Lately, u/fudgiethequail requested r/moviecritic, “What’s probably the most unrealistic portrayal of a career in a film?” And we thought we might share a number of the greatest responses:
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“Considerably lower than 1% of the work that attorneys do is the precise work executed in court docket, and in civil circumstances, there are just about by no means surprises. You may have virtually actually violated a discovery rule, lied in a deposition, or failed to totally reply a discovery request if one thing shocking occurs in a civil trial.”
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“I don’t assume James Bond represents MI6 in any respect.”
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“Airport safety officers in Carry-On – they appear to run the entire search lane single handed and get lost every time they really feel prefer it.”
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“Indiana Jones – I have been doing beginner archaeology for a couple of years now and I’ve by no means bought to discover a temple stuffed with loss of life traps.”
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“Ductwork in any film/television present the place anybody crawls round inside it. I’ve been a sheet steel employee for 28 years and chuckle on the lack of screws, sealers, dampers, and so on {that a} HVAC system would have. Sorry Die Laborious.”
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“Any time I see a journalist in a significant metropolis with a super-swank high-rise condominium, I cringe.”
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“Nobody who works IT in motion pictures ever makes use of a mouse. They simply dramatically sort on keyboards whereas inexperienced textual content flies throughout the display.”
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“Chef with Jon Favreau. A chef in Los Angeles who speaks no Spanish and even has a Cuban ex-wife.”
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“Each film a few trainer has like eight youngsters per class they usually appear to be free to wander the constructing every time they need.”
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“At any time when they use defibrillators on individuals and not using a pulse.”
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“The Thomas Crown Affair. The principle curator of the gallery mistook watercolours for an oil portray. I haven’t stopped being mad about this.”
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“Army personnel in just about any film the place the navy is not the first focus. Like in Transformers, you may have actually younger individuals in senior stage positions and ranks, and older individuals in decrease ranks. You will have somebody achieve three ranks for collaborating in an essential operation, whereas in the actual world it takes years earlier than you are thought-about for it.”
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“Hackers. No, they don’t sort away at ferocious speeds and crack a system’s safety in beneath a minute: it could possibly take hours or days.
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“Archers. They weren’t lithe males with small arms – likelihood is that they had the most important arms and shoulders within the navy on common. In addition they could not maintain a bow at full draw for ages like we see in movie/TV stand offs: two to 3 seconds and it will get too painful to carry.”
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