Interstellar. All of it.
My Wife has a superb knack of only pointing out the most tiny of plot holes whilst dealing well with the huge ones.
A (made up, but not exaggerated) example would be along the lines of "A woman would never wear shoes like that on a Spaceship" whilst ignoring the fact they are trying to "restart the Sun with a nuclear Bomb" (See. Danny Boyle's "Sunshine").
The Imitation Game
Turing and Hut 6 spend years trying to break the Enigma code. Only once they've done it, does Turing and his colleagues consider, apparently for the first time, the implication that they cannot act on their information without giving away their success in breaking the code.
I specifically didn't see The Imitation Game at the cinema because I expect it would make me angry.Ditto
Sci-fi silliness is one thing. Re-writing history (badly, for reasons that can only assumed to be lazy writing) is another.
And as for re-writing history to put USAnia in a better light...Objective, Burma! Errol Flynn liberates Burma single handed (sort of).
At the time of its release, Tony Blair condemned U-571 in parliament as an insult to the Royal Navy. A far more entertaining response would have been for Britain to fund a big-budget revenge epic, in which a small platoon of foppish yet plucky Brits swans over to Vietnam in 1968, defeats the Viet Cong, and wins the war. Moreover, it would be nearly as accurate as this... ...Verdict
The only honest thing about U-571 is its tagline: "Nine men are about to change history."
Spinning off from the 'Imitation Game', 'U571' gives it more than a run for its money for pure fact-distortion.following that link lead me to this, which reads suspiciously like it was written by our Ian: http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/feb/06/lisztomania-most-embarrassing-historical-film (http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/feb/06/lisztomania-most-embarrassing-historical-film)
I can do no better than to quote (yes, unfortunately it is) the Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/feb/25/u-571-reel-history):QuoteAt the time of its release, Tony Blair condemned U-571 in parliament as an insult to the Royal Navy. A far more entertaining response would have been for Britain to fund a big-budget revenge epic, in which a small platoon of foppish yet plucky Brits swans over to Vietnam in 1968, defeats the Viet Cong, and wins the war. Moreover, it would be nearly as accurate as this... ...Verdict
The only honest thing about U-571 is its tagline: "Nine men are about to change history."
Every time travel movie ever. Take Terminator, if they sent the Arniebot-100 back to kill John Connor, then Connor wouldn't exist in the future that Arniebot-100 came from, so there'd be no reason to send him back. In fact, the fact that they're sending him back demonstrates that he's absolutely going to fail. Skynet should know this.
Time travel doesn't exist, so I don't mind stories making up their own rules for it (though that counts as your one suspension of disbelief, so make it count). They just have to apply them consistently, and dealing with the grandfather paradox is a big part of that. I don't have a problem with a time traveller effectively creating a parallel universe when they go back in time, so their original timeline remains unaltered.
Minority Report - 1) Women who have been kept unconscious in a pool of water for years would not be able to get up and run about as soon as Tom Cruise wakes them up, and 2) if a police officer has gone rogue and gone on the run, surely his employer would revoke his security clearance so he has no need to keep his own eyeball for the scanner?
I am surprised that The Day After Tomorrow[/b] hasn't made an appearance yet, in this thread.
Independence Day. Even the most 1337 of h@xx0r5 would have been hard-pressed to unravel Alien-OS to the extent of writing a virus for it in that length of time. And they probably wouldn't have used a Mac for doing it either.
I am surprised that The Day After Tomorrow[/b] hasn't made an appearance yet, in this thread.
Firstly the world could NOT cool down that quick, no way.
Do cheesy disaster movie premises count as plot holes?
Are there any movies with an accurate depiction of hacking?
Are there any movies with an accurate depiction of hacking?
Are there any movies with an accurate depiction of hacking?
Considering how old it is Wargames isn't bad - although I think it's technically cracking rather than hacking in that case?
The dvd commentary is pretty good on all this stuff, I loved the bit where the makers said that the real NORAD people claimed that the movie set of their Cheyenne Mountain base was way better than the real thing and that they would have loved a base that size.
I forget the name of the film…it was out about 10 years ago and concerned an asteroid hitting the Earth (somewhere over the USA of course) before killing us all to “DETH”…….
I got told off for shouting at the part where the asteroid flies in at about 10mph…well it seems that slow as people have the time to get to the hills to try and avoid it.
Are there any movies with an accurate depiction of hacking?
Considering how old it is Wargames isn't bad - although I think it's technically cracking rather than hacking in that case?
Good call. The main blooper is war-dialling with an acoustic coupler modem (which as any fule know can't take the phone on/off hook), but I'll forgive that as, quite reasonably, the acoustic coupler served to illustrate what a modem was to an audience who wouldn't have been familiar with the concept.
I forget the name of the film…it was out about 10 years ago and concerned an asteroid hitting the Earth (somewhere over the USA of course) before killing us all to “DETH”…….
I got told off for shouting at the part where the asteroid flies in at about 10mph…well it seems that slow as people have the time to get to the hills to try and avoid it.
Deep Impact.
That was the credible one (I'll forgive it the high hobbit content, on the basis that the spaceship used an Orion drive and they had Morgan Freeman as president). Armageddon - the Bruce Willis one - came out at around the same time, and was orders of magnitude worse.
Deep Impact or Armageddon? HAL or WOPR? Those are the sort of questions I should have asked at cycle speed dating!
Probably cats. They are smart enough to use mole-hill holes as toilets.Deep Impact or Armageddon? HAL or WOPR? Those are the sort of questions I should have asked at cycle speed dating!
I vaguely recall a "Cats or dogs? 12 or 24 hour clock?" conversation soon after I met barakta. "Star Trek or Babylon 5?" wasn't even a question.
Just when this thread was starting to bore me s**tless ...Deep Impact or Armageddon? HAL or WOPR? Those are the sort of questions I should have asked at cycle speed dating!
I vaguely recall a "Cats or dogs? 12 or 24 hour clock?" conversation soon after I met barakta. "Star Trek or Babylon 5?" wasn't even a question.
Independence Day. Even the most 1337 of h@xx0r5 would have been hard-pressed to unravel Alien-OS to the extent of writing a virus for it in that length of time. And they probably wouldn't have used a Mac for doing it either.
It's a good job they didn't have USB in "Star Wars" coz R2-D2 would still have been trying to plug himself into Luke's fighter when Darth Vader rocked up and blew them all utterly to DETH and what a good idea that would have been.
(Flees the Wrath of the forum's Spod Hordes)
I vaguely recall a "Cats or dogs? 12 or 24 hour clock?" conversation soon after I met barakta. "Star Trek or Babylon 5?" wasn't even a question.
And as for re-writing history to put USAnia in a better light...Objective, Burma! Errol Flynn liberates Burma single handed (sort of).
We have been given cause to wonder why, in the first-born of the "Star Wars" franchise, those in command of the DETH Star did not simply blow the planet Yavin into little tiny pieces and take out Yavin 4, and the rebel scum on it, in the process.
Oh, wait, that may contain SCIENCE or traces of SCIENCE.
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Independence Day. Even the most 1337 of h@xx0r5 would have been hard-pressed to unravel Alien-OS to the extent of writing a virus for it in that length of time. And they probably wouldn't have used a Mac for doing it either.Its a proof of galactic standards when every alien space craft has a USB socket on the bridge console and that Bill Gates stole the original version of Windows from the Roswell crash.
I forget the name of the film…it was out about 10 years ago and concerned an asteroid hitting the Earth (somewhere over the USA of course) before killing us all to “DETH”…….
I got told off for shouting at the part where the asteroid flies in at about 10mph…well it seems that slow as people have the time to get to the hills to try and avoid it.
Deep Impact.
That was the credible one (I'll forgive it the high hobbit content, on the basis that the spaceship used an Orion drive and they had Morgan Freeman as president). Armageddon - the Bruce Willis one - came out at around the same time, and was orders of magnitude worse.
For a given value of credible.
http://io9.com/a-scientist-responds-to-deep-impact-1709206458
For a given value of credible.
http://io9.com/a-scientist-responds-to-deep-impact-1709206458
Well yes. It's only credible when considered alongside Armageddon.
That was how Deja Vu (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453467/) tried avoiding falling past the plot hole event horizon:Someone put some serious effort into analysing that one. Me, I just enjoyed the fillum.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453467/faq#.2.1.4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deja_Vu_Timeline.GIF
One of the problems with long-running soaps is keeping the story straight -To be fair, he hadn't had the baby long when it died, and his wife was a drip.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/kevin-webster-forgets-babys-death-5876231#rlabs=1 (http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/kevin-webster-forgets-babys-death-5876231#rlabs=1).
Character forgets the death of his own child & subsequent suicide of his wife. :facepalm:
Interstellar. All of it.
I initially read that as quantum handwriting and wondered what that was.. ;D
Interstellar. All of it.
So on BBC "news" tonight there was an article about how said film should be shown in schools because it has generated a new discovery in science.
Allegedly the design company who did the graphics for the singularity used "physics" in their computer model and therefore it is the first real image of what one actually looks like.
Oh RLY?
it does sound like there might actually have been some actual real live scientists involved, although that doesn't rule out large helpings of sexing up.
I eagerly await a low-budget science fiction film where someone works out how to use quantum handwaving to make the guff that university PR departments write actually real.Isn't that the infinite improbability drive?
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Hmm OK, having read this article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33173197, it does sound like there might actually have been some actual real live scientists involved,
I initially read that as quantum handwriting and wondered what that was.. ;D
I initially read that as quantum handwriting and wondered what that was.. ;D
Surely that is just very very very small writing?
Yebbut, quicksilver is mercury what is an nasty stuffs, and poissonous to most (all?) living things. Even imaginary ones.yebbut the scene includes the villain explaining that this is the only substance toxic to werewolves.
'Tis not such a blatant FAIL as silver bullets for vampires. (Though screenplay writer mistaking Hg for Ag is pretty dumb.)
yebbut the scene includes the villain explaining that this is the only substance toxic to werewolves.:facepalm: :facepalm:
Notably, Kip Thorne, one of the co-authors of one of the canonical books on General Relativity.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gravitation-Physics-Series-Charles-Misner/dp/0716703440
A book so large it generates its own interesting gravitational effects. I soooo wanted to own a copy when I was a penniless student oaf.
Interstellar. All of it.
What is that Group B set? It's not a very Googleable title...
I have just used SCIENCE to uncover a massive1 plot hole in popular television series "Life On Mars", this being that the only Manchester derby in 1973 was played in April so how come Hawkwind's "Urban Guerilla" was being played in the pub two nights before the game when it was only on sale for three weeks in July and August of that year ???
1: FSVO "massive", obv.
Peaky Blinders: [...] and the head thug would never have struck a match away from himself.