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Things that happen in films that don't happen in real life

238 replies

LilyAnn13 · 26/12/2024 20:12

  1. Sliding down a wall when in emotional distress
  2. Swiping everything off the desk when angry
  3. Starting to talk about your day when entering the house, before you've even checked if anyone is home e.g "Hi I'm home. You'll never guess what happened to me in the office today...."

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OP posts:
TheoreticalVacuum · 26/12/2024 22:08

I slid down the wall dramatically once. But it was when I passed out when pregnant. I felt myself going and tried to hang on to the wall. In the middle of the office. Embarrassing.

FruitPolos · 26/12/2024 22:08

My labour was very much like they show in the films. I went from nothing to my waters suddenly breaking with a gush then immediately started contractions every two minutes! But yeah that isn't normal.

There are no toddlers in films or TV. You have three month old babies and five year olds and nothing in between.

CulturalNomad · 26/12/2024 22:10

Waking up from a year(s) long coma and looking completely normal and ready to leave hospital within a day.

houseofstark · 26/12/2024 22:11

People going to bed and/or waking up with all their curtains open. No-one does this, surely!!

SwordToFlamethrower · 26/12/2024 22:11

Women not doing anything and letting a man take over a crisis.

Abbyk1980 · 26/12/2024 22:12

houseofstark · 26/12/2024 22:11

People going to bed and/or waking up with all their curtains open. No-one does this, surely!!

I do my back leads to a field my neighbours don’t look in always left them open

Letstoast · 26/12/2024 22:12

TheoreticalVacuum · 26/12/2024 22:08

I slid down the wall dramatically once. But it was when I passed out when pregnant. I felt myself going and tried to hang on to the wall. In the middle of the office. Embarrassing.

My mum did as well on the tube. It was terrifying! She just fainted.

BridgetRandomfuck · 26/12/2024 22:13

Do we really want to see ‘real life’ in films though? No one wants to see the tedious day to day stuff unless we’re watching a kitchen sink drama - fantasy is not real life! I don’t mind not watching someone on the bog or faffing around with their toothbrush….

KeepLosingThings · 26/12/2024 22:13

Young DC just going to bed without complaining/stalling/faffing/crying etc

Abitofhassle · 26/12/2024 22:13

Women who put on the man’s shirt the morning after…it wouldn’t cover the bits that it would be essential to cover!! I’d be walking about tugging the front bit down on the way into a room and the back bit down as I left 😂
I suppose not being 5ft and 90llbs doesn’t help

Jennyathemall · 26/12/2024 22:14

StormingNorman · 26/12/2024 22:01

Shower facing the wall

Eh?

CurlyhairedAssassin · 26/12/2024 22:14

sleepseeker99 · 26/12/2024 20:18

Holding your lovers face with both hands while kissing them. I never understand why they do that in movies, very controlling / smothering behaviour

My first kiss with DH was actually just like in the movies and like that. It was on a dance floor. It did actually feel like everyone else faded away into the distance and it was just the two of us, like those effects you get in the movies where the camera pans out and shows the couple from above and angels sing and all that 😆. It had been building up for a while and I feel very lucky to have experienced that. It's our 25th wedding anniversary this year. We no longer kiss like that but I have that nice memory at least!

IPartridge · 26/12/2024 22:14

Couples lying back on bed, appearing to have come from some height, at the end of having sex. What were they doing?

Action films where women are running around with no bag or pockets. I'm always wondering where their phone/keys etc are.

ViciousChicken · 26/12/2024 22:14

People never close the curtains in (mostly horror) films. So whatever stalker / monster is out there, they can see in and see where the victim is.

KiraNerys1 · 26/12/2024 22:16

Hoppinggreen · 26/12/2024 20:27

Parking, people can always park right outside where they need to go, even in big cities

Can you imagine how boring it would be to add in "driving around the car park, looking for a space, 12 minute walk to the location"

ViciousChicken · 26/12/2024 22:16

And why do you never see toilets on spaceships? Never seen a sign for the ladies or gents!

LookItsMeAgain · 26/12/2024 22:17

Not sure if it’s already been said but always finding the perfect parking space when and where you need it.

Yogachick · 26/12/2024 22:17

Groups of people being such good friends,never falling out or having different opinions on child rearing,always available for a chat,in and out of each others houses,never wanting some time to themselves,never having a fat day….

12345mummy · 26/12/2024 22:23

Wearing the man’s work shirt the next morning and then wandering around his house/down to breakfast in it

Kendodd · 26/12/2024 22:23

Afraidofhimrightnow · 26/12/2024 21:31

So many of these are true though. Fast labour. Holding a face whilst kissing. Sitting up after a nightmare.

Yeah, the parking always available never happens in real life though.

LookItsMeAgain · 26/12/2024 22:26

purplecorkheart · 26/12/2024 21:38

Arriving in ER/A&E and having a team of doctors waiting for your arrival rather than hours and hours waiting.

In fairness the movies being 90 mins long and most if not all of that would be sown in A&E

NoNotTodayThanks · 26/12/2024 22:27

When they make plans to do something together but there's no details given like a time or place, just a "see you tomorrow".

CurlyhairedAssassin · 26/12/2024 22:40

Condoms are only ever used for comic effect (a la that Eastenders episode where Alfie was running all over the place looking for a condom), or to show awkward teenagers fumbling with inexperience and first love. There's never any normal use of condoms, and normal removal of it at the end. Or discussion of contraception at all.

Basically just about everything that James Bond does. I know you have to suspend your disbelief but it makes me laugh thinking of how if boring it would be if it was more realistic. You never see him packing, or taking his suit carrier into the hotel even though he always ends up in a tux or something. Occasionally you see him unpacking, but only so that there can be a pause for a knock on the door or someone breaking in through the window or something. If you see him checking in it's only so that a villain can spy on him and overhear what he's saying. If he can't find something in his hotel room it's because a villain has stolen it, not because he's mislaid it or left it at his last hotel by accident.

The woman he's supposed to work with, or who comes to bring him a message is always someone attractive who he wants to have sex with, never a plain Jane or someone 20 years older. He always manage to shag even though he's just been injured in some kind of chase or fight, never says "oh, sorry, do you mind going on top, my back is killing me after falling down those stairs earlier." On and on......

Justleaveitblankthen · 26/12/2024 22:41

TimothyIsNotAnArmardillo · 26/12/2024 20:53

The police calling to question someone and they carry on washing up/washing the car/ or some other mundane task whilst being questioned.

Yes! This happens in every questioning scene in NCIS, Special Victims Unit.
The cops turn up at the Dry Cleaners/Motel/School/Restaurant and the proprietor is irritable at the questions and wanders around continuing their tasks throughout 😂

WooleyMunky · 26/12/2024 22:46

People saying something and then saying 'did I just say that out loud?'
No queues for ANYTHING unless being made to wait is part of the drama.
All sex scenes.