Inaccurate films that **** you off
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Re: Inaccurate films that **** you offAs a space engineering researcher, Armageddon is quite annoying.
For example, on the asteroid they're flying in their ships over it, and they have the thrusts on the WHOLE time, like an aircraft. But in space, with no atmosphere, a continuous burn would just keep the spacecraft accelerating and accelerating. Yet they just fly like aircraft over the asteroid.
Then there's the noises of the spacecraft from outside in space, of which Star Trek and Star Wars (and every other space film) are equally guilty. -
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Re: Inaccurate films that **** you offCan't remember a race round the universe(Original post by Slumpy)
I remember he once beat the flash in a race(and if I'm right, it was around the universe, which would make him much quicker than light), which I think would make him quicker than a jet.
there was a race around the world though. In the modern age and perhaps since the Silver or at least Golden Age, the Flash has been quicker than Superman and I think the flash can vibrate himself as quickly as light or something ridiculous (always hated te flash).
I didn't think Superman had ever been as quick as light as he uses Boom Tubes (or whatever) to get to Apokolips. -
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Re: Inaccurate films that **** you offI think the noise inaccuracies can be allowed if I'm honest as otherwise those films would be incredibly boring(Original post by oo00oo)
As a space engineering researcher, Armageddon is quite annoying.
For example, on the asteroid they're flying in their ships over it, and they have the thrusts on the WHOLE time, like an aircraft. But in space, with no atmosphere, a continuous burn would just keep the spacecraft accelerating and accelerating. Yet they just fly like aircraft over the asteroid.
Then there's the noises of the spacecraft from outside in space, of which Star Trek and Star Wars (and every other space film) are equally guilty.
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Re: Inaccurate films that **** you offExactly..Braveheart is just urghh. Most Scots I know seem to think it's a documentary.(Original post by Mazzini)
Troy
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Edit: Braveheart is the most annoying - even more annoying than the flagrant inaccuracies in Troy
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Re: Inaccurate films that **** you offU571 where the Americans re-write history and capture an enigma machine.
We captured it!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/781858.stm
Armageddon - on the oil rig at the beginning they are drilling with drill pipe only going into the sea. The next minutes it's flying out in singles (i.e. unscrewed, how did that happen??) and then, then!, oil's jetting out into the rig. Completely impossible. How does oil fly out of the sea in a jet without any pipe.
Yes!!!(Original post by oo00oo)
As a space engineering researcher, Armageddon is quite annoying.
For example, on the asteroid they're flying in their ships over it, and they have the thrusts on the WHOLE time, like an aircraft. But in space, with no atmosphere, a continuous burn would just keep the spacecraft accelerating and accelerating. Yet they just fly like aircraft over the asteroid.
Then there's the noises of the spacecraft from outside in space, of which Star Trek and Star Wars (and every other space film) are equally guilty. lol
I love the rumbley engine noise as that Star Destroyer flies over the viewer at the beginning of Star Wars but WRONG!!!!
I think the only space films I can think of that don't have "noise" in space is 2001 & 2010... am I right?Last edited by GunnerBill; 15-02-2012 at 19:01. -
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Re: Inaccurate films that **** you offAny film where the female lead gives birth looking like a polished supermodel and with an expression akin to feeling mild disinterest in the situation.
Fair enough, not everyone screams like a banshee, but come on hollywood... -
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Re: Inaccurate films that **** you offI think it shows how sleep-deprived I am when my first look at your post was 'Oh cool, they found the original BBC article on the enigma machine capture!"(Original post by GunnerBill)
U571 where the Americans re-write history and capture an enigma machine.
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Re: Inaccurate films that **** you off(Original post by syrettd)
I think it shows how sleep-deprived I am when my first look at your post was 'Oh cool, they found the original BBC article on the enigma machine capture!" A Webpage from 1940!!! 
... appears to be more, North West?
Krakatoa North West of Java! Doesn't have the same ring to it?
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Re: Inaccurate films that **** you offI beg to differ my good man.I believe in the following clip you will see him flying fast as a mother****er(Original post by Mess.)
The speed of Superman (along with strength etc) changes with different iterations, however he has never been able to travel as quickly as light. It is normally accepted that he is quicker than a fired bullet but not by how much, although it is probably about the speed of the fastest modern jet plane.
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Re: Inaccurate films that **** you offWell you aren't going to kiss it, are you?(Original post by The Cornerstone)
Asteroid going to hit the earth? Nuke it. -
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Re: Inaccurate films that **** you offI remember from that film they had Hector kill Menelaus
And Briseis kill Agamemnon (wtf)
And Andromache and Astyanax escaped
What a load of crap, basically just murdered the Iliad.
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