Hancock
Has anybody else wondered what happened to the laws of physics?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 17:12, 16 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Jesus
ate them
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 17:13, Reply)

Hmm fiction eh ?
Ought to be banned.
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 17:15, Reply)

Fiction?
Right, that's it, I'm calling the thought police.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 17:17, Reply)

They law lords are reviewing them.

( Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 17:18, Reply)

Worse
King Kong, when the girl was running barefoot through a jungle and over volcanic rock. Or when she kept getting dropped and he caught her as she fell forty feet, and held her in his hand as he whipped violently about. Or how he stood with her on top of the Empire State Building in the winter in New York with her clad only in a thin white dress, and she didn't so much as shiver.

Iron Man. He beats chunks of steel plate into a suit of armor while standing in a cave, clamps himself into it, blasts through the air and into the sky and has it fail when he's hundreds of feet up, lands in a sand dune and walks away from it.

Indiana Jones. He realizes that an atomic bomb is about to go off, stuffs himself inside a refrigerator, is flung an unknown distance while inside said unpadded refrigerator, and yet somehow he's able to walk.

The jolts any of these characters survived should have resulted in internal injuries ranging from concussions to internal decapitation.

There are drawbacks to knowing something about the laws of physics when watching the movies...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 2 Dec 2008, 17:20, Reply)

@ TR Loon
Yup, King Kong. When the ape first pulls the woman from that wooden frame. It'd be her arms that snapped off, not the wood. Plus, she ought to be black and blue, with several cracked ribs and who knows what else.

Hancock seems to be written by someone who's science classes just involved watching Road Runner cartoons.

And don't get me started on Armageddon.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 17:28, Reply)

Oh god
I had forgotten Armageddon.

Laying aside the whole question of the fact that nuking the rock would merely have rained down a lot of chunks instead of one big one and that 800 feet would have been like trying to blow someone's head up by popping a zit- did anyone else notice that when they crashed on the asteroid the wreckage was burning?

It was an utter waste of two hours of my life.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 2 Dec 2008, 18:14, Reply)

Hear, hear!
And don't get me started on the complete lack of any originality or thought in that foetid badger's arse of a 'storyline.'

Few films have stirred my ire quite as much as Armageddon. Though one of those few is Independence Day.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 18:19, Reply)

and furthermore
The docking procedure when the rendezvous with the Russian station. Although points for the Russian guy running it, who reminded me of the little Asian kid from Goonies.

What about The Core? When the magnetic field fails, microwaves get through and melt a bridge and boil the ocean, but only in a focussed area, as if through a magnifying glass.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 18:29, Reply)

Ooh, not seen that one...
Is it likely to offend me mightily and make me want to put out the eyes of its scriptwriters with a trowel?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 18:30, Reply)

hulk
and there's a sceme from the Hulk where he throws a tank into the distance, and you hear it hit the ground at the same time as you see it, even though it's far enough away to warrant a 2 sec delay.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 18:36, Reply)

Fer God's sake.
It's only the movies. It's for entertainment and if you want the truth then go and watch the Discovery channel.
( girlinthehole, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 19:11, Reply)

There's suspension of disbelief
and then there's having to put up with pure drivel.

I can take watching a 50 foot tall ape wander around, even though the laws of physics dictate that he would have to be made of something other than flesh for that- and that landing on the ground from atop the Empire State Building should have resulted in blood and shredded flesh splashing up ten stories on the surrounding buildings as though they had dropped an enormous fur-covered water balloon. I can accept that for the sake of a movie.

But watching Naomi Watts sprint barefoot through a jungle and then tap dance on volcanic pumice? Give me a BREAK.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 2 Dec 2008, 19:34, Reply)

Maybe she just has very tough skin on her soles.
Some women just don't look after their feet properly you know.
( girlinthehole, Tue 2 Dec 2008, 19:53, Reply)

If they're tough enough to run across obsidian and pumice
they aren't feet, they're iron-clad hooves.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 2 Dec 2008, 21:34, Reply)

Every time I see a bloody film...
@TRL - yes, I agree with everything you've said, thought the exact same thing on a number of occasions.

I just want one film with realistic physics in, any one care to offer suggestions?
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 3 Dec 2008, 16:08, Reply)