skinsfan07 Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Here's another thing. People can always hear each other perfectly at bars' date=' concerts, or dance clubs and can engage in long conversations. I'm not talking about the corner bar after work. I'm talking about inside The Danceteria (By the way, I'm old). The only movie I ever really saw get this right was High Fidelity when John Cusak first meets his girlfriend while he is a DJ. They are screaming incoherently at each other things like "Hi!" and "Huh?" and "What?" and "I like this song!"I've been in the 9:30 Club or Black Cat enough times to know that once the band starts, you are not having another conversation until it is over. All flirting is done via exaggerated facial expressions at that point.[/quote'] hahaha this is SO true. You can never understand a damn thing anyone is saying when the bar/club is poppin. I often just shake my head like "yea, i totally can understand the exagerrated conversation that we are having right now" lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartacus87 Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Here's another thing. People can always hear each other perfectly at bars' date=' concerts, or dance clubs and can engage in long conversations. I'm not talking about the corner bar after work. I'm talking about inside The Danceteria (By the way, I'm old). The only movie I ever really saw get this right was High Fidelity when John Cusak first meets his girlfriend while he is a DJ. They are screaming incoherently at each other things like "Hi!" and "Huh?" and "What?" and "I like this song!"I've been in the 9:30 Club or Black Cat enough times to know that once the band starts, you are not having another conversation until it is over. All flirting is done via exaggerated facial expressions at that point.[/quote'] I recently read an interview with a screenwriter/director who does bit work on a lot of random cable TV shows, and he was talking about this exact thing. He said that when filming a scene like that, they just have all the extras standing around in the background, dancing to complete silence, and it's a really weird thing to step back and watch while it's being filmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston2Taylor2Landry Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 How has nobody said this one.. In a resturant, get in fight, leave before paying or eating the food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Dave Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 In shows or movies set in New York' date=' people bump into friends or colleagues on the street all the time. One of my best friends grew up in New York. He alaimed that he bumped into someone he knew on the street one time in his life. Even the Sopranos did this once - Tony checked into the Plaza Hotel just as Melfi was coming out of brunch with friends there. Seinfeld did this weekly.[/quote']Every time that I have been to NYC I have bump into people that I know on the streets. I think it has happened every time on my first day of being in the city. So in my opinion it does happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pick6 Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 I walk around the house brushing my teeth, but never ate chinese out of the cartoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renaissance Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 How has nobody said this one..In a resturant, get in fight, leave before paying or eating the food. To add to this - fights in general. Especially those in high school. On tv, they show people setting up like they are going to actually throw punches and blocks, while the innocent bystanders form a perfect circle around the fighters. In reality, most fights just turn into a royal rumble of 2+ people wrestling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 How about people bursting into song over every little thing? We're going to beat up some Puerto Ricans ... let's do a dance. I wish I were a rich man ... let's sing a song about it, I tried to molest my girlfriend at the drive-in and she punched me ... I feel a song coming on. That freaking never happens in real life. I've probably only done that like four times ... maybe five. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Almost every show that involves the main characters driving a lot shows them unbuckled. And why can't any of the main characters on a drama be married and happy in their non-job life? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pick6 Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 The women in shows are all 10s. I am not taking about the main character, but the extras. Also, a movie like transformers, Shia Lebouf's character gets two smoking hot chicks and the dude is a skinny, little nerd. In the last movie he was unemployed and still has a hot chick that is successful. Sorry wouldn't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew_Fl Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Love this thread premise... I don't know if this is what we're looking for but when people are using computers in TV and Movies, it's always some made up generic software and when they "hack" things it takes like 3 seconds. "ok, we're in." kind of like the "Enhance" montages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 How about when people are playing video games? people are always twisting into some crazy positions and jamming on the buttons like a mental case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botched Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 One thing that happens in every TV show and movie, is that when two people are having an argument, inevitably one of them is left totally speechless after the other person makes a good point. I've seen that happen maybe twice in my life, and never when a woman was involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lydon Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Love this thread premise...I don't know if this is what we're looking for but when people are using computers in TV and Movies, it's always some made up generic software and when they "hack" things it takes like 3 seconds. "ok, we're in." kind of like the "Enhance" montages. HAHA!!! I love enhance montages!!! How about how nobody (unless it is for comedy purposes, e.g. Uncle Buck) drives a beat up car. Everyone has the newest, latest, and greatest vehicles. No one has rust or dents or duct tape holding the window up or anything like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 1) Fights. Some of the shots these people take would cripple or leave you writhing in so much pain, you couldn't get up. Nut shots especially. 2) Friends and How I Met Your Mother "always" get to sit in the same booth/couch. You mean, nobody else wanted to drink their coffee on that big comfy couch in the middle of the room? 3) Everybody knows how to drive anything. Bad guy gets away and the hero knows how to drive a tractor, snowmobile, motorcycle or front end loader or any other vehicle within grasp and can do it at 100 mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACW Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 The women in shows are all 10s. I am not taking about the main character, but the extras. Also, a movie like transformers, Shia Lebouf's character gets two smoking hot chicks and the dude is a skinny, little nerd. In the last movie he was unemployed and still has a hot chick that is successful. Sorry wouldn't happen.Or a fat loser like Seth Rogen getting with a hottie like Katherine Heigl (Knocked Up). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socalwizfan Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 http://www.thatwasfunny.com/40-things-that-only-happen-in-the-movies/635 Here are some good ones. Also - on that show "The OC" they always referred to that area as "The OC" and even referred to Las Vegas as "The Vegas". I have lived in Orange County for quite a while & have never heard anyone refer to those areas that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD_washingtonredskins Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 One thing that happens in every TV show and movie, is that when two people are having an argument, inevitably one of them is left totally speechless after the other person makes a good point. I've seen that happen maybe twice in my life, and never when a woman was involved. Well done. My "boom" moments never work the way that TV and movies have taught me they would. "...and there, you just made my point for me!" is never greeted with silence and reflection. It's met with "...what the Hell are you talking about?" and eye rolling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Have a gangbang with the pool guy and all his helpers. It's such a cliché ~Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 I really dig this thread. Has anyone ever heard the song "Jolly Good Fellow" IRL during a celebration? I haven't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 People holding beers and sodas by the very bottom so that the label is fully exposed If you actually tried to hold a beer like that, you would drop it 75 percent of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HogNose Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Most grocery bags have a loaf of french bread and a few stalks of celery hanging out of the brown paper bag, sans the convenient handle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renaissance Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Most grocery bags have a loaf of french bread and a few stalks of celery hanging out of the brown paper bag, sans the convenient handle. Yes!!! And milk still comes in cartons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HogNose Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Most grocery bags have a loaf of french bread and a few stalks of celery hanging out of the brown paper bag, sans the convenient handle. Yes!!!And milk still comes in cartons. ....and the milk carton will usually sit in the fridge and spoil, while it waits for the unsuspecting victim to take a swig and spit out the curdled mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 When people are in the car having a conversation the driver can look at the passenger for like ten full seconds and not hit anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
First Colony Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Conversations in cars are almost never realistic. The driver will look at the passenger for the entire length of the conversation and never at the road. The only time they do look at the road is if it is for the plot. It always makes me nervous. Henry-you're too quick, and I can't believe we were both thinking the same thing at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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