What Unrealistic Things In Movies Annoys The Hell Out Of You? (r/AskReddit)

what is something unrealistic that you often see in movies that annoys the hell out of you unrealistic wealth typical family with one working parent has a four bedroom house with an ground pool college graduates living in some swanky penthouse on a babysitter salary 24 year old doctors overall lack of communication i feel like 90 of all drama is coming from this in some way character could have prevented the whole situation if they explained one thing but nope when the mum prepares a feast for breakfast and everyone only takes a bite or two before rushing off my mum would have killed me for wasting food also she wouldn't prepare a feast for breakfast milk and oj in fancy jugs rather than the carton the disregard for basic physics the fast and the furious has entered the chat high school scenes where there are lounges in the hallway and students are free to be wherever they want to be around the building s no matter the time of day without consequence we had literally four minutes between classes to get into our lockers and across the building nobody was sitting down and during that on nissi and bad guys i know you have to have a plot move forward but dude is trying to hide in europe and somehow the villain is always where the hero wants to go before they get there i mean europe is pretty damn big and i can't imagine getting totally lost there would be all that difficult and then they suddenly stopped being omniscient at the end of the movie letting the protagonist save the day people living in these gigantic ny or l.a apartments while working jobs that realistically could never pay for such a nice place and if they do have a job that could afford those places that they would have any time to get involved in whatever is happening in the plot reminds me of a bit in friends where they're all in central perk someone asks why do all our bosses hate us and someone says maybe it's because you're drinking coffee with your friends at 2pm on a wednesday and they all get up and leave when the entire plot rests on a character not explaining something that can be explained in under one minute characters making the dumbest most unrealistic choices just to further the plot unnecessary sex scenes that add nothing whatsoever to the movie ordering at a restaurant and only taking one bite and leaving in a post-apocalyptic world somehow all cars on the road are parked or stranded in such a way that our main character has no problem driving between them witness protection somehow always fails in movies zombieland for all its hokey shenanigans got a lot of approval from me when it showed clogged up roads in tallahassee driving a vehicle equipped with cattle catch a snow plow blade on the front four bashing derelict cars out of the way food forethought after he did that the cars would have stayed pushed to the side anyone that drives though the area later would be driving through an area like op originally described with everything conveniently positioned maybe the convenient positioning of abandoned vehicles is actually realistic surely someone would push them aside likely the military if no one else at least in major areas nobody opens the door two seconds after the doorbell rings nobody yeah we're all inspecting who could possibly be at the house at least one minute putting a bra on public appropriate clothes could be another minute and then hyping ourselves up to open the door and hope it not a murderer 30 second minimum people doing cpr then the person who just got cpr wakes up like 10 minutes later and eats lunch also movers are really bad at maintaining sterile fields in operating rooms defibrillators are the worst in film never ever ever used for what they actually perform they are not meant to start a stopped heart they are there to try and reset a heart going into fibrillation arrhythmia you mean the air and portable frankenstein labs clear it's alive i also like to watch for people who are not clear the cpr wouldn't work anyway they never do it right in fairness they did it right on a live actor they'd bred ribs at best insurance rates would skyrocket i love that pediatric patients have a heart rate of like 55 on monitors 2. calling someone and then instantly start talking i don't know why exactly but that has really bothered me you didn't even let it ring also when they don't say bye when they hang up my mom never identifies herself never makes sure she has the right person on the other end just starts talking my boss never says hi when he calls me this is how every phone call starts off yeah i got something else for you gun silencers being that quiet in reality they're like the sound of someone clapping for that matter just about any gun being fired inside the noise is deafening even in the movies you see people wearing hearing protection at a range but then when action scenes occur that aspect is completely thrown out action heroes apparently aren't scared of tinnitus the old you cough you die my wife and i call out the two scene warning ever since we saw a walk to remember many years ago if you aren't the sole lead and openly acknowledge your illness the clock is ticking if you cough blood and weren't in a fight same to be fair coughing blood is always bad sign someone shooting 10 683 rounds from a 1911 without reloading the semi-auto muskets from pirates of the caribbean take the cake for that though casually strolling away from a massive explosion they have eardrums of steel and shrapnel proof skin it's legit i googled it you really need to watch the other guys then the other guy's 1080p explosion scene opaque beverage cups and are always empty and never look right when hefted and drank from they could at least put water in them to get the motion right but never do and once you start noticing this it just ruins so many shots for you because it looks so stupid this is my biggest pet peeve exactly put some water in the cup people shooting guns especially pistols from well over a reasonable range and hitting very small targets with one hand while running or something people would be surprised how difficult it is to hit a target with a pistol from 15-20 yards standing still with two hands how bad the villains always are at shooting don't get me wrong star wars won't be the same if luke gets scalped by a storm trooper 30 minutes into the first movie but good god are they bad stormtroopers are overly emotional they miss everyone in the first star wars movie episode 4 it actually makes sense as it's established that the empire allowed luke and his friends to escape the death star so they could track them to the location of the rebel base in all subsequent movies it makes no sense at all sometimes in sex scenes the guy will just undo his belt and immediately stick his piece right in no foreplay no lube just immediately write in within seconds my wife and i call it mad men style sex because almost every sex scene in mad men was like this i know it does happen but hollywood thinks all sex is immediately penetrative and the woman is coming immediately probably because no hollywood producer has ever made a woman climax before most of them have barely made a movie climax no body hair ever this and full makeup and hair always apocalypse a cup and hair still done waking up after a full night of sleep makeup and hair still done finishing up a workout makeup and hair still done when they are fine shave but you can see that their legs are already shaved this is more of an ad thing though stalkerish behavior being portrayed as romantic the man in a relationship being portrayed as a near-brained doofus people getting knocked out cold for an hour then waking up and going about their day like nothing's happened i once got knocked out for like two minutes and ended up sick for a month yeah they use a knockout like a human pause button so many goons would have very serious brain damage shows like lost make blunt force trauma to the brain stem looked like such a non-issue that if i lived in that world i might ask a friend to hit me in the back of the head if i was having a particularly difficult time sleeping one night i was knocked out for five minutes and spent three weeks in an induced coma and have permanent brain damage from it though thankfully mild enough to be inconvenient rather than debilitating head injuries are not to be trifled with if someone is unconscious for an hour with no treatment there's a good chance they aren't waking up i read somewhere once that if a person gets knocked out and doesn't wake up inside of about 30 seconds they are going to have at best significant brain trauma issues ever since then i catch myself counting the seconds when i see someone get knocked out in a movie to try and figure out how messed up they're going to be i've had light speech problems for two years after said two minutes someone gets hit so hard that they fly through a wall then they get up and keep fighting no you're going to spend the next year learning to walk again yeah especially the ninja moves everything is always so dark and no one ever bothers to turn the lights on even when they do it's like a 10 w bulb in a warehouse that only illuminates two feet around it i always see the opposite where someone turns out the lights to go to sleep but it's still somehow bright enough in the room to see every detail there is no easy way to film darkness everyone always answers their phone usually on the first ring and no matter where you are you have perfect reception except in horror movies pretty much any police detective show female detective constantly wearing high heels which would be uncomfortable alone and very challenging during the inevitable for chase scene immediately upon discovering evidence at a crime scene they will pick it up using a loosely held glove or the tip of a pencil in real life evidence needs to be documented photographed before handled and how lazy are you that you can't properly slip on a glove just about everything else foreign i everyone with loose hair rarely wearing gloves every fingerprint or other piece of evidence is relevant to the crime the crime scene line is like 10 feet from the body so the public has a great view of everything and of course any nearby evidence is destroyed every time the cop says that you have to tell me x or i am going to arrest you for obstruction hot fuzz did pretty good with his ex being unidentifiable at a crime scene cause everyone is covered head-to-toe with ppe my son-in-law is a video game programmer and it drives him crazy when in cop shows move as they use a computer to search for a match to fingerprints or a face and the screen scrolls with the images flashing on the screen he's like do you know how much computing power it takes to render all those images the computer doesn't need to flash them on the screen and all the goddamn beeping i hate how noisy every computer application is in tv movies i'm only a web developer and it blows my mind when hackers and programmers speed through a project like f man it took me three months to make a web page and you just created an advanced id and a half hour hacker casually hacks pentagon in 10 minutes mostly in rom-coms people randomly running into each other out in public like how small is your town that you bumped into the same person three days in a row at a restaurant bar shop yet all rom-coms take place in nick well plenty of them are about the overworked woman who has to leave nick for a small town for whatever reason at the beginning visiting her hometown reporting for a story stranded on the way to something doing some real estate deal and both falls in love with the charming local man maybe her high school crusher just her charming bachelor who's been hurt before but also he stands in the way of a real estate deal and learns how much better life is in small towns where people care about each other also maybe she learns the meaning of christmas computer work is only done via vigorous typing on the keyboard never a single mouse click when two characters do something simple like glancing at each other and then the romance has started if a man and a woman bump into each other and some music plays that's enough to ensure the romance has begun i bump into guys all the time where's my boyfriend i think i know where you went wrong oftentimes the person has to be in a hurry carrying many things bonus points if there's at least one tray full of coffee already frustrated and when you bump into the guy you have to sound initially angry but once you look into his more often than not dazzling blue eyes stop mid-sentence then the music plays and boyfriend is a quiet common mistake the mayo during covered bumping into someone immediately sends them in the other direction but i'll be sure to bring my phone to play soft music while after i agree the trope is played out but it can happen no bullsh my wife and i met at the parts store i worked at and we both couldn't stop thinking about each other after a two-minute interaction it took us nine months to find each other again we didn't know each other's names and every time she swung by to find me i was not working found out who i was by seeing me in an old photo with her cousin back in high school and called her cousin to get my info friended me on social media and we started dating but together nine years it does happen but it's certainly not the average experience it was rather comical how it happened with the wife and i though coming this spring to the hallmark channel pull apart my heart recycled love i am 76 years old and have been buying things in store since i was five i have never ever seen someone toss some money on a counter and say keep the change and then dash out with the purchase i work in a liquor store customers do this once a week or so half the time i chase them outside because it's not enough money to cover their purchase they know what they are doing sprinklers going off indoors when this happens in the movies people are super excited laughing jumping around and playing in the water like it is raining in reality the water in those pipes is absolutely disgusting dirty smelly black water that would make most people run like hell to get away from source i used to install sprinklers in buildings during my high school summers as a part-time job when the plot completely ignores the events that just happened to take a wild twist everybody acting like the hero in his plane she's wearing glasses and a baggy sweater and a ponytail but her face is perfect her teeth are perfect her skin is perfect and she hasn't got an ounce of fat anywhere but she has paint on her overalls she's got glasses and a ponytail also the glasses are almost always glass-less everyone looks cute in black frames till you stick some plus four five zero 1 7 5 lenses in them janie's got a gun i hate when someone is driving and they are talking to the passenger without looking at the road for like 10 seconds at a time most fight scenes bar fight guy gets hit with six broken chairs several bottles broken over his head still gets up fine and fights off like 20 other guys real fighting is the most physically exhausting thing you can do your average person would barely last a minute most street fights are one of two punches before they get winded athletes have to do insane amount of endurance training and conditioning to be able to fight three minutes in the ring will feel like a lifetime beyond that too many such injuries will completely knock you out or be fatal again on the street if you punch someone knock them out and their head hits pavement there is a fair chance you just kill them even then most head injuries you just don't get up and keep fighting from but because of hollywood every jackass thinks they can take on 20 guys at once or were do awesome in a fight exactly i'm a black belt and i remember starting training for my first full contact tournament hit the back for three minutes they said 20 seconds later is that three minutes i can't breathe i'm going to throw up maybe pass out too the way gifts are wrapped they are always in boxes with actual lids like shoeboxes not ones with flaps and the lid is wrapped separately from the box so when they open the present they just lift the lid also if there's a ribbon wrapped around it the ribbons not taped on and slides right off has anyone ever done this in real life tried it once it looked great but it was a pain in the a to do and it took forever it's less work than having to wrap the presents normally and do the scene 87 times with a rewrap every time would give new meaning too it's a wrap would be a giant pain in the a to rewrap each present in exactly the same way for multiple takes though organizing a date without mentioning time place day etc it's just and i'll pick you up tonight high schoolers who look like effying supermodels or even people in their 30s playing high schoolers i watched 13 reasons why on netflix and i immediately thought the guy who plays tony was like 31 high schools that are college campuses i was talking with a friend about high school and she was amazed that my school was all one building turns out in socal a lot of high schools have several or a dozen buildings and you walk outside between classes or to eat lunch makes sense when it never rains or gets cold i always thought that was fake hollywood world building but it turns out shows said scenes like that because they're common out there killing of nameless characters like it's nothing then pretending like the protagonist is a hero and a good person also sacrificing hundreds of nameless characters just to save a love interest hanging up the phone without saying anything at the end of a conversation ima say it just casually rolling over after having sex like no cleanup no awkward run to the toilet who are these people people with urinary tract infections that's who also people that like to sleep in gross krusty sheets no no she awkwardly walks to the toilet but takes the entire bed sheet with her to cover herself up because god forbid the man she just had sex with lux at her nude so long as he isn't on top of her came here to say the same thing where are their sex towels where is the awkward condom pull off and disposal what about sex puddles no one goes to pee afterward is everyone a sex robot people need to know post sex be swaddling is a thing how they fantasize relationships between men and women no one acts like that and it can put unreasonable expectations in the head of teenagers and young adults who are just starting to date yay grin gestures are great and all if you want to attract the attention of her more often than not girl of your dreams but it could easily come off as creepy and stalkerish if the girl isn't a grand gestures type of person they also make it seem like knowing basic facts about the person gives you points or something and you must love them back and if you say no then you're the bad guy because look how plucky and nice and kind the protagonist is if only you give them a chance i say this as a former dumb teenaged guy who took those movers too seriously i always enjoy watching lab scenes people looking into microscopes that aren't even turned on or plugged in no one has gloves on or their hair pulled back unrelated formulas scrolled on white boards and always i mean or left eyeing ways if they are in a lab be it a biology lab physics what have you there will be chemistry glassware too i mean i did my phd in physics and all the labs i ever worked in had glassware everywhere if you really want to make a lab look realistic though throw in random equipment from three or four decades ago my first advisor had a pdp 11 shoved into the back corner and another computer in active use running windows 3.1 yes labs always turn into little museums because either someone can't bear to part with their first piece of hardware or there's insane bureaucracy to get the go ahead and start throwing stuff in the trash old anecdote from someone in a research lab on the day that some of the funders were touring the facility they pulled the test tubes out of the closet and filled them with colored water and held them up to the light when the guests walked by after they were gone they put away the test tubes and went back to their computers as a guy who works with computers pretty much any computer scene especially hacking scenes if i bypass the firewall using a resql protocol i can load the xml into the css stack and update the database across the javascript and svg streams and i'm in much of that is legitimate terminology but used in a very wrong manner i like to think that the original script had perfect instructions on how to hack into anything but was changed by the national hackers breakfast club because they hacked in and put a bunch of nonsense to protect their secrets probably by using an if statement to inherit from a method's function women in historical drama wearing corsets directly against their skins back then clothes were expensive so people had to wear an additional layers of shimmies or shift made from linen that can be frequently washed it annoys me to no end when sexy scenes show sir dudes just call in couple strings then historical ladies be but naked in the matter of seconds while in reality you'd be needing an appointment in 3-5 business days before shorty finishes disrobing misunderstandings with dire consequences that could easily be cleared up if the protagonist just said something anything i don't have time to explain they then take a 10 minute walk down a corridor together in silence indigo montoya did it best let me explain no there is too much let me sum up proceeds to do so perfectly i don't even have time to explain why i don't have time to explain woman you are a literal time traveling robot space magician you have time to explain because you can jump to any other point in time whenever you please that's the epitome of having surplus time childbirth water breaks you go immediately to the hospital it's time to push she pushes three times and immediately reverts to her pre-pregnancy state also her hair and makeup are immaculate a bonus in unbelievability for surprise twins a certain marriage proposal or a newborn who is clearly six months or older horses name all the time naying when they are running laying when they are eating horses don't know that much no matter the location or how crowded it is there's always a parking space right exactly where someone's going to whenever they turn the tv on it's not a commercial not a soap opera on daytime television no it's always the news clip of the exact thing that pertains to what they were talking about five seconds earlier women having unfathomable orgasms after 0.3 seconds of penetrative sex one neck kissing and she's already moaning the whole blood ritual packed where they slice their palms i've talked about this before because it pisses me off how so many movies and tv shows have this trope it originated because it was an easy place for them to hide a blood packet back when special effects weren't what they are today but i don't think hollywood will evolve from that it's so dumb though because if you've ever had a cut on the palm of your hand you would know that's a terrible place to make a wound it's such an awkward injury and you pretty much lose the use of that hand plus it can take a while to heal there are much better places to draw blood from yet we still see it all the time and on top of that the characters are fine in the scenes after or in the case of shows like supernatural and the 100 they are making fists and fighting with no problem [Music] so you

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Published: Wed Dec 23 2020