[ SECRET POST #2747 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2747 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Hobbit/Thorin Oakenshield]


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[The Vincent Black Shadow]


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[El Goonish Shive]


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[Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries]


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[Penny Dreadful]


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[Supernatural]


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[Blake's 7]


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[Edge of Tomorrow/Tom Cruise]


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[Quirk]


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18. [WARNING for rape]



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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 (tw: rape) - not!secrets ], [ 1 (?) - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - ships it ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

08. http://i.imgur.com/PvLAkB5.jpg

[cushlamochree]

That's too bad, I guess. It is awful science but I've seen worse movies with dumber science and enjoyed them. TBH my view is that if I can enjoy Johnny Mnemonic I can enjoy this. And I can absolutely enjoy Johnny Mnemonic.

[hands4healing]

Wait, wait, someone else likes Johnny Mnemonic?

I occasionally quote it for shock value, because no one gets the, "I should be in that hotel over there, with a two-million-dollar-a-night hooker! Auuuugh!" line.

YUP

[funyarinpainahat]

I'm not usually one to dismiss any piece of media based on one trope alone, but good God, someone would have to drag me kicking and screaming to see this movie. All my friends are so excited about it (out of a love for ScarJo that I do share), but I saw the trailer for the first time yesterday and could not believe how awful it was. "At 62% [or something] she can control the cells in her body." How the fuck would that even work? What would be the problem with giving her actual superpowers, or making her an alien or something?

Re: YUP

[(Anonymous)]

/rant

Sorry, but the pain is still fresh. I'd heard so many good things...

Re: YUP

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Same, the trailer did the saaaaaame thing for me. Also, "Oh, look, Matrix SFX; that's sooooooo retro right now!" *barf*

Re: YUP

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, her being an alien would be just as troublesome. Aren't the odds of intelligent life, much less intelligent life that looks just like us, not only existing but being able to traverse the vast distances of space to get here pretty low? You could make her be from the future when people have evolved or enhanced themselves, but time travel isn't really supposed to be a likely thing either. A parallel world would be equally problematic.

Really, there's no way to make a person with superpowers believable if you want to be scientifically accurate, so whatever you do you're going to have to have some measure of suspension of disbelief. Sometimes you just have to roll with it.

[peablossom]

It bothers me, too. Not enough to make me not watch the movie, I still think it'll be a great action-y movie, but every time it comes up in the preview I wonder why, why they couldn't have picked something else? Anything else?

[elaminator]

MTE. I wish they had went with something else because the concept irks me, but I sorta still want to see it for Scarlett kicking ass. The absurd kind of power she had in the previews was appealing as fuck to me (...I just find that kind of thing sexy), but I do wish they had just given her superpowers or something instead.

[inkdust]

I feel the same way. It just seems lazy.

[(Anonymous)]

oh god me too. My mom really wants to see this, and I'll probably take her, but I'll be grinding my teeth over that bullshit the whole time.

[(Anonymous)]

THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES. That's exactly what I thought when I saw the commercial, it's too bad because I like ScarJo and thought I'd enjoy it. But if the writers based the whole premise on something a cursory skim of Wikipedia would tell you was wrong, the movie's probably going to suck.

I'm fine with handwaving and glossing over details, but basing a whole movie on a non-"fact" that too many people believe anyway is ridiculous. I don't know about anywhere else, but Americans are stupid enough about science as it is without having their heads filled with more crap. Throw this one on the pile along with 21 Grams.

[riddian]

I'm going to see the movie probably, but I totally feel you. I just can't get over the fucking moronic "we only use 10% of our brains" thing. It bugs me so much. WHY DOES THIS MYTH STILL EXIST, GAH.

[mekkio]

I think I wrote this secret in my sleep. Whoa.

Because I don't know how to post images from mobile

[(Anonymous)]

https://twitter.com/boburnham/status/487717367061807104

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. This, 1000xYES.

[nightscale]

I'm kind of with you on this, like it's the sort of film that looked as though it could be right up my alley(lady gets crazy-awesome super-powers) but as soon as the 'we only use 10% of our brains' BS cropped up I was like 'nope'. I don't know why it's such a deal-breaker for me, especially because I'll let other stupid things slide in movies, but it's just something that bothers me to no end.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Adding in another "yep" because I mentioned to my Dad the other day (after we saw the trailer on tv) how I'd like to go see it, but I can't get past the "10%" thing.

His response? "It's a movie, it doesn't have to make sense."

Yes it does, Dad. Yes it does.

[(Anonymous)]

As cool the posters in Italian :D

I have nothing else to add besides that

[grausam]

Oh, right, the movie where the protagonist shoots somebody for not speaking english...

[queerwolf]

Wow, I really didn't know the 10% thing bothered so many people. I really want to see this *shrugs*

[(Anonymous)]

When I first saw the trailer, I thought it was based on the Heinlein book "Friday" about the artificial human in the group marriages and stuff. Little disappointed it wasn't the case, and I'm not even into Heinlein.

[darkmanifest]

I'm gonna watch it anyway because I've been able to enjoy movies with even more patently ridiculous science, but it's reached the point where I'm pretty certain the people who keep repeating this particular bullshit know it's wrong, but do it anyway because it's crossed the line from bad science to popular myth that few people* believe, but find amusing to pretend to believe. Like werewolves.

*Edit: Some poor fools out there probably do believe it.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe you could change the way you think about the 10% for the movie? Like, people normally use about 10% at a time for a single task, but the movie's character can utilize the full 100% at a single time for a task and therefore create additional energy to telekinetically move things.

[beverlykatz]

Oh my god yes yes YES. This is absolutely my biggest pet peeve when it comes to pop science. I'm not kidding. I don't think there's another piece of faux-scientific bullshit that drives me this crazy, not even rigid left-right brain typing. It's worse than anti-vax IMO because at least that's considered a fringe group; they still teach kids the 10% shit in school. I try to ignore it when it shows up in movies and books and whatnot, but Lucy is entirely based on this. I'm so bummed, I loved Scarjo in Her and I was hoping to like this, but once I saw the trailer... nope. I just can't look past it. It's like an even less scientifically plausible version of Flowers for Algernon.