“You Are Going To Be Dead, My Dude”: 50 Internet Users Ruin Popular Movie Tropes With Their In-Depth Knowledge

Chloroform takes ages to have an effect. You wouldn’t just touch a rag doused in it to their face and then they’re out … you’d be there a good 10 minutes.

Duct tape is ridiculously easy to remove from a mouth by pushing it outward with the tongue. Once it is removed, it is very hard to retape. Every hostage movie gets this wrong.

Rifle bullets go through the trunk, the backseat, the drivers seat, the driver/passenger, and out the front of the car(if they don’t hit something particularly chunky in the engine bay, like the engine block).

So when the good guys are in a car chase and their trunk has 700 bullet holes in it, the occupants of the vehicle are dead.

Swords do not cut through armor like butter. There's a reason why people wore armor. Even arrows *designed* to penetrate armor are more likely to bounce off or get stuck in armor. It still hits like a strong punch or fist and can wear you down if a hundred arrows nail your a*s.

But heroes do not carve their way through armored warriors. You basically had to catch them where they had no armor: eye holes, arm pits, groin, that sort of thing.

Armor was also fairly easy to move in and trained knights could run, jump, vault onto horses, and do kip ups from lying flat on their backs. The idea you'd get knocked over and lie there like a turtle sadly awaiting death did not happen unless ten peasants were straddling you and pulling daggers out to cut your throat. Which did happen.

Chest Compressions on an Unconscious Person: In reality, CPR is not a light pressing of the chest. It’s the physical equivalent of a car crash. Some 200 lb EMT *attempting to push to a point about two inches behind your body at *100-120 beats per minute. Even highly athletic caregivers have to swap out every *2-10 minutes or so to make sure you’re being sufficiently pulverized. Ribs often fracture. When it’s really bad, the whole chest feels like a sponge. TLDR: you do NOT want your 90 year old grandmother receiving CPR. 

Typically, a cigarette thrown into a puddle of gasoline will simply go out rather than igniting the gasoline.

Babies are born with an umbilical cord attached. And healthy babies look purple for a few seconds.

The majestic shriek associated with movie eagles is most likely that of a red-tailed hawk. eagles have a high squeaky call and chirp like little b**ches.

The reactor is going critical.

A reactor loves being critical. It's running perfectly fine when it is critical and is probably the safest state it can be. Most of it's safety features are designed around it being critical.

A bullet wound to the shoulder isn’t just a flesh wound. Taking a bullet to the shoulder isn’t something you can “work through”. Something like that will have you rolling around in agony unable to focus, or you go into shock. Also bullets don’t always pass through, they can ricochet off bone and travel around the body. A bullet can enter your leg, run up the inside of the body and shread every organ it comes into contact with. They have previously found bullets in the brain that entered via the foot too.

I work for the airline industry.

Because of that I *cannot* watch Die Hard 2, anymore.

In the movie, terrorists shut down a Washington DC airport.

Literally all the plane had to do was divert to another airport.

There’s like a dozen all within thirty minutes: DC Reagan, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Annapolis, Richmond, even LaGuardia or JFK.

Also they wouldn’t fly a military prisoner such as General Esperanza into a civilian airport.

They’d fly him to an Air Force/military base.

Dart guns do not instantly incapacitate anyone. The chemicals used for immobilization take anywhere from 3 to 20 minutes to work.

It's not 'over and out.'
It's 'over' [I'm done transmitting, waiting for a response], or 'out' [I'm done transmitting and signing off]. Saying both is like saying 'No no keep talking, I can't wait' then hanging up.

Giving a diabetic insulin is the last thing you want to do when they are displaying signs of hypoglycemia, which is usually what you see happen in movies and TV shows. In this case, you'd be advised to give them something with sugar in it, like a soda.

I just want to see people charge their cellphones at night on a movie. Just once.

Numerous medieval/fantasy movies that show iron/steel weapon making like swords via pouring molten metal into a mold: Conan the Barbarian, Lord of the Rings, the Game of Thrones show etc.

You can’t really cast proper weapons out steel that way. Firstly that high of a heat to make the metal molten will cause a serious loss in the carbon that gives the steel its hardness. Second, the steel solidifies too irregularly and likely won’t be homogeneous throughout. Forging is really the best and only way to make steel anything discounting magic.

Computer geek breaks into super protected mainframe trope. Hacking is social/psychological skill these days. Nerdy guy from mums basement can't “hack” into NASA mainframe. I would say that 95% of “hacking” is ordinary phishing.

Lifelong mental patient here. It's only the rich people -- like Hollywood screenwriters -- who go to see a therapist and that therapist writes them a prescription. That's because they're seeing a psychiatrist who does hour-long talk sessions. Keep in mind, it's expensive enough to see a therapist with a PhD, but to see one with a PhD *and* an MD, you need to spend a lot of money. Us plebes over here are seeing a therapist for talk, and seeing a psychiatrist for meds. You don't make some big breakthrough in your session and then your therapist writes you a scrip. It just doesn't happen that way.

Red laser dot on someone from a sniper

Snipers would not ever project a laser pointer over at someone they're trying to shoot, firstly it would not be accurate at all because bullets drop while the laser light stays straight.
it would also alert the enemy and give away their exact position.
and lastly, why would they need a dot on their target? They're already looking through a scope with crosshairs showing where the bullet will hit

Laser Pointers on guns is an actual thing but it's only really used for close range work where you may not be able to aim quickly or easily, such as chasing feral pigs with a shotgun from a vehicle

Gasoline has a shelf life. If the apocalypse was a few years ago, the gas that is left isn't going to work so great anymore.