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I'll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter's intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there's the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

When they are kissing right after waking up with that morning breath.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ever try holding your breath for as long as a TV or movie character is getting smothered to death? It’s not even uncomfortable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

YES, another one of mine. To be fair though, most TV shows and movies don't have the time to dedicate to an actual strangling or suffocation. Those things take a while.

Funny story. I took my dad to Saving Private Ryan. After the movie was over and we're walking away he turned to me and said...

"You know the actual D-Day took a lot longer than that."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The worst is when a show or movie establishes that X can't be done, because Y. Then in a later scene X is done without addressing anything about Y. It's actually pretty common, especially when run time needs to be padded with a side quest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For that matter, when someone gets shot center mass and they collapse like Cypher just pulled them from the matrix

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's preferable to people getting shot and flying across the room, like in a John Woo film.

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