10 Annoying Ways Movies Always Get Real Life Wrong

2. Nobody Ever Ends A Call With "Goodbye"

Despite being shown making calls far more than any person does in real life, characters in movies have terrible phone etiquette. In fact, they seem incapable of ending a conversation with a simple "goodbye", opting instead to passive-aggressively hang up after a final sentence, whether it left the option open for a response or not.

Sure, people in America probably don't have to say "bye" 50 times before hanging up the phone like us Brits do, but surely even they think it's a bit rude to just end the call without, you know, telling the other person that they're ending the call.

Obviously actors do this in movies for dramatic effect, and a well-timed hang up can brilliantly punctuate a dramatic scene, but this trope has found its way into pretty much every genre. Whether it's a particularly emotional conversation or not, characters just can't stop putting the phone down on each other.