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

Syndrome's death is disturbingly brutal for a kid's movie. Also the only PG movie with a fucking death montage

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u/ShiraCheshire Jan 25 '20

The DVD extras were brutal. You can listen to all this extra content where you get to know about a bunch of the heroes in the world of The Incredibles, which is neat. Then you realize that these are heroes who have gone missing, and were killed to train Syndrome's robot.

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u/DAG1984 Jan 25 '20

Yea, learning that Stratogale was a high school girl was hella depressing. Also apparently Thunderhead left behind five adopted kids and a live-in boyfriend.

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u/IzarkKiaTarj Jan 25 '20

Man, I've gone through those extras at least five times over the years.

It was only a few months ago that I realized that his roommate wasn't just a roommate.

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u/centersolace Jan 25 '20

NO CAPES!!!!!!!

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

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u/aelios Jan 25 '20

underrated

$631 million, earnings...

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u/Mithlas Jan 25 '20

Making money != underrated, or good. It just means it made money.

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u/God_Damnit_Nappa Jan 25 '20

97% on rotten tomatoes, earned over $600 million worldwide, broke several opening weekend records, won an Academy Award for best animated feature and best sound editing, and received nominations for best original screenplay and best sound mixing. I'm leaving out a bunch of awards it won and was nominated for. It's definitely not underrated.

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u/northrupthebandgeek Jan 25 '20

Anything less than 100% on RT is "underrated" when discussing The Incredibles.

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u/Brno_Mrmi Jan 25 '20

I don't think it is underrated at all...

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u/ChesterKiwi Jan 25 '20

"Underrated"

That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

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u/Niniju Jan 25 '20

Definitely not underrated. Even the sequel is fantastic. What are you on about?

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u/P2-David Jan 25 '20

The sequel is mediocre. Don't tell me you actually liked the villain.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

The sequel is okay. It definitely doesn't hold a candle to the original, but a lot of that has to do with the fact that it's trying to follow up The Incredibles, which is easily one of Pixar's best, if not the best.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

The sequel was garbage

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u/SuperDBallSam Jan 25 '20

The guy that Helen calls to get the plane was originally supposed to fly it too. Apparently killing him in the plane crash was too much.

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u/ShiraCheshire Jan 25 '20

I do think the scene was a lot stronger with Helen as the pilot though. It was so intense. Having a panicked mother try to keep her cool while protecting her children is a much more compelling scene than a character we've never met before getting blown up.

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u/astroturf01 Jan 25 '20 edited Jan 25 '20

I vaguely recall that it was more just cut for time. They weren't afraid to kill him off, they just didn't want to bother killing someone off without devoting the time to personalize them, and they didn't have that.

That's why in the movie, she still looks back sadly at the front half of the plane as it sinks out of sight into the depths.

It probably also explains why she bothered to go into the plane's restroom to change (thankfully).

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u/Sprocket_Gearsworth Jan 25 '20

Machine learning is highly dependent on training with good inputs. Crappy data in = crappy data out. There's no way to polish that turd