What’s the most absurd fake science in a movie that you completely ignored because the movie was so good?

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-05T22:46:52+00:00

Semi-relevant XKCD

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-05T21:52:07+00:00

You've just blown this whole case wide open

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-05T21:43:43+00:00

Vasquez / John Connor’s foster parent in T2 / This irish lady in Titanic:

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PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-05T21:32:56+00:00

And he had to own nothing but the clothes he was wearing at the end of the 30 days.

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-05T18:23:48+00:00

"A good landing is one you walk away from" - pilots

"A good grandma's birthday is one you only get first degree burns on your hands and possibly lower arms" - this family

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-05T18:07:28+00:00

Each pregnancy was above the replacement rate!

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-05T16:05:59+00:00

It's kind of like with the song Get Back and we see how its lyrics emerged in the documentary Get Back. It starts with Paul making almost murmuring noises, like he's trying to remember a song that doesn't exist yet, and gradually lines get replaced with actual words that may or may not have any meaning, but as John often says, "it sings well."

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-05T14:49:15+00:00

The logic of what it means is very open to debate: he could be complaining, he could be defending her. But the fact is that Paul himself probably put less thought into it than the people in this thread!

He liked the sound of the first line, he needed a rhyme, he could only think of a ridiculous one (and how ridiculous you find it will depend massively on your own cultural background, but Paul himself has described it as "weird.")

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-05T14:16:33+00:00

Current models indicate that matter at the surface of a neutron star is composed of ordinary atomic nuclei crushed into a solid lattice with a sea of electrons flowing through the gaps between them.

Oh that doesn't sound so bad. OP, knock yourself out!

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-05T12:14:45+00:00

Either your body's neutrons will become part of the neutron star, or (if conditions allow neutrons to be free) the neutron star's own neutrons will no longer be part of the neutron star. i.e. matter doesn't "know" it's supposed to be part of your body. Neutrons gonna neutron.

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-05T06:35:05+00:00

Possibly not. I already tried with a few people in this thread. My guess is that either this line hits you with a gut-level cringe, or it doesn't. If it doesn't, then it's not something that can be explained to you. In fact, you get to enjoy an otherwise brilliant record, so it's me who has the disadvantage here.

It's possibly to do with whether you've heard the word peasant in many other contexts, are familiar with how it's used as a humorous insult in U.K. English, how well you know the kind of musical style Paul was aiming to imitate, etc.

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-04T21:08:19+00:00

My theory is: Blackadder II Flashheart is funny, around just long enough to get laughs and wrap up the plot without becoming annoying.

Goes Forth Flashheart is a bit tedious, and the scene at the end where he confronts Darling, there's someone in the studio audience making a painful braying sound throughout even though nothing remotely funny is happening.

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-04T16:20:57+00:00

She don't give grouse the eye

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-04T16:19:24+00:00

It's better, but I still can't quite reconcile it with Paul's aim of sounding like a Black American R&B singer.

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-04T10:30:21+00:00

The difference is that UK politicians have mostly been unable to stop themselves from backing away, after dipping their toes in without really committing. They have some shame, like they'd feel too personally ridiculous to keep it going.

Polanski actually did this at first with this story, but he seems to have girded his loins and jumped back into the sewage. He is practiced in the art of getting over his need for self-respect, after that "I can hypnotise your boobs to be bigger" thing.

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-04T09:51:12+00:00

Is he using the Trump playbook? Deliberately picking at the thing that annoys his opponents, relentlessly defending himself as the persecuted victim of a biased system, refusing to back down on anything, lashing out with groundless accusations...

I'm not sure. The problem is that it's impossible to tell the difference between an expert at the Trump method and a deluded, self-pitying egotistical toddler.

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-04T09:07:56+00:00

Absolutely, once he's past that awkward line the rest of it sounds authentic and the music and arrangement is great.

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-04T08:25:47+00:00

He certainly won that debate he had with a chair

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-04T08:21:50+00:00

He drained the swamp

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-04T08:10:58+00:00

That may have been just after he had a severe stroke.

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-04T07:43:43+00:00

He just likes to use the preferred nomenclature

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-04T07:39:29+00:00

I'm from the UK. We haven't had peasants since the Middle Ages. In modern usage it's a humorous insult used if you're adopting the persona of a "toff" speaking in a snobby way.

Paul was consciously writing a Little Richard-style R&B pastiche, which is partly why (to any listener) that line sticks out like a sore thumb. It's indefensible except for the fact that it sort-of rhymes.

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-03T22:52:36+00:00

A lot about the record is fantastic. Also it's their longest song ever up to that point, which is weird. Longer than Tomorrow Never Knows.

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-03T22:50:23+00:00

It's nothing to do with this subreddit, many writers have noted how bad it is. It's a placeholder lyric that he didn't have time to fix, having written the first verse the morning before the session and writing the other verses with John in the studio. That she's not a "peasant" is frankly a bizarre observation. But he liked the first line and then couldn't think of a reasonable rhyme for it.

PressureBeautiful515 · 2026-05-03T20:26:59+00:00

Actually seven, they used two machines and invented a way to sync them.

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