Reply #37: Pet peeve of mine (spoiler ahead) [View All]

[Lorien]

for instance; Stark's assistant Pepper goes to the Feds and reports that his former colleague-now arch nemesis- planned Stark's murder and is building an "iron man" suit of his own. So the feds go to Stark industries to arrest our villain-bringing Pepper with them. There's no reason at all for her to tag along-it just heightens the tension in the scene (she could just as easily have been told to stay in the SUV, then found a reason to go in on her own later). Here they are, in a dark and foreboding manufacturing plant, on edge with their weapons drawn, and she's tiptoeing along side them in stiletto heels without a weapon of her own. It's that kind of crap that irritates me. I can suspend my disbelief so that guys in metal suits can fly, but it's hard to give that level of silliness a pass.

Years ago I worked on Disney's Feature film "Beauty and the Beast". During one scene Belle rides out into the forest, only to be attacked by wolves. The Beast saves her, but is badly injured while doing so. We see him laying on the ground and then next scene, he's tossed across the saddle of Belle's horse, and she's leading the horse back to the castle. I asked the directors "So how does Belle get the Beast onto the horse?" they answered "Well, It's just one of those logic things" (??) "Logic things" can break our willing suspension of disbelief, and that's why they trip up all kinds of movies for me.