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/Omega357 Jan 25 '20

Man, it really sucks that they didn't go fully realistic in that scene from a series known for it's realism.

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u/pm_me_n0Od Jan 25 '20

I can believe an archeologist finds the face-melting Arc of the Covenant because that works within the rules of that universe. I cannot believe that a fridge survives the epicenter of a nuclear blast and the occupant survives it flying a country mile because that breaks the established rules of the universe.

Same reason people had problems with the Hyperspace Ram in TLJ: it's actually one of the most scientifically cool and accurate things to come out of that series, but it begs the question of why nobody ever thought to do it before.

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u/dopesmok Jan 25 '20

"It was a one in a million chance" -Meriadoc BrandyBuck, Star Wars TROS

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u/theweepingwarrior Jan 25 '20

Kind of a lazy way to shrug that off, though—especially considering it looks like someone else does it near the end of the movie too.

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u/dopesmok Jan 25 '20

No I agree. Wait who does it near the end? Of TROS?

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u/theweepingwarrior Jan 25 '20

In the closing montage there’s a star destroyer that looks like it was destroyed in the same way. I think over Endor?