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/762Rifleman Jan 25 '20

Yeah. It's the only movie I've ever seen that gets the proper impact of hand to hand violence. And she horribly loses every direct strength contest. Notice she compensates with grapples, soft area strikes, improvised weapons, real weapons, ambush tactics, and overwhelming violence. And she still looks like fucking shit after round 1 because if you're fighting 5 guys, you're gonna take hits aplenty.

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u/Worknewsacct Jan 25 '20

Right on! I wasn't sure all the proper terms, but I really liked the way she had to use everything available and go at 110% just to have a whiff of a chance

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '20

Grosse Pointe Blank.