Those kinds of articles/rants are always good for a chuckle.
Yeah, Scalzi makes a good point about Morpheus's "fusion" explanation in the Matrix. The Wachowski brothers constructed an elaborate edifice in the Matrix in order to tell their story, but you can dismantle that edifice easily enough if you just want to prove how shaky the film's physics are. I admit that Morpheus's speech was gobbledygook to me too. "...combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found all the energy they would ever need." Groovy, man...whatever you say.
As for Phantom Menace, I know that many fans feel the whole midichlorian thing is an unnecessary, dumb reductionist explanation of the Force. But it honestly never bothered me much. Midichlorians are the
least of Phantom Menace's problems, in my opinion.
I agree with the user comment about The Empire Strikes Back: how the Falcon is parked in a hole in an asteroid, and when everyone goes out to investigate, all they're wearing are little breath masks.
Let me add another: in the duel on the carbonite platform, Vader slashes at Luke, who falls into the chamber. Then Vader turns his back on Luke to engage the freezing process. But behind Vader, Luke leaps straight out of the chamber at what looks to be, um, incredible velocity. And yet, we don't hear the CLANG of Luke hitting the ceiling until a noticeably long moment later. We should've heard the sound almost a split second after we saw Luke jump out, because when we see him hanging from the pipes, he's really not that far from the floor. At the speed he was going, he should've leapt a few stories by the time that we (and Vader) finally heard the CLANG. So what the heck happened? Did Luke suddenly go into slo-mo for the second half of his leap?
That's my little contribution to nerdgassing.