> I think both of you have missed the point. The whole (and only) purpose of such movies is to entertain. If you can suspend disbelief enough to even watch a movie that includes non-existent elements, then you ought to be able to just sit back and enjoy the story line, regardless of the degree of plausibility. The degree of plausibility is totally irrelevant to the story of such a movie that so obviously impossible in the first place.

So far, you've had three good rebuttals about your weird argument on plausibility and how it shouldn't matter. To recap, it does matter. Of *course* it matters. But rather than to recap their defenses of plausibility, let's talk about story, since that's what you seem to be focused on anyway.

You say that we ought to be able to suspend disbelief and enjoy the story line. Well, tell me this: how good can a story possibly *be* if it can't even be internally consistent on the major plot points? I'm not talking about little details, which critics stereotypically zero in on to justify a pan. I'm talking about the major plot points. Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a cop on the verge of retirement. He loves his wife and kids. He put in his time. He's a sympathetic kind of guy. On his last day of active duty, a badguy kidnapped him and said, "Remember that drug bust in 1982? You put my brother away for life. Time to taste your own medicine!" and then the guy opens up a van, and his wife and kids are murdered in the backseat. The cop is devastated, for an instant, and then he said, "Oh no you don't! I never had a wife and kids!" and the badguy says, "Huh?" and the cop says, "That's my neighbor's family, and I'm going to bring them back to life anyway!" and the cop brings them back to life, and the cop says, "Now you go to jail!" and the badguy says, "Nuh-uh! This is the state of Florida, and murder and kidnapping are legal here!" and the cop says, "Darn! I forgot about that!" but when the badguy ran away, he accidentally crossed into Georgia, so the cop shot him in the back. The kidnapper fell to the ground and died but was instantly reborn as an alien and ate up the city, and then the cop saved the day by uploading a virus into it.

Exciting story, huh!? It's got everything! Action! Suspense! Special effects!

So...ok, it comes across more like The Naked Gun than Dirty Harry. Tell me why.