I used to get angry about all those Disney movies with the divorced parents and the kids getting shuttled between expensive homes in top of the line cars. There is a movie with Steve Carnell where he ends up in a nondescript beige apartment with no view after the divorce and it is much more realistic, |
this happened to a son of my friends. Broke his ankle or leg and found cancer. |
Well I wear MY shoes ALL the time. Just because you don't doesn't mean there aren't people who do. Btw, I don't care if you think it is disgusting. You are not living in my house so I don't give a fig. |
Maybe someone posted this already and I missed it but: This is indeed irksome, but it's also dying out in today's shows and films. My DD loved the series "1899" in which characters spoke in multiple languages throughout. Viewers had options to stream a subtitled version or (I think) a dubbed version. But the whole "everyone speaks in accented English" thing was not present. DD, who watches a ton of excellent shows and is really into details of production, says this is increasingly common, too. So your pet peeve is, let's hope, going to die out pretty quickly -- probably thanks largely to international shows on streaming, and production of shows aimed at international audiences who won't tolerate the "accented English" thing. |
Usually up against a wall. Sorry but no guy is hot enough that I can't manage to get to the bedroom. |
DP. Maybe the family bought those long-lasting LL BEan flannels at a secondhand store, too.... |
Yes! But it doesn't really drive me crazy; I just find it hilarious. The worst offender for us was "White Collar," where the leads drive all over Manhattan and always swan up to a spot right in front of, or maybe (gasp) down the block from, where they're going. But this magical parking fit into that show's overall alternate-reality New York, where the streets were so perfect that our family dubbed the setting "Clean-hattan." Like someone had scrubbed the city every night! Kind of a nice fantasy. |
I know someone this happened to, too. |
And like that is going to give her an O, too. |
Cops living in swanky apartments or stand alone houses in the cities where they work. IRL, most police (and firefighters) live in some far-flung suburb due to their salaries.
'Southland' was pretty realistic in this way. Many of the officers lived in Castaic, about an hour outside Los Angeles, and were neighbors who'd go to each other's kids birthday parties and so forth. |
My pet peeve with anything set before the mid-20th-century is when someone is shown writing fluidly with their left hand and nobody smacks the back of that hand and .says "RIGHT hand only!" OK, not that extreme, though my late grandmother got swatted a lot for that reason. But before the later 20th century, children (at least in the US and UK) were always taught to write right-handed even if they were naturally left-handed. Some teachers and parents would tie a kid's left hand behind the kid's back or use other methods to force right-handedness. Especially when I see some historical setting where someone's blithely scribbling away left-handed, it takes me out of the reality of the setting. I'm sure there were adults who, later in their lives, wrote left-handed as they pleased, but overall it's just not true to many periods and places to see it on screen. |
That’s pretty much Girls. I had to cover my eyes at some of Lena Dunhams sex scenes with Adam Driver. I think you only need to watch the first episode. |
What about where the films are dubbed into English, but the spoken English words don't match the English subtitles. |
He was three doors up the street, not next door, but I totally did that as a teen. |
And they know how to do every kind of scan on House. |