nikki4982 wrote:You guys are toooootally missing my point. Suspension of belief = good, but has to occur in a situation where it's somewhat believable. If it's happening on earth in the very near future and it's something completely impossible, I'm not gonna buy it.
Sort of like how ALL the crime shows on TV have RIDICULOUS, impossible technology. Gets on my very last nerve (but I still love crime dramas and watch them anyway because that's not the main plot point).
I obviously like fantasy type movies, my favorite movies ever are the Pirates trilogy.
nikki4982 wrote:Well, the worst culprits by far are the CSIs, though I only watch the original anyway because the other two expect me to drop my IQ point by like a thousand before watching. But Law & Order and any others are getting pretty bad with their "can you zoom in on that picture?" "OKAY!!!! *zooms in and reads the fine print on the bad guy's teeny tiny name badge*", too.
I think you're missing the point actually, we're talking about SCI-FI. Not something like CSI which is supposed to take place or have us believe that's something that's currently available for today's investigators. SCI-FI includes fantasy, horror and other genres... Anyone who watches something like Star Wars and says, oh this is bullshit and I can't watch it because there's no such thing as an X-Wing fighter or a giant Death Star shouldn't be watching movies. Science fiction may not be something they're into, but their reasoning can't be that it's not applicable/plausible in the real world. It has nothing to do with suspension of belief or if it even has to be remotely believable. It doesn't.
Now something like Law and Order or CSI, that's a different genre altogether and if I saw them using laser guns, hell if anyone saw them using laser guns, the show would've been off the air by now.