NASA Names 2012 The Most Absurd Sci-Fi Film! GATTACA Is The Most “Realistic”
If you thought NASA had nothing better to do, you were probably right..
TheAustralian.com.au reported that experts at NASA have named the movie 2012, starring John Cusack, directed by Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Godzilla, Day After Tomorrow) as the most absurd sci-fi film
I hated the movie 2012 but the most absurd?! Really?! What about that list of movies with bad science?!
NASA experts actually had a day-long private meeting in California to grade some of Hollywood’s sci-fi films, some were mocked while others were praised.
NASA’s hall of shame includes..
Armageddon starring Bruce Willis, about how a few chosen oil drillers tried to destroy an asteroid the size of Texas..ok, I could see how that could be ridiculous
Next up is The 6th Day starring Guv’nah Ahnold, cloned in just a few hours. Ya.. who wants to see a thousand Arnolds anyway.
On the list is also 1997′s Volcano starring Tommy Lee Jones, which was about.. well, a volcano that erupted in downtown L.A. and destroyed the city
And 1996′s Chain Reaction starring Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz and Morgan Freeman, about how to generate energy using nuclear fusion.
But last year’s disaster flick 2012 is the silliest, here’s excerpt..
In the film, Ejiofor is the first physicist to realise that neutrino particles carried to Earth on solar flares are baking the planet’s core, causing earthquakes, tsunamis and rapid continental drift.
The film, which also stars Amanda Peet, shows growing chaos in London which causes the cancellation of the Olympics. The world’s capitals are destroyed and then a tidal wave submerges Mount Everest.
Only one question remains: can a handful of lucky people – including the Queen and her corgis, and Newton as the daughter of a black American president – survive to start a new world order?
NASA points out that while solar flares have disrupted radio stations, neutrinos are neutral particles that do not interact with physical substances.
Furthermore, as with the exaggerated speed of climate change in The Day After Tomorrow, the speed of heating at the Earth’s core in 2012 is grotesquely accelerated.
NASA had cooperated with film projects in the past but it also regretted helping some of them. One example was 2003′s The Core starring Hilary Swank, about a team who drills into the center of the earth to jumpstart its slowing core. A NASA expert by the name of Donald Yeomans, was asked to consult on The Core but he quickly walked away after reading the script
Here’s an interesting fact. The list of bad sci-fi films was drawn up by NASA and a group of physicists called Science & Entertainment Exchange (SEE), which is backed by…. Oscar winning actor Dustin Hoffman, who was a chemist for Maxwell House coffee long before he hit his big break in The Graduate.
Wow! I knew Hoffman was Gene Hackman‘s old roommate back when they were struggling actors but I didn’t know Mr. Rain Man was a chemist.
But not all sci-fi films were mocked by NASA experts, they did agree to praise 1982′s Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford. The movie which they said “convincingly portrayed a futuristic Los Angeles now only eight years away”
And the most “realistic” sci-fi film according to NASA, goes to 1997′s Gattaca, starring Ethan Hawke, Jude Law and Uma Thurman. The movie was about “a genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.”
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Umm… Chain reaction was not about fusion.
It was about generating cheap hydrogen.
Every reference in the movie referrs to “hydrogen explosion”
which is a chemical burning of hydrogen and oxygen.
They specifically refer to “no radiation” after the Chicago
explosion.
Wow, blade runner made a huge impression on me as a kid. I’ll have to watch it again.
What, that’s it? They lambasted all of six movies (all of which seriously deserve it) and praised just two? I want to see the real list! Where did 2001 A Space Odyssey place, Forbidden planet, etc.? And most Hollywood movies billed as Science Fiction are an absolute insult to the genre, they deserve to be pointed out for the crap they are. Show us the crap!
All of you are sitting back watching crappy SiFi movies while Steve Jobs is busy pursuing his lifelong goal of inventing the Borg!
Beggin yer pardon Sire. I meant iBorg.
Man, how I wish they’d make a remake of Dune.
Well, they’re doing it for The Mechanic (after all)…
Uh. . .they DID remake Dune. And it wasn’t bad.
Markus,
Try to watch the “Final Cut” Blu-Ray (or DVD if you can’t do Blu-Ray) edition of Blade Runner… they did a VERY GOOD restoration of the film which is much superior to the old “Directors Cut”
I also agree with Peter Cohen… we need a REAL list. Not just a sample.
The winners are the older movies. The lesson is that the earlier sci-fi movies snagged the reasonable scripts, leaving folks such as Emmerich the dreg plots to work out. After all, stuck in one universe with one set of inexorable laws of physics leaves little wiggle room for Hollywood.
Let’s see how “Foundation” does, if it ever comes out.
Cheers!
Yeah, no mention of Contact?
I mean, everyone’s bound to have their pet “most realistic sci-fi” film choice, but seriously. Contact.
perhaps NASA considers ’2001′ as a documentary & forgot it was just a movie …
and as such didn’t count. AFAIR it always made the ‘most realistic’ list with science types….
Contact? That movie was an absolute crappification of the book, missing the most vital bit, the stuff about PI at the end. It’s akin to a remake of Fawlty Towers without Basil Fawlty. I will never forgive that abomination.
A list is something like 1… 2… 3… and so on. So where is the list?
Wikipedia says Hoffman was “a professional fragrance tester for Maxwell House.”
Not exactly a chemist…
I’m surprised the list doesn’t include Independence Day. After all its about alien lifeforms that use RJ-45 ethernet connectors and PowerPC processors. I can’t wait for the ACM’s list…
Wow!
blade runner? I dont know if I agree with that, I’ll have to watch it again.