Okay, so this is the third and final part in the three part series of ‘things that are almost always portrayed unrealistically in movies’. I have been having a great deal of fun writing these and I can tell from the comments that you guys are enjoying them as well.

So, without further adieu, let me talk about the final four points. I am sure there are tons more that you guys have in mind and I would love to hear them in the comments section down below.

People Meeting

In the movies we often see one person suggesting the other to meet up or to go on a date and the other person simply says "cool, alright, I'll see you then!" without ever asking where the meeting or the date is supposed to happen, on what date, at what time and how are they both going to reach there.

And then, as if by magic, the two of them show up at the exact same time in a place that they somehow magically guessed. Come on, are you kidding me? That's not how things work in real life, do they?

In the real life two people seldom meet without negotiating in lesser-to-great detail the whereabouts of the meeting as well as the rough time of the meeting.

And even then, after all things discussed, people are almost always late in arriving, with one person usually having to wait for another unlike in the movies where there is no concept of 'late' and there's also no such thing as traffic and public transportation runs perfectly on time and people by nature are super punctual.

Driving and Parking

In the movies, a driver, usually the male lead, would narrate his entire life story to the passenger, usually a beautiful girl or lady sitting next to him, all the while looking at her and not at the road ahead as if there exists no traffic in his world.

In the real world it would be a miracle if someone, who stares at the passenger sitting next to him for that long, wouldn't crash into something - a car or an object. And it is impossible in real life to not have panic attacks in such situations when your eyes are off the road ahead for a few seconds.

It's just crazy how movies make driving look so easy when in reality even the most expert of drivers have to be focused while driving and have to keep track of so many elements like traffic, lanes etc.

Movies also have a thing for that 'always available' parking spot. There is always an empty parking spot waiting for the characters, always, doesn't matter where they drive up to - whether it's someone's home or shop or a hotel or a courtroom.

Medical Science

In many movies, especially the ones about war against a country or humanity as a whole, we see the populations of entire towns and cities get devastated by biological organisms like lethal bacteria and viruses.

Then the police and other agencies look for survivors and when they find them, they would take them to medical scientists and ask the scientists to examine them and find a cure as soon as possible to prevent more towns and cities from getting devastated.

And then the medical scientists magically whip up antibodies and before we know it, they will find a cure. Like, only within a few hours after survivors are brought to them. Too good to be true? You bet!

In the real world, coming up with cures to even the simplest of biological problems, like for example to a new type of plant spore that gives allergies to people, would take months and months, forget finding cures in just hours!

Explosions

In the movies explosions are almost always bigger than they are supposed to be and they are always accompanied by a huge fireball.

We see people throwing grenades from one end of a street to the other and the grenade explodes with a fireball and not just that, it usually sets a couple of vehicles and a nearby house on fire as well. So, so hilariously absurd as though it wasn't a grenade but a freaking cruise missile!

Most explosions in real life hardly ever generate fireballs and are usually accompanied by a cloud of dust and smoke and, of course, lethal shock waves which do all the damage. It is this shockwave thing that film-makers don't ever understand.

In the movies, we are made to believe that fire does all the damage but in reality it is the generated shockwaves that do all the destruction. And real world explosions are way too loud and destructive. Our hero's ears would probably be ringing for half an hour if he were to explode a grenade just a few meters away from him in real life!