“We’ve almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!” The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment.
“Senator Amidala is in a coma. Even if she recovers, she will never be the same and may not live long.” But no… George had to have his god-damned funeral scene, even if it demanded Simone Biles levels of mental gymnastics to save Carrie Fisher’s most emotionally resonant moment from ROTJ, as well as one of the more intriguing OT lore dumps.
Bonus points if a scene was scripted or filmed and got cut.
I hate it when storytelling pulls me out of the story, and back into the theater.
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It’s a balancing act though, isn’t it?
Sure, you can’t have it be too clunky, but you also have to lay some foundation for the characters’ actions to make sense. Screwing it up either way will pull a percentage of the audience out of the story.
Perhaps some sort of establishing shot in the lab with OS9 or whatever they had in Independence Day would work better than dialogue, but the specificity of the solution called for something. Handwavium is best when a bit higher level, IMHO.
Don’t mean to be argumentative, but generally speaking? No, it’s not.
Either you’re in the story, and enjoying it, or you’re in the theater, noticing the seat you’re sitting in, and not paying so much attention to the movie being shown you.
A good Storyteller keeps you in the story, and doesn’t let you escape until the end credits.
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Okay, I guess I see that, but allowing that the storyteller fucked it up, some failures of storytelling stick in my craw worse than others.
Me as well. For some you just smirk negatively at, others you cringe at, and others you get pissed off at.
But all of those can pull you out of the story, and back into the movie theater. They’re all bad, just in varying degrees.
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Fair enough. I think we could use more discussion around here that jumps off from the original queries and prompts. :-)
That socializing technique works at parties too! 😇🙂
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What you want is “show” without the “tell”. Always works better.
Actually I was speaking more about the plot holes and non sequiturs, but you also have a valid point.
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wtf did you link to