Real human behaviour V movie human behaviour.Abusing AIBU because of the voting option.

[IncompleteSenten]

I'm watching geostorm atm.
Inventor of thing gets fired. Thing goes wrong and threatens the earth. Inventor is asked to sort it out and ultimately saves the day.

He was fired by his brother after being treated like shit at a hearing.

If that was me, I would of course ultimately fix the thing because I don't want to die. Obviously. But I wouldn't just say ok and go do it.

I would say my terms are reassemble that hearing and have the man that was so rude to me publicly grovel, say I was right about everything, plead with me to help then he gets fired. THEN I go fix it.

Horror films - go help the person who's been a twat to you and get killed for your trouble. Fuck that.

Have the chance to kill the baddie and ... Don't. Seriously? You get the chance to shoot him between the eyes you take it. You don't hit him with the gun, drop it next to him and turn away. That's stupid.

YANBU. Movies are really unrealistic and people just would not behave like that.

YABU and really, there's something fucking wrong with you. You should probably get help for that.

@hentheeighth

"Oh I wonder what that spooky noise was in the dingy dark basement..... I'll just go down with my old torch and check"

"Oh, Steve didn't come back from the basement. Did you hear screaming? Let's go down and check...."

Why does nobody just run away and call the police?!?!

Also what @FuzzyPuffling said, nobody ever makes any arrangements! They just use psychic powers to know where and when to meet...

To be fair, I think calling the police because you heard a noise in the basement is a bit excessive!

@MaggieMooh

It annoys me when they need a drop of blood for some reason and they cut their palm. No! You need two working hands to fight the evil monster! Cut yourself somewhere else where it’s fleshy and you’re not at risk of severing a tendon! Not to mention that the palm is the worst place for a cut to heal because you keep flexing it. A cut on the forearm would be so much more sensible.

I love this. This is my kind of level of overthinking. I know who I'm teaming up with come the zombie apocalypse.

Men who keep pursuing a woman who’s told them they’re not interested. They’ll send flowers, turn up at her work and home, get her friends inside. It’s meant to be lovely and romantic. In real life its harassment and he’s a stalker.

Have the chance to kill the baddie and ... Don't. Seriously? You get the chance to shoot him between the eyes you take it. You don't hit him with the gun, drop it next to him and turn away. That's stupid.

This one really annoys me! When they smack the killer over the head and he goes down - great, well done! - and then they drop their weapon and turn away and scrabble futilely at the locked door or barricaded window or go to fuss over their injured friend. NO! You batter the fucker till he's not getting back up, and THEN you can do all of that. Grr.

Nutters in films are rarely anything like real life nutters way to ott and silly rather then off and creepy.

I must say I think Charlie Sheen actually played the best nutter, I cant remember what the film was called but he was an ex fireman in it and hated and attacked his new neighbours trying to kill them for being annoying

In your first example though I wouldn't waste time getting someone fired if everyone on earth was about to die. What if it took longer than I expected to fix it? I might grab someone to film me saving the day though to get the recognition.
Human behaviour covers a very wide spectrum, so for every stupid movie decision there probably is a real person out there who would do it.

No one ever wipes themselves after sex - they just put their pants straight back on.

@MissMinutes24

No one ever wipes themselves after sex - they just put their pants straight back on.

Gross but good point.

The leaving untouched (often expensive) plates of food behind drives me mad. Particularly in cases where it's not even an urgent or life threatening emergency.

Waiter: Hello, nice day. Sorry to hear your neighbour's cat has died.
Customer: Oh my god!

I watched Geostorm a few weeks ago and thought exactly the same! The writing made it seem like both of them were equally to blame for the fall out but no way, the brother was a right twat.

@WinterCarlisle

The impatience! One ring of the doorbell or knock on the door is followed 0.00003 seconds later by more ringing and knocking. What if the person is upstairs? Or having a wee?

Also people don’t say goodbye on the phone. They just put it down even if it’s not a row. So rude!

The lack of phone etiquette, yes, it really grates on me! In RL, people say "Bye" or "See you later/in a bit" or, if you're like me, it'd be "Bye, bye, bye, bye....!" I've never come across anyone who just cuts you off without saying anything along those lines at all (except scammers when they realise they're not going to be able to con you! ). If I did, I'd think they were ignorant and be annoyed!!!

@ChristmasFluff

I once dated the idiot in the horror movie who goes into the evil-feeling cave, even though his dog is snarling and barking and refusing to go in there.

Found out recently I'm married to the idiot who wants to rent a secluded cabin in the woods, miles from anywhere, with only one bath, which is outside on the front porch

I dug my heels in one the grounds that the glowing AirBnb reviews were most likely ALL from serial killers.

When people are being chased by evil monster/zombie/whatever and they're running and wisecracking. Instead of saving their breath for running. + you'd be too shit scared to joke, surely. So annoying.

It's very considerate in fight scenes that the baddies patiently wait and attack the hero one by one, not overpowering him/her as a group. Buffy's villains were particularly courteous in that way.

Yes! The not eating the food they've chosen and paid for.

Can't imagine ever doing that (emergencies like a fire excepted). If I have bought the food I am going to eat the food!

The impatience! One ring of the doorbell or knock on the door is followed 0.00003 seconds later by more ringing and knocking. What if the person is upstairs? Or having a wee?

Sounds like the delivery driver who was banging on my door this morning 🤣🤣

Standing under the shower with mouth open. Who does that in RL?

The main white male lead makes everyone split up (Scooby Doo style) and get intel on the ghost/ baddie. NO! Goes as a group there’s strength in numbers you fucking idiot

@DepthOfTheAbyss

Men who keep pursuing a woman who’s told them they’re not interested. They’ll send flowers, turn up at her work and home, get her friends inside. It’s meant to be lovely and romantic. In real life its harassment and he’s a stalker.

Yes, things like flying across the world to return something, or filling the house with flowers are seen as romantic, irl they’d have me backing away sharpish.

Only men van save the day, with very few exceptions.

I recently watched 'United 93', I know we will never know what actually happened but I'm sure the flight attendants didn't just sit there looking pretty.

They have training and will know more about the plane than most passengers.

No one discusses contraception before sex, or very rarely.

No one thinks it odd that 50 year old men have wives who are barely 30.

irl no one ever ''splits up''.

irl no one ever stands with their back to an open doorway leading to where the monster/mad man has just been seen.

irl no one would put their child back to bed in the same room night after night where weird shit is going on.

irl no one would stay anywhere at ALL where so much weird shit is going on.

irl no one would get out of the car to 'check' what was scraping a metal object down the roof.

BUT - if you stuck to these rules they'd be hardly any horror films

@Pedalpushers Even after the blood-curdling scream from Steve...? Maybe I'm more of a wuss than you!

@Ponoka7

I've voted YABU because while I'd do what you say this pandemic has shown how stupid people are. I used to get frustrated at horror films etc but have been shown that some people would behave like that. I wouldn't have enjoyed 'Dont look up' pre Covid, but now consider it possible.

Having worked in local government for a long time, I would say the Don't Look Up is very realistic. Even before Covid.

We used to joke about how in films the nuclear launch codes are super secure, need retina scans and finger prints etc . In reality, they are stuck on a post it on a white board in Barabara from accounts office. And the code is 123456789 or password.

When there are two people in a car and the driver never looks at the road, just chats away to the passenger whilst looking at them. Makes me nervous!

Gosh I hate that!

There's also this thing in films / series where they always pop at someone's place unannounced and they get in as soon as the door opens.
No one - NO ONE - does that in real life, thank god.

I also see a lot of women having sex / sleeping with their bra.

The post pandemic thing is interesting.

Not thinking of a specific film to compare this with - just in generaI - i would never in a million years have thought that so many people could be so easily turned into such enthusiastic curtain twitching reporters of their friends and neighbours.

@CounsellorTroi

Standing under the shower with mouth open. Who does that in RL?

who's even remotely sexy under the shower? They always touch their hair and their neck in a very sexy way. And I'm like doing horns or pompoms with shampoo and singing whilst applying soap between my toes in a very inelegant way.