If you are anything like me you have spent hours downloading the choicest por.......

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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/ - 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

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...) in which a Roman soldier is wearing a wristwatch...

Anyone else have any favorites?

Peace.

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.

Jr:

Actually, it was much earlier than Gladiator; more like Spartacus or one of those old Roman-era films.

Peace.

THERE IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SCENE IN "BEN HUR"(A GREAT MOVIE BY THE WAY)WHERE CHARLTON HESTON IS  WEARING A WRISTWATCH....IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE CHARIOT RACE SCENE BUT I HAVE NEVER FOUND IT!!!! 

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) AS THE BATTLE RAGES, IN THE SAME SCENE YOU CAN SEE THE DRAKENSBERG RANGE IN THE BACKGROUND COVERED IN CLOUD ONE SECOND CLEAR THE NEXT,BLUE SKY ONE SECOND OVERCAST THE NEXT ETC!!.

I COULD GO ON AND ON......

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! 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!

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,  so that he can see its new ape head just before being apprehended by the ape authorities. What were the odds of that?

Yep, that was one of the DUMBEST pieces of supposed SCIENCE fiction I have ever had the misfortune to sit through! Don't waste 2 hours of your life -- scratch your ass instead; your time will be better spent!