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Originally Posted by Phat Mack
Pretty sure Martian wasn't about Newtonian physics.
I just PRECISELY said that...
you can not ask an audience to become invested in a character or cinematic vehicle at an emotional level if all you are going to do is 'Magically' resolve the plot complications. At the most basic level, things need to be believable... and that means 'based in reality'.
I am not speaking of 'Fantastic' medieval wizards, space adventures with warp drive or even planets with giant sand worms, I am talking about Human Drama's built on top the veil of the real Human existence.
It is just plain stupidity for a story to lay out the saga of making a trek to another planet and having some weird plot complication occur that puts the protagonist in jeopardy and then try and resolve that jeopardy with 'Magical' thinking.
Space ships CAN NOT alter course and turn around in space to rescue their comrades... that's not how spaceflight works in real life... and arguably, without that one feature in the Martian, there would have been NO POSITIVE OUTCOME for that stranded Astronaut.
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Originally Posted by Phat Mack
If you want to do away with the suspension of disbelief...
As I said above, it's not about basing EVERYTHING in reality... it's the way the story is handled by the writer and how the audience is treated when the story is being told.
I don't personally think that there was a Girl named Alice, and I don't think that she magically found a worm hole and fell thru it, but that does not matter because the story of Alice and the looking glass journey is quite spectacular... Dorthy in a land of OZ is supremely satisfying... and JFK, despite being phantasmagorical, has far more reality in it than most people are willing to accept.
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Originally Posted by Phat Mack
Movies are a lie. They don't move. They are merely a succession of still images.
I wasn't speaking from a Cinematic technical perspective... but since you zoetroped your way to a conclusion let me say this... while the 'motion' of Cinema is indeed a matter of perception if it is actually 'Film' based, the telling of these 'stories' are not. If Ridley Scott's view was to make a 'Hopeful space movie', he failed miserably.
I love Ridley Scotty and his legacy... I love Matt Damon as a Thespian... I hated this 'Content'.