The biggest lies in movies...

Egginacup · 30-03-2015 12:34pm

You can make a lift stop anywhere you want between floors by pressing a button. You can also pry open the doors with your fingertips.

kylith · 30-03-2015 12:39pm

Darkglasses wrote: »

Nobody says goodbye 5 or 6 times at the end of a phone call.

No-one ever even says goodbye once at the end of a call, they just hang up on the person on the other end.

AndyBoBandy · 30-03-2015 12:39pm

The explosion 18 seconds into this video from;

Speed 2: Cruise Control

I mean, c'mon. Seriously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F_VGx50mMg

In fact, the whole movie!!

mister gullible · 30-03-2015 12:40pm

When someone is shot with an arrow they die quickly and quietly..
When someone is shot with a gun they die quickly and quietly..
When someone is stuck with a sword they die quickly and quietly..
When someone is stabbed with a scissors/shard of glass/wooden spike they die quickly and quietly..
Does no one ever take ages to die, whilst screaming and rolling around?

K.O.Kiki · 30-03-2015 12:40pm

This entire thread is just TVTropes.org :pac:

eisenberg1 · 30-03-2015 1:12pm

When a couple wake up the morning after a heavy night,
and they start at it again.

Neither need to take a leak/shower, or have gakky morning breath.

nibtrix · 30-03-2015 1:22pm

Mister Vain wrote: »

You rarely see people paying for drinks in a bar.

Or if they do, they just throw a random handful of cash down on the bar without asking for the bill or even without checking if the bartender is anywhere in the vicinity.

kylith · 30-03-2015 1:32pm

They walk into a pub and just order 'beer', and the barman psychically knows what brand and how much they want.

30-03-2015 2:08pm

Movie and TV people never take change off cab drivers and hand back a tip, they always tell them to keep the change. All the change, all the time.

They never shop for groceries either, but if they eat breakfast, it's ALWAYS pancakes or french toast.

McG · 30-03-2015 2:20pm

hero chooses not to kill main bad guy as he'd be "no better than him" if he did.

...nevermind the countless poor henchmen (just trying to earn a living) killed along the way leading up to this.

fluke · 30-03-2015 2:33pm

Using two guns at one time e.g

.

It's much more effective using one gun.

Del2005 · 30-03-2015 2:54pm

PandaPoo wrote: »

I hate when someone's driving and they are constantly turning the wheel back and forth on a straight road. The car would be swerving everywhere. It drives me crazy!!

You've never driven a Yank tank. US cars generally have about 2 or 3 inches of slack on the steering wheel and have no link between it and the wheels, turn steering wheel and eventually something under the hood asks something else if they'll turn the road wheels and then they take it to a ballot.

Micky Dolenz · 30-03-2015 2:58pm

After a mad night of passion, the hot lady is wearing underwear in the morning.

kylith · 30-03-2015 3:00pm

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

After a mad night of passion, the hot lady is wearing underwear in the morning.

Or after a night of mad passion she comes over all shy in the morning and won't allow her lover to see more than 1cm of flesh as she goes to the bathroom.

Porkpie · 30-03-2015 3:28pm

After hearing some surprising/shocking news any liquid in your mouth will come exploding out - usually in a comical way.

Actor A: If you every try that sh1t again I'll.....
Actor B: You'll what??....
(eh, just let them finish the sentence)

Nobody ever asks a speaker to repeat themselves in a conversation. You will never hear a 'what?'. Everybody hears the conversation perfectly (ok I'm talking about just regular conversation here, not counting the famous scene in Pulp Fiction).

Nobody gets any change back when paying cash for anything....ever.

Normally if anyone gets shot in the head it's always a perfect shot right in the middle of the forehead.

Nobody brushes their teeth thoroughly.

Breakfast is always a leisurely activity. Take your time, make waffles and coffee, have lengthy conversation with your family, there's no rush!

daUbiq · 30-03-2015 3:41pm

Americans are decent good guys...

Generic Dreadhead · 30-03-2015 3:46pm

demanufactured wrote: »

No one ever has to pay bills for anything.

Candie wrote: »

No one ever does any housework. The hero is never folding his jocks or putting bleach down the loo when he answers the phone call that starts the action.

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

similarly calls are always answered as soon as they finish dialing the number

Porkpie wrote: »

Nobody brushes their teeth thoroughly

I want to see the types of films you guys could team up to make.... fascinating viewing :pac:

*Say it in you Honest Trailers voice*

This Summer....
Phones will ring out, jocks will be folded.....
Teeth will be throughly cleaned...
And most of all.....
It's time.....
For the Bills....
To...
BE...
PAID

kunst nugget · 30-03-2015 3:49pm

I think a lot of the lies people are listing are basically things done by the director/screenwriter/whoever to keep a film moving along. How many films do you want to watch where a guy spends his time counting the money he gets back from the taxi driver to make sure he's got the right change or getting rid of his spare change when he's at the counter of the shop. Guy has a brown paper bag? Could be filled with dog sh¡t, dildos for an orgy - anything. Guy has a brown paper bag with a baguette sticking out? Dude has obviously been shopping!

Topper Harley · 30-03-2015 5:22pm

McG wrote: »

hero chooses not to kill main bad guy as he'd be "no better than him" if he did.

...and after he turns to walk away, the bad guy won't just accept that he's beaten and pulls out a gun which he previously forgot he had and tries one last time to kill the hero. But the hero will turn just in time and finish him off, while maintaining the moral high ground.

dandyelevan · 30-03-2015 5:25pm

Riddle101 wrote: »

A lot of things in the Michael Collins movie were a lie. For instance Eamon Broy, the informant inside G Division who passed files onto Collins, was found, tortured and killed in the movie. In real life, he died in 1972, and went on to become Commisioner of the Gardaí after the War of Independence.

And the black & white road signs which were in reality Yellow and Black until the 1960s.

McGrath5 · 30-03-2015 5:42pm

If 2 of the main characters are in hospital, they can always have a race around the corridors whilst they are in wheelchairs, never does a member of staff or security attempt to stop them.

Capt'n Midnight · 30-03-2015 7:19pm

Any car can out-accelerate an aircraft that's taking off

No one gets spinal injuries after ejecting.

Bullets gain momentum after leaving the gun, so being shot by even the smallest pistol means you are flying backwards out that window.

Overpressure from nearby explosions is not a problem.
Nor is asphyxiation after flame weapons or napalm.

walkingshadow · 31-03-2015 11:56am

When breaking into your bosses home and hacking into his computer, his password is always the name of one of the people featured on a photo on his desk.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 31-03-2015 12:01pm

People spend a lot of time walking around having conversations near their city's famous landmarks.

riclad · 31-03-2015 12:54pm

SPYS always go to a park bench to talk,
one will always have a newspaper ,he pretends to read it,
while they talk.
both carry black suitcases,
they swap them over,
inside the suitcase ,
theres money,
Or else secret documents .
IN heist movies,
theres one person expert in hacking,
one safe cracker, one driver, one ex con who is doing one last heist before he retires .

fussyonion · 31-03-2015 1:09pm

LadyAthame wrote: »

My god, that is genius level analysis.

You could be a film critic ! :-)

Why on Earth did you quote this??

31-03-2015 1:24pm

Heart break in the movies is hilarious, or at the very least fleeting and easily overcome. The heartbroken hero or heroine will shed a single picturesque tear and after listening to some power ballad (Bridget Jones) and getting drunk will humorously resume normal life more or less immediately with nothing more than a wry expression and a hangover.

It bears no resemblance to the real life tear-and-snot drenched, unable to eat or sleep, prolonged misery of genuine heartbreak.

Tesco Massacre · 31-03-2015 1:48pm

Contrary to what porn has taught me, nurses rarely if ever have sex with the patients.

Zebra3 · 31-03-2015 4:23pm

All those Westerns that portray "heroic" Americans in their "valiant" victories over those "Indian savages".

Well done Hollywood on glossing over ethnic cleansing and genocide.

kunst nugget · 31-03-2015 4:56pm

Zebra3 wrote: »

All those Westerns that portray "heroic" Americans in their "valiant" victories over those "Indian savages".

Well done Hollywood on glossing over ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Tbf, I don't think there's been a portrayal of Indians as savages in film since probably around 1970 when 'Little Big Man' with Dustin Hoffman turned the western genre on its head and showed the Native Americans as sympathetic and the US Calvary as the enemy.

the raven 15 · 31-03-2015 5:06pm

That Keanu reeves can act.

That Jesus suffered.....NOT REAL FOLKS!

The caption at the start of a horror....Based on true events......caption at end of film......this film and all characters are fictitious and any resemblance is coincidental.

syklops · 31-03-2015 8:51pm

walkingshadow wrote: »

When breaking into your bosses home and hacking into his computer, his password is always the name of one of the people featured on a photo on his desk.

That happens in real life too.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 01-04-2015 3:57am

Only men are alcoholics.
Whenever anyone batters someone to rob their clothes, it always fits perfectly.
Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright, while sweating profusely
If it's a war movie, anyone that shows off a photo of their significant other will probably die

FloatingVoter · 01-04-2015 4:00am

If it's netted over $200,000,000 The End is negotiable.

Jesus Part II the Resurrection is 2000 years old. Once the Muslims get over the old depiction of Mohammed crap, we're in for an onslaught of Allah movies.

Declare the fatwa on me now, but you heard it here third.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 01-04-2015 4:15am

Zebra3 wrote: »

All those Westerns that portray "heroic" Americans in their "valiant" victories over those "Indian savages".

Well done Hollywood on glossing over ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Or the old British movies where the heroes have to fight off the 'barbaric' Indians or Africans. Whose land they are stealing.

Happy Monday · 01-04-2015 5:01am

Films set in Ancient Rome where the heroes have American accents.
And the bad guys have English ones.

edward2222 · 01-04-2015 8:48am

When the antagonist is being shot by a gun, 1 shot 1 kill,
When the protagonist is being shot by a shotgun, 10 shots still not dead.

Cookie_Monster · 01-04-2015 9:41am

gramar wrote: »

When it rains it never drizzles. It's always absolutely spilling down.

it's like that here, very rarely drizzles. It's more like an full on/ off switch.
I think that's a fair enough one depending on location

AndyBoBandy · 01-04-2015 9:44am

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Or the old British movies where the heroes have to fight off the 'barbaric' Indians or Africans. Whose land they are stealing.

Valiantly defending themselves against sticks and clubs with rifles and artillery.

Those brave men.

AndyBoBandy · 01-04-2015 9:46am

edward2222 wrote: »

When the antagonist is being shot by a gun, 1 shot 1 kill,
When the protagonist is being shot by a shotgun, 10 shots still not dead.

10 shots, and finds the additional strength to defeat the baddie that he couldn't defeat earlier while with no shots taken.

edward2222 · 01-04-2015 10:59am

Andybobandy wrote: »

10 shots, and finds the additional strength to defeat the baddie that he couldn't defeat earlier while with no shots taken.

Yeah.... hahahaha...

Agricola · 08-04-2015 11:53am

We can probably add "police chasing unarmed fleeing suspects for miles on foot" to this now.

Mister Vain · 08-04-2015 6:21pm

When there's a bit of sexual tension between two people and one of them leaves the room only to burst back in a few seconds later and start mauling the face off them. This actually happened in Fair City last night but it just reminded me of how often I have seen in movies too.

Riddle101 · 08-04-2015 6:29pm

Woman has a relationship with a sleazy jerk of a boyfriend, but in the end goes with the cool, down to earth guy who just happens to match her expectations for the perfect boyfriend.

syklops · 08-04-2015 7:02pm

Agricola wrote: »

We can probably add "police chasing unarmed fleeing suspects for miles on foot" to this now.

Yeah, in real life, they just shoot the unarmed assailant in the back.

kunst nugget · 08-04-2015 7:05pm

syklops wrote: »

Yeah, in real life, they just shoot the unarmed assailant in the back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk

osarusan · 08-04-2015 7:12pm

When, in Day After Tomorrow, the cold which earlier had literally frozen a helicopter engine mid-flight, later had its advance stopped just by closing the door in front of it.

evolving_doors · 08-04-2015 7:16pm

Eddie Murphy took on the evil electricity companies for their pylons causing cancer and won!

ScumLord · 08-04-2015 7:22pm

Youtube is great for debunking movie myths.

It's not easy to kill someone with a sword.

Capt'n Midnight · 08-04-2015 8:30pm

osarusan wrote: »

When, in Day After Tomorrow, the cold which earlier had literally frozen a helicopter engine mid-flight, later had its advance stopped just by closing the door in front of it.

Hollywood blockbusters make physicists cry. And it's usually a case of They Just Didn't Care.

WHY does NASA show the movie Armageddon as part of its management training programmes? We're talking about the thriller in which Bruce Willis saves the Earth by nuking an asteroid the size of Texas into dust just moments before it wipes out the home planet. If your first thought was that they're training NASA managers to put the proper PR spin on any doomsday asteroid, the door to the paranoid ward is on your right.

In reality, the screenings are just a game for NASA's space geeks: who can find the highest number of impossible things in the movie? The record, Feedback is told, stands at 168.

To borrow a post from a reddit threat on the subject that is quite relevant:

"Sir, about halfway through the movie, my pen died, so I made a mental list of the things that are accurate: 1) Asteroids, rockets, and nuclear weapons are real things. 2) We, as an organization, are capable of launching teams of humans into space. 3) Steven Tyler does not want to miss a thing."

The biggest lies in movies...

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