Tech and Movies

Anyone else tired of bad science in movies? The Martian was the first straw, Just rewatched Oblivion. Why doesn’t Hollywood pay some Undergrad 20k to just vet the technology? Anime, set in the future I get. Content set in the future I get. Suspesnsion of disbelief for movies and whatever T.V. is called today I get. When it doesn’t add up in the same title who vets these things? And for those of you who don’t know this term in historical usage or political usage today…here is some grammar verb (vets, vetting, vetted)

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1Make a careful and critical examination of (something):
proposals for vetting large takeover bids
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Hate to break it to you, but some folks go see movies because they are entertaining and don't really give two thoughts about how the science behind things they see adds up or doesnt. I used to be annoyed at stuff like this, but I've learned to just tune it out, take the crappy hollywood movie for what it is, and forget about it.

Edit: . . . unless its something important like Star Wars and how the new movie was terrible :D

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A guy I work with calls it Suspension of Disbelief. Sure, to a point. When a rudimentary knowledge of Newtonion physics and programing says UH. Is it a good flick?

Here is a more detailed definition on Willing Suspension of Disbelief if you need it.

Since most movies are fictional, you will have to take that to account. That being said, there are limits and some movies break those limits for some people, which ruins the movie for them. Take the movie, Furious 7 for example. I like a dumb, fun action movie every now and then but that movie was so stupid that my mind is still buffering on the stupidity of that movie. It is as if the director of that movie flunked high school physics...twice.

Yha the GPS guided parachutes, and the documentarty I saw about they are all just show models, for all fast and ruinos movies spoiled it for me. I never even finished it. I have watched all of the series, including Tokyo Drift, and 7 just was horrible.

It is not even just the GPS parachute car scene. You also have crap like driving a sports car out a billionaire's penhouse to another skyscraper, characters doing stupid stunts that should have killed them but don't, surviving falls that would kill a person with no injuries, etc. There is just so much BS that it would take me 10,000 words to describe the atrocity of Furious 7. The thing I don't understand it that it considered the most critically acclaimed entry in the series by critics.

I liked the movies when there were mainly about car culture and illegal street racing with some shady dealings with the wrong people. Now it is basically global mission impossible with stunts that shatter all laws of physics, with some fast cars.

Yeah, quality control in movies need some help in many cases. But there are some films/shows that intentionally do this. I would give a real good example right now but I don't want to get in trouble for something someone might do with the info. Sorry for the tease but I figured I would mention this.