What are some movies with bad physics that I can analyze for my assignment?

In summary, the speaker has an assignment to analyze the physics in a movie scene, but has not yet chosen a movie. They are considering an action movie and a sci-fi movie, but are having trouble finding scenes with the desired features. They ask for recommendations and mention the final scene in 'Reservoir Dogs' as a potential topic due to its interesting use of quantum mechanics.
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I have an assignment on movie magic in which I have to pick a scene from a movie and analyse the physics (including calculations of physics in movie, description and calculations of correct physics etc.) Problem is, I haven't picked a movie yet :frown:

I was going to pick 2 different scenes from two movies. A scene from an action movie (scene with shooting and car chases) and also a sci-fi movie (with explosions in space, sound in space etc.)

I was going to pick one of the 'fast and furious' movies, but the first FAF and FAF Tokyo drift haven't got any cars jumping off unfinished bridges, or shootings where only the person being shot is shot back.

So I was just curious as to if any of you know any good bad physics movies for both of my categories, or maybe even one movie that has a scene with all of those features that I'm looking for.

Thanks, I appreciate your help :smile:
 
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