6 Common Movie Arguments That Are Always Wrong

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-common...-always-wrong/

we're all guilty <.<

I'm not.

This article wasn't very good. I didn't laugh once during reading it, and half the time I don't find those arguments adequately debunked.

I think they were fairly correct, just not in the way they made their argument. "You have to read the book" should only apply to minor stuff. When you leave things like important plot details or character development in the source material it makes for poor cinema unless you've read the book. obviously there are time and budget constraints so not everything can be hit, but in general a movie should be fairly self contained and at least somewhat self explanatory so that most people won't be lost when watching. Viewers shouldn't be left asking questions like "Who is that?" or "Why did that happen?" and have the answer be "it was in the book". if you put it in the movie it needs to be there for good reason and needs to be justified, otherwise it's poor story telling.

There's a difference between "you understand things -better-" with the source material and "you -need- to read it to understand it". It's ok if you can appreciate it more for a fuller experience having read it, but it shouldn't be -required-, the movie shouldn't be lacking if you haven't read it. That was their point, but they didn't argue it very well.

I can agree with that.

I am not. Especially on the money making arguement.

I don't think we need a Cracked article to point out how inane internet arguments can be. God knows how many times I've seen someone bemoan Hollywood's lack of originality, then in another thread post how excited they are for Yet Another Batman Movie.

That'll do.

There are plot holes, and there are nits. Which is which may be a matter of perspective.

Someone I know just loves watching movies like Star Wars or superhero movies just to rip them apart for all the laws of physics that they defy or break.

Example: he's critical of the fight between Anakin and Obi in Revenge of the Sith, the best of the prequels, and perhaps one of the more epic sword fights in hollywood history. He's making snide comments about how the lava doesn't splash on them at all when the forcefields drop or things collapse or how the overall heat on that volcanic planet should have fried them or left them too dehydrated to fight. I just tell him, "here's a hint: THE FORCE"

Or Superman Returns, when he rescues the plane and argues how Lois should be dead from all the bouncing around, how all the passengers should be dead for assorted reasons and how the plane should have been reduced to fragments in the stadium as Superman was stopping its momentum. Can't argue with all that, but I prefer to point out to him the greater illogical flaw of how Lois is still under the effects of the Jedi Amnesia Kiss that Superman gave her in Superman 2, and gave her again in Superman 4 when she remembered, yet she has a kid and knows that it is the son of Superman, yet doesn't remember their time at the Fortress and can't figure out Clark is Superman?

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

Read this one.

I was crying from laughing so hard at it.

I never realized Lion King was a Hamlet ripoff before...

What gets me about movies made from source material that I've read is when motivations aren't clear in the movie, leaving you to remember why people did things in the book. Take the recent Hunger Games movies. There is no explanation for why Haymitch is how he is. Or why Katniss decides to pretend to be in love with Peeta. Those kinds of things becoming jarring to me as the movie progresses. But I know that my fiancee doesn't mind those things at all. To me, it can ruin a movie when somebody does something that seems to make no sense at all to me, but she can ignore those things.

So that kind of argument can become very subjective, because some people don't mind the lack of peripheral detail, whereas I very much notice that it is missing.



Meanwhile, I like the kind of 'easter eggs' in movies. Stuff that's not really relevant to the plot or the peripherals, but is nice to have in there for people to find if they really know the source material.