Top 20 Movies With BS Science

[@WatchMojo]

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[@krymera666x7]

So you’re going to pick a bunch of popcorn movies and pick them apart?

[@ultraveganblue]

It's called Science "Fiction" for a reason goofy

[@olleselin]

The Marvel Cinematic Universe

[@robbie1898]

You’re telling me science fiction movies are science fiction 😢

[@marikothecheetah9342]

Oh, a kid born long after hard sci-fi times...

[@BBI_Strange_Agent]

Reality is for those who can't handle science fiction.

[@DrinkTheKoolAid62]

There's science fiction and there's science fantasy

[@alm2187]

Compare these films to Interstellar and The Martian, for starters.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

@@DrinkTheKoolAid62 perfect! Thank you!

[@shinjisan2015]

What wasn't explained, but should have been in a matter of 30 seconds in Independence Day, was that humanity had been reverse engineering the alien technology piece by piece since the 1950s. This means the human computer systems developed were based on the alien systems making it easy for someone to create the viral payload once the alien ship woke up and they had full access and 40 years of knowledge behind them. That reverse engineering was accelerated after the attack when more ships were available to cannibalise, and that was explained in the second movie.

[@Phoenix2312]

It was even explained in the first movie... And as for being Scientific BS... To the best of my knowledge we have YET to meet Aliens that have cracked Interstellar Travel, Or at least that's what "The Powers that be" tell us... So we dont actually have a definitive Scientific Basis to say that Alien Technology would be SO FAR ADVANCED of our own that we could not simply plug in a USB Drive... We have Theory and Speculation! Which are NOT Scientific Facts... So in universe, It works... In reality, It is most likely that it would not be feasible but we have NO EVIDENCE to prove as such! So it cannot be called Scientific BS as we have NO SCIENTIFIC PROOF that Aliens even exist!

[@dicksonfranssen]

To think we're alone in the universe is ludicrous. Aliens are either friendly (doubtful), just waiting for us to blow ourselves up or hostile. If they are hostile they'll take what they want, most likely water, & squash us like bugs if we get in the way. My favorite silly & entertaining 2:00AM movie is Battle: Los Angeles but the idea aliens need "boots on the ground" is beyond stupid. Launching a projectile big enough & fast enough from high orbit would cause tsunamis big enough to finish off 50% of us. Then we'd just sit and watch.

[@anhurtorrez]

I believe there was also a deleted scene talking about the same thing, I was coming here to say this but already did.

[@ayacachotinemi4974]

Brent Spiner's character (the Area 51 scientist with the long, grey hair) made it pretty clear that they'd been studying the alien technology for decades and had a pretty good understanding of its fundamentals. Creating a computer interface would have been the first thing on their to-do list. I've always hated people complaining about this "plot hole"; it really does show that Hollywood dumbing stuff down is totally justified because the average moviegoer really does need their hand held every step of the way.

[@privatechannel8462]

Also, they state the aliens hacked our satellites, so in the film they just did this in reverse. As the Aliens had a system that could read our code.

[@scottieman2]

I'm totally watching these movies for accurate science. Like Abe Lincoln vampire hunter is real.

[@WatchMojo]

[@thegoldenorder1240]

Science Fiction is science based creative work not based on fact. This entire list is pointless.

[@scottieman2]

@thegoldenorder1240 most of the list videos are pointless they make

[@joseosorio5499]

Shut up thats not real????

[@gloria88246]

Exactly im with you 💯💯💯👍

[@triniborn76]

Watching this video is like going to the movies with Neil Degrassi Tyson! 😂

[@outforit692]

Or with Sheldon Cooper 😂

[@Foebane72]

Degrasse

[@nevaehhope2008]

No cuz he would actually get some things right. This guy obviously has no knowledge of even basic science

[@newsmith]

I love that you left out the entire Fast and Furious franchise. They are notorious for defying physics and gravity.

[@alm2187]

Sure but most (maybe all?) of these have a clear sci-fi element.

[@venomsupe]

List onto itself

[@Boneyard250]

The worst part of “After Earth” was Jayden’s acting lol

[@Jetsparx373]

Jayden: Dad can I go to my room? Will: Are you asking me or telling me? Jayden: May I go to my room, sir? Will: DENIED! SIT DOWN! That dialogue is Meme worthy.

[@DeejayNiXoT]

It's kinda stupid to add movies like Superman.. Since when is such a movie supposed to be realistic? They're talking about the fact you can't be faster than light etc.. But being ultra strong, able to fly etc is fine? Okay, well then

[@factualopinion4275]

It's an asspull physics. Makes sense

[@Phoenix2312]

They also ignored that Superman is essentially Infinitely Powerful... He gets his powers from our Sun, and the longer he is on Earth, The more Power he has... OK! Thats not discussed in the movie but it is Canonical! So yes, Superman DOES DEFY ALL LAWS OF PHYSICS IN CANON!

[@mowntainmann2567]

Don't forget laser beem eyes.

[@lucaskobain]

My problem is when the "science" defies the own film's common sense. I can accept Superman flying at the speed of light, but why would reversing the rotation of the Earth = time travel? there are planets that don't spin at all (like the Moon itself, I think). That doesn't mean the time stops there.

[@wadewilson7985]

@@lucaskobain it wasn't that he reversed the rotation of the earth to create time travel. He traveled so fast that the earth changed rotation (his goal was to fly as fast as needed to travel back into time, the earth's rotation was a by product)

[@ARIXANDRE]

Well, Jurassic Park made us believe...even if for a couple minutes.

[@Dopecheetah]

Superman didn’t make the earth rotate backwards to go back in time. Superman was flying back in time. Richard Donner couldn’t really figure out how to visualize that. So Donner made the earth rotate backwards. Arguably Donner could have done a bit of a better job showing us.

[@alm2187]

Yup! Such a widely corrected misconception. Surprised there aren't more of us in comments pointing it out. The announcer also implies a problem with Supes performing the feat within the Earth's atmosphere which, visibly, he doesn't. I understand (or at least I trust to) the mass problem, though.

[@CaptainMarvelsSon]

*_Weird Science:_* Creating a living, breathing human using a 1980s computer with CAD software.

[@alm2187]

Haven't seen it but isn't she a robot?

[@CaptainMarvelsSon]

@@alm2187 If I recall, it wasn't expressed that way. The boys hooked electrodes up to a Barbie doll, used his computer to create the CAD and personality, gained power from a military server, and a lightning storm created her off camera... or something like that. The '80s was a weird time for cheesy movies 😂

[@IzzyPR2010]

@@alm2187 more like a genie created by science instead of magic.

[@codyhiginbotham6616]

See this is actually what I love about sci-fi. The science can be as fictional and ridiculous as possible, and yet (when told right) it’s still entertaining

[@seeeyegee3061]

Okay, hold on. You leave Superman alone.

[@brucehastings8825]

Yes

[@Nbafan416]

Womp womp

[@jackrodakthemovieguy1726]

Look man I’m sorry, Superman is a great movie and everything, But the logic involving him spinning with the earth and all that is still incredibly stupid

[@nobodynoonenowhere5609]

Amen to that,bro😊

[@darkscoutergamer6168]

@@Nbafan416?🤣😭

[@LucasDuffeck]

I've heard that in the initial scripts for Matrix the human brains were used to process data (as biological CPUs), but the change from that to power sources were pushed my producers/execs because they thought it was easier to explain that to the audience

[@JeremyGlenesk]

Important to note that Star Wars isn't science fiction, it's space fantasy. Many other actual science fiction films do the same thing with space, because watching space battles with no sound would be super boring to watch.

[@aarien_of_aurolyth]

Yep. While that moment of silence in the Last Jedi was really good as a dramatic juxposition against the rest of the battle which had had sound, we wouldn't want to watch the movies if the sound or space flight dynamics were accurate.

[@daxconnell7661]

multi-million dollar movies (subtitles: [ship shooting] pew pew pew)

[@ShadyKray]

So you're telling me after all these years I wasn't watching science documentaries!? What a jip.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

A film can be enjoyable with a fairly accurate science, it doesn't turn you into nerd, don't worry, for that you'd actually have to learn something.

[@TheJollyGreen]

My middle school science teacher in the 90's truly believed traveling opposite the earths rotation at incredible speeds would indeed allow that imagined craft to go back in time. Even at age 12 I couldn't see the science behind that. 🤦

[@lillordakira9752]

I'm still puzzled how cypher managed to plug himself in the Matrix to make the deal with Agent Smith and get out without any help.

[@CassandraY]

I'm pretty sure I read an article where the Wachowski's confirmed that Cypher wrote an automated code to do it. That was why he was so jumpy when Neo came up behind him in that one scene. Also, he didn't have to be subtle about entering the Matrix since he wanted Agent Smith to find him.

[@theman4884]

I am not sure which was the dumber concept, that humans could be used as a power source or that the 1990's were the height of human creativity.

[@CassandraY]

@@theman4884 Even the bad movies were watchable when compared to movies today. Nothing but reboots, reimaginings, or legacy sequels. We'll never get a movie like The First Wives Club today.

[@theman4884]

@@CassandraY There were plenty of remakes and sequels in the 90s. I can find it or I would post Norm McDonald's SNL bit where he mentioned what was happening at the box office. "The First Wives Club" has dropped out of the top spot at the box office replaced by the Younger Prettier Second Wives Club.

[@CassandraY]

@@theman4884 I'm not saying there weren't, but they hadn't taken over like they do now. It seems like so many movies, TV shows, and even video games are just recycling tired old tropes and plots that have been done a hundred times without adding even the basic level of creativity to make it their own. IMO, movies of the 90's were made by writers while movies today are made by executives.

[@baribor]

There's a reason why there's the word "fiction" just after "science".

[@tcorana]

Yes but it does not mean you bullshit your way thru it.

[@remo7034]

Good point...It's right there in the label lol

[@SlasherInSuits]

Freddy Krueger can’t kill you in a dream? 😂

[@lugiakane470]

no but there are actual incidents of people bening killed in dreams resulting in death in the real world where wes craven got the idea from

[@israelborrerojr9772]

I think for Supermans time reversal is similar to Flash being able to travel back in time through his speed. It was just shown in a different way.

[@monstermike1984]

How did Face Off not make this list?

[@randolphcroft4212]

Hell, I was an athlete in my 30's and now that I'm in my 60's, if I trip and fall down I would probably cripple myself.

[@andrewhaase1826]

Dishonorable Mention: *Common sense, what's that? - Superman 4: The Quest For Peace -This film is unbelievably scientifically inaccurate, even by comic book movie standards. To the point where Superman reversing the planet's rotation almost seems quaint.

[@alm2187]

You're against nuclear weapons disposal in the sun? Or you can't fix the Great Wall of China by staring at it? Or you can't pound a super-clone into the lunar surface like a stake? What all do you take issue with, here? 🤗

[@spaceace4387]

Geez it’s almost as if a lot of these movies are science fiction.

[@KatInJapan-q2e]

Um, movies are to entertain, not to be scientifically accurate. What’s next, the inaccuracies of movies with Santa Claus?

[@Jetsparx373]

The only possible accuracy about him, is that he was possibly born in Turkmenistan?

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

Are you guys about to tell me that cars don't explode every time they're in a minor collision? Because I don't want to live in that world.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia had a scene satirizing that ... with two of the characters drying to blow up Dee's car. First by slamming it into a wall, then with a grenade...

[@jodiecarlson6955]

In the Day After Tomorrow, I always laugh thinking that all they had to do was close a library door to keep the super fast freezing from hurting them

[@tripled8611]

I came here expecting a list of things feasibly possible like Twister, not necessarily a list of calling out science fiction. It’s like you’re arguing with Chewbacca on how unrealistic the force is.

[@remo7034]

lol

[@whoisyouranime]

Well, that's why they call it Science fiction, not science fact.

[@SirsasthNigam.]

Science "fiction"

[@thegoldenorder1240]

Thank you God. Finally someone with a brain that reads books.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

"Science" fiction, also known as futurology, in its early days was a speculative fiction, very much based on science (hence science in the name) and predicted some believable outcomes, that would be probable, based on what was known then. Some of them came true, like many gadgets we have today.

[@BlackHatCinephile]

🥉

[@lad4702]

@@marikothecheetah9342 i was thinking along them lines? .... say a film abar 40 years ago? And they had advanced communications (the internet?) Or phones you can video call on? That would be classed as science fiction back then? But its "normal" for a lot of people now days? 🤔

[@marikothecheetah9342]

@@lad4702 you just contradicted yourself. All that we have now is science, what science fiction did was to speculate, based on the science that was available then. A lot of the stuff became available to us now. It was called science fiction because it didn't involve real people and real stories but speculations were real.

[@maximeprometheas]

Glad that we also have movies that are highly scientifically accurate, like Sharknado. 😂

[@remo7034]

Sharknado is bizzaro world science lol

[@amyeighmie5513]

Narrator must be fun at parties. None of these movies are documentaries, they're just fun

[@jakenkid]

Hold on... Superman, an alien that gets energy from the sun that makes him invulnerable, and has the ability to *MAGICALLY FLY SOME-CRAZY-HOW*... I'M JUST FLUSTERED... He didn't turn the earth backwards, he didn't fly in it's atmosphere, he flew faster than the speed of light and reversed time, *BECAUSE HE HAS FUCKING MAGICAL POWERS AND IS INVULNERABLE* What the hell are you talking about!?

[@alm2187]

Interestingly zany way to make a largely good point. 🤗

[@ramonleclerc5060]

People don't watch these movies for scientific accuracy

[@CandiceVidito32]

Indiana Jones surviving an explosion by hiding in a fridge.

[@mamalannightshyaman]

It’s in the vid

[@theman4884]

How about Speed? The bus jump was bad enough; but the ending where the subway train crashes through a city block's worth of dirt and concrete. It would have crushed like a soda can.

[@MichaelMarquez-m3b]

The thing I always found funny about Jurassic Park is that they talk about how the closest genetic still living species to dinosaurs are birds and then when they need to fill gaps in the DNA they use a frog.

[@YavorM-Yash]

They needed it for the plot - the ability to change sexes under circumstances.

[@MichaelMarquez-m3b]

@@YavorM-Yash That’s why it was so lame.

[@theman4884]

@@YavorM-Yash They could/should have used alligators. Alligators can also change sex and (bird, sure but nobody wants feathery dinosaurs) people associate them being more closely related to dinosaurs.

[@YavorM-Yash]

@@theman4884 maybe so, but they decided this.

[@MrLourie]

I don't think Hollywood ever claimed to be the hub of science fact or reality of any kind even when depicting what's claimed to be reality or fact.

[@cyrussoxlegion]

To be fair... the science in pretty much every sci-fi movie is broken. The rare exception being probably something like interstellar. I have to admit, I'm really surprised that the black hole didn't make this list!!!!

[@davefreier7738]

Interstellar, while it does more or less stick to things that are possible in theory, takes some real liberties with proven science.

[@cyrussoxlegion]

@@davefreier7738 that's why I used the conditional article "probably". 🙂

[@ThomasEhrlich-fc8nj]

If you want to watch a scientifically accurate movie, just try The Martian or Contagion.

[@herlandercarvalho]

It would be more logical to do the reverse, "Top 20 movies with good science", since the VAST majority of movies (and TV Shows) have bad science.

[@KnightRanger38]

The number of super-hero, science fiction, or science fantasy movies with only good science produced by Hollywood might not be enough to produce a "Top 20" list.

[@MrEliseoD]

BS science? A lot of this is based on superheroes and science fiction which surely requires a certain amount of suspension of disbelief… maybe we should cut them some slack…? Sheesh

[@VirgusMaximus]

Top 20 Movies we like regardless if it's real science of not.

[@tremblingaspen]

My geology professor in university used to do this (take Hollywood movies and explain what was wrong with the science). He spent a lot of time on Dante’s Peak.

[@spaceace4387]

Also how is Face/Off not on here?

[@void_presence]

'Wing Commander" (based on the video game)...had SONAR in space

[@clocutron]

Should've included 1979's "The Black Hole".

[@ruacho12]

This video would be valid if they explained how this "bad science" breaks the movie's logic.

[@Gor85]

These are stories. Fiction. No place for logic whatsoever. Star Wars is wonderful movie. Jurassic Park makes some sense. Indy maybe could have survive in refrigerator. Great list

[@chillikoala]

Technically speaking, he connected a Mac to an Alien computer system.

[@G74]

Plus even if you do reverse the Earth's rotation,or any planet for that matter it isn't going to make time go backwards. That's like saying walking backwards will make you younger or driving your old car backwards will make it brand new again.

[@frankbrodie5168]

It's interesting you putting the original Superman film in there early doors. I went and watched that film at release with my best friend. And the actual ONLY thing he didn't like of the film was the time reversing bit. It was like talking to Sheldon Cooper with him keep going on about "Well.. it's just not scientifically possible to reverse time is it?" "Yeah dude.. Whereas a bloke flying around in his underpants is ok right?"

[@francolinos7338]

A hand-held wand connected to a proton backpack-sized nuclear accelerator. Because ghosts exist.

[@PrinceTrexus]

Another thing about the transformers one is that the autobots/decepticons bodies are made of metal. So even if Optimus Prime was trying to safely catch Shia LaBeouf falling, because Optimus is made of metal, Shia would hit Optimus's hand and the impact would be the same as if he'd jumped off a building and landed on a parked car

[@Heathcoatman]

Not much different from John Wick being tossed at high speed into vans, trucks and cars repeatedly, completely crunching those vehicles, and just getting up and walking away. I think he took out 7 vehicles with his body in 4 without a single broken bone. Dont you know that you can claim every single movie character is now a superhero and everyone just buys it?

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

@@PrinceTrexus if it's a sentient being though, he could give with the impact to soften it. Like catching an egg. If you do it right, someone can throw and egg to you pretty hard and you can catch it without breaking it. We used to do it in baseball, to practice having "soft hands" when you field ground balls.

[@Excanda]

Number 10 is why Star Wars is seen as Fantasy and *not* Sci-Fi. Though Star Trek, which is based in Science Fiction, does the cardinal sin of sounds in space too.

[@alm2187]

Note Firefly as an exception. For the most part, call it inconsequential in Star Trek and Star Wars since the characters aren't shown hearing it. The strangest stretch I know of is Ep II when the Fetts use sonic depth charges, or whatever they're called. It's easy to ignore the constant sound in space. Call it just stylistic. Then there's this one scene with the secret weapon for which sound designers created a highly distinctive effect. It just draws attention to the problem! Why'd they do it?

[@Excanda]

@@alm2187 They do it so the watchers have something to listen to while watching the scene. Interstellar is the first movie to fully adhere to the rules of space that we know of.

[@ChimbaMutale]

James bond is science fact according to the producer.

[@alm2187]

You mean Barbara? What'd she say about the science?

[@wilsoncrunch1330]

Independence day had 50 years to break into their code. Unfortunately the Director cut the scene showing how they had cracked the code.

[@BlaqJedimaster]

OMG! Next thing you're going tell me is Professional Wrestling is all staged and acrobatic! And we KNOW that's not tr....🤣🤣🤣 I can't even get that joke out 🤣🤣🤣

[@Keith-b4v]

You forgot with Superman flying at the speed of light, he would also have to deal with time dilation. He would remain the same age as all life on earth would have aged.

[@alm2187]

Uhhh...if you're saying he can't go back in time, okay. If you allow that he can reach the past, you haven't hit on much of a problem. Sure, the film doesn't show civilization aging as he accelerates. Suppose that happens without us seeing it, though. Ultimately, Supes is still going back into the past, just enough that Lois hasn't been killed, yet. So, effectively, he goes forward in time via dilation, then backward per the film premise. Problem?

[@Keith-b4v]

@@alm2187 "If you allow that he can reach the past, you haven't hit on much of a problem. " The film shows that he is going into the past by traveling at the speed of light, that's not how physics works. The faster you travel in space; the more time stretches and compress around you. " Sure, the film doesn't show civilization aging as he accelerates. Suppose that happens without us seeing it, though. Ultimately, Supes is still going back into the past, just enough that Lois hasn't been killed, yet. So, effectively, he goes forward in time via dilation, then backward per the film premise. Problem?" What do you mean? The whole scene we see Superman reverse time when traveling at lightspeed, which is impossible. When you travel that fast, you can't go into the past, you can only travel into the future. That's how time dilation works, hence the huge issue with that scene. No matter how fast Superman travels, he will never be able to travel into the past, he can only go forward.

[@alm2187]

Maybe I've processed your point more thoroughly now,@@Keith-b4v We're allowing for the physical existence of a super-powered entity. This entity intends a short journey a backward in time. (I hazard that's the same as reversing time as shown in the film.) The entity's planned means to accomplish this is breaking the light barrier. Per your comments, you're reminding us that this entity's endeavor would fail and, indeed, have the opposite effect at best. On reaching these theoretical speeds, and disregarding the mass issue, his perception relative to a civilized planet's perception would change. If reckoning with one another, he'd have to reckon with their time speeding up, and they with his aging slowed seemingly to a standstill. So again, instead of landing in his recent past upon return, he'd land x amount of time in his future. If that's your point, okay. Got it. If there's more to it, lay it on me. 🤓

[@Keith-b4v]

@@alm2187 Bits and pieces but that is the general gist, yes. Traveling at those speeds would make his age relative to that of time moving around him. He would be temporally stagnate as time continues to move around him at a more rapid pace.

[@jacobdrolet4262]

Amazing video watch mojo,fantastic job.

[@albertPI007]

What's the meaning of BS? I still don't know. By the way, some of these movies are trying to tell us to investigate the matter of their plots by ourselves through internet, professors, colleges and many more. At least, that's what i think.

[@thegoldenorder1240]

Its called Science Fiction. Fiction: A creative work not based on fact. Do you even understand the basis behind the genre?

[@Denis-89]

It is supposed to have a science origin though. Like research and so. You can be realistic and still entertain

[@foxymetroid]

Science fiction has science in the name for a reason. At least make an effort.

[@thegoldenorder1240]

@foxymetroid Its Fiction. Not fact. It doesn't have to be at all. Watch a documentary.

[@chronoplex89]

Superman perform the first Flashpoint Paradox before The Flash ever did

[@arfinjalal4563]

He knew flash powers

[@matthewminelli]

What about the aligns in War of the Worlds, riding the lightning bolts down to the underground?

[@dragonweyr44]

Twister: Wouldn't they have been cut in half by the belt as well? After Earth,: not to mention, the weather patterns wouldn't change that radically either Die Another Day: Of course, the bad guy in a Bond movie CAN'T be an Asian guy

[@remo7034]

I think After Earth shouldn't have made the list because in 1000 years something unaccounted for could have realistically changed the evolution pattern... unknown radiation from space meteors?

[@dragonweyr44]

@@remo7034 Exactly how? If I remember correctly, the two guys on the planet, had to take oxygen tablets or something like that (I only saw the movie once) to breathe cause the o2 level was so low, but the animals on the planet could breathe just fine The world froze at night except for a few areas with geothermic heat vents, that, somehow, didn't spew toxic gases but the bird creature with the ball like nest was ok living out in the wild and all this happened in 1000 years

[@remo7034]

@ The freezing temperatures didn't make much sense, but this video focused on the "impossible" evolution and I say we can't see 1000 years into the future... You make good points.

[@remo7034]

"space meteors" ...I wasn't thinking lol

[@dragonweyr44]

@ Actually, I think we CAN see what happens in 1000 years into the future, a million years in the future, 200 million years There was a tv documentary backin 2002, made in the style of the Walking With Dinosaurs series that proposed what Earth and animals would look like at various timelines in the future from, I think, 5 million years from now to 200 million years. It was called The Future Is Wild. that estimates what evolution would be like in the future, in a time without man you should check it out

[@davidchism6081]

With Star Wars, you'd want accuracy, or action, sounds, ground based air battles(I'm aware of the oxymoron).

[@alm2187]

Right. So, umm, start over. 🤗

[@lurkerrekrul]

Independence Day - Nothing to say about the fact that aliens apparently don't possess the technology to implement independent countdown timers? Gravity - THANK YOU!!!

[@shivamchoudhary2840]

Hey man, Great video. Just wanted to know do you use AI Voice?

[@WatchMojo]

Thanks for asking! No, we don’t use AI voice. We actually credit the voice-over person at the beginning of the video so you know exactly who voiced it.

[@davidchism6081]

Number 20: Wasn't it said that showing the planet going the opposite direction wasn't meant to be taken liberally? As in, it was only meant to show that Clark was going past the speed of light, going FAR past the speed of light that he'd time traveled back in time. The planet's reverse rotation was only to indicate time travel, not literal rotation reversal, which would cause far greater damage to the planet.

[@thegoodtony3339]

This video definitely needs a part 2 😂😂

[@jimmideerichards9554]

This video proves the point to why we invest so much into movies, because real life is so much more boring, so thank god for movie logic to actually entertain us by giving us a great escapism from the dull realistic nature of life.

[@susanlansdell863]

Exactly!xx

[@tazman2253]

Independence Day works because a deleted scene showed that everything was reverse engineered from the alien spaceship. Which honestly explains why after the 60s we saw a tech boom the likes of which usually only happen every couple hundred years if not longer.

[@overdose1090]

if "must be fun at birthdays" was a video

[@SMALLTOWNREACTIONS]

Hollywood Writer: Hey I've got a great idea for a movie! Watchmojo: I'm not a scientist or anything but that sounds like a load of BS. I mean we don't want to mislead people into thinking dinosaurs exist or that giant robots are real right?

[@Paradigmfusion]

in these cases you just gotta ignore the science and enjoy the ride, especially in a Michael Bay movie.

[@NotAsianButFlip]

Most of these movies literally explain that the events that happened were impossible but due to extreme circumstances it did…

[@DonSmookFlame]

Hearing "the rest of your body functions work normal" was a lil chilling

[@caronstout354]

The Island- the idea that life memories are encoded in the DNA and can be "remembered" by a clone...

[@BitOfBoth]

Mojo, i have a feeling in a few decades you will have to revise some of these imposibilities :D

[@Foebane72]

Independence Day: They had a deleted scene that explained that human computer tech was based on the alien ship they had at Area 51.

[@kennethaldred6659]

I’m sure other people have said this but…. Superman did NOT reverse the rotation of the earth. He was moving backwards in time which gave the illusion of the earth rotating backwards. But he was moving backwards in time not reversing the earths rotation

[@bheast86]

No INTERSTELLAR? They considered time dilation, which is an established element of printed sci-fi that few movies/TV consider, but viable planets orbiting a black hole, travel into the singularity is pretty bad, like the waves the size of mountains that don't pulverise what they land on. The Nolan Bros do that a lot in the Dark Knight trilogy, with Batman able to glide by stretching out his cloak, or a big aircraft being able to fly with a smaller one hanging from it (and its engines going downwards)

[@MAXIMUS172]

This is the kind of guy who goes around telling little kids Santa isn't real.

[@jackdavinci]

You're about half right with Lucy. We do use all the parts of the brain to some extent continuously, and the old ten percent of the brain figure is somewhat made up. But while it was poorly understood and described, the underlying premise is still correct. The brain does have natural variability in performance, even for an individual over the course of a day. Training can improve performance, and certain chemicals or ems stimulation can overclock it even more. This isn't even science fiction, many people do it right now. Obviously training requires effort and maintenance, and stimulation is not sustainable and has potential side effects. We can't currently get to the insane levels of brain power in certain films, but the levels we can achieve are still remarkable, and there's no known fundamental obstacle preventing the technology from getting even better.

[@tedgovostis7351]

Superman was clearly NOT in Earth's atmosphere. Originally the Matrix wasn't using us for batteries, but our brains for processing power. There is a scene in the videogame Outriders that makes fun of the Indy fridge scene when your character is in a lab where a nuke is about to go off and your contact back at base tells you to find a fridge and climb in. You tell him it's the stupidest thing you ever heard and he says "I don't know, I saw it in some old movie!"

[@jasonbrown4572]

Most action films and shows treat "normal human" bodies like they are superheroes, they seem to withstand injuries and collisions that would kill an actual person.

[@allthingsmovies10164]

I think there is a more logical way that Die Another Day could have gone about the transformation. It is possible to alter a person's skin color, even with the technology in 2002. While deceased, Michael Jackson can prove this. And with just a bit of plastic surgery and a few other things (contacts, hair dye, etc.) you could have yourself a very realistic version of the transformation.

[@VictorStave]

No love for Face/Off? That’s one of my favorite movies based around “Okay, just pretend this is a thing” science

[@LondonLad81]

They may be wrong but they’re so much fun to watch.

[@matreyia]

Your understanding of the Superman and reverse rotation of Earth is erroneous. Here is what they TRIED to show but failed: 1. Superman flying at faster than light speeds around the Earth. 2. The Earth does not reverse spin due to the inertia/velocity of his flight. 3. The Earth only reverse spins because they are showing that his faster than light speed is actually allowing him to go backwards in time itself, so of course the Earth has reverse rotation because he is literally flying backwards in time. 4. He is not making the Earth spin backwards in order to go back in time because time does not depend on the rotation of the Earth but rather the reverse spinning our point of view of traveling back in time with Superman in real time. 5. As you can see, they tried to to cutaways on Earth as we are traveling backwards in time with Superman and every scene, the entropy was literally reversing...buildings re-assembling etc.

[@MrTuxee]

That's what Roland Emmerich was actually aspiring to: Making up 50% of the films in this list.

[@00ghostcobra]

Star Wars without the sounds of space battles would absolutely suck...

[@maxyrobbin]

"Face/Off" anyone? I was 12 when I first saw that one and even then I thought the premise was stupid.

[@Renegade2786]

It's not BS science, it's science fiction.

[@lornenoland8098]

So, your problem with Superman is that he couldn’t fly that fast, not that reversing Earth’s rotation would NOT reverse time?

[@ruacho12]

The Earths reversed rotation is due to time being reversed, not the other way around.

[@stevegee8010]

He didn't reverse Earth's rotation, it was showing time going backwards. Yes, it wasn't well visualised or made clear to the audience, but there was 'backwards' footage of the disaster too.

[@lornenoland8098]

In the movie, he flew around the earth in the opposite direction of its spin. This clearly indicated that what caused the reversal of time was the reversal of the spin. Further emphasized by the fact that in order to make time go forward again once he had reversed to the point he wanted, he had to go back and fly around the earth the correct way again.

[@bagerklestyne]

Sorry but "The Core" is completely factual thanks to unobtanium.

[@TheWorldMemeDatabase]

I like to fanfic that Clooney's character was so fed up with life that he just dipped out when he saw the chance. Bullock's character was too green to realize what happened and went along with it.

[@randolphcroft4212]

And for fun, we have 'zombies' as living dead predators without bodily functions. 'Living' for years. But I've seen bodies. Dried husks. Crunchy.

[@hughallison4639]

If you believe that Superman literally made the world spin backward, then you weren't paying attention.

[@averageant7173]

TBF, the instant freezing in The Day After Tomorrow could happen but that would only happen if somehow earth was pushed further away from the sun