Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 2442217" data-attributes="member: 649">Did you see the movie? All of the cars are very slightly updated versions of today's vehicles. There are two speederbikes and a whole ton of vehicles, from motorcycles to large trucks to SUVs, that look exactly like today's vehicles, though slightly pointier. Do today's cars look like Model Ts? Are the streets filled with horses and buggies?It is very hard to say that in 85 years we'll be driving cars that look just like today's cars, both inside and out, while other technology moves forward drastically. And that's not the only place such a failure in vision takes place -- there are tons of them. A giant building-sized [spoiler]holographic field[/spoiler] is used, but otherwise the best video display seen is a high-def TV.It's very, very poorly thought out. Michael Bay loves car chases, so the movie has a big car chase. With year 2000 cars, because you couldn't employ the standard car chase tropes (which are used again and again) if the cars could fly, say, or if they were wire-guide, or if they had automatic collision avoidance mechanisms, or what have you.A few people using typewriters 20 years after the invention of the PC is not even a remotely accurate comparison. Everybody driving horses and buggies with some Model-Ts sprinkled in today is more apt, and that's without the exponential forward movement of technology that is reality.Susepend your disbelief if you want -- I do it in other movies just fine -- but to me this movie is simply terrible sci-fi, so bad that my disbelief was lying in a pool on the floor, intermixed with the spilled coke and popcorn kernals.</blockquote>

Verification