{"id":8207,"date":"2016-04-30T20:05:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=8207"},"modified":"2016-04-30T21:33:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T01:33:38","slug":"movies-that-are-believable-ones-that-arent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/movies-that-are-believable-ones-that-arent\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies that are believable &#038; ones that aren&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some movies have a central aspect that must be believable for the movie to work. Here are some examples. The list started with negative examples but I thought I&#8217;d include some positive ones as well for contrast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alien: Resurrection<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you believe Ripley has been cloned? Yes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do Batman and Superman have a reason to fight? There&#8217;s a reason, but it&#8217;s flimsy. (As has been pointed out elsewhere on the internet, they could have talked for a couple of minutes and worked things out.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Edge of Tomorrow<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you believe in Tom Cruise&#8217;s character&#8217;s transition from newbie to experienced soldier? Yes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Matrix<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you believe that Neo is the One? Yes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: Nemesis<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you believe that Shinzon is a clone of Picard? No. (Patrick Stewart should have played both Picard and Shinzon.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you believe in Anakin and Padm\u00e9&#8217;s love story? No. (What does Padm\u00e9 see in Anakin?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you believe in Anakin&#8217;s transition to the Dark Side? No. (One minute he&#8217;s a Jedi and the next minute he&#8217;s killing kids.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Upside Down<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you believe in the love story between the two main characters? No. (The story needed to show us how they fell in love.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Warm Bodies<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you believe in the love story between the two main characters? Yes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some movies have a central aspect that must be believable for the movie to work. Here are some examples. The list started with negative examples but I thought I&#8217;d include some positive ones as well for contrast. Alien: Resurrection Do you believe Ripley has been cloned? Yes. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Do Batman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[42,6],"class_list":["post-8207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-lists","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8207"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8215,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8207\/revisions\/8215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}