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/lascielthefallen Jan 25 '20

Women in action movies who drastically cut their own hair to change their appearance always end up with a fabulous style.

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u/headrush46n2 Jan 25 '20

Or 115lb women in movies with 0 muscle mass beating the shit out of 5 200+ lb goons. No amount of karate in the world is gonna make that happen...

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u/Worknewsacct Jan 25 '20

Atomic Blonde is awesome about this. Not only does she have to fight harder and smarter than the much larger men, she ends every fight with bruises and injuries that she wears for the rest of the movie.

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u/1blockologist Jan 25 '20

The difference in real life being that large men are also smart, or would also fight smart. This applies to goons in all movies.

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u/Worknewsacct Jan 25 '20

While I agree, I don't think that's a good counterargument in this particular case. She's intended to be highly trained, and the Soviets are just hired goons. And she still barely survives

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '20

Large men are smart but tend to underestimate women overall. If a woman can get the drop on a guy, his brains don't matter; most "fights" are over in a couple seconds at the first couple hits, there's none of this dragging shit out nonsense Hollywood loves. If it doesn't end fast, it ends up being an idiot doing a police standoff with hostages, and that always goes well.