I Must Disagree

Rating: 1/10 (15 February 2002)

Dorian said on February 14, 2002 that "Some people have bashed this film because of the plot's impossibilities, and the impossibility of people flying, and jumping as high and as graceful as the characters in this film can.
GROW UP!!! Yeah, that's right - GROW. UP. For the two simple reasons
1) It's a bloody film!! 2) Ever heard of the expression 'suspension of disbelief'?!" ------------------------------------
I expected a better argument from an English person. #1 - you want us to like the film because it's a film. That isn't a very persuasive argument.
#2 - you expect us to "suspend our disbelief" without a reason. Walking into a movie theater is not enough to suspend disbelief. If I'm watching an animated Disney cartoon, I can suspend my belief when a mouse talks. The movie Babe was about animals talking to each other - fine I can accept that and move on. Star Wars starts off the whole movie by saying "In a galaxy far, far away.." Great, laser swords and Jedi Knights exist their. In all of these areas I can easily suspend disbelief.
But I can't suspend disbelief when watching Arnold Schwarzenneger in Commando, somehow dodging 50 submachine guns firing on him from forty feet away. Why you ask? Because the movie based itself in reality, the other movies clearly tell you up front that this is fantasy. Crouching Tiger tried to be a martial arts/romance movie and as a serious movie never explained how people fly through the air. This movie would have been better if they started it off with some old monks reading some ancient book that explained how the great ancestors could tap into some hidden powers.
Why didn't they do that? Because then it becomes a fantasy movie which stuffy critics choose to hate. Critics like yourself who probably have never seen Conan the Barbarian or Lord of the Rings. Mark my words, here in writing, Lord of the Rings does NOT win best picture, even though 37,000+ people have given it the highest rating of any movie ever made in the history of mankind.
Oh, and by the way, Lord of the Rings takes place in an ancient pre-civilization world where elves and hobbits exist. So I had no problem suspending disbelief when I saw the hairy footed 4 foot tall creatures.