Movies Memes

Posts tagged with Movies

The Periodic Table Of Fictional Nonsense
Chemistry Science Materials
1 month ago 7.5K views 0 shares
The Periodic Table Of Fictional Nonsense
Chemistry students everywhere internally screaming at fictional elements! Hollywood loves inventing magical metals with impossible properties while completely ignoring the 118 perfectly good elements we already have. Vibranium absorbs vibrations? Adamantium is indestructible? The periodic table is crying in Mendeleev. Next time just say "we mixed titanium with carbon nanotubes" and we'll pretend to believe you instead of having scientific meltdowns like Bulma here. The real unobtainium is scientific accuracy in movies!

That's Not How The Periodic Table Works!
Chemistry Science Materials
1 month ago 5.3K views 0 shares
That's Not How The Periodic Table Works!
Chemistry nerds unite! That internal screaming when movies invent magical metals like Vibranium or Unobtanium that break every law of chemistry! 😂 The periodic table has 118 elements—that's it! No secret element 119 hiding in Wakanda or Pandora. Hollywood screenwriters just slap "ium" on the end of a word and suddenly it can do everything from absorb kinetic energy to power flying mountains! Next time you watch a sci-fi movie, count how many fictional elements you hear. It's the ultimate drinking game for chemists! Your liver might not survive Captain America's shield explanation though...

That's Not How The Periodic Table Works!
Chemistry Science
1 month ago 5.8K views 0 shares
That's Not How The Periodic Table Works!
Chemistry nerds, unite in frustration! Nothing triggers a scientist faster than sci-fi movies casually inventing "new elements" as plot devices. The periodic table is literally complete - we've synthesized elements all the way to 118! Sure, we might discover element 119 someday, but it won't be some magical substance that grants superpowers or opens interdimensional portals. The exasperated character perfectly captures that moment when scientific accuracy gets thrown out the window for dramatic effect. Next they'll probably claim it has a half-life of "forever" and can somehow power their entire spaceship with just a pebble-sized amount. *deep scientific sigh*

Taxonomic Nightmare Fuel
Biology Evolution Science
1 month ago 4.9K views 0 shares
Taxonomic Nightmare Fuel
Biologists watching Zootopia 2 are having an existential crisis right now. Imagine studying taxonomy your whole career only to watch foxes and rabbits casually violate every rule of interspecies dynamics. That's like a physicist watching someone defy gravity because they "believe in themselves." The taxonomic screaming you're hearing from the biology department can be detected three buildings away.

Quantum Nano: Hollywood's Scientific Vocabulary
Physics Science
1 month ago 5.6K views 0 shares
Quantum Nano: Hollywood's Scientific Vocabulary
Hollywood screenwriters have exactly two scientific words in their vocabulary: "quantum" and "nano." Need to explain how your superhero travels through time? Quantum! Want to create an impossibly small device that does literally anything? Nano! It's the cinematic equivalent of yelling "SCIENCE!" and running away before anyone asks questions. Next blockbuster idea: Quantum NanoTech™ - where the science is made up and the physics don't matter!

When Hollywood Physics Makes Scientists Cry
Physics Science
1 month ago 4.9K views 0 shares
When Hollywood Physics Makes Scientists Cry
The meme captures that iconic Pirates of the Caribbean scene where Jack Sparrow and crew are walking underwater by flipping a boat over their heads. From a physics standpoint, this is gloriously impossible! The buoyancy force should make that boat shoot straight to the surface like a champagne cork, not create a convenient underwater air pocket. Plus, the pressure differential at that depth would collapse any air space faster than you can say "savvy." It's basically the maritime equivalent of cartoon characters running off cliffs but not falling until they look down. Science is crying in the corner while Hollywood physics gets all the applause!

I Majored In Everything, And Finished In 4 Years
Engineering Science Tech
1 month ago 6.3K views 0 shares
I Majored In Everything, And Finished In 4 Years
Hollywood's favorite apocalypse survival hack: just grab an engineer! Suddenly, this one dude knows how to rewire nuclear facilities, build bridges, design spacecraft, and perform brain surgery. Because obviously engineering degrees come in variety packs! The most unrealistic part of post-apocalyptic fiction isn't the zombies—it's the engineer who somehow mastered 12 different specialties while the rest of us were struggling to pass Calculus I. Next time civilization collapses, I'm finding this mythical poly-engineer who can apparently fix everything from broken power grids to broken bones with nothing but duct tape and optimism.

The Real Cost Of A Physics Degree
Physics Academia Science Math
1 month ago 7.6K views 0 shares
The Real Cost Of A Physics Degree
The tiny sliver of "the math is hard" is just the appetizer. The real tragedy? That massive blue section representing the permanent destruction of your movie-watching experience. Once you understand how objects actually move through space, Hollywood becomes a personal hell of incorrect trajectories and impossible explosions. I've spent 30 years teaching undergrads about conservation of momentum only to watch them cry during finals week... and then again at every Marvel movie premiere. The worst part? That pie chart is missing the largest section: "spending your career explaining to relatives why you can't build them a perpetual motion machine."

That's Not How Elements Work!
Chemistry Science
1 month ago 5.5K views 0 shares
That's Not How Elements Work!
Every chemist watching sci-fi movies just died a little inside. The periodic table isn't some exclusive VIP club that elements can just opt out of! It's literally a comprehensive chart of all known elements in the universe. When screenwriters throw in the "not on the periodic table" line, they might as well say "this car runs on imagination juice" or "this computer is powered by rainbow dust." Just once I'd love to hear "we've discovered element 119" instead of this nonsense. Hollywood writers, please—just spend 5 minutes on Wikipedia before writing your next science monologue!

The Real Cost Of A Physics Degree
Physics Academia Science
2 months ago 15.7K views 0 shares
The Real Cost Of A Physics Degree
The eternal curse of physics majors - that tiny brown slice representing "the math is hard" is nothing compared to the massive green portion: "You'll never enjoy action movies again as you'll always notice the wrong physics." Once you understand momentum conservation, every explosion scene becomes a crime against Newton's laws. "Why isn't that car moving in the opposite direction of the explosion? Where did all that angular momentum come from? That's not how pendulums work!" Your friends will stop inviting you to movie night when you start calculating whether Spider-Man's web could actually support his weight during that swing.

Gravity: The Selective Force
Physics Science
2 months ago 5.5K views 0 shares
Gravity: The Selective Force
Movies really said "forget physics, we need drama!" The falling character experiences Earth's standard gravitational acceleration (g = 10 m/s²), but somehow the hero trying to catch them gets a special discount (g = 9.8 m/s²). That 0.2 m/s² difference is apparently enough for epic rescue scenes where people outrun gravity itself! Next time you're watching an action movie, just remember - the laws of physics take a coffee break whenever someone needs to be heroically caught mid-air. Newton is probably rolling in his grave fast enough to power a small city.

When Hollywood Does Physics
Physics Math Science
2 months ago 7.6K views 0 shares
When Hollywood Does Physics
The mathematical equivalent of "I know kung fu, therefore I can fly." Hollywood's version of physics is just substituting one famous equation into another and—BAM!—instant scientific breakthrough! Next up: Newton's apple + Schrödinger's cat = teleportation device. Just imagine Einstein rolling in his grave fast enough to generate electricity for the entire planet. The saddest part? Some moviegoer somewhere is nodding along thinking, "Yeah, that makes sense!"