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⌈ Secret Post #3741 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What are your least favorite unrealistic movie things?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if I'm describing this right, but the casual way mass destruction is handled. You see exploding buildings and cities and ships and whatnot and it's explodey and cool and the audience knows to parse this as a nominal terrible event, but movies rarely give it a very down-to-earth kind of tragedy. Once in a while you'll get a character screaming about their love interest possibly being in the exploding building, sure, but you never see like, the little old lady desperately searching the wreckage for her elderly cat that was the only friend she has left in the world and saying she doesn't know why anybody would do this.

I wish they would. It'd take like five seconds and make movie villains immediately seem a lot more horrible. Fancy scenes of giant wrecks are cool and majestic, I guess, but kind of lazy and impersonal

Re: What are your least favorite unrealistic movie things?

[(Anonymous)]

I know what you're talking about. In one of the Star Trek series, I remember all these laser rays zapping about, and one no-name crewman got disintegrated. It would have been nice for someone to yell "Bob!", just to acknowledge that someone died. So in that sense, I get what you're saying.

However, when films are rooted very much in our reality (vs a scifi or other kind of alternate setting), I often think about the mass casualties that must be there among the carnage, but I also think it's not an accident that there's no reference to that in the film. It hits a lot closer to home as it is, because it IS our world, and to see people dying or looking for their dead would probably make it too traumatic for some people.

I was VERY aware of this when watching Man of Steel - while you see virtually no one die, I was aware that many many people were being killed, and it kind of bugged me.

So I think the giant wrecks and mass destruction are, in most cases, deliberately impersonal within films.