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17 Movie Tropes People Say They’re Absolutely Sick Of Seeing
17 Movie Tropes People Say They're Absolutely Sick Of Seeing,"In every movie where the protagonist has a dead wife, she's always shown under white bedsheets, laughing and rolling around. And we get a first-person view of it. It's as common as the Wilhelm scream at this point."

17 Movie Tropes People Say They’re Absolutely Sick Of Seeing

Recently over on the Ask Reddit subreddit, u/BlitzDarkwing asked, “What are you absolutely sick of seeing in movies?” And the people of Reddit did not disappoint. The comments were full of tired topes, annoying clichés, and other things that tend to take someone right out of a movie. Here are 17 of the best responses:

1. “When kids wake up in the morning before school, and it looks like high noon outside while the mom is cooking all of the food in the fridge for breakfast.”

—u/Janetgregory973

“And then nobody eats that breakfast because they are ‘running late.'”

u/YourFront

Buena Vista Pictures Distribution

The Parent Trap (1998)

2. “When characters are at a restaurant and they order ‘a beer’ or ‘wine.’ What kind?”

u/OrangeTree81

Image Entertainment

The Cobbler (2014)

3. “The main character getting shot and then just carrying on about their day with a slight limp.”

—u/sev45day

“In Scream VI, after Mindy had been stabbed, the next time we see her, she’s completely okay and can move normally. It ruined the movie for me.”

u/Specialist-Dingo814

Paramount Pictures

Scream VI (2023)

4. “Action scenes with so many jump cuts it’s hard to follow.”

u/Phasmamain

“I think the frantic jump-cutting during action sequences is so they don’t need to choreograph any fight scenes and you can’t tell how bad the fights are. It’s sloppy.”

u/NoThanksJustLooking1

20th Century Studios

Taken 3 (2014)

5. “When two characters are in a car having a conversation, and the driver looks over at the passenger while talking and takes their eyes off the road for too long of a time.”

—u/vabeachkevin

IFC Films/Courtesy Everett Collection

Boyhood (2014)

6. “Women going into labor by having their water break dramatically and then immediately having the pain ramp up to a thousand. And then they give birth without drugs within fifteen minutes. I get it, realistic childbirth makes for mundane movies and television. But for the vast majority of people, labor is kind of a slow process.”

—u/bethereinthemorning

“Also that labor only starts after the water breaks. I was in labor for over 10 hours before my water broke.”

—u/Lazy_Cana

Universal Pictures

Baby Mama (2008)

7. “When someone is explaining something using words slightly above a fourth-grade reading level, and the response is ‘umm…iN EnGliSh PleAse.’ Will the cringe never cease?”

—u/whalehale

Paramount Pictures

Project Almanac (2015)

8. “Keys in the overhead visor. Literally no one has done that since the ’70s. Stop it.”

u/ComplexPackage117

Netflix

The Babysitter (2017)

9. “I’m not necessarily sick of it, but in every movie where the protagonist has a dead wife, she’s always shown under white bedsheets, laughing and rolling around. And we get a first-person view of it. It’s as common as the Wilhelm scream at this point.”

u/ThisBiWantsToDie

Newmarket Films

Memento (2000)

10. “That friend in teen movies. You knowt the one who writes for the school paper and cares about the environment. She usually has different or colorful hair and wears either brightly colored clothes OR all black. She has weird hobbies and will drop everything for the main character.”

—u/IseultDarcy

Netflix

He’s All That (2021)

11. “Here’s one for animated films: Characters getting thrown up into the air towards the camera and everything slowing down so we can see their exaggerated ‘hilarious’ reactions.”

u/BlitzDarkwing

The Super Mario Bros. Movie does this way too many times to the point you can see it coming a mile away in any given action sequence.”

—u/rd_inks_v3

Universal Pictures / Via youtube.com

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

12. “Someone wakes up in a hospital bed after a gnarly accident, and they immediately rip out their IV, monitoring devices, and other things that, for all they know, might be keeping them alive.”

—u/SignificantViolinist

Warner Bros. Pictures

Isn’t It Romantic (2019)

13. “Having someone typing at a keyboard and speaking what they’re writing at the same time for the viewer’s sake. No person speaks it as they type.”

—u/jfq722

MGM Distribution Co.

Sleepover (2004)

14. “The need to make everything a bigger universe. My Cousin Vinny is a great movie. I’m sure they could have done a decent sequel, or turned it into a series, a connected universe, etc. But they didn’t, and it’s all the better for it.”

—u/Jmen4Ever

Kimberley French / © Columbia Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

15. “The interrupted kiss cliché. It pisses me off so much. How often does that happen in real life compared to movies? Not much.”

u/Twisting_Storm

Disney

High School Musical (2006)

16. “Bathos. Let serious scenes be sincere, and stop undercutting the drama for played out jokes.”

u/Mrgoodtrips64

“Like in Thor: Love and Thunder, when Jane is in bed dying of cancer and Thor comedically smashes a vending machine.”

—u/NotOnHerb5

Walt Disney StudiosMotion Pictures

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

17. And finally, “No one ever ends a phone conversation by saying ‘bye’ or ‘I’ll talk to you later’ or whatever. Everyone always just hangs up. Always. Every single time.”

—u/Ho2Me9

Sony Pictures Releasing

The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.

What are some common things in movies that you’re sick of seeing? Let us know in the comments below!