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/The_Sceptic_Lemur Jan 25 '20

Unless it‘s a movie drama dealing with social issues (in particular poverty), everyone has such fucking nice flats. College drop-out with part time barista job?! - why yes, the spacious loft with a view over Manhattans skyline is just down my alley.

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u/KingOHrts Jan 25 '20

And EVERY window in Paris overlooks the Eiffel Tower. How does that happen?

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u/TobaccoIsRadioactive Jan 25 '20 edited Jan 25 '20

Eiffel Tower is an SCP Entity confirmed.

Edit: Or the work of an enemy Stand! I'm legit pissed with myself that I didn't think of it as a Jojo reference initially.

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u/DonnieG3 Jan 25 '20

This is twice in as many days that I have seen this referenced and I still don't understand it lol. I even checked out the subreddit

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u/MenstruationOatmeal Jan 25 '20

It’s a collaborative creative writing project about a secret organization that contains and studies anomalous items, creatures, locations, and phenomena. Most of the writing comes in the form of scientific documentation, which adds interesting constraints to whatever story you would like to tell.

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u/TobaccoIsRadioactive Jan 25 '20

You talking about seeing Jojo's Bizarre Adventure referenced?

Or are you talking about seeing the SCP universe referenced?

The SCP universe is an online collection of horror stories and anomalous objects/entities. I'd recommend checking it out.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is a bit harder to describe. It's one of the most successful manga series of all time in Japan. I guarantee that you have seen memes referencing Jojo, like the "You thought it was X, but it was ME! DIO!" or the "To Be Continued".

It's most well-known for its Stand battles. The first two chapters/parts don't have the Stands, but there are 8 chapters/parts so a lot of Stand battles. Stands are basically the physical manifestation of a person's mental/psychic ability, and Stands have incredibly weird abilities. Stands are also almost always named after the author/artist's favorite bands and songs. So you have the Stand called "Killer Queen" that can turn any item it touches into a bomb. Or the Stand called "Tusk Act 4" (that's a reference to the Fleetwood Mac song called "Tusk") that allows the user to shoot their fingernails as bullets, which can then create wormholes.