WHAT BUGS YOU ABOUT MOVIES THESE DAYS?

(December, 2022) Reddit asked, What bugs you the most about movies these days? Just some of the hundreds of responses:
– “Comedies. Ever since the Anchorman era, they just let a comedian riff for 20 minutes, take the best take and move on to next funny situation.”
– “The MCU. It’s ‘serious thing happens’ then jokejokejokejoke.”
– “A character saying ‘Well… that just happened’ or ‘Well… that’s a thing.’ Or, ‘They fly now?’ ‘They fly now.'”
– “The obligatory ‘that character has a funny name!’ joke.”
– “The disparity in volume – explosions are so loud that they hurt and conversations are whispers. Everything but the dialogue is too loud.” (* OK, Boomer!)
– “When characters refuse to talk blatantly just to extend conflict, that’s insufferable.”
– “How dark they are. Like literally dark. It’s difficult to see what’s going on.”
– “Hoardes of bad guys are all just ‘non-playable characters’ dressed in black. There’s an ‘army’ of bad guys that all look the same and are just there to be wiped away with ease. You see it in Avengers, Suicide Squad and loads of others.”
– “Trailers. They’re always about 4 minutes long, give away the entire plot, show all the best scenes and jokes and basically ruin the movie before you’ve even watched it.”
– “Reboots. “Wednesday’ isn’t a bad show it just feels like I’ve already watched it eighty times.”
– “The classic Netflix color filter to show a foreign country. Every film set in Mexico has that beige tone to it.”
* I’m going with the obligatory “dancing in the kitchen scene.”
* How about the perfect two hour movie that’s been stretched into a 10-part miniseries? Episode 1: two characters have sex in a public place within the first three minutes. Episode 3: New characters are introduced before you are clear on the main characters. Episode 4: The flashback, featuring new actors as the younger characters. Episode 6: Suddenly, you’re in a foreign country with subtitles for 10 minutes. Episode 9: The unnecessary cliffhanger. Episode 10: You’re supposed to remember something that happened on episode 1.
* This is in almost every movie: When the star has to go on a mission/solve a problem/take a trip, they inevitably end up meeting and working with someone of the opposite sex who 1) Is good-looking; 2) Is just the right age; 3) Is single. (* For example, the Jack Reacher character in the Amazon series ends up in a small town where the cop he works with is cute, his age, and single, and they quickly end up in the shower together. Because why would a cop ever be 58 years old, twice divorced, with three grandkids?)
* But here’s the biggest, stupidest thing in the movies: When you go online and see the headline, “What you need to know before you see Doctor Strange/Avatar 2/Babylon/Spider-Man 14/Puss In Boots…” I thought high school was the end of homework.
* PHONE TOPIC: What bugs you about movies these days?