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PostPosted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 7:15 pm    Post subject: The 5 Worst Science Fiction Movies (not really) Reply with quote

The 5 Worst Science Fiction Movies
by Popular Mechanics

BDT: Maybe Popular Mechanics should stick to rating screwdrivers and power tools. Although the 5 movies are not the best, they are a long way from the worst.

Voyage to Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Armageddon (1988)
Phantom Menace (1999)
The Core (2003)
2012 (2009)

http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/g1389/sci-what-the-5-worst-science-fiction-movies/?slide=1
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 05, 2016 11:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Wow, if you think that's bad, take a look at this article at the same site!

The Best Sci-Fi Movies — As Choosen by Scientists

It includes some good ones like War of the Worlds and Jurassic Park, but it also includes (get this) Wall-E, my least favorite Pixar movie and a piss-poor excuse for a science fiction movie by any body's standards.

Go figure, eh?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 06, 2016 6:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Boy some physicists are stupid!

Have a clear glass large flower vase. Fill it about 7/8 full. Drop ice cube.

It WILL sink then return to the surface.

This is explained in Murray Leinster's novelization. He knew what he was talking about. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Leinster
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 06, 2016 11:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Robert (Butch) Day wrote:
It WILL sink then return to the surface.

I'm afraid that won't explain what we see in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Butch. The big chunks of ice are obviously just dropping down to the bottom, not sinking down a short distance and coming back up.

We've all seen those videoes of icebergs calving off from glaciers. They barely go beneath the surface and then rise slowly back up. Smaller pieces like the ones we see in the movie wouldn't sink very far.

Allen just wanted to show an underwater avalanche -- in spite of the fact that it would NOT really happen that way.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 10:41 pm    Post subject: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Reply with quote

This film was IA's finest adventure, the actors were great, the effects for the day were fun, to enjoy this Fox film, with The Lost World (1960), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)and perhaps others, were pure enjoyment, forget science, Barbara Eden,
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 1:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 6:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The problem with the ice was that it was based upon ice-cube sinking in a tall glass. They used that as an analogy BUT (in science as in real life) analogy is ALWAYS suspect.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I think the scientists making the lists were specifically asked to classify the films on the basis of how bad the science on each film was, not their aesthetic quality. The Core and 2012 are considered camp classics among scientists and science buffs for their hilariously bad treatment of basic geology and physics, respectively.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Andrew Kidd wrote:
Well, I think the scientists making the lists were specifically asked to classify the films on the basis of how bad the science on each film was, not their aesthetic quality.

That's certainly implied by the title of their next article, which is more explicit: "The 10 Best Sci-Fi Movies — As Chosen By Scientists".
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 23, 2016 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Andrew Kidd wrote:
Well, I think the scientists making the lists were specifically asked to classify the films on the basis of how bad the science on each film was, not their aesthetic quality.

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That's certainly implied by the title of their next article, which is more explicit: "The 10 Best Sci-Fi Movies — As Chosen By Scientists"
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I did not think of that! Yes, VTTBOTS had bad science but it is a fun movie. Surprised

The Core has poor science in it and is not that fun.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 2:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I always thought that The Black Hole was lame. Went to see it in a theater in NYC and ended up leaving. Maybe if I gave it another chance...I dunno tho'.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The Black Hole is indeed a dull movie. Watch this trailer to see if you can generate any interest.


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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2016 9:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The Black Hole is indeed a dull movie. Watch this trailer to see if you can generate any interest.


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It could have been a good film if they took a hard-science approach to it, making a movie along the lines of one of Larry Niven's or Charles Sheffield's novels.
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PostPosted: Mon May 16, 2016 1:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The BIGGEST problem with The Black Hole is that it was just a showcase for Peter Ellenshaw's paintings strung together with no plausible resolution to the plot (I REFUSE to say that it has a story).
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PostPosted: Thu May 19, 2016 9:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think that both Tron movies are pretty stinky.

Oh the designs & visuals are clearly awesome, but the stories are very poor.
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