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shotmaster0  ·  4239 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Don't Watch "Oblivion"

While I agree that the movie had glaring plot holes, mediocre acting, and a terrible script (every time she said "we are still an effective team" I cringed), the art direction was fantastic. I loved the landscape, ship designs, the lakehouse, the homemade guns and armor, etc. Most of them made no sense what-so-ever technically, but the art direction was cohesive and beautiful. I wish more sci-fi movies invested the same effort into creating new designs for ships and such. Also, because I can't help myself, I've added some more technical holes...

28. The plane thingy has a tail rotor... and independently rotating side engines. One engine tilted forward + one engine tilted back = turn. See the V-22 Osprey for how this works.

29. Drones can insta-gib anyone, except Morgan Freeman who is the only one to ever be wounded...

30. Drones can insta-own everyone in dark rooms at breakneck speed but A. can't shoot down the plane thingy and B. need to emit a glowy light scan thing in every other situation except when its on a rampage.

31. Lets reprogram a drone to destroy the tet... and then slowly wheel it the 10 feet out our front door

32. Mission control goes offline... what?

33. Fusion generators take up the space of a watermelon, can be switched on and off at whim, and explode violently. Fusion requires HUGE amounts of energy to start and crazy containment methods. At the end when they combine it with plutonium to make a hydrogen bomb, that's a little more believable, but...

34. Why is the original spacecraft powered by weapons grade plutonium?

35. Why would humanity move to Titan? Just because it may be the most hospitable place for life doesn't mean its hospitable to OUR kind of life... It would be far easier to move humanity to Mars. <-- This would be a moot point if Jack Harper and Vica didn't believe it.

36. The human insurgents seemingly shoot down these drones every day, and yet they don't have rpgs (way simpler to make than homemade guns) or other actually effective weapons.

37. Drones, built by an alien, can be reprogrammed by people to do a complex task like flying to space, getting through whatever docking protocols there are and then navigating through a space the programmer has never seen before.

38. The test is like 80% empty... what is it using all this energy for? Housing crazy raves?

Ah, thank you all who endured that, I just needed to get some technical objections off my chest. Still, a decent-ish movie.





JTHipster  ·  4238 days ago  ·  link  ·  

39. How do the stealth suits actually work, and if they work well, how come the humans can't just plant explosive devices on the sides of the drones?

40. What is the drone armor made of where it takes no dents from bullets yet can be crushed by a rock falling on it?

41. What's the point of the stealth suits if the drones can just detect people anyway?

42. If the drones can detect minute biosigns that have been cold for days and days, how come they can't detect people behind small rocks?

43. Why would the drones be built with vertically rotating gun mounts that have an otherwise very limited range of movement? The drones primarily face targets which are on the ground or flying level with them; a horizontal turret would be much more effective for dispatching targets on the ground without requiring the drone to constantly turn back and forth.

44. How did the evil space pyramid blow up the moon in the first place when it doesn't appear to have any weapons at all?

45. If the evil space pyramid has a laser that can blow a continent sized chunk out of the moon, how come it can't just fire at earth, wipe out all life on the planet by destroying nuclear power plants, then send down its drones when everyone is dead to harvest the hydrogen?

46. If the pyramid could manufacture advanced robotics, how come it didn't just make robot soldiers rather than clones? It can clearly create an artificial intelligence powerful enough for a drone to individually target humans, detect threats, and operate in a very enclosed space at breakneck speeds, so how come it can't just transfer memories and personality in to a robot soldiers? They would be infinitely cheaper to manufacture than clones and also be very durable.

47. How come the escape pod is capable of escaping the tractor beam when the ship with the much larger engine cannot? Wouldn't it just get tractored in to the ship too?

48. When did the evil space pyramid learn that human beings enjoyed have pools floating above several hundred feet of air?

49. How come the evil space pyramid set up water harvesting zones that were basically right next to each other in visible distance from an airplane? How did Tom Cruise never once see any of these towers?

50. Why is there a lightning storm that doesn't ever stop?

51. I'm not scientists, but if you were creating gigantic water harvesting plants, then you'd be fucking with the surface water first and presumably the water closest to the ocean floor last. Now, again, I'm not scientists, but the water that's on the surface tends to be the warmest, right? So by removing all of that water you would actually be removing a great deal of what keeps the planet warm, since warm ocean air would not be rising. Warm, moist air contributes to weather patterns including severe thunderstorms. So wouldn't having the water harvesters stop any major severe lightning storm from happening in the first place by fucking with the weather?

52. Where the fuck are they in New York that there is a gigantic desert only miles from the city? I understand that its a nuclear holocaust, but seriously?

So if they're located in the mountains they are between 50-100 miles from the shore. Yet they're shown crossing the Brooklyn Bridge as sort of the border between the "Safe" zone and the "radiation" zone. This is despite the fact that they are clearly located on a mountain when you see there house, the nearest mountain being WEST of the city, not EAST of it. EAST of the bridge is the bay. But they are clearly on a flat shore.

So they must either be down by Staten or Long Island, since those are the two closet flat shorelines. If we are assuming their borders are done relatively evenly, and not weird stretches of land, then they are covering tens of thousands of square miles per individual clone.

I'm not even from New York and I know how bad their geography is. This is basic research for a movie taking place in a single setting. Yes, you can have errors and it'd be okay if you went from Staten Island to the Giants Stadium, but when the House is shown on the mountains and they travel all over the fucking place you have to start explaining where people are. I shouldn't have to spend 20 minutes trying to figure out where people are relative to New York City.