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one zero welcome to watch mojo
and today we'll be counting down our
picks for the top 10 movies with broken
physics
it's a hell of a mess that is
hey listen i don't like it anymore than
you do for this list we'll be looking at
films that ignored the laws of science
for the sake of the plot
can you think of any films with broken
physics let us know in the comments
number 10 the a-team in the a-team
our heroes survive a mid-air plane
explosion
by parachuting out of the wreck in a
tank they land safely by repeatedly
firing tank grounds downwards into a
lake to slow their fall
are you trying to shoot down that other
drone no
they're trying to fly that tank
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
they would have needed to fire around 90
rounds of ammunition to land safely
but the model tank they used typically
holds 30 rounds fire everything
come on baby
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
if the a-team obeyed the laws of physics
this mid-movie tank stunt would have
been the film's real ending
excuse me which way to berlin asking for
directions to berlin
that's impossible number nine
transporter two
hands up stop moving or i will shoot you
drive home what to do
why don't you go and do it a typical day
for frank martin consists of driving
fast cars
beating up goons and insulting the laws
of physics
when a bomb is 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
but his most implausible stunt was a
jump between two buildings
while running from the police martin
drives his car through a concrete
barrier and
launches himself to an adjacent building
without damaging his car
the impact from the barrier would have
slowed him down so much
that the newly wrecked car would have
plunged towards the ground
martin may be a good driver but even
he's not good enough to defy the laws of
physics
not bad did your mother ever teach you
to say thank you
number eight fast and furious six after
so many fast and furious films
franchise fans have accepted that our
heroes can accomplish
impossible feats with their cars you be
careful
this is who we are but fast and furious
6 featured a scene
so ridiculous that in interviews even
the movie's writer chris morgan has
admitted it wasn't realistic
at the film's climax our heroes raced to
rescue mia toretto from a speeding plane
the hero spent around 13 minutes trying
to keep up
according to the analysis of bbc's ben
carter who puts their average speed at
120 miles
that means the runway would have to be
around 26 miles long
since the world's longest runway is 3.5
miles long
the film's climax is definitely a
stretch
number seven superman
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bad vibrations henry cavill superman was
criticized for the collateral damage he
caused while fighting zod
but science makes it clear that
christopher reeve's version of the
character was even more reckless
when lois dies in an earthquake superman
goes back in time to save her
he flies around the world so fast that
the earth spins backwards and reverses
time if superman flew fast enough to
alter the world's rotation
he would generate extremely powerful
winds these gusts
could be strong enough to topple
buildings create dangerous weather
conditions
and jeopardize the innocent lives of
people around the globe
audiences may accept that superman can
defy science and accomplish this feat
but are they okay with all the damage
his time travelling stunt would cause
hi don't bother i think it's dead
sure it's dead number six mission to
mars
the saddest scene in mission to mars was
arguably its most inaccurate
hey listen i don't like it anymore than
you do when an astronaut named woody is
separated from his wife terry in the
vacuum of space
she uses exactly half of her jetpack
fuel to accelerate towards him terry no
terry come back
he'll never make it terry what are you
doing
i'll tell you what i'm not doing woody
i'm not gonna watch you die
unfortunately she doesn't get close
enough i can't let you die i'm sorry
what are you doing woody removes his
helmet and instantly freezes to death so
terry wouldn't use her remaining fuel to
rescue him
but as astronomer phil plate has pointed
out since there's no friction in space
slowing her down
she would have had to fire an equal
amount of fuel to stop
this means her jetpack would have been
empty when she stopped
to add insult to injury woody would have
suffocated before he froze please terry
come back when you apply real science to
mission to mars the story becomes more
tragic
and impossible number five total recall
by the end of total recall corrupt mars
governor velos kohagen has one goal
he wants to prevent hero douglas quaid
from turning on a reactor that will
produce constant oxygen for the people
of mars
once the reaction starts it'll spread to
all the gerbinium in the planet
mars will go into global meltdown that's
why the aliens never turned it on
it turns out he had a good reason while
earth's air is 78
nitrogen mars has only one percent of
nitrogen inside of its atmosphere
this element helps prevent fires from
burning continuously
protects us from oxygen toxicity and
helps make the sky blue
as writer maria montelobano points out
for medium if you suddenly introduced a
bunch of oxygen to mars
what you'd actually see is everyone
getting sick as
fires and explosions raged underneath a
bland sky
so while kohagan isn't the nicest guy
his evil actions were secretly keeping
the citizens of mars safe
the entire time you're nothing you're
nobody
you're a stupid dream number four
indiana jones and the kingdom of the
crystal skull
no that can't be good while watching
mutt swing on vines fast enough to keep
up with jeeps was absurd
indy's fourth installment featured a
more problematic scientific scene
indy gets trapped on an atomic bomb
testing site right before a nuke is
detonated
he protects himself by hiding inside a
refrigerator
after the fridge is launched into the
air and comes crashing down hard
indiana rolls out and keeps adventuring
but the fridge would have actually been
fatal 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
unless indy still had access to the holy
grail he wouldn't survive this adventure
i think you recognize the gravity of
your situation
number three fast five sorry fast and
furious fans but we're ruining another
one of the films
in fast five dom and brian steal a vault
full of 100 million dollars in cash
they accomplished this by using two
dodge chargers to tow their bounty
through the streets at breakneck speeds
you guys have every corrupt cup and reel
on your tail guys have to move fast
if the vault they stole was full of
millions in cash it would weigh around
15
tons guys i'm hearing all this chatter
did you just take out a bank
harvard physicist dr randall kelly
calculated that it would take about
467 dodge chargers to move that heavy
ball to the speeds we see in the movie
realistically dom and bryan would have
reached a max speed of just over
2 miles per hour and they would have
gotten away with it too
if they added about 400 members to their
crew
it's a hell of a mess that is
number two the core three months
gentlemen
and we're back in the stone age it takes
less than half an hour for the core to
become utterly absurd to anyone with an
understanding of physics
after mysterious tragedies keep
occurring worldwide a geophysicist
announces that the earth's core has
stopped spinning
he goes on to say that they have a year
to restart it before the magnetic field
around the earth disappears
when that shield collapses microwave
radiation
will literally cook our planet
but according to physicist john ortberg
if the earth's core stopped spinning
the magnetic field would be gone in an
instant even a group of ragtag
scientists couldn't delay that
phenomenon
fortunately scientists have theorized
that the rest of the earth's atmosphere
would protect us
from most of the catastrophic
destruction the film depicts
let's hope we never have to test that
theory
before our physics teachers fail our top
pick here are a few
dishonorable mentions wanted you can't
make bullets curve with a flick of the
wrist
gi joe the rise of cobra heavy chunks of
ice shouldn't fall that fast
too fast too furious brian's speedy car
would have flown over the boat
live free or die hard john mcclane would
have broken his legs jumping off the jet
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alone
speed if the bus miraculously jumped a
huge gap
everyone would be injured
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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
it's what we call a global killer the
end of mankind
nasa quickly trains and sends oil
drillers to put a nuke inside the
asteroid and blow it to space dust
are you suggesting that we blow this
thing up from the inside that's exactly
what i'm saying
their plan is both extremely rushed and
horribly ineffective
according to research astronomer dr
alister bruce speaking to the eye
newspaper
an asteroid as big as texas would have
been visible for months
and if the space rock was that massive a
single nuke detonated inside would
barely tickle it
the explosion of one nuke would only
break off smaller pieces of the asteroid
that would probably collide with earth
and cause more devastation
despite the numerous factual errors
armageddon was a box office smash
it's almost like audiences don't even
care about scientific accuracy
dan we didn't see this thing coming do
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