JL21 wrote:There's way too much cool stuff in the history of baseball to go willy-nilly making crap up. Obviously, some liberties have to be taken to make it more entertaining. But dudes falling out of a cornfield and hitting homeruns off of stadium lights with their sugary-sweet baseball bat named Wondertits or whatever... I'm sorry, that crap doesn't happen.
there's way too much cool stuff in history in general to make up movies..
but they still do it and you love a lot of made up movies..
It really depends on the genre. If we're talking sci-fi... I mean, "fiction" is in the genre title. So that's cool by me. Same with comic books and fantasy and all of that stuff. If you're framing it in some kind of other world where it couldn't possibly be real, I'll roll with it just fine.
And then there's fiction for the sake of allegory/metaphor (i.e. Seventh Seal). That's a'ight by me, too. But when you ask me to accept something as reality, and it's soooo ridiculously fiction (every single James Bond movie, I'm looking at you), that's where I get annoyed.
let's arm wrestle and whoever wins is right
i pretty much don't care for sports movies in general..
JL21 wrote:There's way too much cool stuff in the history of baseball to go willy-nilly making crap up. Obviously, some liberties have to be taken to make it more entertaining. But dudes falling out of a cornfield and hitting homeruns off of stadium lights with their sugary-sweet baseball bat named Wondertits or whatever... I'm sorry, that crap doesn't happen.
there's way too much cool stuff in history in general to make up movies..
but they still do it and you love a lot of made up movies..
It really depends on the genre. If we're talking sci-fi... I mean, "fiction" is in the genre title. So that's cool by me. Same with comic books and fantasy and all of that stuff. If you're framing it in some kind of other world where it couldn't possibly be real, I'll roll with it just fine.
And then there's fiction for the sake of allegory/metaphor (i.e. Seventh Seal). That's a'ight by me, too. But when you ask me to accept something as reality, and it's soooo ridiculously fiction (every single James Bond movie, I'm looking at you), that's where I get annoyed.
Wait, how can you like Batman but not James Bond... THEY'RE THE SAME GUY!!!
maddash wrote:Wait, how can you like Batman but not James Bond... THEY'RE THE SAME GUY!!!
I realize it looks hypocritical on the surface but it goes back to the reality/non-reality thing. They're both obviously fiction, but Batman is a comic book thing. Pure fantasy and that's established right from the beginning. Bond is framed in some place where they want you to think that this is what really happens in the spy world. Not cool, IMO.
JL21 wrote:There's way too much cool stuff in the history of baseball to go willy-nilly making crap up. Obviously, some liberties have to be taken to make it more entertaining. But dudes falling out of a cornfield and hitting homeruns off of stadium lights with their sugary-sweet baseball bat named Wondertits or whatever... I'm sorry, that crap doesn't happen.
there's way too much cool stuff in history in general to make up movies..
but they still do it and you love a lot of made up movies..
It really depends on the genre. If we're talking sci-fi... I mean, "fiction" is in the genre title. So that's cool by me. Same with comic books and fantasy and all of that stuff. If you're framing it in some kind of other world where it couldn't possibly be real, I'll roll with it just fine.
And then there's fiction for the sake of allegory/metaphor (i.e. Seventh Seal). That's a'ight by me, too. But when you ask me to accept something as reality, and it's soooo ridiculously fiction (every single James Bond movie, I'm looking at you), that's where I get annoyed.
Wait, how can you like Batman but not James Bond... THEY'RE THE SAME GUY!!!
I wasn't aware we were supposed to accept Bond as reality.....
