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Entire plot lines hinging on people not explaining themselves which would take about 5 seconds.

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Animes abuse this trope all the time. Plot only happens because MC don’t say what he wants/feels.

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I think it’s more the miscommunication trope, which is kind of a sub-trope of the idiot plot

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Great video by osp on the topic if you prefer to consume your information that way.

https://youtu.be/3-2NH-NVePw

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The only good example I can think of where people actually explain themselves is Agents of SHIELD, which isn’t even a movie. It’s amazing. She doesn’t doubt his loyalty for a second and understands, given their situation, why he had to keep it a secret from her. You still get drama, but it’s drama from everyone being on the same dramatic page.

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So… every season of Bridgerton?

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Wait you think that’s unrealistic? Tell me you’re single without telling me you’re single

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I’m a software engineer, so basically anything involving software/hacking. It’s always inaccurate. (Because accurate hacking is incredibly boring.)

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Except for that one scene in The Matrix Reloaded where we get to see actual vulnerabilities exploited.

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That looks like the closest to realistic hacking I’ve seen, until you get to the graphical password box that starts flashing “access granted”. None of my SSH servers have ever done that.

But, credit where credit is due, at least she’s using realistic hacking tools.

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I’m pretty sure we can do this with a bash script. Now I want it.

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Mr Robot has some pretty accurate hacking and social engineering in it.

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It’d be remiss not to mention Mr. Robot somewhere in this conversation.

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I’ve never seen that one. I think that’s my new favorite line.

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Mr. Robot

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So you don’t type 90 wpm your way into the mainframe for work? You might need chew some more gum and change your laptop theme to black and green.

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No, you need two people typing on the same keyboard to prevent a hacker from infiltrating their system.

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Such a good show. :D

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People driving while staring intently at their passenger for way too long.

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and the driver jerkily moving the steering wheel like they’re on a rally course instead of most likely just a long straight road

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I have vague memories as a kid of my dad doing this IRL and my mom occasionally telling him to look at the road. But idk if I just made up the memories or not. I guess my point is maybe these people do exist out there? Lol!

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Cutting the palm to spill blood. Typically followed by a huge battle scene where a gash in your palm isn’t going to affect your sword play/battle prowess

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Bad physics. Totally pulls me out of immersion.

No, Captain America cannot lean back and hold a helicopter that is lifting off. It doesn’t matter how strong he is - he will be lifted once there is enough force generated from the propellers. Basically anything Batman does that involves gravity in the Nolan films is similar.

The magic I can get behind. The mutant stuff or dragons or even time travel in superhero movies doesn’t bother me. It’s the lack of sensible mechanics on an alleged Earth that I’m bothered by.

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Maybe Captain America’s real power is that he is really heavy.

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Yay! I’m a superhero!

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Variable density would be a really convenient (but weird) super power

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Only way to explain Thor hammer that can’t be lifted by others

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I get your point, but I will say the Captain America scene isn’t completely out of the realm of possibility. Cap weighs the helicopter down for a few seconds, and grabs a support beam for the helipad as soon as he can. If Cap can keep a grip on both the beam and the helicopter, then the propellers will only lift him if either Cap or the support beams break.

Of course, whether he should have had that much effect on the helicopter for those first few seconds is another matter entirely and I’m not enough of a physicist to make that call.

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It’s those first seconds I am referring to. The pole does make more sense to me. Also not a physicist, but it irks me just the same.

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Ant man surfing through pressurized water pipes. Would have been a lot more interesting and realistic as a scuba dive.

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If the railing was strong enough, seems possible.

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Yes! This seems like the right movie. For a few seconds before he grabs the pole, he does just lean back, right? That is the part that concerns me the most. At least this in the image seems doable if somebody is cap strong and angry.

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I don’t think he’s able to stop it by just leaning, I thought it was pulling him along.

Edit: yeah, doesn’t look like he’s stopped it till he grabs into the railing. https://youtu.be/1ccey7IJLCM

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Freaking Gravity…

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