Unbelieveable Movie Scenes : what were they thinking?

Jannix Quinn said:
When the guy in that movie..... was it Red? ...shoots the RPG shell with a bullet while it's being shot at him.

Old man my ASS - RED - YouTube
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Extremely difficult, but not impossible. An RPG travels a lot slower than a bullet, and could, in theory, be hit with another projectile.

However, not the way he did. The long double-action trigger pull would throw his aim off. Maybe not enough to worry about when shooting at a person, but definitely enough to affect the shot he made. Had he ****** the gun beforehand, I would have found it much more plausible.

Besides, that movie's just too damned fun.
 
Oh speaking of explosions... the Big Stupid Ring.

You know, when the Death Star blew up and they added that BSR in the remastered versions of 1997... Physics do not work like that in space. There is no gravity, therefore the explosion is omnidirectional.
 
Fiction Engineered said:
Oh speaking of explosions... the Big Stupid Ring.

You know, when the Death Star blew up and they added that BSR in the remastered versions of 1997... Physics do not work like that in space. There is no gravity, therefore the explosion is omnidirectional.
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There's also no oxygen to keep the flames going. Explosions in space are rather anti-climactic puffs of smoke.
 
Michael Bergeron said:
There's also no oxygen to keep the flames going. Explosions in space are rather anti-climactic puffs of smoke.
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Regarding that, I read somewhere that the ring isn't entirely unscientific. That when the explosion occurs everyone looking at it, from whatever their perspective might see a ring dead center of the explosion. That it'd form a ring with it's edge perpendicular to the observer. The idea that as the explosion occurs, debris starts moving outwards from the center and the observer sees it more easily as it's coming towards the observer and seems more 'compressed'. You would never see a ring at a tilted angle like you do in the movie.

Here's something about it: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanarShockwave

Remembering that this wasn't a teeny tiny ship, but rather a moon sized space station, is it unbelievable that there would be pockets of the station that had air in them that might not have ignited until after the explosion?
 
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Kerr Avon said:
Remembering that this wasn't a teeny tiny ship, but rather a moon sized space station, is it unbelievable that there would be pockets of the station that had air in them that might not have ignited until after the explosion?
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Not at all. :)

However the amount left wouldn't be remotely enough to keep that large of a blast burning.

That said, I'm not the one that really has a problem with it (aside form the fact that it's not in the original film). :thumbsup
 
Why does this thread remind me of that episode of Big Bang Theory where Sheldon points out in Superman 1, Lois Lane would have been chopped into 'three equal parts' by falling into Superman's outstretched hands? :facepalm
jackdoud said:
One of the more recent ones I can think of was in MIB3.
The movie was going fine for the most part up until the climactic battle where they had to bring the time travel device back into it and there WERN'T multiple versions of people running around. The rest of the movie was completely ruined for me in that instant.
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Never mind the fact that a quarter of the population of planet earth was watching that Saturn V sitting there in that timeframe on TV and didn't notice people running all over the top of it?
 
p51 said:
:facepalmNever mind the fact that a quarter of the population of planet earth was watching that Saturn V sitting there in that timeframe on TV and didn't notice people running all over the top of it?
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That's what Neuralyzers are for. :cool

*FLASH*
 
p51 said:
Why does this thread remind me of that episode of Big Bang Theory where Sheldon points out in Superman 1, Lois Lane would have been chopped into 'three equal parts' by falling into Superman's outstretched hands? :facepalm
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Because he is right?

Lois was in a freefall, at or very near terminal velocity when Supes comes up to her level in a matter of a second or two and catches her. She should have died from the impact, or at least had her spine broken.
 
Fiction Engineered said:
Because he is right?

Lois was in a freefall, at or very near terminal velocity when Supes comes up to her level in a matter of a second or two and catches her. She should have died from the impact, or at least had her spine broken.
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Because we are sure that Superman's arms aren't soft to the touch? How can you argue the effects of a fictional being?!?

Brian
 
I think we can fairly conclude that Supes' arms aren't soft to the touch. :lol But it's about deceleration...if you decelerate sharply enough you will be injured. Ask me how I know, go on. :lol

The DS ring thing - I don't think it was meant to be conventional burning materials, more likely plasma, right? It could originate from some kind of bizarre internal structure of the station, permitting a faster pathway to the surface for plasma in that particular plane...hard to imagine why, though.

A better idea is that it reflects the structure of the reactor itself - a release of more energetic plasma in that plane alone owing to the reactor's design. But the weird angle - not oriented to any obvious plane of the station - sort of spoils that.

I think the best explanation is "tasteless, overenthusiastic Hollywood overuse of a new effects technology". :unsure
 
bleyd said:
One scene comes to mind and it's been done more than once. HUGE explosion. The hero jumps a few feet to safety whereas everything around has been utterly destroyed. First movie comes to mind is ID4. In the tunnel during the initial invasion when Will Smiths GF is hiding in, what is that a mainenance room? The tunnel is filled with fire. The dog jumps through the door. Door still open no fire enters the door. What is this some kind of force field?

Offhand I can't think of other examples but it has been done more than once.
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The 'forcefield' is that movie rule that dogs don't die, especially dogs owned by kids (unless things get really bad, like I Am Legend level terrible)
 
Love these types of threads. For what it’s worth…

SUPERMAN THE MOVIE- So accepting (!) superman is travelling back in time when he flies around the Earth, rather than reversing it’s direction of travel (this is how I always saw it), then what happened to the Superman that was reversing in time, along with the Earth? When SM lands to save Lois, shouldn’t there should be another SM flying around, chasing missiles etc? SM then appears to carry on living in the new time frame, so technically there are two of him for the price of one.

STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE: Big bad V’GER is approaching Earth at warp Speed. The Enterprise is approaching V’GER at warp speed. At no time does V’GER slow to sub warp speed to allow the loooooong, slow Enterprise pass over the model, I mean alien ship. The Enterprise would have passed V’GER in a second, leaving it miles behind in it’s wake, unless it was slowed down and placed in reverse, travelling at warp speed, a fraction slower than that of V’GER, to allow V’GER to pass under it, rather than the Enterprise pass over it.

I’m sure I can think of more of these…
 
Angelus Lupus said:
I thought it was made clear V'Ger was slowing down as it approached Earth? I'm sure I remember that in there somewhere.
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Uhura: A faint signal from Starfleet sir. Intruder cloud has been located on their outer moniters for the past 27 minutes. Cloud dissipating rapidly as it approaches.
Sulu: Starfleet reports forward velocity has slowed to sub warp speed. We are three minutes from Earth orbit.
 
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