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

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  • #62
    everdead.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,153 ✭✭✭everdead.ie


    Seachmall wrote: »
    But if they're running Linux they'd need an hour to troubleshoot the WiFi.
    Ah wifi is grand on Linux but how no one has come up against a kernel update when they are trying to save the world is beyond me.

    My resolution!!


  • #63
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    Personally I think it seems a bit churlish to worry about the science in a galaxy far far away and a long time ago. Or in movies where lads turn into sorta spiders, or humans time travel or travel faster than light.

    So i would stick to the present day or near future. What bugs me is computers finding information they didn't or couldn't have. A CC camera sees the front of a person, the computer extrapolates a 3D image and shows him holding a gun behind his back ( there is no camera behind him). I turn that kinda nonsense off.

    I am ok with spider people (and spider pigs), though.


  • #64
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Sharknado. A washed up surfer (and actor) formulates a plan to destroy the sharknado by flying a helicopter into the tornados and throwing in homemade explosives to 'equalize it'.

    That CSI eyeball reflection - one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. It is just impossible to switch your brain off on that one.


  • #65
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    In movies, most any car that gets a bullet in the fuel tank or crashes immediately bursts into flame.


  • #66
    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    nibtrix wrote: »
    Wanted - curving bullets!

    They weren't exactly going for realism with Wanted.


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  • #67
    folan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭folan


    the reason its always crap is because science is boring.

    really really boring.
    'cept for 'splosions!


  • #68
    An Coilean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭An Coilean


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    In movies, most any car that gets a bullet in the fuel tank or crashes immediately bursts into flame.

    While the rest of the car is magically bullet proof.


  • #69
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Weird Science. Computer hacking+barbie doll+lightening=doll turns into real woman.
    Die Hard 4. "You now have free calls for life" after twisting a screw on a mobile phone and then blowing up a gas station by hitting the space bar on a computer. Basically all of Die Hard 4.
    Skyfall also had loads of silly computery stuff in it that annoyed me for a film that was taking itself so seriously.


  • #70
    iDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Large animals like dinosaurs, Godzilla, Cloverfield etc getting shot at by machine guns, tanks, missiles etc and not effecting them. Ok we're dealing with big animals it would still probably kill them.


  • #71
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    RandomName2 wrote: »
    "It's a Unix system - I know this!" Jurassic Park
    (upon seeing a random computer with an enormous unfamiliar database relating to the park's security systems.... presented in 3D)

    Thats actually a real program called FSN.


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  • #72
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    iDave wrote: »
    Large animals like dinosaurs, Godzilla, Cloverfield etc getting shot at by machine guns, tanks, missiles etc and not effecting them. Ok we're dealing with big animals it would still probably kill them.

    It can be difficult to take out some (somewhat smaller) real life animals even with head shots, eg water buffalo.


  • #73
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Gamayun wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ


    I don't even....

    Ah jaysus. I managed the first 10 seconds and then had to turn it off. That is wrong on so many levels.


  • #74
    longhalloween
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭longhalloween


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    It can be difficult to take out some (somewhat smaller) real life animals even with head shots, eg water buffalo.

    True, but thats why elephant rifles were invented.
    Hitting godzilla with an anti tank round would definitely do some serious damage
    Maybe...


  • #75
    keano_afc
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    Independence Day.

    Advanced alien species. Top notch spacecraft. Big ass mothership. Preparing for an invasion of earth.

    No antivirus.


  • #76
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    keano_afc wrote: »
    Independence Day.

    Advanced alien species. Top notch spacecraft. Big ass mothership. Preparing for an invasion of earth.

    No antivirus.

    Aliens don't understand or are unable to decipher 19th Cent era Morse code.


  • #77
    folan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭folan


    keano_afc wrote: »
    Independence Day.

    Advanced alien species. Top notch spacecraft. Big ass mothership. Preparing for an invasion of earth.

    No antivirus.

    spaceship interfaces perfectly with a Mac.

    and Mac saves the world.


  • #78
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    folan wrote: »
    spaceship interfaces perfectly with a Mac.

    and Mac saves the world.

    I couldn't get a wireless printer working, but Jeff Goldlbum manages to hook up a 90s macbook to an alien ship, through what exactly? I know USB is "universal" but that's stretching it!


  • #79
    keano_afc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    krudler wrote: »
    I couldn't get a wireless printer working, but Jeff Goldlbum manages to hook up a 90s macbook to an alien ship, through what exactly? I know USB is "universal" but that's stretching it!

    Ha, yeah. "Negotiating with host...." Through what means exactly? VPN?


  • #80
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Machine guns with inexhaustable magazines and gun silencers that work with a barely audible 'phut' sound.


  • #81
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Machine guns with inexhaustable magazines and gun silencers that work with a barely audible 'phut' sound.

    That, silenced guns are still fairly loud, it's mostly for muzzle flash suppression anyway isn't it.


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  • #82
    laraghrider
    Closed Accounts Posts: 663 ✭✭✭laraghrider


    How about blade 2 and the 'light' bomb that was exploded in the sewer. Ignoring all laws of physics when the light is able to explode through the sewer like a ball of fire.


  • #83
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    krudler wrote: »
    I couldn't get a wireless printer working, but Jeff Goldlbum manages to hook up a 90s macbook to an alien ship, through what exactly? I know USB is "universal" but that's stretching it!

    What is it with you and Independence Day? Move on with your life man.


  • #84
    tallaghtmick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭tallaghtmick


    syklops wrote: »
    What is it with you and Independence Day? Move on with your life man.

    Look at his avatar...... he lost his family that day :(


  • #85
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    TerrorFirmer wrote: »
    Sharknado. A washed up surfer (and actor) formulates a plan to destroy the sharknado by flying a helicopter into the tornados and throwing in homemade explosives to 'equalize it'.

    That CSI eyeball reflection - one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. It is just impossible to switch your brain off on that one.

    Also going back to Sharknado, it takes the award for inexplicable absurd explosions, in one scene, a shark lands on the car, tries to bite his way in, this for some reason results in the car blowing up. Later on, a swimming pool also blows up - a swimming pool.


  • #86
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,819 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    All of the CSI style shows are laughable.

    I remember an interview with Steven Spielberg in which he talked about a movie he saw as a kid/teenager, in which a frozen sea/lake cracked and huge chunks of ice started plunging down through the water, nearly killing the heroes in their submarine. Spielberg he said he stood up in the theater and shouted 'ice floats!' That would have been a pretty bad portrayal, especially given the basic level of science involved.


  • #87
    ElWalrus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 173 ✭✭ElWalrus


    I think its a toss up between Armageddon/The Core/2012.

    Although CSI always seems to top its already outlandish 'science'.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoM5kfZIQ0


  • #88
    Timmyctc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    TerrorFirmer wrote: »
    Also going back to Sharknado, it takes the award for inexplicable absurd explosions, in one scene, a shark lands on the car, tries to bite his way in, this for some reason results in the car blowing up. Later on, a swimming pool also blows up - a swimming pool.

    Yeah but thats the point of this film though isn't it. A made for Tv B-Movie. Its excellent.


  • #89
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Can't believe nobody's mentioned this ball of shíte yet (the whole film actually!) -





    Even Angelina couldn't save it! :D

    Actually, there's a couple of well known actors in that movie!


  • #90
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    Can't believe nobody's mentioned this ball of shíte yet (the whole film actually!) -





    Even Angelina couldn't save it! :D

    Actually, there's a couple of well known actors in that movie!

    Someone did mention it on Page 3.

    In fairness I've always loved it as a movie. It doesnt take itself too seriously so really the viewer shouldn't take it too seriously either. According to it, hackers are all good looking, accomplished skaters, higher level english students. It hardly needs a disclaimer stating that the movie is a work of fantasy does it?


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  • #91
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Machine guns with inexhaustable magazines and gun silencers that work with a barely audible 'phut' sound.

    The worst offenders are revolvers that fire anywhere up to a dozen shots


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