Theseus's Epirus Bow in Immortals Has Arrows that Race

In the movie Immortals, Theseus, our demigod hero know for fighting the Minotaur, gets his hand on the Epirus bow which does not need any arrows. Instead it generates magic missiles which unerringly hit their targets with uncanny precision and accuracy. It's supposed to be magical, so it can do things which ordinary bows cannot do, such as create arrows as needed. it's not supposed to work like a real bow, but its use in the movie still poses a couple of questions.

In one scene, Theseus lets loose several shots, one after the other. As the arrows fly to their quarry, they appear to race against each other with each one trying to get ahead of the others. For non-magical arrows, this isn't realistic at all; if the arrows were released one after the other, they'd hit one at a time and never all at once. But this is exactly what happens in that scene where Theseus rescues hostages about to be killed.

While it can be argued that the racing arrows isn't a blooper since they came from a magical bow, if it were non-magical, the long distance of the targets would have required the archer to raise the angle of his bow a bit. But Theseus aims straight, as if the targets are just a few meters away. An arrow released from a real bow will fly in a downward curve with the forces of gravity and friction slowing it down, eventually making it fall to the ground. But that's for ordinary arrows and does not apply to the magical arrows used by Theseus. But then if they can accelerate magically beyond the laws of physics, it makes one wonder why they should have to take so long to hit the mark. Why not get there in no time at all? There can be lots of opinions on this one, but let's be clear that it's a given here that the Epirus arrows are magical and the fantastic special effects people who are responsible for this sequence and others in the movie did a great job. The power of the imagination and creativity can do wonders to suspend our beliefs even for a couple of hours at the movies.

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Cowboys and Aliens: Light that's supposed to have come from the ray gun actually came from a different source.

Cowboys and Aliens is a movie based on a graphic novel in which cowboys are pitted against aliens. The cowboys, primarily Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford's characters, must do with simple guns and their horses most of the time. But there's an advanced weapon attached to Craig's character's wrist which, in one scene, is used to take down an alien ship.

The weapon blasts away creating bright light and hits the alien ship, causing it to explode in mid air before crashing. More explosive light is created in the scene. Nothing appears amiss in the lighting, but if you look closely at the shadows, the sources of the illumination are not the objects concerned in the scene. The light that's supposed to have come from Craig's wrist weapon actually comes from the right side of the scene (note the shadows of the debris on the ground in the top picture) and the light that's supposed to come from the exploding ship originates from a visual effect that doesn't appear to create shadows (below).

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