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shotmaster0  ·  4016 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Don't Watch "Oblivion"

While I agree that the movie had glaring plot holes, mediocre acting, and a terrible script (every time she said "we are still an effective team" I cringed), the art direction was fantastic. I loved the landscape, ship designs, the lakehouse, the homemade guns and armor, etc. Most of them made no sense what-so-ever technically, but the art direction was cohesive and beautiful. I wish more sci-fi movies invested the same effort into creating new designs for ships and such. Also, because I can't help myself, I've added some more technical holes...

28. The plane thingy has a tail rotor... and independently rotating side engines. One engine tilted forward + one engine tilted back = turn. See the V-22 Osprey for how this works.

29. Drones can insta-gib anyone, except Morgan Freeman who is the only one to ever be wounded...

30. Drones can insta-own everyone in dark rooms at breakneck speed but A. can't shoot down the plane thingy and B. need to emit a glowy light scan thing in every other situation except when its on a rampage.

31. Lets reprogram a drone to destroy the tet... and then slowly wheel it the 10 feet out our front door

32. Mission control goes offline... what?

33. Fusion generators take up the space of a watermelon, can be switched on and off at whim, and explode violently. Fusion requires HUGE amounts of energy to start and crazy containment methods. At the end when they combine it with plutonium to make a hydrogen bomb, that's a little more believable, but...

34. Why is the original spacecraft powered by weapons grade plutonium?

35. Why would humanity move to Titan? Just because it may be the most hospitable place for life doesn't mean its hospitable to OUR kind of life... It would be far easier to move humanity to Mars. <-- This would be a moot point if Jack Harper and Vica didn't believe it.

36. The human insurgents seemingly shoot down these drones every day, and yet they don't have rpgs (way simpler to make than homemade guns) or other actually effective weapons.

37. Drones, built by an alien, can be reprogrammed by people to do a complex task like flying to space, getting through whatever docking protocols there are and then navigating through a space the programmer has never seen before.

38. The test is like 80% empty... what is it using all this energy for? Housing crazy raves?

Ah, thank you all who endured that, I just needed to get some technical objections off my chest. Still, a decent-ish movie.