- 'Shaky cam' syndrome. Used sparingly, it can be effective enough, but when an entire movie relies on it to 'create a feeling of chaos', it's sickening. Examples: The Bourne trilogy (especially the last two parts), Cloverfield

- Excessive swearing for the sake of ... swearing? It's not cool, and it doesn't add anything. Again, used sparingly is okay, but if every sentence contains a fcuk or a biatch, that's pushing it.

- Then again, when filmmakers cut away all cussing in order to obtain a lower PG rating (make a film suitable for all ages) for a movie that's supposed to have some cussing, that's just dumb. Example: Live Free Or Die Hard. John McClane just ain't John McClane without it.

- All too obvious advertisements. When John Connor whipped out his Sony Ericsson in Terminator Salvation (it's a Sony Pictures film), I had to laugh.

- Bad guys can fire their UZIs and AK47s all they want at the good guys, and they rarely ever land a hit, where the good guys are more precise than professional snipers with their ordinary handguns.

- In horror movies, why does the group always decide to split up even though they know a killer is out to get them?

- Unimportant people die instantly to gunshots or stab wounds, but significant characters always survive long enough for a tearful and emotional goodbye.
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- when they get out of a car, they never close windows or lock the doors.
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Also in horror movies the car does never start immediately, only when the killer reaches the door. And they NEVER have a signal on their mobile phone.
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And someone who got 'killed' off earlier miraculously survives...
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The hero never looks to the final explosion, he always turns back before the explosion and starts to walk as it was a normal thing
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And no matter how old and dilapidated the barn/shed/cave/circus tent is... there is always an oxyacetylene welding kit available!!!

(Or am I just preempting the A-Team movie here...)
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