they always find ridiculous ways of violating laws of causality.I hate when a sci-fi movie or series combines a different types of time travel/time continuum theories.
For example,:
1.they take the one crudely based on the theory of relativity - that every change or time travel was supposed to happen and it's actual the thing that caused the original event in the first place.
2.Then they take the theory where you can actually change the future or past with two variations of creating or not creating a time paradox
I don't have anything against these theories (although I prefer the first one), but even my beloved Star Trek Next Generation etc...Enterprise, DS9, Voyager or Star Gate lacked the consistency in whichever theory they chose (look at the end of 8th theory of SG1 for example). It shows how desperately was the whole time travel/change dependable on the actual story and often used to cover the plot holes.
Plus, I love Back to the Future trilogy, but the part where Marty's older siblings are slowly vanishing from his photo or the vanishment of doctor's tombstone from a photo as he/they change the past, is pretty much one of the dumbest things in sci-fi. Something similar happened in a Star Gate movie Continuum, where things and people were disappearing in a REAL TIME as the past was changing (past changing in a real time affecting the present? the scriptwriter should get a Nobel Prize or something).
Recently, I read a book by A.C.Clarke (yeah, The Space Odyssey guy) Rendezvous with Rama and it was written in a perfectionist style with the use actual physics even as changes in the plot. I recommend the book to all who find modern sci-fi lacking logic even in the already known things. And I also recommend it to those who think that you have to turn a blind eye, when something clearly stupid and illogical happens in a sci-fi.
This is my gripe with Sci-Fi movies. Just look at the thread arguing about gravity in The Avengers and how Iron Man wasn't supposed to fall back to earth through the worm hole. It's a freaking fantasy movie. You don't question the demi-god, aliens, or the guy turning into a monster when he gets mad, you question the gravity.
Scientists & military being unbelievably unreasoned, dare I say stupid, and unprofessional in their analysis and reactions to a phenomenon.
As has already been pointed out multiple times, movies are written by people with theater tech degrees. AKA folks who will never do anything real in their life.
Yeah, everyone acts like a retard, instead of like the trained professional he's supposed to be.
Perfect example is Prometheus, with those absolutely awful scientists.
This is the worse part. I can't stand movies that portray the characters completely contradictory to what a person would actually do just for the sake of moving the plot.
Prometheus was a damn horrid movie.
Thats also cuz they're written by people who majored in useless things and havent done much more than write.
I would argue that they haven't even written either.
But even if all they do is write, how the fuck do you go from one scene with scientists afraid of a "blip" on a life signs detector and running away to wanting to face-fuck an alien cobra?? How can the writers and directors and other Hollywood retards just not see the inconsistency there? It boggles my mind.
What grips me is that science fiction in movies/TV is dumbed down to a action flick in space. Good science fiction should be about more then action sequences. It asks hard questions and challenges us to think. Hollywood almost always cuts the hard questions in favor of an extra explosion or two. Never can the protagonist lose, or be on the wrong side.
Recently, I read a book by A.C.Clarke (yeah, The Space Odyssey guy) Rendezvous with Rama and it was written in a perfectionist style with the use actual physics even as changes in the plot. I recommend the book to all who find modern sci-fi lacking logic even in the already known things. And I also recommend it to those who think that you have to turn a blind eye, when something clearly stupid and illogical happens in a sci-fi.
- Every button, knob, or slider on anything anywhere needs to make a sound when used.
Yeah, everyone acts like a retard, instead of like the trained professional he's supposed to be.
Perfect example is Prometheus, with those absolutely awful scientists.
This is the worse part. I can't stand movies that portray the characters completely contradictory to what a person would actually do just for the sake of moving the plot.
Prometheus was a damn horrid movie.
True, and I usually immediately look for a way to disable turn-on/turn-off sounds.Hey, now, that's plausible. Lots of manufacturers put shutdown sounds on their cellphones, which is a pretty stupid idea.
And of course, there are the focus groups.It is because movie scripts are written by committee more often then not. They know that the plot does not matter any at all, it is just something to help organize the film. What really matters is that you have a big action sequence every few minutes, and get at least a few big explosions that can be put in the trailer. Because in the end putting together a good trailer is all that matters.