“Way too much winking, self-acknowledgement, and calling out tropes within the movie.” —u/2nd_mars_revolution “Post-credits significant plot developments.” —u/JeffFromSchool “Something big and unrealistic has happened, therefore I must now make a quip about how ridiculous it is. God forbid we just let the audience suspend disbelief.” —u/The_Flurr “They fly now?!” —u/just_another_indie “Or we see 15–20 seconds of them cooking dinner, taking a phone call, walking their dog, etc. before starting the interview. I don’t recall seeing this until five years ago, but now it’s everywhere. I find it an annoying, transparent, and unsuccessful attempt at ‘humanizing’ the subject.” —u/heylyla11 “They need to stop trying to make sky beams or energy beacons or whatever into climactic set-pieces. It’s played out.” —u/bugxbuster “I don’t think it’s inherently bad by any means. HOWEVER, I have noticed a huge influx of horror films that are essentially leaning on trauma as a crutch and as a replacement for, you know, actually making compelling and imaginative horror. I’m just getting tired of watching horror movies where in the end you discover that the ghost/demon was just grief/trauma all along. It’s like the new version of the old zombie trope where humans were the real virus.” —u/crobtennis “This early age of digitally de-aging movie stars. The results we see now look ‘painterly’ at best and won’t age well, but it’s definitely a current trope. Whether it’s this decade’s ‘bullet time’ remains to be seen.” —u/bigchiefsittingduck “The future tech where it’s all floaty holographic computer controls. Call me crazy, but that seems like a lot of effort and technology to reinvent a keyboard.” —u/GoogleyEyedNopes “Snarky main characters! They come across as such arseholes.” —u/IsThisNameTakenThen
