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'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?!

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

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

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.

My wife loves hocus pocus.

Every year I'm like... That zippo wouldn't light. The fluid would have evaporated ages ago. Look at the cobwebs, it's obviously been there for years.

She just reaches over, softly touches my and says 7u5k3n, it's a movie.

Lol

So yeah there's nothing wrong here.

Edit: softly touches my arm. Haha apparently I I accidentally'd a word

I just want a movie where somebody "says turn on the TV", and the main character does, and it's just halfway through an episode of The Big Bang Theory or something because who's tuned to the news channel.

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

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.

There is nothing wrong with this.

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

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.

My personal favorite was in Batman and Robin where they cut open the city's water main and the water just keeps flowing along in a cylindrical shape... Come ON

I rarely do that, but i did once with 28 Weeks Later where the army when they found out someone is infected inside the colony, just made everyone come out of their own room that is safe and isolated, and wait inside a huge room, which inevitably caused everyone to just get nibbled and infected. They also ordered personel to station at the place where they're unprotected from sprinter, and inevitably got nibbled and turned. I just give up. The series never recovered after that from what i've heard.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The snakes were not even dangerous in any way, they were mostly ball pythons if I remember correctly, those are neither venomous, nor eager to bite, their usual reaction is to curl into a ball. Oooh so dangerous! The common theme is to use non-venomous species (for obvious reasons) and people do not notice, since they usually know jackshit about reptiles, and ooh aaah snakes! Scary!

I also laugh, when there is some "super dangerous spider" or something, and then it is always of one of the slowest moving, least venomous, most docile tarantula species. The worst thing with those species is, they might kick itchy hairs on you, and the fangs make a small wound, if you manage to somehow make them bite. But aaah! Spiders! Scary!

Also hilarious when they use goddamn show bred huskies for wolves. Oh come on.

I stopped watching Stranger Things because in a show about demons from a parallel universe invading a small town, I couldn't get over a soccer mom breaking her friend out of a Russian prison camp.

That broke the realism for me.

I'm very forgiving in this regard, as long as the movie is entertaining, I'll go along for the ride.

I did have a related weird thing happen once, though. I don't remember what movie I was watching, but about halfway through I suddenly realized everyone in the movie was acting and I couldn't watch anymore. It was a weird feeling, like they were all just lying to me, which of course they always are, but I was suddenly offended--"WTF? This is all bullshit!"

Maybe it was terrible chemistry. Maybe I subconsciously noticed all the subtle clues that the actors hated each other, but were pretending to be friends.

I suppose the one thing I can't forgive is a complete lack of chemistry between the actors, and that killing their performances.

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.

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 dont understand, makes sense, what's the problem?

Bet he loved how Dexter had 40 hours in a day

I lost it during Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indy stowed away on the outside of a U-boat and then rode it like a thousand miles across the Mediterranean or wherever they were. I guess they thought submarines just buttoned up when they left port and nobody ever went outside on the conning tower. And they never dove or anything.

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

Funny what can pull you back into reality and out of the temporary relief we get to enjoy when watching a movie. Some people are better at ignoring the absurd and out of place.

Perhaps they had better things to do than watch paint dry.

Am I their dad? Do I have kids now?

That's how you lucid dream. You realize the absurd, then wake up in the dream. Then, it goes where you want it.

The moment anyone creates a Gui using Visual Basic, we're done.

It didn't stop me from finishing Prometheus, but what grinds my gears is when the supposedly biologist was trying to pet the alien and it attacked him. Any trained biologist would know not to try to pet animals which you don't know if it's timid or not.

I'mma about to ruin medical shows/scenes for y'all. And once you see this, you cannot unsee it. the source for all this is the 15 years I spent riding in the back of the bus as a medic.

When you see a scene in the ER and a critical patient arrives, all the doctors go rushing into the exam room and start doing things and arguing about what to do. If we put this stupidity aside for a moment and roll back the scene to the beginning we will see the mistakes the show makes every time.

First, doctors don't rush into the exam room the moment the patient arrives. The doctor, just one and not a whole squad of them, will wait for a moment or two to let the medics and nurses get the patient on to a bed and the triage nurse gets the medic's report.

When the Medics and the cot leaves the room, the doctor will walk to the doorway and stop. Most of them will actually lean against the door jam and just look for a minute or so. They are making their first assessment of the patient from that distance and begin to formulate a treatment plan. Doctors are ACTUALLY TAUGHT to do this medical school. And they practice it because it's hard to remember in an oh shit moment and hard to do. Even us medics are taught the same thing. If the TV doctor does NOT do this, this is your first warning that this a bullshit medical show no matter what the producers and actors claim about realism. This is basic and fundamental to ER medicine and would be soooo easy to do. This is the point where I'm out and ne'er to be seen again.

The second mistake that gets made is that the doctors themselves do very little of the actual treatment of the patient. They stand off to the side and tell the nurses what they want them to do. The nurses do most of the work. The doctor observes and directs. Only if a procedure that requires a doctors skill and knowledge to do, do they get hands on. So that's the second bullshit thing in these shows.

And finally, doctors do not consult in the patient's room unless it absolutely can't be avoided. Which is very rare. They have a room, generally behind the nurses station where they go for that. I have been in there with doctors on occasions when I asked for a teaching moment to further my skills as a medic from one of them. And no matter what hospital, that's where we would go.

But then there's the films that nail even the most pointless things

Am I...

Am I a dad...?

I don't agree movie need to be as realistic as possible or insist on enforcing fact to audience face ,especially when the movie theme based or source is fiction itself , but i do agree realism and fact matter in movies that sell themselves as inspired, based on true event or a documentary and such.

I had this with Interstellar. The story is that most plants died and they can't grow food but corn. So they're at a baseball game and this older character says "Popcorn?! I'm sick of corn, I want a hotdog". He knows there aren't hotdogs anymore, he's just frustrated at the situation. Nobody responds.

That's the moment everyone should have jumped up to shut up grandpa. You can't say that! Billions died, you insensitive asshat. Be glad you have food. Eating meat would be socially unacceptable because you can't feed society that way anymore. It would be on the level of grandpa saying old-timey racist shit out loud in public