10 Surprisingly Realistic Movie Scenes Nobody Saw Coming

10. Ghostface Throws A Knife At Dewey (And Fails) - Scream 3

If movies are any indication, it's incredibly easy to simply throw a knife in the general direction of your enemy and fatally strike them. Yet it took the silliest Scream movie of them all, Scream 3, to point out just how ridiculous that was.

At the start of the third act, Ghostface catches Dewey (David Arquette) at the top of the stairs and immediately throws a knife at him.

We as the audience are conditioned to expect a flawless kill, with the knife landing square in Dewey's forehead and killing him instantly, but that's thankfully not what happens.

Instead, the knife hits Dewey handle-first in the head, merely knocking him out and causing him to fall down the stairs - but live to fight another day, at least.

Granted, in reality most people would probably miss their target entirely when throwing a knife, but at least Scream 3 was in the ballpark of reality by having the "badass" knife throw deliver a less-than-fatal result.

This subversive dose of reality was all the more delicious because the shot of the knife flying towards Dewey was featured extensively in Scream 3's marketing, leaving many to assume that he'd finally bite the bullet - or, er, blade - this time around.