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- UncleToxie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4'LOL, some people are so uptight they could turn coal into diamonds with their asses.
IT'S A MOVIE!!! WORK OF FICTION!!!! NOT A PHYSICS TEXTBOOK!
Someone should tell them that. :-)'
'Film School 101: Movies aren't real.'
Thank God I'm not the only one thinking this. Is it just too much trouble to have a good time anymore? Take deep calming breathes and relaaaaaax. - Jessimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2clever, went VERY in depth, but kinda a kill-joy, especially with the sci movies like the matrix. good article though
- Craig1394, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Kids are excused, but any adult that thinks a special-effects driven sci-fi movie should have real-world physics, is a special sort of moron.
- zerovertex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'd like to see them grade "Serenity" or the "Firefly" series. It's the first sci-fi that I immediately noticed that there was no sound in the void of space. Glass shards aren't a problem, because they have holographic windows. Among other points that I could list. Anyway... FIREFLY RULES!
- jmmath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is fun but should be called "anal retentive movie watchers"
- G00mper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Insultingly stupid"? We're supposed to be insulted that movies aren't real? All this time I thought the Star Wars films were documentaries. I'm so insulted.
- EGOvoruhk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What a waste of time that site was. Someone should make an off-shoot site called "Insultingly Stupid Web Sites About Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics" and give that site an 11 out of 10
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Stop getting your panties in a bunch over Science Fiction. kthnx - Dgen_X, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2anyone who wants to see some amazing flaming car physics...watch the movie "Pumpkin"
it's amazing! - c-nug, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Movies aren't real. Get over it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg, plus three roafs -- ROAF ROAF ROAF.
- noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's odd that you are insulted by unrealistic physics in movies.
Very odd. - elpottsy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The amount of floors in all the movies referred to by this article pails in comparison to the floors in the article itself. To name just one; the article clearly explains that when spaceships explode in space (as they frequently do) all kinds of debris would be propelled away from it, if this hits the ship (or the shields) loud 'booms' will obviously be produced. Also any warp capable spacecraft will also send out an enourmous energy wave caused by the matter-antimatter anhihaltion which occurs as the antimatter containment field collapses. This would be heard as a loud explosion when this energy wave causes vibrations in the hull of the ship.
if your gonna be a nit-picking geek, do it properly! - HerbSolo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually i really liked star wars ep3. - Still, those guys have mastered the art of ridiculing a movie, good read!
- cheekybastard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If movies obeyed the laws of physics could they still be entertaining? Possibly, but not as entertaining as when they don't.
Interesting site though. - jasqwerty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3LOL, some people are so uptight they could turn coal into diamonds with their asses.
IT'S A MOVIE!!! WORK OF FICTION!!!! NOT A PHYSICS TEXTBOOK!
Someone should tell them that. :-) - hammerattack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good site, BUT, on the "bullets don't flash" article, there's two kinds of munition they didn't test. The first is the AP round, which is rarely issued (if ever) to footsoldiers, but are sometimes used by heavy machine gunners and snipers because they are effective on light armored vehicles. The steel jacket produces a visible flash on striking a steel armored vehicle, but it resembles a reddish orange flash, not the sparks you see in movies. Another bullet is the DU tipped 30mm rounds commonly fired from aircraft. The produce white-hot sparks. I think we've all seen the video of the A-10's hammering tanks, or buildings housing Al Jazeera journalists posing as terrorists. Or is that Al Jazeera terrorists posing as reporters. Either way...
- KevinJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a great article. Although its points are arguable. Could you really watch the first 15 minutes of StarWars Ep 3 with no sound effects?
- tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Film School 101: Movies aren't real.
- thehigherlife, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i did a project similar to this in high school we had to make a documentary on a movie and present its flaws. good learning experience mixed with fun.
- SatansMagicHat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I did a physics paper on this exact page 4 years ago
- StephnDolenc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this should make the front page
- krakelohm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0TigerClaw... I dont remember anyone called Mac in that movie? Maybe your thinking of Jeff G. He was using a Powerbook and that is a Macinto... ohh.. ha. sigh.
- mrfloppy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0teehee...the star wars EP3 one is good-un
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This site has been around for years, it's nothing new..
- tmetzner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0very amusing article, though i stopped after the first page (you get a pretty good idea from that). Worth checking out for sure...
- Coletrickle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0funny really, although a lot of text :P
- PhAdE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You think you're smart, but you typed "pails in comparison."
Excellent job. - turgiddahlia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This site is great. I'd forgotten all about it, so cheers for the reminder *bookmarks*
- jla1987, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very long. Look forward to reading it later.
- distrbnce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0great reading
- thedigger1010, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think that its a little geeky i get on the net so i don't have to deal with math. i thought the ratings where funny buts it a little geeky for me.
- HyenaOnCrack, on 12/15/2007, -0/+0To everyone bitching about "WAH WAH LIGHTEN UP MOVIES ARE ABOUT THE SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF":
The suspension of disbelief is about accepting the patently unreal (magic, unicorns, hobbits, ridiculously unreal technology, superpowers, etc.) or that the scenario hasn't happened yet but could, so that you can 'get into' the story and enjoy it, not so you can be deceived by the feasible-yet-false and interpret that as truth because you're exposed to it repeatedly (cf. real-life punches making a loud "THWOCK" sound, sniper rifles and silenced guns making no noise, riding a motorcycle through plate glass won't actually cut you, etc.).
And whenever you know the facts about something, you hate to hear them misrepresented. Nobody's going to say "SHUT UP THAT'S NOT HOW HOBBITS ACT BECAUSE THE MOVIE SAID SO", but if you know how it really works and you see it represented falsely, it'll probably bug you and sap your enjoyment of the movie because the niggling little thought of "that's not how it works, dammit!" will annoy you throughout the movie. And if people know you're knowledgeable about the topic, they'll probably bug you and ask if that's what it's really like or if that's how it really works.
Think about it this way: If Peter Jackson changed Frodo into a 20-foot robot with laser vision, Tolkien fans would be pissed. If Harry Potter suddenly became a 17-year-old blonde bombshell, fans of the original books would be pissed.
So, when movies interpret their source material (i.e., real-world physics) incorrectly, physics fans get pissed. - djheilmann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i almost peed my pants
- jaydub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0mythbusters has done a segment on neary every one of those movie physics examples. On the flashing bullets one, they ended up making their own flashing bullets using empty paintball shells and those snap-pop things you get at the 4th of July where you just throw them on the ground and they pop.
- ursabear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Seriously... movies are entertainment. It is only when they are citing "fact" that these types of compendiums should be written.
Funny stuff, tho... - briansalo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, just; wow...
- TigerClaw, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Lets not forget that Mac was somehow able to hack into an Alien spacecraft to upload a virus in Independence Day, Heh.
- Poppinfresh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Raises alot of good points, yes movies arn't real but when they dont even bother to follow the most basic laws of physics it just becomes stupid, every time i see a car explode or a gun battle go on for 5mins without anyone reloading...it just becomes lame to me
- nPlastic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is so funny, I wish I could dig it twice.
- Bromskloss, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"Movies aren't real. Get over it."
They should be. I too loose interest when they keep spitting out technical or physical buzzwords which makes no sense. - DanDaMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Ahh yes. My roomate found this site about 2 years ago, but I had been thinking of a desire to visit it again. Thanks to this timely (for myself) story, I don't have to find it!
- AJTLEO, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I went to high school with the guys who run this site. They know their stuff(both got 1600 on the SAT). I've also played Forchess, which one of them invented. Not so fun, but hey, that's me.
- sourbrew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is my high school computer teachers website. It always makes me giggle that he gets internet press. He is a very cool man, ran the local chapter of UPSTART robotics. He was also understanding enough to give me harder programs when i finished all the ap programs 2 weeks into the course. Although at the time i bitched about not being able to dick around on the interweb. Digg ++
- timshead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I just saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith last night and it had most of those problems in it. And how about the ignorant rendering of computer applications and their capabilities in movies? Last night I learned, to my surprise, that apparently you can track an individual RAM module to a billing address. In 10 seconds. That's news to me!
- rmdl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0One thing that comes to mind is Total Recall.
If you went on the surface of mars without a helment, your eyes would not pop out of your head like that. You'd just be breathing in lots of stuff that's not oxygen.
Also, believe it or not, you could survive for 20-30 seconds in space WITHOUT a suit. http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html - Shen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Insultingly old
- fizziksman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"Movies aren't real. Get over it."
As a physics teacher, I can tell you that most people don't know the difference between reality and fiction. In class I frequently have to refute the "science" that they think they know, much of which is picked up over time from movies. People pay closer attention to movies and TV than to teachers.
I'm not saying all movies should follow the laws of physics to the letter. But there are instances where the movie is set in the "real" world, but steps way over the line into pure foolishness. - BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0LOL
- TJ229ER, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Awesome site.
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