Little things that bug you?

[dangshessnazzy]

I'm just watching Kill Bill and downing a pint of B&J Vermonty Python (a typical day for the Nance-i-nator) and it totally drives me nuts when The Bride says "That'd be even. That's be about square" and then she draws a square in the air with her fingers...but it's not a square! She doesn't finish the last line; it is, in actuality, a block-letter C.

Anyway, this thread are for those little incomplete details or tiny things that bug you about movies. Anyone?

[TheOogieBoogieMan]

While I think Coffee and Cigarettes is a good film, there is one segment in the film that bugs me to no end. It's the one in which a woman is looking through a gun catalog while a waiter repeatedly asks her if she needs anything. That's all the scene is. There's hardly any dialogue and no action at all. Granted, there's hardly any action in the other segments, but there is always some conflict or issue that gets resolved (in some form) by the end of the repective segments. This scene, however, has no story, no conflict, and no purpose. It's beyond me why it was included in the film.

[deusdragonexx]

Dogma is my favorite movie, but one little factoid thingy annoys me no end. If the Metatron can transport himself and others to franchised Mexican family eateries and the like, why couldn't he just gather up Bethany et. al. and transport them to the from steps of the church in New Jersey? That was never specified. I hate that.

[Spiderdancer]

I love the movie Equilibrium, and I think it's way underrated, but Christian Slater's character takes his gloves off about twice as often as he puts them on. The camera dwells on glove removal but never shows glove replacement, so you get these scenes that twitch in between Slater with and without gloves. Started to bug me on about Viewing #3.

[PoolMan]

spiderdancer said:

I love the movie Equilibrium, and I think it's way underrated, but Christian Slater's character takes his gloves off about twice as often as he puts them on. The camera dwells on glove removal but never shows glove replacement, so you get these scenes that twitch in between Slater with and without gloves. Started to bug me on about Viewing #3.

I hate the way Christian Slater always pretends he's Christian Bale.

[StarOpal]

Navy Seals has this scene with Michael Biehn, Charlie Sheen, and Dennis Haysbert. They're in a Jeep talking. What are they talking about? I have no clue, I can't focus. Michael Biehn's driving = violent arm flailing. I've seen five year olds playing pretend who fake drive better than that!



This is more of a general thing that bugs me in movies. When people go to a bar/diner/restaurant and order food/a drink and never eat/drink it. This drives me bonkers.

If I had to pick a movie specifically, I'd go with The Skulls. William Peterson puts cream in his coffee. The cream is bad so he asks for another cup. In comes Joshua Jackson, the rest of the scene they're talking. Waitress brings him a cup. He fixes it up with cream. Doesn't touch the coffee. Doesn't have to leave, but gets up and leaves. Never having had a sip.

[Head Mutant]

Ooh! Navy Seals!

[StarOpal]

*bang* "Never talk about Mom." I heart Navy Seals.



I'd also like to add that part in Casablanca where Paul Henried is "bandaging" up his hand. Only he can't get the napkin all the way around so it keeps falling off. He fiddles with the napkin, it falls off. Repeat for the whole scene. Argh!

[Hilasophy]

In the Terminator series the simple fact that John Connor was concieved by Kyle Reese (his father from the future???!!!) According to the time travel rules set in Back to the Future this is impossible. And yes I do see the irony in citing a movie that came out after Terminator as a basis for time travel regulations to be followed in cinema. But still.

[blinkfan]

Spoilers, I really hate 2 things in Friday the 13th Part 4,The first thing is that dog just randomly jumps out the window and there is no explanation for it and When Rob Dier is getting killed he starts yelling "RUN,HE'S KILLING ME,HE'S KILLING ME" That always bugs me when he yells that because its pretty obvious.

[Ellielator]

Friday the 13th part 4... A trauma in and of itself.

Things that bother me just about Friday the 4th alone: the Nurse (she can't act!), Axel (he can't swear properly!), the dumb teens (what a bunch of dorks!), "The Computer" (you've got to be kidding me!!!), Mother Jarvis's overdramatic reaction to Tommy's video game ("Tommy... turn that down... I'm dying... slowly... !"), the fact that the song on Ted's headphones is the same as the one that played in the Rec Room in part 2, the full-bush skinny dipping scene (I really didn't need to see that, thank you kindly - I had enough of that in part 2), the idea that Jason would kill a dog yet it's not a horny teen, Jimbo's looks of "I'm going to become a serial murderer if I don't get laid tonight" (look at him! He's going over the edge - it's pathetic / if I can hold out, he can hold out!), the fact that when Sam bobs up from underneath the water (after the "come on in, Sara, let's see...") and we see it but Sarah's expression of distress doesn't change to horror like ours (I'm sure) did- she just keeps doing the "Sam!" searching tone of voice (watch it again, it's impossible to not see), that stupid voice over the helicopter that says "boys and girls!" (it's like- um... they don't want to be here, and we're watching them clean up a murder scene, let's... I don't know... have a little compassion and decency, you lunatic!! This is not the time to fool around), that nonsense about necrophilia (who on Earth thought that was funny? You'd have to be high first!) in the morgue, the fact that Tommy shaves his entire head in under 3 minutes when more than half of that time he's just snipping it with scissors, the fact that when Jason attacks Trish after the chest and hand swipes and she's able to defend herself with... light slaps and kicks (she's not even hitting him anywhere - he's not even trying to "get" her).

There's probably more. If I think about it.

[sarahbot]

Pirates 1. Near the end. The ship with Will, Elizabeth and their ragtag pirate crew is fleeing Barbossa. And who comes up with the scheme that saves the day? Elizabeth.

There is absolutely no way in heaven, earth or Davy Jones' locker than Elizabeth Swann knows more about navigation and ship-handling-stuff (I'm sure there's a tidier word for this) than a shipful of pirates and sailors. No. Way. OK, she was into that sort of thing. But she hasn't been on a ship for ten years! And she might have asked people who know about this sort of thing during that ten years of downtime in Port Royal, but there's no way she could have a)met many sailors/pirates, or b)if she did, gathered enough information to know about and comprehend when to use a Hail Mary, destroying-the-boat sort of maneuvre. NO. WAY. And then realized they could use it, BEFORE anyone on the aforementioned shipful of pirates - people who do this every day, mind you - did.

Ok, that's my little rant. I've seen both movies many times and they NEVER explained that.

[aargmematey]

sarahbot said:

navigation and ship-handling-stuff (I'm sure there's a tidier word for this).

Shipmanship maybe?

My biggest pet peeve (which I've already ranted about on the "Is Disney Sexist" board) is the fact that in Beauty and the Beast BEAST DOESN'T HAVE A NAME! AAAGH! His name can't just be "Beast!" Or maybe it was, and his name was originally like "Beast Mcgee" and that's where the fairy got the idea from. But still, calling him Beast after he is turned into a Beast seems like it's rubbing it in. Add insult to injury why doncha?

Also, in "Home Alone 2" when Kevin Mcallister is at the plaza and is talking about what happened the year before and he says "it almost wrecked ME Christmas." Why?!?! Why does he say "me Christmas?!?!" Why does that happen?! Is he a pirate all of the sudden? Gaah!

[Ellielator]

Do you remember what part of the movie that happened in? I think I'd have remembered something like that.

[DarthShady]

I hate in the Goonies when they get out of the cave and they're talking to the reporters or something (I haven't watched the movie in some time,) and I think it's Data who mentions the giant octopus they had to fight. There is a deleted scene on the DVD with said octopus but because it didn't make into the final cut of the film it bugs me tht they wouldn't reshoot the reporter scene so there'd be no mention of the octopus. The first time I watched it I was confused and thought "Why is he lying? Isn't the story outrageous enough?"