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To expect realistic movies from Hollywood would be a constant disappointment. But some of the clichés we see on screen are so bad, they shatter the suspension of disbelief, reminding us that we're watching something made up.

Reddit user u/Nest_Egg decided to find out what things in movies infuriate people the most, so they asked: "What is something that happens in every movie, but never happens in real life?"

From Skype streams with 1080p and 120fps to 5 bad guys attacking the hero one at a time, here are hilariously true and oddly specific answers that others have responded with.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations if a girl is arguing with you in real life and you kiss her to shut her up she will most likely not appreciate it

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations When the mother of the house has spent four hours making breakfast for the whole family with like 3832523 ingredients that cover the entire kitchen table and the dad or son or whatever walks by, grabs an apple and says they don't have time to eat because they're late for work. I'm pretty sure that person could be legally murdered in real life

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Young professionals or college students living in HUUUGE, fully furnished apartments in the city

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations 5 bad guys attacking the hero ONE-AT-A-TIME...

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Movies - “wtf was that!” Don’t bother turning lights on. Go look...

Real life - my wife hears something “wtf was that! Wake up! Go check!!!!!” Turns every single light on, locks the bedroom door behind me, has 911 ready to dial. Constantly yells for me to give an update. Allows me back in the door after triple confirming my identity, using the secret password.... oh that noise?

Dog farted.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations When the girl that the main potagonist likes doesn't like him back, so the main potagonist bothers and stalks her for so long that she finally falls in love with him. In real life she would probably call the police.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations USB stick goes in the right way

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Lead actor sits down at bar: "Get me a beer."

Movie Bartender: *silently gets beer*

Real-life Bartender: "What? What kind of beer? We've got 20 beers on tap and an extensive bottle list. Do you want a menu or something?"

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Otter
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think Thor there is picky about his beer.

Lauren Caswell
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thor and Dr strange 's meeting was hilarious ^-^ and poor Loki "I've been falling for 30 minutes!"

King Joffrey
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"A pint of lager", which is the UK equivalent of "Let me get a beer" has worked just fine for me... sometimes the barman asks what lager I want, most times they'll just pour me a pint without asking.

Requiem
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Americans beer is piss. so they just say that. Canada if you ask for a mixed drink you have to specify if you want better quality rum or gin or rye

BetweenTheCracks
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Speaking as a former PNW resident, I beg you to reconsider *some* of our beers. We've got some damn tasty microbrews. But if you're talking Coors, MGD, etc., yeah-- those drinks are rented, not bought.

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Vicky Z
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This i understand cause probably you cannot say a brand cause of advertising! But can someone explain to me why they do the same with coffees??? Who enters a place and says one coffee please? What coffee? Black? Medium? Cold or hot? With milk or not? Honestly it would be more realistic to just add this little detail

brukernavn340
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I you order "coffee", you'll get the regular filter coffee.

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Manuel Delgado
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In most of my city's zillion bars, it is actually like in the movies.

VeryDarkMatter
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ordering a drink/cocktail... talking to collegue who is sitting next to him, then stand up and leave .. not taking one single sip of the 20 dollar cocktail

YoyoSthlm
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well in Sweden you can actually order "a beer" and you get the cheapest one

Jyri Hakola
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same works perfectly fine also here in Finland. Usually there is the default beer in the tap what you get if you ask just "a beer" and if you want something else, then you need to be specifc.

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Vic D
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well I do know a theme restaurant like that only 1 type of beer and if you want a beer you have to scream 'aubergiste à boire !'

Kimberly Herbert
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is actually a good reason for this trope. The beer companies do NOT want their brands mentioned in movies or TV shows. They don't want to be accused of marketing to people under 21 years of age. They especially don't want underaged characters drinking their beer, then doing something stupid, like lying down on the highway. When someone has been killed the wrongful death lawsuits include the beer company - even if they had no part in the beer being in the movie/tv show.

Johnny
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You don't have to pick one, the bartender will pick one for you. "Give me a beer" "Which one, we have 30", "Any beer". Then he'll pour you a beer.

Riley Quinn
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ditto for whiskey, Scotch, etc. I'll tell you which Scotch I prefer, thank you very much.

Anna Repp
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This! I'm a beer connoisseur and this bothers me so much! I know maybe they cannot use real names because of copyright, but at least ask if the character wants an ale or a porter! (Double points from me if it is an IPA!)

backatya
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

you need to be a little lenient on this one. Hollywood can't advertise for a specific brand unless they have permission to use it and then there's legal issues and money to be given

HellVetios
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Switzerland, every bar has it's main beer (usually one of the two or three big beer companies). You can see what beer from the outside.

InfectedVoice
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Totally a thing here, I can happily walk into a pub and just say 'pint of lager' and will be happy with whatever I get.

Mike Loux
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And do you want it on tap or a bottle? If on tap, do you want a tall or a small? Coaster? Shot with that to make it a boilermaker? So. Many. Questions.

Sarah Pryde
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the reason they do that in movies is that unless they are paid by (insert beer company), they won't use the name of any specific beer

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Becoming popular after taking down your ponytail and removing your nerdy glasses.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations In movies with any kind of trial scene there's always a dramatic moment where one of the attorneys presents a witness or piece of evidence that completely changes the course of the trial. Something that neither the judge or opposing attorney knew about.

Like sorry buddy, but the discovery deadline was a month ago

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Whenever people play something back, be it a tape recorder, video recording, or whatever, they can always fast-forward or rewind to EXACTLY the point they want, with perfect accuracy.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations A girl waking up with perfect hair and a face full of perfectly done makeup. I don't care how pretty of a girl you are you don't wake up with perfect hair.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations No need for cleanup after sex.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations A bunch of students in their late twenties in high school

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations It isn't romantic to keep pursuing someone after they've told you they aren't interested, it's toxic and creepy. No healthy person is out there saying no when they mean yes.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Phone call : "turn on the tv"

tv: "exactly the correct station at the beginning of the news story the person called about"

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Guns with no recoil and not going deaf despite not wearing hearing protection when firing that M4 indoors singlehandedly and taking down every bad guy with one shot per guy and no reloading...

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People working minimum-wage/part-time jobs living in big apartments in the downtown areas of cities.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Car chases never encounter traffic jams.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Simultaneous orgasms every time.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations A person going from drunk to sober in 5 minutes because they drank a cup of black coffee.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Boarding a plane after the gate has closed. No, not even for true love!

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations 5 machine guns somehow missing the protagonist in the room

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I've worked in a hospital as a nursing assistant and I can hardly stand to watch any medical related movies now. They always depict the doctors as being closely involved with patient care and doing everything the patient needs, such as handing out meds, conducting tests, etc. This simply doesn't happen in real life. While the doctors do make a care plan, there are hundreds of other professions in a hospital setting that carry out that plan. Nurses hand out meds and do wound care, NAs help patients with activities of daily living, a transport team takes patients to their tests where other nurses/techs actually conduct the tests. It's an intricate system that doesn't revolve solely around the physicians. Don't get me wrong, I have all the respect in the world for doctors and I plan on going to medical school, but movies do so many other jobs in healthcare an injustice by not depicting what they actually do.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations They don't make keyboard mistakes or have to backspace. Movie characters get it on the first shot, whether it's sending a text or hacking into the Pentagon.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Characters can hear every word of dialogue perfectly in a noisy environment.

Captain frantically whispering to the private - "I need you to charge that machine gun nest."

Private - "um actually I can't hear you I'm completely deaf from 3 hours of constant gunfire."

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Grocery bags in movies ALWAYS have unwrapped French bread and some green leaf lettuce sticking out of the top.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations People that are experts in their highly scientific field are not usually young and hot. It takes a long time to become so highly qualified for nuclear physics and that sort of thing. But no, in movies, it is always someone that looks to be in their mid 20s at the latest.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations People cough and it's always indicative of an incoming terminal illness. A phone rings and it's terrible/pertinent news.

In real life people cough because there's something tickling their throat or because they swallowed something funny. You answer a phone call and Liz is trying to sell you a cheap stay in Las Vegas even though you've told that c**t to f**k off more than three times in the last month.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Jumping inches away from an explosion blast won’t do s**t.

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NO ONE HAS BLACKOUT CURTAINS IN MOVIES. Why?? Everyone wakes up to bright sunlight and no curtains and beautifully clean bedrooms ... that is NOT reality!!!

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Huge catastrophe happens - everyone in the whole city is dead, except my whole family! How lucky I am!

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations The phone only rings to move the plot along. IRL my phone only rings due to scammers or bots calling from an Arlington, Va number.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations People waiting their turn to talk.

Imagine a realistic drama where one character confronts the person who wronged them, and about 2 sentences into their big, inspiring, mic-drop moment, the other person cuts them off with "Go f***k yourself, a**hole".

I mean, I've had my share of arguments. Not many people sit patiently through several paragraphs of well thought out reasons why they're wrong.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations I've never seen anyone apprehend criminals while causing millions and millions in damage to the city.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations People shrugging off a flesh wound like it's nothing. They even say "It's just a flesh wound." The movie Last Action Hero does a good job of mocking this by having Jack Slater incur a flesh wound in "the real world," and it's a big deal. But then he goes into the movie world and it's barely a scratch.

In fact, Last Action Hero has a lot of examples, like people being able to punch through car windows, or the women working at Blockbuster being way too attractive.

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Medical examiner comes back with a tox report and DNA match in a matter of minutes. IRL, this stuff takes days or weeks.

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People never have to go to the bathroom and are rarely hungry or thirsty, and can go for weeks with virtually no sleep.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations The way actors dramatically circle each other while they're having conversations. It's something stage actors are taught to do to make the scene more dynamic, but it's not something people ever actually do in real life. Imagine chatting with your buddy somewhere and he just starts circling you mid-conversation: "So anyway, I think we should . . . uh, where are you going? What is happening right now?"

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Free available storefront parking

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A young married couple buying a massive 2 or 3 story Victorian that is completely updated and has full attic and basement as their first home like that's a normal thing. Even with a discount for the demons that hang out there a new married couple that just spent upwards of 40 grand on a wedding is not gonna be able to afford this huge remodeled house.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Will power seems to be greater than any injury in every movie.

4 broken ribs, countless lacerations, and eyes swelled shut probably wont be remedied by the time you are fighting the next wave of baddies.

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Someone asking like 20 people to leave a room so they can have a conversation with one other person. "Can we have the room?" Or "Give us the room."

This happens all the time in movies. It has been driving me crazy since I started noticing it.

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2 Candles lighting up a room the same way a lamp will.

People brushing their teeth with no toothpaste foaming like a rabid dog.

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When someone hacks a 'mainframe' in five seconds

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Parking right outside of your destination in the city.

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When soldiers die on the battlefield in movies, its usually a whole ordeal with last words and grunting and the injured soldier slowly becoming lifeless as a buddy holds him in his arms. All the while the battle seemingly lulls off as this one random guy is dying.

This just doesn't happen. Usually battlefield deaths are quick and very sudden. A lot of the time the guy hit either isn't noticed until later or is dead before they hit the ground.

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Immediate comebacks. Even the sharpest people will not have a comeback for everything, every single time.

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People establishing family (outside of mothers, fathers and grandparents) relationships in their greetings so anyone that happens to overhear knows how you're related.

"Hey brother, it's been a long time!"
"What's going on, sis?"
"How are you, cousin?"

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Highschoolers very openly and obviously throwing house parties or going to clubs and getting wasted.

Being drenched the second they walk outside while raining

One person running in and saying something along the lines of "omg i have to tell you so and so...." getting interrupted by the person they want to talk to saying "i don't have time for this" and leaving. Of course you're going to want to know why someone needs to obviously and urgently tell you something.

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#51

People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Having more than 2 best friends that live conveniently nextdoor.

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People yell "taxi!" to call a cab. That's not how you do it. You just raise you hand in the air and they see you. It's not like they would hear you if you yelled out "taxi!"

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Dreaming of kissing a beautiful woman but are actually being licked by an animal.

OR

Breaking Through a Window Unscathed.

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People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations Skype streams with 1080p and 120fps

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Doctors being in a room with a patient for more than 5 minutes

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#56

Wait I can explain!!

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Alcoholism being consequence free.

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Getting your dream job after one interview.

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Money in general is completely ignored in movies. Transactions of any kind are avoided because they're slow and unnecessary to the plot.

No one that rents a car is shown renting the car unless it's a set up.

No one is showing getting groceries unless there is some exposition being done with narrative voice or the character needs a place to bump into someone.

No one needs gas until they're in too much of a hurry to stop.

I can't even count how many times actors walk out on their tabs.

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#60

“We have to transport this highly volatile substance through the downtown area of a vast metropolis. Surely nothing could go wrong.”

“Good plan, boss!”

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People being able to hold their breath for an eternity while underwater. I was thinking about this while watching life of Pi last night.

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Kids waking up to go to school in broad daylight skating to class with huge spreads for breakfast. It’s always almost still pitch black outside, and I’ve never had anything more then pop tarts or cereal.

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Fluid, witty and well rounded dialogue where the characters never do stuff like pause, mumble, hesitate, miss a reference, have nothing to say, etc.

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High school loser gets together with dream crush at the end of the movie.

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People calling each other Mr. and Mrs. etc. also people never say goodbye on the phone. They just hang up.

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THE STRAW DOESN'T MAKE THE SLURPY NOISE UNTIL THE DRINK IS EMPTY

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Fast drivers drifting round corners. That's not the fastest way to drive.

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Playing video games, main protagonist is absolutely slamming every single button on the controller.

Using an Xbox controller on a Nintendo 64, while playing horizon dawn.

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This is a little thing, but the dialogue is never natural. It's more like this idyllic version of natural. Nobody mishears anything. Every sentence is relevant to something. Great enunciation.

Some movies get pretty close, but you still never get the talking-over-each-other effect. But watch something like Man of Steel and listen to how formal the dialogue is. It's bizarre once you notice it. Everyone's acting like they're in a play.

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People don't die all neat-like.

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