I’m new to this thread, so apologies if someone has already mentioned it, but one of my biggest gripe with sci-fi movies is just about anything that involves computers, but the biggest thing (stabs me in the brain every time) is use of the term “mainframe”. I’ve not yet seen a movie or TV show where the writers seemed to understand what they were saying, with the possible exception of Travelers (Netflix). Most big- or small-screen shows should stay entirely away from computers and their technology unless a) they are core to the plot (Mr. Robot) or b) the writers have a technical consultant on board that they actually listen to. Enough people these days know technology that they’re going to start alienating their fan base. WRT spaceships, The Expanse is a well-done (small) screen adaptation of a novel series that well-considers spaceship design given (known) physics. Other TV shows and movies should take heed.
seeing? Romance, so sick of it. But my biggest one is not so much seeing as it is hearing and that is sound, music, explosions etc. Isn't space a vacuum? If so, sound can't travel in a vacuum can it?
1) soundtrack music isn't typicality in the reality of a film, no more than that popcorn you're eating is. The only exception is, IIRC, I'm Gonna Get You, Sucka, where the heroes have small bands following them around playing their theme music. (Darth Vader doesn't, he just uses the Force to make you think you hear his theme.) 2) an explosion includes a rapid outflow of gas and particles that, when it strikes your ship's hull or your spacesuit, will make sounds that you hear. And if you're in an operating spaceship, you'll hear the engines. 3) (In-fiction theory) Warp drives warp space, including nearby ear drums.
I hear ya about #1, still, don't like it. I agree on #2, but I should have given more details. Where they cut to an external view and we see this huge explosion and hear it as well. I think it would be so cool to see a starship battle from the outside and be able to see everything but hear nothing, total silence. I can only dream of that someday. Come to think about it since space is a vacuum and there is no oxygen then we shouldn't even see any fireballs at all when things blow up, yes? That would really be cool but probably not "cool" to ticket sales!
No. For the same reason chemical explosions can include fireballs underwater. And I guarantee you nuclear explosions don't need oxygen to form a fireball. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime
Video games as recruitment / "find the hidden genius living in a basement so he can save the world" tools. Talk about wish fulfillment...
Wait, what!! You mean that's not a thing, shit why am I wasting all this time practicing a video games
That guitar riff always gets my blood pumping ready to slaughter demons with my shotgun until I’m out of shells then punch them to death. Still waiting for my box set of Sigil. Man, I could play e1m1 in my sleep.
I know, sometimes I listen to Metallica at work. Whenever master of puppets comes on I get an itchy trigger finger.
Plasma isn't affected by vacuum. Those kind of explosions would still happen. As would things like matter/antimatter annihilation.
The StarWrecks endlessness. Movie after movie. Plus the churn of advertising. Crowding out creativity because it is not wanted. Where is the next Forbidden Planet?
Well, since H.G. Well's War of the Worlds was an indictment of British colonialism, that's one classic book down. We could start a thread about how many classic books this kind of thinking would eliminate. Would there even be a Star Trek TV series?
So you dislike Metropolis, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Thing (original), The Wicker Man (original), Dune (admittedly, the anti-Great Man subtext of the book was muted in the adaptation), Jurassic Park, Frankenstein, Barbarella, Dawn of the Dead, Gattaca, Logan's Run, A Clockwork Orange, District Nine, Robocop, Dr Strangelove, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Mad Max, Wall-E, Silent Running, Westworld, The Handmaid's Tale (1990 movie version) and Godzilla (the original)? (It's going to be fun watching them backpedal from this one!)
I dunno, I read "shoehorning" in a different way, not so much writing an allegory as trying desperately to force something in where it doesn't really fit. Kind of like what I refer to as "Benettonism" in diversity, where a movie or TV show has a diverse cast, but one that somehow feels like the casting director had a checklist she needed to fill out. "Oh, wait, if I make Chang gay, I can kill two birds with one stone!" Spoiler: Pleasantville I recognize, however, that my views on this may have been influenced by growing up in one of the less-diverse spots in the US. The newest census has it at 82% white, down from 89% in 2000 and around 95% when I was growing up.
Jurassic Park? The only message I took away from that movie was that would-be entrepreneurs should practice good hiring strategies, starting with background checks for your IT guys.
Got to have diversity quotas!!! Along with my humans oh, I always make sure to have at least one lizard-folk, one beast-folk, and one Me-u-tant. Ironically, even though I'm joking this actually does happen. Lol I thought he meant like normal politics, but then again despite trying to avoid it, I'm sure I put some things in subconsciously
Then they can say that. I can guess exactly what he / she is using "political" as a nasty little dog-whistle for, so I'm going to have a little fun demonstrating how absurd it is when that request is taken at face value. "Man shouldn't play God". It's much less blatant than Crichton hitting you over the head with it in the book, but it's there.
