> throopw@sheol.org (Wayne Throop) writes:
>
> >: Mark Atwood <mark@atwood.name>
> >: Obviously it's to illuminate the actor's faces so we the viewers
> >: can see who they are.
>
> >Heh!  Yes, this is an FX cliche that is almost as annoying as
> >the "corkscrewing car" or the "car explodes on impact" or
> >"grenades produce a huge fireball" ones.  Done in space movies
> >regularly, but also in undersea epics, such as The Abyss.
> >Often jerks me out of immersion in the story, to wonder for
> >a moment, "but how can THEY see anything?!?".
>
> Do you ever find yourself sitting in the movie theater wondering
> how the characters can be so gosh-darned HUGE?  I mean, some of
> those guys are like twenty feet tall, and it's even worse if it's
> an IMAX theater.  What with the cube-square thing and all I find
> it implausible that such enormous people could survive, much less
> stand and walk.