When the good guy is being shot at, and everyone misses. But when he shoots, he gets all his targets in one shot.
LOL I watched a clip from the movie "Commando" where Arnold Schwarzenegger goes on a rampage and kills like 80 dudes (someone actually went through and counted). He has a machine gun and when there are multiple guys coming at him he just fires full auto and wiggles the barrel around a bit.
Cars that explode from the simplist accident
You can always tell if a vehicle will explode on impact or just crash and get some slight, superficial damage based on whether the hero is in it or not.
The single most annoying thing to me is the "clicking" noise made when someone holds up a gun. Scenes where someone is suddenly surrounded by multiple people pulling guns on them, and you hear a chorus of clicking sounds as they all point their guns at once...those scenes make me want to punch my TV.
Yes, guns make clicking sounds, but only when you engage the slide (a two hand process), or draw the hammer back. But no one is ever doing that when those sound effects are being used.
I've even seen movies where the shooter draws his gun, the clicking sound is made, then the shooter slowly lowers his gun during the scene only to suddenly point it at the same person again and have the clicking sound. GRRRRRR
I get that it's for effect, but damn, it drives me nuts.
The one I like is how, when a guy finally runs out of bullets (after firing like 40 of them from a small pistol), he'll continuously pull the trigger and it goes "click click click." That would only happen with a revolver, not a semiautomatic.
Oh and there will be someone pointing a gun at another guy and they're arguing, and then the guy with the gun "cocks" it for emphasis. So wait, the entire time before that point he wouldn't have been able to fire it (unless it's a double action revolver)?
Scenes where they are eating dinner, they take one or two bites and they are done. This happens most often at breakfast. You just wonder why the mom even bothers. Plus they seem to have time to make these huge breakfasts in the first place.
I think this is mainly because they have to do multiple takes and if they ate a whole breakfast every time, they'd get sick. And they'd have to fill their plates back up for each take. I guess you could make it more realistic by having the actors pretend to eat normally and gradually take some food off their plates, then put it back on for the next take, but then you also would have to have pauses while they chew or they'd have to talk with their mouths full.