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“Digging Graves In Wooded Areas”: 48 Fake Things That Happen In Films That Annoy Audiences
Article created by: Mantas Kačerauskas
According to Hollywood, we can all survive a crazy car crash and walk away with just a scratch on us. In fact, we might even be able to take a bullet and avoid going to the hospital at all. But having a 5 minute long conversation that could easily resolve a misunderstanding and allow us to skip the rest of the film’s plot? Nope, we can’t have that!Cinephiles on Reddit have been discussing unrealistic things that happen in films that they’re tired of, so you’ll find their most spot-on thoughts below. Enjoy reading through these moments that always require suspension of disbelief, and be sure to upvote the ones you’ve seen enough of too!
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#1
Whenever some idiot is running on foot while being chased by a car that's trying to run them down, they without fail ALWAYS run straight down the middle of the street, when all they have to do is simply run off to the side where there's trees and lamp-posts and plenty of other s**t to block them from getting hit.
In that case, I always root for whoever's driving.
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#3
When someone is "driving" and they look away from the road by looking at the person in the passenger seat for a prolonged amount of time, or when they're constantly turning the wheel and the car doesn't move, things like that bother me too much.
#4
Digging graves in wooded areas.
There are f*****g roots everywhere. You can't dig a 6 foot grave with a pair of shovels in an hour; that s**t takes time.
#5
Setting off Fire Alarm / Fire Sprinklers.
1. Pulling a fire alarm will not activate fire sprinklers
2. Setting off a single sprinkler head will not set off the entire system. Each fire sprinkler has either a glass bulb with heat sensitive liquid or a metal fusible link. You need to essentially break the bulk/link on each individual sprinkler to allow the water to flow.
3. The water leaving the sprinkler system will be black from the years of corrosion that occurs inside due to the stagnant water, you do not want to be around this water when it comes out.
I design these systems, I know how this s**t works.
#6
When getting shot, stabbed, bones broken and beaten seems to have no physical detriment on a character. Get shot in the leg? Still able to run. Stabbed in the back? Still able to finish a fight. Ridiculous.
#7
Men surviving in the wilderness: Unrecognisable, overgrown hair and beards.
Women surviving in the wilderness: Perfect hair, no need to shave at all.
#9
When there's a big fight scene and all the bad guys attack the protagonist one at a time whilst the rest just stand at the side. If you wanna win, all attack at once!!
#10
Women's hair is always perfect after a crazy action sequence. They're also wearing heels ALL THE TIME. No matter what crazy stunts they're doing.
#11
When the brilliant detective can solve the case—but only if someone is willing to repeat the random thing they just said.
>Friend: I just had diarrhea, so I think I'm going to head out
>
>Detective: Wait! Say that again.
>
>Friend: Huh?
>
>Detective: What you just said, I need you to say it again.
>
>Friend:...uh. OK...I just had diarrhea, so I'm going to head out?
>
>Detective: That's it! Her diary! That's what's going to lead us straight to Mrs. Hamisham's missing head!
>
>Friend:...so I'm gonna go...
#13
How people in NYC/LA/SF and so on work jobs that really don't pay much, yet live in these giant, nice, well-located apartments.
#14
College professors being shown living in giant Victorian houses with massive libraries. I used to be a professor, and can confirm that the pay isn’t that good.
#18
The Doorbell rings and someone answers almost immediately.
There is a delicious breakfast on the table,but everyone grabs a piece of bread and runs off to work!
#21
A woman on the run with dark brown/black hair goes into the bathroom for 30 minutes and emerges with perfect light blonde hair using box color.
#22
The phone rings and the actor picks up the handset, listens for two seconds:
"Oh really?"
one second later:
"When"?
one second later:
"I'll be right there"
Hangs up without saying goodbye.
The actor turns around and relays a 30 seconds of details that he just learned in only four seconds.
#23
Gift wrapping the box and the lid separately. I mean, I get why they do it (multiple takes), but it always sticks out to me. Also, every bag of groceries has french bread.
#24
A relatively small woman beats 5 large guys in hand to hand combat.
“I grew I up with 5 brothers. Had to learn to be tough.”
#25
Are people shooting at you? Take cover behind... anything! Car doors, drywall, couches, tables, cardboard boxes, it doesn’t matter! EVERYTHING is bulletproof!
#26
Movie depictions of childbirth are often ridiculously wrong. They make it look so easy, quick, and clean. This is not the case.
#27
After a hit to the head or being knocked unconscious, people are fine after a minute. Concussions don’t seem to exist in movies.
#28
People sneaking-around inside air ducts. Don't get me wrong, in big buildings you absolutely can walk around in there, i've done it a lot, but: 1) they're dirty as sin, not gleaming metal 2) There are screws poking in there and sharp edges everywhere 3) There are lots of barriers to movement, fans, filters, humidifiers, dampers and fire dampers. all of those would stop your progress 4) it's not a quiet process, that metal bongs and klunks like crazy under your weight
#29
Bad. Trigger. Discipline. If you (the character) know enough about guns to be a movie badass, you know to keep your booger hook off the bang switch.
#30
Fire, Lava, etc. has no heat- people can be suspended over a volcano, or in the case of The Hobbit, SURF ON MOLTEN METAL and no one gets so much as a blister.
#31
EMTs / doctors / random hero person using a defibrillator on a person that has flat-lined. That is NOT how it works. You shock a flat line and all you do is make the patient even more dead. Flat-liners get drugs to get their hearts beating, and THEN get shocked if that beat is abnormal.
#32
Drowning revivals. Victim is pulled, blue, from the water. Couple of chest compressions, hero through gritted teeth says "don't you die on me godammit", small arc of water shoots from the mouth of the victim as they cough twice and immediately regain consciousness, sit up and ask what happened. Alright.
#33
Candles. Who lit all those candles and who goes and puts them out? Same for torches in an abandoned cave.
#35
Horses constantly making noise, neighing etc. horses rarely make any noise, due to being a prey animal. yet in movies, the f*****s have full blown horseconversations with themselfs. constantly. source, own 7 horses.
#36
When an actor clearly has no idea how to play the instrument they're holding. They don't have to be an expert, but Christ someone show them where their fingers are supposed to go, or stop focusing the shot on their fingers.
#37
‘ Zoom in on that. Can you make it clearer? ‘ ‘ Sure, no problem ‘. Two MP CCTV screen grab.
#38
People order food or drink in a restaurant, get the food, never touch it and decide it's time to go.
#39
The fresh out of college student scoring a great apartment in a swanky part of town while working minimum wage job for themselves. In reality, you'd have 4 roommates for such a place, or you're living in a dump in a bad part of town.
#40
Every time a car drives off/stops there’s a sound of tires screeching. Even if on a dirt road.
#42
In action movies, the hero, often alone faces an army of elite trained veterans armed to the teeth but they can't seem to know how to shoot, take cover, use tactics or fight.
#43
The way movies and TV shows handle the childbirth process kills me. It's always a pregnant woman going about her day before suddenly she either feels a very painful contraction or her water just simply breaks out of no where. In reality, contractions are a slower process. You have them for a long while before they actually get to the painful level. I know plenty of women who were in labor for days, some of them didnt even realize it was labor and thought they had the flu. Also the way movies and TV shows portray newborn babies is hilarious. I've seen them use a literal six month old in place of a newborn and lemme tell you, those are two completely different stages.
#45
Lawyers walking up to the witness or the jury. You are not allowed anywhere near either of those things. You stay behind the desk, the bailiff moves evidence around. The only time you go towards anyone is the judge if they approve a sidebar.
#47
When people fall in love and decide to spend together the rest of their lives after spending 5 minutes together.
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