It's just bad prop decisions. There are guns that better fit. In a cheap movie, I can forgive it. A budget over 200k? I'm upset

I hate when an actor clearly doesn't even understand how to hold and aim a gun and their character is supposed to be competent at it.

Cate Blanchet's character in Borderlands is a recent and particularly obvious example. In the movie's trailer she is shown holding and aiming a rifle like someone who clearly never held a gun before and my understanding is that her character was supposed to be a highly competent gunslinger.

Someone coach those actors for crying out loud.

That's a subtle one. If a revolver fires 7 or 9, unforgivable. If it fires 20, they knew damn well what they were doing and it's a Machete Kills style comedy, we're back to acceptable.

Guns are absurd in almost all movies anyway. Zero reaction to firing in enclosed spaces, powering through a gunshot wound by using muscles that basically no longer exist because a bullet ripped through them, etc. And it's not even just action movies, it happens all the time.

What if there's a cut where they could have conceivably reloaded?

Underworld was always the one that annoyed me with their guns. Main character fires this automatic handgun for minutes and doesn't reload.

That's a bad script supervisor. A script supervisor is responsible for scene continuity between takes. Guaranteed the shooting schedule had a dozen days of frequent high intensity filming and the script supervisor was tired from making sure really busy scenes lined up within the time allowed.

The most egregious example of this that I can think of is in the final shootout of Commando, where Schwarzenegger's character fires hundreds of rounds without ever reloading once

Was watching the latest season of slow horses. Great show, I fully recommend. However... a couple of assassins that kept firing their pistols while chasing someone annoyed me. Sure, there was time to reload and it's plausible that they simply didn't show that. But what are the odds that they were carrying 3-4 spare clips with them? Especially since they weren't wearing tactical gear anything of the sort.

Whats up tiger lily

Was gonna say this, fucking, yep.

Its this apparently baffling concept that even a fictional world has to be coherent and consistent within or as itself, otherwise, it seems cheesy or schlocky, obviously fake and contrived.

The one that gets me. In all the crazy wild stuff in The Fast and the Furious franchise.

I can't handle the safe drag scene in the 5th movie. There is no way those Chargers could drag a safe full of money with any sort of speed, if at all. I don't care how reinforced the frame is, or how much NOS they throw at it. Even if the thing happened to have wheels on it.

I can accept shit like, cars parachuting from a plane, and cars on ice battling a giant submarine, but not that stupid safe drag chase.

Some people hate 'The Hulk' because they can buy genetic mutation that turns him giant and green, sure... But where the fuck is the extra body mass coming from? You can't just gain weight from nothing. Yes, magic does exist in the MCU, but he didn't get his powers from magic, did he?!

My understanding is that hulk gets his strength (and size/mass) from his anger. So in the universe, anger must have energy that hulk converts to mass

I don't care about the extra mass, but how do his boxers work?

I think this is covered by the Pym particles explained in Ant-Man.

Ant-Man makes lots of things, and himself, turn giant, so by Occam's razor, why not say Hulk's mutations allow his cells to access the same mechanism.

I don't know the official MCU explanation for the Hulk, but in the comics the lore goes to absolutely insane places and him gaining mass is incredibly tame in the grand scheme of things.

If you think the Hulk is bad, don't even try to work out Ant-Man. Even if you use the "it's magic" argument (which IIRC Ant-Man's powers are not described that way), it still contradicts its own logic constantly.

I was able to tolerate more of this in movies than I used to after acknowledging that tons of people in real life suck at communication.

I think a lot of sitcoms rely on it because it's a way to create conflict without needing to create a bad guy.

Malcolm in the Middle is an example of a show that didn't rely on miscommunication for every plot and I realized during my first streaming watch through that there isn't a single recurring character on the show that I'd consider a decent person.

Yeah, I'm watching the show Below right now, and they're faking into the "we can't advance the plot without a failure to properly communicate" rhythm, as expected with Netflix, and so much modern TV in general.

There's a scene in Community about this, where Abed is narrating a story, and when a story character turns on the radio, and its just playing conventional chill music instead of anything notable. Abed then points out that it's unlikely the radio would have anything notable right as they turned it on.

who’s tuned to the news channel

I agree this is rare, but my TV happened to be tuned to CNN on 9/11 when I turned it on around 10:30. I was playing hooky from work and getting high while playing bridge on my computer and nobody had called me. The screen showed a pillar of smoke and the caption said "second World Trade Center tower collapses" and I was like "what fucking movie is this?" Took a while for me to process what was happening.

They are not only on the news channel, but they always switch on the TV just in time to get the exact information they needed to hear at that specific moment. All while not tuning in in the middle of a sentence, just perfect timing from start to finish.

Who uses a TV anymore?

If they want to make it realistic, they're texting a link.

Shaun of the Dead does a nice bit using this classic trope of turning the TV on exactly at the right moment.

And Community, as mentioned in another comment.

Big Bang Theory is witty and funny. It’s my favorite show now. Am I old now?

How good was the battery in that camcorder as well?

I'd be down to try this, but I'm not skipping any scenes with my beloved Lizzy Caplan either. Been had a crush since Mean Girls came out.

The spinoff with John Goodman was good though.

Off with Snyder's Cut, in with Dad's Cut.