To All Of You Complaining About
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Law Abiding Citizen
ksgirl81 — 11 years ago(December 31, 2014 11:02 PM)
The plot holes and how its not reality, its ok, movies are made to entertain not always make perfect sense and be exactly like reality, i mean how boring would it be if every movie was exactly real life? There would be no point in making them or watching them. Most people watch movies to either be entertained or to escape their real life for awhile. Have any of you ever seen an action movie where every little detail made sense and was realistic? Doubtful. People should just relax and try to enjoy the movie instead of trying to find everything wrong with it. Just sayin.
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ned44 — 11 years ago(February 20, 2015 07:39 PM)
You are exactly right about everything you said. It seems these days a lot of people just look for everything they can find wrong with movies instead of just relaxing and trying to enjoy them. A lot of people want to examine what they watch and find some plot hole that no one else thought of. Movies and TV shows would be so boring if they just followed everyday life.
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beware_of_dogma — 10 years ago(September 11, 2015 02:23 PM)
For some reason, more-logical movies tend to be adapted from books.
If all the people complaining can then why aren't they in Hollywood doin it?
Hmm, maybe because Hollywood was never an equal-opportunity meritocracy. -
Enigmanic1 — 10 years ago(May 15, 2015 07:27 PM)
You folks make valid points about people nitpicking at a movie. However, this film is an obvious exception to that rule.
Clyde led a career working for the Department of Defense finding genius ways of remotely killing people. Even the spy Nick meets warns him that Clyde is unstoppable. Clyde is so intelligent and so experienced in his line of work that he would not make critical mistakes, especially after spending ten years planning things out.
The writers set things up the way they did to advance the story toward a desired conclusion but it contradicts the main character. The whole movie is spent establishing how brilliant Clyde is, but then he makes a terminal mistake? Highly unlikely.
Think about the randomness and chaos of life. While Clyde executed his plan with Darby, a hundred things could have gone wrong. But he planned very carefully and pulled it off. After spending ten years planning and preparing the tunnels, would Clyde really have left them unguarded? I highly doubt it. -
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ryodame — 10 years ago(August 19, 2015 01:41 AM)
It's not about a movie being REALISTIC, but logical, to have consistency in its logic, you must respect the rules you established earlier in your story, and not change them whenever it's convenient for the plot.
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beware_of_dogma — 10 years ago(September 11, 2015 02:12 PM)
Exactly. Logical believability and realism are two different things.
Breaking such rules is called a "movie sin."
http://cinemasins.com/