Difference in rate of time passage has no basis in fact or science. This flaw is glossed over as if it doesn't defy credulity; but it does. At the very least, they could've mentioned the fact that this anomaly was an unsolved mystery, instead of a fact to be accepted at face value. This could've been woven into the dialogue without making it stick out too much.
One reviewer added "Ice Age" as a flaw in this tiny, modern period of global warming, forgetting that we current live in an Ice Age, and that the scientific climate flaw of the 1970s was that the trend was linear, just like the scientific climate flaw of the 1990s; climate ALWAYS changes and it is never linear. Climate changes in cycles -- up and down. And correlation studies show that CO2 DOES **NOT** DRIVE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE.
The accelerated cooling trend of the last 3,000 years, plus the current Grand Solar Minimum, are both consistent with increased cooling. This cooling problem is potentially made worse by the Warming Alarmists' desire to cool the planet, as former CIA Director John Brennan said, "like volcanoes do." And that's just what psychopath Bill Gates and his fellow nut jobs at Harvard are planning to do; destroy the ability to grow crops with colder oceans! Talk about story flaws; that is a real-life boner of a flaw.
Bottom line on the so-called "Ice Age flaw" is that this is NOT a flaw, at all, but one of the truly accurate parts of this otherwise flawed film.
When fighting an opponent, to knock them down and then simply walk away, without first securing the enemy, is stupidity of the worst kind. The character, Bran (protagonist), did this several times. Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! Lazy writing!
In navigation, waiting until the last fraction of a second is nonsense. The earlier a course maneuver is taken the less abrupt it has to be; the less energy that is required; and the smaller the angle of deviation needs to be. The dumb script called for waiting until the last moment before jerking at maximum lateral deviation to avoid collision. Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!
After a deadly fight with someone truly evil, the main Rhean (Ohsha) forgets to tie up the enemy. That the two main characters did the SAME bone-headed mistake only reflects poorly on the writer. Dumb! More lazy writing. I understand that the enemy is needed for later scenes, but achieving that need with laziness doesn't work.
Main Rhean (Ohsha) makes it clear at first that she hates and does not trust Earthers. But then, she admits that her parents trusted Earthers and attempted to help them. Groan! And then she admits that the government is responsible for poisoning their minds against Earthers. Squishy, slippery foundation for the character's motivation. Dumb!
At G-7, Bran can move around at all? Say he has an Earth body weight of 100 kg, that'd be 700 kg he's lugging around. Not at all likely. Lifting external weight, the Olympic record for 109 kg weight class for clean & jerk is 240 kg. Here, the body's total weight is nearly three times that record. Imagine trying to lift your head which normally weighs, at 1-g, about 5 kg, but at 7-g's, about 35 kg (nearly 80 pounds). I suspect that this would break the person's unsupported neck.
Art continuity in this film sucks. Showing the ringed planet with light coming from the side, but the planet's primary ("sun") in the background is illogical at best. Big artist's mistake! Or, if that orangish star is the system's secondary, the planet does not show any reflection of its light. Cool artwork poorly conceived.
On the plus side, the acting was better than average, and excellent in some places. Dialogue was fair to good. Special effects were not that great, but I'd much rather spend more on getting the story right than fluffing up the movie with empty effects.
Set design was moderately weak. In one scene, a large vent had bright light coming from the other side. I can't imagine why an air vent would be expending so much energy to brighten an air duct which remained beyond view.
A few careful adjustments could have made this far more enjoyable than it was. The additional costs would have been minimal, and could have garnered an extra 3-4 points from that alone, from this not-so-humble critic.
One reviewer added "Ice Age" as a flaw in this tiny, modern period of global warming, forgetting that we current live in an Ice Age, and that the scientific climate flaw of the 1970s was that the trend was linear, just like the scientific climate flaw of the 1990s; climate ALWAYS changes and it is never linear. Climate changes in cycles -- up and down. And correlation studies show that CO2 DOES **NOT** DRIVE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE.
The accelerated cooling trend of the last 3,000 years, plus the current Grand Solar Minimum, are both consistent with increased cooling. This cooling problem is potentially made worse by the Warming Alarmists' desire to cool the planet, as former CIA Director John Brennan said, "like volcanoes do." And that's just what psychopath Bill Gates and his fellow nut jobs at Harvard are planning to do; destroy the ability to grow crops with colder oceans! Talk about story flaws; that is a real-life boner of a flaw.
Bottom line on the so-called "Ice Age flaw" is that this is NOT a flaw, at all, but one of the truly accurate parts of this otherwise flawed film.
When fighting an opponent, to knock them down and then simply walk away, without first securing the enemy, is stupidity of the worst kind. The character, Bran (protagonist), did this several times. Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! Lazy writing!
In navigation, waiting until the last fraction of a second is nonsense. The earlier a course maneuver is taken the less abrupt it has to be; the less energy that is required; and the smaller the angle of deviation needs to be. The dumb script called for waiting until the last moment before jerking at maximum lateral deviation to avoid collision. Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!
After a deadly fight with someone truly evil, the main Rhean (Ohsha) forgets to tie up the enemy. That the two main characters did the SAME bone-headed mistake only reflects poorly on the writer. Dumb! More lazy writing. I understand that the enemy is needed for later scenes, but achieving that need with laziness doesn't work.
Main Rhean (Ohsha) makes it clear at first that she hates and does not trust Earthers. But then, she admits that her parents trusted Earthers and attempted to help them. Groan! And then she admits that the government is responsible for poisoning their minds against Earthers. Squishy, slippery foundation for the character's motivation. Dumb!
At G-7, Bran can move around at all? Say he has an Earth body weight of 100 kg, that'd be 700 kg he's lugging around. Not at all likely. Lifting external weight, the Olympic record for 109 kg weight class for clean & jerk is 240 kg. Here, the body's total weight is nearly three times that record. Imagine trying to lift your head which normally weighs, at 1-g, about 5 kg, but at 7-g's, about 35 kg (nearly 80 pounds). I suspect that this would break the person's unsupported neck.
Art continuity in this film sucks. Showing the ringed planet with light coming from the side, but the planet's primary ("sun") in the background is illogical at best. Big artist's mistake! Or, if that orangish star is the system's secondary, the planet does not show any reflection of its light. Cool artwork poorly conceived.
On the plus side, the acting was better than average, and excellent in some places. Dialogue was fair to good. Special effects were not that great, but I'd much rather spend more on getting the story right than fluffing up the movie with empty effects.
Set design was moderately weak. In one scene, a large vent had bright light coming from the other side. I can't imagine why an air vent would be expending so much energy to brighten an air duct which remained beyond view.
A few careful adjustments could have made this far more enjoyable than it was. The additional costs would have been minimal, and could have garnered an extra 3-4 points from that alone, from this not-so-humble critic.