I’ve often been chastised for my sometimes severe pickiness at movies and their believability or continuity (in particular, with their predecessors if they’re sequels or offshoots). Enter Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics, a collection of movie listings describing the unrealistic aspects of (mostly) sci-fi movies. While it’s fun to read about these, I’ve tried to relax my viewpoint a bit on this. Why? Because movies are about entertainment, and as long as you feel entertained, then the director’s mission is a success. Someone once said that a good movie has to have a “suspension of disbelief” that the viewer can live with. For example, we know that there aren’t really aliens running around the Earth like in Men in Black, but the movie isn’t about realism, it’s about humor, and it pulls it off briliantly.
June 21, 2002
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