“Digging Graves In Wooded Areas”: 50 Fake Things That Happen In Films That Annoy Audiences
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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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.
That everyone in a Tom Cruise movie is the same height or shorter than him...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Men surviving in the wilderness: Unrecognisable, overgrown hair and beards.
Women surviving in the wilderness: Perfect hair, no need to shave at all.
Sometimes they even have perfectly straight fringes, week after week. I’m also guessing tweezers are a common item after any apocalypse, judging by all those perfect eyebrows. It does my head in.
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!!
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.
One of my favorite scenes is in a film called Romancing the Stone starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. Turner's character is lost in Columbia and has to rely on Douglas for help. The first thing he does is take his machete to the heels of her shoes, cuts the heels off and hands them back to her and says "Follow me".
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
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>Detective: Wait! Say that again.
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>Friend: Huh?
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>Detective: What you just said, I need you to say it again.
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>Friend:...uh. OK...I just had diarrhea, so I'm going to head out?
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>Detective: That's it! Her diary! That's what's going to lead us straight to Mrs. Hamisham's missing head!
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>Friend:...so I'm gonna go...
LMAO! "Mrs. Hamisham's missing head!" That's a hilarious random scenario. I love it!
Hackers in movies:
*enters a few keystrokes*
*"I'm in!"*
Yeah...let's have a movie sequence that lasts 4-5 hours showing just a team of hackers bashing keyboards...what a great movie that would be
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.
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.
I just assumed they lived in a inherited place and did the job for fun.
Turning on the TV at the exact moment a relevant news report starts.
Sometimes they play with the formula and the TV is already on. The hero says something like "Hold on, turn that up".
Firing guns in enclosed spaces not deafening anyone.
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!
I've just decided to wander around on movie sets to eat all the breakfasts.
Standing under the shower head when you turn on the shower. Dat s**t way to cold.
TIL people stand under the shower and turn on the water instead of warming it up first before stepping in...
Guys who get rejected and then stalk the girl and win her over at the end of the movie.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
People giving insulin to a diabetic who is crashing.
This pisses me off because it's the wrong thing to do and it perpetuates a dangerous way of thinking in people that aren't familiar with diabetes.
As a type 1 diabetic myself, this has got to be the worst thing shown on TV, I even complained to the BBC once when they showed this exact thing on an episode of Causalty, the person who they showed as having a Hypo was given an insulin shot and miraculously recovered, no checks on Blood Glucose were done to check what the issue was, just immediate insulin shot. In reality if someone is presenting ANY diabetic symptoms it is far better to give them something with sugar in it, and call for an ambulance, if they're already going Hyperglycaemic then the extra sugar will not make much difference and the paramedics/hospital will be able to get them back where they should be, if they're going low (Hypoglycaemia) then the sugar will bring their blood glucose levels back up and save their life. Unless you are the one responsible for giving someone their insulin doses, NEVER give them a shot, you do not know how they will react, just leave it to the professionals.
Are people shooting at you? Take cover behind... anything! Car doors, drywall, couches, tables, cardboard boxes, it doesn’t matter! EVERYTHING is bulletproof!
Movie depictions of childbirth are often ridiculously wrong. They make it look so easy, quick, and clean. This is not the case.
After a hit to the head or being knocked unconscious, people are fine after a minute. Concussions don’t seem to exist in movies.
Not to mention (this from my husband, Vietnam Vet, Special Forces, who also had his share of fist fights back in the day), that the fights, and number of punches landed, would be more than an average human could take. He said that even a couple fist punches solidly landed to the head would definitely knock a person out and possibly kill them. In movies it’s repeated punches to head and stomach and they jump right up and go on to save the day!
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
If I stuck my nose anywhere NEAR that thing, my seasonal allergies would go haywire. And those people always come out spotlessly clean!
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.
"booker hook off the bang switch" this is a fantastic way to put it. Kudos
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.
Ask Anakin Skywalker lol. He was fried after Obi-Wan took him down 🤣
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.
That scene in The Thing is just fantastic and it still looks great today because it didn't use CGI.
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.
Yeah that ain’t happening… source: was nearly pulled under by panicking and drowning kid in a swimming pool. It doesn’t show as flailing on the surface of the water, but panicking people are surprisingly strong and will grab onto anything they can. The kid was ok because the lifeguard was on duty.
Candles. Who lit all those candles and who goes and puts them out? Same for torches in an abandoned cave.
Shooting the monitor as a way of stopping the computer....
I have seen this happen a 100 times and never thought how ridiculous this was until right now. Good point.
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.
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.
Violins are painful sometimes - there’ll be a low, mournful, sad tune, and the actor going bananas on the E string.
‘ Zoom in on that. Can you make it clearer? ‘ ‘ Sure, no problem ‘. Two MP CCTV screen grab.
People order food or drink in a restaurant, get the food, never touch it and decide it's time to go.
Simultaneous orgasms EVERY SINGLE TIME.
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.
IRL you'd have 4 roommates and still live in a dump in the bad part of town.
Every time a car drives off/stops there’s a sound of tires screeching. Even if on a dirt road.
Or the sound of crickets chirping. I've heard this several illogical times on shows/films. Really, it's Valentine's Day in Wisconsin and crickets are chirping outside? Valentine's Day is February 14th and it's too cold for crickets in Wisconsin during the month of February. Or, a couple is outside on a porch swing. Heavy coats, scarves and you can see their breath when they speak. Yet, there are crickets chirping. Are these professional crickets that are hired and kept warm just for the scene?
That always drove me nuts, even after I discovered that you can hear the tires chirping on the right dirt road if there is a large rock embedded in the ground. But aside from that, it's like the car chase where the hero decides to finally get rid of the pursuit by downshifting and clutching really hard. I have seen that done in NASCAR movies. For the non-race car drivers, downshifting in Nascar oval racing is the best way to blow the engine and gearbox. At least on the fast speedways.
The sounds of bullets ricocheting in a drywall palace or out in the forest.
And every time someone points a gun there's that ratcheting sound like the hammer being pulled back, even on a semi automatic.
Or an idling helicopter never has to rev its engine to get enough lift to take off. The motor stays at the same noise level whether sitting on the ground or taking flight.
They briefly dropped the squealing tires when anti-lock breaks first came out, but everyone complained that it didn't sound 'realistic.'
And always thunder and lightning with every rain, even in parts of the world that rarely get electrical storms.
Also, the high-pitched scream a plane always seems to make when it goes into a crash dive. The only plane that actually makes this sound is the JU 87 Stuka, and that is due to the fact that it is fitted with a siren for this very reason.
Apparently there are kookaburras in every jungle everywhere in the world...
That a sample can be DNA processed in 2 mins so you know who your killer is.
A court-ordered DNA paternity testing can take from 2 to 10 business days . Whole genome sequencing - another type of DNA testing that tests the entire genome - can take up to 3-7 business days for processing
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.
And they are always polite enough to attack the character one at a time and slowly get beaten up.
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.
When someone throws a grenade into a building and the whole building blows up.
Explosives in general. Most of the time they're using propane or other flammable gasses to make those big Hollywood fireballs.
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.
Everybody being conventionally attractive and just waking up like this even in a war zone.
Enemy at the Gates. Seriously a romance plot set against freaking Stalingrad. When I realized that was what was going on I turned it off.
When people fall in love and decide to spend together the rest of their lives after spending 5 minutes together.
My fav is in adventure movies that are just balls to the walls tense with c**p coming down on them when the main couple, who never knew one another before this, suddenly find time to make out and even find a place to “do the dirty deed”, whilst being wounded, with filthy and ripped up bloody clothes with a couple dozen bad guys two minutes away! Realistic? I like “sexy time” but I doubt I’d even be in the mood at a time like that!
Neck breaking for an easy or quick kill. Im getting sick of it.
I tilt your head slightly left, there you are no longer sick of it.
I'm a journeyman blacksmith for a heritage town for background. I absolutely CANNOT stand blacksmithing scenes in film and TV. They NEVER get it right. I've seen people hit metal a few times, dunk it in the slag tub, then put it right back into the forge. Or when they take it right out of the forge, quench it completely, and then proceed to hammer it. There are times when specific areas need to be cooled as to not deform then during forging, but you never get rid of your whole heat then hammer the damn thing. Lastly, when a character puts their knife or blade in a fire to heat it up for a torture scene or intimidation or whatever, it drives me crazy. Completely ruins the temper on the blade. Anyway there is my blacksmith rant.
The 'CLUNCK!' sound when someone turns the lights on or off. Or even worse, lights going on one by one: 'CLUNCK! CLUNCK! CLUNCK! CLUNCK! CLUNCK!'
Doesn’t p**s me off, but as a paraplegic whenever someone in a movie is supposed to be disabled and they’re using some s****y fold-up wheelchair that you would see in a hospital or Walmart. Anyone who lives in a wheelchair and has some minimal insurance or medical assistance would have a much better chair. I’m currently sitting with about $4000 under my a*s. Paid about $500 after insurance. The only time someone would be using one of those s****y wheelchairs would be if they were recently injured or are temporarily injured.
When parents never have their baby with them and make no mention of a babysitter. Those mf’ers follow you around like crazy. Being able to leave the house alone like it’s nothing? Absurd.
When they need a blood sacrifice and SLICE THE PALM OF THEIR HAND. Like bro, try your earlobe or your forehead you will not BELIEVE how much blood you get without risking important structures or having to wait for that nasty-a*s cut to heal.
Similarly; deeply stabbing someone at a 90° angle and somehow getting a blood sample.
The hand cuts drive me NUTS; a cut on the hand is temporarily debilitating (at least for me, a pain wimp). But then the person just wraps it up and is good to go. It's silly, but it's one of my biggest pet peeves in media.
When they give a person CPR and the person walks away unscathed. When you give proper CPR, you are essentially breaking ribs to pump the heart and sure, it doesn't happen to everyone but still see a doc after!
That, and anything medically related like Epi-pens being used then magically all normal. All of these require being looked at a doctor/emergency care directly afterward.
When I did CRP on an old lady, her fecking ribs were popping like bubble wrap under by hand. Felt sure I must have punctured her lung with how easy the bone was floating around under there! She survived, I had broken 2 ribs, but turns out things just feel different than what's actually happening.
I know it's the most common one but since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I'll mention it. GUN RELOADS (or lack thereof) AND THE INSANE AMOUNT OF AMMUNITION THE PROTAGONIST IS "CARRYING".
One of the few not ridiculous pats of the John Wick movies. He often ammo'ed up.
Putting a cigarette out after only two drags. No one wastes cigarettes like that.
Agreed !! Also, as a smoker, I can not stand when the actor is not really smoking. I can always tell; either they're not inhaling or the editing is such that you never see the entire sequence of drag, inhale, exhale. Either have a someone who can really smoke play the part or have the character not be a smoker...I don't get it. (ಠ_ಠ) It just looks dumb and takes me out of the moment.
When watching a show with intelligence operatives or some top secret command facility: everyone has bluetooth ear buds and are handing each other classified files on USB sticks. In reality bringing wirelesss devices and portable media like that into a top secret classified facility would be punishable by up to 5 years in prison.
Avengers did it worst. Cap just puts his finger to his completely normal ear, no earbud or bluetooth
Acting like a woman is gross because she's a nerd by wearing glasses and a pigtail.
Intramuscular injections (usually of sedatives) that take effect immediately.
As a vet that has to sedate lots of dogs and cats that way, I can tell you it takes at least 5 minutes, and often way longer if the person/pet being injected is worked up.
There would be a lot of impatient shuffling from the cinema audience if we had to wait 5 minutes whilst slowly watching Fido/Fifi/Fred gradually getting sleepy. Maybe a musical number to fill the gap? :D
There is a phenomenon in Hollywood known as "laying pipe" (at least, I think that's the name). It's where characters go out of their way to explain something because you, the viewer, probably don't understand the process.
CSI was the worst at this. Example: CSI Miami, Calleigh walks in and Eric is using a red fingerprint powder to dust for prints.
Calleigh: But Eric, you won't get any usable prints
Eric: With the blue powder no, but I'm using red powder
Calleigh: Red powder?
Eric: Yeah, it's better at lifting prints off of porous surfaces
This kind of dialogue is a NIGHTMARE and it's everywhere, especially in procedurals. It always breaks me out of the immersion of a show when I realize it's happening. These people are professionals in their field.
Imagine the real life equivalent of two attorneys talking, both of whom went to law school and have been practicing for 20 years.
"I'm going to issue a subpoena."
"SUBPOENA? WHAT IS THAT?"
"It's a document that compels the witness to show up in court!"
"A hospital? What is it?" "It's a big building with lots of patients, but that's not important right now." Sorry, I can never resist a good Airplane reference.
People in real life use toothpaste when brushing their teeth.
Somehow there is ALWAYS a parking spot in front of the building you need to go in.
ALL building ventilation shafts are man-sized.
Most high-school kids do not call other high-school kids by their last name, "Hey, Johnson! Gonna beat you up after class."
Need a vital piece of information to solve a case...a convenient news cast will tell you about it.
A shot from a .38 special will not knock you 20' backwards.
And the **Chekhov's gun** is always so obvious: Main character gets a job in Mall Security. Early on there's a display of a motorcycle...yup, he's DEFINITELY going a chase someone, or run away from someone, on that same motorcycle in about 20 minutes.
"Chekhov's gun (Chekhov's rifle; Russian: Чеховское ружьё) is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed." I learned something new today.
In sex scenes when no one struggles to get their clothes off, no fumbling, there are no awkward bodily sounds.....it’s just perfect foreplay and sex. Come on! 🤣
Back in college I was dating a woman. After relations, we get up and head for the kitchen at which point we're spotted by her roommate's BF. He laughs his a*s off because we're both still wearing our big clunky Goth boots and nothing else. I still have no idea how we did that.
When a character has depression but clearly the director or actor doesn’t know what depression looks like...it’s not just being sad all the time (i’m looking at you, Bella Swan)
Bella didn't have depression. She was a moody teenager. It's their default-setting when they're not angry-confrontative or snippishly righteous or over-the-moon silly giggling-y. Actually in that aspect, the movie wasn't that bad. They got the teenager-bbehavior pretty well.
Every car chase people have the skill of a movie stunt driver. Something like 99% of people would wreck on the 1st or second turn at speed.
At least sideswipe a car or something to make it remotely believable.
And they do. Just watch real car chases, they usually end with the driver going straight at a freeway exit and rolling it, or wrapping it around a pole or tree. Only once I saw an absolute legend recover the car multiple times after the cops did the pit maneuver on his car. Each time he simply did a 360 and kept going straight. I have taken a few advanced lessons in Rally driving and I know how to recover from a spin like that, but a) it's not natural, we started on gravel, then wet asphalt, and then dry asphalt, and b) it needs to be practiced or you likely end up either transverse on the road or you roll the car. On the opposite end of the spectrum in the movies they are running from the law but they are drifting all the way. NEWSFLASH: by and large not-drifting is faster than drifting, except in certain type of turns.
Any scene where chloroform knocks someone out in 2 seconds. I feel like "Rio" officially has gone too far.
And people struggle far more than you see on screen.
Characters in period dramas complaining about corsets.
1) Half the time, it takes place in a period where corsets *weren’t invented yet*, so complaining about tightlacing doesn’t make any sense.
2) It’s about as accurate as a modern character complaining about the confines of a bra. There are absolutely people IRL who find bras uncomfortable, but most people wear them anyway because all our clothing assumes you’re wearing one and you need something to keep the badonkers in place. Corsets served a similar function, and so even people who found them uncomfortable would at least know how to wear them because of how ubiquitous they are.
THANK you. I'm big into historical fashion and this always annoys me. For example, an Elizabethan woman complaining/fainting due to corsets would NOT HAVE HAPPENED. Even the girl from Pirates of the Caribbean (i think more of a Georgian era there) would not have fainted. Corsets were not, as OP says, even invented back then. She was wearing stays, which are different; they aim for a conical silhouette rather than the hourglass of a corset. You couldn't even lace stays very tightly or they would break. Very inaccurate (great movie though).
Two things. I'll have a beer and they bring them one. No brand, no draft or bottle, just a beer.
Probably because of the legalities of mentioning brands by names or not wanting to do product placements for alcohol?
When a computer is being hacked: "We can't cut the cable! That's the last resort!"
Pulling out the network cable is step one. You don't even need to cut it.
The only scene from NCIS I ever watched was one where the Goth girl and one of the investigators were both trying to stop a hacker by typing on the same keyboard at the same time. They were freaking out because nothing was working. So Mark Harmon unplugged the computer.
No matter if someone is punched or stabbed or shot, they go down in one hit unless they are a main character. No pain, moaning or groaning, naw. Just conveniently down and quiet so as not to steal attention.
Yes - one small punch & it renders the person unconscious immediately EVERY TIME, unless they're the hero when 20 men could kick him & set him on fire & he will bounce up with just a small decorative trickle of blood!!
Abortion doesn't exist, and the only birth control is "The Pill". Condoms are tenuous, but also seem to not exist, unless it's a teen comedy and the joke is "ugly teen boy embarrassed about buying condoms".
Judging by the response when Maude got an âbortion (Maude was an old TV show; starred Bea Arthur), it was decided to be safer not to have that as part of the plotline.
No one commenting about morning breath during morning sex scenes. A night of partying, drugs, smoking, etc. We've seen a million movies with these things, we all know that morning breath after that is dog s**t.
Oh no, no morning breath in movies. Didn’t you get the memo? Along with, no messy hair (just slightly mussed to signify that “they did IT” or smeared make up), no bodily smells, especially down south, never mention birth control except in a teen movie where there’s a condom mishap.
I know why, but no one ever stutters or stumbles on their words naturally! no spoonerisms. Feels so divorced from real conversations.
It is a strange thing but when one writes dialogue and tries to make it sound natural with hesitations, filler words, ums and ahs, it does not "sound" natural when read. This may be because when we think we do not include those affectations. In other words, what we say does not perfectly reflect what we thought and vice versa.
The fake-sheet dress: who gets up a leaves with the bed sheet after sleeping with a guy?
Character falls into water, next scene wakes up on the coast.
Every time I see this I think mermaids.
You ever notice how every washed-up castaway manages not only to make it to a beach, but always to have their head pointing landward. and to always wake up at low tide? I want to see one washed up on the rocks with their head trailing in the water being nibbled by crabs...
All the incorrect, blatantly incorrect physics.
As in, don't name your movie "Gravity" if you have no idea how gravity words.
Any and all sibling dynamics in movies. "Hey bro!" "Hey sis!" Is not a conversation siblings have!! I have 10 siblings and rarely do we even acknowledge each other, and never like that.
I have one brother and he calls me "bro" all the time. I call him Mike.
Bad science talk in general.
Dr. Satnam Tsurutani : It looks like the neutrinos coming from the sun have mutated into a new kind of nuclear particle. They're heating up the earth's core and suddenly act like microwaves. 2012 is just a mess of bad science all over.
1. Where a witness Confesses on the stand
2. There’s sudden surprise prosecution evidence
3. Witnesses monologuing on the stand
4. Minimal hearsay objections.
5. So much forensic evidence.
Drives me batty.
The actors seem to never have to use the toilet or shave their legs.
Ok so suppressors p**s me right the hell off because they make it this magical tool that completely just voids the sound of a gunshot. that's not how it works!
High explosives producing a large, slow fireball.
In British soaps (which are shite in general) everyone goes to the pub every day but no one ever gets drunk. They also order a pint, take 1 sip and then just leave.
Or they go to the 'caff' everytime they want a cup of tea like every kitchen in the UK doesn't have a kettle. Everyone always gets jobs in their cul-de-sac and no-one commutes to work. Like 'I need a job so I'd better ask at the pub and shop over the road, if they're not hiring then I don't know where else to look in this big city I live in.' 😆
Scenes on the back of military aircraft. It’s loud, you can’t have a casual conversation on the back of a C-130 or a C-17 without the aid of an avionics headset. You can talk on a C-17 while in flight without one but it’s going to be a difficult conversation without the headset. A C-130 requires active yelling from the pit of your diaphragm to be able to speak louder than the flight noise.
Also, people driving their private vehicles on a flight line. Nobody drives their motorcycle or their street car on a flight line without being obliterated by security forces or the MP’s.
When a character gets a full cup of a drink with a straw and they sip and it makes a slurping noise. Drinking through a straw doesn’t make a slurping sound until the near end of the drink.
This bothers me to high heaven!! Every sip makes a slurp?!? Really, guys? Only the last bit gets a slurp bc it’s mostly air!
Girls "unexpectedly" starting their periods and they made it super dramatic. Like they'll be at school or something and all of a sudden they start bleeding out from their crotch like someone just stabbed them and they're just sitting there like they have no idea, and everyone around them notices and it's whole embarrassing mess. Like no, that's not a thing, it's very unrealistic. Having accidents and spotting is a thing, but not like they make it in the movies.
No, but what is accurate is a lack of education for little girls that causes them to be terrified when they start bleeding for no reason. Especially in period pieces set before modern sex-ed.
A solitary cop kicking someone's door open without backup or a warrant.
If I'm not mistaken (of course it varies depending on the country), there may be situations where you need to take initiative, after everything is over (again, depending on the situation, I'm talking about sudden and emergency situations), you prepare a report and serve whatever punishment you have. Maybe you'll be rewarded, who knows.
The member of the group that sacrifices themselves for no reason.
SMH! But he was a hero! Throwing himself in front of that train…..well, did absolutely nothing for the plot of the movie but, dammit, he was a hero!
Motorcycles. The are distinct engine sounds. Generally you have 2, 3 and 4 cylinder motorcycles and each engine configuration has a different sound. Seeing a Hollywood star tearing up a city on a hyper-naked but hearing the sound of a Harley v-twin pulls me right out of it.
Acting like an easily removable piece of duct tape silences someone.
Once the hands are bound, it does actually work quite well... especially if you insert a sock before taping... or... um... so I've heard... 🤐
Frantic typing, a whole bunch if code windows open on like 6 monitors, they press enter, sit back and the big company just drops dead. Like that is not even slightly what hacking looks like, usually you're just sat, typing up code for a few days maybe even weeks. I get you have to play it up for theatrics but HITMAN III shows an incredible hacker (who I forgot the name of) and while its unrealistic, it makes sense how she's just 1 person with a laptop.
Magical cures. We all know that all disabilities and chronic illnesses are cured the instant someone falls in love with us, right? That's why eHarmony opened all those hospitals! Love cures *everything*!
Damnit, that’s where I’ve been going wrong! All I needed is love to cure my auto-inflammatory disease, I’ll throw my biologics away now and get on Tinder!
Punch someone n they go flying.
Sorry, but every single time I've ever punched someone they really went flying! Okay, I've never punched anyone, but that's beside the point!
I get it. I do. But I've been told the 'willing suspension of disbelief' is essential to truly enjoy theater, movies, television and books. I like that. Gives you permission to ignore the the b******t stuff.
Yeah, if these were all shot to be 100% accurate then it'd take a 3 hour epic for the character just to get up and go to work in the morning. Sure, some of it is just plain dumb, but the rest? Jus t accept some shortcuts that illustrate bigger concepts and just let the story move on.
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This doesn't annoy me ... [TRIGGER WARNING: blood, death and violence] but people might be surprised how little blood there can be in a very sudden death, even a very traumatic death. Living people bleed a lot, so do dying people. Dead people, not so much. It's sometimes surprisingly ... clean's not the right word, but you get the idea. Likewise, horror movies etc go to a lot of trouble making the corpse look real. In my experience, real corpses look surprisingly fake to me. It could just be that my mind rejects reality for a bit, but I've found that bodies and body parts just look really fake somehow. And before you ask, I used to be on a team that investigated industrial accidents.
There are some films that are extremely realistic but are not popular because people found them boring. Fast and Furious is very popular but has little to no reality or physics in it. The producers follow what the audience likes.
Fast and Furious reminds me of how I played with my toys when I was a kid. Can a car turn in mid air while making an impossible jump? Oh you bet it can!
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"Listen to me. Don't. Trust. ANYBODY." *person who said this turns out to be the bad guy* "I told you not to trust anybody."
They don't pay pretty actors to hide their faces. We all know who I'm talking about.
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I was surprised not to see the most enjoying thing mentioned: when people are chased in a movie, they always turn around and trip 🤬 and it is often a women…
For me lately it’s how everyone, protagonist and antagonist alike, always seem to know how to 1) Ride a motorcycle 2) Drive a speedboat and/or jet ski 3) Fly a military jet or helicopter. Sure, it’s to be expected for a James Bond or Jason Bourne type character. But so many times there is no reasonable explanation as to how a character is able to just hop on and use the equipment like an expert. (Edited for punctuation.)
“I found a shotgun!” TCHIK-TCHIK! “Here come the bad guys!” TCHIK-TCHIK! “Let’s do this!” TCHIK-TCHIK!
One of the many reasons The Walking Dead started to get on my nerves - I'll just grab this gun that's been sitting outside for a couple of years and start firing - in reality it takes very little for a gun or ammunition to misfire and really hurt you
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Morning pillow talk/make out scenes. Morning breath is awful no matter who you are and I can't suspend my disbelief when they are nose to nose talking to each other. Makes my stomach turn worse than a scene from a horror movie.
Here's one for you....why are Russians always villains? In every single movie any Russian,male or female,is a cold hearted,ruthless killer...every..single..time! Why is this deemed ok?
Always an open parking space right in front of where they need to be.
Yes! Hell, in most action movies a skateboard would probably explode on impact.
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When a character has a cup of coffee (or any drink) and is drinking from it, but, in reality the cup is empty. Its so obvious once you spot it and I look for it every time its part of a scene and it annoys me beyond what is rational. I should probably get out more 🤔x
That is one of my major pet peeves. The character gets a to-go cup and just waves it around like it's empty, which it obviously is. They should put water in the cup so it looks realistic. It's such a small thing; I don't know why they don't catch this.
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How about when goodguys/superheroes get powers, it takes them a long time to hone in on their skills/powers but bad guys are immediately proficient?
I understand that films cannot be realistic, it's fun to look out for these conventions and clichés though.
If a movie were to annoy me for breaking real life logic it would be the end of any movie watching for me. But I REALLY HATE when movies broke rules they set themselves. This is a moment when movie is done for me. "ant-man" is simple example. they said mass is kept. Well.. Tell it to keychain tank. Or suitcase building.
Two for me: a) Nobody turns off laptops or other computers, they never go into sleep or standby mode, and even government or spy ones aren't password protected. People break into houses, offices or hotel rooms, and the computer is on, awake and able to be used instantly. 2) Umbrellas! Why do so many people stand or walk around outside without using umbrellas? Maybe it's location dependent, but I never go anywhere in the UK without one in my car or bag.
Here, across the pond, we have seasons where it rains and others where it doesn't. In California, it almost never rains in the summer.
Load More Replies... I'd totally watch a movie that includes all of these in satire format. Mel Brooks or Scary Story style (the first 2, not the shlop that came afterwards). That'd be freaking hilarious.
That’s probably the movie they were making in 'Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel', it’s just too dangerous man. :p
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OK, I grew up with quite the imagination and if I decide to watch a movie or tv show, I can(and do!) still access and use my imagination!! Does anyone really think Rick Grimes REALLY hacked Gareth into a bloody mess on the Walking Dead? Does anyone really think Freddy Krueger can kill you in your dreams? Or(a personal favorite) Neo really does those awesome slo-mo things he does in the Matrix?? NO. IT'S NOT REALITY!! If you can't watch anything without picking it apart because "not reality", I got some bad news for you. Hollywood has been doing this forever and isn't gonna stop because you complain. People leaving their imagination back with their childhood...I feel sorry for you.
The one that gets me distracted from the plot are errors in military uniforms, decorations and insignia. And it's not that hard to get them right.
Sometimes a character will duck into the sewer for some reason. Let me tell ya, that manhole lid is heavy, usualy 80 to 150 pounds. Unless there's super strength involved, they aren't gonna just lift out, and often times they are stuck from years of dirt and grit compacted around the edge. Once they're in, there's a very real chance of dying from suffocation. Hydrogen sulfide, methane, and several other gasses will overcome a person, often before they realize its happening. They pass out from lack of oxygen and never make it out alive. There's a reason we use gas meters and rescue tripods when we have to go into the underground.
Someone taking a quick puff of asthma inhaler every 10 minutes. In reality, you can only use it (2 long puffs) every 4 hours.
Nobody wants to pay for a sitter, parking, tickets and popcorn to watch ugly people with messy hair f**k. Nobody wants to see a 5 minute action film because the hero got swarmed and killed. Nobody wants to watch a guy get knocked out and spend 8 months dealing with post-concussion symptoms. Nobody but creepy gun-nuts gives a s**t about trigger discipline. Nobody wants movies to be perfectly accurate and realistic.
Sure, but tyres screeching on gravel? IMO, there's a limit to how stupid something is before it (should) be intolerable.
Load More Replies... I get it. I do. But I've been told the 'willing suspension of disbelief' is essential to truly enjoy theater, movies, television and books. I like that. Gives you permission to ignore the the b******t stuff.
Yeah, if these were all shot to be 100% accurate then it'd take a 3 hour epic for the character just to get up and go to work in the morning. Sure, some of it is just plain dumb, but the rest? Jus t accept some shortcuts that illustrate bigger concepts and just let the story move on.
Load More Replies... This doesn't annoy me ... [TRIGGER WARNING: blood, death and violence] but people might be surprised how little blood there can be in a very sudden death, even a very traumatic death. Living people bleed a lot, so do dying people. Dead people, not so much. It's sometimes surprisingly ... clean's not the right word, but you get the idea. Likewise, horror movies etc go to a lot of trouble making the corpse look real. In my experience, real corpses look surprisingly fake to me. It could just be that my mind rejects reality for a bit, but I've found that bodies and body parts just look really fake somehow. And before you ask, I used to be on a team that investigated industrial accidents.
There are some films that are extremely realistic but are not popular because people found them boring. Fast and Furious is very popular but has little to no reality or physics in it. The producers follow what the audience likes.
Fast and Furious reminds me of how I played with my toys when I was a kid. Can a car turn in mid air while making an impossible jump? Oh you bet it can!
Load More Replies... "Listen to me. Don't. Trust. ANYBODY." *person who said this turns out to be the bad guy* "I told you not to trust anybody."
They don't pay pretty actors to hide their faces. We all know who I'm talking about.
Load More Replies... I was surprised not to see the most enjoying thing mentioned: when people are chased in a movie, they always turn around and trip 🤬 and it is often a women…
For me lately it’s how everyone, protagonist and antagonist alike, always seem to know how to 1) Ride a motorcycle 2) Drive a speedboat and/or jet ski 3) Fly a military jet or helicopter. Sure, it’s to be expected for a James Bond or Jason Bourne type character. But so many times there is no reasonable explanation as to how a character is able to just hop on and use the equipment like an expert. (Edited for punctuation.)
“I found a shotgun!” TCHIK-TCHIK! “Here come the bad guys!” TCHIK-TCHIK! “Let’s do this!” TCHIK-TCHIK!
One of the many reasons The Walking Dead started to get on my nerves - I'll just grab this gun that's been sitting outside for a couple of years and start firing - in reality it takes very little for a gun or ammunition to misfire and really hurt you
Load More Replies... Morning pillow talk/make out scenes. Morning breath is awful no matter who you are and I can't suspend my disbelief when they are nose to nose talking to each other. Makes my stomach turn worse than a scene from a horror movie.
Here's one for you....why are Russians always villains? In every single movie any Russian,male or female,is a cold hearted,ruthless killer...every..single..time! Why is this deemed ok?
Always an open parking space right in front of where they need to be.
Yes! Hell, in most action movies a skateboard would probably explode on impact.
Load More Replies... When a character has a cup of coffee (or any drink) and is drinking from it, but, in reality the cup is empty. Its so obvious once you spot it and I look for it every time its part of a scene and it annoys me beyond what is rational. I should probably get out more 🤔x
That is one of my major pet peeves. The character gets a to-go cup and just waves it around like it's empty, which it obviously is. They should put water in the cup so it looks realistic. It's such a small thing; I don't know why they don't catch this.
Load More Replies... How about when goodguys/superheroes get powers, it takes them a long time to hone in on their skills/powers but bad guys are immediately proficient?
I understand that films cannot be realistic, it's fun to look out for these conventions and clichés though.
If a movie were to annoy me for breaking real life logic it would be the end of any movie watching for me. But I REALLY HATE when movies broke rules they set themselves. This is a moment when movie is done for me. "ant-man" is simple example. they said mass is kept. Well.. Tell it to keychain tank. Or suitcase building.
Two for me: a) Nobody turns off laptops or other computers, they never go into sleep or standby mode, and even government or spy ones aren't password protected. People break into houses, offices or hotel rooms, and the computer is on, awake and able to be used instantly. 2) Umbrellas! Why do so many people stand or walk around outside without using umbrellas? Maybe it's location dependent, but I never go anywhere in the UK without one in my car or bag.
Here, across the pond, we have seasons where it rains and others where it doesn't. In California, it almost never rains in the summer.
Load More Replies... I'd totally watch a movie that includes all of these in satire format. Mel Brooks or Scary Story style (the first 2, not the shlop that came afterwards). That'd be freaking hilarious.
That’s probably the movie they were making in 'Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel', it’s just too dangerous man. :p
Load More Replies... OK, I grew up with quite the imagination and if I decide to watch a movie or tv show, I can(and do!) still access and use my imagination!! Does anyone really think Rick Grimes REALLY hacked Gareth into a bloody mess on the Walking Dead? Does anyone really think Freddy Krueger can kill you in your dreams? Or(a personal favorite) Neo really does those awesome slo-mo things he does in the Matrix?? NO. IT'S NOT REALITY!! If you can't watch anything without picking it apart because "not reality", I got some bad news for you. Hollywood has been doing this forever and isn't gonna stop because you complain. People leaving their imagination back with their childhood...I feel sorry for you.
The one that gets me distracted from the plot are errors in military uniforms, decorations and insignia. And it's not that hard to get them right.
Sometimes a character will duck into the sewer for some reason. Let me tell ya, that manhole lid is heavy, usualy 80 to 150 pounds. Unless there's super strength involved, they aren't gonna just lift out, and often times they are stuck from years of dirt and grit compacted around the edge. Once they're in, there's a very real chance of dying from suffocation. Hydrogen sulfide, methane, and several other gasses will overcome a person, often before they realize its happening. They pass out from lack of oxygen and never make it out alive. There's a reason we use gas meters and rescue tripods when we have to go into the underground.
Someone taking a quick puff of asthma inhaler every 10 minutes. In reality, you can only use it (2 long puffs) every 4 hours.
Nobody wants to pay for a sitter, parking, tickets and popcorn to watch ugly people with messy hair f**k. Nobody wants to see a 5 minute action film because the hero got swarmed and killed. Nobody wants to watch a guy get knocked out and spend 8 months dealing with post-concussion symptoms. Nobody but creepy gun-nuts gives a s**t about trigger discipline. Nobody wants movies to be perfectly accurate and realistic.
Sure, but tyres screeching on gravel? IMO, there's a limit to how stupid something is before it (should) be intolerable.
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