The Biology of B-Movie Monsters

Ant writes "The Biology of B-Movie Monsters is a published paper about the reality of movie-monster anatomy in 2003. In the paper, Michael C. LaBarbera explores the implications of extremely large and extremely small fantasy creatures, whose mass, volume and surface-area scale at different rates as they are shrunk/enlarged (e.g., ants can carry many times their body-weight, but if they were the size of tigers, they'd be crushed under their own carapaces). Other issues covered include the respiratory difficulties of Mothra, the biomechanics of Jurassic Park dinosaurs, and the reason E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial is so effing cute.."

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are you serious?

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if that is an example of your standards of scientific realism before watching a scifi movie, you might as well never watch star trek, star wars, firefly, stargate, predator, terminator, and well, basically 99.99999% of anything in the genre

basically, your standards for realism don't just suck, they exclude anything remotely entertaining

please, go watch a dvd of a university chemistry lecture, that's about the only thing you could watch and not find anything to complain about in terms of loss of scientific realism