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What To Do When An Action Movie Becomes Reality

How do you feel after seeing a violent action movie? Great, huh? But what happens when your real, actual life turns into a bad Jerry Bruckheimer movie?
   
    We've chronicled some of the differences here, in hopes to better understand the differences between a Clear and Present Danger and a Clear and Present Danger starring Harrison Ford.
   
    First realize what has really happened
    FILM: Think it's too much, couldn't really happen
    LIFE: Think it's too much, can't really be happening
   
    Somebody falls out of a tall building
    FILM: Laughter
    LIFE: Abject horror, feel faint, nauseous, terrified
   
    See a grotesque scene of injured people
    FILM: Feel "grossed out," make uncomfortable faces
    LIFE: Feel utter horror, strong desire to help in some way, somehow
   
    See a devastating crash or explosion
    FILM: Wonder how a special-effects team managed to do that
    LIFE: Wonder how a just God could possibly allow that to happen
   
    National monument destroyed
    FILM: Awestruck, minor shock
    LIFE: Find yourself praying for them, their families, pray to God that this is all some kind of fucked up dream, profound sadness
   
    Leaders, heroes emerge
    FILM: Wonder how they're going to win
    LIFE: Hope to God they will win
   
    Dust settles
    FILM: Try to guess what movie cost to make, run out of popcorn
    LIFE: There are no words to describe own emotions, patriotism overshadowed by fear, sheer terror, find self praying in street with people you don't know
   
    Steamy sex scene
    FILM: Turned on, mildly embarassed
    LIFE: No sex scene, thought of sex never enters mind for perhaps first time in whole life
   
    Current US president says, "This is war"
    FILM: Feel confident, euphoric, know best scenes are yet to come
    LIFE: Feel dumbfounded, fearful, may see worse yet to come, hope we make it out of this alive
   
    Bad guys established
    MOVIE: Think, "That's a weird looking alien"
    LIFE: Feel embarassed to be a human being
   
    When the credits roll
    MOVIE: Thank fucking God
    LIFE: Thank fucking God
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