Unrealistic things that happen in films..

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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!?

The houses and apartments!
The amount of free time they have to go places, and afford them. People coming home from work and having the energy to go out, cook, have friends over and not look like they need a nap (may be that is just me...)

Everything in a science fiction film

Medical dramas where they are constantly having sex in storage areas or having intense personal conversations while performing complex surgery. No one ever reports them for gross misconduct. OK, so not working in a hospital, I don’t actually know if this is unrealistic but I sincerely hope it is!

The characters residences are usually at a level way beyond their characters job. I always assume inherited wealth.
Films make having sex on kitchen countertops look comfortable, plus when the man picks up the woman and has her up against a wall without her feet touching the ground, hard to keep going unless in films.
How characters wake up with brushed hair draped neatly over pillows.

oh and I still remember the scene in single white female where it took less than 30 seconds to book an online flight.

When characters are in a bar, buy drinks then once seated at table/bar, one character immediately announces that they have to go and exits leaving their drink untouched. Why did you order it then?!

Usually, it's a single girl who has been stood up, she is then approached by a guy. Never mind the pizza or the walk, one drink later and they're falling into bed together!

I've seen many scenes in which doctors and nurses are having angry personal arguments in front of patients, often while a conscious patient is being wheeled down a corridor on a bed. The patient is mostly ignored.

Also, I remember a phase in Casualty several years ago during which several doctors and nurses had pregnancy scares. Didn't any of them understand contraception?

Yes, the massive millionaire style houses. The latest decor complete with dust free gleaming tiles and big wide open expansive spaces with no clutter.soft lighting from unique art deco lamps that you never see anyone turn on. I mean where on earth are they supposed to have had the time to decorate like that, let alone clean it and keep it nice ?

And the impromptu meetings with a handsome stranger. Example: effortlessly gorgeous woman sits at table alone in a cafe with a latte reading, handsome stranger comments walking past "you know... I loved Jane Austen as a kid. Mum used to insist I read it. There's this really nice lake by the cathedral. I used to read there. I'll show it to you if you like "

Women smiles coyly. Cue next scene. They're walking by said lake by said cathedral. The wind is blowing, they're walking in a slow trot. Banter ensues, she's got a crumb on her lip from the pastry they've just bought for the walk. They stop. He brushes it away .... They kiss.

In real life if I was quietly reading a book in a cafe and a man started commenting on it out of the blue, I'd think they were forward and sense a red flag !!!! Id probably politely smile and move on !

Please nobody take this the wrong way as it's not meant in a disparaging way towards anyone non white :

But the groan as you see, I dunno, Sarah Lancashire call her husband from upstairs and lo and behold , just like every single BBC or itv drama now, he's black. There's never a black couple with their black children. It's always a white woman and a black husband. And they usually have a best friend that's gay with his husband, inviting them round for dinner.

I'm all for normalising diversity. But it's so clearly tokenism. Nobody ever mentions the racial prejudice the couple faces, or the homophobia the gay couple may face. It's all breezy, "oh my brothers marrying a man, I hadn't noticed the difference".

Also, when you get an Indian /white couple. It's just fact that most Indian People will be encouraged to marry into their own race/culture and when Mira knocks on her parents door and brings home white Jason , it's like they've not noticed anything at all different about him. It's just patronising and unrealistic.

It's so clearly virtue signalling as black people are still so rarely getting main parts. They just litter a sprinkling of various toned black people in sub plots to look good. It's so transparent and patronising to different ethnicities.

Oh and the "I'm leaving you Phil. I've booked a ticket to Spain . My flight leaves in half hour " so.... Where are you staying ? How did you apply for a visa to live in Spain this morning and get accepted ? Where's your stash of money to fund this ? How did you pack and organise that trip in an hour ? Did you tell your employer? Have you handed in your clocking in card and signed your termination of contract ? Had your exit meeting ? What are you doing with your car ? Selling it ? Have you found a buyer ? What about your divorce ? Have you started proceedings ? You're voluntarily leaving the marital home - where will your share of the house sale go ? Got a bank account in Spain ?

Come on Sharon !

@CrispsPlease Yes! And considering they’ve never left the Square/Street in decades, having lived there, worked there, met their spouses there, done all their socialising there, how on earth do they get these sudden opportunities for jobs and homes in foreign parts? Where have they been networking apart from the pub/caff?

Childbirth kicks off with severe contractions (never waters breaking) and is all over an hour later.

Remember the 90s, when every straight woman seemed to be close friends with a fashion-conscious gay man with a knack for acerbic one-liners?

At the time, I wondered if it worked the other way round and most straight men had a lesbian friend who they hung out with, who gave them tips on how to understand women. If so, I never saw this on TV or in films.

In US police dramas, the team is discussing the case they're trying to solve, and someone walks in to the room with the answer to the vital question, just joining in the conversation mid-stream, even though they can't have heard the first part. They must have amazing hearing.

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...just in time for Christmas dinner.

Nah, some of us do that in real life too, and for ourselves not anyone else.

And apart from the Royle Family, they don't just flake out in front of the TV in the evening.

That used to be me, shouting at the telly, " put the bloody lights on" but I found out that, somehow, every character in every scary film, instinctively knows that you shouldn't put the lights on because then the murderer can easily find their way around your house, but in the dark they can't, you however can, because it's your house and you know your own home even in the pitch black.

Bonus points for triumphantly proclaiming ‘We’re in!’ upon success.

How many times is grabbing a piece of toast from a pile on the table, taking one bite while putting your coat on been relevant to any plot, or trying to have a conversation while dry brushing your teeth ever happened anywhere in real life, yet film makers, well TBF usually American film makers went through a decade of these daft scenarios being part of the plot.

Plus he'll have either a dick van dyke cockney or Sharpe Yorkshire accent.

Yeah and never farting while bending over to scrub their legs or feet.

And always washing their hair as well