You mean "put your brain in a jar and watch it get lobotomized by the absolute stupidity of this film" right? By the way, the shark screams in agony with Lara's punch, it has nothing to do with water, you can't defend the indefensible! And also suspension of disbelief? Please this can be the excuse for anything!
Suspension of disbelief is a conscious effort you have to make, it simply means the film failed to make you believe in it so you say "well you have to stop thinking and become fully retarded in order to enjoy this one" but doesn't that mean it's completely retarded in itself? Why should you enjoy it if it sucks ass? Personally I was torn between boredom, laughter and embarrassment.
A better theory is Tolkien's "secondary belief", he said the events must be believable within the secondary reality of the fictional world. Which means it has to be believable according to its own standards for you to believe it. In Lord of the Rings, Legolas has elven abilities but if he had started flying and shooting missiles from his ass, you would have stopped believing in the film. Same goes here, Lara is probably 80 pounds, she can't just punch away a huge shark underwater, and since it's the real world, the shark can't scream. It can't simply be nonsense and blame the public for not believing it.
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riddlebox1789
12 years ago
I never did say the shark growling in the movie had anything to do with water, when I said that I was referring to sharks in real life. That's failure number one.
Have you even seen the movie or played any of the games? This is a movie based on a game where dinosaurs, dragons and all other mythical creatures still exist, and in the movies there's an oversized Lego brick that allows time travel, in the second there's an entire area full of night creatures and a rubix cube that opens up some kind of portal or whatever the hell it is.
So considering all that, is a shark growling when it shouldn't even that far fetched? Or is all the supernatural stuff, the animals that very well shouldn't even be there, just completely OK but a shark growling is going too far for you?
It's an adventure movie, the same as Indiana Jones is, which are practically stuffed to the point of being overweight with things that are completely unbelievable, yet people constantly praise them as being great films.
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