Unrealistic things in movies and tv shows that drive you crazy

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Anonymous wrote:Having gone to a private school, the way they are always portrayed, esp. the uniforms. No school makes the kids wear sweater vests or ties for girls. And, it’s always portrayed as stodgier than they really are.

This is an odd one to me! I went to a private school that required sweater vests, and we would get in trouble if we didn’t wear them! Our uniforms looked essentially exactly like the ones in the movie Lady Bird, which took place around the time years I was in high school, and I loved how accurate that costuming was.

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Anonymous wrote:People walk in from a day out and head to the kitchen to eat or cook and never wash their hands.

This has bothered me since I was a young kid. The first thing we do is wash our hands when we come home.

I don’t actually think this is unrealistic. That’s definitely not the first thing everyone does.

It's unrealistic for me. It's was the norm for me, my parents, and their parents. It's also what I have taught my children. Maybe it's culture (we are Black) or regional (parents are from the south), but all my friends and family wash their hands when they come home and before eating or cooking.

I do realize that others don't do this. Its one of the reasons I will never eat at an office potluck.

Seriously what do you think will happen

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In every fight scene where one good guy has to fight 4-5 bad guys, the bad guys always come at him one at a time. What are the other bad guys doing while the first and second ones take on the good guy?

I hate how phone conversations end abruptly, without anyone saying goodbye, yet no one is upset that the other party apparently hung up on them.

People agree to a date on Friday and then part ways without any further discussion, but somehow they know where and when they’ll meet.

Two people meet for coffee, have a conversation without drinking the coffee, then throw out their cups as they’re parting.

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I found it hilarious that on 24, every time Jack needed to know the layout of a public building, where the stairwells or the air vents were, he could ask for the schematics, and his agency’s tech person could call them up within a couple minutes, no matter where the building was or how old it was or whether it had been renovated. Imagine a world where the government could maintain up-to-date records on every large building because everyone was compliant in providing updates in real time and a governmental agency had the manpower to input all that information immediately. Sure, that could happen…

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The good-looking protagonist cop *never* loses any teeth during a fistfight with the bad guy, no matter how many direct blows to the face he absorbs.

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Anonymous wrote:Obvious, contrived or inappropriate colour blind casting. I couldn’t watch Bridgerton as there was no historic authenticity. Also couldn’t watch Wheel of Time where little villages were perfectly diverse. Made everything seem fake.

Yeah, only white people should get roles in period films!

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Anonymous wrote:In every fight scene where one good guy has to fight 4-5 bad guys, the bad guys always come at him one at a time. What are the other bad guys doing while the first and second ones take on the good guy?

I hate how phone conversations end abruptly, without anyone saying goodbye, yet no one is upset that the other party apparently hung up on them.

People agree to a date on Friday and then part ways without any further discussion, but somehow they know where and when they’ll meet.

Two people meet for coffee, have a conversation without drinking the coffee, then throw out their cups as they’re parting.

I hate it when they have paper coffee cups that are obviously empty.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to get angry about all those Disney movies with the divorced parents and the kids getting shuttled between expensive homes in top of the line cars. There is a movie with Steve Carnell where he ends up in a nondescript beige apartment with no view after the divorce and it is much more realistic,

Same in the movie with Adam Driver and I think Scarlett Johanson? Where he ends up in a shitty apartment.

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It always bothers me when the exterior of a TV home is impossible given the interior set. For example, The Cosby Show brownstone has a shared wall with the house next door, and yet you see a window on the interior behind the stair, right where their neighbor's house should be. The Brady Bunch house exterior shows a triangular window over the front door, but the interior shows a rectangular window over the door. It's like they didn't even try.

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Unrealistic: 2 people in a scene with other people say to the other people, "can you give us a moment?" and then everyone else clears out. Can you imagine doing that in real life? So awkward.

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I really hate it when they take too much creative license with a movie or series adaptation. The Anne of Green Gables series on Netflix is like terrible fanfic. They added new characters, places, and events, but also modified certain characters and made whole episodes about their LGBTQIA+ identities.

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My husband always asks “Doesn’t anybody potty?”. He says that during every movie or series.

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Always a parking spot out front even in Manhattan

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Anonymous wrote:My husband always asks “Doesn’t anybody potty?”. He says that during every movie or series.

During every single one?

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Use of guns.