Insultingly stupid movie physics

[Dr Unne]

[qq=ShlupMoo]Anyway, having read that, it is quite true, though...if things were made to be realistic I don't think movies would be all that entertaining...they would be like plays or something.[/qq]

[qq=The site]There's an old axiom in fiction writing which says it's okay to ask a reader to believe the impossible but not the improbable. For example, it's okay to say that a maniac has activated an antimatter bomb in the wall safe, but it's not okay to say that someone miraculously guessed the right combination on the first try.[/qq]

I think that quote is about right. Read the review for the movie <em>A.I. Artificial Intelligence</em>. I like reading fantasy novels. People shoot giant fireballs out of their hands. I don't say "OH NOES TAHTS NOIT POSSIBAL IN FIZIKS" when I read it, because it's a story about a different sort of world. There's a difference between that, and making mistakes out of ignorance. When Arnold Schwarzenegger dives face-first through a window and has nary a scratch to show for it, either the writer of the movie is too stupid to realize that in real life it'd kill you, or else the writer is relying upon the audience to be too stupid to realize it. Suspension of disbelief is a necessary part of enjoying a movie, and when the world doesn't behave logically or consistently, it's distracting at the very least. I'm not SUPPOSED to be thinking "Well, this movie apparently takes place in an alternate dimension where physics doesn't apply; how stupid". I'm supposed to be paying attention to the plot.

Also I hate plays.

[Baloki]

The good thing about plays is that they are generally written by intelligent people, not people who think that having a character announce a twenty-four hour deadline builds suspense.

Your only saying that because you know your going to die in 24 hours!

[DMKA]

*looks at site*

And I thought I had alot of time on my hands.

[Crazy the Clown]

What's wrong with bending the reality rules a little? X-Men and Spiderman did it, and were both dope.

[Meat Puppet]

Yeah, it's hard to explain how nerds get hot chicks just because they can shoot web. Bah.

[Cz]

What's wrong with bending the reality rules a little? X-Men and Spiderman did it, and were both dope.

Spider-Man is a film about a person who receives web-shooting powers after having been bitten by a radioactive arachnid. Anybody who walked in to that theatre expecting a realistic depiction of the laws of physics would have been extremely idiotic.

[DeBlayde]

last play I saw was written by a nobel prize winner. Very brilliant man.

the thing lacked any semblence of plot whatsoever, just some random collection of lines tossed out there for people to examine. I arrived 10 minutes late, but that didn't help. the first 10 minutes were more of the same.

also, the performance was so GodAwful horrid that I've not been to a stage production since.

movies are better. They are distraction. they are shiny. they are a means for the government to exert control over the masses!? oh god! movies are bad now too.

[Crazy the Clown]

Spider-Man is a film about a person who receives web-shooting powers after having been bitten by a radioactive arachnid. Anybody who walked in to that theatre expecting a realistic depiction of the laws of physics would have been extremely idiotic.

I dig. I walked in, expecting the whole crew to think outside the reality box.

[Peegee]

wtf teh halk weighs mor dan a tank no wei how he throw so far!?