Up until very recently I used to be the kind of person who would complain about some extraordinarily contrived thing happening in a movie.
It's still sometimes a warranted criticism, of course, but I'm starting to come around to the notion that there's a REASON a movie or story is being told about whatever is going on. Because a series of unlikely events happened.
A farm boy just happens to be away chasing a wayward droid when the Empire kills everyone back home.
A mugger leaves a boy alive after murdering his parents in front of him.
A starship gets lost 70,000 light years from home but gets home in 7 years instead of 70 through unlikely adventures.
A Native American girl defeats a Predator in the 1800s.
An ordinary off-duty cop single-handedly defeats terrorists who just happen to be holding his wife hostage.
Etc, etc. The story is that THE AMAZING THING HAPPENED, and was worthy of having a movie made from it. ;)
At least, most of the time.
@fortyseven I think that's reasonable, but I also think there's a limit to the number of extraordinary events that happen.
If the ordinary off-duty cop happens to meet a legendary special forces veteran working as a cook, and they defeat the terrorists using their ice skating moves they learnt as rivals when they competed against each other in their teenage years - working together after all these years....
...well, I'm going to say you're making shit up. There's no way Steven Segal can cook.
