10 Real Reasons Behind Annoying Movie Moments

10. All The Dutch Angles - Battlefield Earth

Battlefield Earth is a wall-to-wall dud of a movie any way you slice it, but the most annoying thing about it? All those damn Dutch angles.

Almost every single shot in the film is a Dutch angle - that is to say, almost every shot is tilted to one side, and proves supremely distracting throughout the two-hour runtime.

Apparently this was entirely at the behest of director Roger Christian, who despite pushback from cinematographer Giles Nuttgens, insisted on Dutching the whole movie, reportedly in an attempt to approximate a comic book aesthetic.

Yet there is another practical reason which allegedly dictated the decision to Dutch the movie - to cover up the fact that the nine-feet tall alien Psychlos were actually very far from that height, even with John Travolta and his alien co-stars wearing lifts in their shoes.

Tilting the camera to the side made it tougher for audiences to keep track of the height discrepancy - or not - between the Psychlos and human characters.

If every shot in the movie was kept level, it'd be much easier to discern that the Psychlos aren't as tall as billed.