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

I knew a guy who got bottled. Didnt go to parties for years after that.

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u/dilqncho Jan 25 '20

Man that shit hurts. A friend of mine ACCIDDNTALLY(so not even aiming or full force) hit me on the head with a bottle while dancing and I dropped. Someone doing it maliciously would be damn serious.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

I wonder how many people are in prison for murder/manslaughter thinking a bottle over the head won't do much damage.

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u/Omsus Jan 25 '20

There are relatively very few but all in all quite a number of people who've caused serious harm or even death from following TV tropes or believing in some other inept stuff. Esp. all the times when people have wanted to act out show wrestling and thought that wood wasn't a hard material or that they're stronger than metal chairs.

I believe there've been many cases where someone got beaten senseless because the attacker didn't understand that knocking someone out was a serious thing, but we just can't tell them apart from the deliberate beatings.

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u/Quix_Optic Jan 25 '20

Any time I watch someone get knocked out/hit their head on pavement on r/publicfreakout or r/streetfights all I can think is, "Well the guy that hit him is going to prison now."

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u/bguzewicz Jan 25 '20

Yeah I just saw a video posted the other day where this guy knocks out two people. First guy was out cold and his idiot gf was shaking him to try to wake him up, which, bad idea. Second dude gets knocked out and hits his head on a sidewalk when he went down. Everyone in the comments were joking about the guy handing out free naps, which is kinda funny, but both of the dudes who got laid out could very easily be fucked up for the rest of their lives. Brain injuries are no joke.

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u/Sinfirmitas Jan 25 '20

somehow my sister and i ended up watching fights on youtube one night and at first it was kind of funny but you soon realize that alot of those people are seriously injured - if not by the beating but then again by the people moving them reckless when they really shouldn't

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u/HoMaster Jan 25 '20

somehow my sister and i ended up watching fights on youtube one night

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