Rewatching Matrix Revolutions. Realizing something has always bothered me. The squid-like machines move like they’re underwater rather than in the air. They’re in underground air but aren’t underwater. But dynamics look lighter-than-medium. Avengers I has the same problem.
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Oddly, atmospheric flight designs in spacecraft don’t bother me as much. Partly because many sci-fi spacecraft also enter the atmosphere, like the space shuttle. Partly because even in vacuum, direction of motion affects things. Partly because humans inside add constraints.
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But physics regimes differences could be milked for plot points much more than they are. Like Ender using the arbitrariness of “down” in space to create tactical advantage, because everybody is oriented on “doorframe is vertical”
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Matrix Revolutions is so much worse than the rest of the trilogy that it’s like it was made by Michael Bay
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Scenes inside the matrix are generally better in all 3. They explicitly play with the “the characters know this is made up physics within a physics engine that you can bend/twist” premise. They flip between magical action and mundane physics as a function of mental state.
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The Neo/Agent climactic battle is an operatic setpiece that works that way. They cycle among magic fantasy physics, superhero physics, video game physics, stylized martial arts physics, and real physics. At least 3-4 kinds of inertia in evidence.
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Solo:A Star Wars Story has the same deal. A gigantic space squid
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So, you haven't even considered the idea that aliens might have designers as well, and these designers need to be paid for something.
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Issue is that those motions work in water, where they push against something ~as dense as the octopus, but in air, imply the creatures have the density of... airThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The serpent like motion & behaviour is probably just for the scares. Remember reading somewhere about how many mammals can spot snakes thanks to a gene.
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They move that way because it's cool. The fact that the monsters from 2 of the biggest action movies ever are "air versions of sea creatures", means, if anything, that it should be done more, as it's probably tapping into something
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"the jobs to be done" of special effects!!
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