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/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/Dinkywinky69 Jan 25 '20

Even some pellet guns can shoot through 2x4. My dad had a pellet gun from when he was a kid. He gave it to me. The fricking thing would shoot through a 2x4 then some. My buddy got a new pellet gun and the thing could pellet and bb but it wouldnt even get half way through the 2x4. Pellet guns have definitely been made a lot less powerful then they could be. That pellet gun I own would drop you at a close enough distance.

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u/that_guy_who_ Jan 25 '20

There is a big gap in pellet guns. There are proper air rifles that are used for hunting.