Things that totally ruin the suspension of disbelief in a movie

[ouryL]

@KayElCee

What kind of bubble bath are you using? I’ve never rinsed off after a bubble bath in my life, and I’ve never been sticky.

:dubious:
Mr. Bubble doesn’t count!! :mad:

[alphaboi867]

@BobLibDem

High school gymnasiums. No matter how big the high school looks in the rest of the film or how many students you see walking the halls, the gymnasium will have only about 4 rows of bleachers.

Or how high school students dress. Judging from film and TV the typical high school girl wears designer clothes and is perfectly free to bare her midrift and wear miniskirts.

[Merijeek]

@alphaboi867

Or how high school students dress. Judging from film and TV the typical high school girl wears designer clothes and is perfectly free to bare her midrift and wear miniskirts.

As someone who spends a lot of time in high schools…find yourself a richer white one and, yes, they do.

-Joe

[Kythereia]

Excerpted from the Evil Overlord List:

2. My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through.

3. Shooting is not too good for my enemies.

4. If it becomes necessary to escape, I will never stop to pose dramatically and toss off a one-liner.

[Chessic_Sense]

How about when the characters pause to ask stupid questions that they should already know the answer to, in order to inform stupid audience members. The worst one is the movie about the volcano that’s going to explode. Some “expert” says something like “enough magma will come out [blah blah blah]” and the geologist goes “uh, magma?” afterwhich she dutifully informs him that it’s subterranean lava. Dude, you’re a GEOLOGIST!! I know you at least went through the fourth grade!! How do you not know what magma is?!

Also, as for accents, a lot of period movies in English (like 300) default to using the “American Theater Standard” accent which sounds very british.

[Stoid]

My all time favorite is “The Green Mile” and it has NOTHING to do with the supernatural aspects of the story.
It’s this (SPOILERS SPOILERS…the movie is old so I ain’t boxin’

The time period is the Depression.
The setting is the South.

A HUGE posse is searching for two tiny little blonde girls.

They are found dead and covered with blood in the arms of a gigantic black man.
And the giant black man ends up IN JAIL?!?!?!??!?!??!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!

WHO ARE YOU KIDDING?

Black men were lynched for looking at a white woman funny, a black man cradling the bloodied bodies of two girl children would be tarred, feathered, castrated and hung faster than you can read that sentence.

[Catamount]

@IntelSoldier

How about when the characters pause to ask stupid questions that they should already know the answer to, in order to inform stupid audience members. The worst one is the movie about the volcano that’s going to explode. Some “expert” says something like “enough magma will come out [blah blah blah]” and the geologist goes “uh, magma?” afterwhich she dutifully informs him that it’s subterranean lava. Dude, you’re a GEOLOGIST!! I know you at least went through the fourth grade!! How do you not know what magma is?!

I can’t stand it when a movie that’s trying to be A-list pulls that stunt. That technique is straight out of 1950s B Sci-Fi flicks. See any number of MST3K episodes for examples.

[BobLibDem]

@alphaboi867

Or how high school students dress. Judging from film and TV the typical high school girl wears designer clothes and is perfectly free to bare her midrift and wear miniskirts.

A handful still do, but for most like my daughter it’s jeans every day. Probably a lot of the writers are about my age and remember when girls really did dress like Marcia Brady at school.

[don_t_ask]

@friedo

Then there’s the fact that whenever someone is carrying a styrofoam coffee cup, you can tell it’s empty. The West Wing is a serial offender here. During every obligatory walk-and-talk, every character carries a coffee cup and just lets it swing along in their hands as they walk. Why do they do it that way? BECAUSE THERE’S NOTHING IN IT! For God’s sake, at least put some water in there to force the actor to carry it the right way!

And of course, when they take a sip, they tip the cup much too far, and if there was really any coffee in there, they would have burned their face off.

This was the one I wanted to mention. It has extra irritation value because, as you point out, it is so easy to avoid. Mind you I think it is not restricted to styrofoam cups just cups in general. There is a fine example at the start of Children of Men when Theo has bought his cup of coffee, added some rum to it and then when he spills it appears to have a third of a cupful.