points
#16
Maybe not 100%, but close to it.
Fight scenes where someone make a big blow(usually the villain), but instead of finishing the deal by smashing the brains out they start talking, bragging or some other cocky s**t. And woops, the fight is back on like nothing happened..
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160points
#17
A bad ending. If a movie was great but has a bad ending, then the whole experience is ruined.
139points
#19
When things explode for no reason. “Vehicle had minor collision or simply rolls over and spontaneously explodes”
Wow great response guys! The hatred runs deeper when I think of how easily bad guys “hot wire” cars in movies also!
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132points
#20
Teenagers who sound like screenwriters trying to sound cool.
Never in the history of humanity have two 15 year olds randomly recited 18th century poetry to each other on the day they met, and all those snarky remarks makes the kids sound insufferable and annoying a lot more than clever.
Also notice that somehow every clever 15 y.o. always listens to music that was huge when the screenwriter was growing up, never something that is... you know... listened to by 15 year olds... as if there was no good music around presently.
PS. Also the whole sarcastic genius with no social clues...yes we get it Dr. House was a hit 20 years ago, now can we get Cumberbatch to play any other freaking role?
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127points