Weird little nitpicks you can't help but notice in movies

Are there any weird little details that you just can't help but notice in a movie?

Everyone complained about Black Widow not getting a funeral with Tony in Avengers Endgame and, I agree, that was bullshit. But that was actually a pretty significant narrative flaw, I wouldn't call it a nitpick. Gamora not being there is pretty weird, how small of a nitpick it is, though, is debatable. What IS something nitpicky I couldn't help but notice is that, when we see The Guardians, Rocket is standing on a stump. Why is he standing on a stump? Sure he's standing on tables or chairs throughout most of the movie but that's usually when he's talking to or looking at people. But here he's not talking to anyone, he's looking down at the ground, he's not trying to get anyone's attention, why is it necessary for him to stand on a stump? He really has to feel taller than he is at a funeral? Even for Rocket, that seems petty.

Also I'm not sure how small a detail this is but I find it weird how, in The Greatest Showman, the movie films the tall guy when we first meet him in a way that say "OMG look how tall he is" and, on the opposite spectrum when it comes to height, is usually filming Charles/Tom/Whatever the dwarf's name is in a way that says "OMG look how tiny he is"! Now I know the movie is set during a time where most people didn't know about dwarfism or weren't aware that people that tall existed so you could argue the movie was just portraying the normal characters attitudes towards those people's looks. But the movie never really questions or criticizes that attitude, the movie just kinda films them like that and then moves on to the next scene. It ends up feeling like they are actually asking us to be amazed by the existence of dwarfs or extremely tall people despite the fact that, y'know, dwarfs have existed in pop culture for decades now thanks to the likes of Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka, Austin Powers, and a little show called, oh right, Game of Thrones. Or, on the opposite side, there's a little sport called Basketball that frequently hires people around the tall guy's height.

Speaking of dwarfs in movies, it's weird that, in Moulin Rouge, one of the extras is an actual dwarf yet they then hired John Leguizamo to play a dwarf. If they were fine with having an actual dwarf be one of the extras, why didn't they just get another dwarf to play John Leguizamo's part considering the character is supposed to be a dwarf? I know Baz Luhrmann likes reusing actors but was using John Leguizamo again that important to him?

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