Yep, this describes me exactly. I gave an example of that in my OP where I used Marvel movie examples: I can deal with the make-believe physics of Iron Man, but all the Asgardian magic in ‘Thor 2’ I could not do.
Game of Thrones was a bit of an exception: I could just tolerate it because the magic and sorcery aspects were a relatively small part of the plotlines.
Sometimes I wonder if I’m the only person on Earth who breaks out into improvisational song, lol. I was on a date once and we couldn’t agree on where to eat, so I started singing
No? Y’all don’t do this?
But…did an invisible orchestra start accompanying you the moment you started singing? Did you start dancing as well? And did your date immediately start singing and dancing in perfect synchronization with you? If you experience two or more of those, you might be living in a musical.
There’s similar acknowledgement of “what? why is everyone singing and dancing?” in the Apple TV+ show Schmigadoon, which my wife and I enjoyed a lot.
If you refuse to see an entire genre, can you really claim to have genre-specific scenes ‘take you out’ of films you are not viewing? ‘Genres we don’t like’ is a different discussion, imho. That’s all.
I was just joshing on what you said, I wasn’t the one who cited musicals in the thread to begin with. I mean, I do think musicals are silly, but I wouldn’t use a musical number as an example of something that ‘took me out’ of a movie, because you’re right-- if I’m watching a musical I expect to see song and dance breaking out at any moment. It doesn’t catch me by surprise and make me think “now this film has lost all credibility for me” because it would have had none to begin with.
Financial Nonsense…
Ok, so you are a successful Lawyer, Doctor, Investment Banker, etc…presumably making high 6, maybe 7 figures…but also spending it on Upper East Side/SoHo 4000 sq ft Co-op/Beach House and driving MBz, BMW, etc. and wearing 20 different $1000 outfits during the 2 hour movie.
And you want to give it all up…to write/paint/interior design/event & wedding plan/save puppies and kitties…
…and are in your 40’s
…and are single
…and want to do this in Aspen/Vail/Jackson/Big Sur/Maui/Tahiti/Belize
So, “splain Lucy”–where is the money coming from?
For the next 45 YEARS OF YOUR LIFE?
Shit, Diane Keaton showed the pathway to this in Baby Boom by (checks notes) creating an organic line of baby food and developing a marketing and production plan which you pitch to your executive friends in NYC, resulting in your becoming the Martha Stewart of the late 80s.
Duh! You make it sound so… difficult!
Only once. I went to a shopping mall where all the parking areas were named after different animals. After I parked and was walking toward the mall, I broke out in song.
Your agonizer, Mr. Arm.
Don’t tell Jessica Alba about how unrealistic this is.
See? All one has to do is (checks notes) parlay the synergies created by your 20-year effort to promote yourself as one of the most beautiful creatures on the planet by (checks notes) creating an organic line of baby food and developing a marketing and production plan which you pitch to your executive friends in NYC, resulting in your becoming the (non-incarcerated) Martha Stewart of the late 00s.
Pshaw! Give me a real challenge!
fine, show me the P&L, balance sheet and cash flow.
Because Kraft Foods, which presumably knows something about this line of products makes < 9% profit.
So our dear little Diane, to make $100,000/yr BEFORE TAXES needs to sell about $1 mil. of product.
At $2 each, that is 500,000 units. Given a 3 year linear ramp up, you are talking about not enough income to support yourself for at least 3 years.
Q. f’n. E. D.
I give you my word, that is a true story.
Young man, this is a Nancy Meyer production. I’m sure it’s fully researched with the intellectual rigor we have come to depend on from Hollywood. If Diane Keaton did it, anyone can do it!
Which was one of the refreshing things about the movie Fargo. Marge shows up at the car lot, and you see her and Shep Proudfoot in a private office having a conversation about whether he received a phone call in the middle of the night.
ah, yes…Nancy Meyer, she of the huuuuuuge kitchen fetish.
Yup, even featured in Town & Country: