Quote from: 426Buddy on Jun 27, 2018, 01:06:17 PM
Stopped reading at "We audiences are a forgiving lot".
j/k
Audiences are not forgiving at all though, especially when it comes to a franchise film.
If you'd kept reading you would have found out what happens when the forgiveness is over and the poo-flinging begins.
All this argument about what constitutes proper biosecurity practices in a space movie is a red herring. If you feel like what was shown to you was unrealistic, I would agree but we need to ask, so what? Other sci-fi movies have plots that are equally unscientific but without incurring audience blowback. So what's the difference?
The difference is that in
Covenant it's become personal; we feel like our good nature (to "willingly suspend our disbelief") has been taken advantage of in a way that treats us as gullible and stupid. (Other readers can see my earlier post if that needs explanation.)
Woe betide any filmmaker that dares to do that.
Quote from: 426Buddy on Jun 27, 2018, 01:06:17 PM
As for not having suits, that stuff doesn't bother me in films like this. Its hardly important unless you understandably dont like the film already, then it becomes an easy criticism.
Exactly. If you enjoy the film, if you feel respected by the storyteller, if there's goodwill all round, then you're far more likely to allow the filmmaker license to stretch reality in ways that make the storytelling easier.
This is also a large part of the reason why there's so much hate going on with a section of
The Last Jedi's fanbase. It's become personal because they feel disrespected.
TC