18 People Told About the Things That Instantly Make Them Turn off Movies and Series

When you’ve watched enough movies and series, you start noticing some clichés, popular twists, and common features. But sometimes, it’s not even the clichés that bother viewers, it‘s certain creative choices and inappropriate plot developments.

We at CHEERY couldn’t ignore this popular thread where people told about the things that instantly make them stop watching a series or a movie. And it’s hard to disagree with most of them.

• Badly written female roles at both ends of the scale. Having a woman that is able to throw around a henchman who is 3 times her weight and half her size is exactly as bad as having her be utterly helpless in the face of any threat. It smacks of cowardice to not have any weakness in a woman character, and smack of stupidity to have no strength as well. © CompletelyFlammable / Reddit
• Lazy, cheap humor. And I mean lazy: predictable set-ups and juvenile punchlines. I watched the first few minutes of the first episode of Two Broke Girls. It felt like it was written by two 14-year-old boys. I wanted to muddle through because of Kat Dennings... but no, couldn’t do it. Same for the one episode of Two and a Half Men. Good God, both the writing and the performances were phoned in. © TwoTheVictor / Reddit

• Shows where kids in high school talk like they are 30-year-olds who have done everything, been everywhere, know it all and use a ridiculously flowery and extensive vocabulary in every conversation. Like, have any of these writers ever been to high school? Literally no one talks like that. Even worse is when, in addition to this, all the adults talk normal or are just plain stupid, like so weird parallel universe. © StretchArmstrong74 / Reddit
• Love triangles out of nowhere in a second or third season to “spice things up” because studio writers are hacks and their idea of relationship drama is “potential infidelity” at all times. It’s the most tired trope on the planet and the second I see it rear its head I dip out. © amalgamas / Reddit
• In The Umbrella Academy like 90% of the plot was like somebody being like “I’m going to tell the truth” and then somebody comes in and is like “Lol, obviously the best thing to do is to lie right now.” Once or twice is alright, but at almost every step it just becomes maddening to watch. © Comrade_Tool / Reddit

• How about that scene from Taken 2 or 3, where it takes Liam Neeson a million cuts to jump a fence... in 15 seconds or whatever it was. © TheGoadingGoat / Reddit
• Movies in the late 80s had a lot of darkness, but you could see the depth because of different shooting techniques. Now you can’t see a thing because it’s a CGI fest drowned in black color, so you can’t see a thing because you have no depth in a scene. Compare night scenes in dark alleys in 80s movies and in movies now. © Bombzey / Reddit
• I’m what a lot of people would call “nerdy” and everyone in existence told me that I’d love The Big Bang Theory for months and months. Finally, I relented and watched the first season. And I hated it. It felt like the writers just made a bunch of caricatures of nerdy or neurodiverse people while winking at the audience and telling us that we should laugh at these peoples’ existence and their “weird smart person” interests. For being a show that everyone told me is for smart people, it came off as intensely anti-intellectual to me. © Tolkienside / Reddit

• When one character tells to another who is supposed to know about their life already because they’re best friends or something. And the main character says something like: “You know, when my mom died in a car accident when I was 8... And my brother and I were left to fend for ourselves since our dad was never in the picture... That’s when I knew I would never have a successful relationship. And now I’m repeating the pattern! This divorce from Randy has got me questioning my reality lately, dealing with him and where our 4 kids will live has been a total nightmare.” © f**kthiss**t____ / Reddit
• In Manifest a girl is desperate to get back to her ex-fiance, he finally breaks up with his wife to get back with her, and she’s like “Nah, it’s not fair to your wife, let me hang out this other dude I just met through a calling and be pissed at you for being jealous.” Michaela was the worst, and everyone acted as if she were a saint the entire time. © gingerisla / Reddit
• Substantial amounts of cringey teenage drama. Looking at you Resident Evil on Netflix, couldn’t even finish the first episode. © Psyblade0_0 / Reddit

• If I start asking the question “Why would anyone behave like this ever?” and the only answer can be “Because the plot demands it”. © newsfromplanetmike / Reddit
• When the film is completely lecturing me about something (even about something I agree with). I don’t mind being challenged on ideas, but when the movie is really condescending while doing so, it makes me stop watching immediately. © pizza231219 / Reddit
• Jared Leto is cringe incarnate. He’s a terrible wannabe method actor who makes bad acting choices. © jargon_ninja69 / Reddit

• I remember where the first Transformers movie lost me. When the transformers are fighting at the end, it’s all a big, jumbled mess of metal and I can barely tell what’s going on or who is who. © 1840_NO / Reddit
• Me: “Wow, that guy’s so cool!” Hollywood: “Wouldn’t it be cooler if he’d argued with his girlfriend the whole time?” © ThickWeatherBee / Reddit
• Teens dress up like adults with tons of makeup and super fashionable outfits that are highly stylized and talk like adults working in business. Like, some teenagers dress up, sure. But I swear, in Riverdale, every high school girl is continually dolled up like someone way older and with no regard for age or school dress code. © KittyKatOnRoof / Reddit

• «I will tell you something important. I found out the murderer’s secret. The secret they didn’t want anyone to know. It’s important that I tell you, because it changes everything.» Soulful pause. «And you are the only one who can act upon this information. The information that I am about to give you. Which is why it is important that you listen to me when I tell you... Oh no, the villain caught me!» © Cipherpunkblue / Reddit

What makes you stop watching movies or series immediately?