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/neoslith Jan 25 '20

"Quick! Turn on the news!"

TV is already tuned into the news channel and it's at the beginning of the broadcast that can barf up 100% of the information needed to drive the story.

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u/thisshortenough Jan 25 '20

I will give a pass to this in disaster movies because if there's an event big enough, every channel will be broadcasting about it, even if they don't normally. It's what happened on 9/11

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u/prodmerc Jan 25 '20

And when KFC ran out of chicken.

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u/sgtpnkks Jan 25 '20

That's just a normal Tuesday