Its similiar to the Bruce Lee phenomenon. Lots of people saw Bruce Lee on the big screen and it motivated them to take martial arts. To me that's a good thing. However, very few beginners realize that what is choreographed for the movies isn't what the real stuff is like. It gets romanticized and that leads to many people learning fantasy martial arts and thinking its real. After all, it looks like what Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Lee, etc etc did in so-and-so movie.
Probably every person in here with more than a few years experience has seen someone mimicking what they have seen on the screen and calling it real. Ufortunately movie fu doesn't hold up to the test.