People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights

Don't get me wrong, movies don't have to depict reality if they don't want to. After all, we often watch them to escape it. The problem is that sometimes Hollywood intentionally tries to accurately portray the world but have no clue what they're talking about. I'm talking good guys jumping behind some furniture and the bad guys unloading hundreds of rounds into people without any going through. Or people ordering food at a restaurant and leaving before getting their meals.

In an attempt to figure out which of these cliches are the most overused, reddit user UK-NeilPatel posted a question on the platform, asking "What is something unrealistic that you often see in movies that annoys the hell out of you?" In less than two weeks, they received over 10,000 upvotes and 8,000 comments, many of which are legit. Continue scrolling and check out the best ones!

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Women in fight scenes with their hair down. Girl, tie it back I know you can't see s**t.

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troufaki13 4 years ago

And they do all the fighting and the running in high heels

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However, if we were to take this to the extreme, we would get camp film -- movies doing something ridiculous and over-the-top whilst being executed sincerely -- something that has been implemented in films for quite some time. Experts say this technique is central to the genre of trash film; arguably the "worst" genre of film that exists. In the best kind of way.

People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Fight scenes with multiple attackers. They're all so polite, waiting for their friends to get their ass kicked before engaging. In reality you get jumped by everyone at the same time.

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Colin L 4 years ago

Enemies line up in order of difficulty: glass jawed brawlers first, weapon welders who fall down at one scratch next, followed by a named henchman who's actually tougher.

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Camp movies challenge binary "good vs. bad" thinking because they are both good and bad. They reject the principles of cinema, ultimately allowing the audience to both laugh along with the movie and at it.

So I guess just because a film reads as bad, doesn’t necessarily mean it isn't good. The Room might be labeled as the worst film ever made, but arguably one of the most enjoyable ones, too. It brings audiences so much joy and pleasure through its unrealistic "realism." What do you think?

People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Post apocalyptic women with clean shaven underarms.

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cybermerlin2000 4 years ago

Radioactive fallout. Your teeth fallout, your nails fallout and your hairs fallout

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Can you hack this super secure server?' *ten seconds of hitting random letter keys on the keyboard* 'I'm in.

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Vorknkx 4 years ago

Bonus: In movies you can hack stuff that isn't connected to a network :D

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Good guy jumps behind some furniture and the bad guys unloads 1000 rounds into it and none of them go through. What the f**k is that couch made of!?

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troufaki13 4 years ago

Also, bad guys shoot 1000 rounds and they all miss, yet the good guy shoots just one and kills at least three

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Mom has prepared a feast that could feed half the neighborhood, but it's only for her two small children and her husband, who is already late for work and takes a single piece of toast on his way out the door.

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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

While the kids can't even eat anything because the schoolbus has already arrived.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Cop looking at blurry CCTV image

Cop: “Can you clean up the image?”

Nerd: “Sure, computer enhance sector theta 6”

crystal clear image appears on screen

Cop: “Oh my god”

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itz kimora 4 years ago

nerd: "sure" *grabs cloth and spits on screen* *crystal clear image appears* Cop: Oh my god

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights A part-time waitress or administrative assistant sure as s**t isn't affording a beautiful two-bedroom apartment alone in any major city. Or you get the family where only the father works at an okay 9–5 but is somehow able to afford a $1.5 million house in California and raise four kids on a single income. I want to live in that world.

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Rose the Cook 4 years ago

It is all part of promoting the (usually) American image they just forget to tell you about the mountain of debt that goes with it.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Women giving birth to giant, four month old babies.

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Your Local Lizard 4 years ago

How can they hire newborns?

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights In fires nobody dies of smoke inhalation. They’ll be in there for ages, merrily chatting away, coughing, miraculous escape (lifting a burning beam out the way maybe), they get outside and are fine! Maybe a smudge of soot on the face and a cough then on their merry way.

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itz kimora 4 years ago

forgot to include how they walk out with their hair done up and a fresh manicure too

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Going to Latin America. quick, put the yellow filter!.

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ThatGuv 4 years ago

And taking a photo in Cape Town, pretending it's Latin America...with a yellow filter.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Gunfire indoors or inside cars and everyone can hear fine afterwards

Big explosions that throw people around but have no shrapnel

Windows that can be jumped through without shredding your skin

People traversing through air ducts

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itz kimora 4 years ago

all i could think of while reading the last one was "did u see red vent or kill"

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#13

A: "I have something important to tell you. It's about the Jones case."

B: "What's up? What'd you find?"

A: "Can't talk now. Meet me tomorrow at 9."

B: "A! Tell me what's going on!"

A: "No, not now. Tomorrow at 9."

A is found murdered the next morning, B is haunted by conversation. Sets off on worldwide mission to solve the murder and uncover the cover-up.

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Daria Z 4 years ago

Just a couple of hints or key words would be more helpful and would take less time to say. Not to mention texting.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights LOOK AT THE ROAD WHEN YOU DRIVE! Even if you speak with your passenger, you do not look at him for 5s !

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Linus Nilsson 4 years ago

Nice choice of scene, where that's the whole premise

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#15

People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights “I’ve got a plan”

“Great. What is it?”

“No time. Just trust me.”

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137points

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Ekate 4 years ago

Actually, this shocks me in real life - people just doing what they are told because the person telling sounds authoritarian. In fact, a lot of history would be better if a few people had asked what the plan was before following the guy in front. Just a thought.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Doctors doing everything in medical settings. Scanning the patient, setting up IV’s, interpreting brain MRI’s. Nurses who? Radiographers what?

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137points

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Wazz 4 years ago

And using defibrillators when the patient's heart stops, that's just not done

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights People can talk and hear each other in clubs or loud bars without any issues.

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Mike Crow 4 years ago

What?

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#18

Women waking up in bed with a full face of makeup.

I'm talking winged eyeliner and fuchsia lipstick. I seriously want to know who makes those decisions in the makeup department smh.

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Anne 4 years ago

It's an unmarried man.

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#19

People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Punching four people in the face and not feeling anything. I've been in a fight and won. Even then it hurts like hell. No one 'wins' in a fight, they just get injured the least.

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126points

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Colin L 4 years ago

*hero beats 4 people unconscious* How does your hand open? ! Skulls are hard!

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights The scientist is an expert in multiple fields of study. Don’t get me wrong, most PhD scientists I know have a solid foundation in chem/physics/bio, but it’s not super common to find a person who has a PhD-level of understanding in all of those fields. I hate it in movies when the ecologist somehow develops a vaccine, or the meteorologist manages to predict an earthquake . Like, a PhD is so narrow in scope. A biologist who studies fish probably can’t answer s**t about snakes... let alone create a vaccine for a novel virus.

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troufaki13 4 years ago

Also many times they are super young, super sexy people who aren't even aware of their sexiness

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights College professor here. Pet peeves about how college is depicted:

- Every class is in a medieval European-style amphitheater classroom
- Professors are all living in giant 6,000 sq ft houses, even if they teach literature or sociology
- Professors only address students by their last names, and all students call professors "sir"
- Students or professors strolling down the quad with a leather courier bag worth a month's pay, for some reason always eating an apple
- NO F**KING TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOMS

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Vorknkx 4 years ago (edited)

Well, when I was in college, I did have a professor who addressed every student as "sir" - it felt weird.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Someone being hit in the head, loses consciousness, and two minutes later getting up as if nothing happened.

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122points

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itz kimora 4 years ago

no the dramatic music gets them back on their feet

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Big breakfasts that no one eats because the characters are in a hurry and running out the door. Me personally, I'll be late to whatever for some pancakes/waffles.

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119points

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JiminKimLip7 4 years ago

I never understood that

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Lava does not let you melt slowly into it. Even at close proximity the heat is enough to evaporate the liquids in your body and make you explode... They tested it by throwing dead pigs into a volcano, the corpses just bounce and skitter until the liquids are gone and the meat has burned up.

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119points

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Daria Z 4 years ago

Uh... very graphic 🙈

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Clean houses where there are 3 to 4 chaotic children.

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Ray Martin 4 years ago

I haven't had a fully clean and tidy house since having kids. My youngest is 26 and she left home seven years ago, and the place is still a mess.

92points

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights 10 trained soldiers with automatic weapons, a couple of snipers and a helicopter gunship are all shooting at the fleeing heroes.

The only thing they manage to hit is the ground just behind their feet.

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115points

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Vorknkx 4 years ago

They have a severe case of "Stormtrooper Syndrome" :P

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#27

People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights Stop waving that empty cup around, it's supposed to have hot coffee it in.

Put some water in it, or if you are worried about spills, fill it halfway with elmer's glue.

It needs to have some weight, especially when you set it down

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109points

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Neva Nevičica 4 years ago

...just like carrying suitcases. Grab a big suitcase, you're leaving your boyfriend. Throw angrily random things in it, don't you dare to fold them. Take the suitcase with one hand, wave it around it's light like a feather. Get out, slam the door after yourself, take a deep sigh of releaf and call a cab. Perfect.

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Women in sex scenes always wearing matching bra and panties. And keeping the bra on the whole sesh

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Monday 4 years ago

This is pretty normal. If you're planning to have sex with a new partner you're gonna choose matching underwear more often than not.

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights When people order food in a restaurant and then leave before it arrives. At least get it to go.

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Your Local Lizard 4 years ago

They have better things to do

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People Share Things That Are Normal In Movies But Not In Real Life, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Insights People yanking their IV away from their arm. B**ch that will tear up you vein and f**k you up.

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Markus Holstein 4 years ago

Physician here. Patients do that all the time. It bleeds for a while and ruins the beedsheets, but that's it. They're veins, not arteries.

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What do you think ?

Perpetual Peripheral Persons 4 years ago

When the "Hero" ploughs through the baddie's base killing hundreds of troopers and henchmen that probably had families and were brainwashed and manipulated by the ACTUAL PSYCHO MASTERMIND but when his sword is at the villains throat he stops and goes "But killing him will make me just as bad"

23points

Tabitha L 4 years ago

Yes!!

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Brant Johns 4 years ago

I have mentioned this countless times.

1point

Among Us 4 years ago

Or when the villain also has to wait super long to "kill" the hero, and then ends up not killing them and meeting their demise.

0points

Nuri 4 years ago

So true!

EA 4 years ago

Have only noticed this in US shows but why does every single person leave their car windows down and the car UNLOCKED. Every. Dang. Time. It takes what two seconds to lock your car, and who leaves their car windows down constantly??

19points

David K 4 years ago

Modern cars lock when you can take a few steps away from them, but I get your point. This was always the thing in the movies.

4points

Sasy 4 years ago

I think in the Proposal there was an explanation of that for smaller towns, something to do with bears, people leave the cars unlocked in case someone needs to jump into one to stop being mauled to death, which is an 'only in America' kind of lol , but when explained was a whole ohhhhhhhhh moment of complete respect for the towns that do this knowing no one is stealing anyway.

Sage Gusano 3 years ago

Or their front doors. Especially apartments in large cities. They never lock them after then enter.

fuggnuggins 4 years ago

How much does two seconds of production time cost? Moron.

Bunny Wood 4 years ago

I always get shitty when characters fight or have a car chase or whatever and then next scene they are at home, not injured, no consequences, no police, no charges, blah blah blah. Like come on, police notice that stuff.

13points

Also, people who can outrun entire police forces.

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