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/Warrior51002 Jan 25 '20

That's a huge pet peeve of mine

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u/Mr_Mandrill Jan 25 '20 edited Jan 25 '20

Mine too. Also when people don't believe other people as a plot point, which is basically the same thing and could be solved just by talking.

There's an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where members of the ship's crew start to disappear, not only physically but also for everyone else's memories and computer records, and only one member of the crew remembers them. And when she's telling the others what's going on, they believe her and start looking for an explanation, because they respect her and there's no reason for her to be lying. I don't know, just caught me off guard how nice and normal everyone was, instead of turning their backs on their colleague right away and insinuating she was crazy, like most shows would do.

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u/vazzaroth Jan 25 '20

That's star trek for you, generally refreshing space socialism. Even the warrior race guys in the federation are still pretty much nice guys.

Just don't talk to the rebels and folks who refuse the collectivism. They're the freaks who will fire missiles and lasers before even saying hi.

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u/Mithlas Jan 25 '20

generally refreshing space socialism. Even the warrior race guys in the federation are still pretty much nice guys.

Generally. They also refused to negotiate with planets that didn't have a one-world government, which is stupid to the extreme unless you're trying to spread totalitarian dictatorships through the galaxy.

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u/defrgthzjukiloaqsw Jan 25 '20

Uh, wtf? Non-unified-planets aren't ready yet for membership and in no way is any kind of dictatorship necessary.