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What successful or popular movie that many loved you just HATE?
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Regardless of your opinion of the movie, Unobtainium is a real term used in engineering and material sciences. A modern example would a material to make the walls of a fusion reactor with. The movie example was implied to be a room temperature super conductor.
that's like, the reason it's a lazy and stupid name for the film's macguffin, it's a generic placeholder term for "material we don't have". it's at best an insultingly hamfisted attempt at fourth-wall meta bullshit, and at worst a holdover from early drafts that survived to the final draft through a series of godlike feats of incompetence. and either way it's awful for willing suspension of disbelief. can you imagine if it were canon that the Force works because of "handwavium"? it's just flat out bad writing either way, but I'd argue it appears even worse for knowing the irl term unobtanium.