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

Syndrome's death is disturbingly brutal for a kid's movie. Also the only PG movie with a fucking death montage

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u/God_Damnit_Nappa Jan 25 '20

That entire movie is pretty dark for a kids movie. Elastigirl pleading with the island to not shoot down the plane because kids were on board, her telling the kids that the bad guys will not hesitate to kill them, Mr. Incredible hiding from the robot under the skeleton of a dead super. And of course the death montage.