12-04-2021, 10:45 PM
(12-04-2021, 01:03 PM)Mav link Wrote:When it comes to bad science in TV & film science fiction, loud explosions on distant objects in space would have to be right up there. But how unsettling (and unimpressive) would it be to watch battles being fought in space in complete silence? It is possible to be too realistic!
In one of the newer Star Wars films there is a huge explosion in space.....you can see it, but you can't hear anything until the shock wave comes to you.
When this was first played in America, they would get multiple complaints about the sound dropping out at that point.
It was in fact the most realistic space explosion that probably ever been on film, yet people complained because.....well....they don't understand physics. Hollywood has taught them 'new laws'.
@crash...
I watched the magnetic monster the other day. A 50's B+W sci fi film where the 'magnetic monster' was like a black hole that was feeding and getting bigger.
Completely implausible, but the characters were scientists and they analysed it and worked through it in a more scientific way than anything you'll see in modern movies. People in movies were smarter back then and todays movies are dumbed down to maximise ticket sales
I was putting off the new total recall for years and years. I finally got bored enough to put it on....i don't think i got through more than 15-20 minutes before turning it off (and i watch a LOT of crap movies that i sit through) and i've never gone back to it.