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TCTTS, I know that movies are your "field", but do you ever wonder if you're simply over-analyzing a movie? Honest question, not a jab. For example the cape issue you brought up - I thought about it for all of 3 seconds while watching that scene and then dismissed it as he was just being the average young boy and pretending to be a superhero, then I went on enjoying that scene immensely (unless this MoS world is not supposed to have any notion comic book heroes in it, but I didn't get that notion).
There's a reason I never brought up the kid-with-the-cape issue in my initial takes. It was completely inconsequential, enough so that I didn't even remember it until I opened up the trailer to get those screen grabs. I just pointed it out now because it's a small example of the bigger problems in the movie. It's supposed to be an emotional beat at the end of the film, and it
is emotional, but the implausibility of it took me right out of the moment. I couldn't help that. I wasn't looking for issues while watching that flashback (or whatever it was). I literally thought, after about three seconds of watching that scene - what were the chances of that kid, who has
no idea he's an alien superhero, pretending to be a superhero with a red cape, ACTUALLY ending up being a superhero who wears a red cape? It's just kind of ridiculous and lazy. You can argue destiny or that his Kryptonian, cape-wearing heritage is in his DNA, etc. And those are legitimate, plausible explanations. But my whole point is that things like that
shouldn't require explanations. Like Aggie_Journalist said, "it's not good when you're having to rationalize things to yourself in the middle of a movie." And I found myself having to do that
constantly in this movie.
I don't sit down in the theater and immediately start looking for problems. I'm not actively wanting there to be issues. But what I do all day, every day, is analyze story structure, one way or another. I'm constantly watching movies, reading scripts and reading screenwriting books/articles as "homework" - as practice - for my own writing. That stuff is engrained in me, and so when I see something in a movie that I consider "wrong," or doesn't resonate, I can't help it. It's like a switch goes off without me even thinking about it. And when those issues do register, I don't complain about them just to b*tch. As maybe overly-noble as this sounds, I'm trying to make movies better. I'm trying to figure out why something doesn't resonate so I can then learn from it and, someday, not make the same mistakes. And it bugs me when people gripe that I'm just supposed to "enjoy it" and not overanalyze. To me, complaining about this stuff is no different than complaining about an NBA player not making his free throws. These guys are getting paid
millions of dollars and they're not even getting the fundamentals right. When a player misses a free throw, I'm not griping about the game itself. I'm griping about his individual performance, his lack of preparation. Same goes for these filmmakers. Not getting some of this stuff right is like not hitting free throws. And I'm going to gripe when they miss. What if, while watching a game with friends, every time you griped about a dropped pass or fumbled ball, someone yelled "Just enjoy the game!" For me, that's what it feels like when someone says that about a movie. I can't just enjoy the movie when "my team" is fumbling plot points. I'm rooting for a win, and when that doesn't happen, I'm going to try and figure out what they could have done better. And without trying to sound arrogant or "right," sometimes that involves analyzing some formation or scheme that maybe I know a little bit more about than others.
Ultimately, it's sh*t like this that drives me insane...
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The kind of people who couldn't sit back and enjoy MOS are like women who look for things to beetch about instead enjoying something perfectly fine right infront of their face.
Anybody who didnt enjoy this movie doesnt deserve to watch movies amd needs to find a different hobby.
Next time A&M loses, and you b*tch about that loss, I hope someone compares you to a woman looking for things to b*tch about because you just couldn't "enjoy" a perfectly entertaining game. It's no different for me and movies.
[This message has been edited by TCTTS (edited 6/18/2013 4:22p).]
