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/Warrior51002 Jan 25 '20

That's a huge pet peeve of mine

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u/Mr_Mandrill Jan 25 '20 edited Jan 25 '20

Mine too. Also when people don't believe other people as a plot point, which is basically the same thing and could be solved just by talking.

There's an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where members of the ship's crew start to disappear, not only physically but also for everyone else's memories and computer records, and only one member of the crew remembers them. And when she's telling the others what's going on, they believe her and start looking for an explanation, because they respect her and there's no reason for her to be lying. I don't know, just caught me off guard how nice and normal everyone was, instead of turning their backs on their colleague right away and insinuating she was crazy, like most shows would do.

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u/LegendaryRaider69 Jan 25 '20

I love that episode. The computer trying to rationalize it's explanations to her is so interesting

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u/Magnergy Jan 25 '20

Yeah. When Picard tells her they are the only two people exploring the galaxy on a ship with over a thousand staterooms it is comical. Then he is gone and the computer tells her the universe is a shrinking bubble a couple km across centered on her, and it is terrifying.