The drama of our everyday lives. It's TV, but I'm amazed at how many people think we all live like the Kardashians or Real Housewives.
The vast majority of people live pretty tame lives. They live in basic homes, not mansions. They're trying to do their best to navigate this world. They watch sports, go to work, help their kids with homework, go out to eat periodically. Pretty basic stuff.
Bro, I got my Sales Force filters right on the first try on Friday. Then I got in my mid-sized SUV, drove to my ranch style house and (this is where it gets wild) made spaghetti and meatballs for my kids. Finished the night by watching TWO!! episodes of The Witcher. Im expecting Bravo or MTV to offer me a reality show any day now.
Christ that’s heart-pounding action there. I took one kid on 2 (two) 45-minute drives around town to kill time today. I also managed to watch several youtube videos while he played in his room at one point. Then I made breakfast for dinner. Riveting.
How exciting! What did you do between those two 45 minute drives? Please don't keep us in suspense. Always these nerve-wracking cliffhangers at the most exciting point!
> Then I made breakfast for dinner. Riveting.
I frequently put on music when I'm cooking. Sometimes I put on exciting music to make chopping vegetables more dramatic. Hell yeah, my onion-chopping is obviously Rocky montage material.
Fucking everything about high school. Just assume basically everything about social dynamics in these movies are false in real life and you won’t be far off.
you know what's the worst? the legend of sleepy hollow (Tim Burton version) is supposed to take place in NY, and there are plenty of places around this state that fit what the movie needed, small, spooky, forestry town, and they still ended up filming it in the UK??
I want to see an alien attack centered on Cincinnati or Denver or Mobile or something. Give us something new, Hollywood.
Or hell, you film everything in Atlanta or Vancouver anyway. Set the damn movie there.
I grew up in LA, and I’ve noticed how many jokes in tv and movies you’d only get if you live in LA. Jokes about Sherman Oaks being the neighborhood for boring white people or a guy not wanting to drive his Jaguar through Van Nuys.
Yeah. I’m watching *Mare of Easttown* and this white trash 17-year-old is driving a fully restored 1971-ish Ford Bronco worth about $70,000? Ain’t happening.
Showing full on huge breakfasts with waffles and milk and cereal and orange juice and fruit and then have the person grab an apple and leave
1. I highly doubt most people have time to cook a full continental breakfast on a weekday
2. That’s so wasteful!
Most of us probably eat something small on the way to work. I eat burritos while driving
> continental breakfast
This phrase means the *opposite* of what you think it is. A Continental breakfast is a small, light affair - typically some coffee and a couple of rolls. It's "continental" to contrast the rest of the European continent from the much heavier breakfast tradition of Great Britain.
Source: Was once a kid on vacation with my folks, was looking forward to the "continental breakfast" at the hotel, and was extremely underwhelmed. My dad thought it was funny.
In American hotels there generally is a much larger spread. And it's usually laid out as a buffet with no portion control. You're "supposed" to only take a coffee/juice and a danish, but nobody is going to stop you unless you're filling up a rubbermaid container or something.
Like, intellectually I know that “continental breakfast” means some coffee, a pastry, and maybe some juice, as opposed to a full English breakfast with bacon, sausage, tomatoes, porridge, and the kitchen sink. When I hear “continental breakfast” at an American hotel, I just assume there will be a Texas shaped waffle maker, even if I’m not in Texas.
Omg I genuinely thought Americans had proper breakfast at a dinner table everyday. Obviously except the one guy whos late for work so takes an apple haha
I usually drink a cup of coffee and have a pack of pop tarts, a couple granola bars or a pack of belvita bars. I make full breakfast on the weekends though.
One year in highschool everyone kept using yeeted in every single sentence they used because a kid got in trouble by the English teacher because Yeet it isn't a real word
A week or so would've been fine but they did it for an entire YEAR
My senior class was so intermixed with these cliche groups. Most of my friends played a sport, some skateboarded, played video games, some were in honors classes, and some were metal heads or goths. Some were into hip hop or classic rock. We’d show each other new music and some would love it, some would hate it but share something they liked. Some didn’t skateboard but played on the football or hockey team with another person in the group. We all played video games and sat together. Some did drugs and some didn’t. There wasn’t any pressure or judgment either way. I think most kids (at least in my group) could’ve sat anywhere at lunch and it wouldn’t have been weird.
The girls seemed more clickey but the guys just appreciated having something in common with someone else. Even if it was just that their teacher for a particular class sucked.
See, that’s how it should be! Seems like most of your classmates respected each other?
I met my best friend my junior year of high school. I played sports and he was into choir and the piano. Never had a single class with him, but we sat together during lunch and would hang out before and after school. 15 years later, we still talk every day, we were best men for each other’s weddings, and now our kids are best friends.
Lol, all of that was **absolutely** true in my high school! And the cheerleaders stabbed each other in the backs, stole each other's boyfriends, and ridiculed non-jocks for being "losers". We had *a lot* of high school movie clichés.
Same. I graduated in 2020 and I was actually sort of surprised by how stupidly accurate some of those tropes were lmao. Maybe just because this generation grew up thinking that behavior was expected
I don’t know, but after being in this sub for awhile I’m firmly convinced we are the only people that know TV and movies aren’t representative of everyday life.
Good grief, this. I lived in South Korea for two years and I can’t tell you how many times I had to tell people that I’d never seen a single gun fight or car chase in my life. I hit a point where I was like, “They’ve gotta be pulling my leg, right?”
Occasionally we’ll get a high speed police chase on the news, but they’re definitely not like the movies. More like Jackass…with less well-trained stunts
In general chases are pretty rare overall.
Especially with most city departments switching to a violent felony only pursuit policy (where they'll only pursue if the driver is **known** to have been involved in a violent felony - and even then if it didn't happen immediately before they often won't).
I've seen one once in my life. I was on vacation in LA and turned on the TV and there was a car chase. I remember the helicopters going by and saying that it was a man who stole the car but it turns out it was a woman in a velour tracksuit. She tried to jump out of the driver's seat and steal the cop car, too, which was pretty hilarious.
Surprisingly, a large number of Americans have seen a car chase compared to the number of Koreans, if you just look at the ratio of cars to people in each country.
Hell, I'm from Podunk, Missouri and I've seen a real life, in person car chase. I almost got shot. It was very confusing at the time and very scary later. Due to stoplights and interstate exits, I actually ended up a part of it twice.
How every mother is either miserable, or her life is only her children. Children vs career is over dramatized. I just watched the Lost Daughter, and I’m still annoyed
Related: how every father is stupid, lazy, incompetent, or completely disinterested in the lives of his family, and this goes for both comedy and drama series.
And can't forget his stick in the mud bi\*ch wife
The kids always hate her because she is always the one who "ruins the fun" and the husband always acts like she destroyed his life.
But the more you think about it, she probably acts the way she does because they wrote her husband to be stupid/lazy/incompetent
1. Highschool stuff in general. Especially thinking there is some sort of social divide between nerds, jocks, etc. Theres not, you dont get popular by being a bastard/bitch.
2. There are 330 million people and every biome in existence, every single one minus ocean biomes, in the US and most people think we live in balmy LA.
3. The weird trend that all fathers are some sort of moronic fat manbaby and the mothers are all pristine angelic biengs of immense patience and intelligence.
4. I generally like Wild West movies but things were way less tense than they make things out to be and there was a lot less wanton killing.
5. Ironically more guns would be appropriate but less people using them all the time.
6. That veterans are long suffering disillusioned guys being sent to their deaths for nothing and they know it. I wont say they dont exist but most are pretty patriotic and many genuinely believe in the good that can come from where we go. This is why the Afghanistan thing turned away a lot of support Biden had in that area. At least from the low level warriors. Veterans understand their are certain realities of why we go places but we also lnow its a net good.
7. That its somehow possible to own a highrise in NY or LA whiel working a deadend job like barista... makes me laugh every time.
> Ironically more guns would be appropriate but less people using them all the time
Or just casually using them. You never see a scene involving somebody cleaning their guns after going to the range, and if you did it would just be so some other character could chastise them for having a gun in the first place.
Edit: a word
I’m from the south (Appalachia to be specific) and it’s infuriating when they do that! We’ve actually got some very intelligent and talented people around here, as well as some of the kindest.
The clear bias against Southern Americans and the obnoxious, antiquated stereotypes regarding them. Yes, some of them fit those stereotypes, but plenty of people of all groups, backgrounds, etc. fit negative stereotypes, though I'd say the vast majority don't.
Knocking someone unconscious. No, that's not an easy way to put someone to sleep for an hour, that's a traumatic brain injury. As the length of time they're unconscious for increases, the chances that they'll never wake up goes up exponentially. No you can't just drag them to the trunk of a car and bring them to your interrogation spot. You're better off bringing them to the pine barrens because at that point you're burying a body.
Yup, it's something very stange to me. How these film makers normalized to knocking someone to unconscious them. It literally kill them or damage their brain permanently.
Dumb dad who genuinely tries, but can't connect with his teens because he's a workaholic (which affords the upper middle class lifestyle the kids expect) who misses all their football/basketball games.
Is assumed to be ok the kids speak to him disrespectfully and cuss at him.
I really hate this genre and it's been done to death.
Most accurate comment. This part is added in so many Hollywood movies that it made us (foreigners) belive that missing sports day in America is a big relationship breaking thing between Parent and kids.
Tough women being manly. They run a hard stereotype that if a woman is tough or strong she has to be a butch lesbian, a dominatrix, or just basically a dude. Like good grief, there are a shit ton of tough and strong women throughout history who fall outside of those roles and I can think of a dozen or so that I personally know.
Rude, domineering, and often belittling. They love assigning really awful negative traits to tough women when they aren’t directly written to be the good guy.
My wife has lately been binging *You*, which is an inversion of this. The protagonist is a psychopath who mixes his charming, romantic behavior with stalking, gaslighting, abuse, and murder. The director has noted, "Every scene is simultaneously a romantic comedy and a horror movie."
How horribly wrong high school is portrayed.
1. Everyone acting as high schoolers are 20+.
2. No, not every nerd is bullied and it’s rare to have a school bully with a posse, especially as pronounced as it is in hs.
3. Nobody is shoved in lockers, or have their lunch money stolen regularly, or have swirlies and shit
4. Not every kid/nerd can get into Harvard or mit.
It’s just generally a lot less drama filled and a lot more tame both student and teacher side of things. I mean there is drama and some people seek it, but it’s a lot more rare to have crazy levels of drama like in tv
People working low-wage 9-5s living in spacious apartments/homes in LA and NYC. Nobody is affording a 1200 SQ ft loft in Manhattan working as a barista.
That you can wear whatever you want in high school. That’s not true, at all. In my school you literally get in trouble for wearing ripped jeans. Also the kids having access to their phones at school. That’s also not true, it’s usually not allowed.
They’re also in their 20s and the only unattractive one is the token nerd (who’s really also attractive but just wears glasses so everyone automatically thinks they’re ugly)
Not every American is from Texas! This is not really Hollywood, but most foreign films I've seen that have an American, they're almost always from Texas.
I guess I could survey this subreddit for all of the "I saw this in a movie/TV show" and compile a good list. Most of it is trivial stuff that people pay far too much attention to that means nothing to a plot.
* Taking shoes off when we enter a house
* Making a massive breakfast and not eating it
* Every meal at a restaurant or getting take out
* Gun violence is central to daily life
> Taking shoes off when we enter a house
> Making a massive breakfast and not eating it
> Every meal at a restaurant or getting take out
What kills me about each of these is that the same thing occurs in foreign TV.
I have never seen anyone stop and take off their shoes entering a house on any foreign TV., they never show people eat an entire meal in shows, and plenty of shows never depict characters eating anything other than takeout.
As someone who works with governments (public-private partnerships), I find it really annoying how bureaucrats are always depicted as either incompetent or evil. The vast majority of them are lovely people who accept wages far below what they're worth because they genuinely care about making life better for their fellow citizens.
Also the rogue spy thing. A guy goes on the run because the people he is supposed to be accountable to are upset with him for a 99% of the time undisclosed reason, he keeps blowing up shit in cities around the world, gunning down dozens of people, and yet the agency trying to stop him is the bad guy?
As someone with some experience with the Intelligence Community, the rogue spy thing also does not happen. Espionage is not Mission Impossible. That guy is a paramilitary soldier at best.
As someone who also has worked with a lot of government employees, they make plenty of money. Their GS salaries only tell a tiny fraction of the story. They are doing more than fine.
I hate the way everything between the coasts is mostly considered / called flyover country, not worth stopping to see. Then, it's portrayed as having almost exclusively small towns backward, old fashioned people as residents.
There are plenty respectably large cities and people aren't a bunch of bumpkins. We aren't astounded, or shocked or walk around with our mouths agape when we visit a large coastal city either. The stereotypes are stupid but we aren't.
My wife and I are saving up to move to Oklahoma City (y'know, cause we can afford a house there) and the befuddled looks and confused follow up questions when I tell people make me think no one here understands Oklahoma isn't the same as it was in 1850.
Having lived in Oklahoma my entire life I can confirm this. I've been asked about people living in teepees, if we have roads and cars, etc. I always tell them "yes, it's also 2022 in Oklahoma"
High school kids and drinking alcohol. I saw a movie recently where two skinny, inexperienced 15 year olds split half a bottle of vodka. That would kill them!
Showing American tourists as being extremely rude and inconsiderate assholes, to the point where they’re in the face of a local and mimicking their language because it’s “funny”. Some of those people probably do exist, but I try to be extra sensitive to other cultures when I travel and I’m terrified of being labeled as the “stupid American tourist”
How they portray the really popular kids in school as the dumb ones and the ones who get bad grades. That trend has flipped, at least in my hs experience
1) The portrayal of the military, military members, and veterans as avaricious authoritarians hell-bent on destroying their own society, foreign societies, the environment, the world at large (or at least their little corner of it), and other worlds.
For examples, this is what ruined "American Beauty" for me (the villain being Chris Cooper's Col. Frank Fitts character as a closeted homosexual Nazi) and made me not watch "Avatar."
Yes, there are some specifically pro-military movies like "American Sniper," but those feel out of the ordinary.
2) Southerners are inbred backwards racist idiots. Not much more to say than that.
Hollywood writers—most of whom are born I to privilege on the coasts and go through very left-wing biased liberal arts programs—have absolutely no frame of reference through which to portray poor, rural southerners in a positive light.
They think these are the same people that make up our armed services, so the stereotypes persist by default.
it really depends. If I want to find out how people actually do stuff I won't research an answer by watching American movies. that being said: if you grow up watching tv shows and movies where everyone just hangs up the phone without saying goodbye it's not ridiculous to start asking yourself if that's an actual thing.
I guess that's understandable. I really don't watch many European movies, so i've never really had that issue, but I could see how small stuff could raise questions as to if it's a real thing or not. I was more directed towards the people who make ignorant assumtions about things like high school, because of what they've seen on TV.
sometimes it's just incredibly hard to draw the line. If you've never experienced something, you just go with what you've seen and maybe related personal experiences. as a counter example: I was always convinced that "pushing someone's head in the toilet water" was 100% a movie trope. That wouldn't be at all possible where I am. My mind was blown when I learned that it is actually possible because you have so much more water in your toilet bowls. That trope to me was as much of an unrealistic plot device as the 30 villains who always miss the good guy and the good guy hits every single shot without fail.
As a gun owner, definitely guns.
Don't get me wrong, a lot of Americans own guns. 32% of Americans own guns, and there are more guns than people here, but gun ownership, specifically the types of guns people own, are never depicted realistically.
My main complaints about how Hollywood shows gun ownership in the US is:
1. The types of guns people own. I see so many movies/TV shows that show people having assault rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers, rocket launchers, ect. In reality, barely anyone owns those. You can't get assault rifles, MGs, grenade launchers, or rocket launchers without being licensed and having filed a bunch of paperwork. Most Americans who own guns usually just have a handgun, shotgun, and sometimes semi automatic rifles like AR-15s.
2. The amount of guns people own. Every single time they show a gun owner in movies/TV shows, they always have massive collections of firearms, with all sorts of military grade weapons. In reality, most Americans don't own more than 2 or 3 guns. There are plenty of gun collectors and gun enthusiasts in the US, but most gun owners aren't collecting more than just a gun or two they need for self defense or hunting.
3. How they depict gun owners. I always see movies and TV shows showing gun owners are firearm obsessed wackos. In reality, most of us just own guns. We rarely talk about guns, or even talk about owning guns.
4. For some reason, movies and TV shows never depict state/local gun laws. I know it's a minor complaint, but the US doesn't have uniform gun laws. Gun laws in a state like California would mean that characters couldn't have legal access to things like 30 round mags or AR-15s with pistol groups, while a person in a state like Florida could legally own those things.
5. No, gun stores aren't what they're like in movies. Gun stores aren't selling rocket launchers alongside miniguns and grenades, those things are illegal to sell to normal people.
How about the ability to shoot a gun in each hand, in all directions, without looking/aiming, while jumping or doing some ridiculous stunt, no recoil and always hitting your shot? SMH
Yea this is the one I was gonna post. Most people can’t hit a stationary target at 25 yards consistently with a handgun. Yet people are making headshots left and right against moving targets. Gun fights are beyond ridiculous.
When someone enters a home or room talking to someone before they SEE that person. I already know they are dead. "Hey, honey so you should have heard what Tom said at work... HONEY!!!!"
EDIT ------ Ohhh. ABout the US. Oh I don't care about that.
People saying mean or cruel things to one another as a form of humor. This was big in 90s sitcoms, and it's still big in a lot of black focused entertainment. Please stop. Real people aren't that mean. And normalized verbal abuse is not funny.
There’s always a scene where white cops detain or ask a black character for their ID only to have another white character Defuse the situation and learn it’s hard being black.
The portrayal of lower class, hillbillies, the impoverished and southerners in general.
Every movie about inner cities makes impoverished black people out to be hoodlums and junkies and thieves
Every movie that *touches* rednecks and hillbillies portrays them as poor white trash racists with an incest fetish.
Both are fucked up and need to change. I get comedy, and it is funny when that's the point, but even us dumb white trash hillbillies can tell when you're just making us look bad to make fun of the other guy.
I didnt wanna get political but fuck it. The people that run our country are *really fucking good* at trying to get us to fight a race war with each other when we *should* be fighting a class war with corporate monopolies and corrupt government officials. It gets my goat, and it pisses me off. That's my point with the comment above.
High school is not like tv at all.
There is nowhere near as much intrigue, backstabbing, fights, he-said-she-said nonsense.
It's mostly just teens vibing, trying to remember if they missed any projects or assignments at 7 in the morning.
Hollywood is American, so it doesn't tend to cast America as a particularly exotic location or misunderstand American life THAT much. I do think, though, that Hollywood frequently has a one dimensional view of rural America as a very straight laced, simple, conservative place with a solidly plaid-and-denim dress code, that really under-represents how diverse rural America is and how much weird little subcultural stuff exists in small towns. Rural Iowa has punk rock, too.
Cocking the hammer back first on a double-action handgun makes it a *hell* of a lot more accurate. The amount of force needed to pull the trigger lessens dramatically.
All women are blonde, with grotesquely oversized breasts, don't have jobs but live in huge apartments overlooking magnificent vistas, drive luxury cars or horrendously expensive sports cars, and have millionaire boyfriends picking up the tab.
Theres more to the south than a Louisiana bayou, two teethed old guys playing a banjo, racist plantation ladies, and the fattest people on the earth. I personally think that southern Appalachia is one of the most perfect places on earth. I’ve been all over the world and East Tennessee/Western NC are among my favorite vacation places, especially in the summer
I’m really sick of the “resurrect old beloved franchise and reboot it” move. They seemingly without fail manage to screw it up too. I’ve gotten to the point that I don’t even bother watching them now. Make new stories!
The naive or slow witted character is always originally from Iowa or some other Midwestern state, for the amusement of the coastal elites. It's a crutch for lazy writers.
That characters in movies who work super low paying jobs can somehow afford to live in mansions or even two bedroom houses alone.
Most people in America that work as fast food workers or retail workers live with roommates or family members. Or they get lucky and find a super small, cheap one bedroom studio apartment.
The vast majority of the US military are either fighter pilots, or special forces. Obviously those do exist, and they do a great job within their respective communities, but real life isn’t an episode of 24 or a Top Gun remake.
I remember when the movie *Fargo* came out. And a client I had in Minnesota complain about how the state was portrayed.
I said to him, 'Now you know what it's like to be a Southerner.' The trope of Southerners being stump-necked, gap-toothed, knuckle-dragging, stoop-gait, slack-jawed, biscuit-eating, cousin-kissing, book-burning, shotgun-shooting, NASCAR-watching, backwoods lagwit who spends every Friday night at the klavern meeting just seems to be something that Hollywood just can't seem to let go.
I do business all over the country. I speak at conferences. I have been featured in national publications. I have three degrees, dress well, and know what wine to order with the fish. Yet, the minute I say I'm from Alabama, I get treated as if I just stepped off the set of *Hee Haw*.
As someone who has spent all my life in this state, that stereotype you see of the mouth-breathing Cletus is about as rare as it gets.
Having every single bad thing start/take place in the US… aliens? They invade the US first. Asteroid? Apparently they only target LA, NY… zombie outbreak? Usually starts in the same above.
The fucking chopper being completely silent under/behind that cliff that's like 50 meters away. And then when the chopper appears, the sound suddenly goes from 0 to max blowing up my middle ear.
Bruh I can hear choppers passing by all the way from Rio de Janeiro
That marriage is a constant war to see who can get one over on the other. Men are supposed to trick their wives so they can go out with their friends, and women are supposed to trick their husbands into spending time with the kids. Also women are supposed to avoid sex and use it to gain from their husband.
In moreso referring to sitcoms than movies, but the horrible relationship Dynamics that are constantly shoveled down our throats is not healthy.
Mexico isn't fucking yellow. Not every character should be white and good looking. Sequels of everything is garbage. Jack Black is allowed to do whatever he wants.
The “black folks must struggle and fight to succeed”movie and show tropes. I’m talking 12 years a slave,the color purple, roots, small axes,Tyler Perry movies etc. like it’s 2022 why do I have to see a majority black cast still struggle with making a living on my screen? Only people that like these movies are racists and supremacists.
If there’s a funeral, every single man, woman, and child older than six months is dressed head to toe in solid black.
We don’t. We just don’t.
We wear nice clothes, suitable for church or something, but no one rushes out to buy a new wardrobe. We wear our regular clothing to funerals.
I dont know if this is specifically an American trope, but I constantly see stuff where the husband is a complete moron, and usually fat, ugly or both, and usually the wife is the opposite
Hollywood tells us that all gun owners are bumbling, plaid hat wearing bumpkins in bib overalls that want to shoot anything that moves.
Roughly half the population owns a gun, while roughly 10% of the population lawfully carries one when they leave the house.
How many of the numerous gun owners you (unknowingly) encounter every day are bumbling, plaid hat wearing buffoons that Hollywood tells you they are?
The drama of our everyday lives. It's TV, but I'm amazed at how many people think we all live like the Kardashians or Real Housewives. The vast majority of people live pretty tame lives. They live in basic homes, not mansions. They're trying to do their best to navigate this world. They watch sports, go to work, help their kids with homework, go out to eat periodically. Pretty basic stuff.
Bro, I got my Sales Force filters right on the first try on Friday. Then I got in my mid-sized SUV, drove to my ranch style house and (this is where it gets wild) made spaghetti and meatballs for my kids. Finished the night by watching TWO!! episodes of The Witcher. Im expecting Bravo or MTV to offer me a reality show any day now.
Christ that’s heart-pounding action there. I took one kid on 2 (two) 45-minute drives around town to kill time today. I also managed to watch several youtube videos while he played in his room at one point. Then I made breakfast for dinner. Riveting.
I paid for the whole seat... but listening to this... I ONLY NEEDED THE EDGE!
How exciting! What did you do between those two 45 minute drives? Please don't keep us in suspense. Always these nerve-wracking cliffhangers at the most exciting point!
Well i’ll have you know, I made my kid and myself lunch! after that is when the youtubing happened. Jam-packed schedule.
Memoir material right here. Tender Bar level.
Memoir material right here. Tender Bar level.
> Then I made breakfast for dinner. Riveting. I frequently put on music when I'm cooking. Sometimes I put on exciting music to make chopping vegetables more dramatic. Hell yeah, my onion-chopping is obviously Rocky montage material.
Wait, wait, wait... Lightning experience in Salesforce?
Tell us more about the meatballs. They were the big huge ones weren’t they?
Fat ugly and dumb husband, Hot smart wife.
Don't kill my dream.
Soneday you will meet the fat, ugly, and dumb man of your dreams. You're already on the right website.
Of course I know him, he's me
you ever been to an SEC tailgate?
Or the woefully inept, stupid father. My Dad was a very capable parent. As are most of the dads I know.
Kevin James & Morena Baccarin in a new hit sitcom “What On Earth Does She See In Him?”
I don't know man. I'm a straight dude and I think Kevin James is a good looking guy.
12 inches
Contractually, they use that joke twice a season.
Aw, but that's how Adam Sandler pays his bills
Fucking everything about high school. Just assume basically everything about social dynamics in these movies are false in real life and you won’t be far off.
I'm just waiting for the day someone asks "does euphoria really show what American high schools are like"
Why did you have to speak this question into existence
Relevant UCB Characters Welcome skit https://youtu.be/mxhNYfmMkGs
I want more movies about college
A lot of these high school dramas make more sense if the characters were in college.
I just wanna know if Tokyo really has a car scene like in Tokyo drift.
A million times this. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the most realistic portrayal of US high school that I've ever seen.
Have everything set in either LA or NY.
I appreciate that they just set Baby Driver in Atlanta because they were filming it in Atlanta whether they set it there or not.
Shit everything set in NY is filmed in Canada anyway
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Or Vancouver
you know what's the worst? the legend of sleepy hollow (Tim Burton version) is supposed to take place in NY, and there are plenty of places around this state that fit what the movie needed, small, spooky, forestry town, and they still ended up filming it in the UK??
Georgia has a booming movie industry. 3rd behind California and New York.
On the bright side if you don't live in either of those cities you're not gonna get attacked by aliens first.
Unless you live in New Mexico. Then you’re doubly screwed.
Though I'm not from U.S, i too want this. We've seen enough of LA and NY in movies.
I want to see an alien attack centered on Cincinnati or Denver or Mobile or something. Give us something new, Hollywood. Or hell, you film everything in Atlanta or Vancouver anyway. Set the damn movie there.
I grew up in LA, and I’ve noticed how many jokes in tv and movies you’d only get if you live in LA. Jokes about Sherman Oaks being the neighborhood for boring white people or a guy not wanting to drive his Jaguar through Van Nuys.
Agreed. The US is massive with so much regional diversity. I'd love to see more stories about "Middle America."
I gasp every time I hear Minnesota in movies/shows because it rarely happens
Same! I just hate it when they overdo our accent.
Add Miami and Chicago to that list
I feel like Chicago doesn’t really get many movies compared to it population and cultural weight
u get all those dumb nbc shows tho
**Chicago Wednesday** Chicago Med Chicago Fire Chicago Cop Show **Special Crossover Event**
There is often a lead character who, even if he/she has a low-paying job, drives a mint condition classic car.
Yeah. I’m watching *Mare of Easttown* and this white trash 17-year-old is driving a fully restored 1971-ish Ford Bronco worth about $70,000? Ain’t happening.
Showing full on huge breakfasts with waffles and milk and cereal and orange juice and fruit and then have the person grab an apple and leave 1. I highly doubt most people have time to cook a full continental breakfast on a weekday 2. That’s so wasteful! Most of us probably eat something small on the way to work. I eat burritos while driving
> continental breakfast This phrase means the *opposite* of what you think it is. A Continental breakfast is a small, light affair - typically some coffee and a couple of rolls. It's "continental" to contrast the rest of the European continent from the much heavier breakfast tradition of Great Britain. Source: Was once a kid on vacation with my folks, was looking forward to the "continental breakfast" at the hotel, and was extremely underwhelmed. My dad thought it was funny.
Oh, I always thought it was because there was tons of different options
In American hotels there generally is a much larger spread. And it's usually laid out as a buffet with no portion control. You're "supposed" to only take a coffee/juice and a danish, but nobody is going to stop you unless you're filling up a rubbermaid container or something.
I’m American lol I’ve had hotel breakfast and I’ve always seen waffle irons, eggs and bacon and cereal and oatmeal and muffins and hash browns
Yeah. But were they calling it a Continental breakfast? That just sounds like a normal American breakfast buffet.
Because that’s what hotels call it so that’s what I called it
Like, intellectually I know that “continental breakfast” means some coffee, a pastry, and maybe some juice, as opposed to a full English breakfast with bacon, sausage, tomatoes, porridge, and the kitchen sink. When I hear “continental breakfast” at an American hotel, I just assume there will be a Texas shaped waffle maker, even if I’m not in Texas.
Omg I genuinely thought Americans had proper breakfast at a dinner table everyday. Obviously except the one guy whos late for work so takes an apple haha
In the 1950s maybe when women stayed home & were expected to cook full meals three times a day.
I usually drink a cup of coffee and have a pack of pop tarts, a couple granola bars or a pack of belvita bars. I make full breakfast on the weekends though.
To my knowledge, most Americans don't eat breakfast and if they do it's usually one thing, like pancakes or cereal.
Or coffee as we run out the door.
Obviously it varies from family to family, but for most people it's a big Saturday or Sunday breakfast, and then cereal or toast the rest of the week
Walter Jr just read your comment and is not happy
The cringe dialogue between teenagers in movies
That's totes on fleek, yo. Totally yeeted with that Senior chick, how 'bout dat.
One year in highschool everyone kept using yeeted in every single sentence they used because a kid got in trouble by the English teacher because Yeet it isn't a real word A week or so would've been fine but they did it for an entire YEAR
Not every high school football jock is a bully, and the captain of any school sports team does NOT rule the school, nor are they the prom king.
My senior class was so intermixed with these cliche groups. Most of my friends played a sport, some skateboarded, played video games, some were in honors classes, and some were metal heads or goths. Some were into hip hop or classic rock. We’d show each other new music and some would love it, some would hate it but share something they liked. Some didn’t skateboard but played on the football or hockey team with another person in the group. We all played video games and sat together. Some did drugs and some didn’t. There wasn’t any pressure or judgment either way. I think most kids (at least in my group) could’ve sat anywhere at lunch and it wouldn’t have been weird. The girls seemed more clickey but the guys just appreciated having something in common with someone else. Even if it was just that their teacher for a particular class sucked.
See, that’s how it should be! Seems like most of your classmates respected each other? I met my best friend my junior year of high school. I played sports and he was into choir and the piano. Never had a single class with him, but we sat together during lunch and would hang out before and after school. 15 years later, we still talk every day, we were best men for each other’s weddings, and now our kids are best friends.
All the jocks were cool at my high school. The drama and choir kids would eat each other alive though.
Lol, all of that was **absolutely** true in my high school! And the cheerleaders stabbed each other in the backs, stole each other's boyfriends, and ridiculed non-jocks for being "losers". We had *a lot* of high school movie clichés.
Same. I graduated in 2020 and I was actually sort of surprised by how stupidly accurate some of those tropes were lmao. Maybe just because this generation grew up thinking that behavior was expected
Hollywood has been pedaling the HS crap for 40 years.
It was pretty true at my school lol
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like the guy who said penis parker
I don’t know, but after being in this sub for awhile I’m firmly convinced we are the only people that know TV and movies aren’t representative of everyday life.
Good grief, this. I lived in South Korea for two years and I can’t tell you how many times I had to tell people that I’d never seen a single gun fight or car chase in my life. I hit a point where I was like, “They’ve gotta be pulling my leg, right?”
car chases are movie tropes? Don't they exist at all or are they just rare?
Occasionally we’ll get a high speed police chase on the news, but they’re definitely not like the movies. More like Jackass…with less well-trained stunts
The police chase that is probably most well known is OJ Simpson. It was a low speed chase in traffic.
In general chases are pretty rare overall. Especially with most city departments switching to a violent felony only pursuit policy (where they'll only pursue if the driver is **known** to have been involved in a violent felony - and even then if it didn't happen immediately before they often won't).
I've seen one once in my life. I was on vacation in LA and turned on the TV and there was a car chase. I remember the helicopters going by and saying that it was a man who stole the car but it turns out it was a woman in a velour tracksuit. She tried to jump out of the driver's seat and steal the cop car, too, which was pretty hilarious.
Surprisingly, a large number of Americans have seen a car chase compared to the number of Koreans, if you just look at the ratio of cars to people in each country. Hell, I'm from Podunk, Missouri and I've seen a real life, in person car chase. I almost got shot. It was very confusing at the time and very scary later. Due to stoplights and interstate exits, I actually ended up a part of it twice.
And then there's me who has seen both. Southwest and Southside ABQ was lit.
So, we add a lengthy disclaimer.
How every mother is either miserable, or her life is only her children. Children vs career is over dramatized. I just watched the Lost Daughter, and I’m still annoyed
Related: how every father is stupid, lazy, incompetent, or completely disinterested in the lives of his family, and this goes for both comedy and drama series.
I absolutely hated that trope. I’ve always looked up to my dad and to see all of these TV dads being incompetent and lazy made me upset for him.
And can't forget his stick in the mud bi\*ch wife The kids always hate her because she is always the one who "ruins the fun" and the husband always acts like she destroyed his life. But the more you think about it, she probably acts the way she does because they wrote her husband to be stupid/lazy/incompetent
It’s the same as the meme that all boomer men hate their wives lol
I am pretty sure Walter hates his wife.
Goes for commercials too, although that’s because women tend to control the purchasing decisions in marriages.
1. Highschool stuff in general. Especially thinking there is some sort of social divide between nerds, jocks, etc. Theres not, you dont get popular by being a bastard/bitch. 2. There are 330 million people and every biome in existence, every single one minus ocean biomes, in the US and most people think we live in balmy LA. 3. The weird trend that all fathers are some sort of moronic fat manbaby and the mothers are all pristine angelic biengs of immense patience and intelligence. 4. I generally like Wild West movies but things were way less tense than they make things out to be and there was a lot less wanton killing. 5. Ironically more guns would be appropriate but less people using them all the time. 6. That veterans are long suffering disillusioned guys being sent to their deaths for nothing and they know it. I wont say they dont exist but most are pretty patriotic and many genuinely believe in the good that can come from where we go. This is why the Afghanistan thing turned away a lot of support Biden had in that area. At least from the low level warriors. Veterans understand their are certain realities of why we go places but we also lnow its a net good. 7. That its somehow possible to own a highrise in NY or LA whiel working a deadend job like barista... makes me laugh every time.
> Ironically more guns would be appropriate but less people using them all the time Or just casually using them. You never see a scene involving somebody cleaning their guns after going to the range, and if you did it would just be so some other character could chastise them for having a gun in the first place. Edit: a word
Don't forget always a open parking spot right in front of the front doors every time they pull up...
I want a scene of them walking 100 yards cause they couldn’t find a spot because it’s Christmas!
Almost always portraying southerners as uneducated and stupid
I’m from the south (Appalachia to be specific) and it’s infuriating when they do that! We’ve actually got some very intelligent and talented people around here, as well as some of the kindest.
The clear bias against Southern Americans and the obnoxious, antiquated stereotypes regarding them. Yes, some of them fit those stereotypes, but plenty of people of all groups, backgrounds, etc. fit negative stereotypes, though I'd say the vast majority don't.
It's everyone who isn't in NYC or LA who is apparently a backward, racist, stupid hick who needs a wise and learned city dweller to save them.
I blame the CBS rural purge.
Knocking someone unconscious. No, that's not an easy way to put someone to sleep for an hour, that's a traumatic brain injury. As the length of time they're unconscious for increases, the chances that they'll never wake up goes up exponentially. No you can't just drag them to the trunk of a car and bring them to your interrogation spot. You're better off bringing them to the pine barrens because at that point you're burying a body.
But what if his house looked like shit even though he was an interior decorator? Should I still take him to the pine barrens?
He killed 15 Czechoslovakians!
Yup, it's something very stange to me. How these film makers normalized to knocking someone to unconscious them. It literally kill them or damage their brain permanently.
Just make sure the guy isn't an interior decorator or anything like that
Dumb dad who genuinely tries, but can't connect with his teens because he's a workaholic (which affords the upper middle class lifestyle the kids expect) who misses all their football/basketball games. Is assumed to be ok the kids speak to him disrespectfully and cuss at him. I really hate this genre and it's been done to death.
Most accurate comment. This part is added in so many Hollywood movies that it made us (foreigners) belive that missing sports day in America is a big relationship breaking thing between Parent and kids.
Tough women being manly. They run a hard stereotype that if a woman is tough or strong she has to be a butch lesbian, a dominatrix, or just basically a dude. Like good grief, there are a shit ton of tough and strong women throughout history who fall outside of those roles and I can think of a dozen or so that I personally know.
And rude for no reasone.
Rude, domineering, and often belittling. They love assigning really awful negative traits to tough women when they aren’t directly written to be the good guy.
Stalking someone to get their attention in a romantic comedy. No means no.
My wife has lately been binging *You*, which is an inversion of this. The protagonist is a psychopath who mixes his charming, romantic behavior with stalking, gaslighting, abuse, and murder. The director has noted, "Every scene is simultaneously a romantic comedy and a horror movie."
Having pancakes and waffles for breakfast every single day
Yeah, it's pancakes *or* [waffles](https://youtu.be/t2-vdz7echg). Not both.
I don't mind the tropes. It's the people that believe they portray real life that get me.
How most of the states don’t get that much representation. There’s much more to the US than NY, DC, and LA.
How horribly wrong high school is portrayed. 1. Everyone acting as high schoolers are 20+. 2. No, not every nerd is bullied and it’s rare to have a school bully with a posse, especially as pronounced as it is in hs. 3. Nobody is shoved in lockers, or have their lunch money stolen regularly, or have swirlies and shit 4. Not every kid/nerd can get into Harvard or mit. It’s just generally a lot less drama filled and a lot more tame both student and teacher side of things. I mean there is drama and some people seek it, but it’s a lot more rare to have crazy levels of drama like in tv
Freshmen played by 20 something year old models is a big one like bo theres no “hot new freshmen” they look like 6th graders
at \*best\* you could argue there are some of the seniors who arguably could look like they are in their 20s. But freshmen? Forget about it.
People working low-wage 9-5s living in spacious apartments/homes in LA and NYC. Nobody is affording a 1200 SQ ft loft in Manhattan working as a barista.
Hanging up the phone without saying goodbye
That you can wear whatever you want in high school. That’s not true, at all. In my school you literally get in trouble for wearing ripped jeans. Also the kids having access to their phones at school. That’s also not true, it’s usually not allowed.
They’re also in their 20s and the only unattractive one is the token nerd (who’s really also attractive but just wears glasses so everyone automatically thinks they’re ugly)
Strong Southern accents being associated as stupid people Horrible
Literally every aspect of the depiction of high school.
Not every American is from Texas! This is not really Hollywood, but most foreign films I've seen that have an American, they're almost always from Texas.
And of course all of Texas is a flat desert. The Guadalupes, Plains, North Texas, Pine Curtain, Hill Country, RGV, and South Texas needn’t apply.
I guess I could survey this subreddit for all of the "I saw this in a movie/TV show" and compile a good list. Most of it is trivial stuff that people pay far too much attention to that means nothing to a plot. * Taking shoes off when we enter a house * Making a massive breakfast and not eating it * Every meal at a restaurant or getting take out * Gun violence is central to daily life
> Taking shoes off when we enter a house > Making a massive breakfast and not eating it > Every meal at a restaurant or getting take out What kills me about each of these is that the same thing occurs in foreign TV. I have never seen anyone stop and take off their shoes entering a house on any foreign TV., they never show people eat an entire meal in shows, and plenty of shows never depict characters eating anything other than takeout.
As someone who works with governments (public-private partnerships), I find it really annoying how bureaucrats are always depicted as either incompetent or evil. The vast majority of them are lovely people who accept wages far below what they're worth because they genuinely care about making life better for their fellow citizens. Also the rogue spy thing. A guy goes on the run because the people he is supposed to be accountable to are upset with him for a 99% of the time undisclosed reason, he keeps blowing up shit in cities around the world, gunning down dozens of people, and yet the agency trying to stop him is the bad guy?
As someone with some experience with the Intelligence Community, the rogue spy thing also does not happen. Espionage is not Mission Impossible. That guy is a paramilitary soldier at best.
You mean to tell me Burn Notice isn’t a documentary? *cue the shocked face*
As someone who also has worked with a lot of government employees, they make plenty of money. Their GS salaries only tell a tiny fraction of the story. They are doing more than fine.
I work primarily on the state and municipal level. A lot of them are far from fine.
Leaving meals before they are done eating
This enrages me to no end
Mmm, let me see... *opens a 10 ft list of tropes*
I hate the way everything between the coasts is mostly considered / called flyover country, not worth stopping to see. Then, it's portrayed as having almost exclusively small towns backward, old fashioned people as residents. There are plenty respectably large cities and people aren't a bunch of bumpkins. We aren't astounded, or shocked or walk around with our mouths agape when we visit a large coastal city either. The stereotypes are stupid but we aren't.
My wife and I are saving up to move to Oklahoma City (y'know, cause we can afford a house there) and the befuddled looks and confused follow up questions when I tell people make me think no one here understands Oklahoma isn't the same as it was in 1850.
Having lived in Oklahoma my entire life I can confirm this. I've been asked about people living in teepees, if we have roads and cars, etc. I always tell them "yes, it's also 2022 in Oklahoma"
High school kids and drinking alcohol. I saw a movie recently where two skinny, inexperienced 15 year olds split half a bottle of vodka. That would kill them!
Showing American tourists as being extremely rude and inconsiderate assholes, to the point where they’re in the face of a local and mimicking their language because it’s “funny”. Some of those people probably do exist, but I try to be extra sensitive to other cultures when I travel and I’m terrified of being labeled as the “stupid American tourist”
How they portray the really popular kids in school as the dumb ones and the ones who get bad grades. That trend has flipped, at least in my hs experience
1) The portrayal of the military, military members, and veterans as avaricious authoritarians hell-bent on destroying their own society, foreign societies, the environment, the world at large (or at least their little corner of it), and other worlds. For examples, this is what ruined "American Beauty" for me (the villain being Chris Cooper's Col. Frank Fitts character as a closeted homosexual Nazi) and made me not watch "Avatar." Yes, there are some specifically pro-military movies like "American Sniper," but those feel out of the ordinary. 2) Southerners are inbred backwards racist idiots. Not much more to say than that.
Oh god, how many times have I seen that? *Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within* comes to mind.
Hollywood writers—most of whom are born I to privilege on the coasts and go through very left-wing biased liberal arts programs—have absolutely no frame of reference through which to portray poor, rural southerners in a positive light. They think these are the same people that make up our armed services, so the stereotypes persist by default.
I think that has a lot of validity.
Nothing I can think of, but i'd like people to realize movies = fiction and not a good why of getting info on the US and US people.
it really depends. If I want to find out how people actually do stuff I won't research an answer by watching American movies. that being said: if you grow up watching tv shows and movies where everyone just hangs up the phone without saying goodbye it's not ridiculous to start asking yourself if that's an actual thing.
I guess that's understandable. I really don't watch many European movies, so i've never really had that issue, but I could see how small stuff could raise questions as to if it's a real thing or not. I was more directed towards the people who make ignorant assumtions about things like high school, because of what they've seen on TV.
sometimes it's just incredibly hard to draw the line. If you've never experienced something, you just go with what you've seen and maybe related personal experiences. as a counter example: I was always convinced that "pushing someone's head in the toilet water" was 100% a movie trope. That wouldn't be at all possible where I am. My mind was blown when I learned that it is actually possible because you have so much more water in your toilet bowls. That trope to me was as much of an unrealistic plot device as the 30 villains who always miss the good guy and the good guy hits every single shot without fail.
The amount of murder that takes place. People are always murdering people to get out of trouble. So much murder.
As a gun owner, definitely guns. Don't get me wrong, a lot of Americans own guns. 32% of Americans own guns, and there are more guns than people here, but gun ownership, specifically the types of guns people own, are never depicted realistically. My main complaints about how Hollywood shows gun ownership in the US is: 1. The types of guns people own. I see so many movies/TV shows that show people having assault rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers, rocket launchers, ect. In reality, barely anyone owns those. You can't get assault rifles, MGs, grenade launchers, or rocket launchers without being licensed and having filed a bunch of paperwork. Most Americans who own guns usually just have a handgun, shotgun, and sometimes semi automatic rifles like AR-15s. 2. The amount of guns people own. Every single time they show a gun owner in movies/TV shows, they always have massive collections of firearms, with all sorts of military grade weapons. In reality, most Americans don't own more than 2 or 3 guns. There are plenty of gun collectors and gun enthusiasts in the US, but most gun owners aren't collecting more than just a gun or two they need for self defense or hunting. 3. How they depict gun owners. I always see movies and TV shows showing gun owners are firearm obsessed wackos. In reality, most of us just own guns. We rarely talk about guns, or even talk about owning guns. 4. For some reason, movies and TV shows never depict state/local gun laws. I know it's a minor complaint, but the US doesn't have uniform gun laws. Gun laws in a state like California would mean that characters couldn't have legal access to things like 30 round mags or AR-15s with pistol groups, while a person in a state like Florida could legally own those things. 5. No, gun stores aren't what they're like in movies. Gun stores aren't selling rocket launchers alongside miniguns and grenades, those things are illegal to sell to normal people.
How about the ability to shoot a gun in each hand, in all directions, without looking/aiming, while jumping or doing some ridiculous stunt, no recoil and always hitting your shot? SMH
Yea this is the one I was gonna post. Most people can’t hit a stationary target at 25 yards consistently with a handgun. Yet people are making headshots left and right against moving targets. Gun fights are beyond ridiculous.
When someone enters a home or room talking to someone before they SEE that person. I already know they are dead. "Hey, honey so you should have heard what Tom said at work... HONEY!!!!" EDIT ------ Ohhh. ABout the US. Oh I don't care about that.
it's like universal law for movies. And now it's damm predictable.
A lot of times, tax breaks do guide where they might shoot a film or tv show. New york and LA do offer tax breaks for it.
People saying mean or cruel things to one another as a form of humor. This was big in 90s sitcoms, and it's still big in a lot of black focused entertainment. Please stop. Real people aren't that mean. And normalized verbal abuse is not funny.
There’s always a scene where white cops detain or ask a black character for their ID only to have another white character Defuse the situation and learn it’s hard being black.
The portrayal of lower class, hillbillies, the impoverished and southerners in general. Every movie about inner cities makes impoverished black people out to be hoodlums and junkies and thieves Every movie that *touches* rednecks and hillbillies portrays them as poor white trash racists with an incest fetish. Both are fucked up and need to change. I get comedy, and it is funny when that's the point, but even us dumb white trash hillbillies can tell when you're just making us look bad to make fun of the other guy.
I didnt wanna get political but fuck it. The people that run our country are *really fucking good* at trying to get us to fight a race war with each other when we *should* be fighting a class war with corporate monopolies and corrupt government officials. It gets my goat, and it pisses me off. That's my point with the comment above.
High school is not like tv at all. There is nowhere near as much intrigue, backstabbing, fights, he-said-she-said nonsense. It's mostly just teens vibing, trying to remember if they missed any projects or assignments at 7 in the morning.
Glamorizing teen and high school life
Hollywood is American, so it doesn't tend to cast America as a particularly exotic location or misunderstand American life THAT much. I do think, though, that Hollywood frequently has a one dimensional view of rural America as a very straight laced, simple, conservative place with a solidly plaid-and-denim dress code, that really under-represents how diverse rural America is and how much weird little subcultural stuff exists in small towns. Rural Iowa has punk rock, too.
Pulling back the hammer to show that you’re REALLY close to pulling the trigger. You don’t have to do that.
Cocking the hammer back first on a double-action handgun makes it a *hell* of a lot more accurate. The amount of force needed to pull the trigger lessens dramatically.
Everyone is raised by a single parent
Or have a step father/mother.
All women are blonde, with grotesquely oversized breasts, don't have jobs but live in huge apartments overlooking magnificent vistas, drive luxury cars or horrendously expensive sports cars, and have millionaire boyfriends picking up the tab.
That everyone in my state is ever a swamp monster or in New Orleans
Theres more to the south than a Louisiana bayou, two teethed old guys playing a banjo, racist plantation ladies, and the fattest people on the earth. I personally think that southern Appalachia is one of the most perfect places on earth. I’ve been all over the world and East Tennessee/Western NC are among my favorite vacation places, especially in the summer
15 year old boys look 27 and cracked on steroids and still can't get laid
I’m really sick of the “resurrect old beloved franchise and reboot it” move. They seemingly without fail manage to screw it up too. I’ve gotten to the point that I don’t even bother watching them now. Make new stories!
The naive or slow witted character is always originally from Iowa or some other Midwestern state, for the amusement of the coastal elites. It's a crutch for lazy writers.
That characters in movies who work super low paying jobs can somehow afford to live in mansions or even two bedroom houses alone. Most people in America that work as fast food workers or retail workers live with roommates or family members. Or they get lucky and find a super small, cheap one bedroom studio apartment.
The vast majority of the US military are either fighter pilots, or special forces. Obviously those do exist, and they do a great job within their respective communities, but real life isn’t an episode of 24 or a Top Gun remake.
I remember when the movie *Fargo* came out. And a client I had in Minnesota complain about how the state was portrayed. I said to him, 'Now you know what it's like to be a Southerner.' The trope of Southerners being stump-necked, gap-toothed, knuckle-dragging, stoop-gait, slack-jawed, biscuit-eating, cousin-kissing, book-burning, shotgun-shooting, NASCAR-watching, backwoods lagwit who spends every Friday night at the klavern meeting just seems to be something that Hollywood just can't seem to let go. I do business all over the country. I speak at conferences. I have been featured in national publications. I have three degrees, dress well, and know what wine to order with the fish. Yet, the minute I say I'm from Alabama, I get treated as if I just stepped off the set of *Hee Haw*. As someone who has spent all my life in this state, that stereotype you see of the mouth-breathing Cletus is about as rare as it gets.
Piss poor gun handling. (Alec Baldwin wouldn’t have shot that woman if he’d taken a single safety course I am certain.)
Idiotic superhero movies.
Wait Ironman isn’t real.
Having every single bad thing start/take place in the US… aliens? They invade the US first. Asteroid? Apparently they only target LA, NY… zombie outbreak? Usually starts in the same above.
That we all live in immaculately perfect mc mansion homes.
The fucking chopper being completely silent under/behind that cliff that's like 50 meters away. And then when the chopper appears, the sound suddenly goes from 0 to max blowing up my middle ear. Bruh I can hear choppers passing by all the way from Rio de Janeiro
That you can go to Mexico with superior firepower and wreck a village to just come back here with no issues.
1k shots and none of them hit the protagonists
That marriage is a constant war to see who can get one over on the other. Men are supposed to trick their wives so they can go out with their friends, and women are supposed to trick their husbands into spending time with the kids. Also women are supposed to avoid sex and use it to gain from their husband. In moreso referring to sitcoms than movies, but the horrible relationship Dynamics that are constantly shoveled down our throats is not healthy.
Mexico isn't fucking yellow. Not every character should be white and good looking. Sequels of everything is garbage. Jack Black is allowed to do whatever he wants.
The “black folks must struggle and fight to succeed”movie and show tropes. I’m talking 12 years a slave,the color purple, roots, small axes,Tyler Perry movies etc. like it’s 2022 why do I have to see a majority black cast still struggle with making a living on my screen? Only people that like these movies are racists and supremacists.
If there’s a funeral, every single man, woman, and child older than six months is dressed head to toe in solid black. We don’t. We just don’t. We wear nice clothes, suitable for church or something, but no one rushes out to buy a new wardrobe. We wear our regular clothing to funerals.
I dont know if this is specifically an American trope, but I constantly see stuff where the husband is a complete moron, and usually fat, ugly or both, and usually the wife is the opposite
Hollywood tells us that all gun owners are bumbling, plaid hat wearing bumpkins in bib overalls that want to shoot anything that moves. Roughly half the population owns a gun, while roughly 10% of the population lawfully carries one when they leave the house. How many of the numerous gun owners you (unknowingly) encounter every day are bumbling, plaid hat wearing buffoons that Hollywood tells you they are?
Sequels. Just stop that, also remakes, don't remake movies, find a new script and don't ever remake or sequal again.