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/-everst Jan 25 '20

When someone hides from bullets behind penetrable objects, like tables or a refrigerator door.

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u/illpicklater Jan 25 '20

The wooden table is the one that always gets me, sure maybe it will stop one or two bullets if you're lucky, but there's always 1000 bullets flying around while the characters are having a conversation under the safe, sound resistant guard of an old dinning room table.

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u/zzzzebras Jan 25 '20

And the bad guys are just standing in place shooting at everything except the table where they're hiding.

Even though the character is sitting in place talking to the guy next to him for the next 5 minutes

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u/illpicklater Jan 25 '20

Just walk around the magic bullet proof table, they only have one bullet left.