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Again more TV-ish than filmish, I hate it when two people are having an argument, then one of them comes out with the final insult (or a mention of something bad the other did in the past) and walks haughtily out of the room, leaving the other to silently suck in his cheeks and look into blank space in an actorly way.
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I can't remember if anyone mentioned this one before - maybe I did myself...
When someone's friend or loved one is savagely killed, does the other person really scream the word "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" like that?
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What I really hate, and it's becoming more and more prevalent as films dumb down, is ridic 'pointer' dialogue for the audience's benefit that the characters would never say.
'You've had a rough time recently, Jack.'
'Why yes John, ever since the Nazis invaded Poland and forced me into exile, and my neighbour's wife ran off with a mailman and stole my car which alienated me from the other members of the golf-club that I joined when my Uncle was elected governor of Gonkovia, things haven't been so easy.'
There should be more inventive ways to get the necessary off-scene givens available to the audience, and more should be told visually anyhow.
That was what really put me off 24 at the end of season 1: Jack Bauer's wife, who knows her husband is something in the intelligence community, overhears the mole in the CTU speaking in German on her cellphone. Because the audience cannot be expected to tell the difference between German and Serbo-Croat, which she has been using all season to talk to her controller on the outside, and because the change in langauge (and therefore caller) is significant for the plot, Jack Bauer's wife has to die, and all to tell the dumber sections of the audience that the other character is speaking a different language.
And as I said, knowing that her husband worked in the intelligence community, should she be so surprised that some of his colleagues spoke other languages? But instead: "Oh, I see you speak German." BLAM!
(Sorry if even now that constitutes a spoiler for some of you...)
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Someone's already mentioned the thing where the cops come across a dark liquidy stain on the floor, and they have to dip their fingers in it, sniff it and taste it to see if it really is blood - as if they hadn't seen it before. There's a variant on this, especially in Brit TV shows, and that's when anyone comes across some white powder, any character, from the cop down to the vicar's wife and the retired Sunday School teacher, no matter how remote and unworldly the setting is (English villages - Agatha Christie dramatisations are good for this), will dip their fingers in the powder, touch it to their tongue, and instantly say "That's cocaine!".
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A guy getting kicked or punched in the groin and screaming "MY NUTS!" Anyone who has been kicked in the jewels will tell you - there ain't no talking going on for about 5 minutes. Or breathing for that matter.
LOL. He screams MY NUTS? That movie I haven't seen. Wish I had. 
Steven Seagal's "On Deadly Ground." In a bar fight, he grabs a guy by the stones (there's a crunching sound dubbed in to make it more fun) and the guy screams "my NUTS!" Later, in the same fight scene, he kicks another dude in the groin, who then shrieks "my BALLS!"
This film is, to be fair, all around terrible. And directed by the star himself.
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