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Not so "modern" but in movies since the 70s at least....
A person gets a phone call.
They say "hello."
No one is there.
They say "hello? hello? hello! Hello! Who is there? HELLO!"
We all know in real life, we say one "hello" and if no one speaks immediately, we hang up quickly because it'll be a telemarker using a computer dialer. In movies, of course, it'll be a killer or a spirit returned from the grave.
Oh, this one is older, but you still see it in movies:
Person is on the phone.
Call gets disconnected.
Person hits the "hang up" button a bunch of times: click, click, click.
Hello? Hello?
Because this worked once with telegraph machines, so it must work with modern phones.
Another one:
Whenever anyone comes home from the grocery store, they have a brown paper bag with either a long "baguette" loaf of bread or something green & leafy sticking out. Sometimes it'll be both. (Then you can take TWO drinks!) No one in movies puts their green leafy produce in that little plastic produce bag before it goes into the grocery bag, and they don't care about germs getting on their produce or the baguette.
People getting into cars and didn't notice there's someone hiding in the backseat. Really? Ever try doing this in real life? I can't help but look into the backseat when unlocking my car.
I like this one the best because it is so, so true. I always think, is it because I was raised in Chicago? I also always lock my car doors when I am driving as well as when I leave my car unattended. Hey, you never know!
Whenever someone is running away from a monster, zombie, killer, etc, they find an unlocked car, jump inside, and find spare keys up in the sun visor. That would be like leaving your house key under the mat.
How about the college/university graduation that only has like 100 people, grads and audience combined? Any movie with a university graduation makes the crowd weirdly small. I went to a small undergrad college, with about 1200 people in my class. But all of us, plus all the parents and other attendees, added up to several thousand people, and the seats took up the whole main quad.
Similarly, every movie with an outdoor wedding usually only has about 60 people in attendance. In real life, even a small wedding has about 200 people. Now that I think about it, movies always seem to have outdoor weddings, when real folks usually have indoor weddings. The only movie I recall with indoor weddings was Four Weddings and a Funeral!
How about the college/university graduation that only has like 100 people, grads and audience combined? Any movie with a university graduation makes the crowd weirdly small. I went to a small undergrad college, with about 1200 people in my class. But all of us, plus all the parents and other attendees, added up to several thousand people, and the seats took up the whole main quad.
Similarly, every movie with an outdoor wedding usually only has about 60 people in attendance. In real life, even a small wedding has about 200 people. Now that I think about it, movies always seem to have outdoor weddings, when real folks usually have indoor weddings. The only movie I recall with indoor weddings was Four Weddings and a Funeral!
I always wonder about movies where the main characters don't seem to have any people in their lives other than their coworkers or their wacky best friends. They're getting married, and they don't have parents who want to be involved? Cousins? College roommates?
Also, whenever anyone falls (or is pushed) out of a window, they always end up face up on top of a car.
A woman sitting up in bed after a night of sex, and covering her breasts with the sheet. Within the context of the plot, the only other person in the room is the guy with whom she just enjoyed a night of wild, unbridled sex. Why is she suddenly becoming so modest that she feels the need to hide her breasts from him?
#1- When a marital ceremony is interpreted by the man she is secretly in love with at the very last second.
#2-People waking up in the morning with their hair and makeup done.
#3-Guy sitting a bar drinking and is the bar is always slow and never has to wait.
Whenever someone is running away from a monster, zombie, killer, etc, they find an unlocked car, jump inside, and find spare keys up in the sun visor. That would be like leaving your house key under the mat.
I'll have to go back and rewatch a bunch of movies to find specific examples. But it's happened too much in my experience. Mostly horror movies from the 70s and 80s I would guess, since I haven't paid much attention to newer examples of the genre.
-The documentary style films where the cameraman never has a shaky moment.
-The hot girl always gets with the ugly dude who has no money, car, etc
-Kids in the dorm rooms that are nicer then any dorm room I have ever seen.
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