I'm talking about those moments in movies that no matter how much you are able to suspend disbelief, you just don't buy it...whether it is a special effect, a perilous situation that a character gets out of but realistically wouldn't be able to, a character's behavior in a particular environment that wouldn't be tolerated IRL, a romantic choice that just seems ridiculously wrong...I'm talking about those moments that even though you know it's just a movie, you still go, "Aw come on!" and it's impossible to accept and maybe even take you out of the rest of the movie. An example off the top of my head:
The "Give My Daughter the Shot" scene in Terms of Endearment...it's a wildly theatrical moment in the film that Shirley MacLaine nails, but I'm pretty sure that IRL, Aurora Greenway would have been escorted out of the hospital by security before she got halfway through that tirade.
The "Give My Daughter the Shot" scene in Terms of Endearment...it's a wildly theatrical moment in the film that Shirley MacLaine nails, but I'm pretty sure that IRL, Aurora Greenway would have been escorted out of the hospital by security before she got halfway through that tirade.