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

4. Unless They're Dying, No One Ever Coughs or Sneezes

Think about it for a minute. The only time a character starts randomly coughing and sneezing in a movie is if they turn out to be dying. It's weird, but I kind of understand why the filmmakers would do something like that. I mean, it would be pointless if a character just randomly sneezed and everyone stopped what they were doing to say, "Bless you!" or something like that. So unless the movie was about a group of friends who, after all getting a cold, set off to find a rare plant that is rumored to completely cure the common cold, I can't think of a reason to put someone sneezing or coughing in a movie unless it was to foreshadow something.
 
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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)