Smartasses Bore Us To Tears, But It Pays To Be One Sometimes!

If there’s one thing that winds me up, is those people who love to ruin a perfectly good film by explaining how the far-fetched plot line just couldn’t happen. I mean, that photon blaster would require more energy than a gazillion Hiroshima bombs and, like, really couldn’t fit into that handheld design, and that light sabre would totally not stop like three feet away from that handle. These people are so annoying, it makes you wonder how they have any friends to ruin stories with. I even heard one of these in a cinema while watching The Golden Compass (which, incidentally, was three hours of my life I’ll never get back). Near the end, when the giant bear snuck up on that Russian-looking bloke and turned the tide of the battle (don’t worry if you haven’t seen it, I’ve just saved you from an 8th of a day of utter brain-bleeding boredom), this guy, who sounded like every 80’s teen movie geek stereotype, said “well that wasn’t realistic, surely all those guys behind him would have seen it”. What, realistic like the idea of a giant talking freaking bear walking around and commanding armies?

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