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Reddit Asks the Question: 'What Only Works In Movies?'

By Petr Navovy | reddit | February 24, 2023 |

By Petr Navovy | reddit | February 24, 2023 |


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It’s been a little while since we revisited that eternally recurring AskReddit trope: Pointing out movie tropes and how incompatible they are with real life! It’s one of the site’s favourite topics to return to, though it always interests me to see how some people get really angry that movies dare not adhere exactly to reality—as if the oft-banal nature of reality was something worth capturing in exacting detail and perfect verisimilitude. I could quote something about Herzog’s ‘ecstatic truth’ here, but I find Alex Honnold’s ‘this is nonsense, but whatever, it’s fun, it’s a movie’ version of that from these videos—

—also works. Either way, you can check out the full thread of AskReddit’s ‘What only works in movies?’ ponderings here, but below are some highlights: