If you are going to write a song or make a film involving simple science, at least get the fucking facts right. You might argue this is a somewhat pedantic cunting, but it`s just plain irritating.
Here are 3 embarrassing examples …
Film: The Wizard of Oz
[After the Wizard gives the Scarecrow his diploma, he says,] “The sum of the square roots of any 2 sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.”
■ I would suggest the diploma awarding body needs investigating and the qualification withdrawn.
(The actual formula relates to a right angled triangle. Furthermore, the formula, as stated by our old mate Pythagoras, says the sum of the squares of the lengths of the two shorter sides equals the square of the hypotenuse (the longest side). Not the square roots and not an isosceles triangle. You’re welcome – NA)
Film: The Shawshank Redemption
… Andy is crawling through the sewage pipe, Red, in his narration says that he crawled through 500 yards to the end of the pipe … “just shy of a half mile”.
■ Yep, about 380 yards just shy.
Song: 9 Million Bicycles …
“We are 12 billion light years from the edge”; although to be fair, Katie Melua did issue an amendment …
Bonus: Anything that gushes out of Diane Abbotts mouth connected with numbers. Or anything else, for that matter.
Over to you cunters …
Nominated by : Sam Beau
I cut film some slack for inaccuracies, after all they’re just trying to entertain and make money doing it. Films aren’t documentaries and even documentaries are full of shite sometimes.
I’m more worried about the actual science. The type followed in the recent years by our rubbish politicians (sorry had to say it) and the type of science-ola that is funded research. Take for example the recent announcement of research into ‘are dairy products racist?’ Well of course of not, you big wastes of space. How many times have you seen daft reports in the Daily Mail about scientists researching x,y,z and you can tell them the answer in one sentence and save all that bother.
I’ll get my coat.
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That woman who got turned into a robot by the super computer in Superman III used to scare the shit out of me as a kid.
Now as an adult I think. Well that’s a load of bollocks.
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Weird Science, with Kelly LeBrock.
Outrageous horn monster…🔥😍😜
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All of the film Battle of The Bulge with Henry Fonda and Martin Shaw.
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Ain’t no way Robocop sits (fits!) in and out of the drivers seat of that unmodified Ford Taurus cop car, much less drives it around.
I *did* like, though, that whenever he supposedly drove one up the ramp from the parking bay, the undercarriage always hit the concrete and caused sparks but other cop cars/drivers didn’t. I always took that to have been included to visually denote how heavy his whole armoured setup was.
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The Vulcans in Star Trek are very inaccurate – they have no idea that “two in the pink, two in the stink” isn’t actually a fucking greeting.
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