Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Looks Totally Insane

[BehattedWanderer]

And here I was hoping they were actually making a game out of this.

How did he chop a tree up? Ripping a tree like that, it'd be damn near impossible, and even then you'd need some serious grip on the thing and the damn horses of the gods to even get the thing to tear. Cheesey effects I get, but let those effects stay within physics, at least. The last time we tried this crap, we saw gunpowder being drawn across a room by an electromagnet, highlight the marionette corpse of Indiana Jones.

It's a movie about a 19th century U.S. president laying the smackdown on the undead. We have exchanged our forlorn goodbyes with reality and struck on our own to find our fortune.

My willing suspension of disbelief is willing to accept the tasty alt-fantasy mash up gibberish goodness, but physics is physics. Unless their physics are different, in which case why is their world sticking together???, but I doubt such is the case.

Strict adherence to physics makes for boring movies. If throwing a tree into orbit makes for an absurdly awesome fight scene, then throw a tree into orbit we shall.

But...the tensile strength! And the direction of movement was perpendicular to the applied force! It makes no sense!

Oh fine. Have your impossible tree fight scene. I'm gonna get more chips, because this is looking to be a whole cow's worth of cheese.

[small]*Grumble grumble* breaking physics *grumble grumble* material properties *grumble grumble*[/small]

The person chopping clearly has immense strength, so tensile strength can be ignored. The axe blade is a wedge, and thus is pushing the tree both up and down. Since the tree can't move down, the earth is there, the top part of the tree accelerates upwards due to the force of the axe wedging it up. Most of the force will be directed perpendicular to the tree, yes, but some, due to the angle of impact, will be directed upwards. That is how he can chop a tree up.

...And there it is. I suppose this is the punishment for complaining about the physics of a "But it looks cool!" cinematographical idea. It's an interesting idea, sure, of making a tree go suborbital, and yes, the explanation above might be exactly how the filmmakers look at the thing, if they ever need justification. It's justifying something that doesn't work that way for the sake of a "it looks badass!" moment, nothing more.

 

[Scrythe]

My reaction:

"Well this will be bada- Tim Burton? Tim fucking Burton? What, so Abraham Lincoln is going to be a psuedo goth with daddy issues? Where does he plan to squeeze Johnny Depp into this? Is Helena Bonham Carter going to the fucking love interest?"

*trailer ends*

"Hmm... well it looks interesting. I don't Timmy's usual offenders. Lemme check IMDb... WHAT THE FUCK?! Mary Elizabeth Winstead is involved with this? The soulless wooden harpy who was involved in the complete assfucking of The Thing? Well fuck this movie, then."

Yes, I realize this is just nerd rage at this moment, but I will be genuinely surprised if this doesn't turn out to be total shit.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

This... this is a thing? A real thing? A real thing that will be real? I don't... maybe I need to sit down.

Anyway. Not only does it look like it'll be crazyawesome, but it might mean that conditions are finally right for a film treatment of one of the most crazyawesome concepts ever:

Spoiler: Go on, click it, you know you want to