A lot of us love to watch movies and TV shows as it helps to escape reality for a little while. But what if the things that are portrayed in the movies are so far from reality that it even makes it annoying to watch the rest of the movie? Someone online was curious to know these annoying little things that look so good on the screen but are actually nearly impossible to do or just don’t work that way in real life, so they asked Reddit users to share their remarks. The question “What looks fun in movies, but in real life is miserable?” received 6.5k answers that included things such as laying in tall grass, having to perform CPR on someone, or portraying difficult professions as an easy and cool job. Which one of these things mentioned do you find true? Or maybe there is something that is missing from this list? Don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below!
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#1
High school
#2
CPR. on TV it’s just a fun cutesy little water coughing thing that you recover from immediately and in real life it involves breaking ribs and maybe dying anyway
#3
Getting knocked out with a blow to the head.Movies: like waking up from a nap.Real life: pain, headache, problems for months if not years.
#4
Sleeping in the tall grass. I’m sure you’ve seen the memes but in reality, those fields would be infested with bugs and they’d more than likely bite you
#5
“Nightclubs.””What?!””Nightclubs, in the movies. It looks cool. You meet friends there, instead of grumpy strangers, and you have fun group interactions.””What?!”
#6
A feature-length romantic drama filled with conflict and angst that, in real life, could’ve been resolved with 5 minutes of discussion and a phone call.
#7
Digging a hole. Cartoons make it look so easy and quick. In reality hours of back-breaking work will get you six inches down.
#8
Hanging off a cliff with one hand, attempting to pull yourself up…..while someone else is hanging on you also
#9
Shooting a gun indoors with no ear protection
#10
Carrying and drinking hard liquor out of a flask. In movies, it looks kind of normal but in real life, you just look like an alcoholic.
#11
Stalking women.I mean, surprise elaborate romantic gestures from a complete stranger.(She just calls it “stalking” because she doesn’t know me and can’t see how romantic and handsome and awesome I am in my head.)
#12
Elaborate pranks. Great for comedies…and also great way to f**k up relationships.
#13
Kissing while treading water. Good luck not kicking each other, knocking heads, or getting a mouthful of snot.
#14
When superheroes moving at a very very high rate of speed rescue people just in time when in reality if they did that they would probably break the persons back and neck and various other bones and give them brain damage or a concussion from they brain hitting the inside of their skull or just flat out kill them from moving them so quickly from a dead stop.
#15
Military movies where there is always action happening. Really? Really Hollywood? Are you sure people don’t sit around 95% of the time doing nothing?
Never miss a story that brings joy to the world.
#16
Montages where they’re working hard, especially if it’s a “glow-up” thing full of exercise and dieting and self-improvement. In reality it kinda sucks. There’s no fast-forward, no silly music.
#17
Theme parks!! They don’t show that you have to wait over an hour+ for the best ride(s) and how expensive the food cost in there.
#18
My dad was a police officer (with a damn straight moral compass, I *know* what you’re thinking.) and he said that it was pretty much 80% paperwork.
#19
Fighting. Srsly, don’t do it. I have six felony charges and can not do anything that I wanted to do in younger years. No one likes an aggressive person. You’re not gonna get any babes, or whatever.
#20
Walking away slowly from a nearby explosion
#21
Fighting on top of a moving train. Always make me think of the Archer episode where he was so excited to fight a guy but soon found out the reality of it really sucks!!
#22
Hanging up on people. In movies, it makes you look badass and mysterious. In real life, it makes you look like an inconsiderate a*****e and will prompt a “wtf happenned” callback.
#23
Moving, painting and fixing up houses/apartments
#24
Conversations. Always have the perfect thing to say and everything flows. A lot of convos in movies would be considered very abnormal in real life if you really picture it.
#25
Owning an artisan bakery / coffee shop.
#26
Hacking and software development in general. God I wish it was actually as badass as people make it out to be.
#27
A vacation with little kids.
#28
Smashing a window with your fist
#29
Spontaneously breaking into song in the middle of public.
#30
A few people have said fighting, but I feel like it should be specified that *winning* a fight is not a fun experience irl. Most people in actual serious fights aren’t gonna have some kind of plot-relevant, narratively satisfying thing on their mind that makes the inevitable bruises/fractures feel like they were worth it for the sake of justice or something, and not just more avoidable suffering that you wish you could’ve stayed home for instead.
#31
Kiss after waking up
#32
Surfing on the top of a van like in the iconic movie Teen Wolf. In high school my friends and I tried this while driving on the beach, so as not to get dead. Well, I fell off anyways and hit my head. I also broke a toe, of all things.
#33
Getting caught in the rain, especially in romcoms
#34
Going to Las Vegas.
#35
Living paycheck to paycheck or not making enough to survive in the city you live in. Having a s**t load of roommates.
#36
Archeology and paleontology.They only show the glamorous artifact/fossil reveals. A few swishes of a brush and *bam*- priceless relic!Forget all the tedious groundwork, painstaking site processing, and site prep. Not to mention you’ll be lucky to find anything easily recognizable. Hope you like bone and pottery shards or even literal ancient garbage.
#37
Stake outs. Tried it once. So boring.
#38
Step parenting
#39
Being an attorney
#40
Jumping a car from one high rise to another.
#41
Working in a lab. Wish I hadn’t done STEM. The money and job opportunities are c**p. In the UK anyway.
#42
Living on a desert island
#43
War and spying
#44
Cramped frat parties. I went to one thinking it would be a great first time experience, but I really just ended up hating how stuffy the place is and how drunk some people can get.
#45
Anything put in a montage
#46
Super hero landings.
#47
Going to a bar/club. Never my thing.
#48
Overtaking ships as a pirate