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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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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Women in fight scenes with their hair down. Girl, tie it back I know you can't see s**t.

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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.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights 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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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?

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Post apocalyptic women with clean shaven underarms.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Radioactive fallout. Your teeth fallout, your nails fallout and your hairs fallout

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Can you hack this super secure server?' *ten seconds of hitting random letter keys on the keyboard* 'I'm in.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bonus: In movies you can hack stuff that isn't connected to a network :D

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights 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!?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, bad guys shoot 1000 rounds and they all miss, yet the good guy shoots just one and kills at least three

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights 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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While the kids can't even eat anything because the schoolbus has already arrived.

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#7

People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights 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”

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

nerd: "sure" *grabs cloth and spits on screen* *crystal clear image appears* Cop: Oh my god

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights 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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Women giving birth to giant, four month old babies.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights 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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

forgot to include how they walk out with their hair done up and a fresh manicure too

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Going to Latin America. quick, put the yellow filter!.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And taking a photo in Cape Town, pretending it's Latin America...with a yellow filter.

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#12

People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights 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

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

all i could think of while reading the last one was "did u see red vent or kill"

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#13

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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just a couple of hints or key words would be more helpful and would take less time to say. Not to mention texting.

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#14

People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights LOOK AT THE ROAD WHEN YOU DRIVE! Even if you speak with your passenger, you do not look at him for 5s !

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights “I’ve got a plan”

“Great. What is it?”

“No time. Just trust me.”

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Doctors doing everything in medical settings. Scanning the patient, setting up IV’s, interpreting brain MRI’s. Nurses who? Radiographers what?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And using defibrillators when the patient's heart stops, that's just not done

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights People can talk and hear each other in clubs or loud bars without any issues.

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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.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights 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.

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Colin L
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*hero beats 4 people unconscious* How does your hand open? ! Skulls are hard!

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights 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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also many times they are super young, super sexy people who aren't even aware of their sexiness

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights 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

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, when I was in college, I did have a professor who addressed every student as "sir" - it felt weird.

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#22

People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Someone being hit in the head, loses consciousness, and two minutes later getting up as if nothing happened.

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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.

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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.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Clean houses where there are 3 to 4 chaotic children.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights 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.

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#27

People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights 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

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

...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.

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Women in sex scenes always wearing matching bra and panties. And keeping the bra on the whole sesh

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights When people order food in a restaurant and then leave before it arrives. At least get it to go.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights People yanking their IV away from their arm. B**ch that will tear up you vein and f**k you up.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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)

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#32

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

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#33

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.

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#34

In labor and birth scenes, the woman is pissed off, the baby is clean, and they never delivery the placenta.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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.

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Gun silencers. There’s no such thing, it’s a muffler at best but you can’t mute the sound out

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Falling into ice water in winter, getting out soaking wet, not dying of hypothermia.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights 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.

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Colin L
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How many times can you do high speed jumps in a car without tearing out your transmission?

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#39

Jumping into a cab and yelling, “Follow that car!”, and the cabbie just readily complies.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Eh in my town the cabbie probably would comply too. Money is money.

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Hanging up without saying good bye or anything

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yes but how to hang up anyway without having the "no, u hang up" conversation

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#41

Couples having romantic baths together. What’s more relaxing than stuffing two full sized adults in a tiny tub?

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#42

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.

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#43

How everyone's password is a single word directly tied to something on their desk. No numbers or special characters either.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"His favorite writer is Tolkien... so the password obviously is Gandalf. There... We're in!"

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#44

The Protagonist always seems to get a reserved parking spot everywhere. Manhattan is just like the suburbs when it comes to parking spots.

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David K
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, I can understand this one. People don´t want to see a scene of 15 minutes of desperate looking for the parking lot :-)

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights (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?

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#46

CPR. I’ve never seen anything remotely close to good technique. Stresses me the hell out.

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#47

You don't have unlimited ammo.

Someone must've turned on sv_cheats and forgot to turn it off.

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#48

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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, what actress wants to do nude scenes for some stupid tv show or movie!

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#49

Non billionairs renting a huge appartment in a big city such as New York or San Francisco

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Friends explained this through rent control. Monica's aunt was on the lease.

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People punching each other in the face like it's no big deal

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Totally. Anyone who has actually been punched in the face can tell you... it's difficult to recover.

#51

The way people break bottles on people's heads

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Heroes don't notice the extreme head trauma. Extras just go unconscious, and don't die. Also, scalp wounds aren't bleeding like crazy!

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#52

Women making minced meat out of waves of bad dudes twice their size.

While wearing high heels.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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#53

Law student here: Every courtroom scene is a disaster.

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#54

Snapping peoples necks with a quick twisting motion at the jaw.

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#55

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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

necessary to story telling...some things have to be done to keep the flow of the story...reality is to messy...unless you can make an 8 hours movie

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#56

Surviving explosions with nary a scratch.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

#57

Unless it’s an extremely flammable place such as a fireworks factory, the vast majority of fire sprinkler systems aren’t deluge.

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#58

When a militsry person says over and out. YOU NEVER SAY OVER AND OUT. They mean two completey different and contradictory things.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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#59

40 shots from a six shooter without reloading.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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!

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#60

People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights 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.

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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.

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