View Full Version : Movie Things that happen a lot in the movies that don't make sense
Hodgepodge
9 Jan 2011, 13:05
For example, in the movies people just park their car in the city, right in front of the thing and never bother to lock their car or even wind the window up.
They also take a taxi somewhere and don't pay.
. . .
Then there's the girl who is married to a guy who treats her like crap, or vice versa, and there is no relationship between them at all. This makes it easy for the main hero character to get the guy/girl of his dreams by saving her from her bad boyfriend (i.e. old school, the hangover, etc) How does this couple get together or stay together?
Discuss?
bunsen burner
9 Jan 2011, 13:47
This one always happens in Tvs and movies:
Two cops go to arrest suspect. They drive to suspect's apartment block and walk up the stairs. As the suspect comes out of his unit onto the landing he has no idea two cops are approaching from 20 meters away.
What should happen in real life:
Cops act normal wait til suspect walks close to them, grab him. They do not alert suspect as to who they are until they either grab him or the suspect twigs and runs.
What happens on TV and movies:
As soon as suspect walks onto landing the cops yell at him from 20-30 meters away alerting him to their presence and giving him a head start in a chase.
soupaman
9 Jan 2011, 23:08
Main characters ability to not get killed in dangerous situations despite every body else around them failing in this area.
Illogical decisions made in chase scenes. Ie. In Casino Royale, the guy at the start tries to escape by climbing up a half finished building. First, why would you go up? It limits your escape options from 360 degreees to just down. And second, why would the chaser (in this instance James Bond) go and follow him. Wouldn't you just sit at the bottom and wait for Jim to inevitably come down?
Lazarus
10 Jan 2011, 08:59
Good thread.
Whenever a car chase is happening, they are the only two cars on the road.
Bullets don't typically spark when they strike metal.
Cars that catch on fire rarely explode.
Shotgun blasts will not throw a person backwards.
If you fall through a plate glass window you will come out looking like a victim of lingchi and need serious hospitalisation, not end up with a couple of artistic cuts on your face.
You can't see laser beams.
RobbyRoy
10 Jan 2011, 18:22
Good thread.
Whenever a car chase is happening, they are the only two cars on the road.
Not in the good ones.
WCErevival
10 Jan 2011, 18:27
A whole army shooting at one person but somehow they dont get hit. Annoying when the person is hiding then they decide to make a break for it under fire from a heap of people and seem to just run away unscathed.
matty p
10 Jan 2011, 18:30
The actor only ever dials about 5 random numbers into a phone and the person on the other end of the line always answers straight away.
Wahooti Fandango
10 Jan 2011, 18:30
Mythbusters has tested many of these.
placebo
10 Jan 2011, 18:30
If you fall through a plate glass window you will come out looking like a victim of lingchi and need serious hospitalisation, not end up with a couple of artistic cuts on your face.
I hate this one. I really wish movies would stop throwing people through glass and then letting them just get right up as if nothing happened. Shits me.
Donners
10 Jan 2011, 18:37
Computer hacking with all sorts of bright and colourful displays...
NMFCMUFC
10 Jan 2011, 18:40
Getting shot raises your pain thresholds remarkably.
I keep thinking of these. When two people are talking in a car, the driver keeps looking the passenger in the face as they talk.
People always hang up the phone without saying goodbye.
Nobody is ever specific enough about arrangements. e.g. a character will ask another character on a date and they will agree to 'dinner tomorrow night' and say 'great, see you then' but nobody ever suggests a time or place.
Nobody counts money when paying for meals, taxies, etc. (if they pay at all) - they just throw down a wad of notes.
Women are always wearing their bra post-coital, and/or they always pull the sheet off the bed when getting up.
Fish tanks only exist to get broken.
Every window in every city, no matter how squalid the building, has a million-dollar view.
every car no matter how shit does burnouts
Biggy_Boy
11 Jan 2011, 00:39
Computer hacking with all sorts of bright and colourful displays...
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It's a UNIX system.
Clawfinger
11 Jan 2011, 01:01
Padlocks
Don't have the key? No problem, just shoot the padlock
Explosions
If you're running/driving/flying away from a massive explosion, you'll be able to travel just fast enough to escape it
Padlocks
Don't have the key? No problem, just shoot the padlock
or just break the padlock with a fire extinguisher
RobbyRoy
11 Jan 2011, 19:01
The actor only ever dials about 5 random numbers into a phone and the person on the other end of the line always answers straight away.
On the other side of that coin - phones ringing forever without the caller giving up or an answering machine kicking in.
Helicopters can only be heard when directly above.
WCErevival
11 Jan 2011, 20:31
every car no matter how shit does burnouts
Haha yeah everytime they take off even if its slowly the burnout sound effect is put in.
People never go to the toilet.
Fights go forever even though one of the guys is hit repeatedly flush in the jaw/head
TimeIsRunningOut
11 Jan 2011, 22:14
People never go to the toilet.
Vincent Vega begs to differ.
peternorth
12 Jan 2011, 09:16
explosions in space are loud.
a conversation between two actors - they're always facing/angled towards the camera
I keep thinking of these. When two people are talking in a car, the driver keeps looking the passenger in the face as they talk.
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ths is so true and so ridiculous
and i was in the car with a friend on a two hour journey i was drivbin i was looking at the road as hse was talking, and yet i started to feel guilty that i hadn't looked at her as i continued to talk and drive.
There isn't one place in the whole of Paris that doesn't have the Eiffel Tower clearly visible in the background.
The Sultan
12 Jan 2011, 12:57
the morning after a chick has been banged, she will strategical cover her breasts with the bed sheets, even thought the guys has seen them already.
Lazarus
12 Jan 2011, 15:46
He hasn't seen them in the daylight
Timmy Houlihan
12 Jan 2011, 16:42
http://www.cracked.com/article_18862_6-deadly-injuries-you-think-youd-survive-thanks-to-movies.html
Timmy Houlihan
12 Jan 2011, 17:00
and also
http://www.cracked.com/article_18576_5-ridiculous-gun-myths-everyone-believes-thanks-to-movies.html
Rowie09
12 Jan 2011, 17:25
Manhattan has an unlimited supply of free parking spots.
peternorth
12 Jan 2011, 17:41
the morning after a chick has been banged, she will strategical cover her breasts with the bed sheets, even thought the guys has seen them already.
same thing with strippers. strange behaviour.
similarly, women always climax. god knows thats not true.
RobbyRoy
12 Jan 2011, 19:56
People getting hit hard in the head by a fist, shovel, gun etc. They're always knocked out cold when in reality the hit could do nothing, or even kill them.
Rocket23
13 Jan 2011, 09:39
Hand Grenades are always the things that annoys me.
In movies such as I am Legend the hand grenade is thrown and it explodes into a ball/wall of flames!
They just don't do that!
Hand Grenades are always the things that annoys me.
In movies such as I am Legend the hand grenade is thrown and it explodes into a ball/wall of flames!
They just don't do that!
But at least Mythbusters proved someone diving on a grenade COULD save everyone else. One of the few movie myths not busted.
OzBomber
13 Jan 2011, 10:40
When a plane or car runs out of fuel and it collides with a wall or the ground it blows up.
I hate how the TV volume for "breaking news" would miraculously turn up if it concerns them. What sh1ts me even more is that they only listen to a few lines of the news report even if what they saying is about them.
Why do police get away with shooting a man dead just because he is a "baddie"?
boxes that cars crash into have nothing in them. If they were out for recycling would'nt it be easier to flatten them down.
no men have hair on their arse.
WCErevival
13 Jan 2011, 11:33
Another one I just thought of.
Someone rings someone else to tell them to turn on the tv because they "have to see this". So that person presses one button on the remote and it automatically is on the right station and the news report usually starts at the exact perfect time.
There's no such thing as light rain or shower. When it rains it pours
RobbyRoy
14 Jan 2011, 18:52
There's no such thing as light rain or shower. When it rains it pours
Maybe in Tasmania.
DeadlyAkkuret
15 Jan 2011, 01:00
When running from something that can't make a sudden turn (giant boulder, mack truck, t-rex etc) people will always run in a straight line directly in front of the thing behind them, sometimes diving to the side but only when it's absolutely necessary so they can escape death by a matter of inches.
Old stuffy shirt white men and young black men always get along in the end, despite their cultural and generational differences.
Whenever the wife in a movie is Latina she has to have a family member (usually a brother) who's gone off the rails or is in jail.
If a girl can handle herself in a fight or use a gun, she has to turn to one of the guys at one point and smirk or blow air at her fringe while he seems sort of taken aback by it.
HoldenMagroin
15 Jan 2011, 15:49
When a good guy follows a baddie in a car, rarely does he keep a safe distance, and miraculously the blind freddie baddie seldom notices that he's been tailed. But when a good guy is followed, he is always more alert and spots the tail in his rear vision mirror, even when the pursuer is half a block away.
Asgardian
15 Jan 2011, 16:36
The heroine, when running away from the 'thingamajigwhatsis' always, always, falls over and then backs away on her backside screaming.