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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2594850" data-attributes="member: 14159">I saw the title and my first thought was &quot;The Core&quot;, my second thought was &quot;Armageddon&quot;.&nbsp; It should have been no surprise that it was that way to everybody else.Yeah, Total Recall had that subtle little twist where you were never quite sure if the movie was real or not.The basic plot of The Matrix bugged me on a Laws of Thermodynamics level, that how could they use human metabolisms as a power source, without losing power by whatever means they could have to feed humans.&nbsp; You can't gain energy like that.&nbsp; Then I read what the Wachowskis's original plans for the movie were but the studio thought it would be way too dense and incomprehensible to the moviegoing public: the minds of the enslaved humans were being used like a distributed computing network, their subconscious minds providing much of the raw computing power the machine empire used, using the unique properties of organic brains as a giant computer.&nbsp; Warner Brothers thought nobody would ever understand that, but using people as batteries, that made sense (supposedly).The basic plot of &quot;Star Trek: Generations&quot; also bothers me, since the basic idea of blowing up stars to get rid of their gravity well doesn't work, the mass remains the same even if you force the star to noval (and the end where a chemically propelled rocket takes only a few seconds to go from a habitable planets surface to a yellow star, which you see the rocket visibly fly all the way, and the explosion of the star is visible on the planet's surface only seconds after launch.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 2594850, member: 14159"] I saw the title and my first thought was "The Core", my second thought was "Armageddon". It should have been no surprise that it was that way to everybody else. Yeah, Total Recall had that subtle little twist where you were never quite sure if the movie was real or not. The basic plot of The Matrix bugged me on a Laws of Thermodynamics level, that how could they use human metabolisms as a power source, without losing power by whatever means they could have to feed humans. You can't gain energy like that. Then I read what the Wachowskis's original plans for the movie were but the studio thought it would be way too dense and incomprehensible to the moviegoing public: the minds of the enslaved humans were being used like a distributed computing network, their subconscious minds providing much of the raw computing power the machine empire used, using the unique properties of organic brains as a giant computer. Warner Brothers thought nobody would ever understand that, but using people as batteries, that made sense (supposedly). The basic plot of "Star Trek: Generations" also bothers me, since the basic idea of blowing up stars to get rid of their gravity well doesn't work, the mass remains the same even if you force the star to noval (and the end where a chemically propelled rocket takes only a few seconds to go from a habitable planets surface to a yellow star, which you see the rocket visibly fly all the way, and the explosion of the star is visible on the planet's surface only seconds after launch.) [/QUOTE]

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