24th August 2009, 8:58 AM
I'm not calling out the movie on the cleary sci-fi stuff.
I'm perfectly willing to accept aliens that resemble bipedal humans, anti-gravity floating ships, and faster than light travel.
I'm calling it out for plot holes and stuff that was never explained. Not the stuff that's not explained to keep a mystery, I'm talking very basic points that needed to be explained.
I'm criticising the STORY ITSELF, SURELY that's allowed! Plus, when you get right down to it, some of that stuff really requires a LOT of suspension of disbelief to make any sense, and I have to call it out on that stuff too. There comes a point where "sci-fi" stops being an excuse, and alien rocket fuel turning someone into an alien for no explained reason at all is dashing across that line like it's the finish. Yes it's a movie. Is it so wrong for me to have high expectations?
And I did make it clear that I DID think it was overall a good movie but with some problems that needed addressing. Did you totally forget that? Can't someone criticize something's shortcomings without coming off as though they hated the entire thing?
I mean seriously, you people criticize things all the time. Why is this any different? It would be like if in one of your reviews of Oblivion you noted that the conversation "wheel" was a boring system that drew one away from interactive conversations and I responded "It's a GAME".
I'm perfectly willing to accept aliens that resemble bipedal humans, anti-gravity floating ships, and faster than light travel.
I'm calling it out for plot holes and stuff that was never explained. Not the stuff that's not explained to keep a mystery, I'm talking very basic points that needed to be explained.
I'm criticising the STORY ITSELF, SURELY that's allowed! Plus, when you get right down to it, some of that stuff really requires a LOT of suspension of disbelief to make any sense, and I have to call it out on that stuff too. There comes a point where "sci-fi" stops being an excuse, and alien rocket fuel turning someone into an alien for no explained reason at all is dashing across that line like it's the finish. Yes it's a movie. Is it so wrong for me to have high expectations?
And I did make it clear that I DID think it was overall a good movie but with some problems that needed addressing. Did you totally forget that? Can't someone criticize something's shortcomings without coming off as though they hated the entire thing?
I mean seriously, you people criticize things all the time. Why is this any different? It would be like if in one of your reviews of Oblivion you noted that the conversation "wheel" was a boring system that drew one away from interactive conversations and I responded "It's a GAME".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)