# Movies that thumb their nose at science **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-thumb-their-nose-at-science/384430 "2006-12-16T21:28:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-thumb-their-nose-at-science/384430/101 "2006-12-19T22:27:45Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Try [this](http://galactanet.com/comic/369.htm) one. [/QUOTE] I like. But damn you! Now I’m going to have to back and read all the previous strips! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-thumb-their-nose-at-science/384430/102 "2006-12-19T22:42:11Z")
[QUOTE=DrDeth] Even with good plate armor, a few thousand longbowmen’s arrows would find a chink and you’d be down. [/QUOTE] Come now, I think the English were using firearms by the time of the Opium Wars. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-thumb-their-nose-at-science/384430/103 "2006-12-19T23:59:35Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] Highlander 2(I think)where Sean Connery,killed in the original,reappears because the heroes wished for it, and the fact that not one of the immortals in the original were able to remember that they’d all travelled to Earth from an alien planet. Not the sort of thing that would normally slip from your memory. [/QUOTE] Your nitpicks are explained in fundamental features of the backstory. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-thumb-their-nose-at-science/384430.md?page=5)