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Originally Posted by sjb
I can suspend my belief long enough to enjoy movies that are classified as fantasy. But I can't handle it in an action movie. I can no longer sit through movies with stupidly impossible stunts.
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Watching action films is like listening to the old British Colonel and his war stories that get more incredible with each telling:
"So there I was, the only person between 5,000 Colonial soldiers with just-discovered defective rifles; and 25,000 attackers with knives and spears. In seconds, the heathens would have been upon us!"
"What did you do, Colonel?"
"Why, I quickly dismantled my own rifle's scope and used the magnifying lens, backed by my trusty shaving mirror, to reflect sunlight into our opponents' eyes... giving our boys a fighting chance..."
"Why... that's incredible, Colonel!"
"Quite."
You can almost imagine an elderly James Bond retelling his fairly conventional exploits to a young (and humoring) audience, and having them sound like the movie scripts. (Hmm: Might be fodder for the second 007 comedy, at that...)