10 Things Everyone Hates About Modern Movies

While there's little denying that the likes of Twitter and Facebook are here to stay, not everyone who watches movies is glued to their social feeds for hours per day, and it can be excruciatingly grating to see social media invoked in a cynical attempt to seem "down with the kids."

Think of all those mid-2000s movies that freely namedropped MySpace, and consider whether films referencing TikTok today aren't going to seem horribly dated 15 years from now.

Though there are certainly ways for films to integrate social media with humour and intelligence, more often than not it feels like a lazy attempt to try and identify with the viewer, rather than mining characters and situations for genuine substance.

Nobody likes to be pandered to, and this is one of the lousiest imaginable ways that screenwriters do it.