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Don't they have experts proofread a script?

posted 14 years ago by DeepFriedJello
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I mean really! If you hit a baseball halfway to the Moon, the Moon's gravity will pull it the rest of the way? That lady lost all credibility right there.

And why do so many of you say, "It's just a movie"?
Star Trek is one thing, because you have aliens with rubber heads who all speak English.
But when you have seemingly realistic situations, and attempt to explain scientific principles, you really need to have an astrophysicist or such read the script.

Plus, 3 hours on TV, with no action till the last hour? Really!?

The only good part was the kid blowing chunks in the biplane.

3/10

[–] chris3-4 14 years ago

she was talking to kids! was she supposed to explain earth lunar transit, trajectory, euclidean geometry, physics, and calculus? the action was paced just right for a *ripe stuff* movie. lol

[–] chaosduck 14 years ago

Well that's the problem with kids today. We pamper them so much that 9 year olds are no longer taught Euclidean geometry just in case we hurt the feelings of those who don't get it. In my day Brother Peter thrashed us with a metre long blackboard ruler until we understood it! If we weren't completely versed in Newton's principia and have a solid grasp of general relativity by 10 we were sent down t'pit for a short life o' minin' and a long death o' black lung!
Tell the young people of that today and they won't believe you!

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My hypocrisy knows no bounds.

[–] peter-mcgill-1 13 years ago

Euclidean geometry? Luxury!! My school teacher used to beat us with a protractor if we didn't finish our quadratic equations before bed....

[–] KrammitTheFrog 13 years ago

My school teacher used to rape us, just because he felt like it...

[–] bhilburn 13 years ago

Geez, tough schools....

[–] Etherdave 11 years ago

If there is a flaw to this film's script, it is the constant barrage of references documenting the american history of spaceflight. This obviously required copious research, which probably involved hundreds of experts. The 'baseball' thing came from early NASA publicity films, which were necessarily geared to the intellects of people not trained in Euclidean Geometry, nor experienced with the subtle kiss of the Protractor on their softer anatomies.