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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 6180159" data-attributes="member: 31216">For instance: superhero moviesWe know that when we go to a superhero movie, there will be fantasitical things, and we should enter fully willing to suspend our disbelief. And I usually can. But then, sometimes, for some usually unnecessary reason, the writers feel the need for a character to explain the "science." And they usually get it hilariously wrong.It's not just superhero movies, either. Pretty much any sci-fi-type movie has this problem. A space ship travels a far distance, and we're all capable of accepting that idea. But then they say the distance is X light years and the ship's engineer explains to a new recruit how they travel faster than light.The villain mastermind is a super genius, and really, we get that. But then a psychiatrist mentions how the villain uses a full 90% of his brain versus the usual 10% of a normal person.There is a code for using the space teleporter, and ok. But then someone specifies that there are six numbers in the code, and a scientist says that's because to identify a point in space requires six coordinates.Etc.It seems that just about every time a sci-fi movie character has explained the science of the fiction, he/she gets it stupidly wrong. And most of the time we, the viewer, don't really need any explanation. We've already bought into the idea that sci-fi things will happen; they have us in the audience. Throwing in an unnecessary *and wrong* explanation just seems very foolish. People who have at least a high school level science understanding get, at least, jolted out of the experience for a moment, or at worst get kicked out of enjoying the whole show.Should movies just not explain the science of the sci-fi universe at all? If a movie does require an explanation of the science, how hard is it really for a writer to look up the facts, or maybe ask a scientist?What are some of the worst examples of bad and unnecessary science explanations in Hollywood movies?Bullgrit</blockquote>

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