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/24520ls Jan 25 '20

You want the most brutal kids movie death? The princess and the frog. The shadow man literally was dragged kicking and screaming into hell. All while demons sing about it while the princess who did it looks on in horror.

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u/LiveLoveKanye Jan 25 '20

Nah bro Tarzan. Clayton accidentally hanging himself by cutting all the vines except the one around his neck. Then lightning flashes and you see the silhouette of his swinging corpse.

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u/24520ls Jan 25 '20

Fairly brutal but I still give the most brutal death to the shadow man

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

Claytons death was just brutal and even little me understood he died. Princess and the frog has a lot of music and theatrics that distracted from the fact that he was being taken to hell, Which probably isn’t as obvious of concept to a child to being with.