Not surprisingly, Hollywood movies are particularly bad at adhering to laws of physics. Ars Technica offers a few examples of less-than-realistic special effects from movies like Speed, Spider-Man, X-Men and Superman. Here’s one:
The X-Men make a last food stand: rough estimate of the calories Magneto had to consume to fuel the magnetic fields that moved the Golden Gate Bridge? 4.8 million, the equivalent to burning of 1,350 pounds of fat. Dieters, take note.
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