Not necessarily, but the film they did make was rubbish*, in my opinion.

Mark

* Other opinions exist on this matter, and whilst being valid to those opining are equally wrong. (8+)

I possibly agree, in part. They might have made it reasonable if they'd done a lot of things differently!

A film about devices which transfer electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors would be distressingly dull. The fact that two such films were made goes beyond any rational explanation.

Wow!

Indeed.

To Be Flippin' Fair, you can only do that when a Death Star is being constructed, as it is in Return of the Jedi, it may be fully operational but one of the sides is missing! Once fully constructed the opening leading to the core is only 2 metres wide, just enough to fire a couple of missiles down, much like bullseyeing womp rats in a T-16 back home. They're not much bigger than two meters either. The trick is to reach out with your feelings. They didn't feel a small one-man fighter would pose much of a threat you see.

I used to read about movie mistakes but I now think you're just better off not knowing. I really hate it though when you see something so badly done that it brings you out of the film - the support wires near the end of Highlander being a good example

When I first saw it, yes, but now it's all part of it's charm.
Highlander is a flawed masterpiece. Yes, seeing the wires takes you out of the film (trying very hard not to get pretentious and start using words like verisimilitude here) but watching it now with the wires removed would just be wrong, to my eyes.
Go and rent out the Final Cut version of Blade Runner and watch the documentaries on the discs, they explain this in far greater detail and much better terms than I can here.

Mark

I remember watching spider man with my ex-girlfriend.

We got pretty much the whole way through the film, about a man who got bitten by a spdier and from that point on could climb walls and shoot web from his wrists, when a school bus was being suspended from a bridge by spider-man's web.

"That is SOOOO unrealistic" she said.

I just laughed.

I’m waiting for continuity errors to appear on the news. So far, they seem to have it pretty well covered. Film makers should ask them how they do it.

One word : live.

Mark

Oh, I know what you're getting at (I've read around the Blade Runner tinkering/fans reactions, same for the original Star Wars trilogy), but I'd prefer to see the smaller things like wires go myself, so long as you weren't changing entire scenes.

I'm really starting to hate special effects. I keep looking at films and thinking is that real or is that CGI put on afterwards?

Give me the small independent films any day where they rely on a good story to hold your interest and not some beefed up special effects.

Fancy that - a storyline in a movie that's believable... wonder if the bosses at the big studios will catch on?

Good luck with that, but don't hold your breath waiting.

I think some films/TV shows (either set in the future/has fancy technology/fantasy) have an element at their core that requires an air of suspended disbelief. Whether it be a talking car or a helicopter that can reach Mach 1, the basic premise of the show is imaginary. A show or film can have a very good story but continuity errors, especially big glaring ones, make you realise it's just a film, rather than sucking you into their world.