10 Annoying Ways Movies Always Get Real Life Wrong

10. Being On The Phone (To Nobody)

For the majority of cinema's lifespan, movie phone calls have been incredibly easy to fake. Have someone pick up the house phone, intercut their dialogue with another person in a telephone box and job's a good one, you've created a believable conversation. Unfortunately, the rise of smartphones has completely shattered the illusion that these calls are actually happening in-camera.

The old tricks still work, but the lack of any screen display indicating that actors are actually in a call immediately makes it apparent that they're talking to nobody on the other end of the line.

Movies have got a little better at hiding this, occasionally using static screensavers that mimic real-life call screens, but the majority of the time actors just talk directly into their app library. Obviously it would be way too expensive to actually make real calls while shooting, but if filmmakers can create believable looking dragons in post-production, surely they can find a way to hide this little detail.

Also, why can't movies get texting screens right either? When two characters are messaging each other it's always at the start of their conversation history, and it's always either ridiculously formal or in textspeak ripped straight out of 2005.