10 Moments Of Bad Movie Science That Made Us Cringe

2. Turning Back Time (Superman)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjgsnWtBQm0 You might be reading this list and think I am some sort of curmudgeon. But that's not entirely true. I'm willing to suspend disbelief when I watch movies. In Superman, I'm willing to believe that there is an alien from a planet known as Krypton. I'm willing to believe that despite looking exactly like Clark Kent, nobody is able to put two and two together and figure out that they're the same person. I'll even believe that this being is able to fly, despite not having wings or a jet pack. And screw it I'm even willing to admit that I can suspend my disbelief enough that this guy can literally push the earth backwards, rotating the planet around its axis in the opposite direction. But what I'm not willing to accept is that doing this would actually turn back time. It wouldn't. What it would instead do is make everything fall over in the same direction. That's it. If you want to turn back time, invent a time machine. Of course, some nerds are gonna get on me and say things like "he's not really spinning the earth backwards, he's making a Superman wormhole". A couple things about that: 1. If that's all he's doing, why are they literally showing the earth spin backwards? I don't remember that happening in Back to the Future, Looper, or literally any other time travel movie 2. Uh, this dude can time travel? Since when? Why does he only do it once? No. That wormhole thing is just nerds trying to justify a moment of bad science.
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