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!?

Most of the people in Shetland (the BBC series) - obviously set in a community that is rather remote from the mainland - seemed to have Glaswegian accents!

No one ever says goodbye before hanging up the phone, and no one splutters in disbelief at the rudeness of it

Couples waking up in bed together and talking right into each others face...no scrambling to brush their teeth or saying "your breath stinks of pickled onions " etc

Either no one having a job even though they have fancy houses, or they have a job but work for about 1 hour a day, or it's a work drama but most people sit around talking about their social lives and how Peggy is having an affair with Jim.

I mean I know watching people actually work is dull, but it bothers me that the characters are not putting in enough hours at work!

This has been parodied many times over but you still see it being done without any shame and that is:

Should the drama take place in any major city/location with recognisable landmarks, the action should take place in plain view of absolutely all of them.

Patient collapses, no pulse and they defib them then they immediately open their eyes, gasp and are perfectly normal.

😂😂 That’s what normal teenagers do!

The ones in Dawson Creek aren’t typically average or normal 😳😆

I’m not sure that was their primary aim, because they were going to alienate their main target audience. Dawson Creek was a great example, but there are definitely many other examples of where the dialogue is too far fetched and not reflective of real life and only really happens in films/tv etc.

Just because people don’t speak like that in real life, it doesn’t mean they aren’t articulate. It’s just not reality to hear teens talk like that regardless of background or academic achievement

Definitely the one hundred chicken-sized hippos. Hippos are surprisingly grumpy, vicious creatures with strong jaws.

I'm used to these sorts of questions, as my seven-year-old seems to have turned into Ben from Outnumbered.

I have ! 😂on more than one occasion

In all fairness to the ‘just hanging up the phone without saying goodbye’ complaints, I know a good amount of Americans and they tend to do this. They think my mad rambling ‘bye bye, see you, ta ra, take care, bye now’ is charming but utterly ridiculous. They just say bye or once we’ve finished talking it’s ’ok then’ and done.

Maybe I just know a lot of terse Americans though and it’s not a cultural norm

If it's my relation you'll be in luck... he's a doctor with a pilot's licence. 😂😎

How can they all drive safely when they keep looking at the passenger constantly?? They barely flick a glance towards the road

Mine is women always happily drinking spirits neat when in reality I don’t know a single woman who throws down repeated large glasses of blended scotch in male company. I’d be all ‘oh have you got a mixer by any chance?’ These aren’t alcoholics (that would be more realistic) but just women who match men’s liquor habits for fun.

Maybe that's why they crash so spectacularly? And then crawl out of the car with barely a scratch, and with the woman still clutching her handbag.

Very good point.

That reminds me of some of the online memes you see - where anybody can find a horrid, ugly, rubbish-strewn corner somewhere in Paris or Rome to take a photo of; and similarly there will be some pleasant, picturesque parts of other cities that are widely considered much less traditionally beautiful, which nevertheless make for a very pretty photo!

When I have a fall my glasses stay on but are scratched to hell.

I'm picking up my new pair tomorrow.

When parents seem to be meeting their children for the first time. Gushing and over enthusiastic and laughing uproariously and staring at them with damp eyes and an expression of adoration.
When hunky guy does this scene with his child you just know the baddies are going to murder the kid soon so hunky guy can spend the rest of the movie on a vengeful rampage.

3 biggest bug bears of mine, from crime fiction (truly is fiction):

1. USA law enforcement pointing guns at any potential bad guy (who has a gun or might have a gun or who merely threatened violence) ... and then negotiating. The yapping goes on for ages for dramatic effect. Real USA law enforcement (are trained to) shoot to kill immediately, as soon as they think bad guy might be a threat and esp. if bad guy has a gun.
2. Detectives or cops who themselves gets stalked by crazy criminals (or their families/ loved ones are put in peril). Er... no. Real criminals see cops as professional hazards, annoying not personal.
3. Gibbs in NCIS who keeps thumping his male colleagues on back of head... Er, no, he'd be out of a job, disciplinary tribunal, etc.

Yes, I'm with you on these too, I also dislike that Gibbs kisses Abbi quite often on the top of the head. Where on earth in the workplace would you kiss a colleague on the head like you would a child and not get hauled over the coals for it especially as he is in charge of the team.

I was watching the new Netflix series yesterday with Toni Collette (Wayward - it’s very good!) and she set up a dinner, day, at someone’s house but no time! I was like…? How do they know what time to make the tea for? What if they’re still in their jammies when Toni turns up?

In Russian Doll, the main character dies at least once every episode and finds herself alive again at the same point at her 36th birthday party. I know that’s impossible but it’s necessary to accept that as the drama is predicated on it. What does bother me with its implausibility is that she’s having a wild, noisy, well-attended late night birthday party on a Sunday night! I can’t believe that none of the attendees have to go to work on Monday.

I struggled with the recent BBC adaptation of "Towards Zero". A group of young people, in the middle of nowhere (Devon coast?) decide at about 11 am to go out dancing, drive off immediately and find an event in full swing at lunchtime in a local hotel, with a jazz band, lots of alcohol, dancing...

People drink a lot of Whiskey, although this doesn’t seem to be all that many peoples drink of choice in real life. I suspect it is for ease, as making a G&T is far less streamlined.

They do that in Blue Bloods, too. I appreciate it’s TV rather than film.

The central characters are a 4 generation family, most of whom are or have been police. It’s very moral, every episode shows at least one meal with them all at one table: the meal always starts with saying grace and some of the characters cross themselves.

But the adults all drink whisky, often more than once per episode. How do they relax at home at the end of the day? Whisky. How do they celebrate when they win a case or catch a bad guy? Whisky. What gift do they give to thank someone they’ve met through work? A ‘good bottle of Scotch whisky,’ and so on.