Towards the end of the movie, with the final battle with the monsters, they enter a cave and Jack says, "Smells like methane." Well, no it doesn't. Methane is the main component of natural gas (~97%), and is odorless. Only when you add mercaptan (odorant) to natural gas does it have a scent simlar to rotten eggs. He might of well said it tastes like air.
sharelets not forget that he was part alien monster at the time and that he was able to smell water.
shareby - predatortoo on Tue Aug 7 2007 23:01:55
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lets not forget that he was part alien monster at the time and that he was able to smell water.
they werent aliens it was a parasite
A lot of people can smell water. I can smell water.
well you can pretty much tell science took a vacation when you have a cave of ice next to a cave of fire.
this movie is in my top 10 worst movies of all time. not quite as bad as Uwe Boll's masterpieces though.
i thought it was a little odd when they put those to caves together put it is my second favorite rite under Riddick.
shareOmg yeah it wasent 100% scientifically accurate for me which totally ruined it... the parasitic former caver flying aqutic predator monster things and everything else was on track until the guy said he could smell methane.... christ get a life dude noone cares, it was a decent movie.
shareit was a terrible movie and how come they could talk to each other by radio underwater? With scuba pieces in their mouths? Pure balls
sharewell it could just be a character error deliberately left there by the writers...
Light travels faster than sound,
that's why people seem bright,
until you hear them.
Methane does have an odor. It's so mild and inoffensive that it builds up to dangerous levels before the threat is perceived. That's why they add mercaptan to commercial natural gas: It's a liability issue.
sharePlus the guy was pretty much turning into a cave animal which depends on smell sound and touch, not so much site
shareObviously this is now a 6-year-old thread, but I have to wonder why an oversight like this is important in a movie about people mutated into cave creatures by parasites and attacking explorers. Aren't there slightly more unbelievable things to consider here?
shareThis thread is now 8 years old but I'm watching this classic on Bounce (it does star Morris Chestnut) and I'm sure what smells fishy is Lena Headey - oh, and almost everything in this movie since it's all basically scientifically impossible
shareNot that I agree with the OP's complaint, but movies with a supernatural premise are more interesting when surrounded by realistic behavior.
Thread is now 9 years old.
Thread is now about ten years old. I had no problem with him smelling methane. They mentioned that the senses were changing and he had a heightened sense of hearing and smell. Even if the odor is nearly imperceptible, he could probably smell it better or whatnot.
As other people have mentioned there was more problems with other *beep* going on. I had to wonder about that fire cave with an ice cave next to it thing. But meh...
This entire thread pisses me off. Not because I care if people liked the movie or not, but because the OP and most of the people here missed an obvious point.
Stop saying "methane is odorless." Methane is odorless TO HUMANS. To me its like saying "infrared is invisible" or "sound over X frequency is silent", when clearly there are animals that can see in different spectrums and hear in frequencies we cannot.
Guess what geniuses, methane is not inert, obviously, since it is quite flammable. This parasite had specifically evolved to adapt its host for cave survival, so, if you accept that part of the premise, ability to detect cave-specific features is easy to digest.
Now, as far as that specific line, you'll notice when Jack says it, he gives this animal-like set of sniffs. Just like his advanced hearing, the creators of this "movie" were trying to underscore the fact that he was becoming more adapted to survive in this environment.
Sheesh, for all the things people apparently hated about this flick, don't knock the one thing that actually makes sense.
IMDB is just so full of trolls, trolls, trolls, isn't it?!
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