Insultingly stupid movie physics

This goes here rather than the Lounge because it isn't about movies, it's about physics. I found this site extremely funny. I apologize.

http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/

People like that make Baby Jesus cry.

Seriously, movies are all about opening up your imagination to all of the things they portray. Those people should learn that.

nothing wrong with the site
its educational

Good site. It is very educational and I'll be looking at movies a little differently now. :) *saves*

Hmm.... but I like the bad physics movies... ^_^ movies != real life. It's amusing though.

And I did badly in physics class so... meh.

The section entitled "The Sound of Movies" is especially entertaining.

:)

That's a very interesting site, and quite amusing too. Thanks, Unne. :)

Haven't been on a site that refreshing in a while, i'll keep that in mind next time i watch terminator!

I knew most of that. There is nothing wrong with improper movie physics as long as the movie makes it LOOK realistic.

I stopped reading after the word "technonerds".

Even though I skipped all the mathmatical formulae by means of not understanding (or wanting to understand) a lick of it, I found it quite amusing.

Movies are about using are imagination but honestly, read 'The Core' reveiw. I think lack of imagination is really the base flaw in that movie.

On a side note; Where my I obtain some Unobtanium? It sound spretty useful! =D

It's all very interesting stuff to read, but I think most of us have hit the nail on the head by saying "It's just a movie!". I can imagine if you were to recount this information at a party, or worse outside a cinema, or one lower DURING the film, then you'd become very unpopular very quickly.

I don't care much about movie realism; it is a movie, and there is poetic license. But for example when I see a "hacker" in a movie I can't help but cringe, because of how ridiculous they're portrayed, and because of the fact that it IS almost insulting that they expect me to believe that crap. And when a movie gets it RIGHT, for example in the second Matrix film where someone uses a real honest-to-goodness SSH exploit to hack a computer, it's very nice to see that the movie-writers actually took the time to get it right.

For a physicist I imagine they can't help but cringe at the stupidity of movie physics. If you know everything about cars, and a movie has someone open the hood and there's a cardboard box with "ENGIEN" written on it, and the people in the movie act like it's a working engine, you'd probably be a bit put off about it too.

Really though it's just a funny site. I have no illusions about that site being anything other than a place for geeks to wallow in their own geekery.

This site would be far more entertaining if it didn't make me think so much.