People Share What Movies Present As Normal, But It Actually Isn’t, And Here Are 40 Of The Best Insights
Life would be much simpler yet more exciting at the same time if things worked just like in our favorite movies. The good guys would always save the day at the last minute. Adventures of a lifetime could happen at any moment. And your soulmate could be just around the corner. Alas! That’s not how the real world works.
OG_Builds created a thread on r/AskReddit and asked people to share what is totally normal in movies but never actually happens in real life. And, wow, did people deliver! The redditor’s post received 28.8k comments in 2 days, as well as more than 64.2k upvotes. Scroll down to have a look, don’t forget to upvote your fave things that are normal in movies, and share your own ideas in the comments! OG_Builds told Bored Panda that they got the idea to make the thread after watching a lot of movies while on vacation, while the comment that they could relate to the most was the one about finding new friends.
“I think the comment I found the most relatable was one pointing out how movie characters find friends the second they move to a new city. I just moved to a new town and I feel like movies underestimate the amount of time it takes to get to know people and build relationships.” Read on for the rest of our interview with the thread’s OP.
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Women can be in the jungle for days but no body hair anywhere.
Men instantly grow a beard
Secret: women pack an emergency shaver, men an emergency testosterone injection.
I'm an older woman and if I were in the jungle for days, I would instantly grow a beard.
Also women in adventure movies still somehow manage to look like they spent hours on their makeup/hair despite being stranded in the jungle for days with no access to any of life's basic necessities.
Perfectly styled hair and a face full of makeup too. But the thing that gets me the most mad is when I see a woman (or man for that matter) in an apocalyptic or other action type scenario without their hair up!!! It breaks the believability of the movie/show. I've tied my hair up with whatever I can find when need be: string, yarn, hell even a vine when I was camping once. But please, tell me how you're gonna fight off that zombie when the wind blows that long tangle free hair into your eyes!?😂
As a woman who has to deal with an inconceivable amount of body hair, I am so triggered D: men really believe we don't grow any
The major exception, of course, is Tarzan. Is there an ape-run barber shop in that jungle?
In 4 days I'd look almost like the guy in the picture, my wife would still have no visible body hair. In 2 weeks maybe you could see some armpit hair, but not in a few days.
Either your wife is very lucky, or you have no idea :P
Load More Replies...Everyone’s house is neat and tidy.
Unless the house is a real dump, there is never any dust anywhere. The sidewalks are always edged.
Or people calling their apartments horrible dumps while the "dump" looks better than my own apartment (2 broke girls I am looking at you|!)
And, even if they’ve lived there their whole lives, there’s no overflow of accumulated stuff. Their refrigerators, drawers, and cabinets are never over full, their storage spaces are always neat and organized, including labels, and their tiny closets are never overflowing, even though they always seem to wear a different outfit, including overcoat, every day.
And everyone walks around their house all dressed up for going out or at least going to work. That's also what they wear to wash the dishes. Nobody is ever seen in sweatpants cleaning the toilet.
Or a quick music montage showing people cleaning up a huge mess, and everything is perfect and clean!
Looking away from the road for a solid 10 seconds while driving to talk to someone
Ok, but I legit know people who do this. They're all men who have been in the military and it freaks me the f**k out. Like, dud. I get you think you have some kind of sixth sense or something, but PLEASE for the love of god pay attention to the road!
“While watching The Amazing Spiderman 2, I thought about how there are so many things that are never questioned in movies, though the same things rarely happen in real life. I wanted to see if my fellow redditors had some examples of such things,” OG_Builds shared what inspired them to make the thread in the first place.
They added that some of the other comments that stuck in their head from the thread were about car explosions and parking spots. “Another user commented that it takes very little impact for a car to blow up. If a car crashes into a tree it explodes, which is rarely the case in real life. Someone also pointed out that finding parking spots is way too easy. I never thought about this, but it’s actually really weird that movie characters are able to find parking spots in the middle of the day in Manhattan.”
Hacking is typing really fast.
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mhe depends on what you are trying to do and which tools you use, a lot of them run on linux and/or rely on console commands so i say that that part is vaguely accurate.
Load More Replies...Hacking in movies is akin to have a cat run across your keyboard. AHahahhoe9urergn agahjnc egahahah- brilliant, we just cracked the government's super secure security system.
I could type a lot about that! Boss says to Tech Guy, “Get me the details on all the (fill in blank) with these parameters.” Boss has ten-second conversation with someone and is interrupted by Tech Guy, who provides the info.
And their fingers *never* touch the space bar. Or the escape key. Or the shift key.
... the escape key doesn't really do anything any more. especially in windows, where MS has decided their users are too stupid to have that kind of power.
Load More Replies...Windowskey+R. type winword [Enter] is much faster than clicking a shortcut. ;)
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Working as a waitress and living in a huge apartment, with the fridge full, and expensive clothes.
Given that Monica was a chef, my guess is she either paid for most of it, or Rachel was taking money from Daddy.
Load More Replies...Also bothers me how they land poshy jobs apparently with no effort or qualifications.
Joey lived off Chandler for years until he made his big break. Chandler is apparently good at his job. Monica worked on and off through many entry level jobs (like a skating waitress) and it took several chef jobs before she got her ideal job. Ross has a PhD. Phoebe, well, she lived in her grandmother's aparment and ultimately married into money. Even Rachel worked her way up from waitressing at the coffee shop to selling clothes until she finally got her dream job, her networking skills helped.
Load More Replies...This is universal in the television shows of every culture. I've watched international programs where the struggling and unemployed main character lives in an apartment bigger than my house. How realistic is that? I guess people like watching fantasy.
It's even more simple: It's harder to film in small sets and you can't fit as many people into one shot.
Load More Replies...The apartment was very old and it was rent controlled. Also, she wasn't wearing any expensive clothes while she was working as a waitress although even if she did she could have had it from before, since she was living with her parents and they were rich.
The pushy dude in the romcom ends up getting the girl whereas in real life they’d be more likely to end up with a restraining order.
Actually he doesn't end up with the girl, he just shares his true feelings to her after she has got married.
In this particular movie yes, but works well in other movies
Load More Replies...What? Romcom dating methodology doesn't work in real life? *Goes out to the garden to burn signs*
Y'all don't know how many times I shout "stalker" at romantic movies. I'm banned from watching them with friends which is just was well because I don't like them that much anyway.
Inappropriate photo, since he had been hiding his feelings from her as she was getting married to his friend. In the end, he decided to tell her in pictures about it and be gone from their lives.
This pushy dude in this particular romcom didn't end up getting the girl. He ended up walking away alone. Remember?
In the redditor’s opinion, life wouldn’t be better if everything worked like in the movies. “I think movies fail to acknowledge that humans aren’t perfect. We make mistakes. Sometimes we stumble the words and we cough in the middle of conversations. Life isn’t always on our side. Sometimes, we need an hour to find somewhere to park, and some days we wake up with the worst bed hair.”
They continued: “Some might say it would be easier if life was a movie, but these flaws and imperfections are what make life so beautiful. I wouldn’t change that for the world.”
"Enhancing" a sh**ty quality image to 4k and zooming in to the size of a microbe with perfect clarity.
My boss gave me a small picture for the newspaper headline. - Take this, zoom in. - We can't zoom in... - What you mean we can't? I saw it in movies. They just zoom in... - But sir, that's in movies... - You probably don't know how to do it... Why did I hire you?
Knowing a bit about how digital photography works, I can't stand this one. I haven't watched CSI type shows in years, though...Maybe they stopped doing this...
Also making night time photos look like daylight. (CSI Again !)
Load More Replies...And they never use the mouse, only keyboard commands even if they reproduce images or videos in full screen
For years I thought this was incredibly stupid. But recent technology kind of almost makes this possible. In 5 years no one will even think twice about this. I know I know, even a computer can't _create_ information in an image, but computers are getting dangerously good at guessing. Photoshop creates background that does not exist, and it does it very well.
If you think that’s bad in some Sci-fi movies they’re able to see round corners. 🙄
Being able to outrun an explosion.
And /or surviving because apparently jumping at the right time means the shockwave won't hurt you
And if you're really badass, you don't even have to run. Just walk towards the camera with feline suppleness and a cold look of triumph on your face.
There should at least be a good amount of shrapnel and debris embedded in his back...
And they propel you forward. So glad many films have done away with this.
Mom makes a huge breakfast and lays it all out. Kids and husband grab a bagel on the way out the door ignoring all the food
And going to the bar of cafe to get a drink or some coffee, drinking 1/4-2/4 then suddenly they need to run off somewhere or decide to just leave for any reason really (leaving the drink that they only just paid for behind).
OMG , this buts the s**t out of me. They meet someone at a restaurant. order the coffee etc and the just leave in 5 min.
Load More Replies...People pour cups of tea/coffee less than half full every single time.
Whether things would be better if life were more like movies is debatable; but making movies more like real life would be a pretty bad idea, don’t you think? Let’s have a think and see what would change.
Imagine for a moment how boring Star Wars and movies with battles in outer space would be if we didn’t willingly suspend our disbelief and wanted everything to be super-realistic.
Ion cannons and explosions wouldn’t make any sounds (“In space no one can hear you scream” is very accurate, too). Meanwhile, you couldn’t even see those spectacular laser weapons. Darn you, vacuum of space, why do you have to make things so dull?!
However, lightsabers could kinda sorta maybe work according to some scientists and some very dedicated and talented crafters.
Wherever the detective has to go, he always finds a parking spot right in front of the place. Downtown Manhattan included.
It would be quite boring watch them search parking space unsuccesfully :-)
technically its a bit true since they usually park at a hydrant or bus sign
That's why we need movies. Real life is real life already. We don't need more of that mundaneness in the movies.
Maybe someone should do a movie with all of these, but the real-life versions.
And the parking space they find does NOT have a meter or ticketing machine
That's there's actually detectives that look like Brad and really love their wives too
Imagine: perry the platypus circling the parking lot looking for a spot, suddenly one opens Perry goes for it top speed and suddenly the bad guys air craft lands in it smooshing him Perry: $@&*!,
People waking up with perfect make up, my wife points this out in everything we watch.
Women don't take their makeup off before going to sleep, yet they wake up with impeccable skin
They could be wearing swimming resistant super waterproof makeup..
Load More Replies...And they rarely have bed head, unless the writer’s going for a joke. Then it’s way over-exaggerated bed head—-not real looking flattened (often only on one side) or mussed (but not a foot high) bed head.
The pilot episode of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel actually tackled this one. She awakes with the sun, puts on a fresh face of makeup, and goes back to bed so her husband can "wake her up" with her looking perfect. My wife saw it and I wasn't sure if her eyes would go back to normal from the massive eyeroll.
Sex scene.. Women still have their hair and makeup perfect afterwards.
The best part is sleeping with visible false eyelashes and waking up with still perfect looking false eyelashes. Yea right.
Actually being able to have a conversation at a bar while music is playing.
Are you sure you're actually having any thoughts?
Load More Replies...And a conversation about stuff you don’t want other people to overhear too—-stuff you really shouldn’t be discussing in a loud packed bar in the first place.
Or how you're able to have a private conversation with someone by taking two steps away from the very person you're talking about, yet they don't hear you talking.
duh, thats because the music is only loud for the background people! Everyone knows this.
Being able to understand what Sly is saying at a bar while music is playing.
Hey, just sit me next to Jason or Dolph. I won't care what they are saying.
Action scenes would also be horrific if everything worked on IRL logic and not film logic. Protagonists wouldn’t disarm the bomb at the last second before the timer counted down to zero. There’d be no timer in the first place!
In case our heroes couldn’t disarm the bomb in time, they wouldn’t walk away from the explosion without getting hurt at all. The powerful shockwave would mean that the villains would win and that we’d have to get new heroes in the middle of the film. (Come to think of it, it would be interesting to see more movies where the bad guys win.)
Police take a DNA sample and have the results in an hour.
The shortest I've seen in a TV show was several minutes. Minutes, for Pete's sake!
And the investigators, police and whatnot mak walk around the crime scene and pick stuff up
And they're exploring a crime scene and taking DNA samples without wearing coveralls, hiding their hair...
Easily avoidable issues if the person just explains what is happening
This!! TV shows where season after season 95% of the dramatic tension is based on the main characters failing to fill the other main characters in on essential information.
well, it beats star trek. 60% of the tension is caused by a lack of seatbelts. 30% by a lack of proper surge protection or grounding and the remaining 10% by having sex with aliens. ("really, captain?")
Load More Replies...Or easily avoidable issues if the person had an iota of self control. Example: the happily married man who instantly f***s the first female stranger who flirts with him without stopping for a second to think about how much his cheating could hurt his wife—-instantly regretting it, but only after the fact, and even then only when she turns out to be a psycho who threatens him and his wife and children.
I love Kdramas and this could solve so many issues without disrupting the actual story. I get so frustrated when the main character is just allowing the misunderstanding to happen just because (it is not even to save face! they just let it happen!!) uuuggghhhh.........oops....... someone left their soapbox under my feet...
and also the vilain ALWAYS has to explain their plan so that someone can arrive in time to stop them :))))))))))
Running with high heels (and not breaking a bone)
*Causally runs up the hill with one breakfast bagel in hand* AHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA HA
Load More Replies...This is realistic. I knew a woman who once won a competition running in heels up several flights of stairs. :D
There are a select few ... lets call them... heel-witches, who possess that strange power... Not me, I can barely walk with sneakers, but I know a gal who I've seen running in stilletos over cobblestone... Was certain she'd break her legs... somehow didn't... Heel-witches, man, unreal...
If you are used to high heels it is no problem. Just have high heels every day for several months or years. I know I tried.
Totally. I used to be able to do that too when I was younger lol
Load More Replies...Let’s also not forget how dangerous jumping through shattered glass windows is in real life. The sharp edges would hurt you very, very badly. Meanwhile, action heroes shrug shattered windows off like it’s no big deal.
Our verdict? Movies might have a bunch of things in them that never happen in real life but that’s why we love them so much! We wouldn’t have it any other way because movies that are too realistic wouldn’t have much structure and would end before things really got started. Now if only movie logic would spread to real life...
Meeting new friends the minute you move to a new town.
Precisely. Been in Florida for 3 years and still trying to find worthwhile friends.
we moved in this building almost a year ago and the only person in the building i know is the landlord. which i've seen once cuz my bf meets him to pay the rent XD i don't want to know anyone, don't want anyone expecting to be buddies and do stuff together and have small talks in the hallway lol
Bombs with a special display that counts down to zero.
...and always being cut at 00:00:01. Unless they cut it at 00:00:02 and yoke that it normally is cut at 00:00:01.
Unless it is a Bond movie - than it is cut at 00:00:07 :)
Load More Replies...And knowing which colour wire to cut... like all terrorists follow a bomb manual that is very specific about the colour of wires.
Well, they could be following standard electronics norms...
Load More Replies...And wiring colours that happen to conform to the universal bomb disposal manual...
From the Evil Overlord list: I will never use devices that have a visible timer. If it is unavoidable, I will set them to go off at the fifteen minute mark.
And its amazing how the criminal uses the correct colors red blue and black to the wires while making bombs......
I mean, I'd have to resist the urges to add little flags that popped out taunting the bomb tech trying to defuse it. "Maybe it was the blue one?" "Nope. It's really the green." "try the other one again." "have you tried turning it off and back on again?"
Load More Replies...I know...what's the point of a display. Just set the timer and run
People in their twenties having large lavish apartments.
To anyone whom hasn’t seen the Disney movie: cheaper by the dozen they literally have 12 kids and live in a gorgeous vintage house and all of the kids have their own rooms and one of the rooms even has f****n secret passageways that lead all over the house yet they have minimal wage
I always wondered why Carol Brady needed a full-time live-in maid, when she didn't even work out of the home. Mike must have been making really good money to support a family of 8 (9 if you count the maid).
Load More Replies...I think this one is mostly because they need a lot of space to move the camera equipment around.
In the movie MANNEQUIN, the guy was supposed to be a screw-up, losing job after job, but his apartment had hard wood floors, French doors and a grand piano. Unemployment must have been sensational!
I think people who do not live in western countries get a very distorted picture of what life is like for average people in North America/Europe from TV programs and films. Yes, I earn what to you (person from developing country) seems like a fortune but at the end of the day I live in a modest house, drive a used car and have £20 to my name at the end of each month.
In a fight, those henchmen usually fight the main character one by one, one on one until they all get beaten.
These bad guys are so polite, each one waiting for their turn to fight and eventually get beaten.
"After you conner" "oh no , after you bruce"
Load More Replies...Yes they all are waiting for their turn to be killed by the main character. Also; 50 blows to head of the main character: 0% damage, 1 slight push of the main character: instant death of the bad guy.
the best ones are the guys in martial art movies standing in circle around the hero and 'dancing ' like crabs and doing windmills gestures with their arms
I will say though, unless the henchmen have practiced fighting as a group, that might be a good idea. Fighting cooperatively is hard and takes training, unless you're willing to possibly hurt the people in your group as much as the person you're fighting.
How hard is it to sneak up on someone preoccupied with fighting and stab them in the back? :D
Load More Replies...They've got a manner of Japanese samurai. They actually bowed and fought only one of one and took pride in doing so.
Yes, honor. Ganging up on him is not honorable.
Load More Replies...o that they shoot in obscene inaccuracy while the protagonist, a 1st time gun holder, mows through them like a sniper.
That should represent that bad guys can't cooperate, because they are all unsocializable, selfish, probably want the glory for themself/think their own teammates are dimwits. Some movies show this less poorly, like in early fight scenes of Kingsman.
I've always wondered who someone doesn't shot/stab the main character in the back while surrounded.
Physically fit and attractive people everywhere.
This is much more a myth in the US, than say Scandinavia. Sorry, it's just true. People here are more fit and more beautiful. Come visit if you don't believe me. And make sure to downvote this comment!
I believe you, Tor. The case in my homeland too but not so much in my adopted countries of Canada and the UK... has been my observation. (I fall into the overweight, average looking camp myself, so I'm not judging anyone unfavourably here).
Load More Replies...I think that was the biggest shock for me the very first time I went to the States in the '80s. I remember going to Walmart and seeing all these very heavy people wearing sweatpants and stained t-shirts, with bad hair and bad teeth. Not that I am judging people for that. It was just that I really believed that everyone in America must look a certain way because that's all you ever saw in the movies. What can I say? I was young and naive!
I spent most of 2019 and 2020 in various American states and was horrified at how being fat was normalised. If their movie / tv stars are their ideal, why do so few of them look like that?
Load More Replies...With every season, SATC became more fake & unrealistic; and Carrie more irritating.
How normalized stalking is. "You dropped this, so I followed you for three hours to give it back" -> "Kiss and hug, now we're dating". In reality, it's mace and call the cops for stalking.
Nope. That always creeped me out. And I’m 59 years old.
Load More Replies...The Police - "Every Breath You Take (I'll Be Watching You)" , listen to the lyrics !
Dudes, don't do this!! I'll kick your knees and baton the f**k out of you! :I
Hmm...I think it'd be easier to kick 'em where the sun don't shine.
Load More Replies...A normal person would shout after the person if they witnessed them dropping something and if they found something randomly, depending on its value would keep/report/bin it (or a combination of those).
" i saw you from over there and came by to ask if you'd like to give me your phone number" XDDD who DOES THAT irl?! and if they do- why?! XD
So not funny. I have had a guy pestering me over a year now because after 2 weeks on the phone chatting I decided I did not want to go out on a date with him. Just not my type. We are both middleaged. I have literally flipped out and called him a stalker. he sees it as highly romantic to stalk me in the lobby of my job or sit in the parking lot of the coffee shop I go to.
Ask your friends to meet you at a predetermined time and place with no explanation as to why. I have a hard time getting friends to meet up for legitimate reasons with advanced notice. Meanwhile, movie characters come together in an abandoned warehouse in Brazil like... (all walk in at the same time) "Why'd you call?"
Often without mentioning what time and what place, yet they all magically show up at the same time and same place. Wish I was psychic like that.
My friends do this sometimes, though not in an abandoned warehouse in Brazil.
This would only be the case around the time of one's birthday, where you might agree to meet in this fashion...
Not saying bye before hanging up.
And here I was thinking that that must be an American thing and just hanging up with no manners at all - I'm sorry America!!!
Oh yes, I agree! Also, never rinsing your mouth after vomiting. Like never!
I just assumed it was an American thing. they also don’t usually put their special phone voice on either.
Walking home from the grocery store carrying a single paper bag with an unwrapped loaf of French bread sticking out the top.
as a kid learning about people not living in the same country as mine from TV, I thought they really do only eat those kind of bread daily, and that sliced white bread we have were "third world" food.
A friend of mine from Japan once asked me why Americans apparently only eat baguettes. I hadn’t noticed until then that there is almost always one in every movie or television grocery bag.
Load More Replies...Yes. They do this so the audience knows it’s groceries and can safely be ignored. If it’s unclear what’s in the bag, people will think it’s a plot point and get distracted trying to find out what it is.
(or stealing it and getting 19 years in prison before breaking parole and becoming mayor of a small city in France, 1832)
I recognize this plot line for some reason... (I’m kidding, I am a man of culture, I know exactly what it is: Les Miserables)
Load More Replies...If there is a bagette sticking out of the top of the bag, you're destined to get hit by a car.
I just thought if you are sophisticated, you have to have a baguette. Then one of them end up making spaghetti. I love spaghetti, but it isn't difficult.
Hackers. Perfect code, first try, no issues ever. If your code runs correctly first try, you're confused and scared.
Also hackers using 1 keyboard with 2 people to hack into 3 different systems in 44 seconds.
And incredibly reliable lighting fast internet wherever they are, including on their phones, even in storms and power outages.
Also how some random IT guy can hack. My relatives who work in the field say they get the " so you can hack right? " question all the time
yrdczvd,mnfksbdhjksdhbflibsdljkhvnlkjehsoifhbslkdnflkjdhlhfoidhighkldjgjkr/.... done
I can't even get into my mobile phone account without going through a million variations of my password, then being asked to reset it and if I am a robot. Bahahaha.
I ever wrote complex code which ran without issue at first try (but it take me a while to write it)
Exactly. When stuff compiles and seems to work first time I'm immediately suspicious.
Load More Replies...You can have a Ph.D. in theoretical high-energy astrophysics, have finished your postdoc(s), and be running the biggest project in the organization by the time you are 23 if you are a woman and really pretty.
And all those academic pursuits take a shitload of time, energy, and focus to do. Something has to take a backseat til you’re done and graduated, and usually it’s your social life, which also frees up the time it takes to maintain perfect clothes, hair, and makeup. Hell, while I was putting in long hours writing my Master’s thesis, there were days when I didn’t have the energy to shower, much less blow dry my hair, put on makeup, get dressed in nice clothes, and go out for several hours. I preferred to spend that time researching, writing, or sleeping.
If you're really pretty, you'd never bother with that science bollocks. Won't ever have to be smart or nice. Marry a rich old guy, set for life.
I have also noticed that how in the popular science tv shows/documentaries, they always pick the extremely attractive scientists to explain stuff.
the most experienced scientist on the whole project is long white haired, old, speak weird, say awkward jokes...
The time frame is unlikely but a woman's level of attractiveness doesn't mean she is or isn't smart :) we need to get over our assumptions
In the pre woman's lib days, if a woman was highly educated, and was at the same level (or higher)as the men, she still was the one who did the cooking, cleaning and coffee making.
Nobody ever has to use the toilet.
Or charge their cell phone. Always on the nightstand, not plugged in, while they are sleeping...
Yes this always gets me! That, and how in fantasies women can go on ridiculous journeys and be in the middle of nowhere with no supplies for weeks and their periods are never an issue? Not possible
Personally, I don't feel it necessary to find out that a character is having her period or watch her deal with it. LOL!
Load More Replies...It would be more realistic(and a step forward) if they just showed someone excusing themselves to use the loo...
Including the dogs. I hate when people get home from work in a movie and pet the dog and then carry one. Or worse get up in the morning , pet the dog and start on something in the plot. Dog is like "f**k this s**t, I am going in her shoe!"
Uninterested woman has a sudden change of heart for the loser guy and they live happily ever after.
You forgot one key word, “uninterested HOT woman”. She’s always way out of his league, and usually has to be drunk or extremely distraught for the first intimate encounter to happen. Now I’m not saying that looks are everything, but we more often than not end up with someone whose appearance is on par with our own (though there are exceptions).
I'd like to point out that reverse of this NEVER EVER EVER HAPPENS. You NEVER see the hot guy going for the loser chick. Ever.
No - the chubby, or plain, or bucktoothed girl is always the best friend of the hot chick, and never gets a handsome guy.
Load More Replies...Yeah, the plain/goofy dude always pulling the hot chick also ticks me off. Like, why is it never the other way round? Why do all movies have to feed into male fantasies ALL THE TIME!?
Because the writers are all men aiming at the 18 - 49 - year - old male demographic.
Load More Replies...Hallmark Channel is written largely for women, and it doesn't happen that way. Carpenter is secretly a Duke or has a Harvard degree. More like Judd Apatow's fantasies - his films are written for men.
Load More Replies...Yes, unrealistic romantic scenarios have caused much relationship damage to young impressionable people... us older folks know better.
Young beautiful woman interested in going out, having fun and enjoying life falls deeply in love with sarcastic old miserable boring slob who looks likes his plastic surgeon was high.
Katherine Heigl + Seth Rogen. Never, in no universe. Just never.
Waking up from a long coma and being able to walk...
Her legs were atrophied, but her arms were strong enough to take out a guy and drag herself to the parking lot...
Load More Replies...I don’t know if it’s later or this list, and I apologize if it is; But what always gets me is waking up in the hospital and immediately yanking EVERYTHING off/out to leave
Just do fame of reference, my dad was in a medically induced cima for 3 months. It took him 6 months to learn to stand and walk again wihout a walker
Yup, two weeks and you'd have to go to therapy to walk (speech would be an issue as well)
THIS! My hubby was in a coma for 6 weeks and had to relearn to walk, to talk, to feed himself... he was like a toddler for a month at least.
Yes! It took me a couple of months to get my balance back after breaking my ankle and I wasn't even bedridden the whole time.
It's been 11 months to the day since my wreck.. Broke my ankle.. I still can't go up a ladder or walk down stairs onto that foot.. Occasional pain from time to time, but still big lack of balance and fine motor control.
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Guy walks in holding a 30-page document, gives to some other dude.
The dude who's getting the document glances at the first page for a nanosecond and immediately knows everything there is to know about this case.
Now I want to see a montage of someone reading and their partner drinking lots of coffee and pacing back and forth.
Thanks to Spongebob, now any movies could add "a few months later" or something like that to avoid this from happening again :D
Something must've triggered that deeply embedded knowledge in that nanosecond...
Unlimited bullets and accuraccy 100% for shooting normal bad guys
Thank you for pointing out the mistake, we swapped the picture
Load More Replies...Even Jamie Lee Curtis shot a bunch of bad guys by dropping an automatic weapon down a flight of stairs!
And strangely the shooting rate of the said normal bad guys are like... competiting with stormtroopers
Gun suppressors not silencers. Guns with suppressors are still loud AF. At this point I think it's still in movies/tv shows that way because silent guns are cool and to keep the public ignorant about how suppressors really are so the US government can keep taxing them unfairly.
This one. Hard to believe that with a homegrown audience so knowledgeable on firearms, Hollywood still does that s**t. A supressor just turns an ear-shattering bang into a still incredibly loud bang.
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Cars exploding on impact
I always thought that westerns should have horses explode any time they roll down a mountain just to make fun of exploding cars.
hahaha, that sounds like a Mel Brooks joke! Love it
Load More Replies...Blowing up a vehicle by shooting the fuel tank regardless of what fuel is used... not happening. You need a proper source of ignition as it's the fumes that are flammable not the fuel. I saw this demonstrated as a fireman plunged a lit match into petrol and it put the match out with a hiss.
My younger brother and I were driving when we were both in University and the hood started to smoke and the car lost power. I pulled over to the side of the road and this 6'4" beast of a little brother got out of the car and started running down the highway to get away from a possibly exploding car. Leaving his sister in the drivers seat. We didnt even have to call the police, bc a local farmer had seen my brother running like a bat out of hell and called it for us before running across his field to make sure we were okay. The car didnt explode. I have never let him live that down. HE LEFT ME IN THE CAR
This is a holdover from the time before cars were routinely safety tested. There some models with relatively flimsy gas tanks placed in common impact areas of the car bodies, so they could—-and did—-easily break open, allow the gas to come into contact with the hot engine parts, and explode. The chain reaction happened so fast it seemed to be right on impact. Though GM did do some periodic crash tests in the mid-1930s, crash test dummies weren’t invented until the late 1949s, and the tests have only been legally required industrywide since 1979.
And never running out of gas driving at high speed for extended times
Or crashing the car when the brakes go out instead of gearing down and letting them stop the car.
good guy vs bad guy destroy half of the city on a fight... no casualties.
People not screaming in absolute agony when shot or stabbed in the gut.
Reservoir dogs is one movie that did it realistically.
Hard to watch, but so ironic, cannot tear my eyes away. Some masterpieces have a lot of blood.
Load More Replies...Depends on the stab... realistically if stabbed into your guts or back, the surprise and shock will not let you scream.
Shock is a thing. Some don't even feel it for a while. All the disposable nameless baddies immediately falling over dead is even more unrealistic :D.
When you’re shot or otherwise wounded mortally or even badly, especially in the gut, you won’t scream. It’s more of a primal moan of excruciating agony. The wound saps the strength from your body, so that’s all you can manage. Source, a book by a former Navy SEAL wounded in combat.
I think being shot in the gut would give one a big 'Ooomph!' moment before the screaming begins.
being cut doesn't really hurt as it severs the nerves. I've seen people with several stab wounds and they're not writhing in agony
Saw a guy get slashed repeatedly by a triad gang in South East Asia who immediately ran off and the victim didn't shout a single time or even wimper untill the ambulance me and friends called arrived. I think the adrenaline running through his veins prevented that. Whereas when it finally passed, it must have hurt like a muthafucka. Funny how I only realized it now that people mention it here, after so many years.
Load More Replies...The gut injury and self-surgery in The Martian seemed fairly realistic.
Uhm, I've seen plenty of screams in agony in movies. this is kinda weak
Women in war zones and other longterm disaster situations with filthy matted hair and tattered grimy clothes always seem to find the time to have perfectly groomed eyebrows and put on a little make-up
The worse I have seen for this is Danial Craig in Quantum of Solace, at the very end when he is in the car the "dirt" on his face actually looks like it has been done with make up as opposed to actual dirt, it just looks un-natural. qosbc-jack...910d64.jpg
Women in movies always seem to be in a sleeveless tank or top. No matter what the scenario. While the guy is completely dressed. Watched an army movie 4 guys 1 woman. They are all walking across a war zone. All the men have complete camouflage gear on and full packs. The woman has her camo jumper tied around her waist and just a tank top on with no bra. YEP thats is how it is done in the army
i always wonder if Wonder Woman has some scratch-proof, dirt-proof stain-proof, dust-proof protection lotion on cos no matter how bad the fights are, she never get a scratch, dirt, dust or stain on her perfectly clean arm and thigh
Well it’s the difference between “I’ve completely and utterly given up” and “I accept the situation...but I with reservations”.
An orange filter when you go to mexico
You mean that Tweety the tangerine toddler has been camouflaging all that time to build a wall without being noticed?
I live in Mexico and a few weeks ago, there were some fires in my city, and the sky got covered in smoke, and the sunlight fell like through an orange filter. My sister and I both told my parents, in different, separate occasions, we looked like how they put Mexico in the movies lol
As if he'd go there, everyone knows Mexicans are one of Trump's many, many fears.
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people recovering very quickly from injuries, especially head injuries
That's how American employers like it. A cut off limb is no reason to call in sick. You can still serve drinks with your other hand!
If I died my employer would hold a seance to make sure I got my shift covered
Load More Replies...Apparently large muscles also make you imperveous to extreme cold, permanent unattractive scars, hearing damage, whiplash, and any other dangerous injuries.
I had a head injury once, but it never affected banana hamock, rhubarb pea soup !
Related: people passing out for minutes or hours after a blow to the head. As Archer puts it: super bad for you.
I HATE how head injuries are portrayed! I have had several concussions, and they left me housebound for weeks.
Not sure if it’s later on this list, I’m sorry to comment here if it is; What always gets me is when they wake up in the hospital and immediateky yank EVERYTHING off/out if themselves and leave. IVs don’t work like that! And nurses should be checking heart monitors that suddenly flatline...right?
Background music. Life would be so much better with background music
There is already background music absolutely everywhere! It drives me nuts! Can't hear myself think
I hate that public spaces have music constantly being pumped into them!!
Load More Replies...I have what I like to call a 'mental radio', so I actually have a soundtrack for everything I do that only I can hear. It makes me SO confident.
That reminds me to a Hungarian rap band having this line in the chorus "The problem with reality is that there is no background music"
Very good taste. I'll just add Bauhaus Siouxsie&theBanshees, The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Mission and The Sisters of Mercy, if you don't mind XD
Load More Replies...Me too. When I use the toilet I need something epic to match my work :D
Load More Replies...Well... that's pretty easy to accomplish nowadays with a phone and some headphones. Just have a playlist of various music themes/moods and play them accordingly to the situation.
You'd still have background music, though...
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Scientists in any field are experts in every other field of science as well, e.g. the physicist in Annihilation concluding the tree formations are due to homeotic mutations.
Yes. you see, we, the intellectual overlords have discovered how to encode information into a retroviral. assuming you meet the minimum qualifications- an IQ of at least 1337- and at least one doctor or two masters degrees, we just send you a nasal-squeeze bottle with the rest of the degrees. once you snort it, you have all that info at your fingertips.
Load More Replies...Dana Scully is the absolute worst for this. She’s a pathologist, brain surgeon, plastic surgeon who has expertise in marine biology, ecology and virology. 🙄
tbf there CAN be a lot of cross-pollination among the sciences, you learn all sorts of things about the other ones while you're learning the main one
In horror movies I always enjoy how fast and deep a perfectly symmetrical grave gets dug
My grandfather was a gravedigger and he was very proud of his symmetrical holes :-)
Definitely a thing to be proud of! And very appreciated.
Load More Replies...In Supernatural they do it every time. And don't even break a sweat while digging.
They have decades of experience, though. Probably more than the average gravedigger would, what with growing up that way and such
Load More Replies...I worked in a funeral directors, and I was always impressed by how much pride and accuracy that gravediggers put into their work
Here lies Doug Graves..He dug holes small, He dug holes, big, but here's one hole he didn't dig.
The spoils pile is also far too small. If you've ever dug up part of your yard to create a patio (raises hand), you know that the pile of dirt you've dug out always seems to be three times the size of the actual excavation.
It is. Aired soil takes up more space than compacted. The piles in the pic only account for like half a meter deep holes :D.
Load More Replies...I always make that comment to my husband when I see those perfect right angles all the way down to the bottom.
Especially when they're using a round-ended spade to do it
Load More Replies...Some of them are, but they don't dig obvious graves that anyone can find.
Load More Replies...Same with supernatural xD I get they've probably been doing it since a young age, but perfectly rectangular, quite deep, and only just breaking a sweat. Dudes are crazy. (IDK how long it takes them though... It just cuts to when their almost done)
Serial killers just standing there staring at you and giving you enough Time to escape.
Or running away IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FREAKING ROAD when a car is chasing you.
And its corollary, girls who run from killers/monsters/aliens, trip and fall, then sit there screaming while the xxx gets closer and closer... Nah, babe, I am outta here!
And the unnecessary (often long) monolog of explaining the reasons for all the murdering only to give the protagonist the time to escape or come up with a plan to beat the bad guy...
Yet you either don’t run, or you run into the stupidest places—-like an attic or basement you can’t escape from, instead the front door, back door, or bedroom windows the stalker isn’t anywhere near.
...and then not escaping! Even better is that the victim is always running while the killer walks and he gets them everytime
Or they pass by a perfectly good car, or they forget that they came in a car that they could get away in!
So - how are they presenting these as normal? They are presenting them within the TV world - where time is compressed, special effects happen, lines are memorized, there's special music with every scene. I KNOW all this isn't normal. Sure, we see these things in movies but I'm sure there's a reason for it (think about the extra challenges of creating a 'messy' room). Isn't it up to the viewer to know what's what?
Movies don't represent these as normal, movies are meant to be fantastical. Am I the only one who experiences books and movies without thinking that's going to by my life afterwards? And also - there are all different types of relationships out there. Sometimes the pushy guy does get the girl - because there are all different types of girls, guys, expectations, wants, desires, connections, etc.
School in movies just consumes about 10% of the day
Also how the schools are all stereotypically the same. You watch most teenage highschool etc movie and the schools and characters are almost all the same stereotypes. Yes there are many where they have developed the main character more, but still stereotyped never the less.
People who wake up and start making out. We all know you have dog shit breath first thing in the morning.
Umm, that happens mate, even when you have s****y breath. I know it is gross but it happends
Some of us are considerate and go take a pee and gargle with mouthwash/brush teeth first...😏
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Unless they are written to be stupid/ comic relief, people in movies talk with zero filler words. In real life very few people are able to do that.
There's a good reason for this: I'm trying to write a novel, and books on writing advice, in general (there are exceptions), strongly urge against putting in 'uhs' and 'umms' and 'ahs' and stutters for the sake of realism. The experts on writing dialogue for page and screen warn: readers and viewers of shows & flicks usually hate that, they mostly utterly hate reading or hearing the 'uhs' and 'umms', even though those do add realism. With fiction, readers and viewers don't want perfect realism. They want a fantasy. They want, as Hitchcock put it: 'Life with the boring parts taken out.' They also want many gross things to be taken out. In real life, Julia Roberts, Halle Berry, Brad Pitt and Tom Hanks all poop sometimes, probably 1-3 times a day like the rest of us. And their characters would have to too. But in general I don't want to see Forrest Gump or Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman pooping, nor blowing their nose, etc. etc. Different rules applied for The Human Centipede.
Just look at Luis from Ant-Man, I'm 100% sure the guy improvised all his lines :D
There's a reason for that. People get annoyed if speakers are throwing in an "Erm"s "like"s and "you know"s every 4 words.
Jeff ... EH ... Goldblum would ... eh ... would like ... LIKE ... to have a .. eh ... a word, ... a word with you...
Kids at a school dance are all up dancing. In real life they just stand in circles and talk (at least when I was a teenager that’s how it was)
Both things happened at all the awkward middle and high school dances and parties I was at. The cool guys danced w/ a bunch of pretty babes, there was also the 'loser wall' of people not dancing. It's pretty obvious where I was during the dances, right!? Right?....(sobbing now).
Or hide in the corner. School dances are always lame. People just stand around counting down the minutes until they can leave.
And the dance is being held in a giant music hall, impeccably decorated with a bunch of food and drink and professional musicians playing live. And just last week they were having a fund raiser to save the library.
Using guns in small rooms with no ear protection, without being affected by the very loud bang that would probably damage your hearing
There's an episode of Archer that nailed this one. It turns into a recurring thing for the first couple seasons.
The Walking Dead, the first episode, when Rick shoots a bullet in a zombie inside the tank, he suffers quite a bit. For a few seconds anyway.
YES THIS! Almost no movies gets this right. Guns are incredibly loud. Linda Hamilton damaged her hearing after she forgot to put in earplugs, during shooting of T2. (elevator-scene during the escape from Pescadero).
Imagine what a racket that would make in such an enclosed space! Wow!
Load More Replies..."I don't have time to explain, we need to go!"
Worse: The guy takes about 15 minutes to explain why they should have been out of there 20 minutes ago.
Just once I want someone to respond, "Explain it fast, or it's YOU, not WE need to go."
"we have ten seconds before this thing explodes!" "Yeah yeah, let me just read my last will and testament, my thank yous for the Oscar awards and ponder the weather over yonder, before I actually start moving, ok?"
Provided you also allow time for that standing ovation after you Oscar award speech...
Load More Replies...This is something I say on a daily and try to say it as urgently as possible to try and scare them
Most “knockout” drugs don’t work very fast. Chloroform is always depicted to be some “instant-knockout” drug when in reality it takes several minutes of constant exposure to knock someone unconscious. I’d guess a bad guy standing there for seven minutes waiting for the hero to pass out would probably make for a boring movie.
The alternative being the one punch knock out, especially with no training
If you punch someone unconscious especially by hit in the head, you most likely killed that person.
Load More Replies...yup, witnessed chloroform spill all over lab and we managed to leave safely and even open all windows :D
Also, knocking someone out with blow into the head does not make them unconscious for 2 hours, it usually bloody kills them. And if you knock someone out for more than 20 sec you likely damaged that person's brain. So dangerous, because kids might try that watching it on stupid movie.
Haven't read the whole list yet, but add to this the whole "choking someone to death" trope. Usually, what you see on screen is someone getting choked until they PASS OUT. To choke someone TO DEATH, you have to stand their, cutting off their air supply for at least a good 10-15 minutes. Very few movies show that.
I’d tell you, but then I’d have to drug you
Load More Replies...Having one or two drags of a cigarette and throwing it away, you know how expensive those [friggin] things are
Order a drink in a bar, take a tiny sip. Talk with other actor.. leave the bar
Guys kiss girls to shut them up
And never get slapped or yelled at for not letting her 👏finish 👏what 👏she 👏was 👏saying 👏for 👏f**k’s 👏sake!
Had an ex get mad at me for not doing that. One time got extremely upset because I was supposed to know that if she was crying for hours & rambling on I was supposed to throw her down & have my way with her. Like lol I've seen enough Law & Order to not do that...
Load More Replies...Reminds me of this story (idk if it actually happened or not) where a woman was jailed for this. Her and the man were on drugs or whatever and were kissing and she literally bit his tongue out.
Load More Replies...To be fair, I had this boyfriend who would do that sometimes when we were discussing about something and I'd win the argument (and would proceed to jokingly brag about how I was always right). He'd start kissing me to shush me, but it was done in a joking way and I had given him permission to use that method any time he wanted. It still makes me smile when I see a movie or tv show with a scene like that.
If you're lucky it might be a distraction tactic... but it would more likely end in a push or a slap.
Teenagers being built like [friggin] tanks
Well, yes, but this isn't the best example for a picture... I haven't watched Twilight in forever, but if this shot is from Twilight, he's a werewolf. He exercises and runs ALOT. And also... HE'S A WEREWOLF. xD But still agree with your point.
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Load More Replies...Maybe they spend their time in a Juvenile Correctional Centre and work out all day like the inmates in adult CCs
And having tattoos... In the US you have to be 18 to get them w/o parents signature... some of these adults playing 16/17 year olds have so many tattoos...
In the UK too... but there are unscrupulous tattooists.
Load More Replies...Little kids (6-7 yr olds) having the language and mannerisms of well behaved adults. No small kids are weird, gangly and goofy in movies.
And they think like adults too. It's complicated logical reasoning that even some adults have problems with, but the kid figures it out within seconds.
I do find a lot of child characters are precocious... it doesn't help that some actors portraying them are much older in real life.
In the movie "The Sound of Music," the 7 kids, including the littlest one, all have perfect singing voices and memorize something they have never heard of before, and are perfect for the nanny even though all the nannies before her quit despite the excellent pay from a family that lives in a mansion and could afford 3 nannies for each kid.
Snarky, smart little tiny children who talk with referencing old movies and tv shows and generally sound like 80 year old with great sense of humor and perfect memory. That's not cute, that's super creepy!
Right? I have yet to be taught a value-able life lesson by someone who's just mastered the toilet.
Silencers make a pfffft sound. Silencers are still pretty loud. If you shoot one it wont go unnoticed.
Silencers are also legal in the US if you go through the long and tedious licensing process... But back to the original subject: The best silencers can dampen the sound of a gunshot by maybe 30 decibels. When you're talking about something that would be around 110 decibels unsuppressed, it's still going to be as loud as a person shouting. There are some gunshots that are quieter (low power, low velocity ammunition fired from a long enough barrel), but one as quiet as what is depicted in film is extremely unlikely.
Funny thing, they are quite easy to obtain for hunters in some parts of Germany. A court ruled them to be occupational safety measures.
Load More Replies...And bullets don’t sound like mosquitos. There’s a very loud crack sound as they break the sound barrier.
Agreed. It muffles sound, doesn't remove it. And it's louder than that silly "piff!" that sounds like, forgive me, someone popping open a can of beer more than using a silencer. I have interesting friends. Let's leave it at that...
Someone goes up to a bar and asks for alcohol or beer and the bartender gives it to them without asking the brand or type.
If you don't specify a brand of liquor (for which you will be charged extra) all drinks are made from the "well" of cheap, high markup liquor the bar buys in bulk. A "vodka on the rocks" is likely Heaven Hill - and nobody with a functional brain would ever order "Heaven Hill on the rocks".
This is quite usual in a lot of bars. You order a beer, you get the main beer of the bar. Easy.
Depends on the type of establishment... house wines and liquors are quite common and for mixing purposes make little difference.
Haven't seen that many movies where someone asks for "alcohol" in a bar, tho.. :p
A crash or chase happens with shooting and stuff and every other car continues to drive as if nothing is going on around them. People slam on the brakes in real life cause a cop is going the opposite direction on the highway, yet you watch a Marvel movie and a dudes tailgating a van Cpt America and Ultron are actively fighting on.
Batman and the horrendouz traffic jam. You make it, I will watch it
Load More Replies...I like how Cap tries to choke ultron. Why? He’s a soldier from the 1940’s(42 I believe was when us got into WWII) so he wouldn’t know what a robot was, he’s never seen one.
That scene up there looks like it was totally ripped off from "The Matrix: Reloaded."
People surviving wounds/injuries that should be fatal.
Last Action Hero did a good send-up of this and several other tropes.
Just a flesh wound *is bleeding from 37 stab wounds in the torso and a shotgun blast to the head*
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People can survive the most horrible injuries tho. Like dozens of gunshot wounds or stab wounds. It's all about that luck
you could easily argue the opposite also. People dropping stone dead 1/10 of a second after being shot in the chest.
In a boxing movie, the hero always wins by dramatic KO in the later rounds having lost every round up until that point and taking a severe beating. In reality, the fight would have been stopped in his opponent's favor several rounds previously.
Or the team steadily loses in the first half of the game, the coach gives them a short pep talk or has an angry insulting outburst in the locker room, and they suddenly go back out on the field to come from way behind and win in the second half by a load of points!
I think the secret ingredient that they don't show, and I can't stress it enough, is cocaine
Load More Replies...A small misunderstanding, not resolved by explaining, goes on to create an entire chain of wacky hijinix. Usually initiated by ‘wait, I can explain!’
Always having your hair look nice.
Wow, Jennifer Aniston has really been bulking up lately....(sorry, i wear contacts)
When the girl is walking on the street holding her books and bumped into an attractive man ,who helps her collecting her books from the floor,then they look at each other and fall in love.
It happened to me once but we didnt fall in love because he was buzy picking up my papers at the same time speaking on his ear phone. I even did the touch thing.
In reality I'd be freaking out cause my books are on the ground. How hard is it to look while walking!?
It always bugged me when on a show kids would be getting ready for school and it'd be sunny out. Maybe I just had an early start time, but it was always still dark out when I was up and getting ready for school.
I think this is a SE Asia thing? 7am here is still very dark whereas other parts of the world (say, Japan) the sun is already quite bright by then.
Well, I have to get up at 4:45 to start getting ready for the bus to come (high school) and I can assure you it is not sunny. Though, I do get to see a nice sunrise.
In the UK, school starts around 8.45 so kids would be getting ready in daylight for well over half the school year.
Nobody charging their dang phones when they go to bed! Bonus points for characters who are waiting for an important phone call - where in the hell do they get these phones with super-mega-battery life?!
Charging your phone all night will kill the battery twice as fast.
Text conversations with people you hypothetically talk to constantly (family, boss/coworkers/S.O.) and it’s always the very first text in a conversation
My phone (about 2 years old) only takes an hour to charge from 0 to 100% so no way I'd charge it at night. It's such a waste of electricity doing that. And i have it on super saver battery mode (dark colour, kills background apps) so only needs charging 2-3 times a week.
Taking one bite and you are done haha
Or tossing salad in the bowl for like entire 10 min conversation. Just eat already!
Yeah, thats dumb. Also, buying expensive drinks, and having one tiny sip.
Imagine all the petitions there would be saying leftovers have to be offered to homeless people
TV news is always important to the plot.
And people are turning on the TV on the right channel, at the precise time to see the news and then just turn off the TV after few sentences even if the news is not over!!
Yeah, especially after someone yelled "TURN ON THE TV"
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Wait, not everyone is able to do a dance they have never learned at the same time as everyone else? 😂
With Ken Berry, wasn't it? I saw it a few months back.
Load More Replies...Every computer in a movie or show constantly chirps/beeps/speaks when used. That would be really damn annoying in real life.
Every new piece of equipment I have purchased sounds like R2D2; my oven, my air purifiers are just a couple of examples!
I had a microwave that kept beeping even after I opened the door. Drove me crazy.
Load More Replies...I'd also add that it's super rare to see they use the mouse for anything. When it's a computer and you need to get information from it, you start hitting like 100 keyboard buttons per minute and magically it works. I couldn't ever wrap my head around what kind of interface they must use that needs this kind of communication. Normally you click on google, type in like three words, and the rest you manage with clicks and mouse wheel, no?
No one ever says "bye" on the phone.. All carried luggage is light af No one needs a haircut. Ever.
And people never rince their mouth after vomiting...drive me crazy!
All channels always having either news or old movies.
True. But the fact that the news is always relevant to the topic at hand as well..
Load More Replies...They randomly turn on the TV and instantly there's breaking news about the topic of the movie.
Or when being watched by an adult who's not supposed to be the brightest bulb in the room.
Load More Replies...If some monumental fight or event happens that threatens a relationship or marriage, one literal 5 minute talk the next day takes the relationship completely back to normal. What the [hell] is that
Real life: Three sessions of couples counseling minimum, and a re-read of Marriage for Dummies, and muttering under your breath for a week about that (fill in blank) you married. ...
I think the secret ingredient that they don't show, and I can't stress it enough, is MDMA
The talk would last longer than five minutes, but you can resolve a major relationship problem with open communication.
Two people having a conversation, and a third person joins the conversion completely up to speed on what is being talked about, even though they weren't even in the room 2 seconds ago.
Just showing up at someone’s front door unannounced
Everyone showing up at someone's front door unannounced is evil. Serial killers, robbers, Jehova witnesses.
Even more surprising, someone actually opens the door—-even to complete strangers.
Especially little old ladies. Come in and have some freshly baked cookies, dear.
Load More Replies...That's a thing in some cultures, hey. Friends dropping by for tea. XD
In action movies where the main character kills like 100 bad guys
Well, this is rather a stereotype than something that cannot happen in real life. Just think of finnish sniper Simo Häyhä, who has over 500 confirmed kills...
"The White Death" was a sniper, not a single man surrounded by 500 soldiers, standing 50 m away :-)
Load More Replies...Or they're in a 'can't miss' situation and evade a barrage of bullets... surely not everyone (hero or villain) can be a sh*tty shot?!?
Hot Shots Part Duex did an excellent send-up of this: "Bloodiest movie ever!"
Also everone is shooting at main character, but the moment the bad guy has a gun at a distance where he can't miss he either gets close enough to be hit (point of a gun is that you don't have to get within reach), has to delay a certain kill by telling the target to get down on his knees, or suddenly decides to bring him to the main bad guy rather than just shooting him even though he's been firing to kill him for much of the movie.
Not making mistakes when talking
They studied their lines before they start talking. Also a good advice for politicians.
Except when Chandler said Donald Trump wanted his blue blazer black
No red traffic lights, unless it's part of the plot.
Right, as they said, part of the plot. That was funny
Load More Replies...Speeding down a city street, no red lights, no other cars in the way (if there are you just pass them easy-peasy, even on the wrong side of the road), no pedestrians, and no cops either. Oh, and perfect brakes.
Things going according to plan
Unless it's planned that they shouldn't go according to plan because there's an even better plan B.
I find the opposite is true. The heroes make a plan and it never turns out even remotely like what they intend.
If everything goes according to plan, especially in a military op, something is wrong
No one ever has to parallel park downtown. There's always a free couple of spots they can drive right into, right in front of the building they need to visit.
And no Karen around telling them that they can't park there because of reasons.
I would LOVE to see that. Two main characters are sitting in the car in a random street and talking to each other. A random Karen appears in the background, gets clearer with every step she takes, slamming a hand on the car's roof and yells in full "this is my street and you can't park here. I'll call the cops on you, 'cause it's my duty as a patriot!"-mode.
Load More Replies...Answering your phone when you don’t recognize the number
I always do. I don't have the number of every person/business/specialist I come in contact with.
Then let them leave a voicemail the first time, after which you can save their number with their name in your contacts. Boom! No longer an unknown number!
Load More Replies...Like Phone: Random number Character: oh, I bet it's Linda with those strawberry's even tho it's not her phone number
Women giving birth in about 2 minutes and screaming their heads off the entire time. Then the “newborn“ looks about 6 months old.
Women always being portrayed as screaming full stop. Pretty sure that not every women's reaction to something scary or gory is going to be full on screaming for several seconds or more.
Load More Replies...My personal favorite is movies acting like bad guy minions never know each other. A good guy goes down, the music changes and there is a moment of sadness and another good guy saying, "Rest easy, my brother. For I will avenge you." But when a bad guy goes down the other bad guys couldn't care less. To add insult to injury they step all over the downed dude to continue chasing the good guy. Even bad guys have friends.
Or the one I hate the most. many good guy team mates die and they win the battle and celebrate. but if the god guy dying had some screen time, time for a funeral, some speeches and a 10 gun salute."We won the fight but lost a brother." Damn you you lost like hundred.
Load More Replies...Also, when a character looks something up in a book, they always open it in the middle and voila! - here is the inormaiton they were looking for. Sometimes it's several books lying around, all opened in the middle.
In movies a day lasts about 78 hours. How else do they find the time to exercise, shower, get ready, commute to work, work for at least 10 -12 hrs, go out for dinner, then for drinks, meet someone and go for a long walk, then go home and get a snack and talk with your friend about the person you just met, watch a movie (and still look fresh and well-rested). Totally relatable! :'D
...and still have some time to kill someone and go find some place in the woods to dig a hole and bury them before going to bed.
Load More Replies...Hitting someone on the head to “knock them out”, with no ill effects (they eventually “wake up”, and it’s always later). In real life, it takes a pretty severe blow to the brain and a massive concussion to cause unconsciousness. And if the person isn’t waking up after a few seconds it typically means permanent brain damage or death.
My favorite is the egoism and narcissism of the bad guys...especially when it comes to the main villain. He could kill the good guy in a single quick shot or throw him off the rock or whatever, but no...the bad guy needs to reveal every damn secret, tell his family and work history, give a presentation on how superb he is and what looser is the good guy and all of that just gives the good guy enough time to summon his powers and beat the bad guy before the end credits start :-)
That was spoofed in one of the Austin Powers movies, where the villain's son is getting impatient and says something like "Just kill him already!".
Load More Replies...One of my favorites is when lawyers walk into a police interrogation room and say "This interview is over." First of all, when did anyone call this lawyer? Secondly, that's not how police interviews end. Another of my favorites is people pulling the IV out of their arm and leaving the hospital like that's normal.
I did that when i was confused and unwell in hospital: lol u can't just pull out an iv without bleeding on everything I discovered!
Load More Replies...when a soldier announce he's gotta be a dad or getting married… we all know he'll die
Trapped in a dark dungeon, mine, etc. Lights a candle, match, or lighter and the place lights up like Vegas.
The characters: "Oh, it's so dark, I can't see anything." Me: "Umm, guys, I can see everything, y'all blind?"
Load More Replies...Women giving birth in about 2 minutes and screaming their heads off the entire time. Then the “newborn“ looks about 6 months old.
Women always being portrayed as screaming full stop. Pretty sure that not every women's reaction to something scary or gory is going to be full on screaming for several seconds or more.
Load More Replies...My personal favorite is movies acting like bad guy minions never know each other. A good guy goes down, the music changes and there is a moment of sadness and another good guy saying, "Rest easy, my brother. For I will avenge you." But when a bad guy goes down the other bad guys couldn't care less. To add insult to injury they step all over the downed dude to continue chasing the good guy. Even bad guys have friends.
Or the one I hate the most. many good guy team mates die and they win the battle and celebrate. but if the god guy dying had some screen time, time for a funeral, some speeches and a 10 gun salute."We won the fight but lost a brother." Damn you you lost like hundred.
Load More Replies...Also, when a character looks something up in a book, they always open it in the middle and voila! - here is the inormaiton they were looking for. Sometimes it's several books lying around, all opened in the middle.
In movies a day lasts about 78 hours. How else do they find the time to exercise, shower, get ready, commute to work, work for at least 10 -12 hrs, go out for dinner, then for drinks, meet someone and go for a long walk, then go home and get a snack and talk with your friend about the person you just met, watch a movie (and still look fresh and well-rested). Totally relatable! :'D
...and still have some time to kill someone and go find some place in the woods to dig a hole and bury them before going to bed.
Load More Replies...Hitting someone on the head to “knock them out”, with no ill effects (they eventually “wake up”, and it’s always later). In real life, it takes a pretty severe blow to the brain and a massive concussion to cause unconsciousness. And if the person isn’t waking up after a few seconds it typically means permanent brain damage or death.
My favorite is the egoism and narcissism of the bad guys...especially when it comes to the main villain. He could kill the good guy in a single quick shot or throw him off the rock or whatever, but no...the bad guy needs to reveal every damn secret, tell his family and work history, give a presentation on how superb he is and what looser is the good guy and all of that just gives the good guy enough time to summon his powers and beat the bad guy before the end credits start :-)
That was spoofed in one of the Austin Powers movies, where the villain's son is getting impatient and says something like "Just kill him already!".
Load More Replies...One of my favorites is when lawyers walk into a police interrogation room and say "This interview is over." First of all, when did anyone call this lawyer? Secondly, that's not how police interviews end. Another of my favorites is people pulling the IV out of their arm and leaving the hospital like that's normal.
I did that when i was confused and unwell in hospital: lol u can't just pull out an iv without bleeding on everything I discovered!
Load More Replies...when a soldier announce he's gotta be a dad or getting married… we all know he'll die
Trapped in a dark dungeon, mine, etc. Lights a candle, match, or lighter and the place lights up like Vegas.
The characters: "Oh, it's so dark, I can't see anything." Me: "Umm, guys, I can see everything, y'all blind?"
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