40 Things That Only Happen In The Movies

Did you ever notice that certain things only happen in the movies, but never happen in real life? For example:

  1. It is always possible to find a parking spot directly outside or opposite the building you are visiting.
  2. When paying for a taxi, don’t look at your wallet as you take out a note. Just grab one out at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.
  3. Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at the precise moment it’s aired.
  4. Creepy music (or satanic chanting) coming from a graveyard should always be closely investigated.
  5. Any lock can be picked with a credit card or paperclip in seconds. UNLESS it’s the door to a burning building with a child inside.
  6. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps.
  7. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red digital displays so you know exactly when they are going to explode.
  8. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to learn to speak German. Simply speaking English with a German accent will do. Similarly, when they are alone, all German soldiers prefer to speak English to each other.
  9. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off. Even while scuba diving.
  10. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window of any building in Paris.
  11. Any police officer about to retire from the force will more often than not die on their last day (especially if their family have planned a party). (Caveat: Detectives can only solve a case after they have been suspended from duty).
  12. Getaway cars never start first go. But all cop cars do. (They will also slide to a dramatic stop in the midst of a crime scene).
  13. If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises wearing their most revealing underwear.
  14. On a police stake-out, the action will only ever take place when food is being consumed and scalding hot coffees are perched precariously on the dashboard…
  15. All grocery shopping involves the purchase of French loaves which will be placed in open brown paper bags (Caveat: when said bags break, only fruit will spill out).
  16. Cars never need fuel (unless they’re involved in a pursuit).
  17. If you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts, your opponents will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around you in a threatening manner until you have defeated their predecessor.
  18. If a microphone is turned on it will immediately feedback.
  19. Guns are like disposable razors. If you run out of bullets, just throw the gun away. you will always find another one.
  20. All single women have a cat.
  21. Cars will explode instantly when struck by a single bullet.
  22. No matter how savagely a spaceship is attacked, its internal gravity system is never damaged.
  23. If being chased through a city you can usually take cover in a passing St Patrick’s Day parade – at any time of the year.
  24. The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. Nobody will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building undetected.
  25. You will survive any battle in any war UNLESS you show someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.
  26. Prostitutes always look like Julia Roberts or Jamie Lee Curtis. They have expensive clothes and nice apartments but no pimps. They are friendly with the shopkeepers in their neighbourhood who don’t mind at all what the girl does for a living.
  27. A single match is usually sufficient to light up a room the size of a football stadium.
  28. It is not necessary to say “Hello” or “Goodbye” when beginning a telephone conversation. A disconnected call can always be restored by frantically beating the cradle and saying “Hello? Hello?” repeatedly.
  29. One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at once (this is known as Stallone’s Law).
  30. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in you room will still be visible, just slightly bluish.
  31. Plain or even ugly girls can become movie star pretty simply by removing their glasses and rearranging their hair.
  32. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their enemies with complicated devices incorporating fuses, pulleys, deadly gases, lasers and man-eating sharks.
  33. All beds have special L-shaped sheets that reach to armpit level on a woman but only up to the waist of the man lying beside her.
  34. Anyone can land a 747 as long as there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.
  35. During all police investigations it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.
  36. You can always find a chainsaw when you need one.
  37. Most musical instruments (especially wind instruments and accordions) can be played without moving your fingers.
  38. In Middle America, all gas station attendants have red handkerchiefs hanging out of their back pockets.
  39. All teen house parties have one of every stereotypical subculture present (even people who aren’t liked and would never get invited to parties).
  40. Trucks use their horns at random (no hang on, that happens in real life too!).
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41) everybody knows exactly what color wire to cut in order to disable a bomb
42) in chases cars will always crash into a parked car causing them to barrel roll and land upside down
43) in almost every bedroom scene the girl says, "this is my first time..." and the man has all the experience
44) beautiful women are always killed in sexy relieving clothing or naked in the shower
45) anybody can dive through glass no matter how thick or how close they are to the glass, they also mange to break the whole pane without taking any damage from glass shards
46) nobody ever puts money in the meter upon parking
47) it only takes anybody a few minutes to get ready for anything
48) this is a good one, it always starts to rain really hard when someone dies that's close to the main character

In comedies when you free a bird or butterfly a huge bird will immediately come swooping down to gobble it up,
its funny because this actually happened to my cousin

People that always have sex never get diseases

if a kids parent dies they are never sad and act all happy and smart arse disobedient

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this is hilarious

You forgot this one:

All supermodel-looking girls are single and just waiting for the lead male character to ask them out. They're not currently with an abusive bf or anything! They're just there, single, lonely, and extremely attractive - and just apparently waiting for the lead character to come into their lives

There is only one black kid at the high school parties and he is always funny. When at parties we never actually see punch or someone spiking punch but every one is drunk.

Kids talk back and don't get smacked. They get a go to your room. When girls share a room someone always stole the goddarn lipgloss.

Killers and Police always say something corny.

There's a rich white man in every movie. Or just a plain old white man

6 year olds always know how to program a computer or have siblings that act like the hate him/her

When somebody says call me but obviously doesnt know their number. Or when your running and the person catches up with you but somehow you escape and save the damsel in distress.

Not to mention no one ever has to go to the bathroom.

Extra Terrestrials show up only in movies.

people always dial numbers when they call

people at the other end pick up at once

oh and when ever its a horrow moment its the funiest thing- either in the shower behind the curtain or when the lights go out and they just HAVE to go in the basement

the azn guy always knows martial arts

Awesome! I love it. I reposted this in my blog as well I did give you credit.

when a collage or high school student says party at my house somehow everybody knows where they live.

Everyone always knows were a stranger they have just met lives.

most of those were great. some were just plain dumb though

(1) No matter how intense two main characters are passionate in bed the night before, when the woman wakes up in the morning her hair and makeup are perfect.
(2) If the man doesn't want to be with the woman (no matter how gorgeous she is) he tries to get up, tip-toe around the bedroom and grab his pants and shoes to go into the next room.
(3) If the man does want the woman, when they wake up he is gazing at her lovingly, laying beside her.

I had a friend, Rick Perry, who died in the World Trade center attack in 2001 who was a police officer who had filed his retirement papers that morning and responded to the call because they needed extra help.

That doesn't only happen in the movies.

(1) No matter how intense two main characters are passionate in bed the night before, when the woman wakes up in the morning her hair and makeup are perfect.
(2) If the man doesn't want to be with the woman (no matter how gorgeous she is) he tries to get up, tip-toe around the bedroom and grab his pants and shoes to go into the next room.
(3) If the man does want the woman, when they wake up he is gazing at her lovingly, laying beside her.

I had a friend, Rick Perry, who died in the World Trade center attack in 2001 who was a police officer who had filed his retirement papers that morning and responded to the call because they needed extra help.

That doesn't only happen in the movies.

big businessmen are always trying to take over the world,religious people are always lunatics and every gov't conspiracy is right wing.......

Hold on...
22. No matter how savagely a spaceship is attacked, its internal gravity system is never damaged.

Since when did we develop internal gravity systems or have a spaceship attacked irl??

Always lock the door when taking a shower or they kill you when you're shampooing your hair

Any fight at a wedding reception will always result in someone crashing into the wedding cake.

Every scientist is an expert in all sciences; there are no specialists.

If you have to leave your home in a hurry, you don't have to bother closing the door behind you: any burglars in the area will somehow know you're already distressed and they'll leave your house alone.

It is illegal for two clashing swords not to emit a shower of sparks.

In a restaurant, important news always arrives less than a minute after your food does.

Bystanders are much more susceptible to bullet wounds than heroes.

The bad guys are always equipped with special bullets that can only hit railings.

The waiting rooms for hospitals' emergency departments are always empty apart from one drunk guy sleeping it off.

Computer monitors in police stations run on magic free electricity, which means that they can be left on all the time without incurring any cost to the cash-strapped department.

I totally disagree with the hospital emergency rooms comment. Especially on TV, they are always cram-packed with several doctors and dozens of nurses running to and fro attending gun shot victims and people involved in car crashes.

In real life, the waiting rooms are usually empty and even if there's one other person you still have to wait 20 minutes to even be admitted. There's seemingly only one doctor on duty, and it takes an hour at the soonest for he/she to even see you.

If shot with a bullet you will always fly backwards

If two people are racing (main and enemy) it will end in one or two ways the main character wins, the enemy wins but is caught cheating, or the enemy wins but the main character gets revenge.

The most important guards to king are very easy to kill

hmmm one more you can add is that double roll only found in movies..

You forgot the #1 thing about movies or tv.....no one EVER has to go to the bathroom...unless they are going to throw up....

When police is chasing someone,the one always,gets away,and all the police cars are smashing with eachother,none of them is using the break :)

When experiencing a bad dream, the character ALWAYS sits bolt upright in bed, gasping for breath, and sweating profusely.

It's rains all the time in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. If it's nighttime, anywhere, the streets are always clean, wet, and free of debris and potholes.

A cough is always the sign of a fatal disease.
A pretty girl can become a renowned physicist before she's turned 22.

Dogs and children know immediately that someone is the bad guy.

Whatever you're doing in the bedroom, you never lock the door.

in an action movie, theres always a scene (mostly including explosions)repeated in different angles

1.when it is dark it always seems to poar with rain in action movies
2.nomatter what when the wife comes in its obvios she is gonna say 'hunnie im home'
when it is obvios she is home
3.actors always slam house/car doors!!! wonder they dont break lol

when a car gets shot it is completly bullet proof but when someone crashes both cars explode into 10000 pieces lol x

1. When a girl heart is broken or she is sad, the weather suddenly changes and rain starts to pure and u might find her kneeling in the rain crying.

2. Guys only seem to wear white under-wears that always look brand-new.

3. A little girl on a swing with her back turned, when her face is revealed she is a zombie.

4. Your hands are broken over and over in the same fight and they still seem perfectly fine to continue fight with.

Any time Stadium lights are turned on, it's with a huge knife switch, followed by a loud bang that reverberates throughout the stadium.

#34 CAN happen, but historically never has. This was demonstrated on "Mythbusters" using a sim. It can also be landed automatically, as someone else here has pointed out. All of 3 or 4 switches need to be thrown. When will there be an "Airplane!" sequel in which alcohol, not food poisoning, incapacitates both pilots?

Anyone who coughs (once is enough), has longcancer
Anyone who forgets anything has alzheimer
Anyone who had a headache, has a tumor

It takes Only a few keystrokes to hack into a government computer. Guns never run out of ammo when shooting henchmen but when shot at the boss the gun is ALWAYS OUT. A single man can endure hundreds of gun shots, punches, stabs, landings from high places, but it only takes one shot, punch, stab, or fall...to kill a bad guy. You can survive a direct attack from an rpg if you hide behide a sheet of metal.Cars can be used to knock down a helicoper if your out of bullets (lol die hard) THERE IS NO POINT IN CHECKING IF THE BAD GUY IS DEAD! There is always a gun in reach when you fall onto the ground. There is always a fruit, vegetable, or any other kind of stand that gets knocked over in a car chase. The funny,sexy, or black person is always the first to die. The bad guy always dies in some cool,strange,funny, or ironic way. Any one, even without ever using a gun will be able to shoot perfectly.

yeah the martial arts fighting one pisses me off too! There's a trailer for a new game on PS3 where it boasts of having 1000 enemies on screen (whats it called? sacred blade or something?) The enemies do that exact thing in that! As for if you've had #18 happen in real life, that's cos you're a dumbass who can't work a P.A properly, never happens to me, that's why you have a level check BEFORE you even OPEN whatever mic-based offering you have arranged. good list tho, nice and short at 40, i've seen similar lists run into the hundreds!