“Uh, It Doesn’t Work Like That”: 40 Unrealistic Movie Moments That Require Viewers To Suspend Their Disbelief

I was led to believe that during the apocalypse people would be looting TVs and killing each other. We get a pandemic and it’s all perfect distance queuing outside Asda with the exception of the odd Karen causing a kerfuffle trying to take too much loo roll and pasta. Hollywood lies.

They must own bidets. Nothing better than a shower fresh tushy. Bonus, toilet paper becomes nearly irrelevant.

Although I have realised that a lot of the illogical behaviour in disaster movies that I thought was unrealistic is actually very realistic.

Is this sarcasm? I feel like it's sarcasm after having lived through the craziness that was 2020.

And nobody complained that their rights were being violated when they were told to watch out for zombies.

This. At least "Call the Midwife" strives for the most accuracy possible with infants, but other shows are just... ridiculous. "Look, a thing that just came out of your body - it's not at all gooey, shriveled, and screaming! Instead you get a lovely 2-3 month old instead!"

Also, in the movies no woman ever seems to have labour all day long. No waves of pain with long breaks inbetween where you feel absolutely normal and have no pain at all. Instead they usually just go from "oh my water burst" to final stage of labour in a few seconds and then the baby is born already. Gave me an absolutely unrealistic picture of giving birth

Any baby younger than 6 months can only be on set for 2 hrs and limited to 20 minutes of actual 'acting' time.

Yeah theres all kinds of rules over using babies in movies , saw a post about it somewhere

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This also applies pretty much to any nativity display anywhere.

What I find most annoying isn't the getting in part but the immediately finding everything and knowing how to use the system part. Even if you work with a system every day, you have to search for things and most often, any company or government agency uses their own systems and if you don't know how to correctly use that system you'll search for hours until you find anything or get anything done. If you sat anyone in front of my computer from work, E Even if they were hackers or computer engineers, they wouldn't know what to do without spending at least a few days learning how our programs are set up and how to make them work or do anything.

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And everybody types perfectly not a single mistake, my mom is a typist and she says it doesn't matter how good a typist you are you still make mistakes.

Unfortunately portraying it "realistically" would make for some pretty dull viewing.

That picture can't be from a movie - the source code to the site he's hacking isn't projected onto his face.

On the other hand, how entertaining would it be to sit watch someone hacking in real time. Let them make a couple of movies like that and I'll be praying for some NCIS fairytale hacking.

They were patented five years before it sank... https://patents.google.com/patent/US842580

Dad here, who works at a testing facility for highway safety products. When I watched the movie Radio it showed the main character next to a guardrail. I couldn't help noticing that the part of it they showed hadn't been invented at the time the movie was set in.

I love this type of fact from experts in obscure areas of life!

Not sure how I have to "suspend belief" over an obscure industry-that-I-don't-work-in-sprecific detail that I would have never known.

Wouldn't that be a weld rather than a solder?

More how the bruises and such basically disappear by the next day

they fail to show the seriousness of a punch to the face

Thank you! Amateur boxer in my youth. No. You will not get hit in the head 10x and just shake it off. Also, the person that hit you in the head has broken hands.

When I was a police officer, I attended a voluntary class that included learning how to exit a moving vehicle, like the Secret Service does. My foot caught and I launched face first onto the cement. Even though I was in really good shape, I had many bruised ribs, shoulder pain, etc. I could barely get up by myself. I watch movies and tv shows where people get hit by a car and jump up and run away. Good luck with that!

Plus half the time they don't even bleed after being punched or kicked in the face.

all points taken, except...the Nakatomi building was brand new so "no dirt" is fine here

Let me tell you, from someone who actually was inside of such ... they will bend, they will open at their connection, they will release you to fall from the ceiling to the ground, likely neither prepared mentally nor phyiscally, and thereby may cause you to be heard, found, injured and ... we just did this because we had too much weed and time at school. We paid for what we broke, all's fine about that, but I'm not really planning any repeat of it. Doesn't work like in the movies, hehe...

This is what an actual air duct looks like Screenshot...968fb1.png

In fairness, wasn't the building in Die Hard brand new? And wouldn't its sheer size mean the air ducts are unusually large?

And they would know you were there with all the sneezing !

My oldest child was born movie style. I even RAN around the yard looking for Easter eggs a few hours before going into labor. I woke up several times in the night to use the bathroom, but didn't recognize them as contractions until my water broke... No pain, nausea or anything. My second child wasn't much different minus no water breaking.

My water broke and I had to be induced