Biggest Movie Pet Peeves

If you are like me, you like movies. However, there are sometimes things that happen in movies that make you smack your head. Here, in no particular order, are my biggest movie pet peeves.

-Jurassic Park: When 12-year-old Lex manages to somehow hack a complicated computer system, Dr. Grant and Elle are holding the door back as raptors are trying to break in, while also reaching with their feet to secure a rifle on the floor. Little Timmy looks over Lex's shoulder the whole time. Why doesn't he walk over, pick up the rifle, and give it to Dr. Grant and Elle? He seriously just stands there as this all happens.

-The Road: In a post-apocalyptic America, Viggo Mortensen and son road the landscape. There are at least two times when they go swimming, but Viggo swims naked and his son swims with shorts on. Isn't that kind of weird? Why wouldn't they both swim naked if the father is going to? It's not like they have any reason to be modest. Have you, the reader, ever gone skinny dipping? Usually it's kind of weird when one person goes naked and the rest are clothed.

-Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian: Another water related pet peeve. After the kids are whisked away to Narnia, they appear on a beach. Keep in mind that they have no provisions or have any idea where they are exactly, but that doesn't stop them from running as fast as they can, fully clothed, into the water. They had no change of clothes, why on Earth (or Narnia) would you do something that stupid? Walking around in wet, clinging clothing would most certainly help introduce hypothermia, or at least horrible chaffing.

-Saw II: A girl gets her hand stuck in a trap. The trap allows the hand to enter, but pulling the hand back causes the blades to press in on one's skin. She easily could have used her other hand to press the blades to open up, giving enough space to pull her hand out, but no, she sticks her other hand into the trap, too. So dumb.

-Spring Awakening: This is a stage musical, but it deserves getting ripped on as an unfocused Rent knock-off with forgettable songs, unlikeable characters, and a horribly jarring concept that mutilated the source material. One of the worst crimes was the bizarre hair style of the Fat Kid. Imagine a shaved head with two Hostess Ding-Dongs on the top of his head. It makes no sense, and it draws the eye to such a minor character.

-Mission Impossible II: This movie has so many strange plot holes in it, but I could suspend my disbelief for almost all of them. I could not, however, do this for the issue of Tom Cruise's hair. Remember the first (, good) movie? Tom Cruise has short hair. This makes sense, as if he is in constant hand-to-hand combat, he would not want somebody the easy grab of his scalp. So for being a top-secret agent, is he just so vain the second time around he can't cut his hair? It makes no sense why he would have it that long.