17 Of The Most Infuriatingly Unrealistic Cliches Used In Movies

    Inspired by this Quora thread.

    1. When the villain catches the hero, he explains his whole backstory and motive, giving the hero ample time to be saved.

    2. CCTV footage is shot in the highest resolution, and can be "enhanced" to give a clear reading of even the brand name on someone's shirt.

    3. After a couple has sex, the sheets are always perfectly at waist-level on the dude and chest-level on the lady.

    4. A nearly apocalyptic disaster is great motivation for divorced or estranged couples to find their way back to each other.

    5. Bad guys attack the good guy one at a time, in an orderly fashion.

    6. In horror movies, no one ever believes the hero even though he or she has mounting convincing evidence.

    7. If a character sneezes or coughs, they are definitely about to be deathly ill.

    8. Likewise, if a woman throws up, she is 100% pregnant.

    9. Aliens always invade the U.S. first, and know to hit either New York City or Washington, D.C.

    10. Women only like sex as long as they're single — once they're in a relationship, their husbands or boyfriends will have to beg for it.

    11. All bombs look like digital alarm clocks.

    12. Cops and criminals are always about to retire when the arrival of a big case or job forces them to do one last gig.

    13. The hero is totally fine getting beaten up by the bad guys, but winces when someone (probably the heroine) applies medicine to the wounds.

    14. People on buses rest their heads on the window as if it were relaxing, and not scrambling up their brains.

    15. Precocious kids are able to explain life to all of the adults around them.

    16. In the middle of giving a speech or monologue, the speaker realizes how it's related to something in his or her life and then must abruptly leave to address it.

    17. And glasses have an almost supernatural ability to mask very attractive people's attractiveness.