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.
That’s different. It’s laws of magic not physics there. The hammer is some sort of dimwitted magical sentient object with agency.
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"Magic" and "Science" in the context of fantasy / soft sci fi like the matrix or avengers is a matter of aesthetics. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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There’s logical conventions here. If it’s magical, don’t portray it like it’s constrained/limited by laws of physics and signal its agency. If it’s fake physics, keep it coherent by analogy to the right real physics. It’s aesthetics but with applicable composition principles.
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