There's suspending disbelief, and then there's suspending disbelief.

There is nothing wrong with this.

most of those snakes aren't native to the Middle East

Noah put them in the Ark just before the Flood, duh.

I demand films that show a realistic amount of traffic, even when traffic is completely unrelated to the story.

This is sadly why I couldn’t get into andor :(

I'll accept whatever the premise of the thing asks of me to enjoy the story; that dragons exist, the main character finds a real spellbook, there's a secret community of shapeshifters, or that there's a long-lost secret artifact with magical properties. It's not a documentary.

But breaking internal logic is different. Unless someone's mentioned time travel, it's still a huge issue that it was Sunday in one scene and Friday in another on the same day.

Some people hate 'The Hulk' because they can buy genetic mutation that turns him giant and green, sure... But where the fuck is the extra body mass coming from? You can't just gain weight from nothing. Yes, magic does exist in the MCU, but he didn't get his powers from magic, did he?!

I count bullets. If someone with a revolver fires off 20 rounds in a row without a pause, the show/movie lost credibility and I'm taken out of it. Extra bad if they later try to use ammo as a plot device to raise drama, ugh.

I'm like this when something gets very basic technology wrong.

I know. It's unlikely, but possible that a professor of archaeology gets up to all sorts of adventures, but non native snakes in a pit is impossible.

It's just bad prop decisions. There are guns that better fit. In a cheap movie, I can forgive it. A budget over 200k? I'm upset

What if there's a cut where they could have conceivably reloaded?

Please expand on "this"

I walked out of Total Recall(the original) in the final minutes when people got thrown out into the Martian landscape unprotected and their faces blew up like those little stress heads that you squeeze and the eyeballs pop out.

Once you kill my suspension of disbelief, that's it, I'm done.

This is also why I never liked Blade Runner. There were too many violations of known science for me to enjoy the movie.

This is called verisimilitude. Self consistency. If you present the setting as Our World + Premise, then we are forgiving of the premise part but not so much of the unrelated things that don't match what we were told to expect.

I think Parks and Recreation had the absolute most unrealistic time-scales. The things they could get done in an afternoon or evening was absurd.

I mean... Marvel has clearly shown that in their world mutations just unlock some sort of magic. None of the X-Men powers make any sense in a world where conservation of mass / energy is a thing, the only possible explanation is that those genes unlock magic potential, so it's not breaking internal logic, that a specific mutation unlocked some kind of anger-magic in Dr. Banner.

They went to the space post office on a space Sunday.

I stop watching when characters do something stupid. I'm like, "if I wanted to watch stupid people I would have gone outside".

What were they thinking.

I'm OK with it, if you show me at least one reload before you run out of bullets at the most dramatic opportunity.

However, that's what made the new Resident Evil such a fun movie.

It's more that if the story is about human drama and adventure, and then suddenly you go from desert to tropical island, or if everyone changes clothes to Victorian era, not all people will pick up on it. But some will, and it's enough to go from an adventure story where the actions are the fiction, to "woah.... Hey, now it looks like you just don't care to tell the story right."

Things are different for Ron fucking Swanson.

True, though I didn’t mean I had a problem with it.

Just that a supposed scientist finding there’s a gene that just lets you break physics and nobody of authority in-universe really commenting on entire branches of modern science being scrapped is too much of a stretch in logic for some.

It's that. Attention to detail.

Rather, the care imparted into a work of art.

If they don't care, neither do I.

I don't know enough about the division of duties to know whose fault it is, but I blame the director. It's just lazy, and easy.

In every scene in The North in Game of Thrones I was yelling at the characters to PUT ON A HAT! Also bacteria don't seem to exist in that universe. No wound ever gets infected despite medieval levels of health care.

I will say that scene in Blade Runner where Tyrell is trying to explain why they can’t extend a lifespan and basically just says “all these things create deadly viruses” instead of literally anything more accurate like disrupting the immune system or causing cancer etc. that scene really does piss me off.

Why the hell would repressing a human gene create a virus in the first place?

Also checking “pupillary dilation” and “blush response” but no “it won’t affect the test” if you’re smoking despite the fact nicotine would probably mess with those metrics as well as basically any other biometric like heart-rate or blood pressure.

That being said, I do actually kinda like watching it (or just having it play in the background while I’m doing something else) just for the vibe of the environment. Cyberpunk megastructures? Cassette futurism? Dense but partly abandoned urban infrastructure? Synth jazz playing over shots of a rainy city night? Hell yeah.

(Tbf I’ve only watched the director’s cut so I dont know if the version with Harrison Ford’s voice over makes any glaring mistakes; it definitely ruins the vibe of the movie imo)

The one that gets me. In all the crazy wild stuff in The Fast and the Furious franchise.

I can't handle the safe drag scene in the 5th movie. There is no way those Chargers could drag a safe full of money with any sort of speed, if at all. I don't care how reinforced the frame is, or how much NOS they throw at it. Even if the thing happened to have wheels on it.

I can accept shit like, cars parachuting from a plane, and cars on ice battling a giant submarine, but not that stupid safe drag chase.

Underworld was always the one that annoyed me with their guns. Main character fires this automatic handgun for minutes and doesn't reload.

Like people would actually rise up and fight against a totalitarian government run by the biggest assholes.

Totally unbelievable.

Not like the Prequels before it where everyone eagerly clapped along to installing said Assholes as leaders. That is way more realistic.

Not exactly the same, but the only time I've seen Cloverfield, my dad was watching it. He fast-forwarded through everything that wasn't giant monsters. The movie was about 40 minutes long, and I think it's my preferred cut.

I hate when an actor clearly doesn't even understand how to hold and aim a gun and their character is supposed to be competent at it.

Cate Blanchet's character in Borderlands is a recent and particularly obvious example. In the movie's trailer she is shown holding and aiming a rifle like someone who clearly never held a gun before and my understanding is that her character was supposed to be a highly competent gunslinger.

Someone coach those actors for crying out loud.

It irks me when an actor who plays a character so is supposed to be a highly competent gunman doesn't even know the basics of how to hold a gun properly.

Exactly! And then before I could start watching the people that won’t rise up came online bragging about how brave and great Andor is.

Or use "complicated technology" to prove some utter bs.

Dude I'm all for suspending disbelief but I feel this so hard. Like, sure, there's werewolves and you have silver bullets which in this universe don't melt and tumble, but that's a Beretta 92FS, you have 15+1 silver shots before a reload, not infinite, and you can't use your infinite Berettas to cut a hole in the floor.

I'd be down to try this, but I'm not skipping any scenes with my beloved Lizzy Caplan either. Been had a crush since Mean Girls came out.

The thing about Andor is they always try and walk it in

I won’t stop watching, but it drives me nuts when lawyers in a show misuse “begs the question”

Take your finger off the trigger!

Quite right too. In this life, a man must have standards.

Yeah, that scene soured me on the franchise too. The first few were kinda stupid, but you could make an argument that the things they were doing was just regular car shit, albeit pushed the very, very extreme.

Then they yoinked a safe out a reinforced concrete wall with a car, and didn't just tear the fucking towing hitch off? Nah mate.

Some people hate 'The Hulk' because they can buy genetic mutation that turns him giant and green, sure... But where the fuck is the extra body mass coming from? You can't just gain weight from nothing. Yes, magic does exist in the MCU, but he didn't get his powers from magic, did he?!

My understanding is that hulk gets his strength (and size/mass) from his anger. So in the universe, anger must have energy that hulk converts to mass

I’m like this if a movie’s plot can only happen because of bad communication.

My wife can't help pointing out when travel isn't realistic enough, like when a series of city landmarks show up in the wrong order.

The butt of the stock goes against your shoulder, not in your armpit!

How good was the battery in that camcorder as well?

I think there are probably about three people who use the expression "begs the question" as it's defined in books. Through misuse it has evolved to mean, "brings up the question," just as "based off" has come to mean the same as "based on".

Or when people in a gunfight clearly aren't hearing the apocalyptically loud sound gunshots would make in their situation - like in a small room or in a car.