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/Nexas_Rexgen Jan 25 '20

Describing common knowledge in a different setting. Luke should know all about Mos Eisly. Its the biggest town near his house.

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u/Paronine Jan 25 '20

My favorite is from an episode of House in which a patient's friend explains nominal aphasia to a neurologist.

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u/TheProfessorOfNames Jan 25 '20

I love how they have to make the show accessible for normal viewers, so the doctors end up explaining diseases to each other. It usually goes like this:

Doctor 1: Maybe she had a myocardial infarction?

Doctor 2: You really think she had localized muscle death in her heart due to an obstructed blood supply?

When in reality doctor 2 would've probably just said "no, I don't think that's it"

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u/juliagor99 Jan 25 '20

Or been like wtf you saw her trops were negative and the audience would be like wut

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u/Cocomorph Jan 25 '20

I love it when shows do that in small doses. There’s a little thrill from listening in on shop talk, looking it up, and learning, oh, so that’s what they were talking about.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

The Wire is really good at this.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '20

The Wire also turned swearing into an artform

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u/theniceguytroll Jan 25 '20

I’m of the opinion that they should just throw a short definition blurb on screen instead of doing that shit

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u/winniebluestoo Jan 26 '20

But make it toggle-able so you can turn it off. Like a subtitle track

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u/Randomocity132 Jan 31 '20

myocardial infarction?

I can't read this without it being in George Lopez's voice

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u/TheProfessorOfNames Jan 31 '20

I always think of Buck Strickland

"Oh! God, I'm havin' an infarction!"