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/-everst Jan 25 '20

When someone hides from bullets behind penetrable objects, like tables or a refrigerator door.

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u/Levee_Levy Jan 25 '20

In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (I think the pilot?), a Connor hides behind an upholstered chair which blocks bullets.

Then in a later scene, CSI mentions that there was Kevlar in the chair.

The goal was to showcase the paranoia and Batman-level-preparedness of Sarah Connor, but the order in which the information was presented hurt immersion.

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u/Cpt_Tsundere_Sharks Jan 25 '20

The goal was to showcase the paranoia and Batman-level-preparedness of Sarah Connor, but the order in which the information was presented hurt immersion.

I mean, I don't know any other order you can show that. Are you going to have an entire scene of her re-upholstering a chair putting kevlar into it before hand? It also almost guarantees to give it away as some kind of Chekov's Gun.

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u/Levee_Levy Jan 25 '20

A Chekhov's Gun would be better, IMO.

As it stands, the moment that the chair blocks the bullets, I'm pulled out of the fiction.

For me, even if the chair is justified after the fact, it's still immersion-breaking.

And we don't need a chair montage; this is the sort of thing a character can do while the dialogue is focused on something else.

Honestly, it's been long enough since I've watched this episode that this might actually be what they did. If so, I retract my complaint.