Movies magic comes from the suspension of disbelief

[BigV]

I love watching movies. We have hundreds of them at home. We also rent ones that don't have sufficient replay value. With the KidsofV in the house, we get a wide range of movies, comedies, action, scary, cartoon, drama, romantic comedy, buddy films, documentaries, the list goes on and on. In another thread, there was a discussion about a movie and the talk turned critical, not in a "boy, that sucked" kind of way, but in a technical way. The people were talking about how this or that particular aspect of the movie snagged their attention in a way that detracted from their enjoyment of the movie.

For example, wolf said,

How shall I say this ... you don't want to be sitting next to me whenever there's a movie about a nuthouse on ...

And Clodfobble said

The sound design in Sin City sucked ass harder than any theater-release movie I've ever seen.

These examples reminded me of movies I've seen where some artistic license has been taken and based on my professional expertise, I *know* that can't happen. Downer man. F'rinstace, in Swordfish, where that fella is told he has like 30 seconds to crack the FBI databank, or whatever--my fragile little bubble of disbelief burst when he won through. Uh, yeah.

Certainly there are goofs in movies, in fact, imdb.com has a section in their capsule reviews dedicated to goofs, like "driving down the road, window open, hair swirling, the driver looks at the picture on the dashboard. Where the tachometer reads 0 rpm." Haw haw. Those can be funny too, or jarring.

I can let a lot of stuff go by unchallenged in the movies. I no longer wonder "when do they eat or go to the bathroom?" like I did when I was a little kid. I can watch an hour of Wile E Coyote getting mauled by the most egregious violations of the laws of physics and never flinch. But some movies just don't make me believe. I'm interested in what kind of movies have you seen that you just can't get into because the spell was broken or cast improperly in the first place.