Things you never see in Films/TV/ Books that happen real life.

[chaseter]

Dane Cook being boo'd.

 

[CelticPredator]

Hahaha ^

 

[Hotwire]

Having to wait in an obscenely long line.
Getting shot somewhere other than the shoulder, if your a "good guy".
A routine, mundane, day at work.
No parking spaces.
Competent police.
Getting gas, other than in road trip movies.
Smokers with stained teeth and bad breath.
Not being able to find something on the internet.
Cell phone conversation that gets cut off 5 times due to poor reception.

Or, this conversation...
"Anything to drink, sir?"
"Yeah, I'll have a Coke."
"Is Pepsi OK?"
"That's fine."

 

[CelticPredator]

^ That could be a great product placement scene. Only if he looks at the camera.

 

[Spider-Who?]

Perfect grammar. People do not speak clearly all the time unless they're on TV. Sometimes people hear different things in the midst of a conversation.

That usually doesn't happen in films unless its necessary for a character.

Some people hate him for it, but that's why I love Jeff Goldblum; he's got a very natural way to saying his lines. Sounds like an actual person talking instead of an actor repeating memorized lines.

 

[B.A. Baracus]

Or, this conversation...
"Anything to drink, sir?"
"Yeah, I'll have a Coke."
"Is Pepsi OK?"
"That's fine."

That would be so good. I always get asked that in Pizza hut and KFC.

 

[Drizzle]

Having to wait in an obscenely long line.
Getting shot somewhere other than the shoulder, if your a "good guy".
A routine, mundane, day at work.
No parking spaces.
Competent police.
Getting gas, other than in road trip movies.
Smokers with stained teeth and bad breath.
Not being able to find something on the internet.
Cell phone conversation that gets cut off 5 times due to poor reception.

I've seen quite a few of those in movies and tv shows. Either you haven't watched enough of them or I've watched too many of them.

 

[Manic]

Having to wait in an obscenely long line.

You haven't seen the movie of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. There's a scene where they find a long line, Arthur says, "I'll handle this! I'm British!" and then proceeds to just wait in line.

Getting shot somewhere other than the shoulder, if your a "good guy".

I've seen the leg, the foot, in the chest but somehow surviving anyway...

A routine, mundane, day at work.

That's the premise to Office Space.

No parking spaces.

Competent police.

Happens all the time in movies and TV shows about cops

Getting gas, other than in road trip movies.

Maximum Overdrive

 

[Lord Valumart]

I've never seen anyone have a mini sick and then have to just gulp it back down.

 

[Hotwire]

You haven't seen the movie of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. There's a scene where they find a long line, Arthur says, "I'll handle this! I'm British!" and then proceeds to just wait in line.


I've seen the leg, the foot, in the chest but somehow surviving anyway...


That's the premise to Office Space.






Happens all the time in movies and TV shows about cops


Maximum Overdrive

Ok, but it still doesn't happen often. Also, all of the examples are plot devices. I think the concept of the thread were things that just don't happen in your average movie.

 

[Obi-Ron]

I go to movies to forget about all those things.

 

[Dark Phantom]

I go to movies to forget about all those things.

No! You must deal with it

 

[HighFivingMF]

I go to movies to forget about all those things.

You must really hate Pepsi.

 

[fracture2112]

It happens.

It doesn't.

I'll agree with Aesop on this one. Sure, anyone of us can end up with a girlfriend. But it's very rare when a nerd ends up with THE girl.

 

[SpideyVille]

I notice that a lot of these things do happen in movies, but ironically, it happens either more in comedies or it is done for comedic effect. Like they wouldn't show someone pooping or waiting in line unless something funny is supposed to happen. It's very rare that they'd do it in a serious drama, possibly because it would kill tension. And it they ever do, it's usually because the script calls for it, i.e. the mass murderer kills the guy while he's taking a dump and is defenseless.

 

[GuardianofOa]

Perfect grammar. People do not speak clearly all the time unless they're on TV. Sometimes people hear different things in the midst of a conversation.

That usually doesn't happen in films unless its necessary for a character.

Have you ever seen a Stallone flick?

 

[CelticPredator]

I'll agree with Aesop on this one. Sure, anyone of us can end up with a girlfriend. But it's very rare when a nerd ends up with THE girl.

Who the **** is THE girl? Some idiot bimbo?

 

[Manic]

Who the **** is THE girl?

She's the "she" who said everything.

 

[JStorm]

You haven't seen the movie of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. There's a scene where they find a long line, Arthur says, "I'll handle this! I'm British!" and then proceeds to just wait in line.


I've seen the leg, the foot, in the chest but somehow surviving anyway...


That's the premise to Office Space.






Happens all the time in movies and TV shows about cops


Maximum Overdrive

I was just about to post the same idea - answers.

Also, for a person taking a ****, maybe not four minutes, but in Get Shorty there is a scene.

Most of what we post can be found. Serious.

 

[JAK®]

Somebody should make a movie where all these things happen.

 

[JStorm]

Somebody should make a movie where all these things happen.

It goes against the thread makers question, but in satire the 'Scary/Date/Hero/Disaster movies' do so.

 

[Optimus_Prime_]

Comics and books tend to be able to take more liberties with dialogue, moreso than movies and television. Written dialogue that is read by it's audience tends to be able to make use of more long-winded monologues and expositionary dialogue, so Batman can wax poetic about justice even while in the midst of a fist fight. In movies you almost have to break the fourth wall to get away with this kind of thing.

 

[redmarvel]

A woman shaving her legs in the shower and nicking herself. Never happens.

Women with ugly feet.

 

[B.A. Baracus]

a man making a move on a woman and the woman saying 'oh i can't i'm on my period'

Or as we say in my house 'the missus is periodically challenged'

 

[JAK®]

A woman shaving her legs in the shower and nicking herself. Never happens.

Women with ugly feet.

Or ugly women in general.