As a physics student quite a lot I get irked by quite a lot of sci-fi movies.

The most recent was Interstellar, really loved most of the film but some of it hurt the rational area of my brain.

I'm always slightly bothered by time travel in movies and games. They always leave in huge contradictions and it often makes the plot much worse. I say either don't use time travel or do some actual research. :/

Ok, What pissed me off the most in futuristic movies is these two things:

1. "We're approaching light speed." Moving that fast, no matter what kind of ship you're in, would kill you. You can't go at the speed of light without absolutely destroying yourself. That's not a thing.

2. Star Wars warp drives and warp speed in general. Not necessarily the warp themselves, just the way they stop instantly. That's not how momentum works at all! Everyone inside should have been horrifically and violently thrusted to the front of the ship like when you hit the brakes on a car too fast. Except at that speed, they would probably be nothing more than a soupy mess of flesh and bones.

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2. Star Wars warp drives and warp speed in general. Not necessarily the warp themselves, just the way they stop instantly. That's not how momentum works at all! Everyone inside should have been horrifically and violently thrusted to the front of the ship like when you hit the brakes on a car too fast. Except at that speed, they would probably be nothing more than a soupy mess of flesh and bones.

They don't ever stop instantly, they just just slow down quickly but, due to the effects and the sluggish-looking cruise speed it looks like the ships stop. At least in Star Wars anyway.

The Star Wars universe is a Newtonian one and not an Eisteinian one, hence they CAN travel at the speed of light and simply see pretty sparks fly past them.

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2. Star Wars warp drives and warp speed in general. Not necessarily the warp themselves, just the way they stop instantly. That's not how momentum works at all! Everyone inside should have been horrifically and violently thrusted to the front of the ship like when you hit the brakes on a car too fast. Except at that speed, they would probably be nothing more than a soupy mess of flesh and bones.

Don't they just come out of the worm whole with normal speed. They never accelerated in the first place.

This fucking thing.
There's no way you're seeing shit through this. The eye holes are way too small, and look how thick the metal is. Unless you're staying directly at something in a tiny space, you may as leave your eyes in the house before you go adventuring. Also, look at how the metal tendril things droop down to your chest. You aren't going to be able to look down or side to side, and this only hinders the shitty vision even more. Next, how are you going to breathe with this thing on? The characters who wear this thing spent a good chunk of their yelling shit at the top of their lungs, and there is no mouth hole, so have fun suffocating. You're only lucky to not have to put up with this shit if it falls off because 1, it's made of metal, and 2, there's nothing apart from some cloth holding it up at the back. This thing is video game equivalent of a kick me sign.

How a massive army of [well-trained] minions wielding ranged weapons decide to miss the protagonist. Storm Troopers and Droids.

Especially Droids. They're programmed so human error can't be the problem. Do they malfunction in the sand/humidity or something?

They fought indoors even, so its not just sand/humidity/environmental things.

From what I can tell, the Star Wars universe created computers and A.I differently than good old Earth does. Here, our computers imitate intelligence by drawing on preset rules in their programming to do the right thing at the right time when given commands. An Earth robot would be able to fire a blaster and hit all the Star Wars protagonists from 100s of meters away easily. But they could never have the spatial sense to be deployed onto a battleground and conduct war/react to any situation like droids do in the clone wars.

The Star Wars universe program droids and robots to imitate sentience. Everything from Droidekas to C-3PO, they all have personalities and they think and act a lot like humans do. In a sense, they're basically a constructable, stupid, sentient race that can be cheaply built and destroyed and built again from scrap metal. But their accuracy is based from looking down the scope of their weapon just like humans do, in a clanking body that could never imitate the precision that organic bodies are capable of.

I have no explanation for why the storm troopers are so stupid though

Relevant and hilarious.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18858_the-biggest-star-wars-plot-hole-explained-by-science.html

Check out that first picture.


http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/E-11_blaster_rifle

Also trooper guns are said to spread really bad during rapid fire.

So the problem was that the droids were too humanized in code and storm troopers were dehumanized in appearance.

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So the problem was that the droids were too humanized in code and storm troopers were dehumanized in appearance.

So the problem was balancing. Again. Fuck the developers.

If you want to see what the Star Wars universe can turn into when you match a brutally competent army of 'bad guys' into a galaxy-wide war against a justified, elite army of 'good guys', you should totally check out the Sith Wars during the Old Republic era. It's mostly just books over there, but it's all damn good.

Also to keep from going off topic, I still dislike how pretty much all first person shooter video games don't come even close to imitating first person view. You don't see your hands unless they're being outstretched far from your torso, and looking down the barrel of a gun looks like you've jammed it through your mouth and you're peering at it with half of the weapon sticking through your head. I disapprove