From: Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Yea, so the question is, is the story crap, or have they accounted for all of
this and will reveal it in the next movie? Like:
I'm hoping for the latter, but I fear the former. A lot of tv/movie sci-fi producers
seem to think that the audience is dumb and won't care about logical consistency.
"Hey, it's all make-believe anyway - who cares about the details!"
I think that every sci-fi movie should be required to have at least one geek/nerd
consultant that would review the script and make them fix all the dumb things
they do/say in the movie.
For example, he/she would tell them:
- computer monitors don't project readable text onto people's faces
- Jeff Goldblum could not in a day write a computer virus on his Mac that he
could upload to an alien computer network he knows nothing about and make
it disable the alien ship's shields.
- you cannot take a grainy surveilance camera video and "zoom in" on a tiny
10x10 pixel smudge of a face, and end up with a crystal-clear shapshot of the
person.
- a "light-year" is a unit of distance.
- etc.
-bryon
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