Whether intentionally or not, what do movies depict or present wrong a lot of the time?
Getting hit on the head and staying unconscious for an extended period of time.
No… No that’s not how that shit works. If you’re hit on the head so hard that you are lying on the ground limp, you’re either dead, dying, or have received sever brain damage.
Getting knocked unconscious.
How comfortable people are dragging their nice clothes/long coats/shoes into water and mud. How many times you see a woman in a period piece with this long flowing dress, traipsing through a big muddy area and not even attempting to hold her dress up out of it. like, c’mon, man. People in movies just don’t care about having wet socks I guess.
Giving birth. In movies and TV shows it’s always this sudden thing. Like “My water broke! The baby is coming!” then there is some pushing and screaming and bam, baby. In reality, having a baby takes many many hours and often times days, even with induced labor.
Yeah
CPR
How big a house an average person can afford.
Another version of this - how big an apartment/house an artist can afford.
Not if you presume they have rich parents.
Yes, and how nice it is, and how ckean it is, and how littke their csr breaks down and how sparkly and well maintained or their workplsce is, or how brilliant their job is despite being an “average, underdog hero”
How heavy a full cup of coffee feels. The actors always treat it like the cup is empty. Liars!
This goes for ANY container. I mostly notice empty suitcases.
Romantic relationships. Way too much stalking and abuse of power. Far too many very large age gaps. All that stuff.
the classic : no cleanup after sex
This made one scene in the Fallout TV series very effective.
Also how everyone is like wrapping their entire body up in sheets to get up from the bed. As if they weren’t literally just fucking lol
Yes and i think this would be a healthy thing to show.
Absolutely.
Memory loss/amnesia. It works as a plot device but how often it shows up in media makes it seem like, well that’s what happens when you get bonked on the head. Amnesia is actually pretty rare.
CPR/shocking: I was so grateful that Dr. Robby called this out on The Pitt, you can’t shock asystole (flatline). Well, you can but it’s good for fuck all. I get why CPR is done poorly, if you do it for real you’re probably gonna break ribs. But they could do it as fast as it’s supposed to go at least. The dramatic pushes 3 seconds apart is also good for fuck all.
Running over a cliff and only start to fall once realizing that you just ran over a cliff.
That’s not real, you fall immediately.
Have you ever tried?? I think it could be real
*points a finger at Loony Tunes for starting it*
History
Movies sane-washing racist/problematic people “for the story” always drives me crazy.
P.T. Barnum for example.
Poor people living in condos.
Hacking.
That’s probably just a fancy gui skin over a boring port scanner and a bash script testing some 0 days.
$ apt show hollywood Package: hollywood Version: 1.21-1.1 Priority: optional Section: games Maintainer: Dustin Kirkland <[email protected]> Installed-Size: 2,418 kB Depends: byobu, tmux Recommends: apg, atop, bmon, bsdextrautils, ccze, cmatrix, htop, jp2a, plocate | locate, moreutils, openssh-client, speedometer, tree Homepage: https://hollywood.computer/ Download-Size: 2,288 kB APT-Sources: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 Packages Description: fill your console with Hollywood melodrama technobabble This utility will split your console into a multiple panes of genuine technobabble, perfectly suitable for any Hollywood geek melodrama. It is particularly suitable on any number of computer consoles in the background of any excellent schlock technothriller.
Cops being the good guys.
Imagine an evil terrorist organization coming into the picture, and it’s up to REAL COPS to stop them.
And like real cops, they end up taking a detour to Walmart, where a woman was accused of stealing so they pull out their guns and kill a baby.
Oh is this too real? My bad.
Honestly, watch any crime documentary and you realize how often cops are absolutely incompetent.
Wow, that’s a pretty sweeping statement. I know some cops, and let me tell you, I don’t need to watch a documentary to know that they are incompetent.
I think they were basically as decent as possible in The Perfect Neighbor, unfortunately. I could be wrong, though.
Nah you’re probably not wrong haha. I’m sure there are good examples. But for the most part all I hear and watch is absolutely terrible detective and police work.
I like watching suspect interviews, all the cops follow the same script, if people would just shut up and ask for the lawyer far fewer crimes would be solved.
I tell my kids to treat cops like vampires, never let them in the house and sticking to your rights is garlic to them.
