Unrealistic Movie Moments You'll Never Experience

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Life isn't always like the big screen. On the ever-popular r/AskReddit, Reddit user u/Individual-Crazy3752 asked people to share something they keep seeing in movies that no one actually does in real life. The results are annoyingly on the nose and will make you wonder if movie-goers have ever lived life like a normie:
"A group of 'experts' explaining something to other people in a criminal hunt, with each one saying one sentence, completing each other's thoughts. As if everyone is always in full harmony within the team, and everyone needs a turn."
"A character drives into a city centre and can park directly outside the building they wish to enter."
"The police are interviewing someone, and the interviewee says something interesting to the police, so they shut down the interview and take off to pursue one lead. In reality, they'd probably continue at length and ask the same questions multiple times to glean every little shred of information they could."
"A character orders a drink and leaves the bar without ever taking a sip."
"When you're watching a medical drama and the doctor draws the blood, walks it to the lab themselves and then proceeds to perform the testing alone in the lab that is dark and quiet."
"Stepping to the other side of the room to have a 'private' conversation. The people/person they stepped away from are RIGHT THERE, just a few feet away."
"A character who lives in a house or apartment way beyond their means. For example, a restaurant server living alone in a large apartment with a view in a major city. Come on!"
"Wave around coffee cups, tilt them, gesture with them, carry a tray of three large coffee drinks in one hand, etc."
"All the men are wearing long pants and warm clothes, and our heroine is in a tight singlet with as much skin and heaving cleavage as possible on display. She never once says 'F*ck it's cold.' Or ever fights crime fully dressed."
"When a character turns on the TV and the exact news they need to see is on right then."
"You can't carry a paper bag of groceries without the six-foot baguette."
"When characters wake up with perfect hair and full makeup like they slept through a Sephora session."
"When two cars are racing and the hero is ahead and pulling away, but for some reason the bad guy has suddenly caught up and is right beside our hero. Then the hero makes a dramatic gear shift, which somehow causes his car to accelerate again. Did he upshift? Downshift? Did he know his car had this extra... whatever... the whole time but just wanted to let the bad guy catch up?"
"'There's no time to explain!'"
"The ease with which computer hackers gain access to systems in 30 seconds or less, with five lines of simple code."
"The woman in labor gives birth to a three-month-old baby."
"Cook up a whole fry up for breakfast on a school and work morning, and everyone just eats a few bites and they all leave everything sitting on the table for the entire day."
"The slightest tap on the head knocks someone fully unconscious, then they wake up with no concussion or side effects."
"A murderer is chasing our heroine. She hides behind a corner, and when he rounds the corner, she hits him with a chair. He goes down, unconscious. He drops his gun. So the heroine...starts running again? How about: A) Take the gun. B) Tie him up. C) Take his shoes and then run away. D) ANYTHING except just running away again without actually doing anything to help yourself."
The driver looks at the passenger for more than three seconds, barely glancing at the road. And when a character does not correctly say goodbye when talking on the phone. "I'm gonna meet you there at 9 p.m. (hangs up)." No bye? No talk later? Where are the manners?"
"The flawless dialogue that never uses filler words like 'umm' or 'uhh' unless they're high."
"Women can't run without falling, and once they do, they just stay there or crawl around."
"Every single time someone who's even a little bit nervous walks up to a microphone, they get an awkward squeal of feedback. I've never seen this happen in real life."
"Thinking you hear a noise, days after several friends have been murdered in brutal circumstances. Then walking down into the cellar half undressed with a f*cking candle powered torch and saying 'hello?' CALL THE F*CKING POLICE AND GET THE F*CK OUT OF THE HOUSE!"
"Putting the USB stick/cable into the hole the right way up every time."
"Keep their high heels on when they come home from work/date/outside. The SECOND we get home, those are OFF!"
"Money is never an issue. You never hear someone say, 'Oh, we can't afford that.'"
"Visual art takes time. I hate it when the person starts working on a blank canvas, and it becomes a near-finished piece two minutes later."
"Leaving a string of unconscious bad guys. Unless severely brain-damaged, they are waking up real soon. You need to restrain and silence them or kill them. They are not staying 'asleep' for the next 15 minutes."
"Using a defibrillator on someone who is flatlining. Modern defibs wouldn't even charge up if they don't detect a pulse. They do not start stopped hearts, they cause a heart that is currently in FIBRILATION, to no longer be, or...defibrillate."
"Eating at a restaurant, then just opening your wallet, pulling out a bunch of bills, then tossing them onto the table and leaving without even asking for the bill."
"Bulletproof couches and tabletops."
And finally, "The main character is being chased and running through a restaurant's kitchen without any of the staff reacting in the slightest! Like it's just a normal thing that happens in busy kitchens!"
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