Ridiculous Things Which Happen In Movies That Never Happen In Real Life

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Jun 7, 2021 6:00 PM EDT

Everything that goes down in movies always seems so picture-perfect. Yes, there's plenty of conflict along the way, but after a wild ride with the protagonist, the issues get resolved and everyone lives happily ever after. But that's precisely what makes it a movie. As much as we wish everything in our lives would work out, there's no way of knowing what's going to happen, and it often doesn't work out the way we want it to. A Redditor started a thread asking fellow Redditors about classic movie things that never happen in real life, and the responses taught me a couple of things along the way. Have a look, and let us know if we missed a classic movie trope. 

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    Font - r/AskReddit · Posted by u/AJ-Naka-Zayn-Owens 14 hours ago What happens in movies that NEVER happens in real life?
    via u/AJ-Naka-Zayn-Owens

    If I was the leading lady of a rom-com, my life would be perfect. Why can't real life be like the movies? *sighs dramatically* 

  • 02
    Human body - MrMilkMan105 · 13h Being able to hear after hundreds of gun shots in a small room
    via u/MrMilkMan105 ·

    Because I work a regular nine to five, I believe everything I see in action movies without questioning it. I was today years old when I learned that you can't hear after gun shots go off in a small room. Thanks for this fun fact, random dude from Reddit. 

  • 03
    Font - Derikson81 · 13h The lack of considerable paperwork from any police-action movie.
    via u/Derikson81
  • 04
    Human body - MeltedSinceMarch21 · 14h You can drink a bottle of whiskey/vodka and be stone cold sober after ONE CUP OF COFFEE
    via u/MeltedSinceMarch21
  • 05
    Facial expression - ron2838 · 13h Never setting a time for things. Want to go out Friday? Yeah. Great see you then. Bye.
    via u/ron2838
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    Font - Twisty_10 · 13h People are up in the morning with enough time to have a home- cooked breakfast, casual family conversation, just relaxing and taking their time. Like on a school day.
    via u/Twisty_10
  • 07
    Font - hypnonewt · 14h Waiting for someone to finish a sentence before talking, even in an argument.
    via u/hypnonewt
  • 08
    Human body - baguetteboy7 · 14h Villain wastes time instead of killing the protagonist right now.
    via u/baguetteboy7
  • 09
    Font - Stock_Garage_672· 13h Cars exploding. Cars can catch fire, it can happen very quickly and they burn very intensely but they don't explode.
    via u/Stock_Garage_672
  • 10
    Font - salapdcf · 13h 5 machine guns somehow missing the protagonist in the room
    via u/salapdcf
  • 11
    Font - Varvatos_Vex · 13h Everyone can simply up and leave their life for a trip. Magically already having a passport and money to get a red eye flight.
    via u/Varvatos_Vex
  • 12
    Human body - MouthwashInMyEyes · 11h Every single depiction of highschool and college life ever. Everything about it.
    via u/MouthwashInMyEyes
  • 13
    Font - pulp-fictional · 12h Every pregnancy delivery is always a natural screaming painful birth. No one ever has a c- section or epidural
    via u/pulp-fictional
  • 14
    Font - LeeChallenged · 13h The "good guy" gets away with torture, abduction, murder, mass destruction as soon as everybody understands his good intentions. In real life, a crime is a crime.
    via u/LeeChallenged
  • 15
    Font - KungThulhu · 11h expositional dialogue "hello person who is my sister, remember how our parents died in a car crash leaving us both orphaned at a young age?"
    via u/KungThulhu

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