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# What's your favourite piece of 'bad science' in the movies?
(, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 17:05, archived)
# I remember a great series Robert Llewelyn did about movie science.
It was fab to see how Hollywood made up science stuff.
(, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 17:07, archived)
# "Hollywood Science"
i used it in my lessons

/science teacher
(, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 17:09, archived)
# Youtubes.
(, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 17:10, archived)
# the problem is not only what they make up
but how they represent the entire scientific environment
(, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 17:11, archived)
# Also how people actually believe it.
I hate movies that get basic science wrong, especially physics.
(, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 17:15, archived)
# sound in space!
(, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 17:18, archived)
# Like that the trailer for wanted, which while one could forgive the ridiculous premise of being able to spin a bullet.
It's less forgivable that he seemed to be aiming at the target and then spinning it away, rather than aiming away and then spinning it at the target.
(, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 17:19, archived)
# My dear Jeru..
FILIMS IS NOT REAL.
(, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 17:20, archived)
# It doesn't mean they have to be written by idiots though.
All they would have to do is do it the other way round and it would have at least obeyed logic!
(, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 17:22, archived)
# But the last bullet spin of the film even got me thinking "No way"


(, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 17:24, archived)
# I would not know.
I have not seen the film due to HAVING STANDARDS!
(, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 17:26, archived)
# "No brainers" are fun.


(, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 17:36, archived)
# science......FICTION....
Fiction as in not real..made up...
(, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 17:19, archived)
# Yes I know,
but it won't kill someone to do some actual research in how thing do/might happen.
(, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 17:23, archived)
# If there isn't any actual science in it
Surely it's just fiction?
(, Tue 2 Sep 2008, 23:32, archived)
# outrunning explosions
especially down corridors
cos shockwaves only go at like 10mph don't they
(, Wed 3 Sep 2008, 1:00, archived)
# Bad movie physics
are hated by these people

www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/

Though I do wonder if they take it too far from time to time.

The cigarettes as lighters bits looks fun to do...
(, Wed 3 Sep 2008, 20:36, archived)