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Entire plot lines hinging on people not explaining themselves which would take about 5 seconds.
The idiot plot.
Animes abuse this trope all the time. Plot only happens because MC don’t say what he wants/feels.
I think it’s more the miscommunication trope, which is kind of a sub-trope of the idiot plot
The only good example I can think of where people actually explain themselves is Agents of SHIELD, which isn’t even a movie. It’s amazing. She doesn’t doubt his loyalty for a second and understands, given their situation, why he had to keep it a secret from her. You still get drama, but it’s drama from everyone being on the same dramatic page.
So… every season of Bridgerton?
Wait you think that’s unrealistic? Tell me you’re single without telling me you’re single
I’m a software engineer, so basically anything involving software/hacking. It’s always inaccurate. (Because accurate hacking is incredibly boring.)
Except for that one scene in The Matrix Reloaded where we get to see actual vulnerabilities exploited.
That looks like the closest to realistic hacking I’ve seen, until you get to the graphical password box that starts flashing “access granted”. None of my SSH servers have ever done that.
But, credit where credit is due, at least she’s using realistic hacking tools.
Mr Robot has some pretty accurate hacking and social engineering in it.
I’ve never seen that one. I think that’s my new favorite line.
It’d be remiss not to mention Mr. Robot somewhere in this conversation.
Mr. Robot
So you don’t type 90 wpm your way into the mainframe for work? You might need chew some more gum and change your laptop theme to black and green.
Here’s some sugar for you
Such a good show. :D
People driving while staring intently at their passenger for way too long.
and the driver jerkily moving the steering wheel like they’re on a rally course instead of most likely just a long straight road
I have vague memories as a kid of my dad doing this IRL and my mom occasionally telling him to look at the road. But idk if I just made up the memories or not. I guess my point is maybe these people do exist out there? Lol!
Injecting medications into necks.
Medical things are rarely accurate, but Jesus this one is absolutely infuriating. There’s no anatomy in a neck that you could even inject anything INTO. You’re not aiming for a jugular vein on the fly and there’s not enough tissue in a neck to receive an intramuscular or subcutaneous injection. If your needle is too long, you’re definitely hitting something critical. It’s feasible that you could squirt medication into someone’s trachea or esophagus or - god forbid - spine if you actually tried this nonsense.
Arms, people, ARMS. This is where we inject things into people who are not interested in receiving an injection. Arms or butts, right through the clothes. You’re aiming for the deltoid muscle or the glutes. I’m even willing to concede the inaccuracy of a medication affecting someone instantly (they don’t), if Hollywood would just stop having characters inject things into people’s necks.
On our next episode of medical things that make me crazy: People getting shot through the shoulder with zero consequences.
Cutting the palm to spill blood. Typically followed by a huge battle scene where a gash in your palm isn’t going to affect your sword play/battle prowess
Bad physics. Totally pulls me out of immersion.
No, Captain America cannot lean back and hold a helicopter that is lifting off. It doesn’t matter how strong he is - he will be lifted once there is enough force generated from the propellers. Basically anything Batman does that involves gravity in the Nolan films is similar.
The magic I can get behind. The mutant stuff or dragons or even time travel in superhero movies doesn’t bother me. It’s the lack of sensible mechanics on an alleged Earth that I’m bothered by.
Maybe Captain America’s real power is that he is really heavy.
Yay! I’m a superhero!
Variable density would be a really convenient (but weird) super power
Only way to explain Thor hammer that can’t be lifted by others
I get your point, but I will say the Captain America scene isn’t completely out of the realm of possibility. Cap weighs the helicopter down for a few seconds, and grabs a support beam for the helipad as soon as he can. If Cap can keep a grip on both the beam and the helicopter, then the propellers will only lift him if either Cap or the support beams break.
Of course, whether he should have had that much effect on the helicopter for those first few seconds is another matter entirely and I’m not enough of a physicist to make that call.
Ant man surfing through pressurized water pipes. Would have been a lot more interesting and realistic as a scuba dive.
If the railing was strong enough, seems possible.
You would love “Gravity”, then. /s
Freaking Gravity…
Concussions. Especially when they are used as plot vehicles where someone is knocked out, and they wake up in a jail cell or whatever.
If you got hit THAT hard on the head that you’re unconscious and unresponsive for hours? You are going to wake up dizzy, nauseated, and disoriented with a huge headache, loss of motor control, and a disorienting tinnitus. Possibly permanently. Your brain swelled up and cut off blood flow. You might look like a stroke victim. You will not wake up, rub your head, then pick a lock in a dark room and construct a bomb with a gum wrapper and a smoke detector battery. You will weep, vomit, and be unable to walk straight until you get real medical attention.
Some action stars get knocked out almost every episode. I think MacGyver would have been mentally incapacitated after just a few shows.
Im not a medical professional, but I thought if someone was knocked out for mote than a few minutes there’s a good chance they just wont wake up again?
It’s a probability thing. It’s used as a proxy indication of the severity of the concussion. A person who can’t stay awake after a head injury is an immediate rush to the trauma room, they probably have internal bleeding and their brain tissue is dying.
Duh. Magruber is cannon. It makes sense now.
When people and places that should be dirty are clean and kempt. Pirates on the seas should be dirty. Soldiers in the field should be dirty. Cowboys on a cattle drive should be dirty. Swamp cultists should be dirty. I appreciate realistically dirty characters. It distracts me every time when characters are clean and showered with their hair done on day three of being lost in the woods or some shit. It’s one of the many things Our Flag Means Death nails. Even Stede gets grimy, because piracy is grimy work.
Especially when two people have to crawl through a pile of mud, or experience explosions or something and the guy is all muddy and torn up but the girl’s makeup is intact and her clothes are mostly clean.
Or women with foundation, mascara, and lipstick when it makes no damn sense. Like wow, didn’t know Sephora survived the nuclear apocalypse.
It’s the perfect white teeth that throws me off in those scenes.
People always hang up the phone without saying goodbye or anything. I read that it’s some time is money thing in film and TV but it just sounds like bullshit to me.
I thought that was just an American cultural thing.
In the UK, you have to say bye at least 3 times.
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson are still exchanging goodbyes to this day.
TV shows and movies only make you think it’s a cultural thing.
We say “bye” here in the US after essentially every phone call otherwise people would probably be confused at when the conversation ended or when you’re hanging up.
An exception I’ve had to this is when I’m getting a phone call where someone is trying to meet me at a location. I might hang up without saying bye if we both make eye contact in person and find each other. Because we’re going to continue the conversation in person anyway.
There are other rare exceptions like this, but it’s definitely culturally expected for you to say “bye” before hanging up!
I would love to hang up without a goodbye, but then people are just going to call me back because they’ll think the call dropped. After a couple of those awkward interactions, I would quickly switch back to some sort of affirmative close to the call.
“I’m gonna let you go…”
That’s true in the States too, just not in the movies. Especially in the south or midwest
I had a boss who did this! He just abruptly hung up when he was done with the conversation. People used to call back, worried they’d been cut off, or my boss was mad at them. Nope, he’s just overly autistic-efficient.
It really really bothers me when a character puts something down, and then walks away without picking it up, especially if they show them with it again later.
Something not so small that bothers me is when a victim is running from a bad guy or monster and then happens to knock them down, like with a baseball bat or something, and then they just take off running again. Fucking finish the job, you dumb ass! Hit him a few more times and he won’t catch up to you again in 30 seconds when you unsurprisingly trip over your own feet.
Similarly when they walk in the house but don’t shut the front door again, or open the fridge but never close it. I’m like waiting the whole scene to get back to that and missed the entire dialogue.
When hackers/IT people in a movie have a fully mobilzed datacetner/networking/rack gear they’ve seemingly configured in a matter of minutes or hours, not days or weeks. Forget stabilizing custom software, too. It just works. AND you can hack any protocol with it!
When hackers/IT people in a movie work in a room that has a bunch of server racks blinking away and it’s not 90db of whirring fan noise. Datacenters are LOUD.
And it would be so hot as well. Server racks expel uncomfortable heat. Without an industrial sized HVAC system your improvised datacenter would become a sauna in a matter of minutes. There’s a reason datacenter would be a warehouse sized fridge if it wasn’t for the extreme heat that the server racks output. You need thick coats to enter those places for how cold they are, but only because they’re battling the heat from all those chips and other electronics.
Lots of scenes with two parties exchanging gunfire, often with like full machine guns, no one’s wearing ear protection, and they’re always urgently yelling shit at some teammate standing right next to them.
Even though they’re yelling, the only thing the dude you’re talking to is going to hear is “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE” cuz his ears are now FUCKED.
Many people don’t realize how loud guns are. Shooting a rifle without hearing protection is physically painfull. I don’t get how people who’ve been to war are able to hear anything after that.
Even as someone who spends a good amount of time at the range, I never thought of this until Bill Burr did that bit about why he has a smaller pistol for home.
It didn’t ruin John Wick, but any of the indoor scenes, especially the one where they’ll have low gravely emotionally loaded dialogue… I have a hard time suspending my disbelief.
I’d laugh my ass off if an actor racked a slide, or pumped a shotgun, and it kicked out a round because it was already loaded.
I don’t think anyone making movies understands how guns work. I’ve seen people in movies chamber rounds 5 times as if to intimidate. If you did that in real life, you’d just be wasting ammo by expelling 4 rounds out of the side of the chamber.
It also bugs me when people are shooting an obvious 8 or 10 round pistol and fire off 30 rounds without ever having to reload.
John Wick, of course, deserves a mention. Despite being a superhuman badass, with really nice guns, he still deals with malfunctions.
Ever seen The Way of the Gun? Crazy movie, but the gun play is spot on. If you blink you’ll miss it, but in one scene Benicio Del Toro casually clears a stove piped 12-gauge.
(And after all these years, I just realized the title basically means, “live by the sword, die by the sword”.)
But now it’s loaded with malicious intent.
Characters repeatedly “dying” but then surviving again. That’s why I liked game of thrones so much when I first watched it
This is so important! People like to be surprised by inciting incidents, not by the consequences of them. Showing a character dying and then not having them die is a good way to make the audience think you’re lying when you’re not.
Jon Snow has re-entered the chat
Haha fair enough you got me there
Game of thrones, feels like a kid whimsically thought about a classical story then killed the main characters. Everyone would normally think it’s too immature for a story. Instead it became one of the most watched shows. Except the “killing off characters” thing ,the show was well made.
People obviously fake-playing musical instruments. Either get a double who can play it or have a pro spend a few hours a day with the actor for 2 weeks to get them to at least have the basics down enough to look somewhat convincing.
On the flip side of this, I noticed “master of puppets” in last season of stranger things was a small bit different. Our boy Eddie was playing it.
