41. Broken DVDs.
I play a movie. The show is going well, there are fifteen minutes left, and...the whole thing stops playing. I eject the DVD to see what's wrong with it, and the bottom turns out to be scratched. I try to fix it before resuming the film, exactly where the breakdown occurred. Usually, this method works, and I'm able to reach the end. Sometimes, nothing can be done about it, so I try to locate the same title online, at the library, or wherever, and...I've found nothing! Now, I won't be able to finish the movie after spending so much time watching it. Once in a while, it may be a technical error within the DVD after finding zero scratches.

42. Super Genius Detectives and Murderers.
Clues are left behind by murderers, and they're so absurdly impossible to make head or tails of, yet detectives understand them perfectly and are able to go from one to another until they catch the murderer. The problem? It never happens in real life! Yeah, I understand there was the Zodiac Killer. Okay, and...? Can you name me more just like him? Exactly.

43. Misleading Trailers.
Sometimes, to attract me in the hopes of seeing the film, they put together a trailer, and it looks good. Then, I watch the film only to realize that I caught all of the best parts in the trailer, and the rest is just crap. Another gimmicky technique that was used during the 30's through the 50's is the screaming headlines across the screen, but the movie never lives up to any of them. Some examples are: "Thrill again TO ITS UNFORGETTABLE SKY," "An Announcement of STARTLING IMPORTANCE TO THE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT," and "WITH AN OUTSTANDING STAR IN EACH FABULOUS ROLE!" Uh, yeah...

44. Funny? Funny How?
A film is advertised as a comedy, and sometimes, the cover has critics calling it "one of the funniest made!" Okay, so I see it and will be like, "Uh.........?" I don't laugh. Not a single second of laughter comes out of me. And they still call it a "comedy"? Yeah, sure...whatever. Ditto for the "comedians," especially those from Saturday Night Live such as Chris Kattan, Adam Sandler, David Spader, Mike Myers, and Chris Farley.

45. This Doesn't Look Like It.
A movie takes place in Washington, D.C. Then, it proceeds to show the background. After a while, I start to realize nothing resembles the city itself! You'll be surprised to learn this has happened in tons of movies which claim to be shot on location only that they did it elsewhere or on sound stage. The most popular choice has always been either California or Canada because it saves the studio a lot of money.

46. So Dated.
Nothing dates a movie faster than crappy-looking furniture, ugly clothes, and arcane dialogue. It frequently happens in 60's and 70's movies, especially when they're in color. Prolix scripts with obscure words were a common culprit among films during the 30's and 40's, tending to put me to sleep.

47. Lack of Character.
Back then, there used to exist Clark Gable, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, Patrick Swayze, and so on. What did they have in common? Their faces had character along with their eyes. And they played memorable characters in numerous films. Today, there's absolutely nobody who's in their league.

48. So Thin, Not So Attractive.
This is for women of the 30's who had their eyebrows done in a pencil-thin manner. No matter what, it's not ATTRACTIVE. Instead, they just look ridiculous. Anytime I see these pencil-thin eyebrows on screen, I just can't stop looking at them. Sometimes, a movie might have at least several women with the same feature, and I could never tell them apart. I wondered if they originally shaved their eyebrows and then drew a line above the eyes. Jean Harlow was the worst offender of this practice. Look at the following women:

49. Smoking, Drinking, and Doing Drugs Look Cool On Screen, Huh?
They do it all the time in movies from the 1920's and onward. Characters smoke and drink everywhere. It doesn't matter if they do it inside the house, before going to bed, or after waking up. Unfortunately, it ended up killing them younger than expected in real life. Some of the following thespians went out this way: Humphrey Bogart (57), Clark Gable (59), Steve McQueen (50), and Patrick Swayze (57) from a combination of smoking and drinking; Richard Burton (58), Errol Flynn (50), and Veronica Lake (50) from drinking; Yul Brynner (65), Lon Chaney (47), Betty Grable (56), and Judy Holliday (43) from smoking; and Philip Seymour Hoffman (46), River Phoenix (23), and Elvis Presley (42) from drug overdose. Who knows how many millions of people were influenced by them before dying young?

50. The Travesty of an Oscar Win.
I watch a movie and think nothing of it. Either I know beforehand or find out afterwards this or that won an Oscar for it, causing me to be baffled. What the heck...? It was nothing special or not that good! Either there was a better movie or somebody else deserved it more. That's the problem with the Academy Awards that don't know anything about movies in general in spite of correctly picking winners from time to time. Here's the list of the biggest Oscar snubs.