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The candy-obsessed firecracker should've won it all. Yes, this Tumblr user presents a compelling case for why Violet Beauregarde was robbed of her rightful place as the winner of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Maybe Wonka wanted an impressionable, easily influenced kid instead of a business mind. 

When the flow of logic in a film is disrupted in such a way that it takes the viewer of the film out of the experience, and into a mental roadblock, it's a bummer. Some plot holes are just too big for people to look past, and ultimately be able to enjoy the film. Consistency can go a long way in immersing the audience in the storyline, as it was meant to be experienced. Another plot hole covered recently, was that plot hole we can often see in zombie apocalypse movies/shows. Tumblr did it justice.

If only life were like the movies, but most of the time, no such luck. Yes, it'd be nice to cruise carelessly down freeways with no traffic in sight, in the middle of rush hour. Yes, it'd be beautiful to have a flowing conversation between a group of people, where nobody is talking over each other. For now, we get to experience those pleasant moments on movies. If we're lucky, we see some of it carry over into our actual lives. 

We get that movies are all about getting as much plot and action across in as little time as possible, but that leads us to some interesting and totally unrealistic scenes that can make movies seem laughably unbelievable. We get it, they're movies, but dude, there's tons of stuff in movies that are just not like that in real life.

People are sharing their experiences with movies when they were kids that ultimately left them emotionally scarred. Whether it was a particularly frightening scene in a seemingly innocent movie like "Pinnochio" or maybe something more conventionally scary and in the horror genre, like "Poltergeist" this list might trigger some old fears in people. 

We get it. Filmmakers use unrealistic storytelling methods in order to convey the most amount of information to the viewer in as efficient a way as possible. It would be boring to watch Joe Pesci try to find parking for twenty minutes. That doesn't mean that some of these shortcuts go unnoticed, like how this tumblr thread uncovers the very limited types of movie posters.

There's definitely such thing as being too on point. These are great!

Filmmakers use a lot of unrealistic shortcuts to get their point across as quickly as possible. Some of these shortcuts are so ridiculous and overdone that they end up ruining a viewer's suspension of disbelief. Here are some that seem to be in absolutely everything.

The world is full of nightmares. Here are a batch of things you've never noticed and didn't want to know. From unsavory movie facts to obscure diseases, some are a *little* worse than others.

It's hard to find someone who's never read or seen any Harry Potter. Seeing it through fresh eyes is almost as good as experiencing it all for the first time.

Tried just a *little* too hard on that one.

The Reykjavík International Film Festival kept being mistaken for the The Icelandic Phallological Museum. Like a lot.