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Writer Christopher, aka u/xwhy, told us about the inspiration behind the thread. "I wanted to start a discussion, and I was curious if anyone else was as picky as I can be about details. As I told someone else on the thread, superheroes, aliens, and magic are the price of admission. That's what I'm paying for with the movie. After that, everything else should be relatable," he explained that even in fantastical settings, large parts of the story need to be grounded and believable.

He explained to Bored Panda how this works. "There can be a dragon. The dragon can swear, smoke cigars, and drink whiskey if it wants to. But if it starts talking about cigars and whiskey and gets basic facts (which are easily found) wrong, someone's going to notice, and that will pull them out of the moment. The audience will willingly accept the big stuff or they wouldn't watch the movie. It's the small stuff that's distracting, and sometimes you wonder if they could've avoided it."

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them The jeep in Jurassic World still being in perfect operating condition, with viable fuel, after 20+ years in an abandoned garage.

Caught myself saying "That's so unrealistic" out loud, watching a movie about man-eating genetically engineered dinosaurs.

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Final score:

383points

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Lord Mysticlaw 1 year ago

Fuel? My first concern would be the battery.

165points

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them I get distracted when I don't understand how a character is earning money, or they have a lifestyle that seems unaffordable with the job they're supposed to have.

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361points

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Oerff On Tour 1 year ago

You mean, like in "Friends"?

183points

The author of the thread told us that he, like many other people, can ignore quite a lot. "But every now and then, I find myself focusing on something that just takes me out of it."

In his post on Reddit, he gave an example of the New York City subways. "Information is readily available. I would rather that the movie makers created a fictitious train, such as the T line, than use a real line and have it go where it doesn't belong (and no one has a problem with this)," he said.

"Using Vancouver or Toronto for Brooklyn is fine. I accept that. Using Hoyt–Schermerhorn as a stand-in for City Hall is fine, too." Christopher suggested that the best remedy for this is for movie creators to do some basic fact-checking.

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them In The Queen‘s Gambit, when Anya Taylor-Joy's character loses control of her life, and she’s sitting there in a satin nightgown with perfect hair and makeup. Sure. That’s what I look like when I lose control over my life too

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341points

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Kimba 1 year ago

Have you noticed how much makeup women are wearing on TV shows and movies when they go to bed? 😳

240points

I know this is a staple of the character but every time Clark Kent rips open his shirt to reveal his costume it drives me nuts. WHERE DOES HE KEEP THE CAPE??

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318points

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Jason 1 year ago

Prison pocket?

176points

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them In the The Day After Tomorrow I was totally ok with all of crazy weather and crazy explanations for what was happening. I was even mostly ok with them running from “the cold” as they barely made it in to the roof of a Wendy’s, but when they started grilling circle shaped hamburger patties instead of square shaped patties inside that Wendy’s, that was it for me. Everyone knows Wendy’s has square patties, how dare you!! I just could couldn’t take anything seriously after that point.

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315points

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N Miller 1 year ago

Huh. I never noticed. We don't have Wendy's here

74points

"They'll never get all of it, especially the specialized stuff," he pointed out that, in his thread, some commenters were extremely well-versed in "medicine and guns, among other topics." Nobody's asking for perfection; but the basics, at least, should be gotten right.

"Say, putting the 4 train on the Brighton line will leave a lot of New Yorkers scratching their hands more than King Kong or Godzilla on the Boardwalk." If you're interested in flash fiction, you can take a peek at Christopher's book 'In A Flash 2020' here and here. Meanwhile, you'll find his fun webcomic right over here.

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them Independence Day, when Jeff Goldblum plugs the Apple into the alien ship and infects them with a virus.

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Final score:

258points

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Kip Kip 1 year ago

One should know nothing is compatible with Aple.

294points

PERFECT TEETH. Whether it's someone from before 1950 or a strung-out junkie, they still have those perfectly straight white Hollywood teeth.

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256points

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Follo00 1 year ago

Same with no body hair. Stranded on a desert island for weeks and still no armpit hair? A peasant in medieval England with hair on their legs? Nooo, that is not a thing.

172points

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them Makeup and hair done in unrealistic settings or wrong eras

You are in a post apocalyptic world trying to survive and somehow you have your hair done with a bit of cat eyeliner.

Another one is historical movies with modern hair and makeup. Wank my eyes out.

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Final score:

254points

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DrBronxx 1 year ago

Someone doesn't know what "wank" means. BP doesn't seem to know what it means either.

20points

Let’s put it this way. We’re completely fine with there being wizards and dragons in the stories we read and watch. However, they still need to behave more or less like wizards and dragons. If dragons can teleport around the world instead of, you know, actually flying to places, we’re going to start asking questions. Similarly, if their strength, resilience, and the power of their breath all vary wildly from scene to scene because the plot demands it, we’re going to sigh and say, “C’mon!”

The same can be said about character motivations. Yes, people grow, adapt, and change their minds. However, you can’t expect the audience to get emotionally invested in the characters themselves if they change their minds about what’s right and wrong from scene to scene and episode to episode. There needs to be consistency and logic! Some recent TV shows are absolutely great at destroying the audience’s willing suspension of disbelief.

#10

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them Definitely the post apocalyptic setting where everyone is ripped with insane muscle mass even though getting anywhere near the calories required to maintain that physique would be impossible.

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Final score:

244points

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Xottel 1 year ago

And trimmed beards of course

116points

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#11

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them People have their necks snapped when their head is slightly pulled to the left or right, instead of the full 180 you'd need. It makes you think they were always one violent sneeze or sudden head lean away from killing themselves.

Final score:

235points

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Jason 1 year ago

Bro when you get my age the sudden sneeze will do it.

348points

#12

I hate when vehicles no one heard suddenly burst onscreen and hit someone.

The worst example I’ve seen was a company of helicopters. I don’t remember the name of the movie or what was taking place but it was a night scene in a compound high in a mountain range.

Suddenly, three or four helicopters anyone with ears would have heard coming from miles away swoop in and take everyone by surprise.

Time and money wasted.

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Final score:

233points

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Lorrinda Lane 1 year ago

This reminds me of The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials

40points

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Things that low-key irk us include characters teleporting around Middle Earth seemingly in an instant in The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power. It’s also hard to stay invested in the story when it’s hard to grasp the timeframe. And don’t even get us started on how low-quality some of the costumes were… Look, if you’re doing something related to The Lords of the Rings, you have to get the details right.

In a similar fashion, as much as we enjoyed House of the Dragon, we had a hard time actually liking some of the characters just because of how often their motivations and personalities flip-flopped. However, watching the show got us to read George R. R. Martin’s book Fire & Blood about the entire Targaryen dynasty, so we still call that a win. There’s far more consistency to be found in the pages of the book than in the show, but we’re still eagerly waiting for season 2. (Maybe they've heard the feedback from fans and they'll fix the lighting in some scenes! The stories are dark, but the scenes don't have to mirror that in an all-too-literal sense; we want to see what's going on.)

#13

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them Narrow specialty doctors drawing bood, doing microscopy and other routine stuff that doctors don't normally do (looking at you, House).

Final score:

219points

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Corvus 1 year ago

House isn't a typical/normal doctor, though.

90points

#14

My number one pet peeve is when characters who speak the same language are all speaking in English to each other with accents. I get they do it because they’re targeting an English-speaking audience and a lot of this group can’t be bothered to read subtitles, but that always takes me out. I’m also anti-dub because I like to hear the actors speak in their native language, even if I can’t understand it.

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209points

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Jay Son 1 year ago

Ugh.. don't get me started on dubs. As soon as I see it's dubbed, it's the end of the movie for me.

118points

#15

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them The opening of A Quiet Place, when the camera pans to a newspaper vending machine and the headline reads, “It’s Sound!!”

I could not get past the idea that the world (maybe just the area?) is being destroyed by creatures with such super hearing that we later see children playing Monopoly with pieces of felt because the sound of plastic on chipboard will evidently risk death, and someone had to write a story about something so obvious, then it was proofed, then it was edited, then someone had to typeset it, THEN they actually ran the printing press - they’re *absurdly* loud - and some poor schlub had to brave their way through the streets, dodging sound monsters as the sun was coming up, so they could drive around the city and fill vending machines with newspapers.

I know it’s a throwaway moment in the movie, I get that it’s an homage to sci-fi movies of the 50s and 60s, but it’s just so dumb when you think about it.

Then, of course, you find out the protagonists have decided to put themselves and their family in complete danger by getting pregnant (you really think you can keep a baby completely silent through their being a toddler? And your best soundproofing is newspapered walls and one spring mattress?!) and I just couldn’t enjoy anything or take it seriously. I hate that movie with a vengeance.

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Final score:

202points

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Cyber Returns 1 year ago

The newspapers were printed when the fact was discovered, meaning most areas were not effected yet, and you can only imagine the look on everyone's faces when they read the headline being printed

27points

At the end of the day, there will always be particular decisions that storytellers make that will upset us (and us specifically), and we either have to actively ignore them or move on to a better film/show/book. One small ‘mistake’ probably won’t prevent us from immersing ourselves in the story. But these errors in continuity and logic can quickly add up.

The best thing that moviemakers can do is to try and find realistic (again, realistic in the context of their world) solutions to their narrative problems, instead of going for lazy solutions. If we wanted to watch a low-budget film or read a poorly-written piece of fan fiction, we would’ve chosen to do that instead.

#16

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them Any scene in a movie where an ordinary person gets hold of a gun of any sort and instantly knows how to hold, accurately aim, fire, and reload it.

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Final score:

193points

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Thomas Bentley 1 year ago

Weapons are quite simple, if there is a trigger; pull it to make boomstick go boom, if there is a lever near the magazine housing, fiddle with it to make the magazine fall out, charging handles are more complex, but in video games you see someone pulling a handle to charge the weapon, so in movies in the present will have that to help them. the exception is stoppages, but by then, a competent person will have got themselves another weapon, and can discard the current one.

49points

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#17

Cars that explode like giant fireworks anytime they get into a wreck. Even for fender benders. Or when they drive a car off a cliff and it explodes before it even lands on anything. If this were true, would any of us even be alive?

Final score:

183points

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N Miller 1 year ago

It's a leftover from when cars were far less safe. It's become a trope because it's expected - the collective consciousness "knows" that cars explode on impact because they did (used to do that). Cars also are completely undrivable after taking to the air via ramp and landing with enough force to break an axle, but I've not seen that one on the list so far....

51points

#18

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them Horses aren’t motorcycles.

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Final score:

177points

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JJ 1 year ago (edited)

This. + You don't just jump on a horse back and gallop the fastest you can. Or at least, you shouldn't do it. Horses need a proper warming up, too (esp. when they stood in a barn before), as much as we do when we do sports.

127points

#19

This actually just occurred to me today: in The Matrix, the concept of "dying in the simulation kills you IRL" and "the body cannot live without the mind". I get that the simulation is *very* real, but it only interacts with your conscious brain by implanting images and sensations into your cerebrum. Your autonomic nervous system is controlled by the brain stem (cerebellum) and has nothing to do with your conscious interaction with the surrounding world.

Your brain stem doesn't "know" that you got shot; physiological changes due to the impact impair homeostasis, and interrupt vital functions. Your brain stem will still try to make your heart beat even if your heart gets ripped out of your chest (for the few moments it still has oxygen) so why would your brain stem "decide" to make your heart stop just because you think you got shot?

it makes no sense at all and considering much of the series relies on people dying for real because they died in the simulation totally ruins it for me

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Final score:

176points

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Dan Baxter 1 year ago (edited)

The brain stem is more than just the cerebellum, it has three parts. Moreover, the cerebellum is the primary motor cortex, which controls our bodily movements especially in response to sensory cues, and not the piece of the brain that controls the heart: that is the hypothalamus (located below the thalamus). If you want to pick apart the Matrix, the idea that jamming a big metal rod into the longitudinal fissure in the brain - most likely severing or damaging the corpus callosum in the process completely removing the ability to form long-term memories among other major damages -- would somehow completely immerse you in sensory information would be completely wrong, for a variety of different reasons. I still enjoyed the movies, but as a psychologist, I very much had to suspend disbelief at a number of the aspects of their explanation of the Matrix and how it would work in the brain.

24points

#20

Game of Thrones: I know there was plenty of awful writing in the later seasons, but armies just started teleporting around the place. Armies on horseback and foot. I grew up on a farm and do you know how much food animals need for 6 week. And people. When winter is coming in, so zero grass growth. And moving that food around with the army. And then carts, wheelwrights to fix the carts wheels. They had spent a lot of time showing how far sone parts were from each other.

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165points

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Barbra E. Nyberg 1 year ago

Interesting point.

37points

#21

This is very niche, but as a professional musician “whiplash“ pissed me off. The scene where Miles Teller is practicing his drums until his hand starts bleeding is absolutely detrimental to his technique. If he does that regularly, he’ll be lucky if he can hold a pen let alone play the drums by the time he’s 40.

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161points

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Ellie Vanille 1 year ago

To be fair, the whole "tough love teaching" is stupid.

76points

Robin Roper 1 year ago

Isn't that what our military does/uses?

2points

Saint Thomas 1 year ago

But isn't the whole point of the movie to show how his passion drives him to the tipping point of sanity because of the abusive nature of his mentor ? I think there's a lot of talented young people that have been 'destroyed' by abusive mentors in music, dance, sport...

18points

Roland 1 year ago

The way you learn a difficult bit as a musician is to play it slowly at first. Very very slowly and once every move is perfected, you speed it up gradually. The beauty is that there's almost no limit to how fast you can play it if you can play it slow perfectly. Whiplash is a very good movie for a whole lotta other reasons, but does a terrible job of portraying musicians

7points

Kat Pekin 1 year ago

Niche movie complaints are my fave <3

6points

Timbob 1 year ago

And the guy that throws his saxophone In the river in the Charlie Parker movie, better disinfect it before he plays it again!

2points

LinkTheHylian 1 year ago

The real disbelief here is that people keep casting Miles Teller in movies. When you ruin Marvel's First Family (TM) you should be exiled from Hollywood for life. Unless you're Chris Evans or Michael B. Jordan. Apparently playing Johnny Storm gets you a do-over.

1point

J 1 year ago

That's the point of that scene. In that scene, he's not thinking. He's desperate to get the required motion right. OP missed the point.

1point

Fenchurch 1 year ago

As a drummer myself, there is no reason for your hands to bleed unless you are holding the sticks incorrectly. The teacher should have noticed and corrected it. If you play a long time fast and loud, you might get sloppy and get a blister (normal one, no blood). You get callouses if rubbing a lot. Hence why op says the technique is bad if character is bleeding a lot. Drummers get crippling carpal tunnel fast if holding sticks wrong because the force travels up the wrist. There is one correct way and everything else is wrong. If the character is injuring himself, he needs to re-learn how to play. Lots of famous rock drummers have done that in order to save their careers. Many rock stars were self taught, then had to get re-trained by a professional after injuring themselves. The teacher watches your hands and corrects your technique. Miles is in a music conservatory so shouldn’t be so neglected by the teacher. The movie did it for dramatic effect, not realism

3points

Colin Russell-Conway 1 year ago

I've done that. Played til my hands bled. Many, many, many times. And it's nothing to do with technique. I've cut my knuckles on cymbals accidentally because I can't see well with gig lighting. I've had multiple blisters and watched them burst as I play. I've caught my skin doing rimshots and bled. It's not uncommon for drummers and for the most part it's not technique, it's either getting carried away with it, being dazzled by lights, or sheer tiredness and frustration. It's the whole reason for drummer gloves!

1point

Natalie Seaton 1 year ago

And yet many musician students do that to themselves. ITS ALMOST LIKE THE MOVIE IS ABOUT SELF DAMAGE AND SACRIFICE. 🙄

1point

Susan Widomski 1 year ago

Same with knitting.

0points

Niall Mac Iomera 1 year ago

And where he punches through his snare drum. There's absolutely no way someone like him could do that.

0points

Noname 1 year ago

Wtf is Miles Teller? The love child of Penn and Teller??

0points

Matt Wheeler 1 year ago

Have you never heard of John Bonham?

0points

Falcon on Dizzy 1 year ago

the only thing that annoys me about the movie is that whenever I look up whiplash, I get the movie not the metallica song

0points

#22

I was really surprised and taken out of the movie 3 Kings to see people hauling duffel bags of gold bars like they weighed nothing. It is not just one scene, the whole movie they are tossing around, carrying while running, passing from person these duffel bags we're supposed to believe are full of gold bars. One gold bar is 25 pounds so these bags would be easily be hundreds and hundreds of pounds

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Final score:

157points

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Ian Webling 1 year ago

In years gone by, if you went on a tour of a South African gold mine, you were shown standard sized gold bars. You were told if you could carry one of them one-handed out of the door you could keep it.

78points

#23

Anyone in a NYC apartment that doesn't immediately lock their doors after entering. That is, unless the character grew up in the suburbs. In that case, they're too dumb to live in a city.

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Final score:

153points

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Liz Clarke 1 year ago

Most places have doors that lock when you close them (in the UK at least). I've only lived in one place in my life (35 years old) that didn't, and that place was out of date in many other ways. I'd just assume that was the case if they didn't manually lock their front door.

45points

#24

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them Hollywood's insistence that getting shot with a shotgun will throw you back several feet.

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Final score:

151points

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Lauren S 1 year ago

Wait it won’t? I genuinely don’t know. I’ve never seen someone shot with any type of gun.

8points

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#25

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them When 102 pound actresses dispatch a room full of dudes that look like Dave Babtista without taking a single knock in the process. Same can be true with make actors too.

Final score:

151points

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Lord Mysticlaw 1 year ago

Also when you have a woman who works out all the time and kicks a*s in a fight, but has a figure like a stick insect without any visible muscles. I specifically remember Black Canary annoyed me so much when I was watching Arrow.

97points

#26

“The Dark Knight Rises”. Ok, so no one has seen Batman OR Bruce Wayne for seven years and then they BOTH show up in Gotham at the same time but no one notices the coincidence? Not even “Robin” because he says he figured it out by looking into his eyes. Took me out of the movie and that happened at the beginning. Oh and let’s not forget that Commissioner Gordon couldn’t figure that part out either but could all of a sudden remember a tiny conversation he had with a very young Bruce Wayne to put it together. Dumb.

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Final score:

144points

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Soso 1 year ago (edited)

Well I mean Superman got away with using glasses as camouflage so I guess anything is possible 🤣🤣

114points

#27

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them When things are conveniently silent: Talk about someone in a normal voice when they're three feet away. "Can I have a word with you for a minute?" Steps to the other end of the couch for a long conversation about something secret.

Or, sneaks into the back of a car when someone is right there. Car doors make a lot of noise.

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Final score:

139points

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Krysta Pandoo 1 year ago

I loved when Family Guy referenced this .

28points

#28

Aliens in Sci fi films that look and talk like modern Americans, and even share their same values and human biology. But they have spots on their face so they're definitely alien.

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Final score:

133points

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InvincibleRodent 1 year ago

I understand that this whole "Technicolor Space Babes" trope comes from a time when aliens had to be played by humans due to technical constraints, but nowadays, with CG, the WILDEST aliens would be possible. I hope when (fingers crossed) Project Hail Mary gets a movie adaptation, they'll do my boy right...

43points

#29

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them I love Mean Girls, but that scene where Regina George gets hit by a bus, while actually being very funny, also completely takes me out of the movie. She's standing in the street for a long time before a bus, that somehow doesn't see her, plows through her at full speed, all while making no sound whatsoever before it hits her

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Final score:

133points

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Adam Chang 1 year ago

Bus driver was texting

91points

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#30

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them Indiana Jones in a refrigerator being flung hundreds of yards by a nuclear explosion, fast enough to pass a car going full speed, and being unharmed.

In a movie with aliens, a teenager swinging from vines with monkeys fast enough to catch moving vehicles and alien ghosts.

Final score:

130points

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Luke Branwen 1 year ago

Let's just agree that Indy is extra durable because he drank from the Holy Grail :)

148points

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#31

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them This is a dumb one I know, but it irks me that everyone overslept in Home Alone 2.

There was no household power outage, and I'm supposed to believe that NOBODY had set an alarm clock besides Kevin's parents?

Final score:

129points

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Jason 1 year ago

My son wakes up at freeking 5:45 am every morning no matter what. Could have gone to sleep at 5:44. Thanks for pointing this out and now I won't be able to ignore it.

45points

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#32

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them In 'End of Days' the movie goes out of it's way to show that the main character's life is in shambles and he basically doesn't care about anything anymore. He's a drunk who eats garbage and almost never leaves his apartment.

The problem? The main character is played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, so we're supposed to believe that this guy who doesn't give a s**t about his health has the body of a guy who puts roids in his cereal and spends 4 hours a day at the gym.

Final score:

127points

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René Sauer 1 year ago

Well, maybe he is only at beginning of it and his body didn't have time to detoriate.

38points

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#33

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them As a Mexican , it’s the fake Spanish accents in movies. Or when a Mexican American actor tries to speak Spanish but they have a very thick English accent and just doesn’t fit the character

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Final score:

125points

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Jaaawn 1 year ago (edited)

They learned their skills at the Hilaria Baldwin School of Awful Awfully Fake Accents.

95points

#34

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them Prometheus: The ship arrives in another solar system. One of the characters says (something like): "we travelled millions of miles to arrive here." Me: so, you are, like, close to Mars? That's not even our backyard, dude. That's our living room!

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Final score:

120points

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Cthulhu is Alive 1 year ago

I never got how she was running in the shadow of the crashing spaceship instead of just running to the side.

98points

#35

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them Okay The Kingdom of Crystal Skull has been discussed a lot but for me it wasn't the scene where Indy gets into the refrigerator. That did cross a certain line of disbelief but I could live with it. For me, it was the scene where Mutt (an awful character) learns within minutes how to swing on vines from the monkeys, has enough arm strength to keep going at it and is so fast he can catch up with a speeding car.

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Final score:

110points

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Johnnynatfan 1 year ago

that whole scene was just so stupid

32points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#36

The way most movies very inaccurately portray teenagers, especially with the lingo or slang. It’s always either outdated or feels so forced and unnatural. I always think, oh my god KIDS DONT TALK LIKE THIS . .. why can’t writers spend time with some youth to see what they’re actually like

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110points

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Saint Thomas 1 year ago

How do you do, fellow kids ?

164points

#37

Any example where there’s a race against time that requires being somewhere in 5-10 minutes that would clearly take 30-45 *minimum*.

I understand that mechanically it’s probably easier to build a sense of momentum when the race against time roughly corresponds to the runtime itself, but whenever someone says “I’ll be there in 5 minutes,” I can’t help but get distracted thinking how it’ll take them that long just to get going and on the road, let alone cover the 45+ minute commute between locations.

It’s not something so egregious as to ruin the film/episode, it’s just something I immediately notice and therefore necessitates an active suspension of my disbelief.

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Final score:

104points

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Kimba 1 year ago

I heard that's what people say in Italy about how far everything is. "It's a 5 minute walk that way!" No, it will actually take 45 minutes.

18points

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#38

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, they escaped the Goblin King's lair by scooting down a chasm on a physics-defying rickety tower that somehow always stayed upright while bouncing off rock faces. That was Looney Tunes-level silly

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Final score:

92points

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Fembot 1 year ago

Don’t speak of the abomination that was the Hobbit. what a stupid waste of talent

45points

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#39

In Avatar when the element "unobtainium" was shown. The dialogue in that scene and the name just sunk the movie for me. It's too ridiculous.

Final score:

90points

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Samuel Pelatan 1 year ago (edited)

That's an actual scientific name and commonly used among scientists tho https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unobtainium

56points

#40

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them In the movie Van Helsing it was the grey Gap sweater that Hugh Jackman wore. Like, everyone else had a vaguely Victorian steampunk looking outfit and his sweater was straight off the clearance rack. We made fun of that choice for YEARS.

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Final score:

79points

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Minh Lê 1 year ago

To be fair, wool is definitely a believable material for a Victorian attire

55points

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#41

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them When underwater scenes are clear and bright. Even in really deep water. And the characters have their eyes open the whole time. Opening your eyes in salt water is painful I'm sure...

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Final score:

29points

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Stephanie Did It 1 year ago

No, because your eyes are already in salt water; underwater there's just more of it

12points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#42

In the Planet of the Apes remake, Estella Warren plays a human slave, wearing pelts and a loin cloth and living a tortured existence. But she looks stunning. She has flawless skin, bright red lipstick, and her hair looks freshly done at all times

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Final score:

29points

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Judes 1 year ago

Maybe her ape masters make her do her hair and makeup?

14points

#43

In Iron Man, when they introduce Tony Stark as graduating Summa Cum Laude/top of his class at MIT. MIT doesn’t do class rankings or honors graduations.

Related: in Good Will Hunting, when they show the “hallways” at MIT and it’s clearly a f*****g high school with Lockers and everything.

Double related: in Legally blonde when they show the law school grads living in little dorms like undergrads. Also when they show Elle getting sun in the late fall in Boston. XD

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Final score:

28points

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Corvus 1 year ago

Hmmm, unless you've been to MIT, how could you know what their halls look like?

3points

#44

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them When Dory the FISH and an octopus STOLE a CAR and DROVE it on the FREEWAY in Finding Dory. It was too wild.

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Final score:

23points

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Cthulhu is Alive 1 year ago

Octopus are quite smart. I don't know if they can drive a car, but there was one that would watch the security patrol and clock to see when they came past and timed it so it could slip into a neighbouring tank and eat the fish in there.

41points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#45

Gimli even knowing the phrase ‘Central Nervous System’ after he’s killed an Orc by burying his axe in it.

Orcs knowing what menus are too.

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22points

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Wyn Williams 1 year ago (edited)

They have restaurants and inns in that world and presumably know what nerves are since they get on each other's nerves a lot :)

18points

#46

In "The Mummy" when the plane crashes in the dessert, and then sinks in quick sand. Quick sand is not possible without water.

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Final score:

21points

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Bart 1 year ago

*plane slowly sinking in giant cake... :-)

24points

#47

End Of Days. Arnie meets a bunch of religious guys who claim that the number of the Devil was mistranslated. It should have been 999, not 666. But the guy in the movie goes "it's not 666, it's 999 as in 1999!"

Where the hell did the 1 come from?!!!

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Final score:

20points

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Cthulhu is Alive 1 year ago

Even if he came every 999 years, 999 + 999 = 1998 not 1999.

16points

#48

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them Bullet Train. Aaron Taylor Johnson somehow climbing and holding onto the bullet train moving ridiculously fast. Then proceeds to smash the window and make it back inside the train.

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Final score:

19points

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Just_for_this 1 year ago

The whole film was slapstick, buy in to that and its a good watch.

24points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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#49

SPOILERS FOR MIDNIGHT MASS ON NETFLIX

I can suspend my disbelief pretty far, but it seems like the one thing I really can't ignore is people who live ostensibly in "our world" not knowing or acknowledging the mythical creature that appears in the story. My main example would be Midnight Mass, where apparently not a single person has ever heard of a vampire before.

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Final score:

19points

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Kat Pekin 1 year ago

For me in Midnight Mass it was the fact the priest somehow got the vampire to wear human clothes.

5points

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#50

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them In “Thor Ragnarok”, Thor spends the entire film having to learn that he doesn’t need a weapon to be who he is, only to get his a*s kicked in “Avengers Infinity War” and spend the rest of the film getting a new and better weapon.

Complete stupidity and horrendous continuity writing

Final score:

18points

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Kat Bunker 1 year ago

Hold up here. Now in Ragnarok, he does realize he has the power to harness through himself but it still wasn't enough to fully defeat Hela, which is why they had to start Ragnarok. Thanos is stronger than even Hela which is why he needed a god killing conduit

12points

#51

A Burmese python living in the jungle on an island off the coast of Central America in the 1st Jurassic park movie.

(“Clever girl” scene)

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Final score:

18points

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Annik Perrot 1 year ago

Well, there are à lot of Burmese pythons in Florida, now, so why not? They've adapted really well and are going through the native fauna at an alarming rate. Anyone read Carl Hiaasen's hilarious novel "Squeeze Me"? Caution: do NOT read if you're à Trump fan...

15points

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#52

I just watched Smile. The way this woman, a highly regarded and talented therapist, approaches the experience is ridiculous. She behaved more immature than the kids in It Follows. The disbelieving boyfriend trope is exaggerated to the douchebag husband in Paranormal Activity.

I couldn’t get into it because it a plot made possible by the incredulity of dumb decisions layered on top of one another.

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Final score:

18points

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Sebby's Mama 1 year ago

The.boyfriend in Paranormal Activity was seriously the worst. The entire movie was garbage, and it's mostly because of him.

8points

#53

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them In "Ready Player One", an army of game players descend upon the video game fortress in the third challenge. You see a LOT of pop culture references from the Iron Giant to Tracer from Overwatch, because those are the avatars the players chose.

The thing that didn't make sense to me was that each avatar was unique. There was only one Tracer, for example. You can't tell me that there wouldn't be duplicate avatars in such an army.

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Final score:

17points

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Nenyone_yay 1 year ago

I always thought it was so odd that nobody ever tried driving backwards in the first race. Any other mario kart players out there who would immediately floor it in reverse just for some giggles? Gamers try everything.

20points

#54

For some reason, the helicopters carrying around the giant metal robots in Pacific Rim really pissed me off, just looked so implausible... I know it's a movie with a bunch of impossible things happening in it, but for some reason that stuck out to me lol...

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Final score:

15points

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InvincibleRodent 1 year ago

This one, I'm willing to let slide, lol. I mean, a giant robot uses what looks like a freighter as a baseball bat while fighting with a giant otherworldy monster. It's awesome.

15points

#55

In the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet (which takes place in the 14th century), "Romeo had a cool mop-top haircut right out of swinging London and Juliet had long straight hippie hair

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Final score:

15points

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Fat Harry 1 year ago

Did a double take on this one as I read it as "Juliet had long straight nipple hair"

23points

#56

"That Was It For Me": People Share 40 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Ruined It For Them Independence Day, when the aliens blow up Manhattan. The Empire State Building is shown to be in the center of an avenue, with a long stretch of side streets leading up to it. It’s actually in the middle of 34th street, so the camera angle is impossible.

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Final score:

14points

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Corvus 1 year ago

Works for us, Europeans, since we have no idea where the ESB is located :D

33points

#57

John Wick isn’t about a man who can fight really well it’s about the luckiest man in the world.

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Final score:

14points

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Lord Mysticlaw 1 year ago

John Wick is about Keanu Reeves kicking a*s and we happily ignore anything unrealistic. Ssssshhhhh.

58points

#58

That Matthew McConaughey can travel light years from Earth and still keep his tan in Interstellar.

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13points

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Csaba Hegedűs 1 year ago

Isn't the whole thing taking like a week or so for him? Tan doesn't just disappear when you stop being exposed to sunlight for a few days.

26points

#59

It's a toss up between that scene in Batman Returns when Bruce rips off the mask and the black eye makeup just disappeared or the chase scene late in the Dark Knight Rises and I recognized the street it was filmed on having gone to school and worked in Pittsburgh.

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Final score:

10points

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Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago

It's not like they can go shoot on location in Gotham, so that one doesn't bother me. Btw. in a lot of cold war era films when the plot called for Moscow or Leningrad, they used Helsinki instead, because you couldn't get permits to film in the USSR and I think it's fun to recognize places from them

9points

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Sunny Foxglove 1 year ago

Any movie that portrays women as warriors or having to go into battle wearing skimpy clothes that could only pass as a swim suit or dominatrix lingerie, always gets to me. If I'm going into battle I'm wearing bullet proof vests, chainmail, and a suit of armor. I'm not slinging a bow and arrow over one shoulder of my deep cut, belly shirt, sporting a fashionable leather gun holster wrapped around my waist emphasizing my curves, while wearing a loin cloth and knee high stiletto boots carefully concealing knives like some weird filming for Girls Gone Wild, Warrioress Edition.

51points

Amy Moore 1 year ago

It's all the long hair everywhere for me. Tie it up otherwise it will be a)in your face, obstructing your vision or b) your opponent can use it has handle to control you/slam your head against something or to drag you. Tie it up or restrain it!

12points

Sue OK 1 year ago

They should follow the lead of Brianne of Tarth

2points

Omiyaru 1 year ago

I once read a that could have argued females in video games are much stronger than males, considering the fact that you almost always see that the dudes are wearing bulky thick plates. but not often with women

0points

Henrik Schmidt 1 year ago

Today I learned that superhero movies and animated movies are unrealistic. Who'd have thought, eh?

26points

Brandon Parisien 1 year ago

There's suspension of disbelief and going too far....like the (Star Trek) Discovery crew suffering no effects of oxygen deprivation in season 3.

2points

Cindy Irvin 1 year ago

A certain amount of disbelief is of course necessary in a lot of films. The idea is that if you get the real things right, the unreal elements will seem more believable.

0points

Colin 1 year ago

And yet people complain about pro wrestling realism.

0points

Linden 1 year ago

One that gets me now that I've started noticing it - characters are doing something loud and disruptive in public, like having a really loud argument, and the crowd/extras just walk past or sit around like nothing is happening.

16points

Elizabeth Tayler 1 year ago

Character driving a car but NEVER looking at the road!! Drives me crazy. Just stare at the passenger while having a conversation... So many movies & tv shows that have scenes like that.

11points

Giles McArdell 1 year ago

I think my main bugbear is the scenes where a portal is closing, train is leaving, spacecraft is lifting off etc, etc and there are just seconds to spare, but our hero decides now is the time to have a heart to heart, take their time saying their goodbyes, give everyone a hug, perhaps put the kettle on and make some tea, catch up on their reading, suddenly "10 seconds to go" takes about 20 minutes.

10points

Nadine Debard 1 year ago

OMG yes

0points

Andy Saputo 1 year ago (edited)

For me it was M Night Shyamalan's movie "Signs" where aliens are hurt by water. So they decide to invade a planet that is over 70% covered in water and where it falls from the sky and even has water in the air as clouds. That would be like earth invading Venus where it rains sulfuric acid.

8points

wowbagger 1 year ago (edited)

Or how about the Wicked Witch of the West allowing an open bucket of water to just sit around her castle grounds?

2points

Paulo Freitas 1 year ago

Shyamalan was not the 1st One with that idea, years before "signs" there was a TV series that had the same premisse, forgot the tittle though, but it was a good séries.

1point

Ivan Petrov 1 year ago

To be fair, a large portion of Earth can and will kill humans, if we don't have our technological support.

0points

Icecream Sarang 1 year ago

Let’s just say every single woman on TV or screen who gives birth.

7points

Greta Kolding 1 year ago

The one that makes me burst out laughing every time is when someone dips his finger into a white powder, touches it to his tongue and exclaims "it's cocaine (or heroine or morphine) all right".

6points

Doctor Strange 1 year ago

Oh, have I got a story for you. Way back in the 80s, my dad worked for a company that produced adult diapers. His boss was flying to a conference, carrying samples of super absorbent in his briefcase. Super absorbent is the stuff that makes diapers retain liquid, by absorbing it and turning into a crystaline gel. Its also a white powder. Well someone stole said briefcase. A short while later, the boss was able to retrieve his briefcase from the local hospital. He never did get his super absorbent samples back though...

3points

Jo Slatermill 1 year ago

I agree there are some "unrealistic" things in movies. but people should get things like "his hair, her makeup, teeth, body build etc in proportion. it's a movie, people shouldn't starve for a role, dysmorph their bodies or something. it's just a movie for f@#$ sake

6points

Ivan Petrov 1 year ago

Someone should tell this to Christian Bale.

0points

Pieter LeGrande 1 year ago

Why don't all these action heroes get PTSD?

6points

Corvus 1 year ago

Because they are the traumatic event? :P

11points

Corvus 1 year ago

Some legit finds in this list, but most of it was pointless nitpicking. Movie makers cannot account for every tiny detail that someone might accidentally notice.

5points

GadgetGirl 1 year ago

Armor with boobs. Don't these people ever look at what a woman in layers of clothes looks like?

4points

Gene Perry 1 year ago

Bras and underwear. So, a couple has sex. Cool. Then, next shot, they're lying in bed and he has on underwear (boxers, always) and she has on her bra & panties. Who does that? Ho puts on their underwear after sex just to go to sleep?

4points

TMoxraaar 1 year ago

I don't even know how people wear anything to bed physically (I get emotional and psychological reasons). I can't stay asleep when I wear anything. It gets wrapped around me and feels like I didn't finish my bedtime routine.

0points

Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago

I also don't like it when characters are overly upset that they had to kill a psychopath to save their or someone else's life. I suppose there are people like that. But for me, if you're trying to kill me and I kill you first I'm going to feel tremendous relief, not guilt.

3points

Sonja 1 year ago

'Good' characters killing lots of bystanders without a blink of an eye and later celebrating their victories happily without a thought about all those people who were killed. And especially when they lost someone they liked! You'd have to be a psychopath to be able to celebrate that way immediately after such tragedy.

3points

Marek K (mkk3a) 1 year ago

What I hate and almost every single movie gets it wrong, is when a person looks at a bright light source and rises a hand to cover his eyes. But the shadow doesn't cast on the eyes. So why would he rise a hand at all? Another thing: so unrealistic reinforcement bars in destroyed concrete elements (yes, I'm civil engineer).

3points

Wren Hard 1 year ago

When people just turn off their laptops/ phones/ computers without saving any work, shutting it down etc. they just push the lid shut

2points

8Pillows 1 year ago

Car keys "hidden" on top of the sun visor. Especially worse when the character is frustrated that there are no keys and then takes a long moment of thought before checking the visor.

2points

all 4 paws 1 year ago

In Zootopia, there's ice cream. Who's getting milked.

2points

Wren Hard 1 year ago (edited)

omg

1point

BipolarBear 1 year ago

Maybe it's nice cream lol, but good point!

0points

Sasy 1 year ago

LOL

0points

Helena 1 year ago

Every time there is an atheist character anywhere there's a moment or an episode where they're either converted, confronted, or think 'just maybe there is a god'. The confrontation may be realistic, but converted or similar is just so ridiculous. Why is this necessary?

2points

Steven Bennett 1 year ago

Everywhere she went for 12 years, somebody was murdered--how did Jessica Fletcher not suffer from severe PTSD? Also, how was anyone left alive in Cabot Cove?

2points

Greta Kolding 1 year ago

The same goes for Barnaby and Midsomer, where the murders also became more and more gruesome and elaborate. John Nettles even joked with Queen Elizabeth that he was sorry so many of her subjects were killed on his show, and she said she wouldn't want to live in his district.

0points

Loki's_Lil_Butterknife 1 year ago

My personal favourite are action movies where the women love interest fights an onslaught of thugs in a mini skirt and high-heels and then survives an explosion and her hair and makeup are still perfect.

2points

Cecile Visscher 1 year ago

Pple kept in dark rooms on chains for years without even a bucket to pee in.. Dungeons that are perfectly lit by lit candles even though nobody has entered them for centuries.. Women waking up with perfect make-up.. Speeches without any amplifier for hundreds of pple..

2points

TMoxraaar 1 year ago

Women who are prisoners for months with no change of clothes, supplies, yet there is no trace of menstruation - especially if they are being tracked by dogs.

2points

SarahBee 1 year ago

The Revanent with Leonardo DiCaprio. A lot of beautiful scenery, but completely unbelievable. He was seriously mauled by a bear, and then started a long, arduous journey, with many more grievous injuries on the way. When he was flung off a cliff, crashed into a tall tree, fell through the branches, and immediately got up again, I couldn't help saying "give me a break" out loud.

1point

Jilltdcatlady 1 year ago

Product placement always kicks me out of the film fantasy land. I lost track of the MCU movies when I noticed Tony Stark only drove AUDI. Seeing only one type of name brand "thing", billboard, store sign, newspaper ad, in the entire false universe. Pepsi, but no other sugary drinks? ONLY McDonalds, or Burger King?

1point

Sasy 1 year ago

Black Panther Wakanda Forever and the mention of the Fenty foundation and even the tone number had me brow raising

0points

Apatheist Account2 1 year ago

For me, it's how all laptops are left plugged in and/or switched on, and require no password or boot-up time, even if it belongs to a president or member of the secret service. Also the number of phones that don't require charging unless it's important to the plot; and the fact that hardly anyone stops for lunch or to go to the toilet (which is particularly impressive in a show like 24).

1point

TMoxraaar 1 year ago

To be fair they often take place in the US. What you are seeing is the goal and (sex term here) dream of corporate America - working continuously with 100% productivity.

0points

Best YouTube channel ever! 1 year ago

Having taken real hand to hand combat martial arts, nearly all fight scenes in action movies are ruined.

1point

B Jones 1 year ago

The one that gets me is when a group of people are traveling together in some bad situation and one just freaks out with no warning and puts them all in danger or out right gets everyone killed....and usually it's a woman or was in movies decade or two ago..... really hard to think of an example as I just get fed up with it but I think the war of worlds remake had a scene like that near the end (not that they weren't going to all die anyway)

0points

AK to LV 1 year ago

We have a saying in the family when something unrealistic on TV or in a movie happens, "It's IN the the SCRIPT!" It's usually said at least once a viewing.😂

0points

Red 1 year ago

I have some that completely ruin movies for me. When they use fake ice, that sinks to the bottom and there's no condensation on the glass. When houses/apartments look immaculate as if nobody lives there, specifically, beds and pillows that look like they were never slept on or even used for a whole night. When actors not used to long hair wear wigs and do an unrealistic hair flip. It bothers me more than it should, I can't explain, just looks so dumb, I just can't stand it.

0points

Dina Anastasakos 1 year ago

Movies that portray women fighting and running in high heels....l'm looking at you The Watchmen!! But its not the only one.

0points

Almostfoxlike 1 year ago

Fast and the furious 5 when 2 mustangs drag a roomsized vault thru the city with 2 cables. No.

0points

Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 1 year ago (edited)

Look, I get it and I agree to some of the most glaring ones - but if *everything* was to be realistic or believable, movies would be more or less impossible. We’d be left with hyper realistic in-your-kitchen-drama that’d bore anyone except a small and rather pretentious crowd to absolute death. The way Hollywood (and I, as it happens) see it is that it doesn’t have to be believable, it just have to be somewhat passable. I guess that’s why they call it “movie magic”. There are things that are just plain stupid, I totally agree, but for instance the thing about knowing how to use a gun… what’s the alternative? Twenty minutes of the movie taken up by gun instructions? No use of firearms at all? The movie wouldn’t work, if you see what I mean. I’ve learned to turn a blind eye to such minor things as, you know… physics. Or actual human anatomy. Or societal functions. Details like that.

0points

Romek Vili 1 year ago

All bombs, that charaters hide in dark places or at night, have blinking lights or big bright timers and usually makes beebing sounds every second.

0points

Josh Gilland 1 year ago

I relearned why i prefer to watch movies alone. If it's entertainment and only entertainment it's meant for your brain to take a break. Why i enjoy the fast and furious. Super b******t but entertaining as f**k. Also why I'd watch the Miley Cyrus show when I was home sick from school. Required zero brain power, just motions and noise.

0points

Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago

I was watching Lost and one of the characters was kidnapped and branded with a tramp stamp. The other character was so upset. I was like, this is nothing. Totally coverable. And just happens to be sexy. I thought they were going to do like the Romans and put the brand on her face. You know, where people could see it and it would serve its purpose. But nope- tramp stamp. Just couldn't watch after that.

0points

Molly Whuppie 1 year ago

One for me is when there is a murder and its broad daylight and the detectives are like "there's been a murder, so let's head to the crime scene" but when they get there it's night time. Like, if the murder was in their precinct's catchment area it would still be daytime, right? how long did it take them to get there that it's night time now? did they stop somewhere along the way?

0points

TMoxraaar 1 year ago

Cutbacks. Their territories are insanely big.

0points

Ivy at Eve 1 year ago

My mum was always fascinated when dr Banner got mad and the Hulk appeared, his clothes in tatters but somehow the top of his pants to halfway his tighs didn't show the slightest rip... For me, in some movies/series people are declared seconds away from dying and yet somehow they have enough strength to give an half hour long speech to impart to you that essential part of wisdom/that most important clue to find whatever the movie was about (treaure, long last family(member))... Also don't these people have jobs to attend (looking at you Sex and the city... endless shopping and meeting friends during the day but still receiving that fat paycheck and it must be fat to afford those NYC apartments)

0points

TMoxraaar 1 year ago

The only nod to that stupidity was in The Incredible Hulk when (Edward Norton) Banner was shopping for clothing and found a pair of stretchy pants in purple. I always felt that the nude Hulk in Ragnarok was much more genuine in that regard.

0points

Jay Walsh 1 year ago

not "ridiculous" but my peeve, is any modern miltary show/movie where they say "oh"800 hours...or similar. "Oh" is not a number in the modern military, it will be "zero"-7:30 hours, not "oh"-7:30 hours. A period peace set during WWII, or possibly up to the korean war era it was common enough, after that though....looses me immediately.

0points

The Redhead 1 year ago

One of my favorite TV shows The Resident (for those who don't know it's a medical drama on Fox). What gets me is when the have scenes in the NICU; no incubators, no babies on oxygen or a ventilator, no feeding tubes, just tiny babies in regular hospital nursery bassinets. My daughter was a preemie so I'm familiar with a NICU.

0points

Dorthe Schou-Nielsen 1 year ago

When e.g. investigators talk about going to a certain location relatively close by, leave in broad daylight and arrive when it's pitch black. Somehow several hours just got lost without an explanation. Annoys me every time.

0points

Limey 1 year ago

My pet peeve is when people have to sleep on the couch regardless of the size of the house, or even when in other episodes a spare bedroom appears.

0points

adam craker 1 year ago

Given I love waynes world. But I live in Chicago... They drive from aurora to brewyn then to Chicago in 5 minutes! That's a hour drive with no traffic easy! Also why would you cut through Berwyn to get to Chicago. I mean it's a detail no one would see unless they live here but it gets me every time I watch the movie... I still love it though

0points

Ches Yamada 1 year ago (edited)

Maybe they wanted to see it because of Svengoolie lol

0points

BasedWang12.7 1 year ago

HOW has no one mentioned NEVER RELOADING YOUR GUNS. Oh yea that 6-shooter just rattled off 14 and a half bullets.. And yes, I do count

0points

R. H. 1 year ago

Accept the unreal reality of the universe created by writers and authors or be forever disappointed.

0points

Manuel Delgado 1 year ago

The very first scene of "Waterworld": Kevin Costner pees into a DIY filter to make it drinkable... In a boat in the middle of the sea. What would you choose to purify? My stupidometer boosted.

0points

Pablo Ramos 1 year ago

I enjoy movies without this "catch you" attitude. I suspend judgement on many things and understand that implausibility makes them interesting. Otherwise I would only watch documentaries. Anyways, the more fantastic a movie is, the more of that stuff you have to accept. Most of those were comic magazines. Now they make movies instead of comics; WTF did you expect?.

0points

Jocelyn Kuntz 1 year ago

I refuse to watch any movie released in the past 3 years that has a plot which includes COVID-19 masking or mandates. Propaganda clearly did not die with Hitler.

-3points

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Sunny Foxglove 1 year ago

51points

Amy Moore 1 year ago

12points

Sue OK 1 year ago

They should follow the lead of Brianne of Tarth

2points

Omiyaru 1 year ago

0points

Henrik Schmidt 1 year ago

Today I learned that superhero movies and animated movies are unrealistic. Who'd have thought, eh?

26points

Brandon Parisien 1 year ago

There's suspension of disbelief and going too far....like the (Star Trek) Discovery crew suffering no effects of oxygen deprivation in season 3.

2points

Cindy Irvin 1 year ago

A certain amount of disbelief is of course necessary in a lot of films. The idea is that if you get the real things right, the unreal elements will seem more believable.

0points

Colin 1 year ago

And yet people complain about pro wrestling realism.

0points

Linden 1 year ago

16points

Elizabeth Tayler 1 year ago

Character driving a car but NEVER looking at the road!! Drives me crazy. Just stare at the passenger while having a conversation... So many movies & tv shows that have scenes like that.

11points

Giles McArdell 1 year ago

10points

Nadine Debard 1 year ago

OMG yes

0points

Andy Saputo 1 year ago (edited)

8points

wowbagger 1 year ago (edited)

Or how about the Wicked Witch of the West allowing an open bucket of water to just sit around her castle grounds?

2points

Paulo Freitas 1 year ago

Shyamalan was not the 1st One with that idea, years before "signs" there was a TV series that had the same premisse, forgot the tittle though, but it was a good séries.

1point

Ivan Petrov 1 year ago

To be fair, a large portion of Earth can and will kill humans, if we don't have our technological support.

0points

Icecream Sarang 1 year ago

Let’s just say every single woman on TV or screen who gives birth.

7points

Greta Kolding 1 year ago

The one that makes me burst out laughing every time is when someone dips his finger into a white powder, touches it to his tongue and exclaims "it's cocaine (or heroine or morphine) all right".

6points

Doctor Strange 1 year ago

3points

Jo Slatermill 1 year ago

6points

Ivan Petrov 1 year ago

Someone should tell this to Christian Bale.

0points

Pieter LeGrande 1 year ago

Why don't all these action heroes get PTSD?

6points

Corvus 1 year ago

Because they are the traumatic event? :P

11points

Corvus 1 year ago

Some legit finds in this list, but most of it was pointless nitpicking. Movie makers cannot account for every tiny detail that someone might accidentally notice.

5points

GadgetGirl 1 year ago

Armor with boobs. Don't these people ever look at what a woman in layers of clothes looks like?

4points

Gene Perry 1 year ago

4points

TMoxraaar 1 year ago

0points

Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago

3points

Sonja 1 year ago

3points

Marek K (mkk3a) 1 year ago

3points

Wren Hard 1 year ago

When people just turn off their laptops/ phones/ computers without saving any work, shutting it down etc. they just push the lid shut

2points

8Pillows 1 year ago

Car keys "hidden" on top of the sun visor. Especially worse when the character is frustrated that there are no keys and then takes a long moment of thought before checking the visor.

2points

all 4 paws 1 year ago

In Zootopia, there's ice cream. Who's getting milked.

2points

Wren Hard 1 year ago (edited)

omg

1point

BipolarBear 1 year ago

Maybe it's nice cream lol, but good point!

0points

Sasy 1 year ago

LOL

0points

Helena 1 year ago

2points

Steven Bennett 1 year ago

Everywhere she went for 12 years, somebody was murdered--how did Jessica Fletcher not suffer from severe PTSD? Also, how was anyone left alive in Cabot Cove?

2points

Greta Kolding 1 year ago

0points

Loki's_Lil_Butterknife 1 year ago

2points

Cecile Visscher 1 year ago

2points

TMoxraaar 1 year ago

Women who are prisoners for months with no change of clothes, supplies, yet there is no trace of menstruation - especially if they are being tracked by dogs.

2points

SarahBee 1 year ago

1point

Jilltdcatlady 1 year ago

1point

Sasy 1 year ago

Black Panther Wakanda Forever and the mention of the Fenty foundation and even the tone number had me brow raising

0points

Apatheist Account2 1 year ago

1point

TMoxraaar 1 year ago

To be fair they often take place in the US. What you are seeing is the goal and (sex term here) dream of corporate America - working continuously with 100% productivity.

0points

Best YouTube channel ever! 1 year ago

Having taken real hand to hand combat martial arts, nearly all fight scenes in action movies are ruined.

1point

B Jones 1 year ago

0points

AK to LV 1 year ago

We have a saying in the family when something unrealistic on TV or in a movie happens, "It's IN the the SCRIPT!" It's usually said at least once a viewing.😂

0points

Red 1 year ago

0points

Dina Anastasakos 1 year ago

Movies that portray women fighting and running in high heels....l'm looking at you The Watchmen!! But its not the only one.

0points

Almostfoxlike 1 year ago

Fast and the furious 5 when 2 mustangs drag a roomsized vault thru the city with 2 cables. No.

0points

Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 1 year ago (edited)

0points

Romek Vili 1 year ago

All bombs, that charaters hide in dark places or at night, have blinking lights or big bright timers and usually makes beebing sounds every second.

0points

Josh Gilland 1 year ago

0points

Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago

0points

Molly Whuppie 1 year ago

0points

TMoxraaar 1 year ago

Cutbacks. Their territories are insanely big.

0points

Ivy at Eve 1 year ago

0points

TMoxraaar 1 year ago

0points

Jay Walsh 1 year ago

0points

The Redhead 1 year ago

0points

Dorthe Schou-Nielsen 1 year ago

0points

Limey 1 year ago

My pet peeve is when people have to sleep on the couch regardless of the size of the house, or even when in other episodes a spare bedroom appears.

0points

adam craker 1 year ago

0points

Ches Yamada 1 year ago (edited)

Maybe they wanted to see it because of Svengoolie lol

0points