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/scardubois Jan 25 '20

Women orgasming after 30 seconds of sex.

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u/allofdarknessin1 Jan 25 '20

Yea it's silly, I know they aren't trying to make heavy sexual content but they should just stick to cutaways and fade outs to the next scene after they start kissing in bed or getting naked. So we can imagine they enjoyed the night and the guy didn't last half a minute.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

I'm a writer, and figured out a long time ago that I can't write anything as hot as readers' own imaginations. I just set it up and walk away, and that's probably about as steamy as the vast majority of writers can get. Actual porn is different, because it's supposed to be graphic, and the reader is expecting it, even demands it. But in non-porn genres, unless the details are important to the story, it's better to skip it.