Bedrockgames
Legend
Yes I can look you straight in the face and tell you that magic is never believable. That is why many people (my father for one) refuse to watch fantasy movies and mock elves and wizards, but will happily watch various modern action heroes enact impossible feats. There is a whole movie based on the idea that if the hero stops running and moving he will die. In those movies, the heroes injuries usually manifest as flesh wounds and smears of blood only. There are also standard tropes wherein the hero is jolted back into action by encouragement, by memory of a loved one, by anger. I find action movies almost entirely unbelievable as well, but for some reason many people can accept them before they will ever enjoy the Lord of the Rings.
This i find very unconvincing. Some people may have difficulty swallowing fantasy, but people who watch or read it still have basic expectationa of internal consistency and physics. If frodo breaks his shin bone but the next minute it is fixed, i expect a reason to be offered (or i expect some kind of time to elapse prior to him doing so). In action movies the concession is usually that the character is martialling through the injury, but even then the assumptions sems to be they are operating atvless than optimal performance (usually indicated through gasping, occassional limp, etc).