Indeed, yes.Sy Borg wrote: ↑August 18th, 2022, 8:49 pmYes, I like movies where, if a person falls from a great height, they die, or if they fall from a moderate height, they would be hurt, as in early Star Trek. The worst offender was the Wachowski's Jupiter Ascending, which should have been called Jupiter Descending because the titular charcter spent half the movie falling from insane heights. Worse, if you are falling in an artificial city inside Jupiter, then you are moving at about 400m/s, which is about 1,400kph. So, when she throws out a hand to grasp a metal railing at that speed, just imagine what would happen to your arm if a metal bar flying through the air hit it at greater than the speed of sound.
Another gripe. When characters see something terrifying, most won't respond like machines and fearlessly leap into action, but freeze in shock (there was a great example of this in Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, regardless of its silliness at times).
I enjoyed Todd Phillips's Joker, with Joaquin Phoenix in scintillating form. I suppose it wasn't really a superhero movie, just loosely set in the Marvel Universe. Then again, I enjoyed Infinity Wars, where every single character was overpowered.
There's not much respect for physics and biology in modern movies, which perhaps reflects the US's growing tendency to embrace superstition, with an associated desire to escape physical reality.
I loved Phoenix's Joker. It asked what would life really be like for a person who dressed up as a clown. It matched gritty reality with a fantastic idea. As a result it was a film that had something to say about how we live our lives. By comparison superhero films are just fluff.
I'm a life long sci-fi fan. And though I love Star Trek I always wished that they would at least acknowledge the hostility of space and the realities of gravity once in a while.
How many times have you seen a character trapped under a bulkhead on a spaceship? They end up having to call Data to lift the weight. Why not just switch off the bloody artificial gravity generator? Because it is obvious that they must have it, else they would all be in free fall when in orbit. I also hat the way they beam down in their dress uniforms paying no heed to local atmospheric and meteorological conditions. I realis that is was done for budgetary reasons back in the day - but surely someone might have "got real" for NextGen?
All this stuff would make it all more interesting. But as a result all planets visited just seem so bland and anodyne; which is a shame since ST has the best stories.