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?

Sex standing up against a wall is always happening in films, no one seems to have sex on a nice comfy bed.

The whole putting the phone down without saying goodbye, irl people would think you were being shockingly rude.

Irl if someone asks “have you told anyone else about this?” it means just that. In movies it means they are a psycho and you are one step away from inadvertently uncovering their evil plot so they are now going to chop you up with an axe, so RUN!

Babies being absolutely huge and mom looking like a glowing angel of motherhood.

I was going to say, gigantic fat newborns who smile and look around and wave their arms for a cuddle as soon as they're born!

I do understand why you can't use a day old newborn in a romantic comedy, but I still point it out to my children every time I see it in a film or tv show.

Of course they can’t get a real new born. However have they never heard of reborn doll. You can ones that “breath” now and everything can’t you

The amount of stand-up sex against a wall. I’m 5ft and until recently light, and even I haven’t had successful sex against a wall and when I’ve been perched on a handy surface (because I’m mad me!) the angle is a bit wrong and it feels like their cock is being bent the wrong way.
However on TV, men, even when doddery and pissed, are supporting the full weight of normal sized women, pinning them to the wall whilst pumping away. Maybe my sexual partners have all had poor upper body strength.

Also definitely the parking thing and in dramas like suits, people on $$$$ per hour just hang about on the street to accost people they want to talk to rather than pick up the phone or ask their PA to schedule a meeting. They also tip up at each other’s homes unexpectedly to find each other in and not spitting feathers about their fucking boss turning up on their doorstop out of hours.

Sorry, spitting teeth, not spitting feathers.

Relationships that don't involve huge amounts of time and mental space dealing with the parents, siblings, uncles, aunts and cousins of the couple.

In reality my definition of a partner is 'the person whose family you have to take into account'.

@SkiingIsHeaven

When it rains they don't get stupid frizzy hair like real people.

Also, everyone in American has a phone number beginning 555. I know why but it irrationally annoys me.

Yes! Nobody panicking with their hands on their forehead shouting "my fringe! my fringe!" 😂

Anybody giving birth in a Friends episode...

I hate it when characters arrive in Soapland and within 2/3 episodes it’s like they’ve always been there, they’re everyone’s bestie when really no one should know them!

@3luckystars

I haven’t watched Eastenders in years but I do remember them handing an apron over and saying ‘mind my stall’ but never saying what the prices were. I suppose if you were next to a fruit stall though you would have a rough idea of the prices of apples and pears.

I also notice in a lot of programmes about workplaces, people talk and keep walking or just walk off or hang up without saying goodbye or ‘see ya later’. I would think that was rude in real life not to round of the conversation with a farewell.

Pahnd a bowl, innit?

Eastenders…someone decides they’re leaving “the square”. In a few short hours they’ve given up their job, their home, packed their belongings into one or two cases, and booked tickets anywhere in the world. Time to get in that black cab!

Nobody comes back for weddings or funerals.

Going to the cafe for a cup of tea or coffee, even if it means passing your house to get there. Then having one sip and leaving it.

Police announcing themselves half a street away giving the guilty party plenty of time to run like hell.

The amount of time drivers spend looking at their passengers and not the road.

British soaps, everyone has everyone else’s mobile number stored on their phone.

Further up someone mentioned the soap people never watch soaps. Years ago, when there was a big storyline going, Dot mentioned wanting to be home to see what was happening in Coronation Street.

In 35 years no scaffolding has ever been seen in Albert Square, and yet the houses' stucco and window frames are all in tip top condition, and sometimes house fronts have a complete change of colour, just like magic.

Same with the interiors. Nobody ever discusses having the house repainted, or getting a new kitchen, or does it themselves, there are no painters and decorators in the Square, and yet the interiors mysteriously change.

Also Eastenders, people suddenly have an idea out of nowhere to move to another country, which they have never been to or even mentioned before, and within 48 hours they have gone - and with nothing more than a holdall and a passport.

And once they have gone they never ring, email, or are spoken about by those they left behind.

And then one day they just turn up unannounced - ALWAYS unannounced, this is crucial - on someone's doorstep, holdall in hand, and carry on as though they had never been away!

This always happens on tv shows - someone will be ‘sorting laundry’ but they are just folding things in half and tossing them in a basket. Like why are you doing that? Just crumple them all into the basket and fold them when you’re about to put them away. It is such an odd way to go about things.

Is this on American shows?
Americans fold laundry straight from the dryer when it's all hot and you can make it nice and smooth before putting it away.

@Thursa

We were both typing about EE at the same time, so I didn't see your post until after I'd posted mine!

In Corrie, there's never any cars parked in the street, no one has a garage, yet as soon as anyone needs to go somewhere a car appears from who knows where?

Closing a laptop without logging off.
Opening a laptop which immediately opens without having to log on.

People driving and driver has their eyes on the passenger for ages while they talk to them - never even glancing at the road the whole time. I'd crash into something if I did that.

@thenewduchessofhastings

How much freedom people with kids have;do they have an invisible Mary Poppins living with them?

Rachel from Friends ignoring the existence of baby Emma for ( months/years?) - apart from the odd awkward pram push into a room- was she normally stored in a cupboard? Almost emigrating to Paris without her …!

People in soaps never look at each other when having difficult conversations. They all spend all their free time in the pub/cafe when they live 10ft away.

In action films, the male lead gets hit by a concrete block/moving vehicle/debris from an explosion and is momentarily winded rather than having a broken limbs and unable to move. He's also well over 50 and has the energy of a twenty year old. The worst example of this is Liam Neeson in anything.

Hanging out washing that is obviously bone dry. Yes continuity etc but how many takes would you need to film someone hanging out washing?

@WeAreTheHeroes I remember watching Raiders of the Lost Ark with my dear stepfather, and at about the point where Indiana Jones hangs on to a u-boat to follow it to port, he sighed and said to me: "It's all a bit much, isn't it, for one bloke?"

@BalloonSlayer - at least HF was around 40 when that was filmed!

Dystopia type scenarios where all of the women still have access to a full make up kit

@boireannach

Closing a laptop without logging off. Opening a laptop which immediately opens without having to log on.

I never log off on my laptop and it logs in with my watch almost instantly.

The computers used in some of the more far fetched police dramas are madness. The ones where pictures of the person come up with all kinds of details all over the screen.
Empty cups are really annoying. I get you don’t want cold tea but you could put something in it.