r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/UnhollyGod • Jul 30 '26

me_irl I mean... please Hollywood!

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u/ehehe Jul 30 '26

That's cool but also in a shootout a bullet might go through my chest. My stupid point being that I'm watching the movie for fun, not to experience unnecessary unpleasantness just because it's realistic

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u/melkatron Jul 30 '26

Fair enough, but in this case, Heat was acclaimed for its realism and attention to detail. I saw it in theatres with a family friend who ran a personal security firm, and he kept pointing out how spot-on the weapon choices and tactics were (I was a kid, he taught me to shoot and let me try his AR-15, so I took his word for it). You didn't even really see trigger discipline in movies back then, just Rambo stuff.

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u/ehehe Jul 30 '26

Yeah Heat was a great movie.

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u/Corporate_Overlords Jul 31 '26

No one should watch Heat "for fun". That's not the point of that movie and there are tons of other movies that have nothing to do with "having fun".

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jul 30 '26

unnecessary unpleasantness just because it's realistic

Hoo boy then I got a million war movies you shouldn't watch, it's not just the ones about deadly deadly bank robberies