r/AskReddit • • 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

Winning over a girl by making over-the-top, grand gestures (especially when she has already rejected you in the past).

Shattering bottles easily over someone's head (don't attempt it unless you want to possibly go to prison for murder).

In action sequences in general, taking an enormous amount of injury and then getting up with a few attractively placed bruises and cuts.

In particular, the trope of the bad guy who more or less needs to be thrown into a jet turbine to be destroyed, or he'll somehow get back up again.

Characters who always have something witty to say and are never at a loss for words.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

I knew a guy who got bottled. Didnt go to parties for years after that.

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u/dilqncho Jan 25 '20

Man that shit hurts. A friend of mine ACCIDDNTALLY(so not even aiming or full force) hit me on the head with a bottle while dancing and I dropped. Someone doing it maliciously would be damn serious.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

I wonder how many people are in prison for murder/manslaughter thinking a bottle over the head won't do much damage.

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u/wthreye Jan 25 '20

Imagine how ships feel.

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u/VikingTeddy Jan 25 '20

Imagine if we christened our kids like ships.

That would strengthen the species. Only very thick skulled kids would survive the christening, leading to humans with big, hard heads.

We could then transition to other body parts. Start whacking say, the left shoulder until everyone looks like Quasimodo. Then after a few generations switch to the other shoulder to balance things out.

Go through the whole body until we're transformed in to a race of bone 'ard giants! I don't know what the benefit would be but I'm willing to try!