You know what pisses me off? Movies that constantly

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show cell phone text messages you can't read without pausing the movie and getting out your binoculars to read. That's all just wanted to vent.

[LizBeth]

1. Right? By the time I focus, let alone read, they are past it

[Fla Dem]

2. I agree. Although it does give me a tad bit off exercise, as after I pause the scene

I get up and walk to the TV screen to read it.

[zanana1]

3. This is what pisses me off when watching a movie on TV

When they whisper or talk really low and I can't hear what the hell they're saying.

[Haggard Celine]

5. That's why I always have the close captioning on my TV.

It's nice to be able to look down at the text when you don't understand what they're saying.

[GopherGal]

14. I often use CC when watching things like BBC America

because of the accents and occasional mumbling/slang. Are there different sound-capture practices that side of the pond? I have very little trouble understanding accents on work video-calls, so I don't think it's completely me...

The closed captioning *is* very annoying if you forget to turn it off before switching to sports, though. Having minute-old play-by-play typed over the part of the court/field/ice where the ball/puck just went is an irritant that sends me grabbing for the "off" button for the CC...

[Haggard Celine]

17. Yes, I can see how CC would be annoying while

watching sports. I rarely watch a game, so I didn't even think about that. I don't know what they do with British shows, but sometimes they have a character who is hard to understand. They probably are just making shows for British people and don't think about how hard it is for other English speakers to understand. We have people here in America who can be hard to understand, too. Sometimes they'll put someone with a strange accent in shows or movies in order to lend authenticity to the story. The CC does help a lot in those situations.

[zanana1]

23. I can't get CC with Netflix.

I don't know why. It would really come in handy.

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6. That too I can't tell what people are saying

most times either, I always have the CC on. Maybe it's me I can't hear as well since I am 73. I don't have that problem in conversation though in real life.

[Orrex]

15. I suspect that's often a failure of sound design or editing

The dialogue is close to inaudible, while the soundtrack and sound effects are deafening.

It's not a matter of my aging ears, either, because other movies/shows get the balance just fine.

[Tree-Hugger]

4. Agreed

I was just venting about this while watching a movie yesterday.

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7. Some put it in the closed captions but

most don't.

[hlthe2b]

10. So much of what I watch has a LONG delay in closed captioning so it becomes useless.

Maybe it is just a streaming artifact, but yeah it doesn't help.

[OhZone]

8. I'm tired of commercials, movies, and stories, that have woman saying "hey girl" "girl, you gotta -

"girl this"

"girl that"

Most women don't go saying "girl - " "girl -" "girl -"

ALL the TIME!

I mean sometimes, but not every other sentence, like I need to affirm your gender or age all the time.

I don't think I've said, "girl, you need to blah blah blah." for years myself.

I usually address other women by their freakin names. ha

Or just look at them while I talk to them.

What do these characters forget everyone's name all the time? Might as well say, "hey you."

[hlthe2b]

9. Exactly. Even if everyone had a 60 inch HD tv it isn't onscreen long enough typically and how many

are streaming on ipads or watching on other smaller devices or TVs now.

it is really nuts and aggravated by so many movies and tv shows shot under very dark lighting.

[katmondoo]

11. Loud music while trying to listen to the dialog. Most all channels are doing this

Besides straining to hear, the music gives me a headache. After a while I change channels until I can at least follow the program.

[Orrex]

16. Part of the reason they do this, I've been told...

Is that some rule requires that commercials can't be louder than the program's volume. So the shows really pump up da volume on music as well as the shows' intros, so that the commercials can then boom freely.

[MyOwnPeace]

12. I wanna' know.........

where they buy these computers that show whatever was 'entered' coming up INSTANTLY - and then you can blow up the picture in the 'image' by say 2000% percent - and its as sharp as if it were live!!!!

[Midnight Writer]

13. Me, too. I was just watching a show on Netflix about Son of Sam.

They were showing some of his drawing and comparing them with occult symbols. Except they would show the images for just a second, and sometimes panned around the picture a bit at a time so you couldn't see the whole thing. Freezing the image didn't help, and to make it worse, when you did freeze, you get a bunch of Netflix logos and options obscuring parts of the screen.

What looked to be something interesting turned into confusing mush.

[csziggy]

21. Yes - fortunately the Son of Sam letters can be found online

Thanks for the heads ups, though. If I watch that series (show?) I'll have a tab open with his letters so I can freeze the show and take a good look at the letters they are talking about.

https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/berkowitz-letters.htm

[Midnight Writer]

22. Thanks. I think the images they were comparing them to were by Elephas Levi.

It looked intriguing, but they skipped over this too fast for a viewer to really compare.

[Sneederbunk]

18. Why in Investigation Discovery crime shows

do the cops investigate indoor crime scenes with a flashlight? Can't they find the light switch?

[Skittles]

19. I don't like that either

and it is happening more and more

I did watch something recently where they showed the displays in bigger pop-out boxes and that helped a lot.

[Totally Tunsie]

20. It's lazy on the producers' part.

It's a script shortcut. I swear they do it that way rather than writing dialogue that would advance the scene. It's the modern day equivalent of flipping through the pages of a calendar to indicate the passage of time.

It's very annoying, indeed!