Unrealistic things in movies and tv shows that drive you crazy

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Anonymous wrote:Always a parking spot out front even in Manhattan

This and also when people carry luggage. You can tell it’s empty.

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

Ha! I write fiction and I have to stop myself from adding bathroom scenes into every chapter, because truly as someone with a tiny bladder I don't understand how no character on TV ever has to stop to pee.

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Anonymous wrote:The pregnant character is going about her business, and her water breaks. It’s a huge gush that everyone hears, and she’s rushed off to the hospital as if the baby is crowning that very second.

Scenes in an elementary school where the desks are in rows and the teacher’s desk is at the front. I’ve been a public school educator for 30 years. No classroom in elementary school is set up that way.

The other school annoyance is kids who are clearly too old to be in that grade. While I love Abbott Elementary, those kids are way too old to be in the grade levels that they’re supposedly in. Like some are clearly 11 year olds but supposedly in 2nd grade taught by Janine 😂

This happened to me but, honestly movies are only two hours. Do you want to spend most of the time watching a woman give birth? And some people do give birth quickly.

Also the children are actors. But they are still children. that's why I like shows where adults play kids so they aren't exploited.

no but birth takes a long time and they show it happening so fast- I was basically one with This is Us when they had that birth scene- its so lazy, they can show a few scenes of the waiting and pacing , skip fwd to more pacing, bending over to breathe it out etc.. instead of.. there is no time for an ambulance and family member delivers which is so so so arghhhhh. as you can see this is my most beloved pet peeve.

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Anonymous wrote:Sex - zero foreplay. The man just jams it in and the woman is screaming in pleasure.

Usually up against a wall. Sorry but no guy is hot enough that I can't manage to get to the bedroom.

And like that is going to give her an O, too.

that isn't just ignoring reality- that is normalizing assault.

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Bells ringing at the "end" of a college or university class.

fire sprinklers going off in the whole building rather than an individual sprinkler head going off (which is how they work in most installations).

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Anonymous wrote:Sex - zero foreplay. The man just jams it in and the woman is screaming in pleasure.

Usually up against a wall. Sorry but no guy is hot enough that I can't manage to get to the bedroom.

And like that is going to give her an O, too.

that isn't just ignoring reality- that is normalizing assault.

NP. Portraying enthusiastic consensual sex, but not foreplay, is not normalizing assault.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Yes! The Golden Girls' house is completely nonsensical too. There are supposed to be 4 bedrooms down that hallway, which is next to the kitchen. But in the kitchen, there's a door out to the garage to the left, which is where the bedrooms would be.

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Anonymous wrote:“School nurse” is often in a white uniform. Hadn’t been this way in decades.

Emergency Room scenes: entire families waltz into the ER desk staffed by a white uniformed nurse and immediately get detailed updates and access to patient’s room! Mary’s been admitted! She’s doing fine after being in that terrible car crash! And, she had a baby boy! He was deleivered in the ambulance! She’s in Room 1-B talking with Dr. Smith! Yes, you may all race to her bedside with your helium balloons and gift baskets that you’ve somehow obtained en route to the hospital.

And speaking of medical dramas: when someone is brought into the ER after falling off a ladder or something, and during the x-ray it's discovered they have ... KNEE CANCER! That spill saved their life. The patient is immediately sent to surgery and when they wake up, all the ER staff is there because they care about the patient so much. And one is probably going to date the knee cancer survivor because, hotness.

this happened to a son of my friends. Broke his ankle or leg and found cancer.

I know someone this happened to, too.

Same. A family member with a sports injury.

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The overuse of green screen when it’s not even necessary. Like showing two people talking on a boat on the water. Seriously just freaking rent a boat a film the scene on the water in a real boat. The green screen is more distracting and takes me out the scene.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s your biggest pet peeve?

Here’s mine: When two characters from the same foreign country speak to each other in broken, heavily accented English rather than their mother tongue. That never EVER happens in real life. It’s baffling to me why directors always do this. I mean, directors: If you can’t find two American actors who speak fluent German, then just hire a couple of German actors and use subtitles for their scenes. It will make the movie feel more authentic and the audience will appreciate that you respect their intelligence.

As a German, my biggest pet peeve is a) how Germans tend to be portrayed in most American movies and b) how badly the American actors are coached to speak German. Agree, just hire Germans.


Noteable exception:Sandra Bullock, who really does speak German quite well. (German mother)

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Anonymous wrote: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.

The Full House house is the craziest one. That interior is humongous considering the house itself was a Victorian townhouse. I remember when they made the attic level in Uncle Jesses room and there’s no way that would be able to happen in that house.

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Anonymous wrote:“School nurse” is often in a white uniform. Hadn’t been this way in decades.

Emergency Room scenes: entire families waltz into the ER desk staffed by a white uniformed nurse and immediately get detailed updates and access to patient’s room! Mary’s been admitted! She’s doing fine after being in that terrible car crash! And, she had a baby boy! He was deleivered in the ambulance! She’s in Room 1-B talking with Dr. Smith! Yes, you may all race to her bedside with your helium balloons and gift baskets that you’ve somehow obtained en route to the hospital.

And speaking of medical dramas: when someone is brought into the ER after falling off a ladder or something, and during the x-ray it's discovered they have ... KNEE CANCER! That spill saved their life. The patient is immediately sent to surgery and when they wake up, all the ER staff is there because they care about the patient so much. And one is probably going to date the knee cancer survivor because, hotness.

this happened to a son of my friends. Broke his ankle or leg and found cancer.

I know someone this happened to, too.

Same. A family member with a sports injury.

That's how they found my FIL's lung cancer. Fell off a roof and cracked a rib, found the cancer via the x-ray of ribs.

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Anonymous wrote:The overuse of green screen when it’s not even necessary. Like showing two people talking on a boat on the water. Seriously just freaking rent a boat a film the scene on the water in a real boat. The green screen is more distracting and takes me out the scene.

Or the driving in a car scenes where it is obviously green screen in the background.
It is funny to see the driver's hands turning the steering wheel back and forth -- as if the road is consistently windy... all the way.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s your biggest pet peeve?

Here’s mine: When two characters from the same foreign country speak to each other in broken, heavily accented English rather than their mother tongue. That never EVER happens in real life. It’s baffling to me why directors always do this. I mean, directors: If you can’t find two American actors who speak fluent German, then just hire a couple of German actors and use subtitles for their scenes. It will make the movie feel more authentic and the audience will appreciate that you respect their intelligence.

As a German, my biggest pet peeve is a) how Germans tend to be portrayed in most American movies and b) how badly the American actors are coached to speak German. Agree, just hire Germans.


Noteable exception:Sandra Bullock, who really does speak German quite well. (German mother)

Interesting. What movie did she speak German in?

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Anonymous wrote:What’s your biggest pet peeve?

Here’s mine: When two characters from the same foreign country speak to each other in broken, heavily accented English rather than their mother tongue. That never EVER happens in real life. It’s baffling to me why directors always do this. I mean, directors: If you can’t find two American actors who speak fluent German, then just hire a couple of German actors and use subtitles for their scenes. It will make the movie feel more authentic and the audience will appreciate that you respect their intelligence.

A ton of people won’t watch subtitled movies. It’s just a business decision.

Source: my husband, who works in film.

Go tell your husband you don't have to subtitle the whole movie, just a scene or two to set the idea that characters X Y Z are from (fill in the country). Like they did in Hunt for Red October so they wouldn't have to speak in absurd faux Russian/English accents for the whole movie.