Recently, Reddit user Frequent-Sea-8848 asked, “What is something unrealistic that you often see in movies that annoys the hell out of you?” and I know this is a topic y’all get heated about too. Here are some of the most infuriating things that happen onscreen that are just wildly unrealistic.
1. “When all the problems in the film could’ve been averted by a one-sentence explanation, but they never say it. ‘The woman that you saw me hugging was my sister’: that sort of thing.”
Dreamworks
2. “Those big ass breakfasts the mom will make, and then the kids will take two bites and run out of the house.”
The CW
3. “Everyone lives in a home that is well beyond average means.”
20th Century Fox
4. “And, especially in rom-coms, everyone has extraordinary jobs/careers. They’re always a high-level executive or in some amazing field, like the music industry or something equally exciting. Nobody is ever the middle manager at a local State Farm Insurance branch in a suburb of Des Moines.”
5. “Strangling people kills them in a few seconds. A guy can strangle someone to death in 15 seconds and move on. In reality, it can take full minutes of strangling someone to kill them. They never get tired from all that effort.”
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Columbia Pictures/Eon Productions
6. “How about when a person says, ‘I’d like a beer’ at a bar…do these people also say ‘I’d like food’ when the server comes to take their dinner order?”
The Weinstein Company
“It’s a tiny thing, but I hate it when somebody orders a drink at a bar or something, they get it and then don’t pay. Payment isn’t even mentioned. Just started the scene at the bar with them already drinking and save all that superfluous dialogue!”
7. “When they dive through glass panes and come out without a scratch on the other side.”
8. “I need blood for a ritual, or to throw off my enemy. I’d better slice THE PALM OF MY HAND to get it. That won’t cripple me during a time when I’m fighting for my life or anything.”
The CW
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9. “In horror movies, when someone’s running from the bad guy and they fall and start crawling. GET UP AND RUN, STUPID.”
10. “I hate how every lock can be broken by shooting a single round at it.”
Eon Productions/United Artists
11. “Female action stars performing wild action scenes without their hair tied up out of their face.”
12. “The incredible ability to zoom in on photographs and/or CCTV footage to an almost cellular level and STILL have a crystal-clear image.”
Fox
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13. “One guy kicking ten guys’ ass.”
“When they’re all surrounding him and they give enough time to get their asses whooped, rather than just attacking full on, lmao.”
14. “‘Just wounding’ someone by shooting them in the leg. Where the femoral artery is.”
15. “Silent buses until they hit you as you step off the curb.”
16. “Gold. They seem to be able to transport or carry gold like it’s nothing.” And: “Cash too. A duffel bag of cash is heavy as hell.”
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“In Ocean’s Eleven, they stole 160 million. That is 3500 pounds if it is all $100 bills. That is a pallet on a forklift, not a few duffel bags.”
17. “Throwing a table sideways isn’t a cover against bullets.”
18. “Every sci-fi person can hop into any spaceship and fly it. It can take five minutes to find the headlight switch on an old Buick.”
Lucasfilm
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19. “People having a normal conversation in a loud, crowded space like a bar or nightclub. In reality, they would be screaming, ‘What??’ Into each other’s ears.”
Hulu
20. “People getting knocked out and being fine after shaking their head and putting their hand on their forehead.”
“The fact that someone thinks you can ‘carefully’ knock out someone with a hard hit on the head and no risk of them dying is ludicrous. It maintains a sense of morality, when in reality, more than half of them might get a swollen brain and die from it.”
21. “Tazers somehow knock people unconscious. I’ve been tased. I did not fall asleep. It just hurt. A lot.”
22. “The person is hanging from a cliff, ledge, or dangling perilously from any height, and the ‘grab my hand’ trope happens…someone is basically deadlifting a person from a lying down position.”
23. And finally…”Every kid is going to Harvard.”
“This bugs me about movies, but especially TV. I’ve been watching this show for a few seasons, and y’all don’t do homework or go to class.”
What movie trope always pisses you off? Let us know in the comments!
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