Bad Science in Sci-Fi Movies
I Love Charts io9 targets bad science tropes in movies, including the instance of sound in space, slow motion in zero gravity, and inconsequential breeding between humans and aliens. Is the assumption that aliens are not so different than you and I really bad science? Or that physics moves the way the writer wants it to? It is science fiction, after all. And how scientifically accurate is “Star Wars” really supposed to be?
While Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff got a “clean bill of accuracy,” a science fiction movie (hey, Apollo 13 wasn’t even science fiction!) that’s “scientifically accurate” could go over a lot of people’s heads. Or turn out to be incredibly boring if people can’t jump to light speed, dodge lasers, or communicate with aliens.
Or it could be astoundingly disturbing, like the “100% medically accurate” “Human Centipede.”
(io9 via I Love Charts via The High Definite via Neatorama)
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