Life would be much simpler yet more exciting at the same time if things worked just like in our favorite movies. The good guys would always save the day at the last minute. Adventures of a lifetime could happen at any moment. And your soulmate could be just around the corner. Alas! That’s not how the real world works.
OG_Builds created a thread on r/AskReddit and asked people to share what is totally normal in movies but never actually happens in real life. And, wow, did people deliver! The redditor’s post received 28.8k comments in 2 days, as well as more than 64.2k upvotes. Scroll down to have a look, don’t forget to upvote your fave things that are normal in movies, and share your own ideas in the comments! OG_Builds told Bored Panda that they got the idea to make the thread after watching a lot of movies while on vacation, while the comment that they could relate to the most was the one about finding new friends.
“I think the comment I found the most relatable was one pointing out how movie characters find friends the second they move to a new city. I just moved to a new town and I feel like movies underestimate the amount of time it takes to get to know people and build relationships.” Read on for the rest of our interview with the thread’s OP.
#21
How normalized stalking is. "You dropped this, so I followed you for three hours to give it back" -> "Kiss and hug, now we're dating".
In reality, it's mace and call the cops for stalking.
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173points
#22
Ask your friends to meet you at a predetermined time and place with no explanation as to why.
I have a hard time getting friends to meet up for legitimate reasons with advanced notice. Meanwhile, movie characters come together in an abandoned warehouse in Brazil like...
(all walk in at the same time)
"Why'd you call?"
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171points
#24
Walking home from the grocery store carrying a single paper bag with an unwrapped loaf of French bread sticking out the top.
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165points
#25
Hackers. Perfect code, first try, no issues ever. If your code runs correctly first try, you're confused and scared.
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161points
#26
You can have a Ph.D. in theoretical high-energy astrophysics, have finished your postdoc(s), and be running the biggest project in the organization by the time you are 23 if you are a woman and really pretty.
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161points
#28
Uninterested woman has a sudden change of heart for the loser guy and they live happily ever after.
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156points
#30
Guy walks in holding a 30-page document, gives to some other dude.
The dude who's getting the document glances at the first page for a nanosecond and immediately knows everything there is to know about this case.
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151points
#33
People not screaming in absolute agony when shot or stabbed in the gut.
Reservoir dogs is one movie that did it realistically.
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142points
#34
Women in war zones and other longterm disaster situations with filthy matted hair and tattered grimy clothes always seem to find the time to have perfectly groomed eyebrows and put on a little make-up
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142points
#36
people recovering very quickly from injuries, especially head injuries
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133points
#37
Background music. Life would be so much better with background music
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133points
#38
Scientists in any field are experts in every other field of science as well, e.g. the physicist in Annihilation concluding the tree formations are due to homeotic mutations.
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131points
#39
In horror movies I always enjoy how fast and deep a perfectly symmetrical grave gets dug
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128points
#40
Serial killers just standing there staring at you and giving you enough Time to escape.
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