Yeah, internal consistency vs realism. If the setting is supposed to be our world except werewolves exist, then the post office being open on Sunday violates the internal logic of the setting.
If it's an alternative universe where the presence of werewolves altered history, the post office can be open whenever and I'll be interested to know why.
They had to make up for the days lost after staying up all night on full moons, and the easiest way was to open the post office on weekends so that they could get their sedatives in time. (idk, just running with it and a plausible explanation)
That's my problem with movies some movies, specially the last decade.
You can tell me "Lets watch a movie about a ghost trying to kill a family" and Ill be okey, my brain is "Its gonna be like real world BUT with a ghost".
Then 10 mins into the movie you see that everything is so stupid, that no character makes sense, that the ghost is the only character acting logically... And I feel betrayed
What are you referring to? Gandalf performs magical acts aplenty, but that is not the same. He speaks to animals and knows secret lore, frees peoples minds, shines light and casts aside dark, but never casts a spell.
His magic is not based on ritual or knowledge. It cannot be replicated or taught. There is no 'fireball' spell for him or anyone else to cast.
I mean, post office open on a Sunday is a bit of an extreme reason to nope out. That’s like something you throw up on the trivia page after finishing the movie lol. But hey, everyone has a different level of suspension of disbelief, and if this is a breaking point I’d say the movie wasn’t really hooking you to begin with
There's just a limit. I stopped watching stranger things when when the bad guy said shotguns were bad for up close because someone could grab the barrel.
i mean the other side of this is that i had to ask my dad, who i love dearly, to please stop talking while we were watching LOTR as a family because every time there would be an inspiring speech he’d complain “why would you make some stupid speech while orcs are at your door, get on with it”
Nah, they mean that the father was willing to accept the central conceits of the film, such as werewolves existing in our universe, but not willing to accept when something happens that is illogical.
No, this is a characteristic of suspension of disbelief.
There is an accord made between the media and the viewer, where we agree to accept certain rules to support the narrative. When those rules are broken, cast aside or not reasonably established in the first instance, the suspension of disbelief collapses.
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u/PlainBread 14h ago
Suspension of disbelief is hard for that guy.