I feel like there's an uncanny valley for movie physics. And movie everything, in fact. Guns, lawyers, spaceships, cops, cars. There's a threshold where a movie cleaves *too* hard to the reality, and so becomes counterintuitively less credible as a story
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This is why a sudden and entirely unexpected appeal to genuine physical laws, in an otherwise physically nonsensical soft science fiction yarn, can also take you out of the movie
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> There are, believe it or not, levels of ridiculousness Fine Structure 2 confirmed
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