Plus, how do you know Godzilla didn’t have urine for blood?
A college professor once told his class that hematuria was the term used for when you have urine in your blood.
We all sort of just sat there looking at each other thinking, “Did he really just say that?”
ST : TNG’s Captain Picard in Descent, when he sends nearly the entire crew down to search the planet and gets everyone captured by Lore and his rogue Borg minions. A winceworthy moment.
Anything involving Doogie Howser, M.D. One week, he aces all his exams because he’s so brilliant. Next week, he saves someone’s life in the ER because he’s so brilliant. The next week, some chick wants him to inseminate her so she can have a supergenius baby. He’s a fucking 14-year-old boy! Doesn’t he ever ride his bike? Doesn’t he ever play baseball? Doesn’t he ever get shot down by the cute girl in math class and try not to cry, because boys don’t cry? He’s not an adult, asshole scriptwriters!
I believe it was in Tremors 2 that they brought in a biologist who declared the Graboids “the oldest species on earth.” The oldest species on earth was a gigantic predator? What did it eat?
This TV show Bones is amusing, but Temperence Brennan’s dialogue often makes me cringe. The writers seem to think that being an intelligent, rationally-minded person means that you speak like a robot from a 1950’s b-movie. They have no idea what smart people actually sound like.
No – the stupidest thing was that they lost a gigantic reptile in Manhattan, and the only way they could find it was to leave out a big pile of fish.
Not as bad as Chaos Mathematician Jeff Goldblum
“Dude, you’re asking a mathematician to run your wildlife park?? I’m outta here!”
Oh God, yes. I never got over that. You’re in enemy space, so obviously you send all your senior officers down to JOIN IN A SEARCH PARTY and leave the ship’s doctor and some junior staff running your starship.
That works if you understand it as ‘the oldest species currently still around’, rather than the first species.
The oldest man in the world had parents, after all.
Oh come on, that was just a driving fuckup. Happens to brilliant people all the time. Not me, but other ones, I’m sure.
-Joe
Criticizing The Core is missing the point. The film knew its science was nonsense, and made no bones about it. Complaining about that is like complaining that there was a shipwreck in Titanic.
In the same vein of “let’s take a pretty girl and put glasses on her so everyone knows she must be a super-smart scientist type”, I nominate Jessica Alba as Dr. Susan Storm in Fantastic Four.
A cleavage-baring cardigan and a pair of specs do not a scientific genius make. If they did, I’d have had much better marks in school.
That bothered me a little bit at first, but after I gave it some thought I figured it as another example of comic-book science. In the comics, supergeniuses like Reed Richards, Doom, etc. are all geniuses in every field of science. Whatever they need to save the world this time, they can create.
Kinda the same thing with The Core. I really enjoy watching it, but the science is bad all the way through for sure. One thing I am bothered by, though, is the quick bit about how the “bridge” can rotate to stay level at any descent up to 45°. They’re going from the surface to the core, it’s all straight down! They need an elevator to move through the ship, not a catwalk. That’s not bad science, it’s bad geometry!
They left the mall because they ran out of human food. There’s very little meat in gym mats.
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Given that the scientist lived in a world currently being taken over by insects, it’s reasonable to stipulate that there had been previous instances of insects growing to giant size, or gaining human intelligence, or whatnot, just not on the scale that was seen in the movie in question. After even ONE such incident, I’d think there’d be a lot of talk in entomological circles about what would happen if insects went all Evil Overlord.
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I wouldn’t say he was unintelligently written; it was, however, written comic book-style. I can even fanwank that into character. Dr. Octavius had one and only one goal in his work. Everything he did was to achieve his goal, and as long as he wasn’t achieving his goal, he didn’t see the importance of anything else he was doing. This flaw was amplified when the arms took over. So, sure, the arms were breathtakingly advanced, but they were just a tool for him to solve the real issue, and weren’t important.
What I want to know is why anybody would build their cyberarms with a good/evil switch on them to begin with?
Or make the switch easily broken and then not protect it. OSHA must’ve missed it. Again, in fanwank mode, the arms were cobbled together as an ingenious tool to help with the final goal, so OO didn’t really care. Sure, it had a good / evil switch, and maybe OO should have worked that through, but that would have slowed progress on his real goal.
Proving Robot Arm’s First Law of Superhero Movies; when casting the lead role, don’t worry about the hero scenes but get someone who can play the secret identity.
He probably thought, “I’ll just switch it off it something goes wrong” not realizing that the evil arms could just keep slapping his hand everytime he reached for the switch. Think, McFly!