actually, this is true. A bullet wont go more than around 5 or 6 inches into the water before it loses all of its velocity and just becomes a falling chunk of metal. Even less if your shooting at an angle.
People are never stuck in traffic.
All computers commuicate with all other computers without problems.
If you turn off the light in your bedroom, a blue light will come on so you can still see.
Slashing at someone with a knife, however vigorously, cuts through his shirt, but makes only a hair-thin nick in his skin.
The front and rear bodywork of a car is armor-plated, allowing the car to slam through walls with little or no damage.
Wounds stop bleeding immediately and don’t re-start, even if the character is running and fighting for hours.
Cars have loose wires just dangling out of the bottom of the dashboard, making it virtually effortless to hot-wire one.
Military-style weapons have lots of loose parts that make a rattley-clackety sound whenever the weapon is moved.
You can cock a gun several times without ever ejecting a single shell through the top.
You can take any photo, of any resolution, from the print and not the negative, and enlarge it to fifty or sixty times its actual size - and not only will you not see any film grain, you’ll be able to identify faces on people who had been mere specks in the original, and if you have Photoshop you can edit out buildings and cars to see what’s behind them!
This was mentioned in another thread like this.
All cars are basically equal. A pinto can stay neck to neck with a Porsche.
all (veteran) cops are super geniuses that can connect ancient Chinese letters to a modern symphony using mathematical code. Ditto for the serial killer.
Getting shot when you’re wearing a bulletproof vest ‘hurts like hell’ but never breaks a rib.
No matter how badly beaten you were 10 mins ago when push comes to shove you can fight just as good as when you were fresh.
Speaking of fresh you can run 5 miles (jumping over fences park benches and cars that stop just in time not to run you over) swim another 2 yet when you stop you’re not even out of breath.
No matter what they hit, a bullet will always throw sparks.
Except when they’re in a life and death race to reach somewhere. Then they inevitably make it with under 10 seconds to spare.
And if you light just one candle or even strike a match, the room you’re in will be completely lit up, no matter how large it is.
People can walk up to an airline counter in an airport, say “I need to get on the next flight to important place” and get a ticket, usually for a flight that they have to hurry for, because it’s just about to take off!
This is impossible. I tried this, when I got rerouted into LAX and had to get to San Francisco on my own. Just a simple, hour-long flight between the two most populated cities on the west coast. They said my only option for that day was the last flight, leaving in four hours and arriving at SFO at 3 AM. And it would cost $300. I can’t even imagine what a real, non-shuttle flight would’ve cost. (For the curious: I rented a car instead).
People can go on-line and get the information they need immediately. I always wonder what search engines they use.
In scenes where peripheral characters are watching TV, they are always watching a Cowboys an Indians movie, often a black and white one, despite the fact that such films are rarely shown on TV any more. There must be a special Cowboys and Indians channel just for them.
The United Nations is a large building in New York City with a lot of flags outside. It usually appears this way in movies. Inside, delegates from different countries argue about things. Again, it appears in films as such.
Oh, wait…you want movie untruisms, not movie UN truisims. Sorry. My bad.
Unless the movie is a comedy nobody ever trips, falls, drops anything, or knocks anything over. If it is a comedy they always do it in a way that will be the most embarassing to them and everyone else. (they never do any of this stuff alone)
Hair and makeup almost never gets messed up in the slightest. If that should happen 5 seconds later it will be perfect again.
The best way to treat a hangover is to go throw up (once) then eat the most noxious breakfast you can come up with. After that you’re perky and fine the rest of the day.
Guns weigh about 2 ounces. Even the weakest person can pick up a .50 Desert Eagle, cock it with little difficulty and stay accurate at 50 yards.
Cars explode from inside the passenger compartment, even though there’s nothing explosive in there.
Double-barrel shotguns make that “cha-chunk” sound, that really only comes from pump-action shotguns.
Nobody ever laughs at jokes. A guy can bust out with a rib-splitter every other sentence, but they will always be ignored by the other characters. The total lack of reaction to his humor will never dissuade the joke-teller.
Everyone always has perfect diction. No one ever stammers, mis-speaks, or forgets what they were about to say, unless they’re comically drunk. If they’re tragically drunk, they’ll only slur their words.
Any TV left running in the background where no one (or no one important) is watching it will always be tuned to something that is symbolically significant to the major events occuring in the characters. If bodies are turning up with mysterious neck wounds, the TV in the background of the suspect’s house will be showing Nosferatu.
Experienced hitmen, who have wiped out the cream of the underworld, can’t seem to hit the inexperienced hero.
Whenever someone turns on the TV, the item of information important to the plot just happens to be shown.