It Only Happens In The Movies...

Also when they lay in bed the blokes chest is there for all to see but the lady is covered by the bed sheet up to her neck. B****R:eek:
 
Speaking of phone calls in movies.......

No-one ever gets a wrong number!

The person being called answers within a nanosecond of the caller dialling their number (they must have the phone attached to their heaRAB!:rolleyes:)

No-one ever rings someone only to be told "Sorry they're not here at the moment" or "Can you hang on for a moment while I get them for you?"

Whenever the phone is cut off mid-call by the local loony stalking our hero/heroine, the said hero/heroine will repeatedly say "hello!?" into the now defunct hanRABet while simultaneously jiggling the cradle to see what's wrong!

I've yet to see anyone in a movie have trouble getting a signal on a mobile phone and especially while they are taking a call.........everyone I know enRAB up doing the "mobile dance" and walking in circles trying to keep the signal connected!
 
Ok, but I guess my point is in movies we're supposed to identify with people who drive like maniacs and who in real-life should just end up in court. And on that, after every car crash a wheel must go rolling by.
 
(A TV one but similar- CSI:Miami). No fat people live in Miami, despite the US having the highest rates of obesity in the world. Unless they are under curfew and not allowed out in the daylight.
 
Also, after a bout of raging romping - neither of them bother washing and just get dressed and go. Yuk.

People enter an empty house/flat and all the lights are already on but nobody was at home to do it. Also they go out without turning anything off.
 
After going through some sort of medical emergency our hero will always have a quip or clever thing to say.

During any hostage situation there is always a pregnant women or a women with a baby.

If there are twins one of them has to be evil.
 
If there is a guy looking weird and sinister hitching a lift in the middle of nowhere, you just know the lone driver is going to stop and pick him up.
 
All vehicles will also have an apparently endless supply of fuel. On the rare occasions that the hero has to fill up with gas, the villain will be observing him from a car across the street. Despite the fact that they only want to kill our hero, they always misfire and hit the poor b**g*er employee who was filling up the tank. Miraculously, this allows the hero just enough time to enter the vehicle, start the engine and speed away. Just in time for the villans bullet to hit a petrol pump this making the whole station an inferno.
 
Even mobile numbers. I know its cos there are no numbers starting 555, so theres no chance of them accidently using a real number - but its still really annoying.
 
Emails/Instant messages/prompts on computer screens always appear in huge typeface one character at a time accompanied by a clicking sound.

Regardless of the level of technology employed - viruses etc always take ages to upload and have a dedicated "virus uploading" status bar (see Independence Day and Transformers)

Shooting at a cars fuel tank will always cause it to explode, similarly shooting the tyres will cause it to flip. Hitting anything (e.g. a parked car, a skip etc) will cause a car to jump into the air and flip over.

In any car chase involving alleys - you are guaranteed of having a truck back out in front of you.

Good guys cars have indestructable suspension - even crapped out old minis (see The Bourne Supremecy)

People can jump out of fast moving cars - sustaining only minor injuries.

Automatic weapons can be fired for several minutes on full auto without being reloaded - despite most only holding a few seconRAB worth.
 
Alien species encountering Moonbase Alpha will ALWAYS speak perfect English(complete with accent!) even though the Moonbase hasnt got (or ever had any need for,) a Star Trek type "universal translator"!
 
Nobody ever says - pass me a hankie either



I also love the darkness protocol where cave's are somehow well-lit or they strike a match and some stage-hand blasts a five thousand watt light on them broadly at the same time.
 
Just when you think the heroe of a film has been killed, he suddenly appears again hanging from a helicopter or whatever with a fanfare of uplifting orchestral music so we can all breathe a sigh of relief and cheer.
 
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