22 Details That Always Take People Out of a Movie

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22 Details That Always Take People Out of a Movie

You know how it goes: You’re munching popcorn, the Dolby Surround Sound is bumping, the good guy is exploding his way through the plot. So far, so good. Then you notice something. It’s a little thing, a tiny detail you probably never would have seen if your eyes hadn’t wandered between car chases. But it’s something that would never make any sense in the universe of the movie. Of course, we all agree to suspend a level of disbelief when we walk into a theater, but this is too much. It just totally takes you out of the movie.

“What gets me is when they fuck up continuity and the glass they are drinking from or food is different from shot to shot (but) the conversation is seamless,” user calliopewoman told r/AskReddit. This happens all the time because it’s impossible to maintain that kind of continuity with moving parts over multiple takes, but “the early seasons Sopranos is bad with this.” 

They then asked, “What is one detail from a movie that complete(ly) broke the immersion for you?” and their fellow Redditors quickly pointed out all kinds of cinematic brokenness.

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stool2stash 4mo ago Every desert/jungle movie, just barely surviving for days, but the hero is always clean shaved.
howolowitz 4mo ago When i found out that in most movies the head rests are removed
xtimewitchx 4mo ago When the driver is turning to talk to the passenger for way too long long! It's not safe driving!
HeartonSleeve1989 4mo ago Stop fucking touching shit with your bare hands when you're on an alien moon/planet!!!!!
alisonwrote 4mo ago When someone's texting or using the phone and the app doesn't look right. I'm looking at you, Kelly Rowland using Excel to text. Or when they're using exaggerated or outdated texting abbreviations
Icy_River_8259 4mo ago I once read somewhere that in movies no one ever says goodbye when they hang up the phone and I haven't been able to stop noticing it since.
darcmosch 4mo ago Ever since someone pointed out how perfectly done up women are when they just wake up, | can't not see it.
AdmirableMemory860 4mo ago When they get up close and personal the moment they wake up in bed (talking while closely facing eachother / kissing, etc). All I can think about is the terrible morning breath everyone has when they wake up.
oxy-normal 4mo ago When actors light a cigarette, take a few puffs then throw half of it away. Those things are expensive and if you're addicted to nicotine there's no way you're not smoking the whole thing.
Kinda_Constipated . 4mo ago How nice everyone's houses and apartments are. Like no, you're broke. Or they have a job that would never be able to afford that much home anyway. Like teachers, nurses, student's working part time, etc.
NinthTide 4mo ago A bit less obvious: when people carry coffins, they are clearly light, empty boxes. A coffin with a person inside is massively heavy. That's why they shuffle their feet and take tiny steps.
OkFury 4mo ago Whenever the cop sees signs of violence or danger, and proceeds to investigate without calling for backup.
antruffino 4mo ago Guns are very loud. I've always wanted to see a movie where they have a gun fight in a medium sized metal warehouse followed by all of the dialog being yelled because everyone's ears are ringing lol.
thewarriorpoet23 4mo ago A badly done cgi character or scene. Doesn't matter the movie or whose in it but you get to the big battle scene or dramatic speech etc and a character appears who is so badly done it throws you out of the moment. See the rock in the mummy returns
Terpsichorean_Wombat 4mo ago Animals are terrible actors. The horses in Rise of the Planet of the Apes are super obviously not facing an onslaught of apes on the Golden Gate Bridge. They're rearing when someone asks them to, but they have nice happy ears. Ditto a cat in Grimm that was allegedly ferocious; they had the audio track of an angry, hissing cat, but it was obviously just chilling in its carrier looking curiously at people.
royal_rose_ 4mo ago I'm currently a freelance baker. I love it. I bake a lot. I've worked in restaurants in the past. Any movie or tv show where they are showing a chef or baker breaks illusions for me so quickly. Usually it's not knowing how to hold a chefs knife properly (looking at you Friends) but so often when it's a woman baker they are wearing heels with their hair down, and a perfectly place stripe of flour on their cheek. My friend was watching some hallmark movie a few weeks ago, the main character was a professional baker
carnutes787 4mo ago in some horror/crime films, so often a victim is jabbed with a hypodermic needle and then are affected by the compound a couple seconds later (or even instantly) two parts of this really take me out, one: intramuscular injection is not easy, depending on the needle size and viscosity of the solution it can take a full minute to inject. two: intramuscular injection slowly enters the bloodstream, so even if you did manage to inject a struggling victim with a tranquilizer intramuscularly it would take a couple of minutes at least before they were immobilized i think from
verminiusrex 4mo ago Cash has weight and volume. $1 million in $100 bills weighs 22 lbs and takes up 4. cubic feet (about 3 liquid gallons of volume). So in a heist movie, you have people running around with a gym bag supposedly holding $10 million (which would be the size of an oil drum) or tossing a backpack of $5 million like it's a sack of marshmallows rather than 110 lbs of paper.
0 4mo ago Wilhelm screams. The reason is that it's so commonplace it passively reminds you this is a film I remember watching Mad God (don't watch it I couldn't sleep for 2 days) and I was really immersed... until I heard the fucking wilhelm scream Directors need to let the actors just make a scream it can't be that hard
JoeCoolEats 4mo ago Pretty people everywhere. Struggling single father of 3 in 1920s NYC... perfectly aligned, bright white teeth and a great hair cut...just like all 3 kids. 30 something female dying of an illness...who looks like they just got back from Paris Fashion Week. Studio needs an older King Arthur... insert Brad Pitt..need a young King Arthur...insert Timothee Chamolot. Where's the Gandolfini's? Robin Williams? Buscemi's? Good in their own way but their roles have been filled with IPhone Kids
DesignerComment 4mo ago The Dewey Decimal call number for occult books is NOT 666! A book with a 666 call number is about fucking pottery.

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