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Article created by: Konstancija Gasaitytė

A lot of us love to watch movies and TV shows as it helps to escape reality for a little while. But what if the things that are portrayed in the movies are so far from reality that it even makes it annoying to watch the rest of the movie? Someone online was curious to know these annoying little things that look so good on the screen but are actually nearly impossible to do or just don’t work that way in real life, so they asked Reddit users to share their remarks. The question “What looks fun in movies, but in real life is miserable?” received 6.5k answers that included things such as laying in tall grass, having to perform CPR on someone, or portraying difficult professions as an easy and cool job. Which one of these things mentioned do you find true? Or maybe there is something that is missing from this list? Don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below!

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Outdoor campus scene with brick buildings and picnic tables, illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life. High school

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    Medical training dummy on hospital bed with AED trainer, illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life. CPR. on TV it's just a fun cutesy little water coughing thing that you recover from immediately and in real life it involves breaking ribs and maybe dying anyway

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    #3

    Hospital room with empty beds and medical monitors illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life. Getting knocked out with a blow to the head. Movies: like waking up from a nap. Real life: pain, headache, problems for months if not years.

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    #4

    Tall grass and shrubs in a field with distant mountains and cloudy sky illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life. Sleeping in the tall grass. I'm sure you've seen the memes but in reality, those fields would be infested with bugs and they'd more than likely bite you

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    #5

    Indoor nightclub scene with colorful lights and disco ball, illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life. “Nightclubs.” “What?!” “Nightclubs, in the movies. It looks cool. You meet friends there, instead of grumpy strangers, and you have fun group interactions.” “What?!”

    financewiz , Aiko Konishi Report

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    #6

    Red vintage corded phone with coiled black wire shaped like a heart on white fabric, illustrating concepts that fail in real life. A feature-length romantic drama filled with conflict and angst that, in real life, could've been resolved with 5 minutes of discussion and a phone call.

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    #7

    Person wearing blue jeans and black slip-on shoes digging soil with a shovel, illustrating concepts that fail in real life. Digging a hole. Cartoons make it look so easy and quick. In reality hours of back-breaking work will get you six inches down.

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    #8

    Rocky canyon landscape with pine trees under cloudy sky, illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life. Hanging off a cliff with one hand, attempting to pull yourself up.....while someone else is hanging on you also

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    #9

    Two pairs of noise-canceling headphones with earplugs and a wireless earbud case on concrete, illustrating real life vs movies concepts. Shooting a gun indoors with no ear protection

    brandonfla , Hunting Mark Report

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    #10

    Silver hammered flask resting on a blue patterned fabric illustrating concepts that fail to work in real life. Carrying and drinking hard liquor out of a flask. In movies, it looks kind of normal but in real life, you just look like an alcoholic.

    srirachaninja , yoppy Report

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    #11

    Mannequin head and torso visible behind a window in a brick building, illustrating concepts that fail in real life versus movies. Stalking women. I mean, surprise elaborate romantic gestures from a complete stranger. (She just calls it "stalking" because she doesn't know me and can't see how romantic and handsome and awesome I am in my head.)

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    #12

    Outdoor swimming pool with palm trees and fountains, illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life. Kissing while treading water. Good luck not kicking each other, knocking heads, or getting a mouthful of snot.

    cascadiancuddles , Andrew Mitchell Report

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    #13

    Long exposure of car lights on a city street at night illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life. When superheroes moving at a very very high rate of speed rescue people just in time when in reality if they did that they would probably break the persons back and neck and various other bones and give them brain damage or a concussion from they brain hitting the inside of their skull or just flat out kill them from moving them so quickly from a dead stop.

    LordBreedlove , Rodrigo Gomes Report

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    #14

    Stack of military helmets and gear arranged outdoors, illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life. Military movies where there is always action happening. Really? Really Hollywood? Are you sure people don't sit around 95% of the time doing nothing?

    Dildo-Gankings , Miranda Wood Report

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    #15

    Colorful amusement park entrance with large red and white decorative fans, illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life. Theme parks!! They don't show that you have to wait over an hour+ for the best ride(s) and how expensive the food cost in there.

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    Prison cell bars with dim lighting illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life. Fighting. Srsly, don’t do it. I have six felony charges and can not do anything that I wanted to do in younger years. No one likes an aggressive person. You’re not gonna get any babes, or whatever.

    LUST-18 , fsecart Report

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    #17

    Close-up of bright orange flames burning wood, illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life. Walking away slowly from a nearby explosion

    full_bodied_muppet , D4E Report

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    #18

    Open moving boxes stacked in an empty room with hardwood floors illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life Moving, painting and fixing up houses/apartments

    Life_Training3137 , Cambodia4kids.org Beth Kanter Report

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    #19

    Two men wearing caps sitting by the water engaged in conversation illustrating concepts that fail in real life. Conversations. Always have the perfect thing to say and everything flows. A lot of convos in movies would be considered very abnormal in real life if you really picture it.

    ModsCantHandleMe , ePi.Longo Report

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    #20

    Child reaching toward a bakery display case full of cakes and pastries, illustrating concepts that fail in real life. Owning an artisan bakery / coffee shop.

    rebelallianxe , Vincent Diamante Report

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    Dale Shaw
    Dale Shaw
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    7 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Staying awake baking the next mornings pastries, cleaning the coffee makers , restocking, accounting, alive alive O

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    #21

    Multiple laptops and monitors on a desk in an office setting illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life. Hacking and software development in general. God I wish it was actually as badass as people make it out to be.

    kahzhar-the-blowhard , Kai Hendry Report

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    #22

    Child splashing in ocean waves on a sunny day, illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life. A vacation with little kids.

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    #23

    Window with blue frame on a white wooden wall reflecting trees and sky, illustrating concepts that fail in real life versus movies. Smashing a window with your fist

    Manbeard1000 , Henner Zeller Report

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    #24

    Crowded Times Square at night with bright lights and signs illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life Spontaneously breaking into song in the middle of public.

    MrSpiffy123 , Chris Amelung Report

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    #25

    Quiet empty street at night with traditional buildings, illustrating concepts that work in movies but fail in real life. A few people have said fighting, but I feel like it should be specified that *winning* a fight is not a fun experience irl. Most people in actual serious fights aren't gonna have some kind of plot-relevant, narratively satisfying thing on their mind that makes the inevitable bruises/fractures feel like they were worth it for the sake of justice or something, and not just more avoidable suffering that you wish you could've stayed home for instead.

    MsHoneytongue , bethom33 Report

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