Movies are filled with stupid and funny clichés that just don’t make any sense, and there is no chance any of them would work in the real world, so Twitter users came together to point out the most ridiculous examples. Got something to add? Share your own unrealistic movie cliché in comments!
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The noise of glasses and cutlery on a wooden tabletop makes recording dialogue very difficult, especially with inexperienced child actors. That’s why table cloths are used in ‘family breakfast’ scenes. They muffle the clatteting!
Hi, I’m the meal that never gets eaten but just pushed around on the plate while the characters are talking over dinner.
Hello. I’m the character in any given movie who walks/run into the street without looking, slapping my hands on the hood of the vehicle that screeches to a stop one inch from me.
Hello, I’m a person in a film or on tv. I walk into houses or apartments from outside and never close front doors.
Hello, I never pay the taxi driver
Hello, I’m an advisor of Police procedure for a Police drama, however I tend to sit around all day and no-one asks me for my advice
Hi, I’m a four star general or the president of the country, the one who really cares about the hero and their team.
When the crisis is resolved, everyone is cheering and applauding, hugging the super secret command center, while I just let out a sigh in relief and finally sit down in the chair.
I normally know only one guy/girl who is capable of resolving a hostage situation. Usually in prison or being relieved of duty. If I am the president, they were also involved with my daughter.
I’m the one actor on screen who drives a vehicle and actually locks it when I get to where I’m going. Cos that NEVER happens in real life.
Hello, I’m someone who has sex in a movie, the end of which sees my partner and I still wearing our underwear. Then we get out of bed, put clothes on without changing into clean undies or showering, and we’re ready to take on the world.
Hello, I’m a criminal who found true love and now wants to live a decent life. However, I have one last job to do..
Hello, I’m having a bad dream. When I wake up I sit up straight and my face is covered in sweat.
Hello, I’m a dad in trouble with my family. I have to attend my kid’s school meeting / theater performance of but I never make it in time, leaving my kid looking very disappointed and annoying my (ex) wife again.
Hello! I’m a female, 5’5”, 115 lbs., wear ridiculously tight clothing and I can kick anyone’s ass…especially men 10x my size.
Hi! I’m the main character in a movie who suddenly discovers that I’m a ghost and that I can walk through walls, pass through objects & even trip over stuff, but I never fall through the floor.
Hello, I never switch off the lights when I leave home.
Hello, I just had sex in a horror film. I’m gonna die.
Hello,I just had a night terrors and I actually wake up and am coherent instead of staying asleep.as one does,with night terrors,and screaming or sobbing.
(I really do have night terrors,as opposed to occasional nightmares.)
Hi, I am a computer. It doesn’t matter if you’re the good guy or the bad guy… when you sneak into someone’s office to download everything, I will be incredibly slow yet magically finish the download with just enough seconds for you to run away before the door opens and they catch you.
Hello, I just got shot through the shoulder, most likely shattering at least three vitally necessary bones and probably tearing up the attached muscles that move my arm. In real life, I’d undergo three operations, a month of bed rest, and a year of physiotherapy, but this is a movie, so about half an hour after being shot, I’m climbing up the outside of a hotel by pulling myself up and over the balconies. My shoulder is miraculously healed, although I do mention a bit of pain later on in the script.
Hello, I am the woman who wakes up with full makeup after a night of sweaty sex.
Hi, I’m curtains in the bedroom of the kid who can’t sleep cos afraid of the dark and the creepy tree outside.
Mom n dad always leave me open.
Hello! I’m a woman between 14-44 years old. Some mishap has me and my group lost in the jungle/on a deserted island. It takes months before we escape the murderous band hunting is/trek to civilization/are rescued. Luckily for me, I don’t menstruate, so I don’t attract predators/ruin my clothes/have any problem with strenuous physical exertion.
Well hello, you! I’m a man and I just had vigorous, mutually-satisfying sex with a woman I care about. I roll to my side with a smile on my face, brush a lock of hair out of her face, and engage her in attentive pillow talk. I’m not sleepy at all.
Hello. I’m a CRT from the 1980s. Words appear on my screen slowly enough to read as they form and are always helpfully accompanied by rat-a-tat noises.
Hello, I am computer or a laptop top in a movie. I don’t have mouse or touchpad. Keyboard is the only way to operate me, usually through both handed vigorous typing.
March 5, 2021
Yo. I’m the hero in a movie. I’ve just been through the longest, down and dirtiest rough and tumblest fight with my arch enemy, and no matter how many times he hits me, I never utter more than a grunt, and then I keep getting up and fighting till he’s defeated. But ten minutes later when the beautiful heroine dabs one of my wounds with a swab, I wince and gasp like a baby.
Hello. I’m earrings in every single movie and TV show. I never have backings, so I’m easily removable, yet I also never accidentally fall out.
Hello, I’m a space bar. I’m never used in films or TV when someone is typing.
Hello. I’m that tyre on your car that squeals on every corner regardless of speed, road surface or weather conditions.
Hello, I am the guy who was in a zombie/slasher/horror movie getting splattered with people’s insides all over me and still manage to get kissed without first washing up.
Hello. I’m a action film hero who, in the climactic episode, battles the villain with such ferocity that a considerable number of cars and buses as well as several medium-sized buildings are irreparably damaged. The clean-up will take months. No one mentions this in the final celebratory scene or asks whether I have liability insurance.
Hello, I’m the couple that wake up in the morning and then proceed to immediately kiss and make passionate love without a trip to the bathroom first to brush my teeth.
I’m a detective or federal agent. I’m getting romantically involved with my partner or someone on my team.
I’m all the women in film and TV. I attain orgasm in 30 seconds, usually having been slammed up against the wall by my lover.
Hello,I’m the grunt policeman who always tells the boss “you may need to see this”,”mam,you may need to look at this”,”guv,have a look”,or walks into the interview at the most tense moment,”guv,you may need to hear this,””mam,a minute”,”sir,you REALLY need to hear this”.
Hello, I’m some kind of special forces veteran on a mission to rescue my girlfriend or daughter or sister or poodle or whatever. Whenever I take a bad guys car, the seat is always in the right place and I never have to adjust anything.
Hello, I’m on the run and have just stolen some clothes from a washing line. All of the clothes fit me perfectly.
I am the driver of the car who can turn and talk to the passenger for minutes at a time without looking at where I am driving and never get in an accident.
I am the person who walks into the house and begin cooking without washing my hands.
Hello. I am an actor portraying an actor in a film or tv show. I am always a vacuous idiot, highly promiscuous, and woefully untalented.
Hello. I am in a room full of my highly trained and thoroughly competent colleagues, but I’m going to explain the tremendously complicated procedure we need to perform out loud anyway.
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