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.

Someone collapses to the floor, whispers some last words and dies. Person with them (who is very much not qualified to certify death) will try to feel for a pulse, say 'he's gone' and then everyone will start crying and hugging etc.
In real life - if this happens I would hope there is someone sensible enough to call an ambulance and start CPR!

They perpetuate disaster myths misconceptions like mass panic,civil disorder and helplessness of survivors are too stunned, passive, and helpless to care for themselves.

There's a fair bit of reasearch that shows in disasters we tend to go to our biological troop roots we work together and look to perceived leaders to be told what to do and do better with more information so we can make more informed decisions.

So all the times in movies they keep things from the public to avoid panic it's probably worse thing to do - while you may get some people being odd but mostly if people are kept informed in impartial factual way most people do better.

Though I do wonder if it's US culture - given how everything is politised and how that's influnced their reponse to covid - how untrusted and pollicat their media and everything else is or whether their culture is like this becuase the media and polticians don't' trust the public,maybe becuase of these myths, and the public reacts to that with distrust back.

It's not that things can't go wrong with crowds it's just sometimes the movie myths lead to actions that cause the problems.

www.bbc.com/future/article/20180312-the-secret-science-that-rules-crowds

Oh yeah - when they show men in the shower it's always with no curtain and they're doing that leaning heavily with both hands on the wall, flexing their biceps and showering the back of the neck thing.

Never fiddling about with the shower gel and, y'know, actually washing

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.

Sadly that didn't surprise me as I was aware of many populations - under hostile governments where people did this - often under guise of greater good.

Yeah, mentioned by a pp, the women waking up in perfect make up and perfect hair grinds my gears. Some heroines like Black Widow, tiny little thing, supposed to be an amazing martial artist... I'm a black belt and know for a fact a grown man twice my weight would floor me by pure physics, not to mention any woman doing high kicks and living in leather pants... Chub rub and thrush galore...
I could go on but I can already hear my partner in the back of my mind saying 'it's only a movie, it's not meant to be realistic' 🙄 but look, I can get away with a man flying or zombies or sharks being irrational, just get the other things right 🙄😅

I think the most unrealistic thing in films and tv is peoples ability to park directly outside where they need to be. I was watching The Responder and a woman managed to park directly outside her daughter's school despite being a bit late on the school run. It completely distracted me!

@NEUserNamesNotTakenJeez

Yeah, mentioned by a pp, the women waking up in perfect make up and perfect hair grinds my gears. Some heroines like Black Widow, tiny little thing, supposed to be an amazing martial artist... I'm a black belt and know for a fact a grown man twice my weight would floor me by pure physics, not to mention any woman doing high kicks and living in leather pants... Chub rub and thrush galore... I could go on but I can already hear my partner in the back of my mind saying 'it's only a movie, it's not meant to be realistic' 🙄 but look, I can get away with a man flying or zombies or sharks being irrational, just get the other things right 🙄😅

It’s always the footwear and clothing choices that get me. I remember watching buffy and thinking: if you were going out specifically to fight vampires, there’s no bloody way you’d choose heeled shoes.

I remember watching transformers not long after we'd been to egypt (years ago) and they were all flinging themselves round the desert in leather trousers ect. and i thought - just no. I nearly fainted from the heat just staggering from the coach to the nearest patch of shade!

@hangrylady

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!

^That

Can’t enjoy the movie anymore cos I’m shouting “look at the road you berk !” at the telly.

Always had this. But it got worse after moving to Italy.

People never eat the food on their plate, they just push the food around with their fork and talk instead.

There appear to be no carrier bags with handles in American films. People have to carry their groceries in a large brown paper bag.

Keep your eyes on the bloody road for god’s sake and stop looking at your passenger while you’re driving.

People staying in very creepy old houses with a likely demonic entity and/or ghost or malignant paranormal presence deciding for whatever reason to go down to the basement. Just STAY OUT of the basement already!

People finish every single sentence, even in an argument before the other person says anything. Real-life conversation doesn't work like that.

People kissing and having sex after wearing the same clothes/not showering for days because they're running away from zombies, the mafia, or the world as we know it has ended. I'd be too squicked and stinky to go for that.

Coming down to huge breakfasts, pancakes, plates of bacon, fruit for days and no one touches it!

Murderers delivering lengthy speeches before trying to kill the protagonist, and then the police arriving just in time.

When someone posh gets murdered in Poirot/Midsommer etc the family always go out of their way to tell the detective how much they hated the dead person anyway and are glad they’re gone thank you very much.

A friend can just turn up at the door and say "hi, fancy a coffee?" and the homeowner - being immaculately dressed including shoes, full face of makeup and bouffant hair - just says "sure!", picks up a dinky little bag and off they go.

I'd have to get changed out of my pyjamas if it was after 3pm, fluff my hair up because it's gone flat during my afternoon nap, go for a pee, get all of the dogs out for a pee, make sure all of the animals have got plenty of water, go for another pee ... and by then, the coffee shop is shut!

And on the creepy film side, people who follow a trail of blood, all the while going "Susan? Susan? Are you OK?". The trail ends up at a wardrobe or a locker, which their friend opens and then SCREAMS as poor dead Susan falls out. Seriously, WTF did you expect?!

@Chikapu

Coming down to huge breakfasts, pancakes, plates of bacon, fruit for days and no one touches it!

Also, if it's set in America, they all seem to eat a mountain of scrambled eggs for breakfast - at least 6 eggs each. Never any toast, just a few bits of cremated bacon and a 10 foot high pile of eggs.

@Thecurtainsofdestiny

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!

Even in the case of a fire, I'd pick up my plate and take it with me. No excuses.

@hazelnutlatte

Someone collapses to the floor, whispers some last words and dies. Person with them (who is very much not qualified to certify death) will try to feel for a pulse, say 'he's gone' and then everyone will start crying and hugging etc. In real life - if this happens I would hope there is someone sensible enough to call an ambulance and start CPR!

And if anyone does try CPR or there's a handy nurse/Dr/random person to start it (and they're not meant to die) one rescue breath and a wallop to the middle of the chest or some half hearted compressions brings the person back from cardiac arrest instantly, no further support required, to the point where they can tell everyone what happened in a breathy voice, get up and carry on, maybe then seen looking remarkably healthy on an ambulance stretcher later on.

Also, any film that includes a horse or horses, all look relaxed and settled yet the scenes are always accompanied with endless screeching, desperate whinnies from the horses (that don't even move their face/neck) that are usually heard when a mare is separated from a new born foal, not standing around deciding which way the baddie went.

@hazelnutlatte

Someone collapses to the floor, whispers some last words and dies. Person with them (who is very much not qualified to certify death) will try to feel for a pulse, say 'he's gone' and then everyone will start crying and hugging etc. In real life - if this happens I would hope there is someone sensible enough to call an ambulance and start CPR!

ha! I was thinking that while watching some daytime telly crap the other day, "how many has Father Brown accidentally killed by saying his death prayers [can you tell I'm not catholic] over these poor people instead of calling a bloody doctor?"

Also v good point about everyone saying what a twat the dead person was anyway - and NEVER asking what happened, how did they die, their poor husband etc.

The other one that always gets me is how unscared people are, in a typical country house type mystery where people are being murdered they're just wandering around casually playing tennis, chatting, complaining about the police. I'd be locked in my room and not fucking well coming out thanks very much.

Lol @SweetFelicityArkright my dad used to work with horses and this (the neighing etc) drives him potty. That and supposedly well trained horses rearing up on their back legs at nothing at all.

Back to the driving. I can't stand it when the protagonist is driving (chatting distractedly to the passenger optional) and they are constantly spinning the steering wheel around as though they're in a Formula 1 race.

It's okay, we know you're driving - you are in a car! In real life, they'd be totalling lampposts and mowing down pedestrians with abandon.

When people lay down on a bed with their bloody shoes on. Who bloody does that in rl.

I always hate it when the film depicts a young heroine (usually blonde and very attractive), go into a deserted building, in the middle of the night, often an empty mental hospital or similar.
Really? In real life would anyone?

Everybody who's dying coughs weakly, no matter what they're doing of.

@DelorisVC

Yes! Or shoes on the sofa!!!! Heels on chilling at their own home alone etc