“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” ~Marcus Aurelius (allegedly) If you’re talking about Power Rangers with Elizabeth Banks, that movie was fun. Haven’t seen the Pattinson Batman, but Pattinson is actually a good actor. Godzilla vs Kong though? Bad writing. Like, every five minutes you’re like, “Dud anyone take time to clean up the script? Anyone at all?” Let me throw some examples at you. Bryan Tyree Henry’s character is infiltrating a corporation to expose them for their evil craziness, and does so by video blogging the whole thing. No disguised face. No disguised voice. Nothing. Like, you expect me to believe he’d be doing that for any length of time and not get caught? There is a battle in the ocean where at one point, Godzilla tries to drown King by dragging him down to the depths of the Ocean and everyone is like “We gotta help that dang guy? What do we do?” Well? What do they do? They drop depth charges!. Literalky in the previous film, Godzilla was at ground zero of a nuclear explosion and survived unharmed, but depth charges are gonna help? And I’m Kong: Skull Iskand, Kong got hurt by conventional weapons, and you guys expect him to survive depth charges? Are you sure? Like, cmon! Oh yeah, and in the climatic battle, King suffers a heart attack, and how is he saved? A geologist somehow magically knows how to fly an experimental antigravity hover craft thingy AND turn it into a giant defibrillator? Are you serious guys? Look, I’ve seen literally EVERY Godzilla film and quite a few of them ask for a bit of give on the part of the audience to make them enjoyable. But when you have s movie where, every five minutes, EVERY FIVE MINUTES, you expect me to give up on reasoning to enjoy it. No. No. It’s badly written and I want a written apology from Warner Brothers and basically everyone involved in this film. It’s bad. It’s terrible. I wanna watch it again only to remind myself that no, I’m not crazy, it really was that awful the first time through.Fuck society. Live by your own rules.
On a website made by a physicist-biomedical-RC guy... I have no horse in this race, but it's a scientist having to do a science thing in a hardly-grounded franchise. No less believable a convenience as everyone in Star Wars being at least tri-lingual or Dr Benton Quest being in his mid-thirties.A geologist somehow magically knows how to fly an experimental antigravity hover craft thingy AND turn it into a giant defibrillator? Are you serious guys?
No, I expect them to abide by "storyworld rules." This is basic and fundamental: The audience will go along with whatever you tell them, so long as it's consistent. GAME OF THRONES: there are dragons and white walkers but other than that, what you understand about physics and chemistry hold. LORD OF THE RINGS: Sauron is Satan, Wizards have semi-unlimited power, elves are immortal unless proven otherwise. STAR WARS: aerial combat is like WWII newsreels except space ships can fly all the fuck over the place. That's where things fall apart - you can make "ocean" into "space" if you presume that all weaponry is directional. You can shoot at the "destroyer" because you're flying around going pew pew pew. Lucas just couldn't keep it in his pants and needed to "drop" bombs because fundamentally, his whole vision is carrier warfare. Could he have been satisfied with torpedo "planes?" Yes indoodly doo. But he didn't. He went "some things you shoot and some things fly around but the plane of our performance is whatever the fuck I say it is because I'm George Lucas." Kinda like how for the first two Star Wars movies he really needed sexual chemistry between Luke and Leia and then for the third movie he decided to have Leia be Luke's sister and the third corner of his Luke Leia Han love triangle. He's just a lazy fuck who gives no shits about the audience.