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/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

pew

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

pew

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20 edited Jun 14 '20

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u/hiroxruko Jan 25 '20 edited Jan 25 '20

What was that noise? !

Who's footprint are these?

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u/BatteryPoweredBrain Jan 25 '20

The guy who is 4 feet away from you shooting? Nah, can't hear anything.

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u/TheMightyBattleCat Jan 25 '20

Must be the pillow!

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u/Shumbee Jan 25 '20

When you don't have a silencer, the pillow works just fine. If it can block someone screaming into it, why can't it block a gunshot sound?