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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 30 2022, @08:11PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday March 30 2022, @08:11PM (#1233584)
Passengers was nice, except for a fairly simple bit of physics that was completely wrong. At some point "the power runs out" and the rotating habitat STOPS ROTATING. Which is idiotic, because you don't need power to maintain rotation after you start it --- at least, if the ship was designed by rocket scientists. it was annoying because it's such a fundamental part of the concept, and yet it's broken. Otherwise I agree that the three you mentioned were proper sci-fi movies.
I recently rewatched "the day after tomorrow", for what it's worth, and I was pleasantly surprised. I distinctly remember dismissing it as a "let's make a special effects movie" money-grab when I first saw it in the cinema. In the meantime I saw tsunami videos and pictures from Japan in 2011, and I learned a bit more about weather physics, and the ridiculous effects are no longer that ridiculous.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 30 2022, @08:11PM
Passengers was nice, except for a fairly simple bit of physics that was completely wrong. At some point "the power runs out" and the rotating habitat STOPS ROTATING.
Which is idiotic, because you don't need power to maintain rotation after you start it --- at least, if the ship was designed by rocket scientists. it was annoying because it's such a fundamental part of the concept, and yet it's broken.
Otherwise I agree that the three you mentioned were proper sci-fi movies.
I recently rewatched "the day after tomorrow", for what it's worth, and I was pleasantly surprised.
I distinctly remember dismissing it as a "let's make a special effects movie" money-grab when I first saw it in the cinema. In the meantime I saw tsunami videos and pictures from Japan in 2011, and I learned a bit more about weather physics, and the ridiculous effects are no longer that ridiculous.