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    Default 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/

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    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.

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    nothing wrong with the site
    its educational

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    Good site. It is very educational and I'll be looking at movies a little differently now. *saves*
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    Hmm.... but I like the bad physics movies... ^_^ movies != real life. It's amusing though.

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


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

    "As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless,
    uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"

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    That's a very interesting site, and quite amusing too. Thanks, Unne.
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    Haven't been on a site that refreshing in a while, i'll keep that in mind next time i watch terminator!
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    I knew most of that. There is nothing wrong with improper movie physics as long as the movie makes it LOOK realistic.

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    I stopped reading after the word "technonerds".

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    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.

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    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

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    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.
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    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.

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

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