thanate | No more shoddy excuses (Reply)

I had a conversation a few years back where I was trying to explain why I despised the second Ice Age movie (which I watched because I was stuck with a group of other people who were going, and as I recall my alternate option would have been to sit in the car for the duration of the movie)... Not only did it trip most of my "modern humor is moronic" switches (of which there are far too many) but for a movie supposedly set in the prehistoric past, there were vast lapses not only in their paleontology, but in obvious scientific principles. Things like the fact that there appeared to be three predators in the entire world, two of whom had been frozen in ice for millennia and suddenly revived for no particularly clear reason, and the third apparently didn't need to eat.

At any rate, the person to whom I was attempting to explain this looked at me as if I'd gone mad and said, "But it's just a cartoon!" I'm afraid I found this response about as thoughtless as the movie itself, not to mention completely missing the point. Apparently I want people to think about these things before foisting them on impressionable, under-scientifically-educated small children.

Someone else appears to have come up with the new, more universal way of stating this: It is called Moff's Law.

And yes, for the record, I do cross-analyze and pick apart the things I really like, too. I just don't generally call them stupid at the same time.