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When it comes to filmmaking, the rules of physics are flexible
The companion book to the hit website, Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics is a hilarious and fascinating guide to the biggest mistakes, the most outrageous assumptions and the outright lunacy of Hollywood films. Author Tom Rogers uses basic scientific principles, such as Newton's First Law, along with a little common sense to examine and expose Hollywood's absolute worst physics offenders, including The Matrix, Speed and Star Wars. Find out how your favorite films measure up!
--Would the bus in Speed really have made that jump?
--Could a Star Wars ship actually explode in space?
--Can you really ignite gasoline with the flick of a cigarette?
--What really would have happened if you said ?Honey, I shrunk the kids??
The companion book to the hit website, Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics is a hilarious and fascinating guide to the biggest mistakes, the most outrageous assumptions and the outright lunacy of Hollywood films. Author Tom Rogers uses basic scientific principles, such as Newton's First Law, along with a little common sense to examine and expose Hollywood's absolute worst physics offenders, including The Matrix, Speed and Star Wars. Find out how your favorite films measure up!
--Would the bus in Speed really have made that jump?
--Could a Star Wars ship actually explode in space?
--Can you really ignite gasoline with the flick of a cigarette?
--What really would have happened if you said ?Honey, I shrunk the kids??
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- Title Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics: Hollywood's Best Mistakes, Goofs and Flat-Out Destructions of the Basic Laws of the Universe
- Author Tom Rogers
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Sourcebooks Hysteria, Naperville, Illinois
- Publication date 2007-11-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781402210334 / 1402210337
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 6.37 x 0.95 in (20.57 x 16.18 x 2.41 cm)
- Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
- Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures, Physics
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007033901
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.43
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2008, Page 245
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