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?"

Comments

It not the bad science so much as . . .

[alnapp]

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.

Real Genius

[linzeal]

Geeks throwing a party and getting laid.

I must turn against ST ... (sadly)

[CyberQ]

You are asking for impossible, maybe even obscure scientific inventions in movies or TV? Well, you may find some, but my beloved favoured show, Star Trek (all incarnations without female vulcan science officers), has none of them. Everything shown on Star Trek is a possible future invention ...

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 ...

So, let me get this straight.

[watchmaker1]

You're perfectly alright with the fact that a wimpy kid can get bitten by a "genetically engineered" spider, and miraculously overnight gain incredible muscle mass, strength, agility, the ability to stick to walls or ceilings, glandular "web shooters" which mystically appear in each wrist which can shoot a volume of web "substance" greater than the volume of his body, and an innate ESP-like "Spider Sense" (Did they do that in the movie?).

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.

Just Checking.

As for me, I'd have to go with Harry Potter, because everyone knows that brooms can't fly.

Twister

[sharkey]

The tornadoes could suck up fences, cars, semis, houses and trees, but couldn't suck the tank-top off of Helen Hunt. WTF?