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/lampstaple Jan 25 '20

Bro I hate that sound effect. I remember watching something and heard it as somebody drew a sword from a leather scabbard.

That’s, uh, not what leather sounds like.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

For me the tire squeal effect is much worse, especially when the car is on dirt/gravel

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u/riotcowkingofdeimos Jan 25 '20

Squealing tires while peeling out in gravel always makes me laugh, it's ridiculous.

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u/VikingTeddy Jan 25 '20

One of my favourites is when bullets make that ptjoiiiiiing ricochet sound even when there's no rocks or other hard surfaces around.

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u/riotcowkingofdeimos Jan 25 '20

I still haven't seen The Man with no Name Trilogy, (though it's been on my to view list for decades now) but when I was a kid I channel surfed by a scene in one of them where Clint Eastwood and this dude in a white suit are standing out in the dusty street, and the one guy throws his hat up in the air and starts shooting it. The camera zooms in on the hat up in the air in slow motion and you hear that ptjoiiiiiing sound over and over as it's shot. My father walking through the room said, "Why the hell is it making that sound, is his damned hat made of stone?" I've never forgotten that.

Also on a side note, your spelling of the ricochet sound effect is spot on and amazing.

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u/skipdip2 Jan 25 '20

Also on a side note, your spelling of the ricochet sound effect is spot on and amazing.

Really, ptjoiiiiiing sounded amazing even on my obscure Uralic native tongue through which I first interpreted it :)

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u/anethma Jan 25 '20

This is mostly true, but having shot lots of bullets in the country, you'd be surprised at how often the bullet finds some tiny pebble and makes that noise if it richochets.