People Answer What Movies Get Wrong About Real Life And Here's 50 Of Their Spot-On Observations

A person going from drunk to sober in 5 minutes because they drank a cup of black coffee.

Boarding a plane after the gate has closed. No, not even for true love!

5 machine guns somehow missing the protagonist in the room

I've worked in a hospital as a nursing assistant and I can hardly stand to watch any medical related movies now. They always depict the doctors as being closely involved with patient care and doing everything the patient needs, such as handing out meds, conducting tests, etc. This simply doesn't happen in real life. While the doctors do make a care plan, there are hundreds of other professions in a hospital setting that carry out that plan. Nurses hand out meds and do wound care, NAs help patients with activities of daily living, a transport team takes patients to their tests where other nurses/techs actually conduct the tests. It's an intricate system that doesn't revolve solely around the physicians. Don't get me wrong, I have all the respect in the world for doctors and I plan on going to medical school, but movies do so many other jobs in healthcare an injustice by not depicting what they actually do.

They don't make keyboard mistakes or have to backspace. Movie characters get it on the first shot, whether it's sending a text or hacking into the Pentagon.

Characters can hear every word of dialogue perfectly in a noisy environment.

Captain frantically whispering to the private - "I need you to charge that machine gun nest."

Private - "um actually I can't hear you I'm completely deaf from 3 hours of constant gunfire."

Grocery bags in movies ALWAYS have unwrapped French bread and some green leaf lettuce sticking out of the top.

People that are experts in their highly scientific field are not usually young and hot. It takes a long time to become so highly qualified for nuclear physics and that sort of thing. But no, in movies, it is always someone that looks to be in their mid 20s at the latest.

People cough and it's always indicative of an incoming terminal illness. A phone rings and it's terrible/pertinent news.

In real life people cough because there's something tickling their throat or because they swallowed something funny. You answer a phone call and Liz is trying to sell you a cheap stay in Las Vegas even though you've told that c**t to f**k off more than three times in the last month.

Jumping inches away from an explosion blast won’t do s**t.

NO ONE HAS BLACKOUT CURTAINS IN MOVIES. Why?? Everyone wakes up to bright sunlight and no curtains and beautifully clean bedrooms ... that is NOT reality!!!

Huge catastrophe happens - everyone in the whole city is dead, except my whole family! How lucky I am!

The phone only rings to move the plot along. IRL my phone only rings due to scammers or bots calling from an Arlington, Va number.

People waiting their turn to talk.

Imagine a realistic drama where one character confronts the person who wronged them, and about 2 sentences into their big, inspiring, mic-drop moment, the other person cuts them off with "Go f***k yourself, a**hole".

I mean, I've had my share of arguments. Not many people sit patiently through several paragraphs of well thought out reasons why they're wrong.

I've never seen anyone apprehend criminals while causing millions and millions in damage to the city.

People shrugging off a flesh wound like it's nothing. They even say "It's just a flesh wound." The movie Last Action Hero does a good job of mocking this by having Jack Slater incur a flesh wound in "the real world," and it's a big deal. But then he goes into the movie world and it's barely a scratch.

In fact, Last Action Hero has a lot of examples, like people being able to punch through car windows, or the women working at Blockbuster being way too attractive.

Medical examiner comes back with a tox report and DNA match in a matter of minutes. IRL, this stuff takes days or weeks.

People never have to go to the bathroom and are rarely hungry or thirsty, and can go for weeks with virtually no sleep.

The way actors dramatically circle each other while they're having conversations. It's something stage actors are taught to do to make the scene more dynamic, but it's not something people ever actually do in real life. Imagine chatting with your buddy somewhere and he just starts circling you mid-conversation: "So anyway, I think we should . . . uh, where are you going? What is happening right now?"

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