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three to welcome to watch Mojo.
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And today we'll be counting down our picks for the top 10 movies with broken physics.
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Yeah, a hell of a mess, that is.
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Hey, listen, I don't like it anymore than you dio for this list.
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We'll be looking at films that ignored the laws of science for the sake of the plot.
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Can you think of any films with broken physics?
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Let us know in the comments.
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Number 10.
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The A team in the A team.
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Our heroes survive a mid air plane explosion by parachuting out of the wreck in a tank.
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They land safely by repeatedly firing tank rounds downwards into a lake to slow their fall, trying to shoot down that other drone.
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No, they're trying to fly that tank.
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Unfortunately for the A team, the firing force of a single tank round isn't greater than the force of a tank falling at high speeds.
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They would have needed to fire around 90 rounds of ammunition, tow land safely, but the model tank they used typically holds 30 rounds.
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Fired everything.
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Come on, baby.
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Yeah.
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Since we don't see them reload often enough, it doesn't appear the team fired enough ammunition to slow themselves down for a soft landing.
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If the A team obeyed the laws of physics, this mid movie tank stunt would have been the film's riel ending way to Berlin, asking for directions to Berlin.
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And that's impossible.
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Number nine transporter to hands up.
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Stop moving or I will shoot you.
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Don't you have home what to do?
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Why don't you go into a typical day for Frank, Martin consists of driving fast cars, beating up goons and insulting the laws of physics.
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When a bomb strapped to the underside of his Audi, he launches his vehicle off a ramp, spins it upside down and knocks the bomb off on the first try.
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But his most implausible stunt was a jump between two buildings.
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While running from the police, Martin drives his car through a concrete barrier and launches himself to an adjacent building without damaging his car.
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The impact from the barrier would have slowed him down so much that the newly wrecked car would have plunged towards the ground.
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Martin may be a good driver, but even he's not good enough to defy the laws of physics.
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Not bad.
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Did your mother ever teach you to say thank you.
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Number eight Fast and Furious six.
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After so many fast and furious films, franchise fans have accepted that are heroes can accomplish impossible feats with their cars.
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You be careful.
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This is who we are, but fast and furious six featured a scene so ridiculous that in interviews, even the movie's writer, Chris Morgan, has admitted it wasn't realistic.
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At the film's climax, our heroes raced to rescue Mia Toretto from a speeding plane.
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The hero spend around 13 minutes trying to keep up, according to the analysis of BBC's Ben Carter, who puts their average speed at 120 miles.
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That means the runway would have to be around 26 miles long.
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Since the world's longest runway is 3.5 miles long, the film's climax is definitely a stretch.
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Number seven Superman Bad Vibrations.
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Henry Cavill Superman was criticized for the collateral damage he caused while fighting zahd, but science makes it clear that Christopher Reeves version of the character was even mawr reckless.
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When lowest dies in an earthquake, Superman goes back in time to save her.
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He flies around the world so fast that the earth spins backwards and reverses time.
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If Superman flew fast enough toe alter the world's rotation, he would generate extremely powerful winds.
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These gusts could be strong enough to topple buildings, create dangerous weather conditions and jeopardize the innocent lives of people around the globe.
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Audiences may accept that Superman can defy science and accomplish this feat.
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But are they okay with all the damage?
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His time traveling stunt would cause high.
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Don't bother.
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I think it's dead.
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Sure, it's did number six Mission to Mars.
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The saddest scene in Mission to Mars was arguably its most inaccurate.
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Hey, listen, I don't like it anymore than you dio.
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When an astronaut named Woody is separated from his wife Terri, in the vacuum of space, she uses exactly half of her jetpack fuel to accelerate towards him.
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Terry!
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No, Terry, Come back.
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You'll never make it.
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Terry, what are you doing?
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I'll tell you what I'm not doing, Woody.
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I'm not gonna watch you die.
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Unfortunately, she doesn't get close enough.
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Can you die?
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I'm sorry.
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Way.
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What are you doing?
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Would he removes his helmet and instantly freezes to death so Terry wouldn't use her remaining fuel to rescue him.
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But as astronomer Phil plait has pointed out, since there's no friction in space slowing her down, she would have had to fire on equal amount of fuel to stop.
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This means her jetpack would have been empty when she stopped.
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To add insult to injury, would he would have suffocated before he froze.
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Please, Terry, come back.
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When you apply riel science to mission to Mars, the story becomes more tragic and impossible.
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Number five Total recall.
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By the end of total recall, corrupt Mars Governor Villas Co Hagan has one goal.
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He wants to prevent hero Douglas Quaid from turning on a reactor that will produce constant oxygen for the people of Mars.
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Once the reaction starts, it'll spread to all the Tra Binyamin.
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The planet Mars will go into global meltdown.
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That's why the aliens never turned it on.
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It turns out he had a good reason.
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While Earth's heiress 78% nitrogen, Mars has only 1% of nitrogen inside of its atmosphere.
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This element helps prevent fires from burning, continuously, protects us from oxygen toxicity and helps make the sky blue.
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As writer Maria Montalbano points out for medium, if you suddenly introduced a bunch of oxygen to Mars.
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What you'd actually see is everyone getting sick as fires and explosions raged underneath a bland sky.
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So while CO Hagen isn't the nicest guy, his evil actions were secretly keeping the citizens of Mars safe the entire time.
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You're nothing.
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You're nobody.
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You're a stupid dream.
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Number four Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull can't be good.
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While watching Mutt swing on vines fast enough to keep up with Jeeps was absurd.
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Indies fourth installment featured um, or problematic scientific scene.
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Indy gets trapped on an atomic bomb testing site right before a nuke is detonated.
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He protects himself by hiding inside a refrigerator three to wow.
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After the fridges launched into the air and comes crashing down hard.
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Indiana rolls out and keeps adventuring, but the fridge would have actually been fatal.
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If Indy wasn't mortally wounded by the force of the atomic blast hitting the fridge or his hard landing, he would have been hit with a ton of radiation as soon as he opened the door.
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Unless indie still had access to the Holy Grail, he wouldn't survive this adventure.
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I think you recognize the gravity of your situation.
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Number three fast five.
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Sorry fast and furious fans, but we're ruining another one of the films in Fast five, Dom and Brian Steele, a vault full of $100 million in cash.
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They accomplish this by using to Dodge Chargers to toe their bounty through the streets at breakneck speeds.
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You guys have every corrupt cop in Rio on your tail.
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You just have to move fast.
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If the vault they stole was full of millions in cash, it would weigh around 15 tons.
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Guys, I'm hearing all this charge.
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You just take out a bank.
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Harvard physicist Dr Randall Kelly calculated that it would take about 467 Dodge Chargers to move that heavy ball to the speeds we sing in the movie.
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Realistically, Dom and Brian would have reached a max speed of just over two MPH, and they would have gotten away with it, too, if they added about 400 members to their crew.
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It's a hell of a mess that is number two, the core three months, gentlemen, and we're back in the Stone Age.
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It takes less than half a now, er for the court to become utterly absurd to anyone with an understanding of physics.
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After mysterious tragedies keep occurring worldwide, a geophysicist announces that the Earth's core has stopped spinning.
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He goes on to say that they have a year to restart it before the magnetic field around the earth disappears.
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When that shield collapses, microwave radiation will literally cook our planet.
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But according to physicist John Nordberg, if the Earth's core stopped spinning, the magnetic field would be gone in an instant.
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Even a group of ragtag scientists couldn't delay that phenomenon.
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Fortunately, scientists have theorized that the rest of the Earth's atmosphere would protect us from most of the catastrophic destruction the film depicts.
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Let's hope we never have to test that theory before our physics teachers fail our topic.
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Here are a few dishonorable mentions Wanted.
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You can't make bullets curve with a flick of the wrist.
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G I.
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Joe.
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The rise of Cobra Heavy chunks of ice shouldn't fall that fast.
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Two.
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Fast two furious Brian Speedy car would have flown over the booth.
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Live free or die hard.
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John McClane would have broken his legs jumping off the jet alone.
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Yeah, wow, speed.
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If the bus miraculously jumped a huge gap, everyone would be injured.
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Thank you.
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Number one Armageddon Michael Bay's space thriller kicks into gear when scientists discover a Texas sized asteroid will hit Earth in 18 days.
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It's what we call a global killer the end of mankind.
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NASA quickly trains and sends oil drillers to put a nuke inside the asteroid and blow it to space dust.
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Are you suggesting that we blow this thing up from the inside?
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It's exactly what I'm saying.
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Their plan is both extremely rushed and horribly ineffective.
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According to research astronomer Dr Alastair Bruce, speaking to the I newspaper on Asteroid, his biggest Texas would have been visible for months.
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And if the space rock was that massive, a single nuke detonated inside would barely tickle it.
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The explosion of one nuke would only break off smaller pieces of the asteroid that would probably collide with Earth and cause more devastation.
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Despite the numerous factual errors.
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Armageddon was a box office smash.
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It's almost like audiences don't even care about scientific accuracy.
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Dan, we didn't see this thing coming.
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