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Will this extension of IP still allow virus uploads to alien ships via MacBooks?

http://www.nitpickers.com/movies/repository.cgi?pg =t&sp=i&tt=108701

For starters, how about 6363:
A meteor hit Buenos Aires and Rico's parents die. But they live -as seen in the movie- near mountains. And the nearest mountain to Buenos Aires is 1700 km far from there.

So why aren't your panties in a bunch over that piss poor writing? Doesn't it completely ruin the movie knowing that the writers are so unknowledgable about earth geography/topography?

Better site here

My personal favorite is ID4 where they infect the alien mother computer with a virus. Remember the movie? Don't know what they been smoking when they wrote the script but it musta been one helluva trip.

"Aliens won't be using the same operating system we do, you know"
"That's allright, they'll probably have MacOS, then"

For quite a bunch of movie nitpicking...

Yes, Will Smith and Harry Connick were Marine pilots, out of El Toro, flying F-18 Hornets
Very standard.

BUT...as I remember, at the end of the movie, with all the jets parked and looking for volunteers (and this guy confirms) the F-18's were stenciled with Air Force markings.

I'd have to see it again to confirm.

Except of course for the hundreds of errors, gaffs, miscues, and broken plot pieces in those two "painstakingly detailed" movies.

Except of course for the hundreds of errors, gaffs, miscues, and broken plot pieces in those two "painstakingly detailed" movies.

Who modded this flamebait?

The parent is right. They are two completely different mediums for Pete's sake! One is black ink on paper, devoid of sound and lucrative fast food endorsements. The other provides aural stimulation as well as millions of colours of visual 'food' for the brain. Peter Jackson's movie trilogy is just one of 6 billion interpretations of the books (I know not everyone on the planet has read the books but for argument's sake...). Ever notice how when you are reading a book you imagine scenes in a spatial sense in your mind? Some things are more vivid and exciting to you than others, and these will differ from everyone elses. The nitpicks in the article point out elements that Jackson has changed/omitted but it was up to him and his team to do it, and I and many others think he did it very well. Oh, and the guy only had a three and a half hour canvas at a pop.

That said, I don't mind nitpicks on movies at all in a fun sense, and the writers of the article do verge a bit too much on the whiny purist side (well, at least the guy admits it)

Not to nitpick, but it might interest you to know that in Jurassic Park, Lex is actually using a Unix system. Good bit of geek trivia. ;)

Now we don't have to develop a static powered car, but can rather make a Mr Fusion to power the Flux Capacitor so we can go to the future where all of life's problems are already solved!

Then again, I wasn't paying much attention. I rarely think at movies, especially blockbusters. I usually like them better if I can treat them like dreams.

Beyond the intro "errors made so frequently it'd be inefficient to keep pointing them out" page, I wasn't impressed. Here are some other nit-pick sites, not physics-specific, but a bit more thorough, and allowing for refutations:

• The Nitpickers Site, with a few decent physics nitpicks
• Movie-Mistakes.com, previously mentioned here

That reminds me of another site that is pretty cool. It just deals with movie mess-ups in general, though, not just science.

Nitpickers. More than enough nitpicking for all of you.

(spider-man)

Nitpickers. More than enough nitpicking for all of you.

(spider-man)

Oh dear, it is the foreigner getting all his British history from Hollywood again. There's another reply to your post which someone should mod up. In addition to that, I'd offer these sites for information about how you can't exactly rely on Braveheart to be.

Anyway try here, here (offers differing views in the form of letters to a newspaper), here (movie nitpicking site, not just about history), here (have to scroll down a bit) and here. I could find other, better sites, but I am at work, so shoudl really get back to coding.

Really bad thing is that they caught me just as I was starting to expand my site and bring other ones online. Now I'm trying to figure out how to cover the cost of hosting & bandwidth.
And paypal donations are a joke guys. I added a tipjar over a month ago. Net income: $3.00.

...I don't want to arbitrarily offend true fans of the movie, but to me The Matrix was a good example of how Hollywood just has No Subtlety when it comes to handling Sci Fi. They seemed to just use it as a vehicle for their wacky CGI constructs of super aliens, more explosions, and darker-than-dark and mysterious 'Link Hayes' revival. I truly lost interest as soon as that chick ran down that hall, saw a window in the building across the street and jumped through the window in her building, across the street, and through that other one. As soon as I saw that, it immediately got tossed into the GMAFB ("give me a break") bin in my mind. The explanation - it's all a dream! - just reminded me of the Nightmare on Elm Street series: writers get all sorts of license when it's not real. People can die and be resurrected, can fly, dodge bullets, all sorts of crap. And the audience can get yoinked around until the concept of suspended disbelief becomes laughable.

I don't know, Hollywood just makes me feel used in general.

/me wonders why "Mission to Mars" isn't already on the Nitpickers.com top ten list.

Add your own nipick for M2M here. Have fun! =)

Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".

/me wonders why "Mission to Mars" isn't already on the Nitpickers.com top ten list.

Add your own nipick for M2M here. Have fun! =)

Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".