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SciFi movies and pathetic misconceptions of tech failing for the story line.
tggzzz:
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--- Quote from: David Hess on April 16, 2023, 01:13:09 am ---Star Wars is not science fiction. It is space opera.
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Agreed. And it's not even particularly modern in its structure.
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That's by design. George Lucas was inspired by the 30s Flash Gordon serials, and deliberately and explicitly set out to update the .
.RC.:
At least parts of star wars was accurate. The storm troopers running around unable to hit anything, was pretty accurate of how if you run and gun you hit only air. Or in my vase when I went to a shooting range and fired a revolver while stationary, I hit nothing as well.
coppercone2:
I thought poorly trained imperial cannon fodder are becoming more and more realistic by the day (if you follow international news). I believe they are officially referred to as 'zombies' now.
coppice:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on April 16, 2023, 07:30:07 am ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 16, 2023, 05:20:07 am ---
--- Quote from: David Hess on April 16, 2023, 01:13:09 am ---Star Wars is not science fiction. It is space opera.
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Agreed. And it's not even particularly modern in its structure.
--- End quote ---
That's by design. George Lucas was inspired by the 30s Flash Gordon serials, and deliberately and explicitly set out to update the .
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In the 70s I went to a cinema, and among the trailers they showed the one for Star Wars. It was presented as science fiction, and looked pathetic. A few years later. when I finally saw it on TV. I thought it was pretty good, because it was fantasy hokum, with no pretensions to being science fiction at all. I've been put off a few movies that turned our ro be very watchable, because the marketing was so very bad I thought they were entirely different movies.
Infraviolet:
Another one in Star Wars which is very wrong is the orbital mechanics during the crashing of the ship about 20 minutes in to Revenge of the Sith (III, in chronological order). The Jedi seem determined to burn thrusters the wrong way and make their situation worse, not that there's any reason a starship should begin to fall from orbit just because part of it gets blown up anyway.
The one time Star Wars got the science pretty right, where that first order wide angled star destroyer ( ep VIII chronologically) gets obliterated by the kinetic impact of another ship, apparently really p*ssed off many fans on account of it making all the fancier combat of the series seem pointless. But also, it means in the final film of the series that whole thing about a planet full of sith warships could have been dealt with in one nice Pellegrino/Zebrowski move(their novel "The Killing Star" is all about that tactic).
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