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!?

Sex is never messy & no one fumbles wth condoms or needs tissues!

The effortless "messy but gorgeous" look of all women. The way they're meant to look as if they have no make up on, but they're so obviously caked with it. The dewy subtle foundation, the blush around the cheekbones, the moist and dusky pink lips. The same effortless long blonde hair with dark roots, with a little kink/wave at the sides and In the middle in an attempt to look "messy" and unstyled, but of course looks sexy and beautiful. Most people's hair is frizzy and bloody straggly first thing in the morning. Not these luvvies.

Love threads like this, I haven’t read past the first page yet, but the ones for me are:

• when they’re driving and keep turning to talk to the passenger, keeping their eyes off the road for ages.
• when they live in a huge house with loads of spare rooms but when they argue they go and sleep on the sofa.
• when the kiss instantly turns into a full on steamy sesh with them ripping each others clothes off but the woman leaves her bra on.

Haven't read the whole thread so don't know if it's been mentioned, but I hate it when friends / family/ associates just walk into a workplace to have a conversation - whether they are doctors, teachers, police officers etc, no one ever says 'what are you doing here?' or 'I can't talk now'. I suppose they want to make the most of their sets / locations!

And if they haven't had sex for a day or two, the relationship is on the rocks.

Well, telly isn't real life, is it? It would be as dull as ditchwater if it was.

People living in huge houses yet they don't seem to have a spare bedroom, if someone stays over they have to sleep on the sofa.

That's because they have no toilets.

It’s nighttime outdoors and an owl hoots to tell us it’s nighttime outdoors. I never hear owls.

Op you had me at the messy kitchen- how can they make those dinners in their pristine kitchen!!!

Love this thread but I can't stop laughing about this.

Regarding the abrupt phone endings without finalising proper plans: I once read that they do this because every second costs when filming so they cut out everything they deem unnecessary.

I always wonder how and where people in movies could use the toilet. if I crash landed or was ship wrecked on a remote island my first worry would be the lack of toilet facilities.

Also in murder mysteries people whose loved one just got killed really compose themselves really quickly and are always able to coherently answer questions (or go for a run..). They are always interrogated when they return from their run. If I am ever struck by tragedy exercise will be the first thing that im striking off my to do list!!

The police arrive to tell you that your colleague, friend has been murdered & you continue nonchalently filling the dishwasher

That one I can unfortunately say from experience is fairly accurate. You just kind've go on autopilot while your brain processes the information.

The way parents keep their grown up kids' rooms untouched for years, like a shrine, long after they've moved out

Nobody ever closes their curtains.

If only! There was around 22 hours between my waters breaking and DD being born...I don't suppose that would make good watching though 😂

Female characters never carry handbags (unless they’re Mrs Doubtfire or in SATC)

No one wakes up with birds nest hair

Women moan as soon as a man kisses their neck or touches their breasts

If multiple enemies ambush the main character at the same time, they’ll politely wait their turn whilst he works his way through them

If there’s a health emergency, ambulance arrives quickly and person is seen immediately upon hospital admission / has loads of tests / never catches an infection in hospital

nobody ever has covid or long covid

Distant relatives turn up unannounced with suitcases

Every American high school is the same

It’s persistent or cute if a guy continually pesters a woman for a date / follows her into the loo / stands outside her house serenading her etc, rather than creepy/stalkerish

No man can fancy a woman if she wears glasses and has her hair in a ponytail…unless doing sexy teacher/secretary

Fridges are either stocked to the brim or bare

Where do people keep their shoes?

1. A couple meet in a bar, go back to her place. As soon as the door closes, he pushes her against the wall, somehow lifting her right up (lucky that she only weighs about seven stone) and they have sex like that. Never over the kitchen table, on a worktop, or, God forbid, in the bed.

1. Family members say "I'm so proud of you" to each other all the time.

Protagonist, if not already very successful, has a brilliant talent that everyone recognises towards the end of the film. No one is ever just average. Again, I realise why but I would like to see us type C’s represented 😁

Didn’t mean type C’s whatever that is, I meant under-achievers. Don’t know why I said that. Probably because I am one. 😄

If a woman throws up she is either drunk or pregnant. No other reason for throwing up.

Thrown on it's head in Kindergarten Cop, when Arnold Schwarzenegger's character is forced to work as the Kindergarten teacher, when his colleague, with teaching experience, played by Penelope Ann Millar suffers from 'stomach flu'

the curtains are always kept open at night & lamps are always already on when they come home.

Person A. says ominously "I've got something really important I need to tell you" (or words to that effect). Person B. says "Tell me later, I'm running late for work" (or other non-life or death situation). The next thing, Person A has been murdered; or if it's a soap opera, this is the prelude to someone keeping their life-threatening illness secret for months.

In real life, you'd never brush someone off if they said they had something important to tell you. Sheer human curiosity would force you to find out there and then, even if you weren't worried about what it might be.

Yes. And the person always has to try again & again with the big build-up & let themselves get brushed off. They never just shout out ‘I SAW FRED THROW SOMETHING IN THE RIVER’ or ‘I KNOW JIM KILLED MARY.’

To add to the 'people driving while looking at their passenger' one - there’s also the often-seen trope of people driving on a long, straight road, but constantly wrenching the steering-wheel back and forth as though they’re negotiating hairpin bends or something.

US films are particularly bad for this as their roads are often dead straight for miles and miles, but 'steering-wheel acting' is the only way to pretend that they’re actually driving and not just sitting motionless in a prop car…