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

OhHiMark · 24-10-2013 01:38PM

gugleguy wrote: »

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

You paint a vivid picture.

galwayspur · 24-10-2013 01:54PM

This is the worst. But it's also the best.

"Hand me down the shark repellent bat spray."

Crooked Jack · 24-10-2013 02:18PM

galwayspur wrote: »

This is the worst. But it's also the best.

"Hand me down the shark repellent bat spray."

HAHAHA! That's brilliant. but i still think the best one of those is when Robin gets turned 2D and batman just happens to have a "2D to 3D re-transformer" in the Batcave

H3llR4iser · 24-10-2013 02:37PM

All the instances where some magic can be done with pictures to extract data that simply isn't there - the "CSI eye reflection" thing being a good, but not isolated, example. Worst thing is that non-computer-literates kind of believe it's possible; I've been asked to "magnify" some parts of a picture in the past and got some flak when the magnification turned out to be a mess of blurry pixels.

And a petty hate of mine - Battlestar Galactica (new version): a civilization that's capable of building capital ships, faster than light travel and, on top of that, it's very short on resources...uses ballistic weaponry, just because the 'merican public wants to see bullets fly.

A current-day comparison would be a B2 stealth bomber opening hatches from which unwashed guys in tights throw spears and rocks at the target...

RainMaker · 24-10-2013 02:39PM

Moonraker - practically everything in this scene!

JoeA3 · 24-10-2013 02:47PM

Another photography one... in "Taken".

Liam Neeson finds his daughter's camera phone (a basic looking old Nokia style phone, not even a smart phone lol) and he brings it to one of those self-service photo printing machines. From that machine he's able to magnify one of the daughter's photos and get an extremely clear image of the reflection (!) of the bad guy who actually took the photo... whom he later kills!

Frank Lee Midere · 24-10-2013 02:47PM

H3llR4iser wrote: »

All the instances where some magic can be done with pictures to extract data that simply isn't there - the "CSI eye reflection" thing being a good, but not isolated, example. Worst thing is that non-computer-literates kind of believe it's possible; I've been asked to "magnify" some parts of a picture in the past and got some flak when the magnification turned out to be a mess of blurry pixels.

And a petty hate of mine - Battlestar Galactica (new version): a civilization that's capable of building capital ships, faster than light travel and, on top of that, it's very short on resources...uses ballistic weaponry, just because the 'merican public wants to see bullets fly.

A current-day comparison would be a B2 stealth bomber opening hatches from which unwashed guys in tights throw spears and rocks at the target...

Many times ballistics would be the better option. Nukes, missiles, rockets etc. Better than a lad flailing about with a light sabre. Or a bit of a laser gun.

In fact I liked that.

Czarcasm · 24-10-2013 03:21PM

JoeA3 wrote: »

Another photography one... in "Taken".

Liam Neeson finds his daughter's camera phone (a basic looking old Nokia style phone, not even a smart phone lol) and he brings it to one of those self-service photo printing machines. From that machine he's able to magnify one of the daughter's photos and get an extremely clear image of the reflection (!) of the bad guy who actually took the photo... whom he later kills!

How far we've come, eh? The phone was actually a Nokia N95 (one of the very first real smart phones in Nokia's N Series), capable of 5MP resolution, so not really a stretch to get a clear magnified image from it on a photobooth machine*.

(It was on Film4 the other night, it's not like I go out of my way to remember these things!

)

The photos thing though, definitely very annoying as I've had people hand me a wedding photo and ask me to blow up the woman's wedding ring (it was stolen in a burglary) and get the reg plates off some very grainy CCTV footage (same burglary, but if you buy your shìtty cameras in Homebase you get what you pay for!).

*EDIT: SPOILER ALERT -

He doesn't get to kill the guy either, the guy jumps over a barrier down onto the roof of a truck below, lands on the road, and gets flattened by another truck!

jimgoose · 24-10-2013 03:23PM

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

Many times ballistics would be the better option. Nukes, missiles, rockets etc. Better than a lad flailing about with a light sabre. Or a bit of a laser gun.

In fact I liked that.

The turbolasers in the original BG were the bags dallacks. You don't see the Cylons fecking about lobbing tubes full of gunpowder at each other.

BattleCorp · 24-10-2013 05:16PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

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.

One of my friends took a photo up close of a horse's head and you could see his reflection in the horse's eye in the photo.

I haven't seen the episode of CSI you mention but it technically could be possible if you were up really close to the eye.

BattleCorp · 24-10-2013 05:18PM

Crooked Jack wrote: »

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

One of the lads in the shooting club I'm in has a 10 shot .22 revolver. There are 12 shot revolvers out there too.

Skylinehead · 24-10-2013 05:22PM

Ah, Armageddon. The two shuttles taking off and being within a few metres of each other, pretty sure that would result in one or both exploding. Also the space station station rotating to generate gravity. Makes sense, yes, but how is a shuttle going to dock with a spinning hunk of metal?

Still love it though :pac:

Crooked Jack · 24-10-2013 05:26PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

One of the lads in the shooting club I'm in has a 10 shot .22 revolver. There are 12 shot revolvers out there too.

Obviously I have no issue with someone firing 12 shots out of a 12 barrel revolver. I'm taking about traditional six barrel ones. I cant believe I had to explain that.

DeVore · 24-10-2013 06:36PM

Dont be so hard on Bladerunner... a lot of that tech is now real! (including the image enhancer and seeing around corner of images).

http://furiousfanboys.com/2012/11/blade-runner-tech/

24-10-2013 06:46PM

"I'm going to channel the water and the light." - from the 'Man in Black' on Lost, episode 'Across The Sea'.

Ah so that's how the teleportation donkey wheel works, seems legit to me.

Sh1tbag OToole · 24-10-2013 06:57PM

Drakares wrote: »

There was an episode of 24 with Jack Bauer shouting the IP address of a PC to his trusty colleague Chloe, and he was all like "314.267.532.1"

I was very disappoint.

In my day there were only 255 IP addresses on the internet

Duggy747 · 24-10-2013 07:13PM

My brain........it hurts........

Dear Lord...

kowloon · 24-10-2013 07:41PM

Silenced revolvers. There aren't many that you can do that with.

April O Neill · 24-10-2013 07:43PM

Plenty of mistakes in Breaking Bad, even though a lot of people seem to think this isn't the case!

jill_valentine · 24-10-2013 07:55PM

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.

There's a bit where your man is shooting sharks down with a pistol, as if they're giant birds. Apparently the 'nado loses its power over them once they're dead.

Voodoomelon · 24-10-2013 08:02PM

krudler wrote: »

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

Nope, they are designed primarily for sound reduction, reduced muzzle flash is an inherent characteristic of the suppressor function.

The "phut" sound in movies really annoys me. In one scene they will show you an actor racking a pistol slide or cycling a rifle charging handle with a distinct metallic clank, yet as soon as they shoot the gun with a suppressor attached, the noise disappears, despite the same action occurring over and over when the gun is fired.

ScumLord · 24-10-2013 08:15PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

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

Just about every car chase in TV and cinema is ridiculous. The amount of times I've seen a pick up truck chase a sports car and keep up is ridiculous.

Someone should also inform Hollywood about the invention of the mouse. I think they've managed to completely ignore this invention now that every public service in the US has an abundance of ipads.

Scarinae · 24-10-2013 08:25PM

Indiana Jones surviving a nuclear bomb blast by hiding in a lead-lined fridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arib8uWMWsM

kowloon · 24-10-2013 08:53PM

I think I need to watch Sharknado.

jill_valentine · 24-10-2013 09:44PM

kowloon wrote: »

I think I need to watch Sharknado.

You absolutely do. There's an awful lot of crappy SyFy mockbusters out there to be laughed at, but Sharknado takes the cake by a long shout. Everything else - yes, even Sharktopus! - pales in comparison.

syklops · 24-10-2013 10:00PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

One of my friends took a photo up close of a horse's head and you could see his reflection in the horse's eye in the photo.

I haven't seen the episode of CSI you mention but it technically could be possible if you were up really close to the eye.

If I remember correctly the eye in this case belonged to a dead person, so no, its not technically possible.

Timmyctc · 24-10-2013 11:05PM

syklops wrote: »

If I remember correctly the eye in this case belonged to a dead person, so no, its not technically possible.

The person wasn't dead when the photo was taken.

Hareton · 24-10-2013 11:07PM

When someone takes out there phone to ring someone and as soon as it's to there ear there like , hello ... Insert name....then state problem. I dunno about you but my phone can take a good 7 to 10 seconds before dialing and ringing let alone how long it takes for the person to answer.

H3llR4iser · 25-10-2013 12:49AM

Skylinehead wrote: »

...Also the space station station rotating to generate gravity. Makes sense, yes, but how is a shuttle going to dock with a spinning hunk of metal?

Still love it though :pac:

...guess that particular feat to be possible by matching the movement of the Shuttle to the angular velocity of the station. The ISS, afterall, is not stationary at all but hurtling around the Earth at 7.71 KM per second and various spacecraft are able to dock with it. Docking with something that's spinning would be tricky, but possible.

OhHiMark · 25-10-2013 11:08AM

Hareton wrote: »

When someone takes out there phone to ring someone and as soon as it's to there ear there like , hello ... Insert name....then state problem. I dunno about you but my phone can take a good 7 to 10 seconds before dialing and ringing let alone how long it takes for the person to answer.

There's a little thing called artistic license. Nobody wants to watch a film where the main character stands around for 10 seconds waiting for his call to go through.

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