If only life were like it is in the movies, right? Wouldn’t things be simpler? Or hauntingly entertaining, at the very least. There’s something about the scripts accompanying so many movies that results in things that always seem to work out in the end. Meanwhile, life, as we experience it is an inevitable process of navigating a constant stream of hurdles as smoothly as you possibly can.
These particular things are portrayed with ridiculous inaccuracy in movies. But it’s okay; we forgive them.
1. “The open parking spots right in front of the destination.”
“Am I crazy, or does this happen like eighty times in Beverly Hills Cop?” – u/holdontherejethro
2. “Ordering a beer and getting a beer.”
“When the protagonist asks for a beer and the bartender gives them a beer. I don’t need a protagonist asking what beers they have, the bartender saying all brands they have, then the protagonist deciding which one they want.” – u/altaccount269
3. “The sound of punches.”
“Although I love it, the sound of punches. Especially in Indiana Jones. They sound like someone whacking a side of beef with a wet blanket, which it might actually be, when a real punch is nothing more than a deep thud.” – u/hamiltonblakc
4. “Possessing an unfailing wit.”
“That people can think of witty things to say mid-conversation and not twelve hours later in the shower.” – u/spaceguy87
5. “Visibility at places where there must be absolute darkness.”
“I always chuckle watching Indiana Jones using single match to light an entire underground tomb.” – u/icecreayouscream92
6. “What you hear or don’t hear in space.”
“Yeah, so there’s no sound in the vacuum of space.” – u/positive_prompt_3171
7. “What happens when you jump through glass.”
“Any time a hero jumps through a pane of glass and doesn’t even get a single cut.” – u/craftycommando
8. “Everyone never saying um or like.”
“Dialogue that doesn’t include the words ‘uhm’ and ‘like’ a thousand times per sentence.” – u/level-studio7483
9. “Hours of a car ride with nothing happening.”
“I don’t mind when they cut out time passing without anything significant happening – a 5 hour drive condensed to three scenes is totally fine by me .” – u/intro-nimbus
10. “Just the whole existence of giant monsters thing.”
“I’m okay with giant monsters battling giant monsters.” – u/jaynovahhawk07
11. “Yeah, just forget about the bill at the restaurant then.”
“No one paying their bill at restaurants.” – u/a_j_ru
12. “No one needs to say bye on the phone.”
“That people don’t say bye on the phone. Who cares.” – u/juniperleafes
13. “Shoes while on the bed. That’s it.”
“Also, people wearing shoes while lying on couches or even beds. I mean, what is happening? You have to be okay with it, or you’d lose your mind over every film.” – u/icecreamyouscream92
14. “People never talk out of turn.”
“No one speaks over each other.” – u/rynox2000
15. “The overhead welder that always has sparks flying.”
“One of them that annoys me the most is almost every single time someone is on an active construction site someone is welding overhead and the sparks are falling down.” – u/12altoids34
16. “The disparity between survivors’ facial hair.”
“Survival movies where some people grow facial hair and others don’t.” – u/djprojexion
17. “Unexplainable song and dance moments.”
“Bursting into song. I hate when people say musicals are too unrealistic but then they’ll go watch a movie where a superhero shoots CGI laser beams out of their hands.” – u/mindpieces
18. “Communications always working when you’re in the military.”
“In military movies, communications and data links always work, all the time, unless it’s a major plot point. In real life, it’s almost never that way, but the story would be dumb if they had to pause the plot for hours or even days while the comm techs are troubleshooting firewalls, ports, IPs, crypto, etc.” – u/cpm67
19. “Cars are so much tougher in movies.”
“If cars were as fragile in movies as they are in real life, almost no movie with a basic car chase would work. I hit a curb once with my car at about 20 mph, and it destroyed the tire and bent part of the frame. Think of every time a car jumps up onto the sidewalk to get around traffic in a movie, but instead, as soon as it hits the curb, the front tires pretty much implode.” – u/Adezar
