Silly movie / tv plot devices

[DropitlikeitsHawk]

Jack Bauer was the best at this. He could traverse LA, NYC or DC in 5 minutes

Precisely what made me think of it.

 

[sober_teacher]

Precisely what made me think of it.

Idk if any here watches cinemasins or tv sins; but I always enjoy when they point out how some travel routes are impossible due to geography in the time given. Ferris bueller might be the most famous example; all the places in Chicago they visited in one day, in the order they visited them.

 

[DropitlikeitsHawk]

Idk if any here watches cinemasins or tv sins; but I always enjoy when they point out how some travel routes are impossible due to geography in the time given. Ferris bueller might be the most famous example; all the places in Chicago they visited in one day, in the order they visited them.

I enjoy SVU. When they say be there in 15. So they are across the street?

 

[Tom Paris]

There's a lot of tailing of cars going on in movies, with an incredibly low success rate. Someone in the car being tailed will tell the other passenger that they are being tailed and which car it is. Not only have they spotted the tail but also the make of the car. "We're being tailed, 3 cars back, blue Ford" It's usually a Ford. Do people really know cars so well that they can tell what it is just by seeing the grill or headlights?

It’s not as easy as it used to be.

 

[lucas80]

The massive conspiracy and cover up…
I flipped over from the Cubs game to Godzilla (2014), and there are thousands of soldiers and techs running around, but somehow it’s a secret that a giant monster is there feeding off of a nuclear reactor. That goes double for a Bond type villain secret lair.

 

[DooBi]

I like when the bad guy gets a little bit of evidence shown to him in an interrogation room and suddenly admits to everything. 90% of the time they don't have a lawyer and when they do they keep talking against the lawyers advice.

 

[ericram]

When the actors fall or thrown out of windows onto cars, sidewalks, or other people walk away uninjured.

 

[beanerhawk]

Also, the number one movie thing that happens is this: No one ever says “Goodbye” at the end of phone calls. They always just hang up. That never happens in real life. Ever.

Actually I used to do this all the time with out realizing it until one day my then girlfriend (no pics) who is now my wife called me back after a conversation all pissed off and asked why I just hang up without saying bye. I had no clue. When your done talking just hang up was my take on it.

 

[Aardvark86]

This is an excellent thread, and underscores how sometimes it's better to just do something preposterous rather than following the forms.

For example, if you ask me, one of the great moments in movie history was in Beer Fest, after Landfill had drowned in the giant vat of beer and they were having his funeral when his twin brother Gil shows up to take his place and asks them to honor his brother's memory by referring to him as Landfill.