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Texting someone? This is the first time you're doing it. No text history ever.
Doing something that requires a thing? That thing is always new and fresh and has never been used because its a fucking prop.
Just lots of unrealistic things benign things in movies I never noticed when I was younger. Now it just pisses me off for some reason.

"Over and Out". No, it's either "Over" or "Out".

Close your fucking dust cover.

You salute when wearing a hat.

No one secures the neck strap on motorcycles or puts the key in. There is always a motorcycle with a helmet sitting on it with the key inside.

When two people state at each other while talking for several minutes and one of them is driving.

crime is investigated and doctors treat people

Lately, I find weather maddening. It’s either a non-issue mid-season light sweater weather, extremely consistent across all movies and films ever made, unless it’s a monsoon like downpour -but everyone is immediately dry unless it’s a plot point. Rarely, it snows, a snows that never settles, never gives any problems, never freezes anyone’s hands.

When the movie is filmed at 27 frames per second instead of 26. Ugh.

PUT. SOMETHING. IN THE FUCKING CUPS.

Beans, orbies, just make special weighted cups for sets. No actor in the history of acting has picked up an empty paper coffee cup and gestured with it as if it had something in it.

And while we’re at it.. in this the year two thousand and twenty five, how do we still not have prop ice that floats?

The way they insert IVs. Your veins don't run perpendicular.

Forensic experts cover themselves completely, including a face mask and hood, so they don't pollute a scene. They're not there in full glam.

No, there isn't an alert for when your computer system is under an attack. It would go off constantly because every script kiddie is trying an attack 24/7. There also isn't an alert for when the firewall is penetrated because the whole point of the penetration is that you wouldn't detect it and they can quietly steal data.

Stealing gold instead? It weighs a lot. That gold bar you're casually carrying between your finger tips actually weights as much as a reasonable big dumbbell. (16 oz bottle / half liter of gold weights very roughly as much as 2.5 gallon / 10 liter of water or 20 pound / 10 kg)

And every time people are casually thrown into walls. Meanwhile people go to the hospital after a bit of a bad fall when cleaning the gutter.

Happy family time and joined breakfast with bacon and cereal every morning.

Mostly tv shows I’ve noticed this, but all the sets and homes look impeccable. Not a speck of dust, not a hint of mess. Even in shows where kids live in the home. Everyone JUST got their hair trimmed, they wear pants at home and always pop in on each other. But the lack of mess is maddening.

Also in period movies and shows, even the peasants are always wearing clean clothes

You after cars in movies, if they actually had a crash:

That's amateur film maker stuff.

In real film making, people become the head rest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxb9xzAaYjM

Cars didn’t commonly have headrests until the 1960s. Doesn’t really stand out if you remember that.

The usual line you'll hear on set is that "if your audience notices this, you're doing something wrong with your story telling".

WTF

It's actually sinister foreshadowing in The Batman.

100%

@Mog_Spawn
#alttext "three panel meme of two actors in a car, one driving, discussing unrealistic movie elements. The text highlights a specific filmmaking technique where car headrests are removed to improve visibility for the audience.
The first panel asks what unrealistic things in movies bug people.
The second panel gives the answer: filmmakers often remove car headrests. This is done so the audience can see the actors better.
The final panel shows the driving actor looking surprised, apparently just realising this, whilst looking backwards in the car he steers without headrests."

@Mog_Spawn goddamnit