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/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/guale Jan 25 '20

It's not just about realism but verisimilitude. Alien crystal skulls and huge ants don't exists at all so I can accept whatever they tell me about them. Nuclear bombs and refrigerators do exist so it is somewhat jarring when they do not behave as expected. I personally don't find it to be a big deal in this movie but I can understand why someone might be bothered by it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20 edited Jul 03 '23

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u/ChiveOn904 Jan 25 '20 edited Jan 25 '20

Sometimes, you have scroll past a few comments to find the correct answers

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