Among my friends there's a sort of opposite of Moff's Law mantra. "If you analyze this movie, it will fall apart." It's spoken in the middle of a film when something like a lighter held to a sprinkler head setting off all the sprinklers starts the people with a knowledge of fire protection whining and you want them to be quiet so you can enjoy the film. After the movie, it's fair game.

Yeah, kinda like "Entourage" "canon". In a lot of ways, it's a fun show with a cast I like and some funny characters and I don't mean to disparage it. But it totally would not hold up to Buffista scrutiny as even the creators seem unsure about things that in another verse would be just, like simple. Like "Does Ari Gold have a sister?"Also, almost every plot seems to get resolved with something coming out of the sky(not literally!) for Vince.

Sometimes I have to say it to myself. Like when watching Death Race.

I was just saying yesterday how happy I am to be working in an office where I can critique movies and not have to deal with "why can you just blindly like what you're told to?"

Yeah, that's great.

There's the reverse to Mott's Law, though, in that I don't want to analyze a movie (or TV show) and I resent Hubby when he insists on taking something I quite enjoyed and saying, "You know, it really wouldn't have worked that way, they should have done thus-and-so." I get a definite feeling of "OK, you have had your shallow enjoyment, now I need to show you how that movie wasn't all that and you're willfully turning off your brain to be getting so much pleasure out of it."

Showing up on a web site where a movie is being discussed and asking people to stop thinking about what they're talking about is an exercise in willful obstinacy.

I can pick a movie apart and still enjoy it. For instance: why didn't they just ride the eagles to Mount Doom?

For instance: why didn't they just ride the eagles to Mount Doom?

Yeah, that occurred to me too.

why didn't they just ride the eagles to Mount Doom?

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