If in order to make someone go with you in the "stopped time world" you had to be touching them, wouldn't touching the floor make the floor go with you too? And since everything is touching the ground, that would completely throw the plot away.
Since when is actual mathematics involved in determining when your number is up?
Nah. 'Cause it means directly touching a living person to take them into the "sped up molecules" time.
> directly touching a living person
Well, except that they WERE able to bring cars and bikes and nitrogen sprayers and other stuff into the accelerated world. So, the OP's original point is valid. The floor and earth and air and everything touching them should accelerate as well.
Then again, the movie has so many darn plot holes that it was just no fun counting them all after a while. Your brain goes numb and you just accept any old plot hole.
With that in mind, it was a fairly enjoyable movie.
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There was a TV show which the girl has an alien as dad, and could stop time touching her fingers.. The idea looks like same.
shareDude, come on!! There are like a thousand plot hols in the movie and you chose that lame one? Lol, what about the disco scene where they make their friend dance. I mean, there's stupid, and then there is *beep* *beep* eating anally retarded *beep* stupidly *beep* crap. That's what the disco scene was - so many holes there's nothing to stand on. Which would make you theory go out the window anyways. But there wouldn't be a window; there would be a big whole where it used to be.
Go to the loo, 'cause all the *beep* is coming out your mouth instead of your a-hole...
Brilliant. I thought exactly the same thing when they made the van go faster. But it's like an episode of Star Trek TNG when people can walk through walls, but they don't fall through the floor. I wonder if Mr. Frakes directed that too?
To quote charhall-2 from the comments section, "The movie, of course, requires you to suspend disbelief and if you aren't capable of that, skip the movie! Otherwise you are only going to spend the hour criticizing the scientific aspects of "hyper-time" and annoying everyone around you who has some imagination and is having a good time."
Anyway, around this point of the movie, I hit fast forward on the vcr and made the last 50 minutes go by in about 3 minutes. Time travel really is exhilarating! :)
I know the TNG episode which you're talking about - it's called "The Next Phase." LaForge and Ro get phased out of the normal time-space continuum and they can walk through walls, but no-one can see or hear them. You talked about why they don't fall through floors, and actually this is mentioned in the book "The Starfleet Survival Guide" (yes, I know, I'm a complete geek/Trekkie). In the book, it says that if you are only phased out only a little bit, you can manually "push" yourself through normally solid objects and barriers. However, if you are phased out too far, you won't have to live with it long, because you'll uncontrollably pass through barriers and eventually fall through whatever you were originally standing on, leaving you to die in space. But then, how come the two out-of-phase people don't fall when they jump up and down in frustration? Because it's sci-fi, that's why.
shareIsn't that one of the rules of life, the universe, and everything? That floors and earth's surface are essentially sci-fi proof? I had the same thought.
I liked how when Eric Bana pushes the possum off the garbage can, it falls off like a toy, rather than slowly. My whole theory would be that moving a person's body (or the possum) would actually be more difficult than in real time. Just because you're in hyper-time doesn't mean moving mass that is slower than you is easier.
The whole dance sequence would've been nigh impossible. Hyper-time people are fighting against real-time muscles that are already determined to make a specific move. You can't just move real-time people like mannequins, it would be like trying to push a wall.
I also thought it was amusing how when Eric Bana (I forget his character's name) is in ultra hyper-time and he gets hit by the frozen nitrogen, he's brought back down to the next level: hyper-time. Not real-time. It's as if the steps to each molecular speed is a pre-determined set amount.
"On 'and' you'll go, and the doors will open. Just like on Star Trek."'
"You can't just move real-time people like mannequins, it would be like trying to push a wall. "
Nah, I think that with the acceleration that you try to impose on the human tissue in the real time - you would simply break it apart. Trying to move the limbs - you'd tear them off. So - it wouldn't be so much fun at all.
This film mirrors a sci-fi premise of "The New Accelerator" written in 1901 by H. G. Wells --- though the makers of Clockstoppers apparently never read the Wells short story. Wells was a masterful sci-fi writer who made clear the entire concept of his fanciful premise of accelerating oneself through time is fraught with danger. Result: Clockstoppers is more akin to a mindless farce than an entertaining sci-fi movie. Just one example (among many): The accelerated manipulation of the DJ would have likely broken most every bone in his body and immediately killed him. Suspending disbelief is one thing. Suspending all rational thinking: Hooray for Hollywood!
shareexplanation.
watch thingie makes objects vibrate. when they vibrate, they move faster.
It fair enough that a person and the car can get effected. but the earth is completely different. it takes alot of energy to shake the entire earth. and i think the watch would be set to a certain limit or frequency that doesnt allow it to vibrate objects to a certain size that the vibrations wouldnt be strong enough to vibrate such a large object.
makes sense if u ask me...