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Suspension of disbelief? aerocontrols Send a noteboard - 18/05/2017 07:31:51 PM

For some reason, when Indiana Jones flies a half-mile in a refrigerator which crashes into the ground and then he's fine, that bothers me more than when Iron Man crashes into the ground in his suit at the same speed.

I think it has something to do with expectations. I expect a super-hero movie to feature impossible acts and to break physics. Except for the behavior of magical relics, Indiana Jones pretty much obeys physics. Avengers does not. James Bond is somewhere in the middle.

Just don't stray from the world you've created or establish new rules that you're not going to follow. When ships in Trek go from essentially standing still to 10 times the speed of light I can accept that because it's accurate in the fictional framework - 'warp fields' allow faster-than-light travel and 'inertial dampeners' allow enormous accelerations without passengers (or the ship itself) being smooshed.

So the rulebreaking that bothers me in superhero movies isn't "Hulk punches a giant snake-ship and crushes it to the ground instead of launching himself into the sky" but stuff like "Captain American (max overhead lift < 1 ton) and Spiderman (max overhead lift = 20 tons) exchange punches and Cap doesn't die pdq, or worse later in the movie when Cap exchanges punches with Iron Man (max overhead lift = 100 tons)

I promise that if I'm fighting someone with less than 1/20 my strength, it'll be a short fight.

looks in mirror

What a dork

Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion.
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