40 Accurate Insights To "What's A Movie Trope You Absolutely Hate?"

When a character suddenly becomes incredibly well-spoken so they can deliver a powerful speech.

The dumb dumb whose email password was “boobies” earlier in the movie will say some s**t like “You know, maybe I’ve just been projecting my own subconscious insecurity about my career advancement onto you, Lance. It’s not fair to you, and in the future I’ll endeavor to rectify my past grievances.”

Car chase/shoot outs.

Car takes thousands of rounds and works fine, and the driver doesn’t have a scratch.

Closing of dead characters eyes by waving a hand passed them, grinds my gears

A kid saving the day in an adult situation...perfect examples: the last Predator movie..the kid figured out alien technology in 10 minutes.....the first jurrassic park movie..the girl solves the computer system in a minute.

I realize why directors do this is because it makes kids watching feel like they can relate to the kids on screen...or they need a kid hero for the kids watching.....whatever it is, its dumb and removes me from the movie.

When someone coughs blood they’re a goner.

When a character has no simplistic ability to help themselves out of a situation and need to be rescued. All of a sudden they become these useless twats. This is seen with the type of characters using university level language and they have full out stem educational backgrounds but all of a sudden forgotten all about their masters degrees, and all the tools they have at their disposal... Because the lights went out.....

Anything having to do with any aspect of medicine. The worst though is that arm slings cure everything

There are no police unless they serve the narrative.

People get into fistfights, they shoot at one another, they start fires, they break windows, but the cops never come... unless they serve the narrative.

Also, — technically this isn’t a trope but the absence of something, — where are the toilets on the Enterprise? Babylon 5 has toilets. Battlestar Galactica has toilets. Why doesn’t the Enterprise? Yes, the recreation at the Hilton (or wherever) has one, but it never appears in the TV show or movies. I feel this should be part of a sci-fi Bechdel Test.

"As you know"

"As you know, I conducted a raid on the Great Library which many people said didn't even exist."

I hate it when movie characters say this because it is the worst way of explaining exposition to the audience.

the idiot plot. basically the main problem in a movie stems from the fact that the protagonists are really completely f***ing stupid and fail to do things any regular person would do.

As in, "oh hey, I wonder if it's raining", well then, the only way we can find out is if we get naked, go outside and if you feel water falling on your body, then it's raining

Character either gets mad or they’re “looking out for themselves” and leaves the group only to come back and help in the final battle anyway. It worked with Han Solo and its been predictable ever since.

Dumb kids in movies, like they have to put everyone at risk to get there stuffed teddy bear or get lost at some point in a disaster movie

Fake jump scares. Building all that tension and suspense, then an incredibly loud music sting for a cat jumping in front of someone.

Grenades with the power of 4 blocks of C-4.

Not limited to movies but the master manipulator whose overly elaborate plan requires them to be not so much intelligent insomuch as be basically clairvoyant so that nearly everything falls into place exactly as they need for the plan to work.

Random chance and bad luck are non-factors, because if they were the plan might end up falling apart in stage one.

People hanging their phone mid conversation People leaving their house/car doors open People knocking other people out with a casual punch, like “yeah go to sleep”

Someone running, in a panic going "nononononononono!!!!" It seems like it's been a thing since the first Transformers movie where Shia LeBeuf did it all the time. I hate it so much! Also when something purposely hits the camera lens. It was a thing done effectively in Children of Men, as the scene was immersive (the refugee camp scene) but it happens a lot now, and it immediately takes me out of a movie or TV show.