Great SciFi films with bad SciFi
Discussion
Some of my favourite SciFi films are based upon some really bad premises or very bad science.
The Fly: whole premise is that the presence of a foreign object (a fly) in the teleporting unit causes the computer to splice Brundell and the fly. However, the air, our skins and our bodies are full of other organisms so it would happen every time.
Alien: without eating the alien grows from the size of a rat to bigger than a man in one day!
Any others?
The Fly: whole premise is that the presence of a foreign object (a fly) in the teleporting unit causes the computer to splice Brundell and the fly. However, the air, our skins and our bodies are full of other organisms so it would happen every time.
Alien: without eating the alien grows from the size of a rat to bigger than a man in one day!
Any others?
Sparky137 said:
Well, Back To The Future is acknowledged as being close to the perfect film by many yet it could be argued that the whole concept of time travel is somewhat questionable.
The answer is don't over think films, just watch and enjoy them.
I think it's one of the best version of time travel imo.The answer is don't over think films, just watch and enjoy them.
Edited by Sparky137 on Sunday 5th January 17:04
That you only can move in time and not space. You can't just travel to ancient rome from Hill Valley. You would have to get the car to Rome in present day and then time travel from there.
SoulGlo said:
Sparky137 said:
Well, Back To The Future is acknowledged as being close to the perfect film by many yet it could be argued that the whole concept of time travel is somewhat questionable.
The answer is don't over think films, just watch and enjoy them.
I think it's one of the best version of time travel imo.The answer is don't over think films, just watch and enjoy them.
Edited by Sparky137 on Sunday 5th January 17:04
That you only can move in time and not space. You can't just travel to ancient rome from Hill Valley. You would have to get the car to Rome in present day and then time travel from there.
where old biff goes back in time to give young biff the book to alter the future, but how does old biff go back to the future to the unaltered future so the car is still there for marty and doc to get into it, without them knowing old biff stole the time machine.....
SoulGlo said:
Sparky137 said:
Well, Back To The Future is acknowledged as being close to the perfect film by many yet it could be argued that the whole concept of time travel is somewhat questionable.
The answer is don't over think films, just watch and enjoy them.
I think it's one of the best version of time travel imo.The answer is don't over think films, just watch and enjoy them.
Edited by Sparky137 on Sunday 5th January 17:04
That you only can move in time and not space. You can't just travel to ancient rome from Hill Valley. You would have to get the car to Rome in present day and then time travel from there.
SoulGlo said:
Sparky137 said:
Well, Back To The Future is acknowledged as being close to the perfect film by many yet it could be argued that the whole concept of time travel is somewhat questionable.
The answer is don't over think films, just watch and enjoy them.
I think it's one of the best version of time travel imo.The answer is don't over think films, just watch and enjoy them.
Edited by Sparky137 on Sunday 5th January 17:04
That you only can move in time and not space. You can't just travel to ancient rome from Hill Valley. You would have to get the car to Rome in present day and then time travel from there.
SoulGlo said:
I think it's one of the best version of time travel imo.
That you only can move in time and not space. You can't just travel to ancient rome from Hill Valley. You would have to get the car to Rome in present day and then time travel from there.
TBF, the Romans would have some decent roads ready for you…That you only can move in time and not space. You can't just travel to ancient rome from Hill Valley. You would have to get the car to Rome in present day and then time travel from there.
SoulGlo said:
Sparky137 said:
Well, Back To The Future is acknowledged as being close to the perfect film by many yet it could be argued that the whole concept of time travel is somewhat questionable.
The answer is don't over think films, just watch and enjoy them.
I think it's one of the best version of time travel imo.The answer is don't over think films, just watch and enjoy them.
Edited by Sparky137 on Sunday 5th January 17:04
That you only can move in time and not space. You can't just travel to ancient rome from Hill Valley. You would have to get the car to Rome in present day and then time travel from there.
ChocolateFrog said:
SoulGlo said:
Sparky137 said:
Well, Back To The Future is acknowledged as being close to the perfect film by many yet it could be argued that the whole concept of time travel is somewhat questionable.
The answer is don't over think films, just watch and enjoy them.
I think it's one of the best version of time travel imo.The answer is don't over think films, just watch and enjoy them.
Edited by Sparky137 on Sunday 5th January 17:04
That you only can move in time and not space. You can't just travel to ancient rome from Hill Valley. You would have to get the car to Rome in present day and then time travel from there.
It's not the only problem with their version of time travel. If you could 'instantaneously' travel back 100 years, or even 100 minutes, the Earth would be millions of miles away, it takes 225 million years for our Sun to orbit around the centre of our Galaxy, but it's still shifting at 200km/s, even if you only travelled back a second, you're 200kms from where you started, and that could be in another country, or withing the Earth, or in space.
That's only half the problem, our Galaxy is moving at 7.5 trillion Km/s.
Our past didn't just happen in a different time, but a very different place relative to the Universe.
Warp Drive / Lightspeed is another one.
Obvs, it's an easy thing for writers to make interplanetary travel possible, it's not even the faster than light travel bit, right now very clever people don't think it's possible, and even if it is, you'd perceive travel as being quick, but if you returned great amounts of time would have passed.
It's the acceleration, "hold on Chewie, I'm going to make the jump to lightspeed" Hold on! You just went from hundreds of miles an hour to millions or even billions of miles per hour in a second, there's no holding on, you'd reduced to a vapor. "inertia dampers" brilliant.
Obvs, it's an easy thing for writers to make interplanetary travel possible, it's not even the faster than light travel bit, right now very clever people don't think it's possible, and even if it is, you'd perceive travel as being quick, but if you returned great amounts of time would have passed.
It's the acceleration, "hold on Chewie, I'm going to make the jump to lightspeed" Hold on! You just went from hundreds of miles an hour to millions or even billions of miles per hour in a second, there's no holding on, you'd reduced to a vapor. "inertia dampers" brilliant.
FourWheelDrift said:
Any film where the ships have artificial gravity.
I don't really have a problem with a stated technology which doesn't (currently) exist like artificial gravity, inertial dampers, warp drive, etc, surely that's the point of it being Science Fiction.It's the unexplained violations of physics that annoy me, eg Starwars where you hear lasers and ship engines in space, and space fighters fly like aerodynamic aircraft. Something I think Babylon 5 did quite well as thier fighters changed orientation without changing direction.
Edited by RizzoTheRat on Tuesday 7th January 11:40
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