Worst "science" movie

[Ei]

Hmm, I wonder where jonrog1 is.



What I love about it is right afterwards Morpheus mentions that the machines have a form of nuclear fusion.



Damn, that would have been much cooler, and more believable.

It would also explain why so many programs act so human (in the matrix at least), and how Agent smith was able to take over Bane.

 

[Warrior Poet]

From Guiness: Highest Speed on a Snowboard - The highest recorded speed by a snowboarder is 201.907km/h (125.459mph) by Darren Powell (Australia) at Les Arcs, France on 2 May 1999.

Well, see, there ya go. Thanks for the clarification.

Warrior Poet

 

[Zog]

I have to toss is a vote for Lost in Space.

The planet was turning into a Black Hole.

Not possible. Sorry, insufficient mass. Most Suns don't turn into black holes, never mind planets.


And regarding the Black Hole movie - it is based on a theory called the Einstein-Rosen bridge. Basically, when they plotted the topology of the curvature of space time the resulted from their equations describing Black holes - they got several interesting possibilities. One of which is the well-known wormhole, the other is a bridge or hole, not to another place in space-time, but to a different space-time - ie, alternate universe. The idea has not, as far as I know, been totally rejected by the science community.

 

[Kesh]

Battlefield: Earth.

I'm going to paraphrase a review I read after it came out: "I find it impossible to believe in an alien species which would have become extinct the minute some guy tried to microwave a burrito."

And that's ignoring all the other crap that was put onto celluloid for that movie.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I like the way that the film contains the ambiguity - if you have the chance to watch it again, take a look at the monitor in the background while they are preparing Arnies dream sequence - I'm pretty sure that a picture of the 'underground alien complex' appears on that monitor. Wasn't that supposed to be a secret or something?

The problem I've always had with the 'it was all a dream' theory of Total Recall is that Recall's policy is that you can't tell their implanted memories from real ones.

Let's say the whole Secret Agent thing was a dream. Doug goes home from Recall, and aside from the fact that Mars doesn't have a breathable atmosphere, his wife's alive. The wife his memory says he killed. That memory is demonstrably false, now, so if Recall were going to put together a package like that, they'd avoid having images like killing relatives in there... right?

-Hyp.

 

[Kesh]

Well, they just say that the memories are just as real as if you had experienced the events... not that the memories have to make sense in the future.

Still, I don't buy the "it was all a dream" answer out of spite. I hate stories that end that way.

 

[Greyhawk_DM]

The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy...how much more far fetched can you get?

 

[TanisFrey]

I think I was too young to recognize there was bad science at work on this one. I think I have nothing but fond memories of this film, probably because I loved the little floating robots (especially the one tough little robot who befriended the old, beat-up, past-his-prime robot), and was delightfully terrified of Maximillian.

That and there was that great (probably totally bad science) iconic moment of the burning meteor tumbling it's way down the length of the ship. Just looked so cool.

Of course, I haven't seen the film in a long, long time, so it's probably best if I leave it in the fond, rose-colored nostalgia room and not disturb it by bringing it up into the light.

Warrior Poet

Black Hole. This film plot would be east to up date by saying that the mad-guy discovered how to create the strange engergy that physicists say is needed to hole open a wormhole. If it was ever remade. The thing that got me with move now, why make and send out small maned explorer ships when you once upon a time made GIANT explorer ships that could have more experts to look at any strange new things you find.

 

[TanisFrey]

The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy...how much more far fetched can you get?

Alway ment to be humors not sciencetific in any serios way.

 

[Greyhawk_DM]

Alway ment to be humors not sciencetific in any serios way.

Which brings up the point about the above mentioned movies....if you want a movie with scientific data...watch a documentary...dont watch a movie geared for the entertainment value instead of factual evidence...