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if it were up to me... I'd tell the guy that writes the script to make the hero cut the GREEN wire instead...I have always wondered why you should never cut the red wire!??
Bad electronics in movies...
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djsfantasi
- Joined Apr 11, 2010
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Did his associate rub the wire against the battery, to generate the EMI?
Nope... he just put everything together with electrical tape and voilà!
djsfantasi
- Joined Apr 11, 2010
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On NetFlix or Amazon, I can't even keep up with how many movies I start to watch and quit after ~15 minutes of garbage. Someone here mentioned The Grand Hotel Budapest and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Cameo roles by some of my favorite actors some of which I didn't even recognize in the movie.
Yes, I thought "Forbidden Planet" was one of the best science fiction movies of the era (and for quite a while after).
The premise, revealed at the end, that all the strange happenings were the result of the powerful underground machine that could create matter out of energy and do whatever you thought, was really interesting (be careful what you wish for).
And who can forget Robby (especially since he showed in several other features afterwards).
schmitt trigger
- Joined Jul 12, 2010
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Video Streaming sites can become such extensive wastelands.
It reminds me of Bruce Springsteen’s “57 channels and nothing on”.
Although the song should be updated to: “17 streaming websites and nothing on.”
It reminds me of Bruce Springsteen’s “57 channels and nothing on”.
Although the song should be updated to: “17 streaming websites and nothing on.”
djsfantasi
- Joined Apr 11, 2010
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IMDB lists 32 movies/TV shows in which Robby the Robot appeared. From Forbidden Planet to The Love Boat. He (it) even had a documentary about him.
He even appeared in one of my favorite 1970's shows: Columbo
On the subject of HAL:
I was in a Taco Bell some years ago waiting to order my food. The point-of-sale terminal had a very cool 4-line vacuum fluorescent character display facing the customer that would show each item ordered and tally up the cash due. Between customers it would advertise sale items and specials. However, as I was standing there, the display in front of me flashed, "Hello, my name is HAL-9000". I busted up laughing and asked the cashier about it. They had no idea that it was displaying that. Of course it was gone by the time I told them about it, so I couldn't even show them. Somebody in marketing laid an Easter Egg...
I was in a Taco Bell some years ago waiting to order my food. The point-of-sale terminal had a very cool 4-line vacuum fluorescent character display facing the customer that would show each item ordered and tally up the cash due. Between customers it would advertise sale items and specials. However, as I was standing there, the display in front of me flashed, "Hello, my name is HAL-9000". I busted up laughing and asked the cashier about it. They had no idea that it was displaying that. Of course it was gone by the time I told them about it, so I couldn't even show them. Somebody in marketing laid an Easter Egg...
I've just re-watched yet another James Bond movie (love them) ... and in this scene, our hero shows off his unique ability of being able to stop his heart at will at a high security clinic so he can escape.
Thing is, he does so by suddenly reacting when he feels the defibrillator's electrodes on his chest. Never mind his self-inflicted lethargic state from which he can miraculously and unnaturally quickly snap out of .. but what draws my attention is that he shocked both (male obviously, he'd never hurt an innocent female nurse, of course) nurses by pressing a defibrillator electrode against each of them and thereby shock them.... Question, wouldn't that be considered an open circuit for real and practical purposes? Or is a defibrillator's voltage so high that a shock would occur even if both nurses were not physically connected?
Thing is, he does so by suddenly reacting when he feels the defibrillator's electrodes on his chest. Never mind his self-inflicted lethargic state from which he can miraculously and unnaturally quickly snap out of .. but what draws my attention is that he shocked both (male obviously, he'd never hurt an innocent female nurse, of course) nurses by pressing a defibrillator electrode against each of them and thereby shock them.... Question, wouldn't that be considered an open circuit for real and practical purposes? Or is a defibrillator's voltage so high that a shock would occur even if both nurses were not physically connected?
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rpiloverbd
- Joined Dec 21, 2021
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After all... these are just movies.....
One of the best props ever was the PADD from Star Trek TNG. So simple but influenced Steve Jobs - sat in the back of his head for 15 years before the technology was ready to make an iPad.
Simply a photographers portable light panel - a color graphic film slipped behind the glass, paint the outside and some fake plastic buttons and labels...
The show used dozens of these with various graphic films slipped behind - medical, inventory, engineering/maintenance...
really cool device - 4AA batteries, a voltage boost, a thin 5000K fluorescent tube on the left side to edge-light a borosilicate glass panel with an engineered pattern to evenly outcouple light across the whole surface. A smooth top glass (graphic films in between). Super easy from an off-the-shelf product to a super high tech looking prop.
some of the worst props of all time were also on Star Trek.
Simply a photographers portable light panel - a color graphic film slipped behind the glass, paint the outside and some fake plastic buttons and labels...
The show used dozens of these with various graphic films slipped behind - medical, inventory, engineering/maintenance...
really cool device - 4AA batteries, a voltage boost, a thin 5000K fluorescent tube on the left side to edge-light a borosilicate glass panel with an engineered pattern to evenly outcouple light across the whole surface. A smooth top glass (graphic films in between). Super easy from an off-the-shelf product to a super high tech looking prop.
some of the worst props of all time were also on Star Trek.
zainebsuggested
- Joined Nov 3, 2022
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You may not have liked this movie from a scientific point of view because it is a sci-fi disaster movie. I don't think you should compare it to a movie based on true events.
zainebsuggested
- Joined Nov 3, 2022
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Science and believability are always sacrificed for epicness in sci-fi movies. I agree that this movie has a lot of cinematic flaws. Still, despite that, the movie is highly rated on movie websites. I have seen many movies on this subject at https://www.999flix.com/movie. Nevertheless, it is a decent one, despite all its ramblings.
I went to see A Haunting In Venice at Kinema in the Woods.
In the seance scene there is a remote controlled typewriter, controlled by a handset which looks like a cheap model aircraft remote control.
I would have been a real challenge to get all the valves necessary for a multi-channel or data-encoded radio transmitter as well as B+ and heater batteries in a handset that size!
In the seance scene there is a remote controlled typewriter, controlled by a handset which looks like a cheap model aircraft remote control.
I would have been a real challenge to get all the valves necessary for a multi-channel or data-encoded radio transmitter as well as B+ and heater batteries in a handset that size!
