Times you simply cant suspend disbelief.

[wonderer99]

OK so lemme say off the bat that this is subjective and yes we are watching moooovies so everything is on the table when it comes to lapses in logic and essentially stupid crap happening onscreen. Having said that its fun sometimes to get cross or laugh at dumb crap in films so what are some examples of things that pass your point of no return when it comes to suspending disbelief? When something becomes so dumb it makes you wonder what the filmmakers were thinking?

OK I will go first and, again, this is subjective but for me a great example is the Gyrospheres from Jurassic World.



I have mentioned them before here and I am pretty sure nobody else is even slightly as annoyed by them as I am but holy shite they are the stupidest things ever put in a film when you think about it for even a few seconds. Its not the look of them or even the tech as they are pretty much technologically possible, it's their implementation into a movie that allows the general public to drive amongst ****ing DINOSAURS!

I mean Trevorrow must have thought folks would say "Oh that's cool". Replace the word cool with stupid and you are bang on the money.

- No tracks. OK so let me repeat that. There are NO tracks or rails for this. People queue up, get on and drive wherever the hell they like through fields of Stegosaurs, Apatosaurus and God knows what else.

- No training. Just climb into this very expensive looking piece of hardware and off you go racing sauropods.

- Mud and shit. OK, where are the wipers? Seriously how does the glass stay clean? Does it only operate on sunny days when there is no mud? Even so what about the big piles of dino dung everywhere? The jeeps from Jurassic Park are all covered in mud but this thing doesn't get so much as a bug on the glass?

- Teenagers. Teenagers are *******s. Are you telling me that the YOOF would not be deliberately trying to ram the dinosaurs (apparently the things roll away from the animals if they get too close or some nonsense. Wont stop people trying constantly) , driving at other spheres, driving through the dino shit for giggles and generally being disruptive asshats (the film even shows the kids being dicks as soon as they get in it)

- Safety. A quick google informs me that a sauropod weighs between 40 and 70 tons. Jimmy Fallon informs us that the glass can stop a 50 calibre bullet. Those two things are not the same. Every animal shown could and probably would knock the crap out of Trevorrows stupid marbles. Why don't they automatically return to the start when the alert goes out? Was there something about a failsafe mentioned, I cant remember? Wasn't it manned by like one spotty teen? Jeez, the whole idea is so dumb.

I'm sure a big fan of JW will be along to tell me I'm wrong on all points but even so, from a simple common sense perspective the Gyrosphere ride is one example for me when I just can even let it wash over me. There is so much lazy crap in the JW movies. Why create a new dino because people are bored of the old ones and then give it the ability to camouflage itself? Chris Pratts ability to stop any dinosaur in its tracks by holding up his hand etc etc but the Gyrosphere ride has so many levels of stupid contained within it in a single sequence that it crosses my (pretty hefty I think) suspension of disbelief line.

What are yours?

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