Surprised nobody’s come up with the one that drives me the most nuts - typically seen in romantic comedies, but any situation where one character finds “evidence” of their partner cheating, or doing something suspicious, or meeting someone under what looks like secretive circumstances, and immediately flies off the handle assuming the worst, leading to a domino effect of hilarious or tragic actions by both characters until the conclusion where everything is wrapped up and they’re all happy. When all that would have been avoided by one simple explanation that the first character just can’t or won’t say.
I mean, like many of the things brought up here, they’re all dramatic inventions to create a story and complications and conflicts that need to be overcome, that’s how you make a movie, and a tiny bit of common sense that would explain everything and have it all work out means the movie would be ten minutes long … but it does make you think these people are total idiots.
