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Right Hand Rule Fail, Retarded Director

posted 14 years ago by maxloh-1
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To determine the location of this thing in relation to the magnetic field the guy holds up his hand and curls his fingers and points his thumb.

The only problem is he obviously failed high school physics, since he was holding up his LEFT HAND instead of his right hand! What a retard.

Oh also, this movie was edited and mastered by a bunch of idiotic amateurs. The sound/music was way too heavily compressed and the dynamics weren't right. I had the DVD so it wasn't because of video compression or anything.

In conclusion, not only did all movie staff fail HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICS, but they also suck at mixing audio.

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[–] hsinmao 14 years ago

Oh yes! He's the most retarded director in the world! And, oh boy were those editors idiots. Such amateur production quality cannot be tolerated!

In conclusion, every error committed by anyone ultimately proves his or her incompetence and failure as a human being.

I hope you measure yourself with such high standards.

[–] maxloh-1 14 years ago

Well, they are. What are your standards for a big dumb blunder? I almost never criticize movies for their mistakes, but this one stands out.

I wonder if you'd be so sarcastic to me if they said in the movie that 2+2=5 and that was how the guy figured out where to die, because he figured out that 2+2=5. Well, it's the same idea. Like I said, the right-hand rule is a standard in all public high schools.

As a side note, I am probably wrong about the sound mixing. I figured out it's my TV's fault.

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[–] hsinmao 14 years ago

I'm not saying it's correct of them to implement a 'left-hand' rule. But how is it a big dumb blunder? Did it impact the message they were trying to convey? Well, apart from being annoying and appearing as humorous to knowledgeable people such as yourself, most people won't even notice it. The movie is about ghosts screwing around in Taipei, not a physics lecture. We already know that the 'science' in the movie is full of *beep* so to criticize the film based on its scientific inaccuracy is pointless.

I'm sure there are more extreme examples of general education fails in other movies. Doesn't audible explosions in outer space stand out? Or how about those floaty islands in avatar? Everyone who's passed standard high school physics with knowledge of the right-hand rule knows that when a conductor passes through a field, a current is induced. So given that this field was strong enough to lift mountains, how is it that that any electrical equipment still functioned as they flew in around them? That's a pretty big film blunder.

These sort of errors go unnoticed because they don't matter. They're just trivia. 2+2=5 on the other hand is completely absurd. It is not the same idea at all.

[–] maxloh-1 14 years ago

I see, some very good points. But the audible explosions are really necessary for the movie's sake so it's actually an artistic decision.

Like in Star Trek. They knew that the modern audience had learned that sound doesn't travel through space, so they couldn't do full-blown explosions. But they wanted it to sound cool so they wouldn't go with complete silence. So they made a big low-pass filter to make it sound muffled, quieter, and epic.

And in sci-fi of course it's ok if details about technology go unexplained or are inconsistent... I mean by then the humans probably had very good shields -- Faraday cages or whatever you call them -- that protect against EMP and magnetism and stuff; we don't know the "technology of the future" so it is not a gaping plot hole. Plus, you had to go through a bit of logic to arrive at that conclusion, something that I generally do not do in movies.

See usually when movies have plotholes you have to make some case or logical thinking. And usually sci-fi ridiculousness at least has some excuse like "but that is alien technology!" And also, when movies have weird blunders like the cameraman being visible in the mirror, most people don't catch it their first time viewing.

Using left hand for right-hand rule is a bit different since everyone who learns it knows you don't use your left hand for the right-hand rule, lol; to me it is kind of at the same level as a gross language mistranslation, like "do not want" in Star Wars, only it's in the actual movie instead of the subtitles.

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[–] Zerose 14 years ago

"A bunch of idiotic amateurs"? Please believe me, Paul Pirola, Du-Che Tu, and Rob Mackenzie aren't "amateurs". Not only they've worked in this profession for more than twenty years, they frequently work together on many films. It's likely that it's your DVD or television.

[–] tbs1 12 years ago

Sometimes the left hand is used.
And all people don't learn about the right hand rule in high school physics.

[–] japonaliya 12 years ago

Boy..are YOU the master idiot...you bitch about the "right hand rule" like you are some kind of physics prof. claiming that the professor used his left hand!!!
WELL, FYI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Left-hand rule

In certain situations, it may be useful to use the opposite convention, where one of the vectors is reversed and so creates a left-handed triad instead of a right-handed triad.

So Mr. bull *beep* suck up THAT!!!

The movie was great, even Gone with The Wind had flaws...so live with it.

[–] chilone 9 years ago

That was some epic PWNAGE right there!! I laughed for 5 minutes!!

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

[–] beisserchen 11 years ago

So I've never heard of a right hand rule, actually. I thought he could detect this magnetic field only because he had this menger sponge in his pocket (I think he had it on him, if I remember correctly). I guess it doesn't really matter, if you use your right hand or your left hand (then) ?