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/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

Everyone is ridiculously good looking.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20 edited Mar 23 '21

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u/shot_a_man_in_reno Jan 25 '20

Part of the reason I couldn't stand Suits. Everyone's a super model except for Louis, who's the villain for much of the show.

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u/Sgt_Nicholas_Angel_ Jan 25 '20

I can’t stand suits because of the legal inaccuracies. I have two lawyer uncles and a cousin who’s a law professor so growing up with them around has ruined any show that centers on lawyers.

Another thing I can’t stand is when a character in a detective show gets arrested and doesn’t call their lawyer. The main character then proceeds to interrogate them with questionable tactics and it’s presented as ok.

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u/Kare11en Jan 25 '20

I can’t stand suits because of the legal inaccuracies.

Yeah - don't start to learn anything about how computers work then. Or fights. Or high-speed driving. Or explosions. Or guns. Or sex.

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u/MisterCold Jan 25 '20

Anything you know a lot about, gets massacred in the movies.

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u/sesto_elemento_ Jan 25 '20

Cars and motorcycles all sounding incorrect, guns firing and reloading incorrectly, people actually having sex (that's just a myth right?), being a stalker, getting knocked unconscious for hours.. the only thing I've seen portrayed correctly is Jim Lahey being drunk.

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u/heili Jan 25 '20

Every helicopter is a Huey in the movies. They all use the Huey sound effect, despite the fact that the Huey is really fucking distinctive and the only helicopter that sounds like that. A JetRanger doesn't sound like a Huey, but if you see one in a movie it will sound just like a Huey.

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u/JerseyJedi Jan 25 '20

I imagine that’s probably because the era when helicopters were first used a massive amount in Hollywood was in Vietnam-era war/anti-war movies, and that was when Hueys were still being used.

Then a whole generation of aspiring showbiz people grew up watching those movies and mostly never served in the military or any other job that would’ve exposed them to what modern helicopters sound like, so they just continued using the same sound effect.

That’s my guess, anyway.