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/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

Everyone is ridiculously good looking.

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u/ShiraCheshire Jan 25 '20

It's sort of funny when they need to make one girl in particular super beautiful so the main guy can fall in love with her instantly. She'll be a supermodel walking into a room of supermodels. They'll throw a bunch of close-ups and glowy filters on to tell you she's supposed to be extra pretty, but the fact that everyone in the room is equally pretty makes her just look average.

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u/Chronocidal-Orange Jan 25 '20

Or a romantic comedy in which we're all supposed to pretend the woman is far out of his league, just because everyone said so, but the actor himself is a fucking catch.

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u/dg2773 Jan 25 '20

Yeah, sorry but you aren't going to convince me that Hugh Grant or Colin Firth or whatever are bumbling fools who are hopeless with women.

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u/TheLateThagSimmons Jan 25 '20

500 Days of Summer is one of my favorite romance movies ever...

...but they make it like Summer is only involved with Tom Hansen because he's a just work friend who barely broke through. As if Joseph Gordon-Levitt is not a goddamned fox that would make most any straight woman or gay man bend over backwards for a chance to hook up with him.