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Movie physics

  • 16-02-2007 2:50am
    #1
    JIZZLORD
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    i had the misfortune to watch armagedon this evening and i just ended up on this site
    http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/index.html
    an entertaining collection of rants on the portrayal of basic concepts by hollywood


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  • #2
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    *Idontwannaclosemyeyes....Em I liked it :eek: Strangely the only thing that bothered me was the assumption that on being blown apart it would split into to nice equal parts moving with equal perpendicular components to it's initial velocity(This is likely due to years spent doing experiments where if there was any god given way an experiment could go wrong it would).

    i don't mind when a movie posits something outrageous or gives no attention to the scientific reality of the situation but when a movie makes a big deal out of some technical intricacies of the plot which are utter rubbish masked with excessive jargon I find it hard to watch.


  • #3
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    I'm surprised they haven't done The Core.... they seemed to make up their own rules for geology and physics for that film.


  • #4
    nesf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,644 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    monkeyfudge wrote:
    I'm surprised they haven't done The Core.... they seemed to make up their own rules for geology and physics for that film.

    I lived with a geology student when Hollywood was going through it's volcano phase a few years back. It was amusing to watch him go into a apoplectic rants about them from time to time. :)


  • #5
    fluppet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭fluppet


    Ah yes, 'Core' the film made by the US government in an attempt to boost support for the war (it was released in the run-up to the war and the tagline was 'The only way out is in').

    Most films have some completely incorrect or at least questionable physics involved. Sometimes it's enjoyable to laugh at it, but other times it is very annoying.

    I saw 'The Day After Tomorrow' on TV a few weeks ago and apart from being a terrible film, all of the incorrect physics in it made me especially angry because it is trying to present what is supposed to be a real scientifically-accepted possibility of what might happen any day to the general public.


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