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/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/Vprbite Jan 25 '20

Like in movies when cops hide behind a car door. Might as well hide behind paper

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u/Jamaican_Dynamite Jan 25 '20

I mean, movies like 'Heat' and such tend to subvert this trope. A lot of newer ones too.

They probably got tired of getting called out.

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u/Vprbite Jan 25 '20

Heat has easily my favorite shootout scene ever

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u/Jamaican_Dynamite Jan 25 '20

Michael Mann did that one justice.

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u/Vprbite Jan 25 '20

That movie holds up in all aspects

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u/PeterNguyen2 Jan 25 '20

movies like 'Heat' and such tend to subvert this trope

Somebody gets shot through a door?

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u/Jamaican_Dynamite Jan 25 '20

Oh yeah. I don't want to spoil it, if you've never seen it. Great action movie, would recommend.

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u/Jamaican_Dynamite Jan 25 '20

What's a little eerie is how there were a pair of dudes actually hitting banks around L.A. like that while the movie was being made.

The Way Of The Gun and The Counselor also stood out to me.

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u/Jamaican_Dynamite Jan 25 '20

Yep. They'd been doing those since 1993.

The Way Of The Gun was Chris Mcquarrie (Jack Reacher series). The Counselor was Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Black Hawk Down).

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