examples of bad physics in movies?

Question

In movies, such as Mission: Impossible, are there scenes where physics are defied?

During the scene in Mission Impossible where Ethan Hunt goes down from the rope, is it possible to have that same balance for that amount of time?

Answer 1

Movies are infamous for defying the laws of physics, and chemistry, and astronomy, and ......

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Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics: http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/
Bad Physics in Newspapers, Magazines, and Literature: http://www.jal.cc.il.us/~mikolajsawicki/bad_physics.htm
Bad Astronomy's Movie Page: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/movies/

Answer 2

Alright, this seriously irritates me, so I'm glad you asked.
In the matrix they use people as batteries. But there's no input of energy from outside of the system. It violates the second law of thermodynamics. Humans are only something like 40 % efficient so you would run out of energy using them really fast. Because you have to feed them and the lack of efficiency would be give diminishing returns, fast. If the earth doesn't have a sun to give energy to it it can't run. With or without stupid human batteries.
I refused to watch the second two movies because that bugged me so much.
Thermodynamics people. It's not that hard.

Answer 3

Any SF movie in which the spaceships make noise in a vacuum.
In Charlie's Angels, the flips seem to cover far too much ground. Either those girls are hybridized with grasshoppers, or they're on wires--though you'd have to measure their trajectories to be sure. Also their guns seem to be magically recoilless and the ammo never seems to run outunless it's dramatically effective.

Answer 4

In star wars the guy hears the explosion at the same time it blows up. He is so far away there should be a time delay between hearing and seeing. Second, sound doesn't travel through space.

Answer 5

Any time anybody's shot with anything less than an RPG and they actually get sent flying back.

If that really happened then the shooter would be sent flying back also, from the recoil from his gun.