Acronym time:
A "T.M.B.S. Moment"
It occurs whenever anyone watches any movie.
A "This Movie's Bull Shit" Moment.
Wait and watch for it. Someone will sit up, 45 minutes into watching "Transformers" ("There's no way that 2 hot chicks would know so much about cars and computer codes"), "Toy Story 2" ("No toy would be packaged with that many accessories") or "300" ("You're saying not ONE of those Spartans is gay? But look how fit they are!") and exclaim, "This Movie's Bull Shit!"
The cinematic illusion is broken, and only a grounded, realistic indie film can rebuild it (i.e., "Weekend at Bernie's"... "Wait a minutes... that guy looks more like a Garry than a Bernie. This Movie's Bull Shit!")
What about your TMBS moments?
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TMBS Moment I just had: Robin Williams has already fooled his wife with impressions and voices that she's probably heard a hundred times already (they've been married at least 15 years), and has completely fooled his entire family. But then, during a montage of what a fun person Mrs. Doubtfire is, Robin Williams, as Mrs. Doutbfire, is playing soccer with his son (who later went on to be Jack Hunter in Boy Meets World), and I thought to myself "Wait, no one is surprised that this 60 year old woman is having no trouble keeping up with a 15 year old kid? This doesn't strike anyone as odd that a dumpy woman who seems to have once been a classmate of Maggie Smith is playing soccer with a 15-year-old boy and is not going into cardiac arrest? This Movie's Bull Shit!"
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