You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.
Interpretation
This quote humorously critiques the lack of coherence in a movie's storyline despite its visual appeal.
Terry Pratchett's quote cleverly points out that a film can be visually captivating with special effects and flashy scenes but may still falter if it lacks a coherent and engaging plot. It highlights how entertainment value doesn't always correlate with storytelling quality, suggesting that audiences often remember style over substance.
In practice
During a film analysis class when discussing the importance of plot in movies.
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.
You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.
People think I'm a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don't have a sense of humor doing what I do, you perish.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'
America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
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