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Totally unrealistic

posted 10 years ago by Yummy_Brains
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When Steve Coogan and Owen wilson were driving that RC car.

RC cars don't have fully functioning and linked throttle, brake & steering in the cab!

[–] karawolf 9 years ago

Though it's possible to rig a linkage to the steering and drive servos of an RC vehicle to accommodate a miniturized human, the liklihood of it coming stock on a store bought toy is negligible, so, yeah....TOTALLY unrealistic...but that T-rex...

**this head movie makes my eyes rain...waaaaa **

[–] spookyrat1 9 years ago

... but that T-rex...

... combined with the fact that the RC vehicle was being driven by a cowboy and a Roman centurion ... 🐭

[–] bond_98 9 years ago

Should we really be talking about realism in a movie that has wax figures and dinosaur bones coming to life.

[–] MuggySphere 9 years ago

Problem solved .........

The tablet turned the RC toy car into a miniature real car.

[–] TrueEssence 9 years ago

Or... maybe Jed and Octavius only think they're driving the car but someone is around using the remote. 

[–] MuggySphere 9 years ago

That would work if the person could see around corners or through walls when the car goes places beyond normal vision....

I like to think the tablet and its magic made the car real.

[–] PenguinCat 9 years ago

Yeah because the rest of the movie is completely realistic.

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[–] Harvestmoonman13 7 years ago

Yeah because the rest of the movie is completely realistic.

Ugh... I hate this reply...

Just because a story has fantastic elements doesn't mean it doesn't need consistent internal logic. Suspension of disbelief has to be earned. We can buy things like the museum collections coming to life because this is setup and explained. But if at the end of the movie suddenly Ben Stiller started flying around like Superman... we probably could not suspend our disbelief, despite the rest of the movie being not "completely realistic."

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Well obviously it's unrealistic, it's a movie about statues coming to life!