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30 Concepts That Work Just Fine In Movies But Fail To Work In Real Life, As Pointed Out By Folks Online
A lot of us love to watch movies and TV shows as it helps to escape reality for a little while. But what if the things that are portrayed in the movies are so far from reality that it even makes it annoying to watch the rest of the movie? Someone online was curious to know these annoying little things that look so good on the screen but are actually nearly impossible to do or just don’t work that way in real life, so they asked Reddit users to share their remarks. The question “What looks fun in movies, but in real life is miserable?” received 6.5k answers that included things such as laying in tall grass, having to perform CPR on someone, or portraying difficult professions as an easy and cool job. Which one of these things mentioned do you find true? Or maybe there is something that is missing from this list? Don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below!
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#1
High school
Joerct Drew 2 years ago
Why isn't this no. 1? I had to drop ut of 2 high schools due to mental health issues, and high school was one of the biggest reasons.
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#2
CPR. on TV it's just a fun cutesy little water coughing thing that you recover from immediately and in real life it involves breaking ribs and maybe dying anyway
#3
Getting knocked out with a blow to the head.
Movies: like waking up from a nap.
Real life: pain, headache, problems for months if not years.
Lorrie Rothstein 2 years ago
How about in the movies and TV when they get amnesia from a blow to head? Then they get another blow to the head and their memories come back
#4
Sleeping in the tall grass. I'm sure you've seen the memes but in reality, those fields would be infested with bugs and they'd more than likely bite you
#5
“Nightclubs.”
“What?!”
“Nightclubs, in the movies. It looks cool. You meet friends there, instead of grumpy strangers, and you have fun group interactions.”
“What?!”
#6
A feature-length romantic drama filled with conflict and angst that, in real life, could've been resolved with 5 minutes of discussion and a phone call.
Raumpfleger 2 years ago
Oh yeah! Paired with these movie scenes where someone tries to announce the most important news which would resolve the whole situation and doesn't get to it.
#7
Digging a hole. Cartoons make it look so easy and quick. In reality hours of back-breaking work will get you six inches down.
Eat Dirt Crow 2 years ago
Here in Colorado the soil is so hard that even a gas powered post hole digger gives up after about 10 inches. (Insert joke about girlfriend named post hole digger here)
#8
Hanging off a cliff with one hand, attempting to pull yourself up.....while someone else is hanging on you also
#9
Shooting a gun indoors with no ear protection
Guile main 2 years ago
I was watching Terminator 2 with my dad and he got annoyed how both a shotgun and pistol were being fired in a tiny elevator, and they were all fine when in reality they would be basically deaf at that point
#10
Carrying and drinking hard liquor out of a flask. In movies, it looks kind of normal but in real life, you just look like an alcoholic.
Joerct Drew 2 years ago
It's why if I carry my own alcoholic beverages I typically carry them in a normal thermos. Some of those flasks look cool, and as much as I want to carry them I'd rather people not think I'm addicted to alcohol when I'm just trying to enjoy life.
#11
Stalking women.
I mean, surprise elaborate romantic gestures from a complete stranger.
(She just calls it "stalking" because she doesn't know me and can't see how romantic and handsome and awesome I am in my head.)
Bubbles and sparks 2 years ago
Like Joe in You.... that was one creepy serie but quite well played.
#12
Elaborate pranks. Great for comedies…and also great way to f**k up relationships.
$cagsy 2 years ago
Reminds of April Fool's Day (1st Apr everyone pranks each other and justifies it by saying 'April Fool's! in the UK) one year. There was this lovely guy who would do anything for anybody in our football team and he got 'fooled' big-style. One of the other lads rang him up and told him he'd run out of petrol about 30 miles from home and could he come and help. Of course, he went and nobody was there. Poor sod. He was jolly cross.
#13
Kissing while treading water. Good luck not kicking each other, knocking heads, or getting a mouthful of snot.
#14
When superheroes moving at a very very high rate of speed rescue people just in time when in reality if they did that they would probably break the persons back and neck and various other bones and give them brain damage or a concussion from they brain hitting the inside of their skull or just flat out kill them from moving them so quickly from a dead stop.
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
Sounds like Sheldon judging Superman for making a lumpy jigsaw puzzle of Lois Lane if the movies were realistic
#15
Military movies where there is always action happening. Really? Really Hollywood? Are you sure people don't sit around 95% of the time doing nothing?
#16
Montages where they’re working hard, especially if it’s a “glow-up” thing full of exercise and dieting and self-improvement. In reality it kinda sucks. There’s no fast-forward, no silly music.
Ephemeral Mochi 2 years ago
I mean, with some earbuds and a pocket-sized device you can get the silly music. Not too sure about the time travel, though
#17
Theme parks!! They don't show that you have to wait over an hour+ for the best ride(s) and how expensive the food cost in there.
#18
My dad was a police officer (with a damn straight moral compass, I *know* what you’re thinking.) and he said that it was pretty much 80% paperwork.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
The movie Hot Fuzz was considered noteworthy because they listened to a cop saying how it's mostly paperwork and you never see that in the movies *so they actually put that in*.
#19
Fighting. Srsly, don’t do it. I have six felony charges and can not do anything that I wanted to do in younger years. No one likes an aggressive person. You’re not gonna get any babes, or whatever.
#21
Fighting on top of a moving train. Always make me think of the Archer episode where he was so excited to fight a guy but soon found out the reality of it really sucks!!
#22
Hanging up on people. In movies, it makes you look badass and mysterious. In real life, it makes you look like an inconsiderate a*****e and will prompt a "wtf happenned" callback.
René Studer 2 years ago (edited)
Also, phone calls in movies are always short and to the point and nobody makes sure you understood all the information they just threw at you. „Meet me at that bar you’ve never heard of in that city you have never been to in two hours“ *hangs up*.
#23
Moving, painting and fixing up houses/apartments
Lene 2 years ago
I'm a weirdo but I love moving! I love to pack everything down and to unpack it all at the new home and putting it in the new spot. 😁 the only thing I hate about moving is getting everything moved from one place to new. I guess you could say that I love moving except the actual move of things. Lol.
#24
Conversations. Always have the perfect thing to say and everything flows. A lot of convos in movies would be considered very abnormal in real life if you really picture it.
#26
Hacking and software development in general. God I wish it was actually as badass as people make it out to be.
Helen Waight 2 years ago
Hacking is always shown to be this big exciting screen of code with a ‘I’m in’ uttered twenty seconds later. In reality it’s a long time trying one attack after another, or trying to lure someone into giving you their password (which is easier than conventional hacking) and why we pay professional companies to test our security.
#27
A vacation with little kids.
Lene 2 years ago
Done that with 3 kids. The two oldest spent a week being EXTREMELY excited about not being at home. The youngest spent the first evening vomiting all our ALL her clothes and my bf's. He had to wear my pants for a day until his own were washed and dried. Lol. But our conclusion to that week: never ever travel again just us 5. Lol
#28
Smashing a window with your fist
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
I got into a little kick watching police body cam videos on YouTube and even with a baton they had to hit it several times before it broke.
#29
Spontaneously breaking into song in the middle of public.
Bubbles and sparks 2 years ago
I'm oblivious to my surroundings.... when there is a nice song playing in the supermarket, I'll sing and dance, but I do however learned to control the volume and space around me XD
#30
A few people have said fighting, but I feel like it should be specified that *winning* a fight is not a fun experience irl. Most people in actual serious fights aren't gonna have some kind of plot-relevant, narratively satisfying thing on their mind that makes the inevitable bruises/fractures feel like they were worth it for the sake of justice or something, and not just more avoidable suffering that you wish you could've stayed home for instead.
What do you think ?
N Gregory 2 years ago
Also known as "Fiction isn't the same as reality and that's somehow disappointing". I mean, really?! Would any of you seriously watch a realistic military movie where it's 95% non-action? Or a non-montage travelling sequence where it *really takes* 8 hours to get somewhere, much of it staring out of the same window? Or the tedious paperwork involved in much of police detective procedures? The whole point of movies and fiction is that it *isn't* like real life.
Araminta 2 years ago
It's batman, but he looks mangled from all the fighting and he walks to danger for an hour each episode because the city is too crowded with cars and the bat signal only works if it's cloudy so he only comes out of the bat cave a few times a year. We get to watch drink his morning coffee for an hour straight at the beginning of every episode....
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Daniel Yamada 2 years ago
Shopping in a supermarket and grabbing whatever looks good without checking the price.
Araminta 2 years ago (edited)
They always come home with one single non-descript paper bag with lettuce, carrots, apples and if its a crime show then lots of alcohol
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Lytse Draak 2 years ago
Suffocating is also one. It takes much longer to kill someone by strangling them than what they show on tv.
N Gregory 2 years ago
Also known as "Fiction isn't the same as reality and that's somehow disappointing". I mean, really?! Would any of you seriously watch a realistic military movie where it's 95% non-action? Or a non-montage travelling sequence where it *really takes* 8 hours to get somewhere, much of it staring out of the same window? Or the tedious paperwork involved in much of police detective procedures? The whole point of movies and fiction is that it *isn't* like real life.
Araminta 2 years ago
It's batman, but he looks mangled from all the fighting and he walks to danger for an hour each episode because the city is too crowded with cars and the bat signal only works if it's cloudy so he only comes out of the bat cave a few times a year. We get to watch drink his morning coffee for an hour straight at the beginning of every episode....
Load More Replies... Daniel Yamada 2 years ago
Shopping in a supermarket and grabbing whatever looks good without checking the price.
Araminta 2 years ago (edited)
They always come home with one single non-descript paper bag with lettuce, carrots, apples and if its a crime show then lots of alcohol
Load More Replies... Lytse Draak 2 years ago
Suffocating is also one. It takes much longer to kill someone by strangling them than what they show on tv.
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