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Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:13 am ]
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/feb ... ws-science
Author:  belchingmatt [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 11:06 am ]
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If I want to appreciate good science then I'll read a book.

This think tank can go **** themselves.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 11:51 am ]
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Yes but few films get it right. Dante's Inferno did a reasonable job with the aluminium propeller in the acid lake as recreated by Hollywood Science for BBC/Open University. The floating mountains in Avatar are one extreme.
Author:  pcernie [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:10 pm ]
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The amount of shows I have to avoid because they ruin films... :(
Author:  Linux_User [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:50 pm ]
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I don't mind the science being stretched a little - call it poetic licence. But when you see such [LIFTED] as The Core or Independence Day it really is taking the biscuit.
Author:  AlunD [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:52 pm ]
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But its science fiction rather than science fact surely :?
Author:  timark_uk [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:03 pm ]
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The bugs in Starship Troopers were alien, so who are these people to say the laws of physics apply to alien creatures on alien planets?
It does annoy me when I hear sounds in space but I understand why it's been put there.
What really bugs me in films has nothing to do with the laws of physics; why are computers/computer interfaces so damned loud? There's too many beeps and buzzes.

Mark
Author:  belchingmatt [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:06 pm ]
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I'd be happier if they focused on historical inaccuracies first. Basically acknowledging that the US didn't win WWII on their own.
Author:  Fogmeister [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:29 pm ]
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One that always gets me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:43 pm ]
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belchingmatt wrote:
I'd be happier if they focused on historical inaccuracies first. Basically acknowledging that the US didn't win WWII on their own.

Well what about the Anti British bias in Hollywood? It is always the Brits who play the baddies. Maybe we just have a generally better acting range? :)
Author:  Linux_User [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:44 pm ]
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Fogmeister wrote:
One that always gets me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk


Let's take this 640x480 image and enlarge it into a crystal clear 1920x1200 image. :D
Author:  HeatherKay [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:49 pm ]
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timark_uk wrote:
What really bugs me in films has nothing to do with the laws of physics; why are computers/computer interfaces so damned loud? There's too many beeps and buzzes


Using a keyboard when a mouse would be the preferred interaction.

Typing a one word reply with a frenzy of keyboard taps, yet we can see the four letter word on screen...

I could go on.
Author:  timark_uk [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:50 pm ]
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Linux_User wrote:
Let's take this 640x480 image and enlarge it into a crystal clear 1920x1200 image. :D
Photoshop CSI FTL!

Mark
Author:  Paul1965 [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:52 pm ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
Well what about the Anti British bias in Hollywood? It is always the Brits who play the baddies. Maybe we just have a generally better acting range? :)


I thought that was because americans know that there's no way that they could come up with any kind of master plan and only Brits are emotionally cold and intelligent enough to do something like this. Plus, no american would do anything immoral.
Author:  paulzolo [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:54 pm ]
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HeatherKay wrote:
timark_uk wrote:
What really bugs me in films has nothing to do with the laws of physics; why are computers/computer interfaces so damned loud? There's too many beeps and buzzes


Using a keyboard when a mouse would be the preferred interaction.


Captain M Scott, formerly of the USS Enterprise demonstrated how not to use a mouse.
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