Don't get me wrong, movies don't have to depict reality if they don't want to. After all, we often watch them to escape it. The problem is that sometimes Hollywood intentionally tries to accurately portray the world but have no clue what they're talking about. I'm talking good guys jumping behind some furniture and the bad guys unloading hundreds of rounds into people without any going through. Or people ordering food at a restaurant and leaving before getting their meals.

In an attempt to figure out which of these cliches are the most overused, reddit user UK-NeilPatel posted a question on the platform, asking "What is something unrealistic that you often see in movies that annoys the hell out of you?" In less than two weeks, they received over 10,000 upvotes and 8,000 comments, many of which are legit. Continue scrolling and check out the best ones!

#1

Fight scenes with multiple attackers. They're all so polite, waiting for their friends to get their ass kicked before engaging. In reality you get jumped by everyone at the same time.

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#2

“I’ve got a plan”

“Great. What is it?”

“No time. Just trust me.”

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#3

Women in fight scenes with their hair down. Girl, tie it back I know you can't see s**t.

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#4

Good guy jumps behind some furniture and the bad guys unloads 1000 rounds into it and none of them go through. What the f**k is that couch made of!?

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#5

Going to Latin America. quick, put the yellow filter!.

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#6

Mom has prepared a feast that could feed half the neighborhood, but it's only for her two small children and her husband, who is already late for work and takes a single piece of toast on his way out the door.

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#7

Doctors doing everything in medical settings. Scanning the patient, setting up IV’s, interpreting brain MRI’s. Nurses who? Radiographers what?

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#8

Can you hack this super secure server?' *ten seconds of hitting random letter keys on the keyboard* 'I'm in.

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#9

In fires nobody dies of smoke inhalation. They’ll be in there for ages, merrily chatting away, coughing, miraculous escape (lifting a burning beam out the way maybe), they get outside and are fine! Maybe a smudge of soot on the face and a cough then on their merry way.

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#10

Someone being hit in the head, loses consciousness, and two minutes later getting up as if nothing happened.

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#11

Post apocalyptic women with clean shaven underarms.

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#12

Women giving birth to giant, four month old babies.

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#13

A part-time waitress or administrative assistant sure as s**t isn't affording a beautiful two-bedroom apartment alone in any major city. Or you get the family where only the father works at an okay 9–5 but is somehow able to afford a $1.5 million house in California and raise four kids on a single income. I want to live in that world.

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#14

Big breakfasts that no one eats because the characters are in a hurry and running out the door. Me personally, I'll be late to whatever for some pancakes/waffles.

#15

Gunfire indoors or inside cars and everyone can hear fine afterwards

Big explosions that throw people around but have no shrapnel

Windows that can be jumped through without shredding your skin

People traversing through air ducts

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#16

When people order food in a restaurant and then leave before it arrives. At least get it to go.

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#17

Stop waving that empty cup around, it's supposed to have hot coffee it in.

Put some water in it, or if you are worried about spills, fill it halfway with elmer's glue.

It needs to have some weight, especially when you set it down

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#18

Punching four people in the face and not feeling anything. I've been in a fight and won. Even then it hurts like hell. No one 'wins' in a fight, they just get injured the least.

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#19

Cop looking at blurry CCTV image

Cop: “Can you clean up the image?”

Nerd: “Sure, computer enhance sector theta 6”

crystal clear image appears on screen

Cop: “Oh my god”

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#20

10 trained soldiers with automatic weapons, a couple of snipers and a helicopter gunship are all shooting at the fleeing heroes.

The only thing they manage to hit is the ground just behind their feet.

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#21

People yanking their IV away from their arm. B**ch that will tear up you vein and f**k you up.

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#22

People can talk and hear each other in clubs or loud bars without any issues.

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#23

LOOK AT THE ROAD WHEN YOU DRIVE! Even if you speak with your passenger, you do not look at him for 5s !

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#24

Women waking up in bed with a full face of makeup.

I'm talking winged eyeliner and fuchsia lipstick. I seriously want to know who makes those decisions in the makeup department smh.

#25

A: "I have something important to tell you. It's about the Jones case."

B: "What's up? What'd you find?"

A: "Can't talk now. Meet me tomorrow at 9."

B: "A! Tell me what's going on!"

A: "No, not now. Tomorrow at 9."

A is found murdered the next morning, B is haunted by conversation. Sets off on worldwide mission to solve the murder and uncover the cover-up.

#26

Women in sex scenes always wearing matching bra and panties. And keeping the bra on the whole sesh

#27

College professor here. Pet peeves about how college is depicted:

- Every class is in a medieval European-style amphitheater classroom
- Professors are all living in giant 6,000 sq ft houses, even if they teach literature or sociology
- Professors only address students by their last names, and all students call professors "sir"
- Students or professors strolling down the quad with a leather courier bag worth a month's pay, for some reason always eating an apple
- NO F**KING TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOMS

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#28

Every grocery shopping bag is paper and has a loaf of French bread sticking out of it. Never a janky looking plastic bag filled with random canned goods.

#29

The scientist is an expert in multiple fields of study. Don’t get me wrong, most PhD scientists I know have a solid foundation in chem/physics/bio, but it’s not super common to find a person who has a PhD-level of understanding in all of those fields. I hate it in movies when the ecologist somehow develops a vaccine, or the meteorologist manages to predict an earthquake . Like, a PhD is so narrow in scope. A biologist who studies fish probably can’t answer s**t about snakes... let alone create a vaccine for a novel virus.

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#30

Lava does not let you melt slowly into it. Even at close proximity the heat is enough to evaporate the liquids in your body and make you explode... They tested it by throwing dead pigs into a volcano, the corpses just bounce and skitter until the liquids are gone and the meat has burned up.

#31

Person 1: Hey, did you hear about X?

Person 2: No, what is it?

Person 1: It’s all over the news, lemme show you. (Proceeds to turn on the TV while every news channel is playing EXACTLY what he was talking about)

#32

In labor and birth scenes, the woman is pissed off, the baby is clean, and they never delivery the placenta.

#33

Clean houses where there are 3 to 4 chaotic children.

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#34

Action movies where the good guy's car gets rammed or gets in bad wreck and it's still driveable and the airbag doesn't deploy.

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#35

Falling into ice water in winter, getting out soaking wet, not dying of hypothermia.

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#36

Jumping into a cab and yelling, “Follow that car!”, and the cabbie just readily complies.

#37

The Protagonist always seems to get a reserved parking spot everywhere. Manhattan is just like the suburbs when it comes to parking spots.

#38

Hanging up without saying good bye or anything

#39

CPR. I’ve never seen anything remotely close to good technique. Stresses me the hell out.

#40

People walk around their houses fully made up, in outside clothes and shoes. Even if their character is not going anywhere or doing anything that involved leaving the house, they always look ready to go. Who wears skinny jeans to chill? Get some sweats or pyjamas, good lord.

#41

Snapping peoples necks with a quick twisting motion at the jaw.

#42

When people walk in the front door of a house or apartment and don’t close it behind them. Gets me irrationally pissed off every time

#43

Gun silencers. There’s no such thing, it’s a muffler at best but you can’t mute the sound out

#44

Non billionairs renting a huge appartment in a big city such as New York or San Francisco

#45

(Unless it’s a gag in the plot) no one ever has to go to the bathroom. Like does Captain America ever take a poop?

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#46

How everyone's password is a single word directly tied to something on their desk. No numbers or special characters either.

#47

One character has never fired a gun in their life, so the badass gives one shooting lesson. That character misses every shot until the badass tells them "You need to feel the path of the bullet...", and they get a single bullseye. Now that character is one-handing Desert Eagles and hitting targets 200 yards a way directly between the eyes from a spinning vehicle.

#48

After sex scenes, women cover themselves with the sheets up to the neck while men are uncovered and wearing boxers. Or women getting out of bed and dragging a sheet covering their chest to walk around.

#49

You don't have unlimited ammo.

Someone must've turned on sv_cheats and forgot to turn it off.

#50

Law student here: Every courtroom scene is a disaster.

#51

Every kid in a movie has to be a genius for some reason. They cant just be a normal 10 year old. They also always own a rubiks cube.

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#52

Couples having romantic baths together. What’s more relaxing than stuffing two full sized adults in a tiny tub?

#53

Surviving explosions with nary a scratch.

#54

The way people break bottles on people's heads

#55

When a militsry person says over and out. YOU NEVER SAY OVER AND OUT. They mean two completey different and contradictory things.

#56

People punching each other in the face like it's no big deal

#57

Scenes with AA meetings or where people "share stories". Everyone is a master storyteller and has a way with words.

Writers forget that in real life, people tend to ramble.

#58

40 shots from a six shooter without reloading.

#59

Ten trained soldiers with automatic weapons, a couple of snipers, and a helicopter gunship are all shooting at the fleeing heroes. The only thing they manage to hit is the ground just behind their feet.

#60

Women making minced meat out of waves of bad dudes twice their size.

While wearing high heels.

#61

Unless it’s an extremely flammable place such as a fireworks factory, the vast majority of fire sprinkler systems aren’t deluge.