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dsvick · 04-05-2010, 11:18 AM

Why is it that we readily accept the clearly impossible/unlikely/fantastic while immediately calling out the faults as soon as they touch on reality?

Warning, spoiler below....

My family all watched Night at the Museum 2: Battle for the Smithsonian over the weekend. Through the entire movie we watched and laughed as the previously inanimate museum exhibits were brought to life by the ancient Egyptian artifact. We were quite happy when the 50 foot tall, marble Abraham Lincoln statue saved the day from the evil, wanna be pharaoh's undead army rescued from some other plain of existence. We never gave those things a second thought...

However, at the end of the movie, the main character looks at his watch and says they have an hour until sunrise, the next scene is them all arriving safe and sound in New York, (it is still dark) and the first thing my wife and I do is ask each other how they fly from Washington DC to New York in an hour. Nothing about it being Emelia Earheart, or that the plane they flew in had been sitting in a museum with no fuel for years, simply "how did they get there so fast? And how is she going to get back before sunrise?"

I just find it funny that we are so willing to suspend our belief for some things but not others.

04-05-2010, 11:18 AM	#1
dsvick Wizard Posts: 2,737 Karma: 635747 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Northeast Ohio, USA Device: PRS-900	Ohh the things we believe Why is it that we readily accept the clearly impossible/unlikely/fantastic while immediately calling out the faults as soon as they touch on reality? Warning, spoiler below.... My family all watched Night at the Museum 2: Battle for the Smithsonian over the weekend. Through the entire movie we watched and laughed as the previously inanimate museum exhibits were brought to life by the ancient Egyptian artifact. We were quite happy when the 50 foot tall, marble Abraham Lincoln statue saved the day from the evil, wanna be pharaoh's undead army rescued from some other plain of existence. We never gave those things a second thought... However, at the end of the movie, the main character looks at his watch and says they have an hour until sunrise, the next scene is them all arriving safe and sound in New York, (it is still dark) and the first thing my wife and I do is ask each other how they fly from Washington DC to New York in an hour. Nothing about it being Emelia Earheart, or that the plane they flew in had been sitting in a museum with no fuel for years, simply "how did they get there so fast? And how is she going to get back before sunrise?" I just find it funny that we are so willing to suspend our belief for some things but not others.