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What do movies always get wrong about your job/hobby?

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TL:DR: Everything? Like, literally everything.
If it's about driving? They're looking everywhere except the road in front of them
Computers? It's cringe, all I will say
Flying? Not even close
Brushing teeth? Put some tooth paste FFS!
Sex, perhaps? As bad as porn videos are at showing realistic sex situations, movies and especially TV shows are typically way worse with all the requirements to not accidentally show a nipple, omg!
Martial arts and fighting? The worst offenders. After twenty punches to the chest that will have broken half of the ribs, the protagonists now suddenly finds the strength in thinking about keeping his little girl safe and now he beats up 20 guys with those broken ribs
Being punched unconscious or getting some chloroform and they wake up the next day? Lolololollll. Humans are notoriously hard to keep them "out" without killing them, it's why anesthetists are paid so well, it's a very complicated job. When you're out from an impact to the head, you need medical attention, you likely have a minor amount of brain damage. If you're out for more than ten seconds, it's brain damage for sure. If you're out for over a minute, you're likely not waking up with full abilities, you're likely going to be a vegetable at best
Okay, doctors then? Saving a patient's life with the buzzer? Yeah no. When the heart stops, that defibrillator won't make it "go" again, the defib actually stops it in case of heart rithm problems. Also, CPR outside a hospital will result in death for about 90% of the cases, give or take, and Har % goes up by another 2 after 3 weeks later. The tiny % that does survive likely will have issues ranging from benign to being a benign vegetable.
- Hollywood is a facsimile of reality that now we are being punished for not conforming to, despite it being illusion
  Modern western culture worships image over substance, and Hollywood is 100% image
  
  The Rehearsal is the greatest analysis of the relationship of movie, TV and reality ever put to film. It's like an adaptation of Baudrillard Simulacres et simulation. The simulacra turns into the reality that reality is forced to conform to. Pure philosophical musings on the wildest most ridiculous scene premises. It strips LA film culture naked and ridicules it without any sort of shame.
  
  you have me intrigued
- All of physics. Especially anything involving characters falling, lasers, explosions, firearms, and any physics in space (sound, motion, temperature, black holes).
  Not that it's known physics, but time travel falls into this category too. Not the time travel itself, that's just suspension of disbelief, but having time travel mechanics be internally consistent. It's difficult to do well.
  
  It took me getting obsessed with Kerbal Space Program to figure out my understanding of orbital physics was absolutely ridiculously bad
  "What do you mean you have to go sideways to go up?!"
  
  Have you watched The Expanse? I've seen some physicists talk it up for realism. At least as real as a show like that can be.
  
  Yeah, I love that show. They do a really good job staying grounded in real physics when they're not in the fiction side of sci-fi. IMO, their space mechanics are unmatched in sci-fi.
  I love lots of franchises that also do it poorly, but I'm always pleased when they go the extra mile.
- I think you really nailed it to the wall for all to see!

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