Thank you to all those who replied to my first thread, it was a pleasure to read the responses.
The topic of this thread came to me last night whilst I watching Batman Returns but this can be about any film/DVD/movie you have seen at your local Cineplex that has got you standing up, pumping your fist and yelling at the lead character as he picks up an artefact that has decimated 20 other people - "Don't open the box you tool!"
My question is do you find yourself overthinking when watching a film within the context that you have suspended your disbelief to take account that there could be aliens, Batman, Road Runner, The Lord Almighty, Robin Hood in Space within this fantasy world just to have some utterly stupid turn of events snap you back into reality like an elastic band to the eyeball socket.
Let's take Batman Returns as an example (this is a movie that I quite liked for the way Christopher Walken pronounces "Chip" and for him flushing his previous business partner down the toilet - hello? Gotham is not the dark ages, sure I doubt they have a CSI Team there but did he surely think that no-one would come across the body? A tiny bit naive there I feel).
Selina Kyle gets bitten by cats after falling out of a window (as you do - man, I am never going to let my cats go hungry ever again, they might tuck into me while I am asleep) to find herself back in her abode. She then proceeds to go postal on her pretty pink apartment, shoving toys down the garbage disposal (believable), finds one black PVC leather "catsuit" amongst her hundreds of other plain pretty clothes ("Whut?!" - the dirty cow, it's always the quiet office types - takes one to know one) to then locate a can of spray paint and redecorate the apartment with a continuous black line across the wall (OK, hello? Why would she have a can of black spray paint, unless she was planning to spray on comedy moustaches on her Percy the Pig and Tigger soft toys - my suspension of disbelief account subscription just got cancelled).
It seems that some film writers have these clear concepts of getting from A to B and in order to get there, they have their characters doing either really dumb things or there are things left conveniently lying around for them to achieve their goals with.
So brethren, what film scenes do you find yourself thinking out loud "She's not going in there alone is she? Into the room where there was just a blood curdling scream? Without a weapon? And her mobile isn't working? Doesn't she have a pager or something? *Getting more exasperated* Pick up that stick on the floor with a nail in it! Now you've twisted your ankle? Use the stick as a splint for your mangled foot! *Jumping up on the table now* You can still get away - throw a rock at your assailant! Now he's tripped up and is unconscious. *Flapping arms frantically* Don't stand over the body to gloat! Ho Jesus, this chick is toast!"
(Could be it is just me but I'd like to hear your own views. Ta muchly)
The topic of this thread came to me last night whilst I watching Batman Returns but this can be about any film/DVD/movie you have seen at your local Cineplex that has got you standing up, pumping your fist and yelling at the lead character as he picks up an artefact that has decimated 20 other people - "Don't open the box you tool!"
My question is do you find yourself overthinking when watching a film within the context that you have suspended your disbelief to take account that there could be aliens, Batman, Road Runner, The Lord Almighty, Robin Hood in Space within this fantasy world just to have some utterly stupid turn of events snap you back into reality like an elastic band to the eyeball socket.
Let's take Batman Returns as an example (this is a movie that I quite liked for the way Christopher Walken pronounces "Chip" and for him flushing his previous business partner down the toilet - hello? Gotham is not the dark ages, sure I doubt they have a CSI Team there but did he surely think that no-one would come across the body? A tiny bit naive there I feel).
Selina Kyle gets bitten by cats after falling out of a window (as you do - man, I am never going to let my cats go hungry ever again, they might tuck into me while I am asleep) to find herself back in her abode. She then proceeds to go postal on her pretty pink apartment, shoving toys down the garbage disposal (believable), finds one black PVC leather "catsuit" amongst her hundreds of other plain pretty clothes ("Whut?!" - the dirty cow, it's always the quiet office types - takes one to know one) to then locate a can of spray paint and redecorate the apartment with a continuous black line across the wall (OK, hello? Why would she have a can of black spray paint, unless she was planning to spray on comedy moustaches on her Percy the Pig and Tigger soft toys - my suspension of disbelief account subscription just got cancelled).
It seems that some film writers have these clear concepts of getting from A to B and in order to get there, they have their characters doing either really dumb things or there are things left conveniently lying around for them to achieve their goals with.
So brethren, what film scenes do you find yourself thinking out loud "She's not going in there alone is she? Into the room where there was just a blood curdling scream? Without a weapon? And her mobile isn't working? Doesn't she have a pager or something? *Getting more exasperated* Pick up that stick on the floor with a nail in it! Now you've twisted your ankle? Use the stick as a splint for your mangled foot! *Jumping up on the table now* You can still get away - throw a rock at your assailant! Now he's tripped up and is unconscious. *Flapping arms frantically* Don't stand over the body to gloat! Ho Jesus, this chick is toast!"
(Could be it is just me but I'd like to hear your own views. Ta muchly)
