(February 28, 2019 at 5:18 pm)fredd bear Wrote:(February 28, 2019 at 1:08 pm)Thena323 Wrote: Suspension of disbelief is quite difficult some people. The horror genre requires them to push it to the extreme, I suppose.
Horror and sci-fi are my preferred genres, but I don't feel offended when people call either stupid.
Folks don't have to "respect" my cinematic/reading choices.
Unfortunately, I'm too good at suspending disbelief.
I had horrible nightmares after I first saw "The Exorcist." I was 25 .
Recently, I though I was over that, so I watched "The Ghosts Of Mars". That was a mistake, more nightmares.--over 40 years later.
I guess the ability to suspend disbelief is why I love sci fi so much. Silver lining and all that.
Our suspension of disbelief varies from genre to genre. I love science fiction, and I suspend disbelief in that genre rather easily. But then take a police thriller like the one I watched a couple of nights ago-- Law Abiding Citizen. I had serious trouble with suspension of disbelief. Especially at the end. The warden of a prison allowed a cop to bring a gun into a prison. No way! And then disbelief went eyeball deep when apparently the warden also allowed the cop to bring a bomb into his prison. And allowed it to detonate. You know, as if you can find a bomb in one building, and move it to another building and and let it blow up that building, and not be in trouble or anything. Yet in science fiction I would have no problem with someone doing that.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
