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Wasn't sure if this should be in science or lights camera.
My name for mixing science with hollywood

http://www.wsj.com/articles/scientists- ... 1452473839

I loved the bit about Superman and getting his home planet right and that affected the costumes and really?
The guy is bullet proof, defies physics, he can travel faster than light (the list goes on) but you want to get the science of his home planet right so you know what sort of costume he would wear in reality. W.T.F. Come on people. Head out of ass please. Sheesh.

You don't need to get the science right in scifi unless it's so basic a high schooler will find flaws in it, or you are going for a science movie. Then it's not really science fiction...
What you need is internal consistency. That's where most movies/TV shows fail miserably at.

Speaking of which, we were watching a vampire series the other day. The 160 year old vampire that looks 17 but remembers everything and is super smart, is acting 17 and dating/shagging a 17 year old. I call that pedophilia. Do vampires not age mentally or physically or is this about really old guys shagging hot young chicks?

IMHO the best Sci-Fi Stories focused very little on whether the "science" was possible or how it worked and a lot on how it affected the story.

Yep.
Forbidden planet. The day the Earth stood still (the original). Classics. We didn't need to know how they got from A to B or even a long drawn out travel scene.

I think the big problem is that lately movies want to show us visually the science because the writer/director/actor gets street cred.
Gravity for example. The problem is when they do that, they also open themselves up to scrutiny. Then they screw up on the consistency and the audience is no longer in the field of imagination but rather looking for what else they messed up on.

vendic wrote:Wasn't sure if this should be in science or lights camera.
My name for mixing science with hollywood



Speaking of which, we were watching a vampire series the other day. The 160 year old vampire that looks 17 but remembers everything and is super smart, is acting 17 and dating/shagging a 17 year old. I call that pedophilia. Do vampires not age mentally or physically or is this about really old guys shagging hot young chicks?

I think there is a combination of things occurring. A: The Peter Pan effect. No one really wants to grow up. The author/script writer knows he needs to pander to the inner 17 year old. B: An assumption that the lack of aging physically includes arrested development. I.e. our immortal hero lives through decades or eons of really awesome and difficult sheznai yet never really evolves emotionally or socially. WTF? Even so-called normal people evolve emotionally and socially (or devolve) so why wouldn't an immortal one? and C: no one really wants to shag or see really old people shagging. We all really want to believe we look and perform at a 17 year old level. so Hollywood gives us what we want.

My sister has worked with the organization that does this, and I happen to know Clifford the scientist mentioned well.

It's basically really nice work if you can get it, as the fees are great.

Rommie wrote:My sister has worked with the organization that does this, and I happen to know Clifford the scientist mentioned well.

It's basically really nice work if you can get it, as the fees are great.

According to that article they do it for free. Maybe I conflated two things I was reading. Doing a lot of multitasking lately.