People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights
Don't get me wrong, movies don't have to depict reality if they don't want to. After all, we often watch them to escape it. The problem is that sometimes Hollywood intentionally tries to accurately portray the world but have no clue what they're talking about. I'm talking good guys jumping behind some furniture and the bad guys unloading hundreds of rounds into people without any going through. Or people ordering food at a restaurant and leaving before getting their meals.
In an attempt to figure out which of these cliches are the most overused, reddit user UK-NeilPatel posted a question on the platform, asking "What is something unrealistic that you often see in movies that annoys the hell out of you?" In less than two weeks, they received over 10,000 upvotes and 8,000 comments, many of which are legit. Continue scrolling and check out the best ones!
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Women in fight scenes with their hair down. Girl, tie it back I know you can't see s**t.
In case you hadn't noticed, Black Widow is not wearing high heels.
Load More Replies...And skin-tight clothing that let's you do martial arts without ripping every seam.
This is the one that always bugs me. I can't work at my computer without tying my hair back. I couldn't imagine doing my martial arts without my hair in a bun. If you look at UFC, those women often have their hair in corn rows so their hair definitely doesn't come loose.
I say the same thing when I see men with long hair playing sports. Every woman is wearing theirs back but you need to show off.
Not only is their hair down, but it never gets mussed, no matter how vigorous the fight, nor how many rolls, flips or somersaults they do.
Not only can't see sh*t, but the bad guy(s) can grab a handful of that mob and snap your pretty neck.
However, if we were to take this to the extreme, we would get camp film -- movies doing something ridiculous and over-the-top whilst being executed sincerely -- something that has been implemented in films for quite some time. Experts say this technique is central to the genre of trash film; arguably the "worst" genre of film that exists. In the best kind of way.
Fight scenes with multiple attackers. They're all so polite, waiting for their friends to get their ass kicked before engaging. In reality you get jumped by everyone at the same time.
Enemies line up in order of difficulty: glass jawed brawlers first, weapon welders who fall down at one scratch next, followed by a named henchman who's actually tougher.
That's what happened at my high school. This guy took on a group of people and they kicked his ass. He was knocked unconscious and was the only person who got in trouble because he was the only person still on the scene when the principal arrived.
that's a real thing when it comes to the big difference of abilities - the more skilful fighter usually is more responsive, vigilant and agile and can take advantage of the unsynchronized approach.
Not necessarily. In real life only about 4 people at a time can get to you or they get in each other's way.
Martial Arts have Forms where you train to take on multiple attackers
Pu-LEEZ ! They are maintaining social distancing to avoid spreading C-19...
I've never seen a realistic fight scene in film. Not one. I'm not sure it's possible.
Camp movies challenge binary "good vs. bad" thinking because they are both good and bad. They reject the principles of cinema, ultimately allowing the audience to both laugh along with the movie and at it.
So I guess just because a film reads as bad, doesn’t necessarily mean it isn't good. The Room might be labeled as the worst film ever made, but arguably one of the most enjoyable ones, too. It brings audiences so much joy and pleasure through its unrealistic "realism." What do you think?
Post apocalyptic women with clean shaven underarms.
Radioactive fallout. Your teeth fallout, your nails fallout and your hairs fallout
And looks like arm pit hair is first to fall out. So we always get the part where they still got the rest
Load More Replies...No no, the apocalypse made those hair follicles shrivel up.
Load More Replies...And legs , full make up and sometimes heels. And everybody has white teeth.
And no word about the clean shaven opponent she just kicked in the face.
I remember a dialogue in an italian post apocalyptic movie, she says that even in a radioactive wasteland she was still a lady, while she was shaving her legs.
some people have "difficulties" growing hair in some body areas. One friend of mine has no belly hair from waist to chest noir back.
Or men without beards - same for Tarzan- why wouldn’t he have facial hair and chest hair?
Can you hack this super secure server?' *ten seconds of hitting random letter keys on the keyboard* 'I'm in.
That's nothing Bollywood movies they can do it in Excel and MS Word..
Load More Replies...This annoys me a lot. Literally no one in the movies uses a mouse, they just hit the keyboard like if there was no tomorrow.
There isn't much need for a mouse in command-line interfaces. Even in a GUI I still use keyboard shortcuts as much as the mouse because they are more precise and faster.
Load More Replies...The cliché “computer sound effects” are equally annoying. Whose laptop beeps and boops every 3 seconds?
And if they can't do it on their own, there's always that buddy that starts typing on the same keyboard.....
actually, people must understand that usually hacking could be - 1.trying random guesses until you either get it right or get it glitched (it depends on what you are trying to achieve - both overloading and some random getting thru is possible); 2.taking advantage of some already known glitches/bugs/unmanageable errors; 3.trying to overcome the system with script encryption - both manual and automated (although, both usually requires massive resources and/or genius mind); 4. and the last but not least is physical hacking wich combines simple advantage of having the upper hand and being able to turn off, shorten some circuits and similar not mention combine that with one or some of the options above. Anyway, I agree - most of the "hacking" scenes in films are bullshit.
Good guy jumps behind some furniture and the bad guys unloads 1000 rounds into it and none of them go through. What the f**k is that couch made of!?
Also, bad guys shoot 1000 rounds and they all miss, yet the good guy shoots just one and kills at least three
Plus that each standard sized clip/mag can contain over a hundred bullets.
Load More Replies...My "favorite" is no one EVER runs out of bullets, that they shoot a hundred bullets out of a gun that holds, at most, 19 bullets.
And no one seems to have any trigger discipline, blowing through ammo. Me, I'd fire off one shot here and there and let them use all theirs up.
Mom has prepared a feast that could feed half the neighborhood, but it's only for her two small children and her husband, who is already late for work and takes a single piece of toast on his way out the door.
While the kids can't even eat anything because the schoolbus has already arrived.
For some reason this annoys me so much. Also people meeting at a restaurant, ordering their drinks and food, and then "Ok let's go!" before their order has even arrived.
And she isnt mad about the mess that was made and that nobody ate anything and all that wasted food.
It's just me and my partner, and we can both cook well, and this NEVER happens.
I always hope that is fake food because to think that movies and tv would use real food that no one is going to eat when there are people in this country and other countries going hungry every day just pisses me off.
Pre-covid days (may be different now) the cast and or drew would eat the food usually. I can't speak for every movie, but it seems common practice.
Load More Replies...For once I want one of the kids to come downstairs and be like "Wtf is all this?!"
Cop looking at blurry CCTV image
Cop: “Can you clean up the image?”
Nerd: “Sure, computer enhance sector theta 6”
crystal clear image appears on screen
Cop: “Oh my god”
nerd: "sure" *grabs cloth and spits on screen* *crystal clear image appears* Cop: Oh my god
Which is weird bc every ID channel show that depicts camera footage is extremely grainy. Yet people buy ring cameras for their front door, a lot cheaper than the security cameras business’s have, and its crystal clear
The first time I noticed this was during the Great East Japan Earthquake (2011), I couldn't believe how crystal clear and high-def the security camera footage from the earthquake and tsunami were. There was one particular shot of the water moving across a parking lot from a camera that must have been on top of a radio tower or something and it looked too good to even be real, like it was part of a movie. Meanwhile in the US: "Cops are looking for this man:(indistinct gray blob)"
Load More Replies...tbh it is possible for the public for a few months now with late Nvidia hardware because of their AI researches. And most possibly it will come to AMD as open-source magic for anyone with any hardware.
zoom in on that screwhead, can you enhance the licenceplate in its reflection? what is the type of paint on it? Is that a fingerprint on the back? we got-em
There are actually ways to enhance images using algorithm corrections, and if its a video, image stacking. Its the same technology NASA uses to get their impressive shots of the cosmos. It is now common in forensics too. It will produce some improvement, but you cant expect a grainy picture to become crystal clear
Or in the case of Blade Runner, make the photo look round a corner
Nvidia: Hold my beer https://news.developer.nvidia.com/researchers-at-videogorillas-use-ai-to-remaster-archived-content-to-4k-resolution-and-above/
A part-time waitress or administrative assistant sure as s**t isn't affording a beautiful two-bedroom apartment alone in any major city. Or you get the family where only the father works at an okay 9–5 but is somehow able to afford a $1.5 million house in California and raise four kids on a single income. I want to live in that world.
It is all part of promoting the (usually) American image they just forget to tell you about the mountain of debt that goes with it.
Of course it doesn't have anything to do with being entertainment and looking better on a screen than a slum.
Load More Replies...And was sharing an apartment with her friend who inherited her grandmother's rent-controlled apartment. Still doesn't explain Chandler and Joey though.
Load More Replies...To be fair, in Friends, Monica was subletting the apartment from her aunt (or was it great aunt?) who had been there since the forties or fifties. If it was a rent-controlled building—-and NYC rent control started in 1947—-that rent was dirt cheap. Friends took place in the nineties, so imagine paying a rent amount, on a Greenwich Village 2 BR apartment with a balcony, from fifty years before that! (Even now, paying nineties rent would be a bargain.)
Just because its rent controlled doesn't mean that it's inexpensive.
Load More Replies...I think the worst example of this I've ever seen is Lois Lane's downtown penthouse in Superman: The Movie. Unless news columnists make more money than I'm aware
I LOVED that apartment. I lusted after it. But I knew it was completely unrealistic. That adorable terrace...sigh.
Load More Replies...In the case of Rachel and Monica in Friends, they make it clear that they're illegally subletting Monica's grandma's apartment at the protected rate meant for the Grandma. That's why Chander's high paying job was required for the the apartment across the hall.
Yes, I was gonna say that. Also, even then, Chandler's apartment was way smaller and more realistic for his and Joey's earnings.
Load More Replies...When I was a kid a family of four could live on the wages of a labourer. Now both parents need full-time work, if not more than full-time.
She was living in Monica Gellar's grandmother's rent-controlled apartment.
Women giving birth to giant, four month old babies.
Legally the minimum age is 15 days, so pretty young. It’s possible to use a combination of two week old babies and realistic looking dolls depending on the scene.
Load More Replies...But to be fair to this one....you don't want to actually bring a newborn on set.
They handled this pretty well on "Call the midwife"
Load More Replies...They are also like. "Honey, it's coming. AAAHHHHHH!!!" I'm pretty sure that's not how it goes xD
Seriously. No labor, no labor, no labor suddenly LABOR! Waters break. Child comes. It never takes 18 hours in movie world.
Load More Replies...They used to hire micro-premature babies for this: their birth age is 4 months so its legal but their developmental age is 1 week. Really good for the babies, NOT
First time mothers and the first sign of labour is their waters breaking. This is very, *very* unusual, particularly with first pregnancies. Usually the waters break a long time into the labour, and for very good reason, the waters provide mobility for the baby to move. As if this isn't bad enough, the they have the character not notice a ton of fluid falling out of their vaginas. Makes me crazy. It's getting so old.
This one I'll give a pass. Kids younger than 3 months don't have to be on tv.
Well, the largest newborn ever recorded weighed 10.7 kg, born to Anna Haining Bates in 1879. Unfortunately, the boy died at birth
In fires nobody dies of smoke inhalation. They’ll be in there for ages, merrily chatting away, coughing, miraculous escape (lifting a burning beam out the way maybe), they get outside and are fine! Maybe a smudge of soot on the face and a cough then on their merry way.
forgot to include how they walk out with their hair done up and a fresh manicure too
or how they walk out like no big deal and carbon monoxide and dioxide is a hoax
Load More Replies...In this particular instance it's not like there's a lot of smoke, if any, so...
The vast majority of fire deaths are from smoke inhalation. Its why running into a burning building is always a bad idea. In an enclosed area the fire sucks up all the oxygen and displaces it with toxic carbon monoxide. You dont even have to be in the same room as the blaze to suddenly collapse from the condition. Fire fighters have an oxygen supply, not to mention other protective gear. Thats why they can enter
In an actual fire, there would be too much smoke to see anything going on. To see anything on film, it has to be this way. This is not real, being real would spoil the movie. Roll with it. LLAP
And the building collapses the very second they leeave it. They dont even move a muscle
I had trouble with a father who's only 12 years older than his son.
Going to Latin America. quick, put the yellow filter!.
And taking a photo in Cape Town, pretending it's Latin America...with a yellow filter.
Yeah and cars in Latin America have Cape Town numberplates...intriguing.
...and everybody knows Latin America is all beaches and coconuts, no snow anywhere or skycrapers or big cities, right?
I'd like to think there are labeled filters for each country just waiting to be applied
Load More Replies...Also, North Africa and Middle East. Gee, I wonder if racism plays a part...
Gunfire indoors or inside cars and everyone can hear fine afterwards
Big explosions that throw people around but have no shrapnel
Windows that can be jumped through without shredding your skin
People traversing through air ducts
all i could think of while reading the last one was "did u see red vent or kill"
Outrunning an explosion, out-riding it, out-driving it, or even out-flying it. Typical detonation velocity is usually faster than the speed of sound.
Or people jumping from one rooftop to another, not missing or breaking some part of their anatomy.
Have movie producers ever seen the inside of a large diameter air duct? Even in rather clean environments, there's a good layer of grossness in there.
And all I can remember is the Mythbusters going through an air duct. BANG! BANG! BOOOM! THUD!! BANG!!!
Just strolling through a perfectly dry, clean, HUGE sewer.
Load More Replies...A: "I have something important to tell you. It's about the Jones case." B: "What's up? What'd you find?" A: "Can't talk now. Meet me tomorrow at 9." B: "A! Tell me what's going on!" A: "No, not now. Tomorrow at 9." A is found murdered the next morning, B is haunted by conversation. Sets off on worldwide mission to solve the murder and uncover the cover-up.
Just a couple of hints or key words would be more helpful and would take less time to say. Not to mention texting.
A whole lot of stories would be about ten minutes long if the characters communicated in a rational fashion.
Load More Replies..."I can't tell you over the phone. They're listening." Ok, so now they know you called me. They know you're trying to tell me something. They know that I know that you know that they know...etc. Why not just find me (we obviously know each other) and slip me the information?
The old "I have something to tell you, can you meet me tomorrow at 1?".When they could just as easily have told them on the phone straight away.
Argh. This drives me CRAZY. Or "I can't talk on the phone. We have to meet in person." Arrive at meeting and the person is dead.
LOOK AT THE ROAD WHEN YOU DRIVE! Even if you speak with your passenger, you do not look at him for 5s !
Nice of OP to change the picture after I wrote my comment. Before it was 2 fast, 2 furious...
Load More Replies...Oh my gosh, YES! This! I thought I was the only one who noticed this and was bothered by it!
I thought ur pfp was a hair on my screen. :>
Load More Replies...I want to upvote this a LOT-----what a bad example to encourage folks to think it is normal.
Why, when the passenger is watching the road, It's America, You are safe.
“I’ve got a plan”
“Great. What is it?”
“No time. Just trust me.”
Actually, this shocks me in real life - people just doing what they are told because the person telling sounds authoritarian. In fact, a lot of history would be better if a few people had asked what the plan was before following the guy in front. Just a thought.
I had an 8 AM class once and since I went to breakfast as soon as the cafeteria was open I finished early and went on to class. If I was sitting outside the classroom the door was locked, if people didn't see me they knew the door was unlocked. (I never missed a class in 4 years, btw). One morning I made sure the door was unlocked and then sat outside, just to see what everyone would do. No one checked the door. No one caught on that I'd tricked then. Highly amusing. =)
Load More Replies...And they suddenly have psychic powers, and can read each other’s mind. In all the confusion. Even if one of them has zero experience in dangerous situations.
Most people aren't going to just somebody's word that they have a plan without knowing what it is.
Doctors doing everything in medical settings. Scanning the patient, setting up IV’s, interpreting brain MRI’s. Nurses who? Radiographers what?
And using defibrillators when the patient's heart stops, that's just not done
Defibrillators are the movie method to reboot the patient after an unexpected shutdown...
Load More Replies...In movies and on TV you see doctors wheeling patients to procedures....bwahaha!
I always thought this was hilarious but so true... "House was a weird show. Patients would be rushed to the hospital with unexplained fevers and heart problems. House would come in and be like: “Did you check his asshole for toothpicks?” And the staff would be like “Damn, you’re right!”
As an x-ray tech, THANK YOU! Doctors sure as s**t ain't in there moving their intubated patients to get them chest x-rays!
On TV and in movies, you see doctors wheeling patients to procedures....bwahahaha!
Interns and residents actually do those things, especially in an emergency setting.
Psst, look up Dr Mike on youtube, watch the ones where he comments on medical shows
People can talk and hear each other in clubs or loud bars without any issues.
Or without everyone around them hearing what they’re saying/yelling—-in confidence—-to the person they’re talking to.
And not ONE NYC or LA bar with a band or an open mic night going...!
I've always thought that about school dances, you can't hear anything in those.)
Women waking up in bed with a full face of makeup. I'm talking winged eyeliner and fuchsia lipstick. I seriously want to know who makes those decisions in the makeup department smh.
When I wake up, I look like a normal human waking up: Sleepy eyes, messy hair.
Years ago, I had a friend who put on fresh makeup before going to bed. She was a nice person, but seriously vain!
Watching the Golden Girls is a hoot b/c they always are so fully made up at all hours of the day or night.
Punching four people in the face and not feeling anything. I've been in a fight and won. Even then it hurts like hell. No one 'wins' in a fight, they just get injured the least.
Or making kicks like they learned during their taekwondo-lessons. You don't try to kick people using these kind of tricks. You need to be balanced, or you will get your ass handed to you.
In a fist fight or mugging the participants fight clean. In a real situation there would be biting, gouging of eyes, grabbing and twisting of the (male) genitals , hinting the opponent's head with anything harmful that came to hand etc to incapacitate the attacker. The Marquis of Queensberry Rules are for Boxing Rings only.
This. Every fight I've been in I always felt like I was run over by a bus the next day.
In "Enough", J-Lo puts on gloves and large rings and wraps them in fabric to protect her hands while beating her hyper-abusive ex husband's ass.
The scientist is an expert in multiple fields of study. Don’t get me wrong, most PhD scientists I know have a solid foundation in chem/physics/bio, but it’s not super common to find a person who has a PhD-level of understanding in all of those fields. I hate it in movies when the ecologist somehow develops a vaccine, or the meteorologist manages to predict an earthquake . Like, a PhD is so narrow in scope. A biologist who studies fish probably can’t answer s**t about snakes... let alone create a vaccine for a novel virus.
Also many times they are super young, super sexy people who aren't even aware of their sexiness
Well, not until they take off their glasses and reveal how gorgeous they are 😣
Load More Replies......yet, in real life, some PhD's is on a pedestal thinking they know everything, degrading people with an actual lifetime worth of experience and knowledge accrued from actual work, actually knowing a thing or two, just because they "didn't go to school". I have seen so many PhD's that really has no clue, and could not get things to work if shown a step by step picture manual...
I was arguing with someone online who was pretending to be more educated than she was. She eventually tried shutting me down with the assertion that she had “two higher educations and a PhD in science.” 😂😂😂 Spoken by someone who has no idea how any of that works.
Keep in mind that some people have qualifications in multiple fields. I have studied with an MD with a masters in psychology and a maths degree.
College professor here. Pet peeves about how college is depicted:
- Every class is in a medieval European-style amphitheater classroom
- Professors are all living in giant 6,000 sq ft houses, even if they teach literature or sociology
- Professors only address students by their last names, and all students call professors "sir"
- Students or professors strolling down the quad with a leather courier bag worth a month's pay, for some reason always eating an apple
- NO F**KING TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOMS
Well, when I was in college, I did have a professor who addressed every student as "sir" - it felt weird.
THe professor was the one addressing every student (including the girls?) by "sir"?
Load More Replies...I graduated Alice Lloyd College in 2008, a small, liberal-arts college in Appalachia. We really didn't have all that much technology in the classrooms until 2006 or 07. Most of the students were very respectful of their male and female professors.
One of my professors always addressed us as "Mr." or "Miss" and last name. We called him "Professor S." or "Doctor S." Only later on near the end of our undergraduate stint did we get to be called by our first names, and we could call him by his.
I recall having several classes in those amphitheater-like classrooms. Most were in very old buildings designed before overhead projection was a thing, so every student had to be able to see the chalkboard clearly. In modern buildings, One was a zoology 101 class with 600 people in it, and probably organic chemistry, also with 600 people in it.
Isn't that the norm on United States (except for the lack of technology of course)?
Someone being hit in the head, loses consciousness, and two minutes later getting up as if nothing happened.
Or the flashbacks of their old mentor saying "I believe in you"
Load More Replies...People often get right back up after a head hit, not realizing how damaging it was. Adrenaline is very powerful.
In Total Recall Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character gets kicked real hard in the balls. Where I would be out for a week, maybe after having ball repair surgery, Arnold is back up, and ready to continue the fight, in about four seconds.
Yeah, but everyone knows Ah-nold's a robot, right? :)
Load More Replies...the next person gets beat in the head 3 times and nothing happens at all, they keep fighting.
Big breakfasts that no one eats because the characters are in a hurry and running out the door. Me personally, I'll be late to whatever for some pancakes/waffles.
Or they eat them all in a hurry and not choke and the mom in the movie is like "Why so fast sweetie?"
Or the fact that they act like people have that much time in the morning before school & work. I wait for the weekends to cook an actual breakfast because it can take an hour+.
Filmmakers like to show lots of food but think it's too boring to show people actually eating it. Hate that.
Darn skippy! If someone ever made ME a breakfast for once, I'd be like "sorry boss, car broke down! I'll be there as soon as I finish my break... er as soon as the mechanic gets here!"
Lava does not let you melt slowly into it. Even at close proximity the heat is enough to evaporate the liquids in your body and make you explode... They tested it by throwing dead pigs into a volcano, the corpses just bounce and skitter until the liquids are gone and the meat has burned up.
Plus, it's too dense for you to sink into it. Molten or not, it's still rock, dammit! You would just lie on the surface and burn
Well, he's not human, so maybe that's why he melted? On the other hand, I can picture him bouncing on the lava, still holding the Precious.
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Clean houses where there are 3 to 4 chaotic children.
I haven't had a fully clean and tidy house since having kids. My youngest is 26 and she left home seven years ago, and the place is still a mess.
that's one reason I liked 'The Middle' their house was always cluttered.
And you never actually see anyone cleaning those houses! A dressed and made up mom toting a laundry basket into which she throws a few random toys does not count.
My mom managed it. 4 boys and the house was clean always. God help one of us who messed it up. .... our bedrooms were not so tidy.
10 trained soldiers with automatic weapons, a couple of snipers and a helicopter gunship are all shooting at the fleeing heroes.
The only thing they manage to hit is the ground just behind their feet.
It's the gravity of the heroe's massive balls warping spacetime and diverting the bullets
and pistols are always better and more accurate than semi-automatic rifles
Stop waving that empty cup around, it's supposed to have hot coffee it in.
Put some water in it, or if you are worried about spills, fill it halfway with elmer's glue.
It needs to have some weight, especially when you set it down
...just like carrying suitcases. Grab a big suitcase, you're leaving your boyfriend. Throw angrily random things in it, don't you dare to fold them. Take the suitcase with one hand, wave it around it's light like a feather. Get out, slam the door after yourself, take a deep sigh of releaf and call a cab. Perfect.
Everyone only fills half a cup, and everyone takes their coffee black. You know it's tea when the tag and string are hanging out of the cup.
THIS! My BIGGEST pet peeve using empty coffee containers. You put it down it sounds empty, you wave it around while talking your supposed to get liquid all over you and it's HOT so no cozy for it while your running your lines to the other character? One thing I admire about directors like Ryan Murphy is he, most of the time, pays attention to details like that! AHS Murder House they were always pouring hot cups of tea. I liked that little detail allot!
Massive pet peeve. Prop department likely does this so they don't have to fill cups with liquid (may also be issue of liquids sloshing around and making noise for sound dept), but I think there's an easy solution: simply weight the insides down with something to give them some heft. This wouldn't solve the problem of actors holding (presumably full) coffee cups at crazy angles that would spill any coffee inside, but it would be better than, "Here, I bought you a cup of air!" And sometimes they make a hollow thunk when they're set down on a table, which also doesn't help things, lol.
...or flat purses. At least stuff it with some newspaper. We carry our whole lives in there.
Oh yes. One of my favorite pet peeves. If they are so good at acting at least ACT as if the cup is full.
Women in sex scenes always wearing matching bra and panties. And keeping the bra on the whole sesh
This is pretty normal. If you're planning to have sex with a new partner you're gonna choose matching underwear more often than not.
Well, I must be abnormal then. I have never even *owned* a matching bra & panty set, let alone made sure to be wearing them on a date.
Load More Replies...I use to have some matching sets but you know, a bra always last for months and year whereas panties... not so much
Has no one seen Bridgette Jones Diary? The granny panties scene is by far the real scenario. If they match he cancels last minute or he isn't at the place he has been every weeken for the years you have crushed on him...when you do get his attention, not matching, a wire missing and you rush shaved your legs if you even did.
Also how is every woman whose having unplanned sex have shaved legs and underarms? Not every woman religious shaves every day.
Women orgasming at the first sight of a pen15. like you failed on so many levels, bruh.
And of course you just look at him, kiss and ten seconds later you are at it. Foreplay? What is that? Everybody woke up horny.
Well, they keep the bra on because it gets a different rating if there are bare breasts
When people order food in a restaurant and then leave before it arrives. At least get it to go.
We all know there's nothing better then eating. Only sleeping :D
Load More Replies...There are circumstances where I can see myself doing that. I'm generally a nice guy but I can be a real major asshole, too.
The way Jack Nicholson talked to that waitress pretty much guaranteed that everyone at the table had their meals & drinks spit into.
People yanking their IV away from their arm. B**ch that will tear up you vein and f**k you up.
Physician here. Patients do that all the time. It bleeds for a while and ruins the beedsheets, but that's it. They're veins, not arteries.
I had to take out my own once. Woke up in the hospital with it all bent up, bloody arm. No working call button. Took it out carefully and it barely bled. It was probably no longer in the vein. Nurse finally checks on me and yells at me for doing it myself even though I had no way to call anyone. The reason I was stuck there overnight is b/c some idiot nurse didn't read my chart and gave me morphine in recovery which made me very sick and dehydrated. The upside is I did vomit on her shoes.
Load More Replies...Nah , not really... Done that several times, nothing happened but a little bleeding... I don't know what your IVs look like 😳
Investigator wakes up in a hospital after being unconscious for several days and his first question is if the bad guy managed to flee. Then immediately yanks their IV away and stands up as soon as he learns that bad things happened while he was in the hospital. It´s crazy how quickly someone´s organism can get well? :-)
Gee, it's only a little hole, not a huge cut. It bleeds, that's all that happens.
Load More Replies...I'd add, people waking up from comas and being back to normal or even "badass" in no time at all. "Kill Bill" is bad at this but "Hard to Kill" (Steven Seagal) is much worse.
My kid did wake up and pull out his IV. He was more upset about it being 8n there than the removal.
Person 1: Hey, did you hear about X? Person 2: No, what is it? Person 1: It’s all over the news, lemme show you. (Proceeds to turn on the TV while every news channel is playing EXACTLY what he was talking about)
That's how news channels work.. milk the news for all its worth..
Load More Replies...That's what it was like on 9/11. The trope doesn't seem that unrealistic. (I was asleep and my roommate basically woke me up and did that.)
Load More Replies...When people walk in the front door of a house or apartment and don’t close it behind them. Gets me irrationally pissed off every time
This may be cultural, but in at least 90% of homes I've visited (in the US), the owners don't take off their own shoes when coming in the house and they don't expect you to, either. When there's an exception, they'll usually ask you to do so as soon as you come in, since it's not a common thing — and you'll also be tipped off by a collection of shoes (not boots) near the door.
Load More Replies...Every grocery shopping bag is paper and has a loaf of French bread sticking out of it. Never a janky looking plastic bag filled with random canned goods.
In America, baguettes are only called baguettes in Louisiana and places historically French. Everywhere else they are called French bread, which distinguishes them from similarly shaped Italian bread.
Load More Replies...In the TV show version of "A Series of Unfortunate Events", they acknowledged/made fun of this trope on the first episode.
In labor and birth scenes, the woman is pissed off, the baby is clean, and they never delivery the placenta.
Think the labour scenes in Outlander are pretty good. Not that I’ve ever given birth but they seem more realistic and wait for the placenta too
Watch "Call the Midwife" on Netflix. Plenty of realistic birthin' goin' on
was gonna mention that...more realistic than anything and even though you don't really see the placenta being birthed at least it gets a mention and maybe a show if it's in the story line...
Load More Replies...Watch a few episodes of Call the midwife and you'll see why Hollywood doesn't do this
Really? Call the Midwife’s authenticity was interesting and refreshing, and was widely praised.
Load More Replies...Some shows do but you are right the majority once the babies out it's all done. No sewing an episiotomy. No placenta.
People walk around their houses fully made up, in outside clothes and shoes. Even if their character is not going anywhere or doing anything that involved leaving the house, they always look ready to go. Who wears skinny jeans to chill? Get some sweats or pyjamas, good lord.
Why does everyone have to be attractive? Why can’t ugly people be actors too?
That's why I prefer British TV shows over American ones. Most of the characters look like normal people, not 20-something supermodels.
Load More Replies...I hate wearing sweats when I'm not working out and pajamas when I'm not sleeping, so I have a hard time relating to this.
Thank you! I thought I was some kind of freak. I don't even *own* any sweat pants. Or pyjamas for that matter.
Load More Replies...Actually I do know people that are like this, not me. Hair and makeup, dress, etc. It's kind of old school. May not be as common as say back in the 70's but they are still out there.
not trying to troll, honestly wondering, when did pajamas start being spelled with a y?
Holy s**t, I was just telling my husband that my spell checker was just trying to correct "pyjamas" on me and I couldn't figure out why because it's always been spelled pyjamas in my world. (American, jsyk.) So I'm like the opposite of you. When did pyjamas start being spelled with an A?
Load More Replies...Gun silencers. There’s no such thing, it’s a muffler at best but you can’t mute the sound out
It’s not unrealistic, it’s a super quiet dart gun.
Load More Replies...The best is when they use pillows, which by the way, can't even muffle a scream adequately.
It drops the sound of the gunshot about 12 decibels though
Load More Replies...I've seen people target-shoot with suppressed weapons, it's weird that the sound of the bullet hitting the target actually masks the sound of the shot itself. Also, what's up with the super weird gunfire sound effects in old movies?
You have to have a muffler and subsonic ammo to be able to reduce the sound a bit. But nothing like in the movies.
Falling into ice water in winter, getting out soaking wet, not dying of hypothermia.
Not without dry clothes, shelter, immediate assistance!
Load More Replies...You’d be surprised what people can do when they get an adrenaline rush
Action movies where the good guy's car gets rammed or gets in bad wreck and it's still driveable and the airbag doesn't deploy.
How many times can you do high speed jumps in a car without tearing out your transmission?
You don't. Let me introduce you to the "General Lee" pile... https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/04/01/dukes-of-hazzard/
Load More Replies...Have you seen a demolition derby? You'd be surprised at how bad things look and are still "drivable"
That picture is from the original Gone in 60 Seconds. Didn't have airbags in 1973 Mustangs and the car is still drivable to this day.
Jumping into a cab and yelling, “Follow that car!”, and the cabbie just readily complies.
Money is money! If $10K comes over the back of the seat, I'd drive you to Argentina!
Load More Replies...I did it once. We where going out with a couple of colleagues and some of them where in an other taxi. So I went into our taxi and said to my colleagues: "This is probable going to be a once in a lifetime situation. Driver, follow that car!".
Load More Replies...A friend is a cab driver and I just asked him about this. He said "You will probably find that most cabbies will do it as it's going to be fun" When I said "How do you if it's the right car?" he replied "You don't! That's part of the fun! Most of the time if you follow the right car it's a happy coincidence!"
Hanging up without saying good bye or anything
yes but how to hang up anyway without having the "no, u hang up" conversation
It goes like this: "I'll talk to you later, bye!" "Bye!" *both hang up*
Load More Replies...Couples having romantic baths together. What’s more relaxing than stuffing two full sized adults in a tiny tub?
My wife and I did that once and I scraped half my ass off on the faucet.
I can barely get me into a tub I'm only 5'6" and our full size tub isn't big enough. If my hubby joined, someone wouldn't be wet and they would be cold.
One character has never fired a gun in their life, so the badass gives one shooting lesson. That character misses every shot until the badass tells them "You need to feel the path of the bullet...", and they get a single bullseye. Now that character is one-handing Desert Eagles and hitting targets 200 yards a way directly between the eyes from a spinning vehicle.
Ain’t no one gonna hit their target one handing a Desert Eagle, and no idiot is gonna aim for the head from 200 yards.
Load More Replies...or when they say, "ughh." *paces around for a second* "okay close your eyes. breathe in. focus on your target. breathe out. now shoot." and suddenly they're better than the teacher.
How everyone's password is a single word directly tied to something on their desk. No numbers or special characters either.
"His favorite writer is Tolkien... so the password obviously is Gandalf. There... We're in!"
The Protagonist always seems to get a reserved parking spot everywhere. Manhattan is just like the suburbs when it comes to parking spots.
(Unless it’s a gag in the plot) no one ever has to go to the bathroom. Like does Captain America ever take a poop?
Deadpool? I imagine that could be worked into the plot.
Load More Replies...Well, usually poop breaks are not really relevant to the plot... Most films to not take place in real time, so actually.you miss quite a lot of things also (e.g. boredom on an 16h international flight. You just see how they lift off and then land). I wouldn't count this as "unrealistic"
IT is not important in the movie. You do not go home and when your wife asks you about your day, you would not say I had a meeting, then lunch and at 2 pm I took a dump.
Ladies during that time and lactose intolerant individuals can chime in
Load More Replies...If you were to write an autobiography of your life, unless it involved a specific medical condition, would you include your bathroom bits?
Don't have to have it on the screen but people could at least excuse themselves
Load More Replies...CPR. I’ve never seen anything remotely close to good technique. Stresses me the hell out.
No, but in the close up scene with the guy doing compressions they could make that look real with a resusci-Annie.
Load More Replies...My personal favourite is CPR performed by Edward Cullen on Bella in one of the Twilight movies. It's a real gem!
I had an instructor who noted that, and told us to watch the wrong way CPR is given, so we can remember the *right* way.
You don't have unlimited ammo. Someone must've turned on sv_cheats and forgot to turn it off.
Well, unless there's some dramatic reason for the gun to run out of ammo.
Load More Replies...After sex scenes, women cover themselves with the sheets up to the neck while men are uncovered and wearing boxers. Or women getting out of bed and dragging a sheet covering their chest to walk around.
Well, what actress wants to do nude scenes for some stupid tv show or movie!
Yup, they aren't being paid enough to be nude so they take the sheet.
Load More Replies...People punching each other in the face like it's no big deal
Totally. Anyone who has actually been punched in the face can tell you... it's difficult to recover.
The way people break bottles on people's heads
Heroes don't notice the extreme head trauma. Extras just go unconscious, and don't die. Also, scalp wounds aren't bleeding like crazy!
And bottles do not break that easily. You'd likely crush their skull first.
Load More Replies...First time a chiropractor used that move I was sure I was going to die.
Women making minced meat out of waves of bad dudes twice their size. While wearing high heels.
As if all the other fight scenes are in any way realistic. Size is hardly the most important thing in fights, as any martial arts expert will tell you.
I'm still gonna bet fighting in high heels is a bit of a handicap though. At least take the shoes off and bludgeon the bad guy with them.
Load More Replies...It’s not the size of the dog in the fight that matters, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. I once had a maybe 100 lb roommate that sucker punched her 250 lb boyfriend nearly knocking out his teeth
Law student here: Every courtroom scene is a disaster.
The exception to this is My Cousin Vinny (1992, Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio). Lawyers everywhere point to this film as being the most accurate portrayal of courtroom proceedings ever made by Hollywood. It's a nice film, too.
Snapping peoples necks with a quick twisting motion at the jaw.
The best place to go is with a sharp object at the temple of the skull.
Base of the skull, in that little divot right below the ear at the corner of the jaw
Load More Replies...Scenes with AA meetings or where people "share stories". Everyone is a master storyteller and has a way with words. Writers forget that in real life, people tend to ramble.
"My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery."
Surviving explosions with nary a scratch.
I recently got a black eye , when I fainted and hit the floor - It took over two weeks to go!! I love it when protagonist has a couple of well placed scratches that disappear over a couple of days - if they drag it out.
Unless it’s an extremely flammable place such as a fireworks factory, the vast majority of fire sprinkler systems aren’t deluge.
I was just reading a novel that had the sprinklers go off and the water was stagnant grossness. I found it refreshing to read a more realistic version of sprinklers going off.
Load More Replies...When a militsry person says over and out. YOU NEVER SAY OVER AND OUT. They mean two completey different and contradictory things.
Over: transmission completed, waiting for a response/confirmation. Out: Transmission completed, call ended. Over and out: Transmission completed and call ended, but expecting a response.
My dad use to be a deputy sheriff. They did say over and out sometimes
Load More Replies...40 shots from a six shooter without reloading.
Or reloading once before the battle scene and not reloading ever regardless of the gun being used...except the opening scene in Deadpool where he counts the bullets he uses. Very funny!
Yeah this one is annoying. They shoot dozens of bullets, miss every shot, and suddenly the enemy is right there in front of you and boom out of bullets suddenly
John Wick flicks have realistic bullet counts with frequent reloading: really adds to the credibility of the shoot-outs.
Or in scenes with a shotgun where they'll just pump it over and over menacingly. Sometimes, a person can get shot with a shotgun, and be fine! It's a SHOTGUN! Even if it was a .410, it would still kill you!
There's a scene in The Icehouse were the bad guy gets a faceful of birdshot, how none of it hit his eyes is beyond me.
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Every kid in a movie has to be a genius for some reason. They cant just be a normal 10 year old. They also always own a rubiks cube.
I have 2 regular sized and one tiny one. Am I a super genius? Maybe... (not. Since I spelled 3 of these words wrong. Without spellcheck, your eyes would hurt.)
Load More Replies...There's always the smart kid but the background kids aren't
Ten trained soldiers with automatic weapons, a couple of snipers, and a helicopter gunship are all shooting at the fleeing heroes. The only thing they manage to hit is the ground just behind their feet.
When the "Hero" ploughs through the baddie's base killing hundreds of troopers and henchmen that probably had families and were brainwashed and manipulated by the ACTUAL PSYCHO MASTERMIND but when his sword is at the villains throat he stops and goes "But killing him will make me just as bad"
Have only noticed this in US shows but why does every single person leave their car windows down and the car UNLOCKED. Every. Dang. Time. It takes what two seconds to lock your car, and who leaves their car windows down constantly??
Modern cars lock when you can take a few steps away from them, but I get your point. This was always the thing in the movies.
Load More Replies...I always get shitty when characters fight or have a car chase or whatever and then next scene they are at home, not injured, no consequences, no police, no charges, blah blah blah. Like come on, police notice that stuff.
The most ridiculous things I've seen are : A. Beautiful young woman falls in love with alcoholic obese smelly private detective. B. 10 000 people telling a person not to enter that house. Person enters that house. C. Parent tells kid to stay inside because there's a zombie apocalypse / pedophile / serial murderer outside. Kid walks of to the playground. D. Politicians who can form coherent sentences without lying all the time.
That it's OK for the main guy to be morbidly obese and ugly but the main woman had to be like a freaking supermodel.
This is missing my favourite pet peeve: people who are "good at poker". For some reason, being good at poker always means having a straight flush, or generally better cards than the opponent's. As if this is something you could control...
Oh my absolute biggest peeve is when you watch a "soap" and there is this BIG secret that will destroy your marriage or life or whatever if it "gets out." And the two people who are involved stand there and discuss it EVERY SINGLE TIME they are together with the FREAKING DOOR AJAR, talking loud enough that they can hear you in the next country.
Or they are on the phone talking about the secret and without fail have their back towards the door where someone can stand and listen.
Load More Replies...People using inhalers the wrong way: stick one end in your mouth, two puffs, that's it. No breathing the medication as deep as you can into your lungs, no head tilted back, no waiting between two puffs. Irritating. See Le Chiffre in Casino Royal.
Bombs attached to countdown timers. Every bomb in Every. Single. Movie.
When the "Hero" ploughs through the baddie's base killing hundreds of troopers and henchmen that probably had families and were brainwashed and manipulated by the ACTUAL PSYCHO MASTERMIND but when his sword is at the villains throat he stops and goes "But killing him will make me just as bad"
Have only noticed this in US shows but why does every single person leave their car windows down and the car UNLOCKED. Every. Dang. Time. It takes what two seconds to lock your car, and who leaves their car windows down constantly??
Modern cars lock when you can take a few steps away from them, but I get your point. This was always the thing in the movies.
Load More Replies...I always get shitty when characters fight or have a car chase or whatever and then next scene they are at home, not injured, no consequences, no police, no charges, blah blah blah. Like come on, police notice that stuff.
The most ridiculous things I've seen are : A. Beautiful young woman falls in love with alcoholic obese smelly private detective. B. 10 000 people telling a person not to enter that house. Person enters that house. C. Parent tells kid to stay inside because there's a zombie apocalypse / pedophile / serial murderer outside. Kid walks of to the playground. D. Politicians who can form coherent sentences without lying all the time.
That it's OK for the main guy to be morbidly obese and ugly but the main woman had to be like a freaking supermodel.
This is missing my favourite pet peeve: people who are "good at poker". For some reason, being good at poker always means having a straight flush, or generally better cards than the opponent's. As if this is something you could control...
Oh my absolute biggest peeve is when you watch a "soap" and there is this BIG secret that will destroy your marriage or life or whatever if it "gets out." And the two people who are involved stand there and discuss it EVERY SINGLE TIME they are together with the FREAKING DOOR AJAR, talking loud enough that they can hear you in the next country.
Or they are on the phone talking about the secret and without fail have their back towards the door where someone can stand and listen.
Load More Replies...People using inhalers the wrong way: stick one end in your mouth, two puffs, that's it. No breathing the medication as deep as you can into your lungs, no head tilted back, no waiting between two puffs. Irritating. See Le Chiffre in Casino Royal.
Bombs attached to countdown timers. Every bomb in Every. Single. Movie.
