Things you don't like watching in movies and TV shows

[Rydia]

There are just some things we don't like to watch on the screen. What do you hate to see in movies and TV and why?

Gross out humor. I don't think it's funny and it often makes me gag. And I don't see a reason for it most of the time.

People eating. Yeah I know eating is a natural thing to do, but I do not like watching people eat on screen. It kind of makes me gag especially if they are eathing something messy. Strangly, I have no probelm sitting around a table eating with other people.

Animals getting harmed. I don't know I just hate seeing it. If I'm watching a horror, I can watch all the characters get slaughtered and even sometimes laugh at how rediculous the method is, but as soon as the animal is hurt or killed, I'm done with the movie.

 

[Squid]

I also hate animals getting harmed!!! I'd rather see a person get hurt on TV over an animal! Specially doggies

I don't like watching operations, it disgusts me, i hate seeing the insides of bodies and I don't like seeing people poking around in someone else's body either!!

I don't like over the top gore... like in the movie Chain Letter wher ethe girl gets torn in half... disgusting!!! I can't watch it.

sex scenes if my family are in the same room hahaha, it just feels awkward, I am fine if i watch them with friends though.

and thats it I think.

 

[Soltharn]

There's very few things that actually make me turn away from the screen in digust, but I guess that's due to years of watching all manner of horror movies and leading a rather dramatic life for a time.

That said, there's nothing more embarassing than watching a sex scene in a movie/tv show/game whilst friends or family are in the same room.

Oh, and I suppose I'll list animals getting harmed - especially cats - as something I hate seeing. I've a cat myself, and love her a lot!

 

[Valvalis]

I can't watch animals getting hurt either, even if it's in cartoons. There was this one Family Guy where someone killed a cat by shaving it too much or something, and there was all this blood splattering everywhere and I just wanted to kill someone over it How could anyone think that's funny? Some other things about the series have been funny but that there was a HUGE error of judgement.

Also, cheesy pickup lines or love interest intro scenes. Like, when some "hot" girl (who's never actually hot either) walks by in slo mo, and the guy looks up and suddenly "falls in love". It's so cheesy, I hate it

Also, unnecessary gore in terms of mutilation. I can deal with seeing characters get shot or knowing that they died offscreen, but when they're getting chopped up, melted, blown up, or crushed (omg Kick-Ass movie, srsly? ), I just have to look away, it's like I think the people who make it forget that some of the audience considers them to be humans, not just plaything characters. You think "damn, this person had a life, dreams, a family etc." and omg what if it happened to me? It's damned disgusting and I don't want to think about it /rant

Also, too many naked boob shots I have my own that I can look at everyday if I want thanks, and sometimes, believe it or not producers, chicks like to watch movies/shows that have primarily male audiences I mean, they really need to get with the times; more and more women are starting to watch action/scifi/fantasy etc, and if there's going to be nudity I can't understand why they still refuse to show guy parts for us chicks who are watching! I mean please. Not to mention that there are probably plenty of male audience members who might appreciate it as well. I mean tbh I don't really care for the sake of wanting to see guys' junk, but I care for the sake of principle. If nudity on film is necessary at all, then equal amounts of nude men and women, or I'm burning your studio down dammit

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

I can't stand watching the news if it shows any harm coming to animals.

I remember watching the news when the flooding was on in QLD and a woman tried to hold onto a rope with one hand and her dog with the other but the waters were too strong and she had to let go of her dog in order to hold onto the rope with both hands.

In general movies and T.V shows I can not stand watching animals eat humans. It just freaks me out and is totally wrong. We are meant to be at the top of the food chain, not you Rogue!

Oh and I can not stand watching men rape other men. I don't mind so much if it's a woman, (although that still is offputting and upsetting), but the men raping other men is just scarring.

A penis is not meant to go up the arsehole and it is so degrading for a straight man to have that done to him. I hate it when the guys doing the raping are all like, 'Suck my dick you fag,' yet the victim is straight. How can they seriously think of themselves as straight after trying to get another man to go down on them?

Just because you're not the one doing it doesn't make you any less homosexual. 0_o And calling another guy a fag does not eliminate the fact that you are in fact gay yourself.

But yes. Main things I hate watching in movies and T.V shows.

 

[Sultan]

1) Unnecessary nudity and sex.

2) Excessive use of CGI

3) Use of CGI when practical effects are available

4) Shaky camera shots

5) Car stunts, they bore me. Especially if they're in CG

6) Elaborated, choreographed ballet fight scenes. There are things that current filmmakers could learn from the original Star Wars movies (LS duels, not gunfights).

7) Slow motion

8) Explosions. Enough is enough, unless it's necessary to the plot

9) Tragic things happening to characters too soon. The movie is begging me to give a shit when it didn't even give me a reason to. FFXIII is a good example, it's almost a damned movie anyway.

10) I know this is sound related, but I can't get over people strapping their swords on their backs, which is completely impractical and the blades going SHWINGG when they unsheathe it.

11) Another sound related one, sound in space.

12) The overabundance of pretty looking people.

13) Jump scares.

14) This one is a bit subjective, I don't think it should be excluded from cinema, but I'm just really uncomfortable watching characters either doing or saying embarrassing fail things, or embarrassing things happen to them.

 

[SaShman]

I'm pretty good with watching blood and gore in movies but one thing that gets to me is when people slit their wrists, it's the one thing that will always make me feel uncomfortable. I guess because suicide is a serious issue, it is rarely trivialized in movies so it has more of an emotional impact on me than the typical action/horror movie death.

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

I'm pretty good with watching blood and gore in movies but one thing that gets to me is when people slit their wrists, it's the one thing that will always make me feel uncomfortable. I guess because suicide is a serious issue, it is rarely trivialized in movies so it has more of an emotional impact on me than the typical action/horror movie death.

OMG ME TOO!

I just watched a movie called Flowers in the Attic where some kid slit his wrists and had his little brother drink it because they had no food or water.

Every time they go for the wrists/veins and proceed to cut I get really weak at the knees and feel like I'm gonna faint.

 

[Ayumi Hamasaki]

Gory violent scenes involve anything flowing blood. Animal or human. Although I will say that human bothers me more than animal.

That part where the use the title of the movie in the script. It absolutely drives me nuts. It's like that part in I Know Who Killed Me (horrible movie anyway but this made it ten times worse) where's she sitting there, and out of nowhere says "I Know Who Killed Me". It made me cringe.

And that's all I can think of for now.

 

[Donald Trump]

The main thing I dislike is contrived conflict, or threat. Most TV shows usually have one of these each series, it's fine if it leads to any character development, but usually it doesn't. One character will be put into a life threatening situation, which they will come out of unscathed, characters only die in season finales or openers. There's the other in which the character is threatened in a way which means they could lose their job or whatever it happens to be in the particular show. I find those kinds of things rather dull.

 

[Meds]

Y`know whatÉ

(oh great I screwed the keyboard up. I`ll try to limit my question marks and apostrophes)

Anyway, ok. There is this stupid show that`s been on in my house for a while, and while I have little interest in ``real`` shows like on the discovery channel and tlc and such, this one seemed at least a bit interesting because it showed people in some of their highest levels of anger, and my roommates are the ones who put it on.

The show is called Operation Repo, and it revolves around a team of reposessors heading to peoples`houses and workplaces and stuff and taking their cars, motorbikes, etc. away from them and either towing them or hopping in and driving them away, leaving the negligent customer fuming, often starting ridiculous fights and screaming matches with the repo-folk.

It was pretty entertaining for a while. Angry people being stupid.

But it turns out, the show is completely fake, completely staged, and the repo people along with all of the unpaying civillians are all actors. It`s total bullshit.

Now I hate the show because I know it`s a complete lie and I can`t take any joy in watching something that serves no purpose whatsoever, entertaining as it may be. Not to mention, I feel fooled and betrayed.

So that`s what I hate. Fake TV shows that pretend to be real.

 

[Tipsynaruto]

4) Shaky camera shots

10) I know this is sound related, but I can't get over people strapping their swords on their backs, which is completely impractical and the blades going SHWINGG when they unsheathe it.

12) The overabundance of pretty looking people.

For #4, does that count for shots like in the intro of Saving Private Ryan, where its purpose was a soldiers POV running towards the beach?

#10: Agree with the back strapping, except for short ones such as a ninjato or shortswords. I think those actually can be drawn easily and that tight quarters might actually make keeping it at the waist impractical (imagine crawling through the attic with a sword dangling around your waist, ready to knocking into things as it swings around?).

As for the unsheathing, depends on the blade.

A curved blade almost always scrape against the scabbard when doing an Iai (drawing strike). So the scraping noise should be present, though a bit more realistic and not so loud. But are you talking about just drawing it out slowly? If it is, then nvm. That is stupid as even if there is noise, its hardly as audible the movies show it.

As for the Schwinng as in drawing it (and not scraping against the scabbard), a curved sword is rather aerodynamic in the sense that it cuts through air easier than a straight one. An iai is several times faster than a normal swing. Swinging a bat makes a swoosh, so i dont see why wont a swinging sword make one. But, im guessin the point you dont like is how loud and overused it is with impractical swords?

as for #12, that has anime and japanese animation movies all over it. Not that its a bad thing imo (personal. This is subject this last line)

I hope i dont step on anyone's toes, but i hate wrestling. It is so ridiculously fake that i am actually disgusted every time i watch it. I know there is REAL wrestling, but i meant those ones that people do those stupid things.

Wat i mean is shit like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU4TDGlbTz8

Seriously. wth?

 

[Sultan]

For #4, does that count for shots like in the intro of Saving Private Ryan, where its purpose was a soldiers POV running towards the beach?

#10: Agree with the back strapping, except for short ones such as a ninjato or shortswords. I think those actually can be drawn easily and that tight quarters might actually make keeping it at the waist impractical (imagine crawling through the attic with a sword dangling around your waist, ready to knocking into things as it swings around?).

As for the unsheathing, depends on the blade.

A curved blade almost always scrape against the scabbard when doing an Iai (drawing strike). So the scraping noise should be present, though a bit more realistic and not so loud. But are you talking about just drawing it out slowly? If it is, then nvm. That is stupid as even if there is noise, its hardly as audible the movies show it.

As for the Schwinng as in drawing it (and not scraping against the scabbard), a curved sword is rather aerodynamic in the sense that it cuts through air easier than a straight one. An iai is several times faster than a normal swing. Swinging a bat makes a swoosh, so i dont see why wont a swinging sword make one. But, im guessin the point you dont like is how loud and overused it is with impractical swords?

as for #12, that has anime and japanese animation movies all over it. Not that its a bad thing imo (personal. This is subject this last line)

I hope i dont step on anyone's toes, but i hate wrestling. It is so ridiculously fake that i am actually disgusted every time i watch it. I know there is REAL wrestling, but i meant those ones that people do those stupid things.

Wat i mean is shit like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU4TDGlbTz8

Seriously. wth?

I meant that sound of steel grinding against steel when there's obviously no steel in the sheath (No clue why there would be any). But I do see your point.

No, when you're using a shaky cam for artistic reasons like in SPR, at least there's a reason for it to be there and it's not abused. But when standard action scenes are shot like that, it doesn't add to the "franticness" of it, it's just stupid, annoying and hard to watch.

 

[Tipsynaruto]

I agree. No sane blacksmith would use metal as a scabbard. I dont see the merit in it as it might actually chip and wreck the cutting edge.

One thing i cringe, tho not too bad is that Federal agents, Soldiers, trained mercenaries all seem to be crap ass shots while the dood that happens to pick up the gun for self defense has almost headshot hax on.

Be a bit more realistic, a federal agent could probably pop the average joe's head at decent pistol range before you could even take aim properly. That often irks me a bit.

 

[Dragon Mage]

One of THE MOST annoying things in movies -- especially the older ones set in all this post-apocalypse worlds where everyone wears leather -- is the damn women.

Dear God.

They are such a discredit to their gender it's actually embarrassing. The bad guys catch the token female, aight? She's screams and flails her dainty legs about, and another bad guy punches her out in one blow.

Okay, stop.

That's just stupid.

I've been kicked in the face, and it didn't knock me out. It hurt like a screaming son of a bitch, yeah, but I was perfectly conscious. It's so utterly annoying to see these stupid fight scenes where the token female gets knocked out instantly so the token male lead can come to her rescue. This goes for the males too, but it's always the females that get this one-hit, one-knockout treatment and it's really quite irritating. It's one of those things that just irrationally bugs me, more because I know it takes a lot more than a blow to the face to knock you out than a gender thing, but that certainly compounds it. It's irritating. I can't help it.

Also, as others have said, nudity/smut scenes. Keep it off the screen, thankyouverymuch.

Idiotic, 'let's talk about our feelings' moments. Okay, really? People don't talk like that. It's okay if, in a TV series, they do it once or twice a season. But every fucking episode? Dear god, I'll watch a soap opera sooner than I'll watch that. And that's saying something.

Bouncy boobs. Dear god is that annoying. I don't care if Meagan Fox is so awesome, keep her tits in their holsters where they belong.

Gouging of eyes or slitting of wrists. My eyes start watering or I can't stop trying to scratch/itch my wrists. Makes my skin crawl. It's worse when they're about to stab someone in the eye, though. That really ruins my day.

For older movies, when the alien/abomination/thing wraps it's appendages around a person's face. It's visceral and it's incredibly disgusting. I won't eat for a week.