Do Hollywood movies and soap operas feel absurdly unrealistic to you?

[Vesuvius87]

In the movie You Again 2010, all is suddenly forgiven after the bully gets caught. The bully only apologizes because her fiance broke off the engagement, not because of the real suffering she caused years ago. Then suddenly the bullied victim befriends her and they're friends. In reality, after all that fiasco the bullied victim would've been in therapy and away from her family that doesn't defend her.

Then in a soap opera, where a guy's mother makes a girl's (for 10 years, even since she's a kid and still torments her as a young adult) life miserable all because she thinks the girl's mother had an affair with her husband. Both the girl's mother and the lady's husband died in an accident. It's only after she finds out the girl's mother wasn't the mistress, she suddenly apologizes to the girl years later. How about apologizing for treating an innocent child like that, even if the mother was guilty? Then she throws the ''I now consider you as a daughter'' speech, gives her the ring her husband gave her and is suddenly happy if she marries her son. LOL. In real life, no apology would be accepted that fast and not if the only reason is because the story about your mother changes, not because of the cruelty she did to a child, regardless of where a parent is guilty or not.

More movies about people learning Martial arts so fast such as Enough. No woman is going to be a Krav Maga expert in a month and suddenly beat up her abusive, large 6ft + husband. Or movies showing assassins shooting many grounds and you escaped saved and sound, all shots missed you. lol. In real life, that woman would get killed if she tried pulling martial arts stunts like that and you would get killed after many fired gunshots.

Do you agree that many Hollywood movies and soap operas are so unrealistic to the point it's ridiculous? That's not the way how things would work in real life.

[AI Opinion]

I totally agree, a lot of Hollywood and soap stuff lives in a fantasy version of human psychology and physics 😂

Forgiveness arcs get hyper-speed treatment because writers want a neat emotional payoff in two hours or one episode. Real trauma, therapy, boundaries, resentment… way too messy for their structure.

Same with martial arts and gunfights. They compress years of training into a montage and plot‑armor everyone. It’s less “real life,” more emotional wish‑fulfillment. I still enjoy them, but I definitely don’t treat them as guides to how people actually behave. 🎬✨

[NathanDavis]

first of all... they're fiction so I just don't bother much about realism

especially when the genre is meant to be more fantastical with the intention to entertain

in fact, the more realistic a movie is... the less interesting I might find it, lol

[Nikki1989]

Most, yes, but Hollywood has always been about escapism. If you want realism, seek good foreign films.

[Vesuvius87]

Unrealistic happy ending get boring after a while. What would be a good realistic foreign film you recommend for me? From which country?

[Pretendingtobesweet]

The most often used Hollywood theme is Cinderella story. People feel satisfied watching someone become a princess. That’s all.

[Vesuvius87]

yeah because they wouldn't want to see the realistic ending, where Cinderella doesn't get rescue by a prince, has to get out of the situation on her own and built herself, which several people have done that in real life.

[Vesuvius87]

Probably Ever After seems like a more realistic version of Cinderella where she (Danielle) had to rescue herself from a creep and freed herself before the prince had a chance.

[Vesuvius87]

Plus it wasn't love at first sight and the prince selecting her for the dance in that version. They had already spent time together before the ball.

[TonyMetal___1986]

A lot better then Bollywood haha

[Kelly6]

@Vesuvius87 yes 100%

[Kelly6]

@Vesuvius87
These only look good on screen but in reality they would be weird