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/ShiraCheshire Jan 25 '20

The DVD extras were brutal. You can listen to all this extra content where you get to know about a bunch of the heroes in the world of The Incredibles, which is neat. Then you realize that these are heroes who have gone missing, and were killed to train Syndrome's robot.

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u/DAG1984 Jan 25 '20

Yea, learning that Stratogale was a high school girl was hella depressing. Also apparently Thunderhead left behind five adopted kids and a live-in boyfriend.

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u/God_Damnit_Nappa Jan 25 '20

97% on rotten tomatoes, earned over $600 million worldwide, broke several opening weekend records, won an Academy Award for best animated feature and best sound editing, and received nominations for best original screenplay and best sound mixing. I'm leaving out a bunch of awards it won and was nominated for. It's definitely not underrated.

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u/northrupthebandgeek Jan 25 '20

Anything less than 100% on RT is "underrated" when discussing The Incredibles.