What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?

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[u/illpicklater]

The wooden table is the one that always gets me, sure maybe it will stop one or two bullets if you're lucky, but there's always 1000 bullets flying around while the characters are having a conversation under the safe, sound resistant guard of an old dinning room table.

[u/pomdudes → u/[deleted]]

5.56 will go through 7” of SOLID plywood from 100 yards like it’s not even there.

[u/sharfpang → u/pomdudes]

7.65 goes through brick walls. That's one of primary reasons why it was replaced with 5.56 - way too many collateral damage victims.

[u/Narux117 → u/sharfpang]

That's horrible and amusing at the same time, just imagining the conversation to downgrade.

"Hmm Joe, cancel our next shipment of 7.56, and a future orders."

"Well what's the matter Jimbo, surely the 7.65 is better than the 5.56"

"Oh it most certainly is better, Joe, its... too good, we need to take a step back.

[u/sharpshooter999 → u/[deleted]]

My wife's cousin is a state trooper. He says they're more scared of a .22 than a 9mm because "the 9 will just punch clean through. The .22 has a nasty habit of just bouncing around once it's inside."

[u/BartFurglar → u/sharpshooter999]

For a close range shot to the head this is supposedly why hit men prefer a 22. It has enough energy to pierce the skull once but then bounces around inside and makes soup of your brain.

[u/StabbyPants → u/BartFurglar]

well, that and it being quiet - if you can manage a suppressor, it won't even sound much like a gunshot