Here's an amusing and informative look at many of the sometimes painfully ridiculous clichés of Hollywood in regards to physics and the laws of nature. Amazing how apparently so many people working in the business simply do not care about being plausible when trying to depict reality.
The Ridiculous Physics of Hollywood
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Originally posted by j over View PostHere's an amusing and informative look at many of the sometimes painfully ridiculous clichés of Hollywood in regards to physics and the laws of nature. Amazing how apparently so many people working in the business simply do not care about being plausible when trying to depict reality.
PGP-13 = Children under 13 might be tricked into thinking the physics were pretty good; parental guidance is suggested
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Originally posted by BROUGHCUT View Postlol, he gave the Gore movie a PGP-13
[GP] An Inconvenient Truth (2006) - Al Gore's presentation detailing every aspect of global warming . Comprehensive but no new information.
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damn, he actually reviewed it? woops.
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Reminds me of the scene in Thank You For Smoking about smoking in space:
Nick Naylor: Cigarettes in space?
Jeff Megall: It's the final frontier, Nick.
Nick Naylor: But wouldn't they blow up in an all oxygen environment?
Jeff Megall: Probably. But it's an easy fix. One line of dialogue. "Thank God we invented the... you know, whatever you call it device."Don't repeat it; create it.
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Originally posted by warrenP View PostReminds me of the scene in Thank You For Smoking about smoking in space:
Nick Naylor: Cigarettes in space?
Jeff Megall: It's the final frontier, Nick.
Nick Naylor: But wouldn't they blow up in an all oxygen environment?
Jeff Megall: Probably. But it's an easy fix. One line of dialogue. "Thank God we invented the... you know, whatever you call it device."
Classic.
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Originally posted by boskiThat'd be the end of one of my favorite creature comforts: afternoon naps."When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
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Originally posted by boskiAnd cinematic space battles would be so quiet and boring without sound.
Cuz, after all, sound doesn't really travel in a vacuum....but...
Can you imagine STAR WARS' climactic battle scene so quiet that you could hear a pin drop?
At least some films like "2001" do portray the physics and reality of space right.
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Obviously, for dramatic purposes you need the spark of ricocheting bullets and the sounds of an explosion in space. But tossing the cigarette in the pool of gasoline to fire it up is just lazy writing. The problem with bad movie physics is that the writer is too damned lazy to do any research... which these days is really lazy considering that Google is only a few taps away from the screenwriting program (of course, it could be some nimrod director going off the page and improving the payoff, but...).
Seriously, some of this stuff drives me nuts. I recently read a script set in the South where a character gets bit by a rattlesnake and dies within thirty seconds... cripes, make it a copperhead or something. Lazy, lazy."Forget it, Jake. It's Hollywood."
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