GoldenJCJ

I’ve come to appreciate those red digital countdown clocks on bombs. It creates a strong sense of tension that a real looking bomb without a digital readout could provide. If it was like real life, it would just explode with no warning.

IBJoel

It simply takes a real physical law ("objects cannot occupy the same space") and repurposes it in the context of the Grandfather Paradox. It's a neat little twist and I do like Timecop, but most likely it would not work that way.

The time travel thing I've always wondered why no movie delves into it is multiverse theory. Basically that you cannot change your original timeline, you'd simply create a branched timeline. To my knowledge, I've only seen this explicitly demonstrated with Future Trunks/the Androids in Dragon Ball Z

devilshalo

IBJoel

BTTF still falls victim to this because of the idea that one could "restore" the timeline. And then also there should be another Marty running around in 1985. Original Marty's consciousness should not have "gone into" Successful 1985 body. And if it did, then it should have ALSO done that to 2015 Marty's body.

I do give all the movies a pass though, because they're great and you really aren't supposed to think about the physics too much

GoldenJCJ

Since Marty set the Time Machine back 10 minutes before returning to 1985, aren’t there an infinite number of Martys in 1985? A new Marty arrives every 10 minutes until the end of time.

Josh-da-man

The Terminator franchise sort of does this, though not explicitly stated, where it seems like they are constantly changing the timeline with every movie.

tanman

They sent us an email at work about a new machine the lab has to quickly ID bacterial species from cultures. Anyways I thought the added sound effects were pretty funny. It's not just space that needs some cool sound fx.

andicus

The effects are funny. What is annoying is the voiceover pronunciation of 'linear' as 'leanier.'

That being said, it looks like a pretty cool device.

tanman

Yeah instead of waiting days to grow a bug in a petri dish and confirm species that way this can ID the species in a sample within minutes. This lets us deescalate antibiotics a lot faster preventing a lot of antibiotic resistance down the road.

andicus

My wife occasionally works in micro. I'll have to ask her if they're looking into anything like that. Seems like a big tech advancement.

L. Ron zyzzle

Romantic relationships.

mndtrp

Pursuers catching their prey, especially in horror movies.

devilshalo

Or nerds getting the homecoming queen. Same smell.

tanman

Like a lot of things the base technology, mass spectroscopy is old. But to see it practically applied and used on dozens of samples a day to make clinical judgments in this kind of setting is pretty cool. I have no idea how much the machine costs. The lab does get to play with a lot of cool toys.

tanman

Relationships in general. It's so easy and appealing in the movies/TV shows. Friends always hang out. Never need to coordinate schedules. They're never working. Unlike in real life where you just keep texting stupid memes to each other and always saying we should meet up and maybe see them once or twice a year.

johnnysd

Maybe stretching a bit but I think I have enjoyed a LOT every single movie that uses the repeating day thing.

Sub-Zero

Thanks for all of the replies.

Nick Danger

Gun silencers that go thwip
Revolvers in spaghetti westerns accurate to fifty yards
Someone breaking into a castle or a military installation (or a Death Star) because the villains left a giant hole in their defenses.

milo bloom

Rogue One fixed the Death Star one.

OldBoy

Dystopian future societies...especially when the date of the future has either come and gone or set a few years from the real present. i see the same ole shit around. no Blade Runner-esque societies.