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[ericcoleman]

coat_of_brown touched on this earlier today. This is kinda my variant.

What is your favorite "they didn't do their research did they" moment in movies or TV?

Mine, I think it has to be the episode of the X-Files (which I am too lazy to go look up at the moment, but I think it's in season 1) that happens, partly, around Lake Okoboji in NW Iowa.

I personally was not aware that there were lovely mountains in NW Iowa.

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[naomikritzer]

For sheer hilarity, though, was the clip from Batman they showed in my high school Physics class, in which Batman gets pushed off a building, sends a rope shooting up off his utility belt (or something) and the rope stops him dead.

1. He was going fast enough and stopped suddenly enough that the force would've just ripped his arm off. Batman isn't Superman; the laws of physics apply to him.

2. We actually timed the fall and calculated, and he'd have fallen like a mile and a half. He was falling for a LONG time.

That's probably not a "didn't do their research" issue so much as a "didn't give a shit!" issue, though.

[guppiecat]

Batman has a reinforced body suit that protects him.

Yeah, that's it.

[ericcoleman]

Comic book physics don't bother me, it's part of the willing suspension of disbelief thing. I just take it as a given that bodies can do that sort of thing in that sort of movie.