Suspension of disbelief, sometimes it's the small things I struggle with :(

Uriel said:
Stuff like this bugs me. I remember thinking during Phantom of the Opera "it's snowy. We should be able to see their breath"...
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Wow, thats the worst you got from PotO? The whole thing was dreadful with the possible exception of Miss Ellison smuggling two bald men into her dress whilt descending some stairs.;)
 
Sonea Fifer said:
Couldn't agree more with the OP - I recently re watched the Tom Cruise version of War of the Worlds. Suspending belief that aliens rode down in lightening to tripod machines buried deep underground. Why is it when they take down a jet plane which destroys the house and most of the surrounding area that Tom's car he parked in the driveway remains unaffected?
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"They must have been planning this for millions of years"

Well before the human race really evolved then?
That did annoy me.
 
The worst aspect for me of war of the World was the fact that, no only did his son survive that huge explosion/battle but when he met him again at the amazingly untouched grandparents house he was still wearing the same clothes with no singe marks, bruises etc. Thinking about it, WotW has to be the worst film I've ever seen for pushing the suspension of disbelief concept way past breaking point.
 
Tefal said:
why in war of the worlds did they not just take over earth when they put the tripods here?
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According to David Koepp, his intention was that the tripods were sent down in capsules as a contingency, ahead of a potential invasion force, although this is not made clear in the film itself.
 
Slightly tangential, but continuity errors really bug me. The one I always notice is when you have two people talking and it keeps cutting between shots of each one and between each shot you can see that the person isn't in the same position without even moving. ARGH.

Can't think of any annoying suspension of disbelief moments right now...

Edmund Blackadder said:
Well, I'm not having anyone staring in disbelief at my willy suspension!
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Tefal said:
why in war of the worlds did they not just take over earth when they put the tripods here?
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Why in the world did they even use the whole crappy lightning alien/look I'm Tom Cruise and this is my family storyline when the book never mentioned either and had a ton more suspense than the crappy film.

Heck even the old WotW film with the (by today's standards) budget looking special effects was better.
 
ManCuBuS said:
Or in Independence Day where the invading aliens handily managed to include a USB port for Mr Goldblum to plug his laptop into and then make their future tech backwards compatible with a virus written in Windows. :confused:

If the Aliens they had just taken the time to install Avast, it could have so been so different... :rolleyes:
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You had to suspend your belief a little more than that - it was actually a virus written on an Apple Mac Powerbook that he used to upload to the Alien computer! If only they have been using Macs to power their spaceships they wouldn't have been infected at all :rolleyes:
 
checjb said:
Wow, thats the worst you got from PotO? The whole thing was dreadful with the possible exception of Miss Ellison smuggling two bald men into her dress whilt descending some stairs.;)
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Actually - I spend most of the film thinking "they should have left this on stage". Oh - and wondering why the actors seemed to be miming - although supposedly they were singing their own parts.

Film was bilge.

And anyway - nothing messes with my suspension of disbelief like a musical...
 
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