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dude 
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Joined: January 30 2004 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 1338 |
 Topic: movie physicsPosted: March 22 2005 at 07:22 |
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If you are anything like me you have spent hours downloading the choicest por....... oops if you are anything like me(and God forbid that you would be anything like me) you have no doubt sat down to watch a movie and thought............ WHAT THE!!!!....DID I JUST SEE THAT!??...... Case in point FORTRESS 2 RE ENTRY, IFYOU HAVE SEEN THIS MOVIE YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN GOBSMACKED AT THE SCENE WHERE CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT SWIMS THROUGH SPACE UNPROTECTED(I KID YOU NOT!!!!) TRYING TO FIND AN ENTRANCE...AND THOUGHT...... YOU CANT BE SERIOUS!!????
ANYWAY,MOVIES ARE FULL OF SCENES THAT CANT POSSIBLY HAPPEN AND REALLY CRAPPY SCIENCE, SO IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO BURIES THEIR HEAD IN THEIR HANDS WHEN AN ILLOGICAL SCENE OCCURS YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN THIS SITE!!!...
http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/
IT FEATURES MOVIE CLICHES(CAN YOU REALLY IGNITE PETROL WITH A CIGARETTE BUTT?) AND MOVIES WITH REALLY BAD PHYSICS!! ITS FUN....ENJOY!!1 |
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Jim Garten
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Posted: March 22 2005 at 07:47 |
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Absolutely fantastic stuff, Dude - the article on 'The Core' is what I have been wanting to see for a loooooooong time! |
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Reed Lover
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Posted: March 22 2005 at 08:28 |
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Brilliant stuff-will keep me enthralled for hours and get me barred from my local for being a boring git!
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JrKASperov
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Posted: March 22 2005 at 10:44 |
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I've seen this site before, the sarcasm is brilliant
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Epic.
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FloydWright
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Posted: March 22 2005 at 11:23 |
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I love this...
Oddly enough, one of the reasons I'm liking the new Battlestar Galactica series more than a lot of other sci-fi stuff I've seen lately is that they stay much closer to what we know about physics. Of course they stretch it sometimes, but when you watch the space battles, the behavior of the spacecraft is close to correct. I actually saw one do a proper zero-G braking maneuver, where you have to turn around on maneuvering thrusters (while still moving the same direction, which is now "backwards" as far as the spacecraft is concerned), and fire the main rocket to overcome the backward thrust and then start moving forward. Pardon the comparison, but it's like when you play the old game Asteroids (which also had correct physics, oddly enough for a game that old!). Edited by FloydWright |
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maani
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Posted: March 22 2005 at 12:45 |
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In addition to movie physics, there are, of course, the often comical continuity errors that are sometimes so blatant as to be absurd. One of my favorites is in "The Edge" (Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin). They are in a small private plane, when a flock of geese come out of nowhere, smashing through the front glass windows, causing havoc, and causing the plane to crash into a lake. In the very next scene, we see the passengers frantically trying to get out. Except that somehow the front windows are now miraculously back in perfect condition, so the passengers can't just climb out through the broken windows... There is also a famous continuity error (so famous I forgot which movie it's in... Anyone else have any favorites? Peace. |
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Garion81
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Posted: March 22 2005 at 16:15 |
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Was reading about the Day after Tomorrow. Hmm all that discusion there reminded me of a question hmmm what was it?
Oh Yeah! What is Prog? Now there is a chaos theory.
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"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?" |
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JrKASperov
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Posted: March 22 2005 at 16:26 |
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Sounds like Gladiator.  |
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Epic.
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FloydWright
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Posted: March 22 2005 at 16:35 |
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Has anybody got a screenshot of this? |
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maani
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Posted: March 22 2005 at 22:42 |
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Jr: Actually, it was much earlier than Gladiator; more like Spartacus or one of those old Roman-era films. Peace. |
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FloydWright
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Posted: March 23 2005 at 00:01 |
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Maani--they had films in Roman days??
Wow, talk about anachronisms... 
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Jim Garten
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Posted: March 23 2005 at 03:30 |
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The Roman with a wristwatch is (I believe) in 'The Robe' - not in the background, either, he is apparently sitting next to Richard Burton during quite a pivotal scene; if anyone does have a screenshot of this, I'd love to see it. There are several famous errors in Gladiator - a Barbarian and a Roman having a cigarette together during the initial battle scene - a Roman wearing jeans - a soundman complete with boom-mike at the Colosseum - the list goes on & on. You would think that with digital editing, such errors would be a thing of the past - you can forgive, say, a Lorry going past on the horizon during the final battle scene in 'El Cid', but with 99% of modern battle scenes being created in a computer.... The holy grail of sites for pedants such as myself has to be www.moviemistakes.com - a great read. Edited by Jim Garten |
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dude
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Posted: March 23 2005 at 06:29 |
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THERE IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SCENE IN "BEN HUR"(A GREAT MOVIE BY THE WAY
BOOM MIKES IN MOVIE SCENES ARE COMMON AS ARE KLEIG LIGHTS IN "MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL" YOU CAN SEE THE MIKE IN THE RABBIT SCENE. I ONCE SAW AN EPISODE OF WONDERWOMAN THAT WAS SET IN WORLD WAR TWO BUT SOMEONE FORGOT TO TELL THE GUY WITH THE CORVETTE IN THE BACKGROUND. I HAVE SEEN A COUPLE OF MOVIES FROM THE FORTIES WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THE DIRECTOR CALL "ACTION". IN "FIRE MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE" OUR INTREPID SPACE HEROES LAND ON ONE OF JUPITERS MOONS(I THINK IT WAS JUPITER FROM MEMORY) AND EXPLORE THE MOON WHICH COMES COMPLETE WITH COWS AND FARMERS FENCES!!!! IN "THE VIKINGS"(WITH TONY CURTIS AND IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, KIRK DOUGLAS) YOU CAN SEE AN OIL TANKER IN THE BACKGROUND IN ONE SCENE. I HAVE LOST COUNT OF THE NUMBER OF TIMES I HAVE SEEN AIRCRAFT VAPOUR TRAILS IN WESTERNS!! ANOTHER COMMON CONTINUITY ERROR IS THE SAME SCENE CONTINUING AT DIFFERENT TIMES OF THE DAY A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS IS THE MOVIE ZULU WHERE THE BATTLE OF RORKES DRIFT TOOK PLACE IN 1879(ONE OF MY FAVOURITE MOVIES BECAUSE OF MY WELSH HERITAGE I COULD GO ON AND ON......
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Peter
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Posted: March 23 2005 at 09:22 |
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Good topic, Dewd! My vote goes to Tim Burton's re-make of Planet of the Apes. Super-lame -- the laws of physics and just plain common sense were savaged! I normally quite enjoy Burton's movies, but: 1. Why use unreliable chimps (which require prohibitively expensive, complicated, & time-consuming training & genetic modification, yet!) to pilot your space probes in the first place? A piece of software will be much more predictable, and will not need food, water, oxygen, radiation shielding, toilet facilities, etc. The apes weren't mere living cargo -- oh no, they actually had to control the craft. WHY? 2. What the HELL were the earth horses doing there on the alien (ape) planet? The earthlings must have brought them into space, then the horses must have escaped when the ship crashed on the alien planet, but why would you bring horses, fer Gawd's sake, into space in the first place? Not exactly spacecraft or zero-G-friendly beasts -- imagine the huge stores of food and water needed just to keep the massive, useless, farting creatures alive! STOOPID! 3. The apes, while clad in full metal armor, are constantly leaping fantastic distances onto their horses, etc. I don't care how strong your legs are -- try making like a gymnast in a suit of plate mail. Medieval knights had to be helped onto their horses, and even walking was a chore. 4. The former underwear model hero (I forget the thespian's name) receives a blow to the side of the head from his ape antagonist that drives him some 15-20 feet through the air, on an upward trajectory, and slams him into a wall. He lands with a scratched cheek, and slightly mussed-up hair. PHYSICS, Mr Burton! 5. The ending is mega-contrived: Our hero's spacecraft crash-lands on earth. Does he land in the ocean (70% likely)? No. In Mongolia? No. A forest? No -- he lands right at the foot of the Lincoln Monument, Yep, that was one of the DUMBEST pieces of supposed SCIENCE fiction I have ever had the misfortune to sit through! Edited by Peter |
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Reed Lover
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Posted: March 23 2005 at 10:04 |
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The wristwatch goof is from Spartacus,one of the slaves is seen wearing one and a truck driving along the mountainside can be seen in the background in one battle scene.
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FloydWright
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Posted: March 23 2005 at 23:02 |
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Do they have pics of the goofs we've been talking about?
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..i will start again!!.....
) in which a Roman soldier is wearing a wristwatch...
maani wrote:
A force (from a fist, remember -- pretty small thing, so the force will be concentrated) powerful enough to do that would surely: crush the man's skull, snap his neck, and break the ape's arm as well. Bone is bone. Just plain impossible, and way off the scale on the old hokey meter!
so that he can see its new ape head just before being apprehended by the ape authorities. What were the odds of that?
Don't waste 2 hours of your life -- scratch your ass instead; your time will be better spent!