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Spicy take: I think everyone should watch classic 50s Looney Tunes. Not cuz it's good, but because in our current age of Realism Is Mandatory and the "If You Don't Spell It Out For Me It's A Plot Hole" school of criticism, more people need to see unironic commitment to a joke. -R
I'd love to see a youtube movie reviewer have a conniption over Bugs Bunny sawing a diving board in half and the wrong half collapsing. Maybe it would finally remind them that picture perfect realism isn't the be-all end-all purpose of fiction. -R
critics love asking the question "why did this ridiculous or unrealistic thing happen" but they hate hearing the answer "because it made the story more interesting" -R
I also think people sometimes conflate bad writing and unrealistic writing. If the character in a horror movie runs upstairs instead of out the front door, the problem is the plot contrivance, not that it was unrealistic for the character to panic in a high-stress scenario -R
I've complained before about, for example, superhero movies that seem embarrassed to be superhero stories. All I ask is that a story be unabashedly itself. You can tell if it's struggling to justify its own existence. If the story isn't excited to be here, why should I be? -R
