Movies vs. Reality

You can help your family by training them to be appropriately skeptical of what they see on TV, in movies, or even read in the newspaper. We need to be discerning men, and raise discerning citizens. We started with commercials when the kids were little. ("Hmm... do you think holding a Pringles can like that really brings you lots of smiling friends?" )

Churchlaughs.com has this fun list for movies.

Reality According to Hollywood
All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.
The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place.
The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
Cars that crash will almost always burst into flames.
Persons knocked unconscious by a blow to the head will never suffer a concussion or brain damage.
It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.
Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds—unless it's the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside.
All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they will go off.
Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.
It is not necessary to say hello or goodbye when beginning or ending phone conversations.
Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.
It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts; your enemies will patiently wait to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.