Worst portrayal of science/technology in a film or TV show.

Capt'n Midnight · 23-10-2013 11:01PM

Armageddon & The Core are so bad I'd hate to play a drinking game to them, I'd be on my ear in no time.

anyone got the picture about NASA's new hires spotting mistakes in armageddon and the record being 186 or something ??

Saw Sneakers again and it's still completely relevant apart from the plot device of hooking the box up and all of a sudden you can read the screen.

Mint Aero · 23-10-2013 11:43PM

Enemy of the state is pretty bad. Stationary cctv cameras that magically rotate 360 around a room, super super zoom on everything, random buildings fully 3d in computers complete with thermals etc

certifiedcrepe · 24-10-2013 12:14AM

Rocky Horror Picture Show!

The_Valeyard · 24-10-2013 12:21AM

realies wrote: »

Dr who

Come on a phone box...

EXTERMINATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jimoslimos · 24-10-2013 01:20AM

I like The Matrix, but I can't get past one of the main themes of the film. That is humans are kept alive to provide energy as some sort of living battery. Eh...wtf? You can't get more energy out than you put in - Law of Conservation of Energy

Voodoomelon · 24-10-2013 01:40AM

In most movies/TV shows, the effect that small arms ammunition has on people/buildings/cars is wholly inaccurate.

Not to mention how people react to being shot; on screen they drop to the floor dead or spin to the side when hit by a 9mm 124gr bullet. In reality, people being shot with handgun ammunition will remain standing and even walking/running after being hit several times.

namloc1980 · 24-10-2013 01:45AM

Ziphius wrote: »

Prometheus

Yes. This film has so many WTF moments it's actually hilarious.

Capt'n Midnight · 24-10-2013 02:04AM

People continuously firing a single barrelled machine gun for more than a minute

Commando, the car crash with yer one and Arnie and no seat belt. Newtons laws of motion ?

Cars being able to catch up with an accelerating plane down a runway.

The Rock, electric tram is propelled vertically by an explosion, and hangs in the air long enough for Cage to take out his gun and shoot enough holes in the air bag to deflate it and open the door and get out of the car before said tram hits the ground.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtisticLicensePhysics?from=Main.ArtMajorPhysics

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodScience

donegal_man · 24-10-2013 02:07AM

Virtually every television show or movie. Just open a laptop and it immediately powers up and connects to the internet

kowloon · 24-10-2013 02:14AM

tvtropes is a brilliant site for this stuff.

laraghrider · 24-10-2013 02:15AM

Surprised nobody mentioned Hackers. Mainframe made of glass towers with a ridiculous 3d flying through the air OS.

Crap page 3 it was mentioned

Sir Gallagher · 24-10-2013 02:21AM

laraghrider wrote: »

Surprised nobody mentioned Hackers. Mainframe made of glass towers with a ridiculous 3d flying through the air OS.

Crap page 3 it was mentioned

Yeah but it that sh1t looked crispy in the dark.

hidinginthebush · 24-10-2013 02:31AM

There's a bit in the dark knight rises where Batman finds a bullet encased in a wall, so then shoots a bullet into a wall and is able to extract fingerprints from the original bullet based on how the new bullet compacted. You can force yourself to see how it makes sense, but it requires a quantum leap of the imagination to believe it in any shape or form.

MadsL · 24-10-2013 04:59AM

Any movie since the 1920s = shooting a lock with a gun will either open it or lock it beyond human intervention depending on the plot device required.

24-10-2013 08:22AM

That batman movie with the water exploder that doesn't affect people

Teyla Emmagan · 24-10-2013 08:31AM

Reverse the polarity!!!

This works for EVERY star ship related disaster I have learnt.

Bolikov · 24-10-2013 08:35AM

hidinginthebush wrote: »

There's a bit in the dark knight rises where Batman finds a bullet encased in a wall, so then shoots a bullet into a wall and is able to extract fingerprints from the original bullet based on how the new bullet compacted. You can force yourself to see how it makes sense, but it requires a quantum leap of the imagination to believe it in any shape or form.

That was the dark knight.

WeHaveToGoBack · 24-10-2013 08:36AM

Vito Corleone wrote: »

Wasn't there a CSI episode where they saw somebody's face in the reflection of an eye?

That was a good episode though.

WeHaveToGoBack · 24-10-2013 08:41AM

Not a specific film, but this happens in almost every TV show and film.

Computers make so much noise. Whether its just clicking something or downloading something, or a loading bar progressing it always seems to make beeps and noises on TV and in films.

I dont know why they do this. Surely the audience seeing the actual action happening is enough to tell us the computer is doing something.

That, and the way every different TV show seems to have a different operating system. The Newsroom is the only TV show that has avoided all of this computery nonsense by just showing Windows 7 for what it is.

Oh, and Under The Dome too, but thats probably more down to product placement by Microsoft.

Cienciano · 24-10-2013 09:02AM

Armageddon. Nasa install machine guns on their space shuttle?

Seachmall · 24-10-2013 09:05AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

Classics.

tallaghtmick · 24-10-2013 09:08AM

Starscream25 wrote: »

I always thought the Gould in stargate seemed very far off what they should be like, considering they had huge space ships and rejuvenating sarcofikiss and what not,there tactics on the ground seemed ridiculous, let's charge the machine guns, they just acted absolutely moronic on the battlefield considering their warrior like way and their high tech wizardry which didn't seem to utilize.

Thats the point though they have no experience in battle against a tactical world, Gould would war with themselves and throw wave after wave of big mother ****ers at each other

gugleguy · 24-10-2013 09:08AM

May have been posted earlier. 1960's cartoon Fonzie and the time machine. Cupcake was the pilot - think Penelopee pit stop in a time hopping flying saucer.

gugleguy · 24-10-2013 09:13AM

MadsL wrote: »

Any movie since the 1920s = shooting a lock with a gun will either open it or lock it beyond human intervention depending on the plot device required.

scene in Chinese gangster movie Hard Boiled where hero must shoot a bullet dead on into something for something to happen so long since i watched it i forget

somuj · 24-10-2013 09:25AM

Shooting monitors to destroy computers or to get rid of data.

Riskymove · 24-10-2013 09:30AM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Reverse the polarity!!!

This works for EVERY star ship related disaster I have learnt.

Captain, we can modify the deflector array to.....

....emit a tachion pulse to magically do various things
.....as a special weapon cooincidentally the only thing our opponents are vulnerable to
....allow us to travel in time

etc etc

A Primal Nut · 24-10-2013 09:39AM

donegal_man wrote: »

Virtually every television show or movie. Just open a laptop and it immediately powers up and connects to the internet

That's fair enough if they are running Linux - some distros boot in seconds.

Also find it strange people criticising things like Star Wars - they aren't supposed to be realistic.

But yeah, as other people said, hacking in a few seconds is usually annoying, but can see why it makes for exciting television, so I've learnt to let it go.

nibtrix · 24-10-2013 09:43AM

Wanted - curving bullets!

Seachmall · 24-10-2013 09:47AM

A Primal Nut wrote: »

That's fair enough if they are running Linux - some distros boot in seconds.

But if they're running Linux they'd need an hour to troubleshoot the WiFi.

alwayssideways · 24-10-2013 09:48AM

creep wrote: »

Blue Meth :rolleyes:

Blue Meth is not inaccurate. Below article from 2007 :cool:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-25-flavored-meth_N.htm

Worst portrayal of science/technology in a film or TV show.

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