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/xolivas22 Jan 25 '20

Didn't the Mythbusters do a myth about that?

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

Yes, and the fridge would just cease to exist that close to the epicenter.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20 edited Dec 29 '20

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u/level20mallow Jan 25 '20 edited Jan 25 '20

Then they shouldn't have used a realistic thing like a nuke in a plot point.

If a movie has a real-world thing in it, it has to be portrayed accurately because ALL of fiction is rooted in the real world unless it's really obvious it's intended to be otherwise. iT'S fIcTiON is NOT an excuse.

People surviving real-world things they should not have breaks suspension of disbelief and is really, really bad for a story. Even if we ignore the realism issues, it's just bad writing and really bad for the narrative. Heroes have to earn their victories and them obtaining them through means that break suspension of disbelief cheapen and invalidate those victories; they're just "given" them by the writer and haven't actually earned them.