This is it. I've found my most favourite thread! Here we go: (apologies if these have been mentioned before)
- The male lead (usually comedies) harasses the attractive woman until she eventually sees he's a good guy and it's deemed romantic.
- rape scenes
- when someone is sick and throws up so delicately with barely a noise and it all goes perfectly into the toilet bowl, and they just turn to the camera and look fine? no swollen face, no sick on their clothes, no need to scrub it off the toilet.
- massive amounts of food at breakfast time on a weekday. It's always people grabbing one thing while rushing out of the door leaving the mother sat at the table and I'm like... that woman has gone through all that effort and you've grabbed a slice of toast and ran.
- people doing things in the morning before they need to be at work/school. I watched pretty little liars once (not a film I know) and one of the main characters goes to her boyfriends house the whole other side of town (and we know it's the other side of town because he is her teacher so they can't be seen together and he lives in an apartment nearer the city and not in the suburbs because that is important context for the show!)
Firstly, how have you got time to drive at least 20 minutes before your 8am class to have a conversation with this guy? Secondly, HE WORKS AT YOUR SCHOOL. You could have just waited until he got to the exact same place that you're going!!
- people who clearly middle age writing the scripts for teenagers which means it's never anything remotely accurate to what a teenager would say or how they would behave.
- when they have kids but the houses are always tidy. This goes for tv shows as well but mainly soaps. How have you got 3 kids in a 2 bedroom house yet not a single toy on the floor?
- when someone has a cold or the flu and they have tissues scattered all over the bed like people actually do that in real life. Who sleeps in a pile of tissues?
- movies where the two main leads are romantically interested or involved and argue about something (that usually turns out to be a massive misunderstanding and they live happily ever after) and then the whole film is them being angry at each other/kissing another person/making snide comments when the whole thing could have been solved by a simple conversation.
- token characters i.e the token black friend, the token fat girl, the token gay guy, the token lesbian. I'm all for diversity in films obviously but these characters never get any kind of back story they're just there to tick a box or add to a stereotype.
- the smart girl who is actually attractive but doesn't see but everyone realises she's actually cool and then she feels good about herself basically cause everyone thinks she's cool.
- when the girl in the film gets self esteem boost cause the hot guy likes her and that's basically the whole film.
- when they kill off a character but then there's no mention of that character ever again.
- massive showdowns in public (usually in soaps it's in the pub). Doesn't happen in real life. But also, no one ever seems to get involved.
That's it for now but I'll be back with more I'm sure
- The male lead (usually comedies) harasses the attractive woman until she eventually sees he's a good guy and it's deemed romantic.
- rape scenes
- when someone is sick and throws up so delicately with barely a noise and it all goes perfectly into the toilet bowl, and they just turn to the camera and look fine? no swollen face, no sick on their clothes, no need to scrub it off the toilet.
- massive amounts of food at breakfast time on a weekday. It's always people grabbing one thing while rushing out of the door leaving the mother sat at the table and I'm like... that woman has gone through all that effort and you've grabbed a slice of toast and ran.
- people doing things in the morning before they need to be at work/school. I watched pretty little liars once (not a film I know) and one of the main characters goes to her boyfriends house the whole other side of town (and we know it's the other side of town because he is her teacher so they can't be seen together and he lives in an apartment nearer the city and not in the suburbs because that is important context for the show!)
Firstly, how have you got time to drive at least 20 minutes before your 8am class to have a conversation with this guy? Secondly, HE WORKS AT YOUR SCHOOL. You could have just waited until he got to the exact same place that you're going!!
- people who clearly middle age writing the scripts for teenagers which means it's never anything remotely accurate to what a teenager would say or how they would behave.
- when they have kids but the houses are always tidy. This goes for tv shows as well but mainly soaps. How have you got 3 kids in a 2 bedroom house yet not a single toy on the floor?
- when someone has a cold or the flu and they have tissues scattered all over the bed like people actually do that in real life. Who sleeps in a pile of tissues?
- movies where the two main leads are romantically interested or involved and argue about something (that usually turns out to be a massive misunderstanding and they live happily ever after) and then the whole film is them being angry at each other/kissing another person/making snide comments when the whole thing could have been solved by a simple conversation.
- token characters i.e the token black friend, the token fat girl, the token gay guy, the token lesbian. I'm all for diversity in films obviously but these characters never get any kind of back story they're just there to tick a box or add to a stereotype.
- the smart girl who is actually attractive but doesn't see but everyone realises she's actually cool and then she feels good about herself basically cause everyone thinks she's cool.
- when the girl in the film gets self esteem boost cause the hot guy likes her and that's basically the whole film.
- when they kill off a character but then there's no mention of that character ever again.
- massive showdowns in public (usually in soaps it's in the pub). Doesn't happen in real life. But also, no one ever seems to get involved.
That's it for now but I'll be back with more I'm sure
