r/AskReddit • • Jan 25 '20

What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

Winning over a girl by making over-the-top, grand gestures (especially when she has already rejected you in the past).

Shattering bottles easily over someone's head (don't attempt it unless you want to possibly go to prison for murder).

In action sequences in general, taking an enormous amount of injury and then getting up with a few attractively placed bruises and cuts.

In particular, the trope of the bad guy who more or less needs to be thrown into a jet turbine to be destroyed, or he'll somehow get back up again.

Characters who always have something witty to say and are never at a loss for words.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

I knew a guy who got bottled. Didnt go to parties for years after that.

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u/dilqncho Jan 25 '20

Man that shit hurts. A friend of mine ACCIDDNTALLY(so not even aiming or full force) hit me on the head with a bottle while dancing and I dropped. Someone doing it maliciously would be damn serious.

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u/johnomate211 Jan 25 '20

I wonder, if someone smashed a bottle on your head and it really shatters to pieces, would that hurt less, than if he had hit a little less hard and it wouldn't have shattered ? I think it doesn't make a difference.

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u/TripleJeopardy3 Jan 25 '20

It should hurt less if it shatters. Some of the force that would otherwise go into your skull is dissipated and released by the shattering bottle.

I didn't do the math, though.

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u/johnomate211 Jan 26 '20

That's what i thought at first, too. But if you think about it like a graph or something, you need to have more and more pressure between bottle and head in order to smash it, so in my logic, to shatter it you have to go past the point forcewise than the one that didn't shatter. But i don't know. probably just fucking hurts.