Movie physics can provide a bonanza of enrichment activities for both high school physics students and first year physics students in college. These generally require nothing more than a VCR and stopwatch. Some movie scenes provide examples of good physics and others bad physics but all can be analyzed and used as topics of discussion. When the physics are so bad they're downright ugly, the real fun begins. Not only can ugly physics be analyzed, but they can be mercilessly ripped apart. Some insultingly stupid movie physics are so commonplace they have become visual clichés and do for movies what verbal clichés do for literature. Really good movies like Casablanca don't need visual clichés to build excitement. They depend on less glitzy techniques like good plot, character development, and sparkling dialog. The list of bad movie physics addressed at the website are the following:
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