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In general, Hollywood filmmakers follow the laws of physics because they have no other choice. It's just when they cheat with special effects that we seem to forget how the world really works.
9 Laws of Physics That Don't Apply in Hollywood
Seeded on Tue Mar 6, 2007 8:02 PM EST
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The magical jumping bus in "Speed" was my favorite one of these -- well, as an adult. George Lucas' clunky prose about making the Kessel(sic) run in "under 12 parsecs" made me shoot Coke out of my nose as a young physics guru.
Still, that magical bus lifting its nose into the air in order to land on the rather level other side of the overpass was classic movie science and I hadn't seen it surpassed until I watched Al Gore's movie a few months ago.
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#1 - Tue Mar 6, 2007 9:19 PM ESTAm I the only one who hated "Speed?"
Yes......didn't you get the memo - Speed is the greates movie ever made, now get with the program or we will make you watch Speed 2.
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Al Gore used special effects in AIT?
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#2 - Tue Mar 6, 2007 10:37 PM ESTNo, it was just a powerpoint slide show - or whatever you call powerpoint when it isn't powerpoint.
I think he was inspired by Hollywood special effects, since he exaggerates the IPCC's estimation on raised sea levels by 2000%. No, that is not a typo.
And that business about Greenland's 630,000 cubic miles of ice falling into the ocean had to have come from him watching "Waterworld" because no one has found any evidence or data to back that up.
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Am I the only person that liked waterworld?
Eh maybe, I don't think Waterworld was as bad as many people make it out to be - but considering the money involved I think many expected it to be much better.
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No, it was just a powerpoint slide show - or whatever you call powerpoint when it isn't powerpoint. I think he was inspired by Hollywood special effects, since he exaggerates the IPCC's estimation on raised sea levels by 2000%. No, that is not a typo.
And that business about Greenland's 630,000 cubic miles of ice falling into the ocean had to have come from him watching "Waterworld" because no one has found any evidence or data to back that up.
Thats not yellow rain on your back despite what the ant-global warmng sydicate is telling you.
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The "not found in nature" movie physics marry quite nicely with the "not quite accurate" medicine in movies. My personal favorite is coma recovery, where there is no problem speaking or moving...classic.
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#3 - Wed Mar 7, 2007 3:11 PM ESTI like in 2001 how Dave blew open the door in complete silence since sound cannot traverse a vacuum.
Every other space movie has deafening explosions.
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