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Re: Hollywood Stupid
Post by BillT52   » Mon Jul 22, 2019 1:51 pm

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My pet stupid was mentioned once in passing here. Wings on spacecraft which make wide swooping turns like airfoil atmosphere craft. As far as I know, the only movie/TV I've seen to get it right was Babylon 5, where the craft would rotate then fire engines to change vector. Instead, almost every battle between fighter like craft looks like a dogfight out of WWII.
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Re: Hollywood Stupid
Post by Dilandu   » Mon Jul 22, 2019 1:53 pm

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BillT52 wrote:My pet stupid was mentioned once in passing here. Wings on spacecraft which make wide swooping turns like airfoil atmosphere craft. As far as I know, the only movie/TV I've seen to get it right was Babylon 5, where the craft would rotate then fire engines to change vector. Instead, almost every battle between fighter like craft looks like a dogfight out of WWII.


Well, "The Expanse" also avoided such things. There are no fighter-crafts here at all (because frankly, space fighters are useless).
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Oh well, if shortening the front is what the Germans crave,
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Re: Hollywood Stupid
Post by TFLYTSNBN   » Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:12 pm

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Dilandu wrote:
BillT52 wrote:My pet stupid was mentioned once in passing here. Wings on spacecraft which make wide swooping turns like airfoil atmosphere craft. As far as I know, the only movie/TV I've seen to get it right was Babylon 5, where the craft would rotate then fire engines to change vector. Instead, almost every battle between fighter like craft looks like a dogfight out of WWII.


Well, "The Expanse" also avoided such things. There are no fighter-crafts here at all (because frankly, space fighters are useless).



Fighter craft are not useless if the available technology imposes a trade off between hight thrust to mass ration and low specific impulse verses low thrust to mass ration and high specific impulse. An intersteller drive that does not scale lineraly with mass also makes fighters useful.
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Re: Hollywood Stupid
Post by vovchara   » Mon Aug 05, 2019 10:44 am

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there is a use for a fighter, but in very specific, narrow set of circumstances. Problem is, most authors who do have space fighters in their books, do not care to provide us with those, and scenarios the fighter exists in fiction are rarely those the fighter would be any good.
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Re: Hollywood Stupid
Post by TheMadPenguin   » Sat Sep 07, 2019 2:44 am

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Outrunning explosions is a common "why am I watching this" trigger.
"Bad guys never hit, good guys never miss" gunfights, likewise.
"45 caliber handgun" apparently means 45 rounds in this 6-shooter before reloading is required.
Recoil never breaks anybody's wrist, but bullet impacts throw people across the room. (breaking the wrist is one way recoil manifests, arm raising is another, torso twist also, but there's no recoil to match the villain-tossing bullets)
Car chase scenes... I just stopped watching.
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Re: Hollywood Stupid
Post by Mycall4me   » Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:06 pm

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TheMadPenguin wrote:Outrunning explosions is a common "why am I watching this" trigger.
"Bad guys never hit, good guys never miss" gunfights, likewise.
"45 caliber handgun" apparently means 45 rounds in this 6-shooter before reloading is required.
Recoil never breaks anybody's wrist, but bullet impacts throw people across the room. (breaking the wrist is one way recoil manifests, arm raising is another, torso twist also, but there's no recoil to match the villain-tossing bullets)
Car chase scenes..[img]

IDK[/img]. I just stopped watching.
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Re: Hollywood Stupid
Post by Mycall4me   » Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:09 pm

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vovchara wrote:there is a use for a fighter, but in very specific, narrow set of circumstances. Problem is, most authors who do have space fighters in their books, do not care to provide us with those, and scenarios the fighter exists in fiction are rarely those the fighter would be any good.


Why?
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Re: Hollywood Stupid
Post by doug941   » Fri Nov 01, 2019 1:34 am

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dscott8 wrote:One big Hollywood Stupid: Mamma Mia 2.

The first movie was a painful attempt to build a convoluted, unlikely paternity plot just to hang ABBA songs on it. It was painful to watch, even for my wife (a huge ABBA fan). Because so many ABBA fans paid real money to see it, they're going back to the well. I expect it to be so bad that it will even spoil the first movie for those who liked it.

Plus, Pierce Brosnan will once again mumble and growl his way though a song. Yeesh.


Ironically, the second one is better than the first. Brosnan only gets a few singing lines. One problem with the first movie was that they wanted stars and didn't care how well they sang.

In the sequel, the new singers all could sing. Lily James as the young Donna was great and the others at least could carry a tune.

Now it was still pretty dumb as far as plots went but most critics lost it as Waterloo.


Can Pierce singing be any worse than Clint Eastwood AND Lee Marvin both singing in the same film?
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Re: Hollywood Stupid
Post by Dilandu   » Fri Nov 01, 2019 4:17 am

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Mycall4me wrote: Why?


Because it is space. On Earth, fighter and battleship operated in different mediums: fighter in air (easy to move through, but required a lot of energy to stay in), battleship in water (hard to move through, but easy to stay in)

But in space, both fighter and battleship are in common medium. They are subjected to similar laws of dynamic. There are little to no practical reasons, why space battleship could not have similar dynamic characteristics as space fighter: acceleration, specific impulse, ect.

Also, there is no horizon in space. And no atmosphere to disperce the infrared radiation. The fighters approach would be visible by opponents right from the moment fighters ignited their engines. And long-range warfare in space is dominated by lasers and heavy missiles - the kind of weapons that fighters aren't suited to use due to their small size and limited mass.

Finally, the fighters in space are forced to compete with long-range missiles. Which are more effective by definition. The terror of rocket equation clearly states that we need propellant to accelerate a propellant. And fighter need to accelerate more then missile:

Let's just calculate, assuming that we need N ton of propellant to accelerate ton of mass to the desired speed:

A - Fighter accelerated to close with target - need N tons of propellant
B - Fighter deccelerated after attck run - need another N ton of propellant and 2N tons of propellant to accelerate this additional propellant at stage A. In total, 4N tons of propellant
C - Fighter need to accelerate back toward his home base - another N ton of propellant. So another 2N tons added on stage B and 4N tons on stage A. In total, 11N tons of propellant.
D - Fighter need to deccelerate near his home base - another N tons of propellant (another 2N tons of stage C, another 4N tons of stage B, and freaking 8N tons on A).

In total our fighter needed 24N tons of propellant to make his dashing raid and return.

Now lets look at missile of the same mass:

A - missile accelerated to close with target - need N tons of propellant.

That's all. The missile is 24 times more efficient than fighter.

Actually, with correct calculations - not those simplified - the missile would be even MORE efficient.
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Oh well, if shortening the front is what the Germans crave,
Let's shorten it to very end - the length of Fuhrer's grave.

(Red Army lyrics from 1945)
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Re: Hollywood Stupid
Post by Daryl   » Sat Nov 02, 2019 5:59 am

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Ultimate recent Star Wars stupidity was using gravity bombs to attack star ships in deep space.
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