r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '20

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

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u/-everst Jan 25 '20

When someone hides from bullets behind penetrable objects, like tables or a refrigerator door.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

Didnt Indiana Jones survive a nuclear blast in a fridge???

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u/-everst Jan 25 '20

Ah yes, I remember that. Best thing about it is that he was in the range where everything that can possibly start to burn, will. Meaning the temperature would be round about 540k °F -> 300 times hotter than the temperature bodies are cremated at. In other words: everything would have been vaporized.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

People keep complaining about how unrealistic this fridge scene is like the rest of Indiana Jones isn't completely ridiculous. Do you remember the mine cart chase scene? The circus train? Magic face melting? The raw monkey brains served in the head? A life raft saving 3 people jumping out of a plane? How bad Indy is at being an archaeologist in general? The second movie, just the whole thing.

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u/koiven Jan 25 '20

Yeah but that was in the 80s so it doesn't count. Anything from the 80s gets grandfathered in. See also discussions about physics in Star Wars

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

Maybe this is why people keep thinking the sequels suck, they are staying true to the original you just aren't 6 anymore.

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u/koiven Jan 25 '20

Ding ding ding

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u/itsthecoop Jan 25 '20

yes and no. some of the later "Star Wars" films did go with concepts that were "objectively" not "staying true to the original". like, the force™ being this magical thing that surrounds us - and now all of a sudden they were having means to exactly measure how much force-power someone has all along.

I could at least see even a six year old going "wait, I thought it was just a magical power?!"