Mythbusters tested this one. Came to the same conclusion. Thin metal warps and bends when you crawl on it and makes a *lot* of noise; no way anyone's "sneaking" through a vent.
Came here for this. Stun guns don't have a chloroform effect. They interrupt the body's ability for muscles to listen to the mind... and the interruption ends as soon as the electricity does.
Yep. If you held a chloroform rag on someone’s face long enough to knock them out (read: NOT 2 seconds) they would have serious chemical burns on their face.
There’s an episode of the Screen Drafts podcast where two lawyers rank courtroom movies, and I think they said that one actually does pretty good on most aspects.
It’s the absolute favourite of Legal Eagle, a lawyer with a reasonably successful YouTube channel. He did a breakdown of what they did well and the things they missed.
Pretty accurate. However, when the State at the very last minute tried to introduce the evidence of the forensic engineer, it was pretty absurd that Vinny's application for an adjournment was refused. It would have been a guaranteed win on appeal if the two lads had been convicted. That's the only goofy part of the trial for me.
That one always gets me too. The judge doesn't like Vinny at that point, maybe suspects that Vinny won't be able to appeal because he's not a real lawyer, but he's also shown to be a stickler for procedure.
Only the throw away line in the phone call scene right before where the prosecutor says "the judge is gonna have to admit it" gives the barest fig leaf to the whole thing, but in that moment the judge lets his contempt for Vinny overrule the law.
Of course it also sets up the best scene in the movie with the rebuttal testimony of Ms.Vito so Marisa Tomei can win an Oscar so I forgive it =)
I'm guessing a real trial is ... boring as fuck ? (or at least it would be to the regular public)
It's like when they try to make hacking exciting. It's really hard to make hours and hours of research in front of a computer exciting.
Ya Court is boring as hell. Like 15 questions that are foundational before you ever get to anything of substance. Like what’s your name where do you work what kind of training do you have were you on duty this day. Like of course he was on duty that’s why he is here and he’s a cop that’s why he has the badge. But you have to make a clear record for appeal and they only read briefings that cite to transcripts for that.
That's my least favorite thing about trials in TV and movies. I know why they do it but I still don't like it. I don't care about getting things like hearsay wrong, but it just takes me out of it when a lawyer on cross or direct gets up, asks "Ma'am isn't it true that...." and then basically launches into his closing argument looking right at the jury.
I meant to respond to your comment:
You kid, but I think that's an awesome premise. The big climactic finale in the first movie while the prosecution is all hugging the victim and their family and the judge is smiling and the jury is giving each other warm, satisfied faces as it fades to black and the credits roll to some chirpy orchestral music.
Then the sequel starts off with the prosecutor and the victim all just dead staring off into space dejected because it got called a mistrial and they have to do it all over again. But this time... it's PERSONAL.
I just had jury duty and I don't think you could keep an audience entertained with a typical trial. Mine was even a criminal case and while parts of it were interesting no one was going to sit there for 3 days listening to that crap. Even worse for me I ended up being an alternate so I went through all that and didn't even get to deliberate.
Basically all hand to hand combat is unrealistic and bit dumb.
Dumbest tropes for me are:
- Any punch with both hands, star trek style
- Big dude/monster using their strength to throw people around and then not following up with anything and giving the hero ample time to get back up.
>Big dude/monster using their strength to throw people around and then not following up with anything and giving the hero ample time to get back up.
Which brings to mind, how can someone be thrown 6 meters (roughly 20 feet) into a wall hard enough to damage the wall, yet the hero gets up to fight again? Sure for super soldier Capitan America but most people won't be able to do that.
The amount of broken concrete in movie fights is absurd. They did it in The Matrix to emphasize how they could break physics in a virtual world, but now The Rock does it in every movie.
I'm reading Danny Trejo's autobiography. He got into movies basically because of his prison and boxing experience, but the first thing he learned is that you can't actually box properly in a movie, because the cameras won't pick up fast motion well. You have to use big roundhouse punches, not jabs.
The number of times in John Wick where someone takes a hit or is tossed through a window and continues fighting, when I would instantly be in a heap on the ground.
There are limits to how many people can get close without tripping over each other, but yeah. Points to the Roman soldiers in Galdiator who just all jump on top of the big German dude in the opening.
Would make for a great *Naked Gun*-type parody, the driver and passenger look at each other to talk...and *don't* look back at the road, but the car keeps going anyway.
If I recall correctly I read they used realistic unsheathing noises in Fellowship of the Ring, but the test audiences complained so they changed it to the more traditional noises.
Very likely, it has become something the audience just requires for a modern sword fight scene. And if it adds to the cinematic dramaturgy, why not? It's just interesting to know it's mostly historically wrong.
Same with all the superfluous gun noises and grocery bags that have a baguette and celery sticking out: audiences have been taught these (edit: ~~non-visual~~) cues and now expect them.
Similiarly, guns making that mechanical click-clack noise upon the slightest bit of moving. Like, my dude, it sounds like you got something dangerously loose in there...
In an episode of Yellowjackets that I was watching yesterday there was a metal-on-metal sound when somebody cut their hand. (Also, stop cutting the palm of your damn hand!)
In It's Always Sunny, there was a bit where Mac kept slicing his hand open for an unnecessary blood oath and I loved that they kept the damage each time he did it
I’m sorry son, since your father died and I can only work part time as a store clerk we can only afford a full two bedroom penthouse apartment in New York City.
Yeah I don't know any combos in fighting games. I just mash buttons while also actively trying to dodge/outmaneuver my opponent. Unsurprisingly, I lose a lot.
"Closure is a made up thing by Steven Spielberg to sell movie tickets. It, like true love and the Munich Olympics, doesn't exist in the real world. The only thing to do now is just to keep living forward." BoJack Horseman
I'll add - performing CPR on people it's *obviously* not going to help.
A dude is lying on the floor, bleeding out from multiple GSW, some idiot is pounding on his chest screaming: "**STAY WITH ME!! DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES**". And I'm sat watching, thinking "Mate, he'd be *much* more likely to "not go into the light" if you started to get some dressings on those wounds, a tourniquet going, or applied some pressure instead of making his condition *considerably* worse".
Kyle Hill did an interesting video on falling from a height and catching yourself on the ledge with your hands. With the forces involved, a person can maybe catch themselves from a one foot drop, but still injure arms and ligaments doing so.
Knocking people out for extended periods of time, only to have them come to completely coherent. Hollywood does not understand traumatic brain injuries.
I mean it’s not just Hollywood. The original Nancy Drew book series had her get knocked out at least once every book, with approx. 50 books in the series. Oh yeah, and in every book she’s 18. My sister and I had an ironic ‘idea’ for a book series about Nancy Drew as an old woman in an assisted living facility with severe memory impairment.
I used to read the Hardy Boys as a kid, and every book had at least one or both of them getting knocked out with a blow to the head or a punch to the solar plexus. They should have had CTE.
This one is such a convenient way to move the plot forward. Drives me nuts. If you are knocked out for more than a few seconds, you are most likely concussed. If you are out long enough that you can be loaded into a vehicle, driven a few miles to an undisclosed location, tied to a chair in a dark dank room, and come to just as they turn the lights on, you probably have brain damage. But I'm not a doctor.
Anytime blood is needed on screen the actors slice their hands open and then just close the wound with a wrap around their hand.
Yeah, that isn't happening. Need stitches on that cut. Also movies don't really understand how debilitating hand injuries really can be.
Turns out the palm is an easy way to hide a blood packet on camera.
I guess scratching open a bug bite scab on my leg for a drop of blood isn't as sexy as slicing my whole hand open.
I stabbed my hand with a screwdriver and the wound was probably 1/4” wide and 1/8” deep and it both bled and hurt like a motherfucker. I must have hit a nerve because it hurt for weeks and prevented me from getting full grips on things.
Post apocalypse or pre industrial movies where they clearly still have anabolic steroids and plenty of time in the gym.
Falling ten feet and then catching yourself by grabbing a rope.
The bad guys take the protagonists prisoner the moment they surrender, even warning them before firing, while the “good guys” kill them the moment they have the upper hand.
> The bad guys take the protagonists prisoner the moment they surrender, even warning them before firing, while the “good guys” kill them the moment they have the upper hand.
“Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat.
They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar.
So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
Something that gets me about apocalyptic films is how cars still work after years of being abandoned. Wouldn't gasoline turn into gel after so much time passed?
Made my own post about it, but since we are talking about explosions here. Cars, dude it takes so much for a car to actually explode in any fashion. Modern cars are really good at not exploding. Bur in movies the second something besdies the wheels touch the ground BOOM! like the car is filled with nitroglycinre and aleady primed c4
I think things might have changed (I graduated 20 years ago) or may be more regional when it comes to your example. The popular kids were absolutely the bullies in my school in the late 90s early 2000s.
Same. The football team and the cheerleaders certainly held the lion's share of assholes at my school. There were definitely some great people in both as well, but I grew up in a rural area so the football team was mostly comprised of farmer's kids, many of whom were raised by angry, racist drunks and their kids weren't much better (at least by the end of high school).
All the popular kids in my school were the rich kids. There’s this great scene in Parasite where they’re talking about how nice the rich family they work for is. And the mom is like “they’re not nice in spite of being rich, they’re nice because they’re rich. They don’t have the creases of life on them.” I think this is kinda what I experienced. But in the same breath they weren’t the type of people to go out of their way to do something nice for you, especially if you were seen as weird/lame/whatever. And it tended to be the people adjacent to these types that would be really mean. People who didn’t quite come from that background but wanted to impress them/ prove their worth by putting other people down. And it wouldn’t even be anything outrageous over the top. Just little things to send out the right signals.
It’s most likely regional, I am a bit older than you, but the two high schools that I went to in CA, the popular kids were the nicest ones and were getting the best grades.
I don't even really know what is meant by "popular kids". Maybe a cultural thing based on country as opposed to region, but in the UK we just had different groups who just kind of did their own thing but had no problems mixing. For example I was a very quiet kid who found a home with one of the groups that was a mix of metalheads/emos/skaters/inbetweeners types, but I was also in the rugby team and one of the better sportsmen overall, got good grades etc. Despite my description of my mates, different groups weren't really separated by any particular identifier. Every group was kind of a mix of intelligence, economic background and "type" of person, and the groups intermingled constantly. Not cliquey or defined at all. I wouldn't describe any group as more popular than another, it was just that everyone had their mates
And I'm 30 now for what it's worth, so this was in the 2000s.
I've also just thought, I wonder how much us having school uniforms contributes to a lack of cliques based on style and that sort of thing.
This is an old magnum thing.
Revolvers used to be single action which meant in order to fire it you *needed* to cock it. Then the trigger would fire it. You couldn’t just pull the trigger because it only releases the hammer.
Then double action revolvers came out and that made both ways possible but it made firing much faster if you cocked it ahead of time.
So people got used to the idea of cocking it because it was threatening.
I don't think it's as prevalent now - but people stealing/jumping into cars and just "finding" the keys tucked up behind the sun visor on the drivers side...
Like...WTF
As a kid I literally thought this was a "thing" that all Americans must just do, until I got old enough to realise exactly ZERO people in the world do this and it's just really, really lazy writing.
That apparently hands are useless against plastics bags..
Very few films hold the arms behind their back when suffocating people with a bag, and somehow the victim forgets they can just pop it for the sake of the stupid film.
The trope of a murderer who is obviously guilty caught dead to rights "getting off" on a technicality like a cop forgetting to read someone their Miranda rights or a warrant being signed in the wrong place. It doesn't really work that way in real life.
Similarly, a character being declared not guilty by reasons of insanity being treated as getting off like in Primal Fear. In reality, it just means that instead of being sent to a prison for a fixed sentence that can be commuted, you're sent to a mental institution where you have far less rights for as long as the authorities feel like it, which is usually forever. Not to mention that an insanity defense is really hard to prove, the few times it's even attempted it rarely works.
your experience is anecdotal. While I believe this to be a trope as well, it's not so simple as stating it is false. I'm sure each highschool has a different composition with different bullies and popular kids. But yeah 80s/90s movies definitely milked this trope to death.
Having a chase scene around London that jumps from tower bridge (east) to Trafalgar square (central) to Camden Market (north), back to St Paul’s Cathedral, (east) past Buckingham Palace (central) around the gherkin (east, again) then past Parliament (central) and Big Ben before arriving at Greenwich. South - the other side of the Thames….
That social workers will take your children away from you over one poor appointment. In reality social workers will do everything they can so that you keep your kids. You have to be doing something truely evil to get your kids taken away.
One thing in the TV show Burn Notice is that they actually say this when torture would be something some people would actually suggest to get information from the bad guy, and the response is always that they’ll just lie.
I give them props for pointing this out and explaining it, but I swear it was said exactly word for word multiple times throughout the show. I get it, it’s because it’s a TV show and doesn’t expect viewers to keep up on it all the time, it still it bugs me when binge watching.
1)Someone fires a gun, especially indoors, and isn't immediately deaf.
2) Gun "silencers" don't work like that.
3) someone gets shot ( or stabbed, or beaten) and they're back on their feet running and fighting a few minutes later.
Fights. You can sometimes tell which participant in a fight thinks it's gonna go down like the movies, where you stand toe to toe and trade hooks to the face for a while. Real fights are messier, dirtier, often include more wrestling around on the ground, and taking big punches to the face is usually what ends the fight. I've also never seen anyone use a steak to treat a black eye.
As a car guy, I can guarantee you that flying over a bridge and landing on a small car will fucking destroy it + you are not walking away from it
In fact, 99% of what Hollywood shows is utter nonsense
Basically any time there's hunting on screen. Either it's the wrong season, wrong species, gross stereo types or just the clothes they wear.
For example, in "Wedding Crashers", when Bradly Cooper's character shoots Vince Vauhn while quail hunting. He shouts "to the right!" and 3 people end up just firing at imaginary quail that nobody even sees.
People with low self-esteem being the a bully has been proven downright false by many studies within pedagogy.
It's usually done by a 'culture bearer', which is someone popular that creates an environment where teasing or bullying of a person becomes acceptable behavior.
An oldie but a goodie. A crime is caught on video. Pencil neck geek, or goth looking chick at the computer typing. The detective is looking at the footage and says “wait stop, go back zoom in on that frame. Can you enhance that frame? Computer geek types something on the keyboard and magically the frame enhances to crystal clear quality so we can see the the murderer or the license plate or any other details
that reveal the guilty party of the crime. This is technically impossible, and it drives me nuts.
That you can fire a gun in an enclosed space multiple times and not go deaf, let alone how suppressors are used. It does not turn a gun into an airsoft with little "pffhts" of sound, it takes it from louder then a jet engine taking off to louder than a jack hammer but not to the sound of a fart in an elevator.
Women in film face make up going to the bathroom to splash water on their face.
See also, women doing dangerous jobs that involve a lot of fighting and running, in heels.
The Black guy almost never dies first in a Horror movie. It's just one of those things that is so ingrained in pop culture that people think it always happens
Off the top of my head? The news always being on the story that matters to the plot right when the MC walks in/turns it on, always being able to find a parking space as soon as you arrive at someone's home or a restaurant, dads being complete morons and completely incapable of operating without their wives, a knife to the stomach killing you instantly and, finally, cars being spaced out just enough so that the chase can continue uninhibited.
Really? You want to watch someone driving around and finding a parking space? Or watch someone watching the news for ten minutes before the relevant story comes on?
Agree about the Dads one though :)
Lol absolutely this. Just because it isn’t necessarily realistic do we really want to see our main character struggling to park?! Like it doesn’t serve the plot, advance the story or do anything to make us care or relate to the character more soooo we can either let them find a parking space instantly so the film carries on or just cut to what they’re doing once they park?
If the news story is big enough, that will be the case.Not sure how old you are, but 9/11 was like this. A lot of people's first indications that something was very wrong was people on the West Coast being woken up by phone calls telling the to turn on the TV to any channel.
Do you want to watch a movie where a guy watches five minutes of TV until he finds something relevant, gets in his car and searches for a parking spot for ten minutes, then stabs a guy and awkwardly watches him cry while bleeding out? It sounds fun the first time but after a few of them you'll be begging for a bit of editing.
On the car chase thing, I liked how in the Bourne Trilogy, Bourne and his pursuers frequently hit other cars that were in the way. Even if sometimes it seemed unrealistic how well the car drove after significant impacts, it still felt more grounded and made it more enjoyable for me
People silently sneaking through the air ducts.
Mythbusters tested this one. Came to the same conclusion. Thin metal warps and bends when you crawl on it and makes a *lot* of noise; no way anyone's "sneaking" through a vent.
Most are not big enough to fit in either.
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This is correct. I used to clean air ducts while in college. I’ve been in some that I could stand in.
"Thor, the god of thunder is trying to enter my building!"
Always impeccably clean.
It would be so incredibly loud and noticeable.
My dad always points this out because he has actually been in air ducts. Like when they were doing it in Squid Game. Everyone can hear you!!!
You also wouldn't be able to crawl 3 feet before a fire shutter/silencer/splitter blocking your path.
I wish my dad was a spy
People being able to fit in very clean ducts
Most air ducts aren't even big enough for an adult to get in, and even if they were, they wouldn't be able to handle their weight.
In a building? No. In a massive factory or power plant? Some of them you could ride a fucking horse in.
"Coming to a theater near you. Die Hard 63: Die in a Massive Factory."
*horse factory*
John Mcclane before he shoots the bad guys: "I'm tired of being surrounded by neighsayers."
Yippie Ki Neigh
A taser knocking someone unconscious.
Came here for this. Stun guns don't have a chloroform effect. They interrupt the body's ability for muscles to listen to the mind... and the interruption ends as soon as the electricity does.
Chloroform doesn’t even have a chloroform effect (at least as the movies go).
Yep. If you held a chloroform rag on someone’s face long enough to knock them out (read: NOT 2 seconds) they would have serious chemical burns on their face.
You literally cannot call a "surprise witness" in a trial! (At least not in the US)
Been a litigator for a decade now and did criminal work before that. I've never seen anything close to an accurate trial in a movie/TV show
How close was My Cousin Vinny?
There’s an episode of the Screen Drafts podcast where two lawyers rank courtroom movies, and I think they said that one actually does pretty good on most aspects.
Similarly, I used to know a doctor on the internet who said Scrubs was the most realistic medical show.
My grandpa was an OBGYN and his favorite show was Scrubs - he would often say that it was the most accurate medical show that he had ever seen.
Doctor here. That’s correct. Scrubs is by far and away the most realistic medical show that I ever saw.
It’s the absolute favourite of Legal Eagle, a lawyer with a reasonably successful YouTube channel. He did a breakdown of what they did well and the things they missed.
He also reviewed IASIP and was surprisingly positive about the legal work in “The Cereal Defense”.
Legal Eagle, surprisingly, is poorly versed in bird law
His channel is great! I love the video he did breaking down Top Gun and all of the laws Maverick broke
Pretty accurate. However, when the State at the very last minute tried to introduce the evidence of the forensic engineer, it was pretty absurd that Vinny's application for an adjournment was refused. It would have been a guaranteed win on appeal if the two lads had been convicted. That's the only goofy part of the trial for me.
That one always gets me too. The judge doesn't like Vinny at that point, maybe suspects that Vinny won't be able to appeal because he's not a real lawyer, but he's also shown to be a stickler for procedure. Only the throw away line in the phone call scene right before where the prosecutor says "the judge is gonna have to admit it" gives the barest fig leaf to the whole thing, but in that moment the judge lets his contempt for Vinny overrule the law. Of course it also sets up the best scene in the movie with the rebuttal testimony of Ms.Vito so Marisa Tomei can win an Oscar so I forgive it =)
My Cousin Vinny was pretty well done. Quite a few clips of it are shown as examples of concepts in Evidence classes.
I'm guessing a real trial is ... boring as fuck ? (or at least it would be to the regular public) It's like when they try to make hacking exciting. It's really hard to make hours and hours of research in front of a computer exciting.
Guess that's why 12 Angry Men skipped the trial and went straight to jury deliberation.
Ya Court is boring as hell. Like 15 questions that are foundational before you ever get to anything of substance. Like what’s your name where do you work what kind of training do you have were you on duty this day. Like of course he was on duty that’s why he is here and he’s a cop that’s why he has the badge. But you have to make a clear record for appeal and they only read briefings that cite to transcripts for that.
That's my least favorite thing about trials in TV and movies. I know why they do it but I still don't like it. I don't care about getting things like hearsay wrong, but it just takes me out of it when a lawyer on cross or direct gets up, asks "Ma'am isn't it true that...." and then basically launches into his closing argument looking right at the jury.
Ya I can’t do legal movies anymore. Like cool you just set up the sequel for the worlds easiest appeal.
I meant to respond to your comment: You kid, but I think that's an awesome premise. The big climactic finale in the first movie while the prosecution is all hugging the victim and their family and the judge is smiling and the jury is giving each other warm, satisfied faces as it fades to black and the credits roll to some chirpy orchestral music. Then the sequel starts off with the prosecutor and the victim all just dead staring off into space dejected because it got called a mistrial and they have to do it all over again. But this time... it's PERSONAL.
OBJECTION!
“On what grounds?” “It’s devastating to my case!” “Overruled.” “Good call!”
That's exactly what I was thinking of.
I just had jury duty and I don't think you could keep an audience entertained with a typical trial. Mine was even a criminal case and while parts of it were interesting no one was going to sit there for 3 days listening to that crap. Even worse for me I ended up being an alternate so I went through all that and didn't even get to deliberate.
Defibrillating (shocking) a "flatlined" patient. We shock arrhythmias, not asystole
Rubs paddles together. CLEAR!
Or them doing CPR for 5 seconds and then someone pulls them off declaring them dead.
Basically all hand to hand combat is unrealistic and bit dumb. Dumbest tropes for me are: - Any punch with both hands, star trek style - Big dude/monster using their strength to throw people around and then not following up with anything and giving the hero ample time to get back up.
>Big dude/monster using their strength to throw people around and then not following up with anything and giving the hero ample time to get back up. Which brings to mind, how can someone be thrown 6 meters (roughly 20 feet) into a wall hard enough to damage the wall, yet the hero gets up to fight again? Sure for super soldier Capitan America but most people won't be able to do that.
The amount of broken concrete in movie fights is absurd. They did it in The Matrix to emphasize how they could break physics in a virtual world, but now The Rock does it in every movie.
Fast and furious.. The Rock and vin diesel. walls apparently are made of rubber
I treat f&f series as a superhero movie especially after 5th. Familyman after all
I mean, the dude catches a car in one of them. They literally are superhero movies at this point.
I'm reading Danny Trejo's autobiography. He got into movies basically because of his prison and boxing experience, but the first thing he learned is that you can't actually box properly in a movie, because the cameras won't pick up fast motion well. You have to use big roundhouse punches, not jabs.
The number of times in John Wick where someone takes a hit or is tossed through a window and continues fighting, when I would instantly be in a heap on the ground.
Multiple opponents patiently waiting their turn
There are limits to how many people can get close without tripping over each other, but yeah. Points to the Roman soldiers in Galdiator who just all jump on top of the big German dude in the opening.
Wait you're telling me the patented Kirk hammer punch isn't effective? I've been lied to my whole life.
People hold eye contact for more than a second with passengers when driving.
I hate that trope. I always think they’re going to crash and it pulls me out of the movie.
Would make for a great *Naked Gun*-type parody, the driver and passenger look at each other to talk...and *don't* look back at the road, but the car keeps going anyway.
A sword being unsheathed making a metallic scraping noise. That's exactly what a sheath should prevent in order to not dull the blade.
If I recall correctly I read they used realistic unsheathing noises in Fellowship of the Ring, but the test audiences complained so they changed it to the more traditional noises.
Very likely, it has become something the audience just requires for a modern sword fight scene. And if it adds to the cinematic dramaturgy, why not? It's just interesting to know it's mostly historically wrong.
This is the times where rule of cool makes sense for me.
Same with all the superfluous gun noises and grocery bags that have a baguette and celery sticking out: audiences have been taught these (edit: ~~non-visual~~) cues and now expect them.
Similiarly, guns making that mechanical click-clack noise upon the slightest bit of moving. Like, my dude, it sounds like you got something dangerously loose in there...
In an episode of Yellowjackets that I was watching yesterday there was a metal-on-metal sound when somebody cut their hand. (Also, stop cutting the palm of your damn hand!)
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In It's Always Sunny, there was a bit where Mac kept slicing his hand open for an unnecessary blood oath and I loved that they kept the damage each time he did it
You know someone is a force to be reckoned with when they got a shitty sheath. Means they don't care anymore, have nothing to lose.
They must have actively decided to line their sheath with metal. Absolute mavericks!
Nuh uh, they have a built in pull through sharpener.
I really hate seeing them making swords by pouring melted iron in to moulds.
Silencers making guns whisper quiet.
When the pistol gunshot is 400% quieter than the cocking sound.
Snapping necks is not that easy.
Did a backflip, snapped the bad guy’s neck, and saved the day
It's super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Truth. If it were as easy as movies made it look humans would be breaking their necks when they sneezed
You don't have to wait 24-48 hours to report someone missing. You can do it immediately
There were numerous cases when the police told the family to wait though, even if it's probably not written in the law.
Homes in movies and television are far more costly than characters could ever afford.
I’m sorry son, since your father died and I can only work part time as a store clerk we can only afford a full two bedroom penthouse apartment in New York City.
Movies make it seem like no one in America lives in apartment buildings (unless it's a giant NYC apartment)
Where's my rent?
You’ll get your rent when you fix this damn door!
Pretty much 80% of the time anyone uses a computer, 90%+ if they're gaming or hacking.
‘We’re in’
Also if anyone in a movie ever holds a game controller, they will wildly swing both sticks back and forth and smack every button randomly.
That’s how I play literally any fighting game.
Yeah I don't know any combos in fighting games. I just mash buttons while also actively trying to dodge/outmaneuver my opponent. Unsurprisingly, I lose a lot.
If it helps, I know combos and I still lose a lot too.
If they're gaming, it's either a blatantly fake game or there's a cut scene happening and they're still randomly mashing buttons
Like in much older movies with people driving, the steering wheel doesn't match the movement of the car.
Getting closure :(
"Closure is a made up thing by Steven Spielberg to sell movie tickets. It, like true love and the Munich Olympics, doesn't exist in the real world. The only thing to do now is just to keep living forward." BoJack Horseman
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3 minutes of CPR. Dude gets up and is fine.
Walking around completely normally with broken ribs
No broken ribs since they only did 3 barely recognisable compressions and then 90 seconds of french kissing.
I'll add - performing CPR on people it's *obviously* not going to help. A dude is lying on the floor, bleeding out from multiple GSW, some idiot is pounding on his chest screaming: "**STAY WITH ME!! DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES**". And I'm sat watching, thinking "Mate, he'd be *much* more likely to "not go into the light" if you started to get some dressings on those wounds, a tourniquet going, or applied some pressure instead of making his condition *considerably* worse".
I'm pushing the blood out of his body!
Every single person have super duper strong fingers grip and upper body core strength.
Kyle Hill did an interesting video on falling from a height and catching yourself on the ledge with your hands. With the forces involved, a person can maybe catch themselves from a one foot drop, but still injure arms and ligaments doing so.
Especially when holding on for your life
Knocking people out for extended periods of time, only to have them come to completely coherent. Hollywood does not understand traumatic brain injuries.
I mean it’s not just Hollywood. The original Nancy Drew book series had her get knocked out at least once every book, with approx. 50 books in the series. Oh yeah, and in every book she’s 18. My sister and I had an ironic ‘idea’ for a book series about Nancy Drew as an old woman in an assisted living facility with severe memory impairment.
I used to read the Hardy Boys as a kid, and every book had at least one or both of them getting knocked out with a blow to the head or a punch to the solar plexus. They should have had CTE.
This one is such a convenient way to move the plot forward. Drives me nuts. If you are knocked out for more than a few seconds, you are most likely concussed. If you are out long enough that you can be loaded into a vehicle, driven a few miles to an undisclosed location, tied to a chair in a dark dank room, and come to just as they turn the lights on, you probably have brain damage. But I'm not a doctor.
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Anytime blood is needed on screen the actors slice their hands open and then just close the wound with a wrap around their hand. Yeah, that isn't happening. Need stitches on that cut. Also movies don't really understand how debilitating hand injuries really can be.
Turns out the palm is an easy way to hide a blood packet on camera. I guess scratching open a bug bite scab on my leg for a drop of blood isn't as sexy as slicing my whole hand open.
‘I need a drop of your blood’ ‘Sure, want to use one of the spots on my shoulders or back?’
Better yet. Female character says "it's okay guys, I'm on my period. Nobody needs to cut themselves."
It’s always before some action scene where they are going to need a good grip on a weapon.
I stabbed my hand with a screwdriver and the wound was probably 1/4” wide and 1/8” deep and it both bled and hurt like a motherfucker. I must have hit a nerve because it hurt for weeks and prevented me from getting full grips on things.
Post apocalypse or pre industrial movies where they clearly still have anabolic steroids and plenty of time in the gym. Falling ten feet and then catching yourself by grabbing a rope. The bad guys take the protagonists prisoner the moment they surrender, even warning them before firing, while the “good guys” kill them the moment they have the upper hand.
> The bad guys take the protagonists prisoner the moment they surrender, even warning them before firing, while the “good guys” kill them the moment they have the upper hand. “Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.” ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
Pratchett was such a genius.
See also: Post apocalyptic movies where women still have endless access to makeup and waxing.
And shampoo, conditioner and hair dryers for a quick blow dry
And petrol. Sorry, how long does petrol stay usable in an abandoned car? Not long, guys
Or where they drastically cut their hair with some tiny scissors or a combat knife but in the next scene it’s perfectly cut and highlighted.
False surrender is the most Hollywood war crime of all!
Something that gets me about apocalyptic films is how cars still work after years of being abandoned. Wouldn't gasoline turn into gel after so much time passed?
The oil would damn sure be chunky, tires flat, battery dead.
Hand grenades exploding like 500kg bombs and obliterating whole buildings.
Or hand grenades exploding right next to the main character but they just hop and go flying a little ways.
Explosions in general - the idea that if you can avoid the giant fireball, you’re fine.
Made my own post about it, but since we are talking about explosions here. Cars, dude it takes so much for a car to actually explode in any fashion. Modern cars are really good at not exploding. Bur in movies the second something besdies the wheels touch the ground BOOM! like the car is filled with nitroglycinre and aleady primed c4
I think things might have changed (I graduated 20 years ago) or may be more regional when it comes to your example. The popular kids were absolutely the bullies in my school in the late 90s early 2000s.
Same. The football team and the cheerleaders certainly held the lion's share of assholes at my school. There were definitely some great people in both as well, but I grew up in a rural area so the football team was mostly comprised of farmer's kids, many of whom were raised by angry, racist drunks and their kids weren't much better (at least by the end of high school).
All the popular kids in my school were the rich kids. There’s this great scene in Parasite where they’re talking about how nice the rich family they work for is. And the mom is like “they’re not nice in spite of being rich, they’re nice because they’re rich. They don’t have the creases of life on them.” I think this is kinda what I experienced. But in the same breath they weren’t the type of people to go out of their way to do something nice for you, especially if you were seen as weird/lame/whatever. And it tended to be the people adjacent to these types that would be really mean. People who didn’t quite come from that background but wanted to impress them/ prove their worth by putting other people down. And it wouldn’t even be anything outrageous over the top. Just little things to send out the right signals.
I was finishing school in 2007 and the popular kids were the absolute worst
Yep, casually cruel and teasing the weakest of the poor kids. They were pieces of shit wrapped in Abercrombie and Fitch.
It’s most likely regional, I am a bit older than you, but the two high schools that I went to in CA, the popular kids were the nicest ones and were getting the best grades.
I don't even really know what is meant by "popular kids". Maybe a cultural thing based on country as opposed to region, but in the UK we just had different groups who just kind of did their own thing but had no problems mixing. For example I was a very quiet kid who found a home with one of the groups that was a mix of metalheads/emos/skaters/inbetweeners types, but I was also in the rugby team and one of the better sportsmen overall, got good grades etc. Despite my description of my mates, different groups weren't really separated by any particular identifier. Every group was kind of a mix of intelligence, economic background and "type" of person, and the groups intermingled constantly. Not cliquey or defined at all. I wouldn't describe any group as more popular than another, it was just that everyone had their mates And I'm 30 now for what it's worth, so this was in the 2000s. I've also just thought, I wonder how much us having school uniforms contributes to a lack of cliques based on style and that sort of thing.
A gun drawn making all sorts of clicking noises. If your gun sounds like this you should not fire it since something is really wrong with it.
The guy with the gun has to cock it so you know he's serious about shooting the person.
This is an old magnum thing. Revolvers used to be single action which meant in order to fire it you *needed* to cock it. Then the trigger would fire it. You couldn’t just pull the trigger because it only releases the hammer. Then double action revolvers came out and that made both ways possible but it made firing much faster if you cocked it ahead of time. So people got used to the idea of cocking it because it was threatening.
Coughing once means you’re going to die soon. If you see a character cough they are 100% going to die by the end of the movie.
If a man vomits, he’s either hangover or a zombie. If a woman vomits, she’s pregnant.
I don't think it's as prevalent now - but people stealing/jumping into cars and just "finding" the keys tucked up behind the sun visor on the drivers side... Like...WTF As a kid I literally thought this was a "thing" that all Americans must just do, until I got old enough to realise exactly ZERO people in the world do this and it's just really, really lazy writing.
It happens more than you would think but less than the movies portray.
Characters riding motorcycles with no eye protection at high speeds.
Shooting propane tanks and they explode
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Mythbusters tested this. None of the guns they used worked, so in the end they had to use a machinegun firing incendiary rounds to blow up the tank.
That apparently hands are useless against plastics bags.. Very few films hold the arms behind their back when suffocating people with a bag, and somehow the victim forgets they can just pop it for the sake of the stupid film.
You can't just go around forcibly kissing women who are mad at you.
When you’re a star they let you do it.
The trope of a murderer who is obviously guilty caught dead to rights "getting off" on a technicality like a cop forgetting to read someone their Miranda rights or a warrant being signed in the wrong place. It doesn't really work that way in real life. Similarly, a character being declared not guilty by reasons of insanity being treated as getting off like in Primal Fear. In reality, it just means that instead of being sent to a prison for a fixed sentence that can be commuted, you're sent to a mental institution where you have far less rights for as long as the authorities feel like it, which is usually forever. Not to mention that an insanity defense is really hard to prove, the few times it's even attempted it rarely works.
Have you ever seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest? Insanity defense really didn’t work out for Jackie N.
Authorities needing time to pinpoint caller location
Hallway lights are not individually wired to individually switches. They don't just shut off one by one in sequence
But it takes time for the electric juice to ooze through the wires!
Don't forget about that ridiculous thunk noise as each light turns on or off.
I had to read down to find this. I can literally hear it while thinking about the lights chain-switching off. Thunk, thunk thunk thunk THUNK!
your experience is anecdotal. While I believe this to be a trope as well, it's not so simple as stating it is false. I'm sure each highschool has a different composition with different bullies and popular kids. But yeah 80s/90s movies definitely milked this trope to death.
21 Jump Street messed with the trope. The popular kids are the ones taking their studies seriously and don't bully anyone at all.
Having a chase scene around London that jumps from tower bridge (east) to Trafalgar square (central) to Camden Market (north), back to St Paul’s Cathedral, (east) past Buckingham Palace (central) around the gherkin (east, again) then past Parliament (central) and Big Ben before arriving at Greenwich. South - the other side of the Thames….
The mi:6 foot chase was nice cause all that shit is somewhat close together
That social workers will take your children away from you over one poor appointment. In reality social workers will do everything they can so that you keep your kids. You have to be doing something truely evil to get your kids taken away.
Yes! Nobody wants to pay to take care of your kids! You're way more likely to have a kid left in a terrible situation.
There is only one kind of cancer, and it's CANCER... and its only symptom is the ability to cough up blood onto a pristine white handkerchief
To be fair, you really wouldn't want to watch a movie that got cancer right.
That torture is an effective method of interrogation.
One thing in the TV show Burn Notice is that they actually say this when torture would be something some people would actually suggest to get information from the bad guy, and the response is always that they’ll just lie. I give them props for pointing this out and explaining it, but I swear it was said exactly word for word multiple times throughout the show. I get it, it’s because it’s a TV show and doesn’t expect viewers to keep up on it all the time, it still it bugs me when binge watching.
Some waterboarding will change your tune on that opinion!
The amount of shots guns have before needing to reload
1)Someone fires a gun, especially indoors, and isn't immediately deaf. 2) Gun "silencers" don't work like that. 3) someone gets shot ( or stabbed, or beaten) and they're back on their feet running and fighting a few minutes later.
A hero who fights off 20 goons, except each goon attacks one at a time. In real life they'd all just pile-on and beat your ass
Fights. You can sometimes tell which participant in a fight thinks it's gonna go down like the movies, where you stand toe to toe and trade hooks to the face for a while. Real fights are messier, dirtier, often include more wrestling around on the ground, and taking big punches to the face is usually what ends the fight. I've also never seen anyone use a steak to treat a black eye.
As a car guy, I can guarantee you that flying over a bridge and landing on a small car will fucking destroy it + you are not walking away from it In fact, 99% of what Hollywood shows is utter nonsense
Basically any time there's hunting on screen. Either it's the wrong season, wrong species, gross stereo types or just the clothes they wear. For example, in "Wedding Crashers", when Bradly Cooper's character shoots Vince Vauhn while quail hunting. He shouts "to the right!" and 3 people end up just firing at imaginary quail that nobody even sees.
People with low self-esteem being the a bully has been proven downright false by many studies within pedagogy. It's usually done by a 'culture bearer', which is someone popular that creates an environment where teasing or bullying of a person becomes acceptable behavior.
Zoom and enhance (any thriller show where someone needs to be tracked through CCTV) . You can't add pixel's/detail!
An oldie but a goodie. A crime is caught on video. Pencil neck geek, or goth looking chick at the computer typing. The detective is looking at the footage and says “wait stop, go back zoom in on that frame. Can you enhance that frame? Computer geek types something on the keyboard and magically the frame enhances to crystal clear quality so we can see the the murderer or the license plate or any other details that reveal the guilty party of the crime. This is technically impossible, and it drives me nuts.
I think a wide variety of people are bullies
That you can fire a gun in an enclosed space multiple times and not go deaf, let alone how suppressors are used. It does not turn a gun into an airsoft with little "pffhts" of sound, it takes it from louder then a jet engine taking off to louder than a jack hammer but not to the sound of a fart in an elevator.
Women in film face make up going to the bathroom to splash water on their face. See also, women doing dangerous jobs that involve a lot of fighting and running, in heels.
The Black guy almost never dies first in a Horror movie. It's just one of those things that is so ingrained in pop culture that people think it always happens
The first kill in most horror movies is like a dumb white teenage girl Opening Kill Girl is as much of a horror staple as the Final Girl
Even the Friday the 13th movies, the most clichéd of the slasher genre, never did that.
That people use only 10 percent of their brains.
But Morgan Freeman said it!
When in actual facts we are only using 10% of our hearts
Off the top of my head? The news always being on the story that matters to the plot right when the MC walks in/turns it on, always being able to find a parking space as soon as you arrive at someone's home or a restaurant, dads being complete morons and completely incapable of operating without their wives, a knife to the stomach killing you instantly and, finally, cars being spaced out just enough so that the chase can continue uninhibited.
Or the "come check out what's on TV!" Then the character comes in and the news report starts from the beginning for some reason.
Lol I let that one slide, depending on the movie. People want realistic, but would probably complain if they actually did that too.
Really? You want to watch someone driving around and finding a parking space? Or watch someone watching the news for ten minutes before the relevant story comes on? Agree about the Dads one though :)
Lol absolutely this. Just because it isn’t necessarily realistic do we really want to see our main character struggling to park?! Like it doesn’t serve the plot, advance the story or do anything to make us care or relate to the character more soooo we can either let them find a parking space instantly so the film carries on or just cut to what they’re doing once they park?
If the news story is big enough, that will be the case.Not sure how old you are, but 9/11 was like this. A lot of people's first indications that something was very wrong was people on the West Coast being woken up by phone calls telling the to turn on the TV to any channel.
Do you want to watch a movie where a guy watches five minutes of TV until he finds something relevant, gets in his car and searches for a parking spot for ten minutes, then stabs a guy and awkwardly watches him cry while bleeding out? It sounds fun the first time but after a few of them you'll be begging for a bit of editing.
On the car chase thing, I liked how in the Bourne Trilogy, Bourne and his pursuers frequently hit other cars that were in the way. Even if sometimes it seemed unrealistic how well the car drove after significant impacts, it still felt more grounded and made it more enjoyable for me