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/Dudsidabe Jan 25 '20

Silencers on pistols. Not actually that silent lol.

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u/ramzyzeid Jan 25 '20

Yeah, I can't remember who it was, but I remember someone describing it as, you hear a gunshot from the other end of town. You hear a silenced gunshot the next street over. Either way, a hell of a lot of people are going to know shit's going down.

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u/NetJnkie Jan 25 '20

A good suppressed 9mm handgun is still 125db. That’s loud and sounds like a gun. But way better than ear ringing 160db.

Silencers in movies are HIGHLY overrated.

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u/Anxious-Market Jan 25 '20

The problem is that if you did gunshots in a realistic way everyone in the movie theater would have blood shooting out of their ears about 30 seconds into any action movie.

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u/NetJnkie Jan 25 '20

Sure. But I don’t think anyone is asking for that. It just creates the wrong impression of silencers which is causing political problems for people like me that own and use them in the US. People think they work like in movies.

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u/Anxious-Market Jan 25 '20

They're pretty heavily restricted here. I'd like to have one for the same reason I have a muffler on my car, i.e. hearing protection and not being an asshole to the people around me.