10 Distracting Moments That Almost Derailed Recent Movies

10. Ivan's Fake Video Game Playing - Anora

Anora is one of the best films of 2024, a deliriously entertaining comedic drama that's well-crafted and brilliantly acted from top to bottom, but it didn't take long for some viewers to point out one majorly distracting flaw - some hilariously horrendous attempts at pretending to play a video game.

In several scenes throughout the film, Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn) is seen playing video games while hanging out with Anora (Mikey Madison), except actor Eydelshteyn awkwardly manhandles the Xbox controller like he's never played a video game in his life.

While the history of Hollywood is filled with movies featuring terrible pretend-gaming, it's been less common in recent years as gaming has become increasingly mainstream, and it's especially odd to see a younger actor apparently having no idea how to use a gaming controller.

Eydelshteyn himself has spoken about the matter, however, noting that he isn't much of a gamer, and deliberately exaggerated the clunky button-presses for a laugh, which he felt was perfectly in step with Vanya's character - an inept, immature nepo baby.

All the same, it's tough for gamers to sit through these scenes and consider that a human being would ever actually use an Xbox controller this way.