10 dumbest moments in sci-fi movie history

What pisses me off is when someone is using a computer (looking at an FBI database or looking at some satelite images or video) and F/X idiots decide to add some "cool" digital sounds (beeps, ticks, etc) to computer screens. Also, How is it that computer users in the TV and movie world are able to zoom in a photo (what seems like one trillion x magnification) without loosing any resolution?

I understand Zero when he said:
"Haven't watched a movie in a year, and don't plan on watching any more."

I actually caught myself (and was embarassed) watching The Hours ... SEVERAL TIMES this year. And you know what? .. I enjoyed it.

 

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1. All SF computers beep repeatedly. It's mandatory. If it beeps at random intervals, maybe a dumb flash of light every now and again, then the computer is technologically brilliant.

2. All members of the Star Wars universe happen to have two legs, two arms and a head. Except the Hutts, cause they have no legs, of course.

3. The Terminator series is a huge paradox in itself. In the future, John Connor would lead the resistance to destroy the robots. So the machines send a robot back in time to kill him before he is a threat. If they kill him, then there would be no resistance, which would mean that they would not need to send someone back in time to kill John, meaning he would live and start the resistance, meaning that they would have to send someone back to kill him, so there would be no resistance, which would mean that they would not need to send someone back in time to kill John, meaning he would live and start the resistance, meaning that they would have to send someone back to kill him, so there would be no resistance, which would mean that they would not need to send someone back in time to kill John, meaning he would live and start the resistance, meaning that they would have to send someone back to kill him.....

4. Universes and galaxies vary, but God/Jesus/Mary mother of God, are omnipresent.

5. The Animatrix: When the robots are taking over. Anyone ever hear of EMPs? Hello? Earth to World Leaders? Black out the sun? You crazy?

6. How the fuck does hyperspace work, huh?

7. How is it that some people can read the Matrix by looking at all the odd symbols and things, but no-one is smart enough to take apart some robots?

8. Wouldn't a retina scanner blind you after a few uses?

9. All the guys in Mars Attacks! seem convinced that the martians are friendly, even after they kill Congress and a zillion other folks.

10. All the T-101s in the Terminator (at least, I think it's T-101, I'm not sure) are built to look like Arnie. Why?

 

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My girlfriend pointed this out:

Return of the Jedi: Luke is talking to ghost Obi Wan. Luke mentions, "Yoda spoke of 'another'." This leads to the revelation that Leia is Luke's sister. This "other" is in reference, of course, to Yoda's statment to Obi Wan in Empire when Obi Wan says, "He's our only hope." Yoda responds with, "No. There is another." Problem is, Luke was in his X-wing on the way to Bespin. He couldn't possibly have heard Yoda say anything about the "Other."

 

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In regards to the computers in SciFi movies:

It seems vital for the monitors to be so bright that whatever is on the screen is projected and visible on the users face and yet doesn't blind them.

What about those Genosians, they have wings too. So they count as extra limbs.

Yes, this is one of the arguements why altering time is impossible (and one I worked out by myself but hey, I wouldn't get a prize for it).

Guess they missed that episode of the Simpsons ;D

As James Bond put it, 'a cultural misunderstanding'. And what a cultural misunderstanding it was! Wow.

Because the Resistance is really the biggest Arnie Fan Club in existance! My gosh!

No seriously, they're not all like Arnie. In the first movie when Micheal Behn was looking back at how he lost the photo (or summat, it was a flashback...or flashforward...no...yes...hmmm) a T-100, or whatever it's called, infiltrated the bunker he was in and started killing. If memory serves me well it look nothing like Arnie.

 

Has anyone ever realized how much strength is required to pull up a person hanging completely off the cliff with one hand?

Olympic caliber fencers usually lasts (maybe) 5 seconds before one of them gets tagged. Why do sword fights last forever in movies?

 

How about the scenes where the heroine falls, the hero realizes it seconds later, then jumps down after her and he eventually catches her, which would mean he would have to FALL FASTER THAN HER!

 

thats actually possible. you should watch skydivers.

 

It depends on the drag. If you maximise your 'surface area' you'll go slow. If you're streamlined you'll go ZOOOOOOOOOOOM! That's why feathers fall slower than rocks.

 

No, it is in reference to Yoda's dying words to Luke just prior to this scene. Yoda says, (to Luke) "Luke, there is another... " and then a garbled word, that if you listen to closely, you will note that he is trying to say "Skywalker".

 

well nuttyfish, for number 6, all you have to do is press the button, its just that goddamn simple, i mean, come on...
and for #1, have you ever seen Alien? The ships computer, Mother, was based in this one room, in which all the walls were covered with small blinking white lights. And ripley hit the keys like 10 times, ended up getting a sentence like 15 words. figure that. :m:

 

Predicitive text gone ape?

 

right you are. Will have to tell her.

There goes the thesis.....

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I can't remember what the robots use for power, it's nuclear or something. Someone who's read a story more recently than I have will have to answer that one.

You got some spelling errors in the next one. To PUNCH through CONCTRETE like you say, would probably be imossible. But this is sci-fi, so the rules don't apply.

The robots use positronic brains. Kind of a quantum computer. No fiber optics, no electronics, though these may be used elseware in the robot's body.

 

spelling errors, how rude!

by the way "positronic" was a catch word created by Asimov after the resent discovery of the positron at the time. The detailed functions of Asimov's Positronic brains were rather vague and for good reason as technology at the time had no idea how to make artificial intelligence. Even so a Brain that runs by using positrons and electrons and there pairing is highly ridiculous by today’s standards, even then there was no idea how it could be use for data processing. Today we can speculate that molecular electronics and digital spintronics is the way, quantum computing spintronics would probably require liquid helium cooling not something we would see in a android any time soon. Analog neural networks are most likely to resemble human intelligence.

 

Oh, man. Don't get me started on "Signs". I liked it, but what race of aliens with interstellar capabilities uses poison gas as a "hand weapon"? (ar ar)

Kind of the ultimate "pull my finger" joke.

Also, in Star Trek III, when the enterprise has been crippled by the klingon vessel, they rightly surmise that the smaller ship will send everyone they can spare to the enterprise, at which point captain and crew beam off. To the surface of the planet which is in the process of destroying itself. Why didn't they beam over to the Klingon vessel (also known as the only working starship in the 'hood) instead?

Also, not to pick on Trek (too easy, but other examples escape me at the moment) in "Nemesis" [SPOILER ALERT] there is that moment when they realize that with only 6% phaser power they'l never get through the other guy's shields. So they ram his ship. I'm thinking, now fire the damn phasers!!! At point blank range like that it should have done some serious harm.

Of course, that presupposes they even could still fire but it would have been cool as hell.

 

"And now, for a DEADLY barrage of NEGATIVE SCRATCHES!!!!" One string-suspended flying saucer then fires at the other.

Asimov once said that the mechanics behind positronic brains were intentionally vague so that he wouldn't get bogged down with them.
One aspect of the positronic brain that is impressive is the fact that it is just a spongy lump of platinum-iridium. That's like holding up a ballpoint pen and saying, "This powers the space shuttle." Some glowy bundle of fiber optics is no good, but then the plot has nothing to do with the book...

 

How about the moment in Superman IV where Christopher Reeve generates an artificial Solar eclipse - by pushing the whole Moon out of position to cover the Sun?!?!?!

How could Superman move the entire mass of the Moon (1/81 of Earth's mass) - I mean, what was he pushing against? Not to mention that disprupting the Moon's orbit like that would be cataclysmic: it would probably recede much further from Earth, robbing us of our ocean tides and causing a mass extinction of littoral organisms, not to mention tidal power stations. Or worse, it could spiral much closer to Earth and cause worldwide tidal waves, volcanoes, earthquakes etc.

If he needed to put his enemy, Nuclear Man, in the shade, wouldn't it have been easier to just push him into the Moon's shadow?

 

My guess is that the very real possibility of getting disemboweled tends to give you just a wee bit more adrenaline...

 

Waterworld:
if all the glaciers on earth melted away sea levels would raise... ~140m (~450ft) definitely not enough to cover all the land mass on earth, though we wouldn't need to worry about places like Florida anymore.

 

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