Unrealistic things you see in films or TV programmes.

[Twinklettoz]

Inspired by watching El Camino on Netflix... Lots of breaking of burner phones. Literally just snapping them in half... Er I'm sure that doesn't stop your phone being traced.. Surely it's the sim card you need to destroy..
What do you find unrealistic in films or on TV?

Hanging dry washing on the line. Look closely next time. The washing is never damp!

I watched Premonition last night.

The sheriff arrives to tell Sandra Bullock's character her husband is dead, and he delivers the news on the doorstep.

The next morning her husband is sitting at the kitchen counter drinking coffee, he asks her is anything is wrong and she sort of mumbles something.

Surely you'd give him a big hug and say I thought you died, or I had a really realistic dream or even, 'are you a ghost?'

Not just mumble.

I’m watching ‘this is us’ and as much as I like it, where is all the money coming from?
The dad works in construction, the mother has no job. They have 3 children, one in an expensive private school a big house and a nice car. The mother has so many beautiful dresses and clothes, and I am so jealous of her dressing gowns that I have nearly switched off the TV. I want a dressing gown like that!! How are they so well off? Its not adding up for me.

@Thecurtainsofdestiny

When people, trying to get into someone else's computer, guess the password after only a few tries. I can't even remember my own passwords a lot of the time!

That weird thing in romantic comedies where the man takes hold of the woman's chin between his thumb and forefinger and looks in her eyes. What is that? I've never seen anyone do it in real life.

Poorly executed CPR which is unrealistically successful.

Crime dramas where the hero police officer/ detective goes into the house where the baddies are without waiting for backup.

People take their dog for a walk. Never see them pick up the dog poo yet the streets never have dog muck on them.

Exactly, especially the password one. They can always crack it!

There is a odd noise: let's immediately check the creepy basement with no light in the middle of the night!!!! why not check it in the morning?! Or run away?

In Neighbours, schoolteachers come and go from the school at a whim, they can have holidays during term time, their friends and family have unlimited access to the school building and pupils in the lower year groups have "free periods" during which they can leave school premises.

@imamearcat

Getting jilted at the alter. Has it every happened to anyone in real life!?

Kind of...a friend of mine was due to marry his girlfriend (let's call her Nigella) in a couple of weeks and they went away on holiday to Australia 3-4 weeks beforehand.

Nigella's bit on the side (let's call him Keith) flies all the way to Australia to tell my friend that they're in love; and promptly takes her back to England.
Keith and Nigella were married about 6 months later.

Luckily, my friend bounced back, bless him and he's married now, with 2 children.

But we were all a bit 😬.

Doctors in Holby City and Casualty. “I think I need some tile away.”
“When are you leaving?”
“Now!”
And off they go, no notice or agreement with the management and no thought of the patients who need their help.

It's been a while since I watched the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm but I do remember that the solution to every problem seemed to be to go away for a few days. Immediately.

Definitely going into Labour. There's no lead in at all. One minute they're at the supermarket or whatever and next thing they collapse to the ground screaming in a pool of their own amniotic fluid. I had hours of vague niggling pains and slow leaking fluid.

Nobody ever seems to need to adjust the seat and mirrors in a car. They just hop in and drive off.

@TheWoollybacksWife

Nobody ever seems to need to adjust the seat and mirrors in a car. They just hop in and drive off.

I don't think that's odd, I never need to do this unless the car has been in the garage. No one else drives my car so the seat and mirrors are where I left them.

When they say …. Oh I was so drunk last night. Can’t remember if I had sex or not. I always know if I have because I can feel it the day after. Nonsense.

When detectives question witnesses and the witness continues about their day while talking. Anyone one else would stand still to answer a cops questions surely. It's rife in Law and Order

@Seeleyboo

When detectives question witnesses and the witness continues about their day while talking. Anyone one else would stand still to answer a cops questions surely. It's rife in Law and Order

That one really gets me. If the person is at work then surely they would get someone else to take over or stop and go to a private space. It really winds me up when it’s someone doing something domestic like the ironing or the washing up. No reason you can’t stop that.

The way people drown, always shouting for help n thrashing about, not realistic at all

Any military/police/CIA briefing.

Some disaster/incident has just happened and in the time it takes to gather key players in the room there's a full, unrehearsed, presentation complete with drone shots, long-lens images, annotated maps highlighting the exact location/entrances/exits of the area in question, full biographies of each baddie, footage of the raid/robbery etc.

And the speaker just clicks the remote as they're talking (not looking) as the right information is on screen flawlessly. Even when someone throws in a curve-ball question, with one click the exact information is pulled up. These magic remotes can even zoom in, just like that.

In real life it would take me days to pull that kind of presentation together, lots of rehearsal, and then 10 minutes to get the laptop to connect to the screen, the AV tech would have to be dragged in, the media wouldn't work properly, there would be no sound and no one can work out why...

I'm American sitcoms fathers always seemed to have huge amounts of cash in their wallet which to me always seemed unrealistic. Girls would say 'dad I need a hundred dollars' or whatever and he's just hand it over, usually without even counting the bills. If my parents had access to that much cash they will have to go to an atm and certainly wouldn't keep it in their back pocket.

@SerialGoogler - Line of Duty were the worst for this - the interviews with the serial numbered printed hand outs and coordinated presentation- that was hours worth of printing and admin time.
Never mind the organising of the urgent exit required - who did the admin for that ?

@flinginflangin,
I know a lot of men who walk around with a lot of large denomination bills in a money clip.

50allycat4

The number of times in TV dramas people say "besides". Who says this in real life??
We say this all the time - Peak District.
It means "anyway"

Those ghost hunter programmes when one guy says I’m completely on my own here, no you’re not, you’ve got a complete camera crew with you you lying get.

"Why are you here asking questions and not out looking for the killer?" makes me want to throw things at the telly. I say this because it has never happened to me so I have no idea if that's how people would react.

The sex. I can’t remember what programme is was, Ozark?, and the girl got on top of her boyfriend with jeans on and undid her zip and somehow they managed it 🤣

It’s not just this though it’s always ridiculous. Even the woman getting up in the morning and putting jeans and a shirt on for work by the side of the bed, no shower or anything, so people actually do this? 🤣

and in a more technical one, the old ‘zoom enhance’ if someone is looking at a grainy CCTV pic. It’s not like that 🤣

@brokenbiscuitsx

and in a more technical one, the old ‘zoom enhance’ if someone is looking at a grainy CCTV pic. It’s not like that 🤣

I think Liam Neeson does that on Taken when he’s looking for those fellas that took his daughter finds those grainy images and the ol’ zoom/enhance on a photo machine in a train station or something, to find out who it was