Suspension of disbelief

It's that the extent to which she is performing, like the bar fighting question, you're right.

I think between the two of them, they take out no less than 30 people and they walk out without a scratch so it's very much a suspension of disbelief moment but too often the film is trying to go for this very serious very kind of dour you know this is a crime bill through and through but then there's moments of punctuated humor which I would kind of expect from a Takashi Miike film but you and I both had this debate as we were preparing for the recording where we said I think sometimes people were laughing with the movie, but then sometimes the audience was laughing at the

movie.

They were, most decidedly, including on its final shot, which I won't spoil, but yes, people found it very difficult to take seriously.

Well, of course.

No, and I think overall, like, that is one of the issues.

I mentioned suspension of disbelief.

I think, truly, if you want to get any kind of enjoyment out of the film, you've got to be willing to let go of any verisimilitude.

It's in your mind.

And with what is the genius, in my opinion, of John Carpenter is he can get more out of a film because he can identify the tipping point of suspension of disbelief so that he can push something to where you really don't want to believe it.

You can see what's wrong with it, whatever.

I don't know, Monica, have you seen Escape from L.A.? Yes, he didn't put his heart into that.

I just loved that it was done in Acts.

I love that every Acts brought thrills.

I love that that guy just pushed the brink of... suspension of disbelief as in order to push the thrill part forward.

I absolutely adored the framing and the way that it just I felt like I was zipping back in a tunnel.

It's in your mind.

And with what is the genius, in my opinion, of John Carpenter is he can get more out of a film because he can identify the tipping point of suspension of disbelief so that he can push something to where you really don't want to believe it.

You can see what's wrong with it, whatever.

I don't know, Monica, have you seen Escape from L.A.? Yes, he

I just loved that it was done in Acts.

I love that every Acts brought thrills.

I love that that guy just pushed the brink of... suspension of disbelief as in order to push the thrill part forward.

I absolutely adored the framing and the way that it just, I felt like I was zipping back in a tunnel.

But that stuff doesn't matter to me.

I already have Suspension of Disbelief.

And I think that movie is charming.

I love that film.

no.

Or did the pace and the tension make you willing to... have that suspension of disbelief, you know?

It did.

No, it did.

And like you said, it was created by Darren Star, but the blueprint is a 2005 novel by Pamela Redmond Satran.

This is where we have to have a serious conversation about the suspension of disbelief.

Because the premise of this show is, I mean, on paper, structurally absurd.

Let me lay out this plot for you, listeners, and I want you as our expert to explain to me how this survived for seven years on television.

That's post-

No, mate, I would go s- I would go suspension of disbelief-

Keep going

... and I would actually be the crew of the APC.

... you know, behind some serious concrete.

Why don't you tell the listener, viewer, where do you draw your line with that rationale, like that train of thought? Because obviously you can apply that to every single panel of a comic book, and you've already said, you know, you don't want this to be like that Nam book.

So where's your suspension of disbelief? Like, where do you apply that, you know? I kind of have a blanket waiver.

This seems so perilous.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, like everyone's suspension of disbelief is different.

And this movie is really, like, first time watch.

It's really cooking for me.