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**Manteiv** · 08-26-2007, 11:45 PM

Originally posted by Asmodean

I have always wondered why people trash The Core for it's outrageous physics - but the same people just accept Star Wars to be a good series with acceptable movie physics

Asmodean It's in large part because the very premise of the movie is not extremely dumb. The idea of a big space battle is not that bad - it's not "bad physics", you can take some artistic license when "rendering" the big space battle - the latter bad physics being part of artistic license.

But the idea of 20th century humans STOPPING or STARTING the core, is completely absurd! I mean humans can barely move mountains (literally, and the big ones, not figuratively and molehills), let alone move something which is literally 10 billion times bigger (not that laypeople necessarily know that, but they would know it's bloody darn heavy). When you use very bad physics for the very premise of the movie, then the movie deserves some kind of special recognition for bad physics.

It also helps to open a movie with "In a galaxy far far away...". Then you're allowed to have moon sized spaceships flying around.

08-26-2007, 11:45 PM	#17
Manteiv Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 371 Senior Member	Originally posted by Asmodean I have always wondered why people trash The Core for it's outrageous physics - but the same people just accept Star Wars to be a good series with acceptable movie physics Asmodean It's in large part because the very premise of the movie is not extremely dumb. The idea of a big space battle is not that bad - it's not "bad physics", you can take some artistic license when "rendering" the big space battle - the latter bad physics being part of artistic license. But the idea of 20th century humans STOPPING or STARTING the core, is completely absurd! I mean humans can barely move mountains (literally, and the big ones, not figuratively and molehills), let alone move something which is literally 10 billion times bigger (not that laypeople necessarily know that, but they would know it's bloody darn heavy). When you use very bad physics for the very premise of the movie, then the movie deserves some kind of special recognition for bad physics. It also helps to open a movie with "In a galaxy far far away...". Then you're allowed to have moon sized spaceships flying around.
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