Or if there’s a horse, it always whinnies. That usually means the horse is under some sort of distress.
Or if there’s a camera showing action in an office or a conference room, it always has to move behind a pillar or behind someone’s head. I don’t want to see a bunch of hair for two seconds - show me the action.
In the real world not all live microphones feed back every time someone walks up to them. Every time there’s a live mic in a story this seems to happen just to let you know it’s a live mic.
It’s always a full moon.
Pregnant women go from just fine thank you to screaming agony in a few seconds, followed by birth a minute later.
They are actively making them. Next time you watch a movie with a big FX scene, particularly in space, consider that the entire scene was created and rendered inside a computer, and that at no point were any lenses actually used to create what you’re watching. But there will still be plenty of lens flare on display.
Or crime investigations where it’s so very dark both in the precinct and at the crime scenes. Se7en, I’m talking to you. Turn on a light already!
But the empty coffee cups with unrealistic sipping get my vote too.
Not only do cats always “meow” and horses always whinny, dogs always bark or whine, and babies always gurgle.
Also, nobody is ever not in a rush in the morning. Everyone is always just about to miss the bus, or mom is yelling at them that the mini van is leaving. Breakfast never gets finished - or put away.
Because real apartments have four walls. TV sets need one wall to not be there, and the half of that room on that side be more or less empty so that stuff doesn’t come between the characters and the camera. The result is that TV apartments need to fit all the usual apartment stuff (kitchen, couches, desks, doors to the bedrooms/bathrooms, etc.) in half the space. Hence apartments that seem huge.
Honestly, the main lesson of this thread is that a Doper made TV show would be very realistic and very difficult to watch.
The most annoying thing I ever noticed on a TV or movie was when the character was playing Zaxxon and someone interrupted him, and he just walked away from the video game with no hesitation, and no sound reporting how he immediately crashed and died. Now, I was fairly young at the time and a quarter was a lot to me, but at the time I thought that no one ever would ever just walk away from a video game in progress all casual-like, even if it was an emergency.
Operating rooms and other medical rooms as well. How the hell can they see anything? And don’t tell me it’s for verissimilitude – it’s impossible to watch, too.
I’m especially thinking of Crossing Jordan.
This is why I loved Spiderman 2: Peter’s apartment was small enough he could sit on his bed and touch all four walls.
Not to mention skinny again.
I hate when the actors are obviously sick, so they’re stuffed up and talking with a hoarse voice and nobody says anything about it because it’s not in the script.
The worst violator of this must be Game of Thrones, where many scenes could just have well be done ala radio. :rolleyes:
Anyone can go on the Internet and get the answer to the most obscure question in a heartbeat. I wish I had their Google-fu.
And the L-shaped sheets that come up to the naked guy’s waist but cover the woman’s boobies. Do they exist in real life?
Noticed that in Skyfall. Seen it recently in a couple other places, I can’t recall specifics. At least sometimes they have to leave in a hurry, but sheesh.
Well, I do, but that’s because there’s no one there to enjoy the effort.
Yeah, this one bugs me, the “we must show something in the foreground cross between the camera and the characters to add verisimilitude to the scene, show you it’s a real scene”. Same way the Star Wars updates by Lucas redid the street scenes on Tatooine, and digitally jammed the scene with a huge beast walking between the camera and the stormtrooper questioning Ben and Luke. COME ON!
Characters who live their lives on their cell phones and never seem to charge them or run out of power. I’m not buying it.
Just to be clear, your annoyed that most TV and movies don’t show five minutes of someone tweaking google search-terms and clicking around wikipedia whenever they go to the internet for information?
I was reminded of this watching Person of Interest. Whenever a character goes undercover as a teacher or substitute teacher, they inevitably walk into class, the bell rings, they have some significant thing to say…and then the bell rings, letting the class out after about five minutes. Huh? How about some indication that an hour or more has passed?
Not just stuff in space. A notorious example was JJ Abrams’s Star Trek reboot. He actually had a guy purposely shine lights at the camera to get more lens flares in the live action shots. He later admitted to going overboard, so here’s hoping he cuts that shit out in the sequel.
It’s a flexible piece of cloth, not a rigid board. Any sheet can easily be made to conform to an L shape. Try it sometime, just to see.
Nobody wants to wait ten minutes on a show while the character goes to take a crap. We all know that several things have to be shown in a way that is good for the camera, but some are simply unforgivable.
I don’t think that using a mouse or not having a blinking, bleeping screen with PASSWORD on it is too much to ask, or even have a search without showing consecutive images until it says “MATCH”.
I hate when shows have to be edited in order to make room for more commercials.
God bless you always!!! 
Holly