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Impossible Movie Stunts?
ThousandStars asks: "After watching Spider-Man, I noticed some miraculous physics like Spider-Man falling faster than a girl to save her and the girl catching the cable car at the end. It reminded me of a list of 12 problems with the plot and science of Independence Day, which brings me to my question: What are the most implausible, impossible and sheerly rediculous science-related things you have seen in movies?"
the need to explain everything with fake science.
I'd much rather the quick-and-glib-and-then-ignore it science of how spiderman or the hulk etc got their powers than, for example wait for the fourth movie and then decide that the force is a microbe.
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Geeks throwing a party and getting laid.
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Anything in this movie .... Total disregard for the laws of physics - that motorcyle scene was ridiculous.
Favorite generic one: Explosions have no shrapnel, they only hurl the hero to where he needs to be.
Uber-geeks all use macs...
On a second thought, there might be a tiny, winy bit of unbelievable things in there, like the Heisenberg compensators making the transporters work. There is your neighbourhood dysons-sphere conveniently built around a sun to harvest energy (Next generation episode: Relics).
We shouldn't really get into discussing warp speed, everybody knows that Stephen Hawking is working on it. There are smaller things in Trek that go by hardly recognized. E.g. the weather control systems that are only mentioned when failing.
Force fields are mentioned so often in Scfi-Fi we just have to believe in the possiblity. There seem to be working experiments with magnetic "shields". Metaphasic shields on the other hand are something completely different, although they have become as common as cloaking devices in the Star Trek universe.
Let's face it, fellow trekkers: Most of this stuff is unreachable and will remain so for a long time, if not forever. ;(
Now off for a cup of tea, Earl Grey, hot, freshly converted from dilithium generated energy to matter by a food replicator ...
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Speaking of which, dancing on the walls is impossible, let alone the ceiling.
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Actually, Clark Kent learned the Reality Distortion Field technique from Steve Jobs.
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
But the fact that he manages to snatch a girl out of the air by falling faster in a nice tuck position in a latex body suit than the girl fully clothed in a spread eagle position, that bothers you.
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As for me, I'd have to go with Harry Potter, because everyone knows that brooms can't fly.
Actually, just to nitpick, he used a Macintosh. A "MAC" is an Ethernet address. I suppose this plot element would have been somewhat feasable had they worked in scenes showing how he figured out how to make his computer interface with the alien tech. and then spent several weeks learning to code for it.
;-)
The fact he gets drunk one morning and then suddenly has the answer is pretty fucking stupid though.
Still, I wonder what kind of licencing deal Apple gave those aliens for their servers to run AppleShare IP
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Independence Day
Hackers
Tomb Raider
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Not true, these movies took place a "long long time ago" when all of the hydrogen in between the planets and such had not completely dispersed. It's why you can see the laser blasts too.
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
The tornadoes could suck up fences, cars, semis, houses and trees, but couldn't suck the tank-top off of Helen Hunt. WTF?
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The mysterious part is that my wife has problems opening the jelly jars that closes tightly, yet can crush my arm, hand or knee with no trouble during a movie. Almost makes me wonder...
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