Pet Hates In Fiction.

[Ruud]

Policemen who always seem to be divorced and became alcoholics. Their daughters always seem to show up when they reach the age of 19. And then they still have a monstrous case to solve on their own, with the risk of being fired if they don't solve it.

 

[Jared]

I hate books where the author spams the reader with loads of useless info, a good example would be Matthew Reilly 'The Uzis might have fired at 600 rounds per minute. But the P-90, made by the FN Herstal company in Belgium, fired at an astonishing 900 rounds per minute. Indeed, with its rounded hand guard, internal blowback system, and incredible hundred-round magazine mounted above the barrel, it looked like something out of a science fiction movie.'

Half of that quote is unnecessary

He's just watched too much Stargate...

 

[santaman2000]

Policemen who always seem to be divorced and became alcoholics.....

That ain't alltogether fiction. Closer to 70% -80% true regarding the divorce rate www.police-officer-pages.com/policedivorcerate.html A bit lower re alhoholism now-a-days, but that too was higher not too long ago.

 

[Man of Tanith]

Mine is one that occours a lot in TEOTWAWKI lit.
The sudden and miraculous discovery of a mormons/prepper's home with stash of food/clean water/ammo/clothes always empty or just the corpse of the original inhabitants.
I know its possible and maybe even plausible buts always when the main characters are up a certain creek without a paddle and Lo there's the stash.
It feels a bit like the author has either read it in research or has backed themselves into a corner and need to dig themselves out.


also without a spolier the ending of the Dark Tower Series by Steven King. I loved that series knew it inside out disappeared for a week when the new one was released reading it then rereading the entire from start to finish of new book. The end of the final book meant I haven't read the series since I finished the last sentance in disgust the best part of a decade ago (yes I am still upset can you tell?)

 

[dwardo]

Clicking the safety off a Glock.

Racking a pump shotgun several times in a threatening manner without a shell live or dead ejecting.

 

[Stew]

Pretty much every bow in every film ever made. Wrong period, wrong style, wrong form, just goes on.
Also every time someone takes a knife or sword from a sheath it goes "shing" or some completely rubbish audible insert.

Just for you.

[video=youtube;yzbfuI0PMdA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzbfuI0PMdA[/video]

 

[Harvestman]

Just for you.

[video=youtube;yzbfuI0PMdA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzbfuI0PMdA[/video]

Ha! I was looking for that youtube clip last night, without success. Thank you.

 

[dwardo]

Exactly! Even if its a tiny fixed blade it still has to have a noise!!!

 

[sunndog]

i heard a comment somewhere by a costume designer who worked on the lord of the rings films. he was moaning about the sword drawing sound

he reckoned that the sound is so ingrained in our heads when watching a movie it just sounds "wrong" without it
not sure about that meself....maybe it does to people who've never owned a sheath knife let alone a sword


and +1 for flawless hero's.
i was given some clive cussler books once and the good guy's just made want to punch em in the face. although upon trying it i would of course find out they have never been bested in a fist fight and probably have a cool nickname from their day's as a pit fighter. y'know, before they became marine biologists, oh and classic sports car restorers, rally drivers, and gourmet cooks in their spare time

 

[demographic]

Sound editors who add motorbike noises onto film and get it wrong.
I can tell the difference between a two stroke and a four stroke, so why the can't they? If they don't know then maybe they should speak so someone who's not an idiot.

Also I just lose interest in films that are totally action and very little storyline.

 

[dwardo]

Sound editors who add motorbike noises onto film and get it wrong.
I can tell the difference between a two stroke and a four stroke, so why the can't they? If they don't know then maybe they should speak so someone who's not an idiot.

Also I just lose interest in films that are totally action and very little storyline.

Thats the other one, not only engine pitch and tone but also changing up through 10 different gears.

 

[cbr6fs]

Sound editors who add motorbike noises onto film and get it wrong.
I can tell the difference between a two stroke and a four stroke, so why the can't they? If they don't know then maybe they should speak so someone who's not an idiot.

Also I just lose interest in films that are totally action and very little storyline.

Even worse when they have a nice sounding twin and dub it with in-line 4


What drives me crazy is when you watch race scenes and you see them driving down a clear straight road the other car pulls up along side and THEN they put the throttle to floor

 

[santaman2000]

.....What drives me crazy is when you watch race scenes and you see them driving down a clear straight road the other car pulls up along side and THEN they put the throttle to floor

Ummm. We really raced like that when I was teenager. Pacing side bu side at about 45-50 MPH until the signal to punch it.

 

[Biker]

Sound editors who add motorbike noises onto film and get it wrong.
I can tell the difference between a two stroke and a four stroke, so why the can't they? If they don't know then maybe they should speak so someone who's not an idiot.

Also I just lose interest in films that are totally action and very little storyline.

Oh I soooo know what you mean there. Sit back and enjoy the action. I highly recommend deep breaths during this thrilling performance.

[video=youtube;KKW4wRDTI6Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKW4wRDTI6Q[/video]

 

[cave_dweller]

One of mine is when they type 'They went into a well lighted room' instead of 'a well lit room'

"Lighted" is correct. It's pronounced "lit" though. "Lit" is also correct, and both forms are hundreds of years old. Dontcha love English?

 

[Didgeridoohan]

Hollywood physics...

 

[sandbender]

Pet hates in fiction...

Bad writing and a writer who doesn't make use of a decent editor...

For bad writing, you could look at anything Dan Brown has put to paper, try to read the first couple of paragraphs of the DaVinci Code without frowning.

For lack of a decent editor, The Lord of the Rings, if nothing else the whole 'scouring of the shire' section should have been chopped and left for future books of notes that the authors son could publish.

 

[British Red]

For lack of a decent editor, The Lord of the Rings, if nothing else the whole 'scouring of the shire' section should have been chopped and left for future books of notes that the authors son could publish.

Or Frodo's endless whinge fest through Mordor. Could have cut a hundred pages right there that didn't advance the plot one jot.

 

[Lupis]

Or Frodo's endless whinge fest through Mordor. Could have cut a hundred pages right there that didn't advance the plot one jot.

I always thought of it as a whineathon but whinge fest works too.

 

[Duggie Bravo]

Pet hates in fiction:
Poor continuity between books, where a characters back story changes between books.
When the crime get's solved in the last 2 pages as the hero is attacked by the baddie, who hasn't been mentioned until he attacks the hero.
Sound effects apparently when Ewan McGregor was filming his first light sabre fight the entire crew were in stitches as he was making the noise himself ( they dub them in afterwards)


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