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re: How much can bad science in Sci-Fi break immersion?
Posted on 1/20/20 at 3:27 pm to skrayper
Posted on 1/20/20 at 3:27 pm to skrayper
In Inception, they never really explain how the shared dreaming device work. You have to accept that shared dreaming is a thing and it works in order to enjoy the movie.
Also, this isn't from sci-fi, but this line from The Shawshank Redemption always irked me. "Five hundred yards. That's the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile."
Also, this isn't from sci-fi, but this line from The Shawshank Redemption always irked me. "Five hundred yards. That's the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile."
Posted on 1/20/20 at 8:15 pm to Rep520
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Personally, Armageddon is the worst for me, but I still enjoy it for what it is.
A high school friend that has a doctorate in physics said he had a graduate level astrophysics class that used everything they did wrong with this movie as the premise for the course work
Posted on 1/20/20 at 8:35 pm to skrayper
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Action movies also get a bit of a pass - I don't REALLY consider Independence Day a "science fiction" movie in the strictest sense, so I don't mind that Jeff Goldblum wrote a virus that was able to interact with an alien system - on a Mac laptop less powerful than his phone.
This always drives me crazy. That facility has been connected (via computer) to that alien spacecraft for literally decades. So why wouldn’t he be able to give it a virus?
Posted on 1/20/20 at 10:49 pm to CocomoLSU
CSI original and Miami belong in Sci-Fi for most of their solutions that relied on geology. Esp Miami..some of their solutions were so outlandish that we stopped watching.
Posted on 1/20/20 at 11:23 pm to CocomoLSU
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That facility has been connected (via computer) to that alien spacecraft for literally decades. So why wouldn’t he be able to give it a virus?
It wasn't running until the mothership arrived - so only for 2 days at that point.
Not easy writing a virus for a computer that's turned off.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 8:03 am to pkloa
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I just watched Hurt Locker for the first time
I heard too many bad things, so I ditched it. A lot of military films get it close because they listen to their advisors.
The Gold Standard for me is Blackhawk Down - it didn't get every single detail precisely correct, of course, but Ridley Scott's effort is evident.
For science fiction, I don't like the inconsistencies about how long it takes to get places/travel distances - generally it is whatever the plot requires which is off-putting (and insulting to the intelligence). I don't mind sound in space - for engines, I imagine that's the rumble you hear (and would hear) from inside. Although weapons fire and explosions are no Bueno.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 10:03 am to skrayper
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Have you ever heard a factoid or statement that someone states in a science fiction show or movie that immediately caused you to break immersion because of how far off it is?
I do IT for a living. When I hear someone say they've "hacked the first firewall", or they break into private networks (ie: those not connected to the internet in any way) from their home, or "moving satellites into position", or they fix a computer that's not working with like 3 keystrokes... I cringe.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 10:07 am to Bard
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I do IT for a living. When I hear someone say they've "hacked the first firewall", or they break into private networks (ie: those not connected to the internet in any way) from their home, or "moving satellites into position", or they fix a computer that's not working with like 3 keystrokes... I cringe.
Same.
My wife literally has to reach out and grab my arm when a TV show starts talking about computers at all because she knows how I'm likely to react.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 10:50 am to skrayper
quote:What is this?
break immersion
Posted on 1/21/20 at 11:04 am to Ace Midnight
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For science fiction, I don't like the inconsistencies about how long it takes to get places/travel distances
That's one of the things I liked about Passengers. Granted, that was the whole plot of the movie. But the ship design, including the debris shielding, and how long it would take to get to the planet were close to what I imagine we will finally come up with when we start interstellar travel.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 11:08 am to CocomoLSU
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This always drives me crazy. That facility has been connected (via computer) to that alien spacecraft for literally decades. So why wouldn’t he be able to give it a virus?
because maybe the aliens updated their version of MacOS on the new fleet that had a security patch against it?
This post was edited on 1/21/20 at 11:10 am
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