Classic film moments ruined by logic
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Eh? Being an overthinking?carnkhan4 said:
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I think the new Indiana Jones movie kinda had that effect on me when the nuke goes off.
I started a thread about being pedantic, so I should have expected this...Bullfrog1983 said:
Independence day: how did they make a compatible virus for an alien spacecraft? I'm assuming they don't use macs or pcs...
Seems like I'm the only person in the universe who thought Serenity was average at best. Everyone else seems to think it was God's gift to sci-fi.a7r0p05 said:
'fraid so, I liked it even though they sometimes went overboard with the Western element. FOX did make a martyr of that show though...matrix3509 said:
Incidentally in firefly why would a bar have holographic windows? surely its cheaper to have normal windows and replace them every time someone gets inevitably thrown through them...
Wait, what? Are you talking about the serape? He picked it up off a soldier who was dying, the one he gave a last cigarillo to. That scene gets cut/heavily edited in several versions, notably the TV version. Anyway, Tuco spent a lot of time running around in the graveyard, enough for Blondie to catch him up after chasing him with the cannon fire; the Ecstacy of Gold scene is compressed a bit.AboveUp said:
As to lightsabers, the canon tends to be very schizo. Ancillary sources and C canon say "it's plasma" as a handwave for it, ignoring the fact that very little of the base data says anything about that (it's more complicated). Look at a lightsaber very closely next time you watch one of the movies, the end isn't actually rounded so much as squared off. That's because there IS a laser involved, and the lightsaber is throwing a hard limiting point at the end of the beam to reflect it back toward the handle. Granted, the beam bouncing back and forth between the emitter array and the end a couple thousand times lights up any matter inside the field, but the principle allowing lightsaber fighting is that the containment fields allow matter through but glance off one another. Yes, containment fields exactly as seen are probably impossible, and magnetic fields, if lightsaber shaped, would appear closer to a very tight figure 8 than square-ended rods. So there is SOME plasma involved, but it's far closer to a fluorescent light than a blaster bolt frozen in space. The conception of a lightsaber as merely a containment field for recycled plasma is utterly wrong, almost as bad as the people conjecturing that it's a beam of "pure the Force" focused by a Jedi through the handle.
And that "the force is required to use a lightsaber" is pure fanwank. The force helps to use a lightsaber safely, nothing more.
I just want to say that anyone who went into Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull expecting logic was in the wrong theater. That said... Two-Face being able to speak clearly after being burned was a bit WTF.
Well beats me. I always thought the movies sucked (as a personal opinion). People acted like they were the most creative things in the world.Indigo_Dingo said:In that case it was actually less sophisticated than a cat, lacking any form of emotion, including joy - doing what it had to do to protect its hive. In that case yet again playing with its prey makes no sense.theultimateend said:I was more talking about the Aliens from Aliens.Indigo_Dingo said:
I hardly thing they were more sophisticated than a cat. Unless you take into account genetic advantages and that's not really a cats fault. The only Alien to ever show some sort of "I understand" was that one that was a hybrid-human-alien thing.
To me they just sounded like Superman.
"Ok its got a super strong armor like skin...and it bleeds acid...and it has a mouth in its mouth that can punch through steel...and it can claw through shit...and it can survive in almost any environment...and and...it's baby form chokes people and has sex with their faces...oh man oh man what else can we shove into one goddamn thing!"
Dark Knight. I found all those scenes when The Joker escaped a bit off top. How could he have put a bomb in someone's stomach that quick? And how did he get 1000 criminals on his side in literally 4 days. Also, he was practically invincible for the entire movie. He could run away from anything. When an entire mob of criminals with guns are near him, he still manages to escape.
Must not troll!Flying-Emu said:
Must not troll!
They're suposidly made out of electrons.
Which theoreticly can be controled and manipulated.
Also since electrons are negativly charged they would repel other light sabers.
*disclaimer little to no factual evidence has been provided, mostly pulled it out of my ass*
Oh yea, light can be stoped: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/27mar_stoplight.htm
it can also be bent...thats right I just craped on everything they taught you about light in highschool. Through magnitism or extreme gravity.
There is a big plot that most people don't seem to notice in Citizen Cane.
The opening scene Charles Kane utters his final words "rosebud", but if you notice the nurse doesn't come into the room until AFTER his says this. How the hell did she hear him?
The opening scene Charles Kane utters his final words "rosebud", but if you notice the nurse doesn't come into the room until AFTER his says this. How the hell did she hear him?
this! i think this. but i wanted to comment on some of your problems with wanted and LOTR.Falseprophet said:
wanted: you guys are nitpicking a movie that is pure fantasy. this is like nitpicking aladdin for having a talking parrot or a wish granting genie. wanted was a movie set firmly in the fantastical. having assasins that kill people throughout the ages. being able to curve bullets, reflexes to cause a car to flip just so... these are all marks of not trying to be convincing but fantastical. as in " wouldnt it be cool if we could shoot bullets with curved trajectories? yeah lets make a movie about being badasses while doing it" i loved wanted, for its outrageuos plot, badass stunts, and good acting. it was fun. plain old fun.
LOTR: you nitpick it for the fact that the eagles didnt fly over mt. doom and drop in the ring. this is rediculous. do you remember those winged dragons, the nazgul? the ones that literally broke peoples eardrums with their screams. there were like 9 of these beasts flying around mordor. it would have been impossible for one eagle to defeat them and get to mount doom. they would have ripped him to shreds.
It's a adaptation thing, in the book they are of equal size and height. Funny enough, the warden in the movie is actually the third warden in the book, and Andy didn't get out until the eighties...did anyone else happen to catch the Zihuatanejo reference on Chuck last week?ellimist337 said: