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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here’s 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations
To expect realistic movies from Hollywood would be a constant disappointment. But some of the clichés we see on screen are so bad, they shatter the suspension of disbelief, reminding us that we're watching something made up.
Reddit user u/Nest_Egg decided to find out what things in movies infuriate people the most, so they asked: "What is something that happens in every movie, but never happens in real life?"
From Skype streams with 1080p and 120fps to 5 bad guys attacking the hero one at a time, here are hilariously true and oddly specific answers that others have responded with.
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#1
if a girl is arguing with you in real life and you kiss her to shut her up she will most likely not appreciate it
Serial pacifist 4 years ago (edited)
Also, a genocidal napalm-farting, bloodsucking villain face to face with the humanity-loving protective protagonist: "You and me, we are the same..."
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#2
When the mother of the house has spent four hours making breakfast for the whole family with like 3832523 ingredients that cover the entire kitchen table and the dad or son or whatever walks by, grabs an apple and says they don't have time to eat because they're late for work. I'm pretty sure that person could be legally murdered in real life
Mike Loux 4 years ago
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot! Yep - comedy from the 90's. Simultaneously entertaining and cringe-worthy (it was kind of bad).
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Miss Cris 4 years ago
And they do it every day! Nobody learns anything at those homes?
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Joanne Hudson 4 years ago
If no one asked her to fix a 5 course breakfast, its tough for her. Next time ask. Also, if she lives there and can tell time, she should be able to figure out no one has time. Fix them a bacon-egg sandwich to go.
Bama Belle 4 years ago
The Gates. A vampire couple always had an enormous spread of food on their table. Enormous bowls and platters of food...for two...vampires. I couldn't help but wonder who would approve such set decorations.
Savannah Manis 4 years ago
Also, most of the time mothers don't get up really early to make a huge breakfast. My mom makes cereal or toaster waffles in the morning.
#3
Young professionals or college students living in HUUUGE, fully furnished apartments in the city
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
Also, people drop in all the time, unannounced, to find everyone perfectly dressed and made up, with an immaculate house and not at all busy with anything important. Only in cop dramas are people awakened by someone at the door. The rest of the dramatic world, we all get up, get completely made up, and sit idly, waiting for someone to come over.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Not just that they are big apartments but they’re usually quite nicely done and always have everything you need and fully decorated like a hotel. It’s so stupid.
Requiem 4 years ago
american apartments are nicer than any i seen in canada
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5 bad guys attacking the hero ONE-AT-A-TIME...
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
Nobody just shoots the dude. Everybody uses gadgets for close-up attacks, and once he beats the crap out of them and starts getting away guys with machine guns emerge and miss him with every bullet.
Monday 4 years ago
To be fair with the example picture shows...shooting Wolverine probably won't do you any good.
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denzoren 4 years ago
Oh look 20 henchmen...let's all attack him one at a time to make it a fair fight...it's not like we're evil. lol
Miss Cris 4 years ago
Do they also give a break each ten minutes? Because the not villain never gets tired.
Load More Replies... Otter 4 years ago
If that's the scene I think it is, it's actually an exception to the general trend. Most bad guys politely attack one at a time, but in this scene the other Ninjas shot Wolverine full of arrows while he was busy fighting the guys who attacked one at a time. Most movie antagonists don't have the sense to do that, they just wait their turn to get beat...
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Not every movie, some martial arts movies have 2, 3, or even 4 attacking at once, even Jackie Chan movies do this
Requiem 4 years ago
Because thats how they have trained for 100s of years
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Thomas Sweda 4 years ago
And not using guns, or arrows or sling shots, etc. from 20 feet away.
Iván Galarraga 4 years ago
It's because of this: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConservationOfNinjutsu
#5
Movies - “wtf was that!” Don’t bother turning lights on. Go look...
Real life - my wife hears something “wtf was that! Wake up! Go check!!!!!” Turns every single light on, locks the bedroom door behind me, has 911 ready to dial. Constantly yells for me to give an update. Allows me back in the door after triple confirming my identity, using the secret password.... oh that noise?
Dog farted.
Dina Simoné 4 years ago
That wife does not seem to care about the safety of her husband. I would follow my husband as a backup or not let him out of the bedroom.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
"What was that noise?".... we have two cats. It was a cat. If it was an intruder, he will be tripped by one or both cats. Roll over, back to sleep.
Not Proud British 4 years ago
Or wife cowering behind bedsheets whilst the husband goes down to investigate, armed with a pole/baseball/poker he just found lying around. Reality: husband stays asleep whilst I go downstairs fully prepared to use fists, teeth, nails on whatever I find down there.
Johnny 4 years ago
I don't turn the lights on when I first go look for the source of a suspicious noise since enough light comes in from the street lights that I can see just fine in the house, but if there really *is* someone or something in the house, it's not going to know its way around as well as I do.
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
In real life? Get further down in the covers for protection from axe wielding maniac
#6
When the girl that the main potagonist likes doesn't like him back, so the main potagonist bothers and stalks her for so long that she finally falls in love with him. In real life she would probably call the police.
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 4 years ago
Probably the most problematic movie plot for real life - stalking and ignoring a NO (mostly from a woman) is somehow romantic and not a totally creepy, respectless douche move
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Yes this "culture" needs to stop being promoted as something romantic! It's not!
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Robert T 4 years ago
A potagonist sounds like someone who can't decide whether to smoke weed or not.
Sky Render 4 years ago
I couldn't help but notice that Leonard and Penny in Big Bang Theory basically had this going. And the show's writers not only knew it, they made it a bragging point for Leonard that it worked. Not a good message for a target audience of already-socially-awkward young men...
Ozacoter 4 years ago
I love BBT for the nerd jokes but their misoginy makes me unable to rewatch it..
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Michelle M 4 years ago
Or kidnaps her and make her fall in love with him in weeks. That's the plot of 365 days
Johnny 4 years ago
Not a good example picture - there were no police to call, and the only way she could find anyone else to be with would be to wake them up and make them suffer the same fate as her. So sure, she may be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, but she doesn't really have many options. Besides, he saved the entire ship so if not for him, she and everyone on board would have died in their sleep so that probably made it easier to forgive him.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
I had to stop watching tis movie halfway through. Now I'm sick that they end up together. Urgghh
Load More Replies... Ozacoter 4 years ago
Right? The plot is horrible. And they could have easily made it nice (but i wont say how to not put spoilers
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Elisabeth Harris 4 years ago
She definitely would’ve conspired to kill Chris Pratt if what happened in the movie happened in real life.
Luke Oakridge 4 years ago
Then she would have been alone unless she did the same thing that he did.
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#7
USB stick goes in the right way
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Try. Fail. Try again the other way. Fail again. Try again the same way as you did first. Succeed.
Daria B 4 years ago
My "problem" with tech in the films is that computers make so much noise. There's a twinkly sound when the window opens, another twinkly sound for the download progress bar, one more for the download is complete. Not even Windows XP had THIS many sound effects. Anyway, I put "problem" in quotations because it doesn't actually bother me, I just find it a bit distracting because it's unnecessarily kitsch and unrealistic.
Robert T 4 years ago
Unless I'm half-asleep, mine do. You do know the USB symbol or logo normally faces upwards.
Monday 4 years ago
That doesn't account for sideways ports, or computer cases where not all the USB ports are oriented the same way.
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Alan Green 4 years ago
It's not hard but then i'm a nerd. The USB stick in the photo is the right way up. If it were the wrong way you'd see plastic in those 2 holes instead of space.
Andrew Newsome 4 years ago
People who are able to do that should be burned at the stake for witchcraft
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
I always put a dab of red nail polish on the top of the plug so I know which way to insert it.
#8
Lead actor sits down at bar: "Get me a beer."
Movie Bartender: *silently gets beer*
Real-life Bartender: "What? What kind of beer? We've got 20 beers on tap and an extensive bottle list. Do you want a menu or something?"
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Thor and Dr strange 's meeting was hilarious ^-^ and poor Loki "I've been falling for 30 minutes!"
King Joffrey 4 years ago
"A pint of lager", which is the UK equivalent of "Let me get a beer" has worked just fine for me... sometimes the barman asks what lager I want, most times they'll just pour me a pint without asking.
Requiem 4 years ago
Americans beer is piss. so they just say that. Canada if you ask for a mixed drink you have to specify if you want better quality rum or gin or rye
BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago
Speaking as a former PNW resident, I beg you to reconsider *some* of our beers. We've got some damn tasty microbrews. But if you're talking Coors, MGD, etc., yeah-- those drinks are rented, not bought.
Load More Replies... Vicky Z 4 years ago
This i understand cause probably you cannot say a brand cause of advertising! But can someone explain to me why they do the same with coffees??? Who enters a place and says one coffee please? What coffee? Black? Medium? Cold or hot? With milk or not? Honestly it would be more realistic to just add this little detail
brukernavn340 4 years ago (edited)
I you order "coffee", you'll get the regular filter coffee.
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Manuel Delgado 4 years ago
In most of my city's zillion bars, it is actually like in the movies.
VeryDarkMatter 4 years ago (edited)
ordering a drink/cocktail... talking to collegue who is sitting next to him, then stand up and leave .. not taking one single sip of the 20 dollar cocktail
YoyoSthlm 4 years ago
Well in Sweden you can actually order "a beer" and you get the cheapest one
Jyri Hakola 4 years ago
Same works perfectly fine also here in Finland. Usually there is the default beer in the tap what you get if you ask just "a beer" and if you want something else, then you need to be specifc.
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#9
Becoming popular after taking down your ponytail and removing your nerdy glasses.
Otter 4 years ago
Many of the nerdy women I know can dress up and look glam when they need to, and the next day they're back with the glasses, the pony tail, the comfy shoes and practical clothes. There's nothing life-changing about fancying yourself up, unless you want to spend time with the sort of idiots who are impressed by fancy clothes.
Hazel M 4 years ago
More the problem is the stereotype that nerdy/dressed down means you're smart but unattractive, whilst dressed up glam means you're attractive but dumb. Fortunately becoming less of a movie stereotype recently!
Load More Replies... BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I hate this probably more than anything on this list. Can is glasses wearers not be pretty with glasses on??
Jason Melvil 4 years ago
Of course, but the point of these movies is that they pick an extremely attractive person and give them terrible unfitting glasses. Glasses are no different than any fashion accessory. You can pick some that will be flattering and some that won't.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I changed my hair and got contact lenses. Strangely, I'm not all that or a princess.
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
I find glasses to be incredibly glamorous. I know for many they are a hassle (masks, swimming, winter), but I never met a man or a woman who did not look great wearing them. Rock your glasses! I mean, come on, people buy fake ones to imitate your allure and I shamefully admit I was one of them. I just wanted to look pretty.
#10
In movies with any kind of trial scene there's always a dramatic moment where one of the attorneys presents a witness or piece of evidence that completely changes the course of the trial. Something that neither the judge or opposing attorney knew about.
Like sorry buddy, but the discovery deadline was a month ago
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
Attorneys caring about their clients is one of the great fictional tales also.
Monique Reed 4 years ago
Not to mention the trial is always just days or weeks after the arrest. Empires can rise and fall, stars can be born and die while a case grinds its way through the system to courtroom. Also, the whole lawyers-solving-the-crime thing is kind of far-fetched.
PeachPossum 4 years ago
Just watched this one over the weekend... The Lincoln Lawyer, based on the book of the same name by Michael Connelly. Yes, that was a plot device, but it made a great twist in the end.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I love his books. Apart from maybe the lawyer stuff, I think he gets a lot correct about police investigations (or at least better than a lot of others do) because he was a crime reporter before a novelist. I also find his writing style so powerful- I was convinced there was a drug variant called black ice because his backstory to it was so in depth!
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Kate Jones 4 years ago (edited)
Attorneys being as good as movie lawyers are is also fake. Unless you're rich, you are getting a fairly shitty lawyer who is not going to fight that hard for you. They will likely try to plea you down in order to avoid going to court at all.
Bama Belle 4 years ago
I did see a courtroom testimony that seemed to seal the defendant's fate instantly. It was on that short-lived Law & Order spinoff of real, televised hearings. The crime: A man burst through the door of his ex-girlfriend's home. He stabbed her to death while she was holding their baby. Her mother witnessed the whole thing. The defense attorney was merciless. He browbeat the mother, yelled at her, twisted her words, tried to confuse her. English was her 2nd language and she struggled with her words & emotions. It was brutal. I was worried he was about to pull off a miracle for his evil client, until the medical examiner testified to the nature of the victim's wounds. He said the majority of her stab wounds were to her vagina...and vertical. He then made an upward stabbing motion. It was as if everyone in that room stiffened. Even the defense attorney was silent. Fate sealed.
Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
if we believed crime shows were realistic we'd all expect there to be a 100% solve rate. Funny how all these crimes seem to get solved every time; and in about 45 minutes.
#11
Whenever people play something back, be it a tape recorder, video recording, or whatever, they can always fast-forward or rewind to EXACTLY the point they want, with perfect accuracy.
Johnny 4 years ago
With many tape recorders, you can hear the high pitched whine of the high speed voices while you hold down the rewind button, so you absolutely can stop it where you want if you're paying attention. That's how us old folks used to skip to the next song on a cassette, hold down the fastforward button then let up when you hear the current song fade out. Some advanced players did that automatically, they would listen for the inter-song gap and stop at the next song.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
For those of us who still remember 8-tracks, cassettes, reel-to-reel: these scenes are hysterical.
Llama_flower93 4 years ago
I'll give this one a pass as no one wants to watch people rewind or fast forward too far and have to listen to useless dialogue, that's just sucking up precious film time.
The Frenchiest Fry 4 years ago
This and when someone turns on the tv it's always the right moment and the right channel
#12
A girl waking up with perfect hair and a face full of perfectly done makeup. I don't care how pretty of a girl you are you don't wake up with perfect hair.
Sapna Sarfare 4 years ago
Clearly, you haven't seen me early morning... I make the Clown from IT look like Ryan Reynolds.
Ksenia M 4 years ago
Weirdly I do sometimes wake up with perfect hair, it just somehow only happens on weekends when my only plans are cleaning the bathroom and finally hunting the strange smell in the fridge((
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I often wake up with perfect (or close enough to perfect that I don't do anything with it) hair IF I use a particular type of conditioner the night before and go to bed with my hair wet. You hit the nail on the head though, when it is the nicest I am not leaving the house at all that day.
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Vicky Z 4 years ago
Your hair become pink/blue/yellow during sleep? Awesome
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
And you don’t sleep in your makeup, unless you want to invite pimples to just pop out all over your face, plus make your pillowcase really dirty.
#13
No need for cleanup after sex.
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
Also, a superhero woman having sex with her long-deceased boyfriend revived by an ancient rock would be high on my list.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Not revived, hijacking another man's body. It's really rapey
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Ozacoter 4 years ago
Or doing it with a bra. Specially one of the wired ones that are so uncomfortable. Why?
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Carol Emory 4 years ago
Also that neither person looks like they've been run over by a dump truck after sex. Sorry...but as much physical activity that there is involved in hot sex, no one looks that good afterwards.
Tami 4 years ago
Good idea, especially when the wet spot always ends up on your side.
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#14
A bunch of students in their late twenties in high school
Otter 4 years ago
And the twenty-ish high school girls all wear high heels to class, have professionally styled hair, and perfectly applied makeup.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
They also break the dress code all the time.
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Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Riverdale is my favourite guilty pleasure trash show. it used to be so good, now it is just "WTF is this and why?" type of show.
Dre Mosley 4 years ago
That's most high school based shows, it seems. I remember one or two cast members of Beverly Hills 90210 being 30+
ERIKA H. 4 years ago
There is actually a practical reason for this - minors legally can only work 4 hour days. This makes production extremely long and expensive so it is easier to just hire adult actors
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Yeah, but easier is not usually better. I watched a lot of interviews with the cast and crew of 'The Wonder Years' and they used actual teens and made sure they followed every law and if it took more time, so be it. It definitely showed in the quality of the show in my opinion.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
They do the same for girls in college. Now, while that does completely apply to freshmen, once they hit their sophomore year, it’s sweatpants and hoodies—-or long pajama bottoms and hoodies—-no makeup, hair in a knot, and no shower for a couple days. I mean, f**k it. Too damn much effort to dress up for an 8am class, you know? Especially if you just got out of bed ten minutes ago. Hell, or the rest of the day either, right?
Pamda Panda 4 years ago
And all of the guys are ripped. Like, I know the actors are in their 20s, but it still feels creepy that high school "students" are so hypersexualized.
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
Let us not forget 'Glee" where a group of high school students, all professionally made up and impeccably dressed, who never study. can instantly jump into a song with all the appropriate backup musicians rehearsed and ready; with Hollywood level production values, and every prop they could ever need, instantly at their disposal.
John Dilligaf 4 years ago
well, TBF, they mostly do this to get around having to deal with the hassles of using underage actors
#15
It isn't romantic to keep pursuing someone after they've told you they aren't interested, it's toxic and creepy. No healthy person is out there saying no when they mean yes.
Sky Render 4 years ago
If someone does say no when they mean yes, they're very bad at communication and should stop being surprised when people believe them.
marianne eliza 4 years ago
If someone is playing that kind of game, you probably don't want the drama and trauma that comes with them in your life.
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#16
Phone call : "turn on the tv"
tv: "exactly the correct station at the beginning of the news story the person called about"
Sage Gusano 4 years ago
Turns on TV "Why am I watching a news story about a cat eating lettuce at 2AM" " No. The story before that one!!"
Andrea Briski 4 years ago
And it's somehow always the beginning of the news story so the person receiving the call gets the full story (even though it was on long enough for the caller to hear it and call someone to tell them to turn on the TV).
Isidien Gudmundsdottir 4 years ago
Don't try this at home because, as you're flipping for that news, all you get are long, boring commercials on each channel.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
This only works when there's an emergency broadcast across the board. Otherwise, we'll be all day trying figure this one out.
David Beaulieu 4 years ago
How many times in your life has the same thing been on every channel. Like every channel is on news and reporting the same story. I'm 47, and I can remember 2. 9/11 and the Challenger explosion.
David Dwyer 4 years ago
With my luck my TV would probably show something really innapropriate (You know what Im talking about for any number of reasons
#17
Guns with no recoil and not going deaf despite not wearing hearing protection when firing that M4 indoors singlehandedly and taking down every bad guy with one shot per guy and no reloading...
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Nonsense aside, Kingsman: The Secret Service is an incredible movie! The sequel as well. And a third one is coming out!
Monday 4 years ago
That church scene is still one of my all time favourite movie moments.
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Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
Maybe they all have crushes on Colin Firth, like any rational human being would...
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
Pistols don't have much recoil; glocks have next to none. Movie heroes are supposed to be too strong to be othered by recoil anyway. And if you take down a bad guy with one shot, why would you need to reload? This isn't the days of the Old West six-shooter anymore. A standard police-issue pistol fires 19 or 24 bullets.
Joe Chelena 4 years ago
Nothing new here. The cowboy movies of my youth the 6 shooter could fire from dawn to dusk without reloading.
Sage Gusano 4 years ago
Ammo weighs nothing and can be carried in a portable wormhole since you never see the number of mags needed for the rounds fired.
Michelle Line 4 years ago
Or the "hero" being shot at by someone with something like an AK47 - rapid-fire assault rifle - and not one of the dozens of bullets just shot hit the hero or good guy.
#18
People working minimum-wage/part-time jobs living in big apartments in the downtown areas of cities.
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
I didn’t get my own apartment until I was in my 40s, and this was well before the big tech boom made it too expensive for me to live in San Francisco.
Bart S 4 years ago
I'm in my 40's, have a fulltime job and i can't get a loan from the bank for an apartment because i'm not married and i don't have kids.
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Sapna Sarfare 4 years ago
In Mumbai, people with bigger salaries pay a bomb to live in something that resembles a home. If you live as a PG, the options include balconies and attics. Or stay in distant suburbs at lesser rates and then travel via local trains to office.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
With no explanation re rent-control, subsidized, perhaps a trust fund. Writers must think we all suck at basic math and budgeting.
Suzy the observer 4 years ago
I got my first appt. at 23, with no roommates. It was possible then but it was a studio with the kitchen sink in the bathroom.
#19
Car chases never encounter traffic jams.
Robert T 4 years ago
And the cars are always perfectly spaced so they can slalom between them.
marianne eliza 4 years ago (edited)
Of course they are spaced correctly. Do you want to see dozens of stunt persons injured? It is a movie you know.
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Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
And truck drivers just keep blithely driving along like there's nothing unusual about two superheroes fighting on the roof. I guess that line of work really does make you jaded.
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
Yeah they do... always on a bridge... but they can somehow get their cars up onto two wheels.
RoseAnne Hutchence 4 years ago
And the sound of skidding tires on asphalt when the chase scene is on a gravel road.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
If only people drove in real life like they do in the movies. Ahhh, just thinking about this makes me happy.
#20
Simultaneous orgasms every time.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
And 0 foreplay or lube. They kiss twice and the woman is ready for sex. Yeah... no.
BakuDeku Shipper 4 years ago
Don't forget the 0% aftercare. No cleanup, no showers, no cuddling in bed and asking the other person about their experience. They just collapse in each other's arms and fall asleep.
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Ellie Rosser 4 years ago
Yeah, with nothing but penetration going on at the time. Like guys, that is NOT how most females work most of the time.
Johnny 4 years ago
That was much easier to do when I was young. Now it's ladies first, gentlemen second. And sometimes ladies third.
Ben Moss 4 years ago
Lol and specially made blankets that always cover women’s chests but not men’s
François Carré 4 years ago
And the famous bedsheet that's specially designed to cover up the woman's chest but not the man's.
#21
A person going from drunk to sober in 5 minutes because they drank a cup of black coffee.
Amsterdude 4 years ago
People going for spontaneous drinks after driving the car to the bar, still driving back as if they are completely sober and nobody's bothered at all.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
For that matter, practically every scene where the drunk person is still awake, still can speak clearly and is not hurling every five seconds. And no one ever suggests taking them to the hospital. Just give them a cup of coffee and stick them in a holding cell.....
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Caffeine won’t make you sober. The alcohol has affected your brain, and took a bit of time getting there from your stomach, so its effect has to wear off first. Introducing a stimulant, also by ingesting it, isn’t going to instantly reverse that effect. Movies do the same for people with hangovers. Since the pain of a hangover is from dehydration, coffee actually isn’t a good idea, as it’s a diuretic. Water, or any other REhydrating liquid, is the best thing you can drink to alleviate the pain.
#22
Boarding a plane after the gate has closed. No, not even for true love!
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Yep the scene is from "Love, Actually" - one of those movies with various storylines happening in sync, and lots of celebs. Some of the storylines were quite good though (martin freeman's was quite funny, but often cut out of the movie)
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Johnny 4 years ago
Bad example, he's the prime minister, so it wouldn't be surprising if they held the plane for him and let him board late. I saw it happen once at an airport, they'd called last boarding, closed the doors, then some man walked up with a bodyguard (?), he chatted with the gate agent for a moment, she made a call, then the opened the doors. I don't know who he was, maybe a wealthy guy, maybe an airline executive.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Or, post-9/11, anyone running to the gate who doesn’t have a ticket.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Seriously? None of you have ever held up an entire plane filled with people trying to make their 2-minute connections? Yeah, me neither.
Lena Flising 4 years ago
Hugh Grant plays the Prime minister there. There's probably a bit of leeway for the PM...
#23
5 machine guns somehow missing the protagonist in the room
Otter 4 years ago
Or the protagonist hides behind a desk or a couch, that is miraculously made of bulletproof material.
J. F. 4 years ago
Same with cars - 5.56 mm catridges are powerfull enough to pierce doors and can go through the passenger compartment . Yet nobody ever gets hit hiding behind a car, no matter if it's the door or the engine block
Load More Replies... Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
There is however an explanation to why the rebels in Star Wars dodged "bullets" better: they didn't wear masks. It's far easier to kill something that looks like a robot (stormtrooper) than someone with a face.
Sapna Sarfare 4 years ago
Please do see some South Indian movies for such action. You will be laughing away
Dale Williams 4 years ago
It's known as plot Armour, if the character needs to survive, they either will not be hit by any bullets or the one wound will be to an area that is none fatal.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
There's a brief, throw away scene where a Storm Trooper is shooting off his blaster and missing the easy target because the worthless blasters didn't shoot straight. First time I saw a director explain all those errant shots hitting nothing. Yeah, when a director brings a gun into a scene it demands a huge stretch of disbelief.
Paul Marquis 4 years ago
Actually that's much truer than you think. Ive seen it demonstrated with 5 cardboard silhouette targets and two 30 round mags dumped full auto. Total hit count on cardboard? 1 shoulder and one miss.
#24
I've worked in a hospital as a nursing assistant and I can hardly stand to watch any medical related movies now. They always depict the doctors as being closely involved with patient care and doing everything the patient needs, such as handing out meds, conducting tests, etc. This simply doesn't happen in real life. While the doctors do make a care plan, there are hundreds of other professions in a hospital setting that carry out that plan. Nurses hand out meds and do wound care, NAs help patients with activities of daily living, a transport team takes patients to their tests where other nurses/techs actually conduct the tests. It's an intricate system that doesn't revolve solely around the physicians. Don't get me wrong, I have all the respect in the world for doctors and I plan on going to medical school, but movies do so many other jobs in healthcare an injustice by not depicting what they actually do.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I'm also in the medical field and even though i know it's fiction i cannot stand some things!! Waking up from a coma and being able to speak stand and walk??? Yeah right! Or even when they show therapy it lasts about one day and then you are fine! Or after car accidents when they announce you that you broke your spine but we will fix you and you'll be fine! Yeah good luck with that!
nick slinn 4 years ago
apologies if this seems petty or pedantic but someone using a ventolin inhaler in movies upside down and pressing it multiple times for one inhilation used to drive me crazy.
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
I think that every professional has noticed things in movies that are insane or that would get you killed or fired in an instant. Electricians groping wires without checking if it's safe and that sort of crap.
Bilja M 4 years ago
In Grey's anatomy nurses simply don't exist. Doctors do everything. And doctors all look like supermodels even after like 5 days non-stop shifts, still having extra energy to have sex in lockers during breaks. This has nothing to do with reality.
Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)
The fact that surgeons do pretty much everything in grey's anatomy it was really funny! They were almost everywhere, even more than inside a surgery room!! Lol
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Mazer 4 years ago
Nurses need more money and recognition. Thank you for your serving your community. I appreciate most of you (had a bad experience with one nut case nurse). IMHO most doctors in America are overpaid arrogant ego-maniacs, at least that has been my experience. Give me a nurse over a doctor in an emergency any day
tuzdayschild 4 years ago
Docs do not hand out meds. They do not push their patients to the lab or even walk with them. That is someone else's job and they leave it to them.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
If they do, be wary. One of my daughter's SURGEONS would always walk us to & from her tests. She was in a wheelchair, which he'd pushed & turned so fast she almost vomited. (I never let him "drive" again.) A few visits later: we're leaving his office (follow-up appt) when she tells me that when they were alone he asked for her help because he wants to date me. I didn't realize HOW INAPPROPRIATE this was at the time. Especially because she was only 12 years old. But it creeped me out enough that I said no and stopped going to him.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Have an MD, mom was a nurse, but Oh My Gawd. Real-life doctors? Show up for five minutes, scan a chart for three, take notes for 10 seconds (sometimes), and the other two minutes are confirming the patient is alive, and has insurance.
David Martin 4 years ago
My big issue with hospital scenes in movies is the patient needing to leave immediately for whatever reason, so they aggressively rip out their IVs and any other leads attached to them. Firstly, NO, that's going to hurt and bleed. Secondly, I suspect if you pull your heart monitor, SOMEBODY is going to rush in to check on the patient who just suddenly flatlined
Judy Steelman 4 years ago
Anyone who's ever been in a hos knows this true. My breast cancer surgeon was great and I understand why she isn't available but people I thanked were nurses housekeepers cooks servers and housekeepers. My doc came by to be sure I was ok to leave.
Don't Look 4 years ago
My dad has been on the verge of dying (bypasses and kidney disease) twice in two years. This last time, back around Easter, I was in the room with him when he got his daily "0700 checkup" which was his doctor - possibly his surgeon but I don't recall - spending the allotted 5 minutes with him before moving on to the next patient. The doctor had rounds of about 5 patients or so and two or three days a week performed a specific number of different surgeries.... well, sort of. I believe he was specialized in cardiology or geriatric cardiology--- either way, I got mad respect for the guy. But if he stayed more than 5 minutes it would hurt his care. He couldn't afford that.
#25
They don't make keyboard mistakes or have to backspace. Movie characters get it on the first shot, whether it's sending a text or hacking into the Pentagon.
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
They just keep on hitting the keyboard like in a monkey spelling experiment and then all of a sudden, "OK, we're in."
Llama_flower93 4 years ago
This! This bugs me. Why? Why not have a mouse??
Load More Replies... Jason Melvil 4 years ago
They also only type in the central area of the keyboard. They never use a mouse. They never press ALT\CTRL\SHIF\ESC\F-Keys.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
"What are you doing?" "I'm hacking that computer that will destroy the world in 4 seconds." "Let me help" 2 idiots start hammering on the same keyboard for 5 minutes to end the countdown at exactly 1 second left.
Johnny 4 years ago
One of the best developers I know types like the movie style hackers -- he types flawlessly and quickly, never looking down at the keyboard, he can look you in the eye and carry on a conversation while he's typing. For a while he had one of those keyboards with no letters on the keycaps so he keyboard was completely blank.
Sage Gusano 4 years ago
Fortress (or Fortress 2...for some reason I've seen both) with Christopher Lambert. Guy gets into the computer system and literally types "download virus" and a virus appears in the prison's computer system.
#26
Characters can hear every word of dialogue perfectly in a noisy environment.
Captain frantically whispering to the private - "I need you to charge that machine gun nest."
Private - "um actually I can't hear you I'm completely deaf from 3 hours of constant gunfire."
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
And teens having deep, meaningful conversations about the meaning of life, stock markets, goblins, etc.
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
And background club music suddenly gets real quiet, too.
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Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Heck, I can barely hear 1/2 the dialog between the background noise and the soundtrack that is always unnecessarily loud drowning everything out. Look, I know why you stuck the music in, but I'm here to watch a movie, otherwise I'd be listening to my playlist.
#27
Grocery bags in movies ALWAYS have unwrapped French bread and some green leaf lettuce sticking out of the top.
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 4 years ago
And they are never seen with toilet paper or sanitary pads, unless it is explicitly used in the plot to embarrass a character.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
And people who drop those paper grocery bags that you never see anymore always seem to have bought several oranges, which always go rolling down the sidewalk because they also live on an incline.
Lily Mae Kitty 4 years ago
that's b/c of product placement issues. you can't show brands without paying those brands large sums of money.
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Or the brands paying large sums for product placement.
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Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Speaking of food on the set: Why is the jug of milk always left out? I generally maintain an element of caution around dairy foods.
Casey Burns 4 years ago
LOL Yes! I'm like why are all of the groceries already unwrapped.... ? What excellent service!
Rissie 4 years ago
Well. If you buy bread (in paper, but sticking out) and fresh crops, there's no need for plastic or other packaging. Good old days of paper bags in the produce isle. It had to become plastic, then the bags had to go and all of a sudden we're packaging everything in the same plastic. Or at least that's what's my experience is here in the Netherlands.
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#28
People that are experts in their highly scientific field are not usually young and hot. It takes a long time to become so highly qualified for nuclear physics and that sort of thing. But no, in movies, it is always someone that looks to be in their mid 20s at the latest.
May 4 years ago
Well, you can get a ph.d and be an expert on one specific thing by mid to late 20s, but I agree that most experts with a broader expertise are on the older side
Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
Ph.D.s are like black belts in karate, yes you are now an expert, but it's really just the beginning of your journey and you are a newbie.
Load More Replies... Kari Panda 4 years ago (edited)
That and they are so overly knowledgable that it’s just ridiculous. Protagonist calls their history professor from university for help? Of course that man can read the local dialect of a dead language that was spoken only in two villages at the North Pole 5000 years ago.
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
It's not just that the scientists are all hot, but so are the office cleaners, the delivery kid, the people next door; the waiter. I wouldn't mind living in a world where everyone is gorgeous, but they wouldn't let me in.
Jason Melvil 4 years ago
It slightly bother me that you had to point out "hot". Why can't a scientist be "hot"? Young? Sure - you need experience like any top position in any field. But why do people automatically assume that people who are into science can't be attractive?
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Look around. Most people aren’t hot, just overall in any job. Most people look average. Like not shockingly ugly but not hot either. Humans as a whole.
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Miss Cris 4 years ago
Yes, but the best are older because they studied more, have more experience and are more well known. And an expert isn't a person who came to gain their pdh or getting out from university. Of course, all of these people can be very hot :)
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 4 years ago
I knew someone who was considered an expert in his field, and he was a doctoral student at the time going about the globe, hobnobbing with older members of his field. But, this is certainly rare.
Eric Forster 4 years ago
I know what you mean. I worked in the engineering field for several decades.
#29
People cough and it's always indicative of an incoming terminal illness. A phone rings and it's terrible/pertinent news.
In real life people cough because there's something tickling their throat or because they swallowed something funny. You answer a phone call and Liz is trying to sell you a cheap stay in Las Vegas even though you've told that c**t to f**k off more than three times in the last month.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
No no! You need to cough blood to get a terminal illness of course! And if you vomit or faint for sure you are pregnant!
YoyoSthlm 4 years ago
And doctors tell the patient the bad news over the phone. In real life they ask you to come to the office.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Not the stupid nurse who gave me a Cancer diagnosis over the phone, with no warning either 😱😭 It was pre-covid too, so there was no excuse for her behavior.
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Riley Quinn 4 years ago
This is so true. ALL terminal diseases start off with an annoying cough, kinda like an allergy. The part about the phone is almost true because the abundance of scam calls is terrible.
nick slinn 4 years ago
exactly. in real life its probably just cancer covid or yet another hairball.
#30
Jumping inches away from an explosion blast won’t do s**t.
J. F. 4 years ago
Despite that's it's impossible to outrun debris and shrapnell, the pressure wave alone could ripture the inner organs to a lethal point
Guido Pisano 4 years ago
heard several people that survive a close bomb blast being thrown away (during II WW)
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Johnny 4 years ago
The force from the blast declines roughly with the cube of the distance from the blast. So moving from 2 feet away to 4 feet away reduces the blast effects by 8X. Moving from 2 feet away to 16 feet away reduces it by 512X. So small increases in distance can have a big effect on survivability. Sure, moving a few inches won't help much, but ever little bit counts.
Sage Gusano 4 years ago
Walking away from an explosion in slow motion increases your survival rate unless you are the antagonist.
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah... it'll get you inches further away... and already moving in the right direction Not enough to make you safe from the flying shrapnel. And if you're more horizontal, you'll be less likely to get hit and probably more likely to get hit somewhere less life-threatening. Not a huge improvement... but a little.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Shooting off fireworks and the kid next to me drops his cherry bomb just as he's about to throw it. Went off right by my feet. I couldn't hear for the rest of the day, my exposed flesh was cut up with embedded sand, and I felt extremely woozy. So, yeah, I don't buy any of these scenes.
Danny Ruiz 4 years ago
Explosions always crack me up. If you notice, since the early days of movie explosions, there's always a tire iron hitting the ground close to you.
#31
NO ONE HAS BLACKOUT CURTAINS IN MOVIES. Why?? Everyone wakes up to bright sunlight and no curtains and beautifully clean bedrooms ... that is NOT reality!!!
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago (edited)
I know no one who has blackout curtains. I have Venetian blinds, and they keep the room dark, should I so wish.
Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)
Depends where you live!! I live in a very bright and sunny country! If you don't want to wake up at 6 then you get black out blinds or curtains
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Valisbourne Spiritforge 4 years ago
I have blackout curtains in 4 of the rooms of my house. Bedroom to help keep it dark and the other 3 to help keep the sun out during summer.
Got Myself 4 Dwarves 4 years ago
Our bedroom blind broke, I sent hubby off to IKEA for a like for like replacement, he comes home saying he's upgraded pattern one that looks nicer. And it does. But it's white and doesn't keep out a bit of sunlight. 2 minutes after sunrise I'm awake and cursing the day I didn't feel like going to IKEA
Neb 4 years ago
Have blackout curtains and separately sheer ones underneath in bedroom. Got recently decorative blackout curtains and sheer ones panels, and blackout curtains have stars cut into them for living room. While it stops heat, it also looks nice and gives some light (I don't need COMPLETE dark in living room).
#32
Huge catastrophe happens - everyone in the whole city is dead, except my whole family! How lucky I am!
Stephanie IV 4 years ago
Yeah! Hooray! The misery and anguish! All alone! Yippie!
Load More Replies... mamadeflorencia 4 years ago
This picture though is from a real story... but yes, you are right!
J. F. 4 years ago
And it's always one single scientist that predicts it, not like there are countless institutes that also research such stuff on earth
Johnny 4 years ago
Yeah, I don't understand the problem with this one -- of course the protagonist survived, it wouldn't be a very interesting movie if it focused on the guy who died in the first 5 minutes of the movie.
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Riley Quinn 4 years ago
This would be a horror film for me if everyone was dead except my family.
#33
The phone only rings to move the plot along. IRL my phone only rings due to scammers or bots calling from an Arlington, Va number.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
I would absolutely love a phone to ring in a movie, and it be a telemarketer! For some reason I could see that happening to deadpool
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
It should happen in the middle of a battle too.
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Serial pacifist 4 years ago
Also, no one ever says "Hello" or "Bye". They just hang up and it is like "all natural". Imagine how shitty a real person on the other side of the line would feel if you just hang up without saying anything
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I accidentally did that once and my dad called me back just to get me to say bye. I haven't forgotten since.
Load More Replies... Lily Mae Kitty 4 years ago (edited)
but they really want to talk to you about your extended warranty or consolidating your school loans.
tuzdayschild 4 years ago
This is an age thing. Most people over 45 get actual phone calls because they still talk on the phone.
Eric Forster 4 years ago
A dramatic scene with Liam Neeson, "No I'm sorry, I'm not interested in the purchase of a timeshare."
Janus Preez 4 years ago
And also, people dont say goodbey at the end of a call, they just hang up. How do they know the conversation is finished ?
nick slinn 4 years ago
if you don't let my daughter go I will find you and I will kill you. oops sorry mum busy I'll call you back.
#34
People waiting their turn to talk.
Imagine a realistic drama where one character confronts the person who wronged them, and about 2 sentences into their big, inspiring, mic-drop moment, the other person cuts them off with "Go f***k yourself, a**hole".
I mean, I've had my share of arguments. Not many people sit patiently through several paragraphs of well thought out reasons why they're wrong.
BasedWang 4 years ago
but every speech in Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, Mallrats, Dogma and most of Clerks 2 were perfect
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I've never seen anyone apprehend criminals while causing millions and millions in damage to the city.
Mike Crow 4 years ago
They actually addressed this a couple times in the Marvel movies. I think Stark had a relief foundation that would go in and clean up basically.
Sean Harrison 4 years ago
It was the Department of Damage Control. They made an appearance in Spiderman: Homecoming after the attack on New York. There was supposed to be a TV series for them, but it was cancelled.
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
The police chase that leaves a lot of damage behind it—-and NONE of the cops stop to process those scenes, even if there was an accident with potentially injured people!
Rebecca Trinkner 4 years ago
LOL, true. I like how they kind of make that a point in The Incredibles movies.
Daria B 4 years ago
Actually, yes. In Marvel and DC, they do address casualties, sometimes.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Oh, then you're not familiar with how many law enforcement departments operate.
Theoretical Empiricist 4 years ago
Marvel used to have a comic book called "Damage Control" which addressed this very issue.
#36
People shrugging off a flesh wound like it's nothing. They even say "It's just a flesh wound." The movie Last Action Hero does a good job of mocking this by having Jack Slater incur a flesh wound in "the real world," and it's a big deal. But then he goes into the movie world and it's barely a scratch.
In fact, Last Action Hero has a lot of examples, like people being able to punch through car windows, or the women working at Blockbuster being way too attractive.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
It is under appreciated, and one of my all time faves! "Hello? I've just shot somebody, I did it on purpose"
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Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
I hoped I would find this comment and was not disappointed. <3
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Otter 4 years ago
How about my favorite cliche: Whenever the hero is wounded, it's always a scratch on his upper arm? His non-dominant arm?
Zophra 4 years ago
Or across the face to perfectly accentuate a cheekbone.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
The Black Knight scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a parody of this.
Jason Melvil 4 years ago
The even more absurd part is they would let her tough guy be shot at a dozen times and it's just a flesh wound. But later on, when the "bond girl" will try to help him out by cleaning the wound he will suddenly scream in pain.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Monthy Python. Black knight sketch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmInkxbvlCs
liona potions 4 years ago (edited)
its always either a huge wound is nothing or some one gets a scratch and their like "my time has come...*cough cough* you must go on with out me..."
#37
Medical examiner comes back with a tox report and DNA match in a matter of minutes. IRL, this stuff takes days or weeks.
Monday 4 years ago
Not necessarily. Doc could say "come back in X days"..then we have a montage or a time skip until it's result time...but yes it's done for convenience.
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Katchen 4 years ago
When I worked in a molecular biology lab, if the power would go out only the devices hooked up to the backup power system would remain on. The overhead fluorescent lights would go out, but the computer monitors connected to instruments would stay on, so the room would be semi-dark in blue-ish light. My boss would always say, “We’re in CSI! All of our experiments will work and PCR only takes ten minutes!”
CHRIS DOMRES 4 years ago
Also police look in a computer with the gun's serial number and instantly find who owns it because of a nationwide gun registry. In reality the gun lobby years ago got a law passed that prevents any nationwide computer gun registry. When a gun is bought, the paperwork you fill out is filed away somewhere and the info is never put into a computer system that can be tracked nationwide.
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
Unfortunately, because they see it in movies and TV it's sometimes extremely frustrating for a victim of crime if they expect that is the way it actually works.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
Usually about 2 weeks for DNS. Most toxicology screens (for drugs and alcohol) are quite quick though and done through urine dip slides. Toxicology tests for poisons are only (usually) done if the person is found dead with no obvious signs of trauma, as if someone was believed to have been poisoned, they would probably be dead before the results came back, it's easier to establish history and assess the symptoms.
Kate Jones 4 years ago
Lol and the examiner is always a low key detective who knows some kind of random key fact that just happens to relate to this crime. SVU is the worst offender. Melinda always just happens to know that the dirt scraped from the victims nails was from a specific steel factory in new jersey leading the detectives to the scene of the crime. Lol
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Instead of jumping time in the show to account for this real world scenario.
Grace Skerp 4 years ago
Another one: Dead body, no id, no finger prints (don't ask) "Check the dental records!" Whose dental records? Asked my dentist about this and he didn't know about any national dental records data base, equivalent to the finger print one.
#38
People never have to go to the bathroom and are rarely hungry or thirsty, and can go for weeks with virtually no sleep.
Mazer 4 years ago
Not wrong, most bathroom scenes end in blood and guts. Technically it is the most dangerous room in your home
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tuzdayschild 4 years ago
I think this is implied. Do you really want to see a movie where people keep taking potty breaks?
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Can you imagine a movie that shows the actors only eating sleeping and pooping? Would anyone want to see that?
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Someone actually did a film of a person sleeping (1950s?). I couldn't watch the whole movie, it was sooooooo boring 😴
Load More Replies... Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
This one is logical. They won't waste time showing all the little useless things.
Curry on... 4 years ago
Or people go to the bathroom --- seeing way too much of that activity in recent movies.
#39
The way actors dramatically circle each other while they're having conversations. It's something stage actors are taught to do to make the scene more dynamic, but it's not something people ever actually do in real life. Imagine chatting with your buddy somewhere and he just starts circling you mid-conversation: "So anyway, I think we should . . . uh, where are you going? What is happening right now?"
Serial pacifist 4 years ago (edited)
Driver constantly looking at the codriver while conversing, while driving on a highway.
Robert T 4 years ago
That's remarkably easy to do... when the car is on the back of a truck and you aren't actually driving.
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Peter Trudell Jr 4 years ago
LOL. I've actually done this. Had friends that were big movie nerds. We'd have convos where we're all leaning against a railing looking out and not looking at each other... all the movie cliches... (NOT the driving while turning around talking...that's insane!)
Kimberley Gayle Thomas 4 years ago
I do that as a form of taunting and that's for my acting scenes.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
They gotta move the scene along otherwise it would look to static and boring. Whereas, in real life, if someone was moving around like that you'd assume they had to get someplace.
#40
Free available storefront parking
ThePracticalSarcastic 4 years ago
but thats literally everywhere in my city...so it does happen
Sage Gusano 4 years ago
Following the bad guy and able to whip the car to a stop at an open spot at the curb downtown the moment the bad guy stops. Pulling out from said parking spot without looking and not cutting anyone off.
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
Well it would be a bit boring watching the central character drive around cursing, looking for a space, only to be unable to manoeuvre into it, keeps driving looking for a better space, fails.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Always a parking space, smooth travel on the roads, gas stations and 7-11 are always convenient. But the one that really gets me is the availability of on-street parking. Tell me a city where on-street parking is available where and when you need it.
#41
A young married couple buying a massive 2 or 3 story Victorian that is completely updated and has full attic and basement as their first home like that's a normal thing. Even with a discount for the demons that hang out there a new married couple that just spent upwards of 40 grand on a wedding is not gonna be able to afford this huge remodeled house.
Nizumi 4 years ago
Not to mention the presence of a hell portal in a well in the basement tends to lower property value... Extra closets = good. Talking closets = lower asking price.
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Joel Hopkins 4 years ago
Wait..... there's a demon discount on houses? I would totally live in a haunted house if it took $50k off the purchase price!
Rae Reyn 4 years ago
If I could find a fully remodeled Victorian house for super cheap, I'm buying it. I can deal with demons and sacrifice a goat every full moon for original hardwood floors and brick work.
Jace 4 years ago
Original floors? Easy. Find me one with unpainted trim!!!!
Load More Replies... May 4 years ago
Don't these movies usually take place in the 70s? Not a horror expert, but all my images of haunted house type movies seem to take place in an age where houses were much cheaper.
Johnny 4 years ago
Depends where it is, I come from a pretty small town and you can get a big victorian for under $200K -- if you have $40K to spend on a wedding, you can probably find $40K for a downpayment. Though better budget some money for repairs since an old $160K victorian is going to need some work.
Shelby P 4 years ago
or someone buys an old home with all the furniture still in place just covered in white sheets. They take the sheets off and the furniture underneath is like new despite being 120 years old. Like have you ever seen a house for sale like this?
Donkey boi 4 years ago
I've heard that property is cheaper in the U.S if someone claims it haunted. Can any U.S real estate agents on her confirm if it's true?
Katchen 4 years ago
I don’t know about it being haunted or how this affects price, but in California you must disclose if anyone died on the property in the last three years. If an entire family was murdered in your home four years ago, you don’t have to tell anyone.
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#42
Will power seems to be greater than any injury in every movie.
4 broken ribs, countless lacerations, and eyes swelled shut probably wont be remedied by the time you are fighting the next wave of baddies.
Mike Crow 4 years ago
You need to read about some people who have been in combat or life threatening situations.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
Will power absolutely can be that strong. I've seen a man (a bouncer at a club) who was stabbed 6 times, he chased down his attacker and wrestled him until the police arrived. Once the police cuffed the attacker the man collapsed, he was unconscious but still holding onto the attackers shirt. I saw him a few months later and found out that he had been shot in the leg as well but didn't know.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Um, I think that was probably from adrenaline, not will power.
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FrankStellar 4 years ago
There's no treatment here for broken ribs, they just confirm, suggest painkillers and tell you to take it easy if you can.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
I know that human endurance is remarkable and that a stressful situation can forego any pain we're feeling. But rein these excessive injuries in a tad.
#43
Someone asking like 20 people to leave a room so they can have a conversation with one other person. "Can we have the room?" Or "Give us the room." This happens all the time in movies. It has been driving me crazy since I started noticing it.
Everything AGR 4 years ago
ive never seen a movie where this happens but it feels super accurate so im upvoting lol
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
Good point. Hadn't thought of it like that. I just thought they were all jerks and trying to prove how important they were.
Load More Replies... Rebecca Trinkner 4 years ago
Worse is when 2 people are having a convo about someone else within earshot, but the show/movie acts as if they can't hear a thing.
Kate Jones 4 years ago
Lol the west wing... Or any political show. It takes much more time and effort to move 10 people and their stuff but no...everyone out so I can say 3 sentences to someone because God forbid I get up. It always bothered me.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Oddly, I've just seen three different movies where this occurred. I passed it off as control freaks who always want their way, but it still struck me as odd since its easier for two people to leave than an entire roomful.
#44
2 Candles lighting up a room the same way a lamp will. People brushing their teeth with no toothpaste foaming like a rabid dog.
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
Or it dribbling out of their mouth, down their chin and into the sink. And they're always standing straight up looking in the mirror, and never have to spit it out.
Valisbourne Spiritforge 4 years ago
I can live with the lighting. I seriously dislike the current trend of "dark is dark" in movies where, it being dark in the setting, they make it so dark you can't see the movie. Give us enough lighting to see what's going on please. A movie IS visually based after all
Ozacoter 4 years ago
I had that with the old X files. i know that its supposed to be a bit scary but I want to see what is going on
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Izzy Curer 4 years ago (edited)
It always irks me when an actor brushes their teeth, and then they don't rinse their mouth out afterwards. Ew, how can they stand swallowing the residual toothpaste knowing it's full of tarter and mucus and bacteria? I know movies don't show every little step throughout a person's day for brevity's sake, but if you show part of a thing and don't complete it while the camera is still rolling, it's going to stand out. Especially when it's something aggregious or inappropriate, or gross. What it's effectively doing is providing context and making a statement about the character, whether the director intends for this to happen or not. Imagine if they were to show someone taking a dump and then not wiping before they pull up their pants. That makes a statement about the kind of character we're dealing with.
Njoza Vi 4 years ago
You...do realize you're swallowing that mucus and bacteria 24/7, right? It's not magically contained to your mouth. The only problem is the toothpaste, as fluorine and/or other active ingredients are not the smartest to ingest.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Lighting can annoy me, especially when it's unnecessarily dark so you can't see the action, or the opposite, when it's supposed to be dark but light somehow mysteriously appears without an explanation. People do NOT know how to brush their teeth. Ever.
#45
When someone hacks a 'mainframe' in five seconds
ben woskje 4 years ago
and the huge GUI.... Access Denied.. (or Granted) is massive red or green letters....
Robert T 4 years ago
Well obviously. But no-one in the audience is going to be able to read what is on a screen if it were done at the normal font size are they. The colours are used to emphaise the point. They also tend not to use known operating systems to avoid copyright issues. The one that gets me is whenever they enter an IP address, the number entered always has one part which would not be valid - the numbers in an IP address cannot be higher than 255, as each represents a byte. They do it because they don't want people trying to hack whatever server is on the end of the randomly chosen IP address. And yes, they could put their own server on the end of it, but movies can be watched for decades.
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Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
For those who want to feel like "hackers": https://hackertyper.net/ Have fun!
Jim Wyatt-Lees 4 years ago
Er... actually I know one or two people who can do this. No they're not hackers or criminals but are highly intelligent and have studied computers for decades so hence not young and, by Hollywood standards, not sexy. However, intelligence is super sexy!
M O'Connell 4 years ago
It's so much more fun to say than "datacenter" or "cloud."
Load More Replies... Don't Look 4 years ago
I.am.done, with that word. And hacking. In movies. It's laughable at this point. It's all complete nonsense and I'm going to ask from now on "why? why do you need to "hack" into whatever the hell it is you claim to be hacking?"
M O'Connell 4 years ago
We live in a highly connected world. If you were to 'hack' the corporate network where I work, you could observe people in the building via cameras, unlock the doors, change the ambient music, or even switch certain lights on or off, send vaguely threatening documents to printers, etc. We have firewalls to prevent that sort of nonsense.
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#46
Parking right outside of your destination in the city.
Stephen Kovacsics 4 years ago
Whenever we get a spot right in front of our destination, we call it 'movie parking.'
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
Oh, remember that riveting parking scene where they had to drive like five levels to find a spot and the the walk back? :)
Grace Skerp 4 years ago
And slide right in. No back and forthing to get into that's just big enough
#47
When soldiers die on the battlefield in movies, its usually a whole ordeal with last words and grunting and the injured soldier slowly becoming lifeless as a buddy holds him in his arms. All the while the battle seemingly lulls off as this one random guy is dying. This just doesn't happen. Usually battlefield deaths are quick and very sudden. A lot of the time the guy hit either isn't noticed until later or is dead before they hit the ground.
El muerto 4 years ago
statically most deaths in battlefields die by bleeding and complications. that's why people have medic units...but most people are stressed out of their minds and mostly focus on not getting shot. if you ever been in or seen a shootout, most people panics, even the highly trained polis/soldiers. get cover and don't get killed, maybe talk to your dying buddy if they are still conscious after loosing a 2/3 of the blod volume, afterwards...the fantasy is that people die fast, it usually takes from minutes to hours
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
Apparently, super glue was widely used in the Vietnam War to close wounds on the battlefield to give enough time to get the soldiers to a MASH hospital. https://gluereview.com/history-of-superglue/
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Casey Burns 4 years ago
1917 portrays death very well. Its a fantastic movie. Highly recommended.
Luke Oakridge 4 years ago
Unless you are hit in the head, you aren't going to be dead before you hit the ground. Blood doesn't drain that quickly and the brain doesn't die that quickly.
Mosheh Wolf 4 years ago
Or flying back when you get hit by a bullet. Doesn't happen - the body will rarely even jerk. They're standing and they collapse. If they're propped up, they just slump. Even a 0.5 heavy machine gun will barely cause a person to jerk when thye get hit.
#48
Immediate comebacks. Even the sharpest people will not have a comeback for everything, every single time.
Theoretical Empiricist 4 years ago
Not to mention some of the comment responders on BP!
Load More Replies... MrOwlAteMyMetalWorm. 4 years ago
Late at night 3am when am staring at the ceiling counting sheep cannot sleep or in the shower. :)
Load More Replies... Sky Render 4 years ago
It's true! My comeback ratio's about 75% of the time, and less than 50% of those are actually good comebacks.
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
But sometimes you do, and you just HAVE to write a movie around it. :-)
#49
People establishing family (outside of mothers, fathers and grandparents) relationships in their greetings so anyone that happens to overhear knows how you're related. "Hey brother, it's been a long time!" "What's going on, sis?" "How are you, cousin?"
Monday 4 years ago (edited)
This is probably necessary for the audience. If Joe doesn't greet Sarah as "Hey! How's my favourite cousin?" we as the audience won't know Sarah is in fact Joe's cousin.
Sleazy Weaver 4 years ago
Exactly! So many of these are necessary because movies aren't real life & therefore can't work in the exact same way. I can assure you the people complaining that it's unrealistic for characters to establish their relationships with one another or for characters to hear each other in a loud room, would also complain if they weren't able to tell how characters knew each other or had to suffer through an extra long scene of characters yelling "WHAT?" back & forth. It's called suspension of disbelief for narrative convenience.
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Son of Philosoraptor 4 years ago
My brother in law yells Hello Sister whenever he greets my wife. Drives me insane. He's 65.
TTorrest Author 4 years ago
Part of the reason why I loved "Mare of Easttown" so much. The story starts in the middle of Mare's life with no explanations for who's that guy? Or why is that kid calling his mom (?) by her first name? The relationships unfold naturally as you watch. Thought it was brilliantly done.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Yeah my cousins and I also call each other "cousin".
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Adam Belaire 4 years ago (edited)
"Doc Boy! How's my favourite brother?" "Don't call me Doc Boy. And you've probably forgotten, I'm your only brother. " "Oh! You're right."
Kate Jones 4 years ago
American Dad had a great bit about this with both Francine and Stan talking to their siblings on the phone completely using clunky exposition. It was so funny.
Michelle Otto 4 years ago
I know people who do this in conversation not just in greeting, ("sis, please hand me that") it's intensely annoying, a little uncomfortable even.
#50
Highschoolers very openly and obviously throwing house parties or going to clubs and getting wasted.
Being drenched the second they walk outside while raining
One person running in and saying something along the lines of "omg i have to tell you so and so...." getting interrupted by the person they want to talk to saying "i don't have time for this" and leaving. Of course you're going to want to know why someone needs to obviously and urgently tell you something.
Serial pacifist 4 years ago (edited)
Also, women in their fifties acting in the mental roles of teenage girls, fragile, obsessively talking about their guys, having identity crises and mom issues, and going with the girls to get boozed as the highlight of their lives. I think it's demeaning (yes, J.Lo, I am looking at you).
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
I really don't understand why they portray such an unrealistic high school experiences. It only makes people insecure and sad.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
I have to accept your word on this because I'm way too old to be watching teen flicks.
bill marsano 4 years ago
Sailboats sail beautifully when there's no wind and their sails hang flat as window shades.
Leslie Burleson 4 years ago
We threw house parties and went to clubs and got wasted . My kids did not. Sucks for them
#51
Having more than 2 best friends that live conveniently nextdoor.
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
Actually, where I am from, this is not unusual at all, especially in small towns.
tuzdayschild 4 years ago
I know. It's because they live next door that you became good friends.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago (edited)
Hahaha! Having friends! Hahahahahahaha! As if friends existed in real life...
Everything AGR 4 years ago
and then the 2 friends of the protagonist start dating and its not awkward for the protagonist at all...
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I mean they're probably good friends because they live so close to each other...
Sasy 4 years ago
I just watched this movie the other day and I loved the pull out from one house and reverse into the other driveway part, it was funny. But same, even down here in Oz, if there are kids around you will end up either being besties with them or rivals, and it can be directly next door or across the street etc.
#52
People yell "taxi!" to call a cab. That's not how you do it. You just raise you hand in the air and they see you. It's not like they would hear you if you yelled out "taxi!"
Robert T 4 years ago
Probably just to emphasise that they aren't in fact doing an Nazi salute. ;-)
Sasy 4 years ago
I am not sure if I would do it now, but I know in the past when I used to get a taxi for everything, that if there were a lot of people and cars around and a taxi coming I wouldn't just motion I would call out Taxi, especially if they are going the other way, or they are stopped at lights and you are not wanting to lose them and need them to turn around.
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
Meaningless dialogue, also. I was watching Greenland the other day. Gerard Butler's father-in-law goes with the classic: "Take care of them." Butler replies: "I will." Father-in-law: "I know you will." I mean, why did you tell him to take care of them if you already knew he will? At least don't reply when he says that he will. This way, it sounds like he is just messing with him.
#53
Dreaming of kissing a beautiful woman but are actually being licked by an animal.
OR
Breaking Through a Window Unscathed.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Dreaming about someone choking me but it's actually the cat stepping on my throat would be more realistic
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Mine would sneak in to sleep on my throat-chest area and it caused bad dreams. One morning (in my sleep) it caused me to swat at her & she was injured when she hit the floor. I felt so bad. Moral: try to train them to stop it before someone gets hurt.
Load More Replies... Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
A house guest once woke up to our family dog licking their open mouth. In the dream, it wasn't a dog. Sorry, but we told you he was friendly.
Bianca Saville 4 years ago
I've laid in bed stroking my husbands hair and then realised it's the cat
#54
Skype streams with 1080p and 120fps
#55
Doctors being in a room with a patient for more than 5 minutes
Donkey boi 4 years ago
American healthcare showing it's colours again. If you're in there for less that 15 minutes your doctor hasn't done their job.
John L 4 years ago
Yeah, I have to agree, but my Doctor gives me about 10 minutes and will answer my questions. Not so much the assembly line as it is made out to be.
Load More Replies... Christie Schmitz 4 years ago
Hell the doctor I use to work for would spend up to an hour with some people!
Pryjmaty 4 years ago
My late husband's nephrologist was actually very conscientious. He took time to TALK to my husband and I and answer our questions. That doctor, to this day, remains one of my "heros". He was consistently late for appointments because he would spend the time needed with his patients.
#56
Wait I can explain!!
Monday 4 years ago
*Proceeds to continue saying that they can explain without ever thinking to just shout the explanation at the person* Wouldn't shouting "Wait babe, she's my sister!" be a lot more effective than "Wait babe, I can explain!"?
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
Either way, Han is going to look at Luke strangely from now on.
Load More Replies... Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
The most unrealistic thing is that the other person weirdly decides to not believe them and would rather imagine another far-fetched reason to be mad. Usually a female. And in the end, the one who was right has to apologize to the person who was wrong.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
When the entire plot of a movie hinges on the poor communication skills of the main characters, which results in misunderstandings.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
Whenever I hear that my brain jumps to the Bon Jovi video for 'Misunderstood'. Brilliant story!
#57
Alcoholism being consequence free.
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 4 years ago
Yeah, one day after years of abuse you just decide to quit and apologize to whoever, you keep your spouse, friendships, job and liver functions, no problemo
Sasy 4 years ago
YES this a thousand times yes...in Oz we used to only have consequence drinking, if someone drank in a show the next scene was them killing someone in a car crash, and then the storyline or them getting arrested for DUI etc. In the US shows especially sitcoms they drink and drink and drink and then go pick up the kids and go home and everything is adorable.
#58
Getting your dream job after one interview.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
I've only ever had one interview for every job I've had. I always thought the 2nd interview thing was a myth.
Paradise 4 years ago
My husband is in software engineering. 3-4 interviews in a few months. Me, childcare. Often a working interview for part 2.
Load More Replies... Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Getting your dream job at all. Getting a job. Getting an interview.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
It's to avoid 15 sequels that only cover the constant rejection before the star gets the job.
#59
Money in general is completely ignored in movies. Transactions of any kind are avoided because they're slow and unnecessary to the plot. No one that rents a car is shown renting the car unless it's a set up. No one is showing getting groceries unless there is some exposition being done with narrative voice or the character needs a place to bump into someone. No one needs gas until they're in too much of a hurry to stop. I can't even count how many times actors walk out on their tabs.
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
Do you really want a movie to be bogged down by these types of things? Will it advance the story in any way?
Monday 4 years ago
Can you imagine a 20 minute hunt for a parking space in an action movie?
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Charlotte Bednard 4 years ago
also the bad guys demanding a briefcase with 1 million dollars in small unmarked bills...…yeah,.... I've worked in a cheque cashing place, you can only fit about 300K in a briefcase in $20s (only know as we would get cash deliveries in a sealed plastic bag that was about the size of a briefcase and it was only about 300K - and it usually had a couple hundreds in there)
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Yeah, writers count on you using your imagination. None of these things happen in books either. We're meant to assume that the chores have already been done. Otherwise, the movie/book would be horribly boring. "And then Mary went to pee. Again."
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
>> I can't even count how many times actors walk out on their tabs. << Not true. They simply throw a wad of cash down on the table.
Sasy 4 years ago
saw this in Pitch last night, everyone but two left in an argument and then the guy throws money on the table and says do you think they staged that whole fight so that we paid the tab...it was funny.
Load More Replies... Monique Reed 4 years ago
I hate it when people make a date or agree to meet and then part--without having exchanged info, picked a time, settled on a location, etc.
Romek Vili 4 years ago
I like bank transiactionst where you can see numbers running. Also sometimes happens that transiactions in interrupted and some money doesn't come through.
Purple Sprinkles 4 years ago
When characters just throw money at a taxi driver, waiter or bartender, then runs off. Really, no one wants to count if it's enough or way too much??
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
And they only ever come home with one, at most two, artistically arranged bags of groceries. They never come in with a six pack and an economy size raft of toilet paper. If they do any other kind of shopping, they are only allowed to carry a couple of fancy shopping bags, unless part of the plot is that they have too much to carry, so need help from the soon to be spouse.
Tobias Rieper 4 years ago
pay for something in a store and pulling out exact right amount i notes and change
#60
“We have to transport this highly volatile substance through the downtown area of a vast metropolis. Surely nothing could go wrong.” “Good plan, boss!”
J. F. 4 years ago
We - the mlitary - have this hyper dangerous stuff but will only send two Humvees to guard the truck. What could go wrong?
Sage Gusano 4 years ago
Exactly. No scouts. No one securing the route. And ALWAYS through the most crowded area of the city at rush hour.
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People being able to hold their breath for an eternity while underwater. I was thinking about this while watching life of Pi last night.
Daria Z 4 years ago
Yeah I tried holding my breath for as long as they do but failed every time.
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
I can hold my breath for three minutes underwater... but about 20 seconds if something terrible is going on.
Al Christensen 4 years ago
The guy in "My Octopus Teacher" sure could hold his breath. And it's a beautiful movie, too.
Theoretical Empiricist 4 years ago
And they can also see well enough without a mask to retrieve a small object of find their way through an underwater maze.
Ben Tager 4 years ago
True u know they use fans to simulate their clothes underwater
Load More Replies... Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Life of Pi was awful for many reasons, and the "plot twist" was so obvious it could have been in neon.
#62
Kids waking up to go to school in broad daylight skating to class with huge spreads for breakfast. It’s always almost still pitch black outside, and I’ve never had anything more then pop tarts or cereal.
Izzy Curer 4 years ago (edited)
It's only in the last few years that most people even live in a city. Only a little less than half still don't. Prior to that, most people lived in rural areas, with the children that were being bussed in from the town the school was actually in being the exception. Living outside of a town or city can mean an hour+ bus ride. Add that to the half hour to an hour it takes to get ready, and you're talking about most kids having to wake up around 2 hours before school starts. If school starts at 8, this would mean 6 am. Much of the school year happens in the winter months, when the sun doesn't rise until closer to 7, at least in N America and Europe.
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Ted Expert 4 years ago
YMMV. My kid lives 5 minutes walk from school, and it begins at 8.45. Even on 21 December it's light at 8.40 am in the UK.
#63
Fluid, witty and well rounded dialogue where the characters never do stuff like pause, mumble, hesitate, miss a reference, have nothing to say, etc.
Sage Gusano 4 years ago
It's necessary....Um...I mean..you know....could you imagine, like, if you were watching a drama or something....and, you know, every time they were, like speaking to each other and stuff it was, um, as awkward as it can be in real life?
#64
High school loser gets together with dream crush at the end of the movie.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
I liked the subversion in Bad Teacher, where - spoiler - the nerdy kid not only doesn't get together with the popular girl he longs for, but the titular (hurrhurr) bad teacher even lays out why it's never going to happen.
Ben Tager 4 years ago
They do they are the “popular” people looking for attention
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
After changing their entire looks bad personality for them
#65
People calling each other Mr. and Mrs. etc. also people never say goodbye on the phone. They just hang up.
lara 4 years ago
I always call people Mr. or Miss or Mrs. or Ms. unless they ask otherwise, it is just polite. And I always say goodbye.
Aliquid A 4 years ago
I haven't called anyone Mr.___ or Mrs. _____ since 1992.
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Christie Schmitz 4 years ago
I hate it when people don't say bye on the phone. I will just keep on talking like they were still there LOL
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
A mid-grade employee giving business presentations in big oval offices with all the executives cramped in. Where does this happen?!
Nene Hughes 4 years ago
I (as a clerk, then supervisor) used to direct executive meetings that involved managers, directors, and VPs of multiple departments. Once a month.... For years.... The meetings were about loss prevention related to fraud and employee errors. I still while smugly when I think about a manager who tried to get an attitude with me in one meeting and got kicked out by her own VP.
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#66
THE STRAW DOESN'T MAKE THE SLURPY NOISE UNTIL THE DRINK IS EMPTY
Monday 4 years ago
...wait is this abnormal? My straws don't make slurpy noises until my drink is empty either...
Becky Samuel 4 years ago (edited)
That's the point. In movies the straw *always* makes a slurpy noise, although most often when used by a teenage girl or the goofy middle-aged male comic relief.
Load More Replies... #67
Fast drivers drifting round corners. That's not the fastest way to drive.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
Brake into a corner and accelerate out! 'Getting the a**e out' looks cool but takes forever to get around the bend.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Yes, but it makes the 20mph chase scene *look* like it's 70mph, just like when a 2 tonne truck can keep up with a motorcycle that's accelerating so damn hard that the engine noise doesn't even line up with the speed and gear changes... Faster than sound!!
#68
Playing video games, main protagonist is absolutely slamming every single button on the controller. Using an Xbox controller on a Nintendo 64, while playing horizon dawn.
A Strika 4 years ago
Also, the a-holes who can’t bother to stop playing when someone is trying to speak to them. My husband always politely pauses his game, listens to what I have to say and responds, then resumes play. He’s polite and not a complete turd…
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
Yeah... if they were playing online games, it would make A LITTLE sense, but they're ALWAYS playing one-on-one games with the person next to them.
Load More Replies... Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
Slamming every button down? That's how I play, the rare occasion I play a video game that isn't on my tablet. Well nobody ever shows me how the button combinations are supposed to work so I just try everything till something happens.
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Charlie´s Angels, scene where Drew Barrymore fell, two kids were playing Final Fantasy 8, both of them holding controllers. The game is single-player only. (Scene was in Balamb Garden training room with Squall and Quistis).
#69
This is a little thing, but the dialogue is never natural. It's more like this idyllic version of natural. Nobody mishears anything. Every sentence is relevant to something. Great enunciation. Some movies get pretty close, but you still never get the talking-over-each-other effect. But watch something like Man of Steel and listen to how formal the dialogue is. It's bizarre once you notice it. Everyone's acting like they're in a play.
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
Me too. Most of the time, I'm monologuing. I just speak too much.
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
"Everyone's acting like they're in a play." Hmmm, it IS a movie....
#70
People don't die all neat-like.
Otter 4 years ago
People who die in hospitals don't give poignant speeches and then breathe their last, they're usually unconscious for a while as things shut down. Of course it's the opposite in war, where lots of people die instantly, with no warning.
lara 4 years ago
A soldier told me, if you hear the bomb, it's gonna miss you, probably. It's the ones you don't hear that get you.
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What do you think ?
Beeps 4 years ago
I think the biggest mistake in movies that we have all become aware of over the lat 18 months is that if there is some sort of virus or zombie outbreak in a movie, the general public immediately go: “Holy smokes, there’s a virus/zombie outbreak, we’d better follow government instructions/expert advice!!” In reality, there is an initial 12 months of people going: “It’s just the flu” / “The virus is not real” / “More people die from heart attacks every year” / “The so called experts are just scaremongering sheeple”
Martin Kaine 4 years ago
My personal favorite is portrayals of mental illness. Such as when the character is going to therapy and has a breakthrough moment and completely changes after that. The breakthrough is not the end of your journey, that's the beginning (I'm looking at you, Good Will Hunting). Or love trumps true emotional disorders or addiction (ahem, Silver Linings Playbook). Love and support helps, but its no cure all.
Trillian 4 years ago (edited)
Women in disaster or adventure movies. Stumbling around for days in their shorts and yet their legs are still smooth.
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
The absolute killer for immersion for me is hands. Everyone from the hard-punching protagonist, to the girl who's just crawled on her hands and knees for miles, or even a six-month old zombie - neatly trimmed nails, perfect cuticles, no bruises. It's rare for any movie or show to get this even vaguely right.
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Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
As a biomedical scientist, it drives me crazy when movies use "virus" and "bacteria" interchangeably, and then visualize the pathogen by looking a drop of blood on a slide (without staining or anything) and what do they see? A worm. But somehow it is still both a virus and a bacteria. Also they pipet wrong and nobody washes their damn hands, even after they use the bathroom.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
So nobody follows lab safety protocols like closing your labcoat (its there for a reason) or tying your hair so it doesnt get everywhere or on fire.
Load More Replies... Lara Verne 4 years ago
People suddenly wake up from coma, without any physical or mental difficulties. Paraplegic people stand up, walk or even run, because they want to prove that nothing is impossible , or save someone. Mute people suddently start talking.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Love triangles. Just pick someone for pete's sake!! I can't excuse a few, but most of them annoy me beyond words.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
It is actually a very good question. I think it would be worse, because movies would be as ugly, boring and disappointing as real life.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago (edited)
The most unlikely things that always happen in movies : the good guy wins, the villain loses. There is a social scene, drama, cliques and clubs in high school. There are parties, assaults and pranks in college. Huge friend groups. Middle-class families live in suburban mansions. Your dreams come true if you believe in yourself.
Beeps 4 years ago
I think the biggest mistake in movies that we have all become aware of over the lat 18 months is that if there is some sort of virus or zombie outbreak in a movie, the general public immediately go: “Holy smokes, there’s a virus/zombie outbreak, we’d better follow government instructions/expert advice!!” In reality, there is an initial 12 months of people going: “It’s just the flu” / “The virus is not real” / “More people die from heart attacks every year” / “The so called experts are just scaremongering sheeple”
Martin Kaine 4 years ago
My personal favorite is portrayals of mental illness. Such as when the character is going to therapy and has a breakthrough moment and completely changes after that. The breakthrough is not the end of your journey, that's the beginning (I'm looking at you, Good Will Hunting). Or love trumps true emotional disorders or addiction (ahem, Silver Linings Playbook). Love and support helps, but its no cure all.
Trillian 4 years ago (edited)
Women in disaster or adventure movies. Stumbling around for days in their shorts and yet their legs are still smooth.
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
The absolute killer for immersion for me is hands. Everyone from the hard-punching protagonist, to the girl who's just crawled on her hands and knees for miles, or even a six-month old zombie - neatly trimmed nails, perfect cuticles, no bruises. It's rare for any movie or show to get this even vaguely right.
Load More Replies... Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
As a biomedical scientist, it drives me crazy when movies use "virus" and "bacteria" interchangeably, and then visualize the pathogen by looking a drop of blood on a slide (without staining or anything) and what do they see? A worm. But somehow it is still both a virus and a bacteria. Also they pipet wrong and nobody washes their damn hands, even after they use the bathroom.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
So nobody follows lab safety protocols like closing your labcoat (its there for a reason) or tying your hair so it doesnt get everywhere or on fire.
Load More Replies... Lara Verne 4 years ago
People suddenly wake up from coma, without any physical or mental difficulties. Paraplegic people stand up, walk or even run, because they want to prove that nothing is impossible , or save someone. Mute people suddently start talking.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Love triangles. Just pick someone for pete's sake!! I can't excuse a few, but most of them annoy me beyond words.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
It is actually a very good question. I think it would be worse, because movies would be as ugly, boring and disappointing as real life.
Load More Replies... Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago (edited)
The most unlikely things that always happen in movies : the good guy wins, the villain loses. There is a social scene, drama, cliques and clubs in high school. There are parties, assaults and pranks in college. Huge friend groups. Middle-class families live in suburban mansions. Your dreams come true if you believe in yourself.
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