Unrealistic things that happen in films..

[BumbleBee120]

Recently I am noticing more than ever things that are so unrealistic and think it would be so simple to make more believable, is anyone else like this? 😂

• When someone pulls out their phone & presses one button and their instantly calling the right person!?

• How a sudden downpour of rain can just start with no warning!?

• Always the most extravagant meals on the table for every mealtime but the kitchen is never messy!?

When the detective/superhero/IT guy “enhances” an image. It doesn’t work like that! If you’ve only got a low quality image there aren’t any more pixels you can magically add back in so that the perpetrator’s face suddenly resolves from a blob into a clear image.

Yet the hero can take out three baddies with one bullet 😂

Woman on the run enters petrol station toilet with one box dye and a ropey scissors. Emerges soon after with long dark hair transformed into fetching platinum blonde pixie cut.

Just started S2 of Wednesday. OK it's not supposed to be realistic, but Wednesday is so annoying I'm not sure I can carry on watching. She has a slick, robotic, perfectly formed (and very unpleasant) answer to everything. Noone likes a smartarse!

Historical films - any soldier wearing this type of helmet is an expendable grunt who will be chucked effortlessly over the castle wall by the marauding hero

😂😂

I think if all these points were addressed films and programmes would at least double in length and be tedious. I’m more than happy to suspend realism rather than seeing a new teacher being given a guided tour of the school, or real time updates of a woman’s progress through labour. No, the IT guy can’t hack into a system in minutes but I’m happy to pretend he can rather than the store held up for six months while he sussed it out. Why is skipping the mundane of day to day realism a problem but time travel or dinosaurs chasing cars isn’t?

I agree but that plot twist will have to retire now passwords are so complicated

On a connected note everything there's a user name mentioned it's always something like dhjsueg73, always word and two digits again surely that went out in the 1990s

People shower sexily.

People end phonecalls often very abruptly. There's no 'bye, see you later, take care' sort of malarkey.

To be fair 9/11 was like that. In the USA there are regional channels so it might happen a bit more than it would here.

Amazing sex where the couple, the very first time they are intimate, have simultaneous orgasms.

women always seem to be sleeping in their bras? Maybe that’s what people do and I am just the minority but I find it so uncomfortable to sleep in a padded bra

Two things:

7 stone women successfully beating up 15 stone men and coming out of it either completely unscathed or with an aesthetically positioned graze.

”zoom and enhance”

This! 😂

Massive house but he needs to sleep on sofa after arguments..

I think the advent of fingerprint/facial recognition has helped filmmakers here. Kill the baddie, then use his fingerprint or face to access his devices. They did this in an episode of Reacher.

Actually, one more.

Two relatively low paid people can afford an enormous house or apartment that would realistically be worth £2m plus, just because it needed decorating when they first stumbled upon it.

I've often thought that when I've been re-reading some old Enid Blyton books for nostalgia purposes.

The Famous Five or whoever get locked up by the baddies in a secret room/dungeon often overnight until they're rescued by the goodies (not as in Blii Oddie). They're really tired, scared, hungry and all of the things that you'd expect... but there's never any mention of the steaming honking great turd that they surely would have had no option but to leave festering in the corner if locked up for so long!

Either that or they have L-shaped bed sheets, so you clearly see the man's ripped chest, but her boobs are safely covered up.

How a sudden downpour of rain can just start with no warning!?

Happens all the time here.

Newborn babies that are at least a month old. Or weigh nothing.
If Call the Midwife can get realistic props so can you!

Situations where the partner has to choose between protecting the unborn baby or the pregnant women’s life. When I tried to have a conversation with my OB and my healthcare proxy (also a doctor) about my wishes to prioritise my child during the delivery if anything went wrong they both laughed and said that’s not a real thing and they never make a choice between the two - if there is something going wrong the answer is always whip the baby out and both get looked after.

Came here to say exactly this. Why on earth does every single rearing horse in a film whinny at the top of its voice? Horses don't do that!

Women never seem to be on their periods