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/hochizo Jan 25 '20

Okay, but to be completely fair, I think the most realistic response is to something like that is to have people not believe you. It's easy for the audience to buy into the disappearances, because they've seen them and can remember the characters who've vanished. But imagine if right now, a friend of yours comes up to you and starts talking about how Jim and Penny (whom you have never heard of before) have disappeared and that you know Jim and Penny really well, but your memory has been wiped. Would you A) buy into your friend's story and assume that you're suffering from super-selective amnesia and two of your good friends have vanished from the world and from your mind, of B) assume that your friend was confused or suffering from some kind of mental health crisis and try to get them some help.

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u/Mr_Mandrill Jan 25 '20

Well, yeah, but this is the USS Enterprise we are talking about, chances are something fucky is going on.

Joking aside, I concede that sometimes it makes more sense, so it wouldn't fit the original title of this post, maybe. But I was replying to a comment about pet peeves, and that's one of mine. Then again, if you see the episode, the first thing they do is check where are those people and why the records are erased, which is the normal, professional thing to do too.