/ A single gun shot to the torso automatically kills the person
/ Guns don’t have any kick whenever a bullet is shot
A cop shoots a few people, maybe half a dozen, and just shows up for work the next day and is allowed to continue with the investigation.
Nobody urinates or defecates. Ever. Especially not women.
Blows to the head may result in knocking someone out. Instead of having a fractured skull or other severe injuries the character will wake up moments later with little more then a headache.
Marc
You join your friends at an table in a restaurant or outside a cafe; they already have drinks; the waiter takes your order, but you leave before he returns with your drink.
MGibson wrote:
Blows to the head
Blows to the head may result in knocking someone out. Instead of having a fractured skull or other severe injuries the character will wake up moments later with little more then a headache.
Well, yes and no. Blows to the head can also result in injuries, however, these injuries are generally concussions that wipe out the memory like a hard drive that needs reformtted. Then, it take one little shread of somthing familiar, and like reformatting and putting everything from a backup back intot he regular, it's all there again.
Which leads to another movie un-truism or three. Nobody seems to spend any time int he hospital. You either die or you're fine. If, by chance, you are int he hospital in a movie, you could not have gotten there via a heart attack (fatal if it happens) or stroke (which don't exist in movies that I know of.)
Numerous other un-truisms exist, but most fo the ones on the tip of my fingers fall into the realm of evil overlords, for which I advise you to check for the list (which sadly I don't think I can get the link to and come back here) entitled something like, "If I Were An Evil Overlord."I can’t recall if I’ve noticed this in movies so much, but in TV shows it seems like whenever anyone opens a letter and unfolds it, it makes as much noise as grapefruit-sized hail hitting a tin roof.
Ahhh, but if you are seriously wounded, you’ll either die, or you’ll just make it to the hospital, wherupon the mere touch of a medic is enough to stabilise you, ensuring your survival.
Also, when you’re mortally wounded, you’ll have just enough life and breath to gasp out not the name of your killer, but some really obscure, cryptic clue to his identity.
Said makeover consists of the nerd merely removing her glasses, and (in the tougher makeover instances) letting her hair out of some prim & proper bun.
In real life, the nerd is gawky, either too skinny or overweight, has acne covering 90% of her face, not to mention a mouth full of metal, and is forced to wear her older sisters’ raggedy hand-me-downs (last years’ fashions most likely.) Furthermore, as Heather #3 (Shannon Doherty) in the film “Heathers” pointed out, if the nerdy loser in school was suddenly transformed into the class babe, she wouldn’t be hanging out with her unpopular friends any more, as is the case in so many teen flicks.
Also in real life, the jock football star of the high school never falls in love with the nerd after discovering what a “good heart” she has.
Depicting of most things socially taboo.
Like drugs, for example.
In Bad Boys II, they show Ecstasy being sold at a nightclub. Then, we see someone literally dropping dead like 10 minutes after taking the pill and the club owner callously remarking : Ecstasy fucks them up
And, unlike real-life elevators, elevator doors in the movies cannot be pried open by any amount of force.
(In real life, I could force apart elevator doors with just my own arms when I was 10 years old. And I ain’t exactly a bodybuilder.)
Bullets can’t penetrate water.
A punching bag, no matter how securely fastened to the ceiling it is, can be knocked free at a punch from someone angry or determined enough.
Nobody ever says “goodbye” on the telephone. They say what they need to say and then just hang up.
More on tv, but people wear shoes around the house. Why? I NEVER wear shoes in the house.
In most 1960’s era movies, the United Nations general assembly serves as the legislature of a defacto- world government. No mention of how the Cold War between the US and the USSR makes virtually everyone else’s opinion irrelevent.
Removing a sword from a scabbard makes a sound of metal on metal … even if the scabbard isn’t made of metal…
Really? Damn…Hollywood has once again lied to us Asians on the living habits of westerners.
I almost always wear shoes in a house.(With the exception of my parent’s house, which they are renting in Japan.)
Streets always are wet at night…even in LA.
Also…fruit cart vendors will invariably be run over in a high speed chase.
And: You can shoot up a whole neighborhood and not kill a single innocent bystander. And of course, no one questions the fact that you murdered dozens of thugs, no one ever has to stand trial for killing bad people.
•At night, there’s always a full moon, which is almost as bright as daylight, only bluer. And the moon seems to be hovering around at about horizon level.
The exceptions being old B&W movies, where (in outdoor scenes, at least) the night usually looks a lot like the daytime. For old color movies, nighttime outdoors scenes still look like daytime, but now they’re blue.
•Magnets work on all metal.
•All evil minions—who don’t know any useful information that can be “pressured” out of them—will die immediately upon being attacked. You don’t see any stormtroopers thrashing around and screaming for their loved ones.