It seems like these days the slightest thing in a movie will get someone complaining about how unrealistic it is, causing them to get so upset they harbor a feeling of indifference, if not outright hatred, toward the movie. I mean it's a movie. Back in the old days, we had animals that would turn into huge monsters after being transformed by something as harmless as a nuclear bomb, and yet now people get upset about things that are the slightest bit unrealistic. I once heard Roger Ebert complaining about how the movie Kazaam was terrible because of the unrealistic (and if any movie should be realistic, it's one starring Shaq as a rapping genie living in a boombox) scene where the genie gave the kid tons of trademark m&m's. I mean is that really the worst thing he could find about that movie? I find myself in complete agreement with what Hideo Kojima was trying to say in Metal Gear Solid 3 when you talked to Paramedic, that movies are meant to be enjoyed and not have every single inaccuracy picked at. Hell, if we tried to make all movies realistic, we'd have no monster movies, no Hong Kong shooters with one guy taking out a dozen hitmen, and no pornos where people have sex with anonymous pizzaboys. At least that last one is unrealistic as far as I know.


