Have you ever wondered why...

tzalman wrote in post #9384106
I always wonder why in sci-fi movies they carry humungous giant weapons. At least in Star Trek the phasers are small, but i always wonder why those communicator badges they wear seem to have only audio ability.
I particularly love those movies where the enemy shoot 'death ray' guns while riding on dinosaur-like animals.

I always thought that Men in Black did a good spoof of that when Will smith picked up the biggest gun available and Tommy Lee Jones picks up the smallest.

Reality is boring. Nobody pays to see that. That's the crap they made you watch in school.

neilwood32 wrote in post #9384090
Everyone knows that button eh Jay?

Please oh mighty Jay! Enlighten me!

Once, when I was in the military, I had a large piece of electronic equipment that had a hole in the front panel (for an option that was not present). I mounted a button connected to an electronic siren in that hole. A nice, illuminated, red button clearly labeled "DO NOT PRESS."

You may imagine the results.

As cdi said, reality is boring. I know full well movies are fake, such as Hitler dying in Tarantino movies.

CalPiker wrote in post #9372328
And I always laugh when watching America's Wildest Police Videos and they are showing a chase from a helicopter. It's always the same guy talking and for some reason you can hear the sirens and tires squealing. You can't hear anything in a helicopter, let alone sirens and tires squealing on the ground. They even dub in the "reporter in the helicopter" so they can make him say whatever he wants.

QFT! That and the bad guys ALWAYS get caught, although that's not always the case. If you see it happen on TV where they are officially down on the ground and captured, it obviously happened, but when they don't show it I always wonder if he actually got away.

Another show that's totally over the top are the domestic broadcasts of the Red Bull Air Races shown on FOX Sports Net in the US.

Entire thing sounds like a squadron of Stukas diving on a target!

nphsbuckeye wrote in post #9384718
As cdi said, reality is boring. I know full well movies are fake, such as Hitler dying in Tarantino movies.

that's a pretty massive spoiler.

but yea, regardless of all the historical and technical inaccuracies, that movie was awesome. waiting for it to come out on bluray sometime.

tzalman wrote in post #9384106
I always wonder why in sci-fi movies they carry humungous giant weapons. At least in Star Trek the phasers are small, but i always wonder why those communicator badges they wear seem to have only audio ability.

Having been in a situation where we actually had video telephones...we usually taped cardboard over the lenses. Suitable technology for video telephones has been around since the late 60s, and we had it in SF before then. Nobody ever wanted it before--it just didn't sell. Maybe now, but not before.

That's to reduce their carbon footprint.

20droger wrote in post #9382842
Spock always bothered me, being half human and half vulcan. Biologically speaking, his father would have had better luck mating with a cabbage. At least a cabbage would have DNA descended from the same roots.

True, but most of the Star Trek canon suggests that Spock was, well, built artificially, using DNA from both parents, but mostly his father.

RDKirk wrote in post #9387861
Having been in a situation where we actually had video telephones...we usually taped cardboard over the lenses. Suitable technology for video telephones has been around since the late 60s, and we had it in SF before then. Nobody ever wanted it before--it just didn't sell. Maybe now, but not before.

That's to reduce their carbon footprint.

Hmmm, breathing dinosaur exhaust is not a pleasant thought either.

youze might get a kick out of this:

http://www.intuitor.co​m/moviephysics/

lanno wrote in post #9388735
youze might get a kick out of this:

http://www.intuitor.co​m/moviephysics/

Man, talk about a website taking itself too seriously. Hollywood's purpose isn't to educate. Hollywood exists to entertain AND make money.

If every movie followed the rules of real life, the only folks who would pay to see and be entertained by those flicks would be the fellas who get excited when a new documentary about the evolution of hair debuts on the big H channel.

Yeah it seems that site is a little too serious for its own good.

neilwood32 wrote in post #9390749
Yeah it seems that site is a little too serious for its own good.

It seems to me this thread is a little too serious for its own good.