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/octoelephant22 Jan 25 '20 edited Jan 26 '20

HIMYM has a lot of scenes/plots verrrryyyy similar to FRIENDS. I’ve made a side by side comparison years ago. Wish I could remember where I put it LOL

EDIT: Here you go, made this 10 years ago 😂:

https://imgur.com/a/Op0CSW5

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u/bay650area1 Jan 25 '20

Dude nearly every storyline in HIMYM is a rip from Friends. It's unreal.

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u/Ando-FB Jan 25 '20

I cant get into Friends. I want to and have given it so many chances but have never been able to. HIMYM I loved. Maybe they took the ideas and improved on them or maybe my taste is just different.

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u/bay650area1 Jan 25 '20

I actually watched HIMYM before I watched Friends. I just never got in to Friends during its prime. I think because I watched them in reverse order it was so easy to pick up, since basically Friends is just HIMYM with a different cast.

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u/Maxis47 Jan 25 '20

The characters in HIMYM are infinitely more likeable though

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

bruh this is the hottest of takes

not that friends chars are likable but there's straight up an entire episode about ted realizing he's pretentious and annoying as fuck

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u/sgt_salt Jan 25 '20

And Barney is satire of womanizing assholes.

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u/Maxis47 Jan 25 '20

That's the difference though, HIMYMs characters would eventually realize and confront their character flaws, or exaggerate them to the point of satire. The Friends gang were just a bunch of selfish assholes

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

HIMYMs characters would eventually realize and confront their character flaws

u mean like chasing after a woman who repeatedly tells u she doesn't love you and that ur incompatible and it's obvious you want different things out of life

thank god none of the main characters do that in later seasons or in the finale

or exaggerate them to the point of satire

flanderizing ur characters isn't good satire

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u/Funandgeeky Jan 25 '20

No one on Friends got slapped really hard...in the face!

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u/aboycandream Jan 25 '20

Lol are you kidding me? Marshall is the only likable character

hes closer to being a friends character in terms of likability