10 Common Film Occurrences That Just Don’t Happen In Real Life

9. Men Drinking Hard Liquor Without so Much as a Wince

Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) downing a bottle of God-knows-what like a champ in the 1969 western, True Grit So this is only really relevant in Westerns or tough cop movies for the most part, but whenever the main character goes into a bar and orders a shot of something, they down it and then just brush it off as if nothing happened. That's a bunch of crap. Most hard liquor hurts like hell when it goes down. Like, holy crap. It blows my mind that the character doesn't shake violently, bang his fists on the bar, or at the very least swear a little after taking a shot.
 
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Born in Memphis, TN and raised in a suburb of Dallas, TX, Jonathan gained notoriety within his high school due to the controversial nature of the editorials he wrote for the school paper. Jonathan is a huge comic book nerd, in particular DC Comics, along with being a fan of watching movies and being as cynical as he can towards them (something that the people watching the movie with him generally do not appreciate)