Food is always ordered and presented in abundance, yet people rarely eat when having a dinner conversation in the movies.
Car chases always take place in the weirder parts of town--the district where there's a fruit stand every five feet and glass movers carry big, unwieldy sheets of glass across streets at random, all day.
Anyone with a French name is required, by law, to speak with a posh English accent.
What, in the real world would be considered stalking and result in a restraining order, in the movies is considered "persistence" and usually results in a scene requring L-shaped sheets!
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Bit of an obscure one here but it's a pet peeve of mine...
In car chase scenes in L.A. (the Italian Job remake being the classic example), the chase always takes place downtown--amidst the high rises--but that doesn't stop the film-makers from throwing in at least one shot of the chase with those same high-rises half a mile away in the background. And, then, in the next frame they're right back downtown. What's in those minis...jet fuel?