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I don't know, I mean, look at the naming that some tech companies use IRL. They use some pretty silly names. The idea of a company finding a metal that's sci-fi grade and calling it Unobtanium as a nod to their love of sci-fi isn't that crazy.
This seems like the same problem that we have with shuffling music, where a truly random shuffle doesn't feel random; if you make it less random, it ends up feeling more random. Similarly, making a movie less realistic can make it feel more realistic.
I was about to say, we live in a world where Big Brother is about to be fully matured and is unironically named Palantir. I really don't know what else to say, like the point should be clear.
I almost gave that exact example. Yes. Totally on the same page. Irony is dead and we've killed it.
In real life, poor imagination is acceptable. In a billion dollar movie, we expect better than real life.
It was the imagination of a character in the movie that was bad, not the makers of the movie. I'm not trying to simp for James Cameron or something lol, that statement sounds like I am.