Little inaccuracies that ruin in a film...

crunchman

FarleyUK said:

the_jaffa said:

crunchman said:

ICBM said:

Stuckfast said:

In Star Wars episode 7, whatever it was called... people on one planet watch the destruction of another solar system by the death-moon-thing in real time.

In reality the light would have taken years to reach them.

If that was the only wrong-physics inaccuracy in a Star Wars movie, you'd be doing very well indeed .

When I used to teach Physics I used to show the class the Death Star explosion and ask them what was wrong with it?  (The fact that you can hear it through a vacuum if you want to know).

The way the craft fly during a dogfight, as if they have wings and there is air resistance is another classic physics fail

And fire in space...

That's chemistry.  I was teaching physics - specifically waves.

merlin

crunchman said:
Not a historical inaccuracy, but there are various bits in the Lord of the Rings films that are not true to the book.  Really annoys me.

Yes, like the complete exclusion of Tom Bombadil. 

fandango

And those Jason Bourne films stray so far from the books, it's almost like a different story entirely. At first it grated. Now, I just take the films in the series as great action films in their own right.

Jalapeno

merlin said:

crunchman said:
Not a historical inaccuracy, but there are various bits in the Lord of the Rings films that are not true to the book.  Really annoys me.

Yes, like the complete exclusion of Tom Bombadil. 

Actually that's one of the good bits-O

Reverend

the_jaffa said:

crunchman said:

ICBM said:

Stuckfast said:

In Star Wars episode 7, whatever it was called... people on one planet watch the destruction of another solar system by the death-moon-thing in real time.

In reality the light would have taken years to reach them.

If that was the only wrong-physics inaccuracy in a Star Wars movie, you'd be doing very well indeed .

When I used to teach Physics I used to show the class the Death Star explosion and ask them what was wrong with it?  (The fact that you can hear it through a vacuum if you want to know).

The way the craft fly during a dogfight, as if they have wings and there is air resistance is another classic physics fail

But thats in part due to scenes in Star Wars (that's the name, anyone calling it A New  Hope deserves to have bigsbys fitted to their acoustic guitars) being re-creations of footage of ww2 dogfights. 

tony99

crunchman said:

ICBM said:

Stuckfast said:

In Star Wars episode 7, whatever it was called... people on one planet watch the destruction of another solar system by the death-moon-thing in real time.

In reality the light would have taken years to reach them.

If that was the only wrong-physics inaccuracy in a Star Wars movie, you'd be doing very well indeed .

When I used to teach Physics I used to show the class the Death Star explosion and ask them what was wrong with it?  (The fact that you can hear it through a vacuum if you want to know).

I had a physics teacher who used the Alien tagline "in space no one can hear you scream" to explain that very same fact

phil_b

John_P said:

Having the wrong tanks also irritates me.  Plenty of old war films are ruined by having 50s and 60s American tanks instead of panzers, tigers and Sherman’s.   Eg battle of the bulge.  

In The Blue Max a WW1 film about the pilots all the Germans fly British post ww1 Tiger moth aircraft.

ICBM

phil_b said:

In The Blue Max a WW1 film about the pilots all the Germans fly British post ww1 Tiger moth aircraft.

I haven't seen that since I was a kid. I seem to remember it was quite good, and I was probably too young to notice that. I'll have to see if I can download a copy...

phil_b

ICBM said:

phil_b said:

In The Blue Max a WW1 film about the pilots all the Germans fly British post ww1 Tiger moth aircraft.

I haven't seen that since I was a kid. I seem to remember it was quite good, and I was probably too young to notice that. I'll have to see if I can download a copy...

yes Its still a good film

dano

Great thread. The 60Hz in the Bourne film is just awesome.

lasermonkey

In Raiders Of The Lost Ark there are crates which bear the Deutsche Afrika Korps symbol. The film is set in 1936 and the DAK wasn't formed until 1941.

chillidoggy

You guys need to get out more.

Oh, wait...………...

PolarityMan

In Around the World in 80 days Phileas Fog doesn't fall off the edge of the flat earth. 

PolarityMan

In superman, superman isnt technically a man because he is an alien. 

PolarityMan

In Harry Potter, magic isnt real. 

PolarityMan

I challenge anyone to find any inaccuracies in this though:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1612774/

EricTheWeary

PolarityMan said:

In Around the World in 80 days Phileas Fog doesn't fall off the edge of the flat earth. 

Although I would have won the prize on Pointless the other day for knowing that Jackie Chan is in it ( assuming we mean the remake).   

Danny1969

PolarityMan said:

I challenge anyone to find any inaccuracies in this though:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1612774/

Ooh that looks a good film !!

Hurling_Fruitmig

Neil said:

VimFuego said:

ICBM said:

The helicopter at the end of the battle in Full Metal Jacket is a British Westland Wessex and not the similar Sikorsky H-34 - it has a large turbine exhaust tube on the side, whereas the H-34 was piston-engined. Later, when they're supposedly flying in it, the shadow on the ground is of a Bell Jet Ranger.

[/Aviation geek]

one of the things that gets me about some Kubrick films is they were set in the US but filmed in the UK. So the 1st part of FMJ was filmed at Bassingbourne barracks in Herts, if you look when they're running around, the road markings are wrong. Same with Eyes Wide Shut. 

And the big battle at the end of FMJ was at the derelict Beckton gas works in East London!

Kubrick liked living and filming in England.

I thought it was more that Kubrick was terrified of flying?

fretmeister

Danny1969 said:

PolarityMan said:

I challenge anyone to find any inaccuracies in this though:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1612774/

Ooh that looks a good film !!

It's magnificent!