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| BrianHG:
SciFi movies and pathetic misconceptions of tech failing for the story line. I just dont know what to say, just that it's getting bad. The last 2 scifi's I watched has what they called 'EMP' blasts to knock out everything electric. Hun, even old non-electronic diesel engines. Where somehow the fire of the fuel is killed, yet when a vehicle crashes filled with fuel, there fuel explodes. Even basic non-led flash-light cant work? Can anyone point me to any good SciFi series which don't make such stupid mistakes? I just want to sit and watch something where I don't get pissed through the roof for the most basic simple stupid grievances for story line. Even future SciFis like Star Trek or The Expanse have at many times more acceptable premise than some of the crappy stupidity I have seen recently. |
| AVGresponding:
The Expanse wasn't bad (I've only watched the first 3 seasons, so no spoilers please xD), though the slingshot manouver the Rocinante did with Jupiter's moons annoyed me because it would have taken weeks to perform for real, not 20 minutes or whatever it was. Have you watched Farscape? A lot of people get put off (as was I, initially) by the Henson connection, but once you get going it's really good, and the animatronics were first rate, and often look better than even the best modern CGI. I'm currently watching Andromeda; this is only for real sci-fi-aholics, as it's pretty poor, by and large, definitely B grade. If you can handle classic low budget sci-fi from the last century, try Blake's 7, or Logan's Run (the series). |
| TimFox:
There are some 1950s movies that are not bad on future predictions. A good example: "Destination Moon", based on a Heinlein novel, including his belief that the private sector should handle space exploration. Reasonable technical stuff, including using an oxygen tank for emergency propulsion of an astronaut in his spacesuit. The expedition has to blast off in defiance of a court order. In a bad example, whose name I cannot remember, I remember a spaceship travelling to Mars where the astronauts smoke in the main lounge. |
| CatalinaWOW:
Why would you expect accuracy in the movie industry when so much of the general public and particularly the media generators are just completely ignorant of science. In the last week in US news media I have heard the following two statements, delivered without a hint of confusion. 1. The sandwich has been a daytime staple for Americans for centuries. (America, (the intended shorthand for the USA with apologies to other Americans) can barely claim centuries, and the sandwich is of comparable age, invented in England and hardly widespread at the beginning). 2. xxx crime has been a problem in our county for 80 decades. Similar gaffes are so common they pass without notice and people who are equally ignorant even cite them as justification for whatever weird thought has recently come to mind. |
| BrianHG:
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on March 17, 2023, 02:52:20 pm ---The Expanse wasn't bad (I've only watched the first 3 seasons, so no spoilers please xD), though the slingshot manouver the Rocinante did with Jupiter's moons annoyed me because it would have taken weeks to perform for real, not 20 minutes or whatever it was. Have you watched Farscape? A lot of people get put off (as was I, initially) by the Henson connection, but once you get going it's really good, and the animatronics were first rate, and often look better than even the best modern CGI. I'm currently watching Andromeda; this is only for real sci-fi-aholics, as it's pretty poor, by and large, definitely B grade. If you can handle classic low budget sci-fi from the last century, try Blake's 7, or Logan's Run (the series). --- End quote --- Yes, I enjoyed Farscape, and yes you need to sit patiently through season 1 for that show, but it is worth it just to see everything else. (Many good SciFis seem to have a 'not sure yet exactly how to do this show' season 1.) Last year, I re-watched it, but finally the HD version of it. The Expanse was also good. I never watched Andromeda, maybe I need to do a 1-2 day non stop on that one. I saw all of Logan's Run when I was a kid. I'll also have to take a look at Blake's 7. I know the difficulty in trying to get a proper HD version of Babylon 5 as all the CGI scenes were done in NTSC, but it would be nice. (And not the BS Youtube HD upsampled ones as they are worse than the European PAL 16:9 DVD version where all the non CGI scenes we really high quality modern film transfers (twice as good as the so called Youtube 1080p AI upscales which are blurry) while the CGI was poorly but de-interlaced and sometimes zoomed in instead of left in 4:3 as they should have been. |
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