You can’t expect movies and real life to coexist perfectly — it simply doesn’t work that way.
Sure, giant aliens can uproot major cities and it’s fine because you’re watching a movie but when a group of college students live in a huge apartment in New York City, it’s like “come on! That’s impossible!”
Even though clichés and movie tropes are par for the course, sometimes things happen in movies that shatter the audience’s suspension of disbelief and makes it infuriating.
Reddit user u/Nest-egg asked movie fans, “What’s the thing that always happens in the movies that NEVER happens in real life?” and the results are pretty spot on.
Here are some of the most infuriating things that happen in movies but not in the real world.
“Brand new technology being incredibly intuitive for first time users. Seriously, regular characters just walk up to enemy shit for example and just start manipulating the system. Yeah, because Bill here can even find Task Manager let alone log into and use some new software at an enemy’s base.”
“Movies – ‘wtf was that!’ Don’t bother turning lights on. Go look…
Real life – my wife hears something ‘wtf was that! Wake up! Go check!!!!!’ Turns every single light on, locks the bedroom door behind me, has 911 ready to dial. Constantly yells for me to give an update. Allows me back in the door after triple confirming my identity, using the secret password…. oh that noise?
“The way actors dramatically circle each other while they’re having conversations. It’s something stage actors are taught to do to make the scene more dynamic, but it’s not something people ever actually do in real life. Imagine chatting with your buddy somewhere and he just starts circling you mid-conversation: ‘So anyway, I think we should . . . uh, where are you going? What is happening right now?'”
“In movies with any kind of trial scene there’s always a dramatic moment where one of the attorneys presents a witness or piece of evidence that completely changes the course of the trial. Something that neither the judge or opposing attorney knew about.
Like sorry buddy, but the discovery deadline was a month ago.”
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“Grocery bags in movies ALWAYS have unwrapped French bread and some green leaf lettuce sticking out of the top.”
“One I never see mentioned. Whenever people play something back, be it a tape recorder, video recording, or whatever, they can always fast-forward or rewind to EXACTLY the point they want, with perfect accuracy.”
“People yell ‘taxi!’ to call a cab. That’s not how you do it. You just raise you hand in the air and they see you. It’s not like they would hear you if you yelled out ‘taxi!'”
“People establishing family (outside of mothers, fathers and grandparents) relationships in their greetings so anyone that happens to overhear knows how you’re related.
‘Hey brother, it’s been a long time!’
‘What’s going on, sis?’
‘How are you, cousin?’
“A girl waking up with perfect hair and a face full of perfectly done makeup. I don’t care how pretty of a girl you are you don’t wake up with perfect hair.”
“When people get evicted, they go to the bar to drink away their sorrows. If you can’t afford rent, you sure as hell can’t pay bar prices for beer. It would be more realistic for them to steal booze.”
