You can't light a fire in space. When the couch was set alight in the house, I figured that the house must be protected somehow, and since the kids can stil breath inside the house, i thought there must be some kind of oxygen field protecting the house....but then the couch floated away into space, still flaming, which is impossible as there is zero oxygen.
When I realised that they were able to walk around the room breathing properly and not floating around, I assumed that because they are playing the game in the house, the house is protected.
#1 One house does not have enough mass to keep the kids grounded, and if it did, they wouldn't walk oriented in a direction perpendicular to the floor, they would be pulled toward the center of mass. Yet they walk through the house like it's still on Earth.
#2 A field protecting the house would have to have structure, be it via matter or energy, yet the invaders launch anchors into the house and other objects pass in and out with no trouble.
#3 An astronaut is floating through space with no rations, extra O2, energy, heat, toilet, and he is fine.
#4 A boardgame invoked all of this in the first place! This obviously means that SUPERNATURAL forces are at play. Known laws of astrophysics do not apply.
Just as EVERY movie listed on IMDB has a "this is the worst movie ever" thread; I think we should start a "get over it - it's just a movie" thread for EVERY FILM EVER!!!
Well how much of this actually made sense anyways? Is it possible for you to be shot up into space by a board game? Is it possible for you to be attacked by lizzard creatures? Is it possible for your sister to get fozen in cryonic sleep? Its just a movie, and its not worth thinking about. Just enjoy the creativity in it. I thought it was a really cute movie, and was very entertained. And I really hope the burning couch didn't ruin it for you. :P
also wouldn't Danny have died when he was ejected for cheating, surely his head would have exploded from the vacuum of space. It never happened cause it's not really space, they are inside the board game and haven't left earth
I remember once, I was looking at the goof section for The Mummy, and it said Factual Error: There's no such things as flesh-eating scarab beetles, and then I realised that there wasn't a Factual Error goof stating that there's no such thing as UNDEAD MUMMIES, and I had to sleep with a baseball bat within easy reach for the next two years.
True story.
Letters- easier to open than pistachios. And what's inside is more delicous.
Well they are telling the truth when they say "it is just a movie" Walter even commented on something. When Danny wants to make mac and cheese, he says "we are in space there is no running water" Danny opens the tap there is water. "Then he says there is no gas to light the stove. Danny lights the stove"
I guess, but I don't know if this was mentioned, but could it be that once you play the game Zathura the logic is completely different than what it is like in chemistry and physics? The game has it's own logic, and in it's logic fire can burn without oxygen, just as they can easily get running clean water to make Mac and cheese. The game has it's own demention with different rules and logic than reality. Fun Fun Fun
Yeah, it's a magical board game that creates it's own universe and has it's own laws of physics. I figure there was some sort of air out in "outer space" in this little Zathura world. Maybe they were in a cloud or something.
And by the way, @voyagerandsouthpark, you would not explode if exposed to a sudden vacuum. You might suffer lung damage, but you'd mostly just suffocate.
This really is the tip of the iceberg. If I tried to write a list of everything that was scientifically wrong in this film, I wouldn't be able to post it because my internet would be disconnected because I hadn't paid the bill in 3 months.
The ONLY way anything in this film makes ANY sense is if you accept that the whole thing was in their imagination. There's a thread about it elsewhere, but I'm too lazy to find/post the link.
PS: This is what part of the alphabet would look like if the letters Q and R were eliminated.