Random Most Inaccurate Science Fiction Movies (15 items)

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  (#2) Gravity

  • Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Phaldut Sharma, Amy Warren, Orto Ignatiussen, Basher Savage

  What Happens In The Movie: George Clooney makes the ultimate sacrifice by cutting himself free of the tether to Sandra Bullock when he starts to drift away.

  Why It’s Ridiculous: That’s not how physics works. The fact that he was attached to someone holding onto a solid object meant that he would have stopped drifting. In fact, he could have been pulled back easily. No sacrifice required.

  What Should Have Happened: The hero should have just yanked the tether and saved Clooney’s life. The two would have been able to work together to get back to Earth, and we would have been saved from one of the most annoying dream sequences in modern cinema. 
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  (#11) Prometheus

  • Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba, Peter O'Toole, Noomi Rapace, Patrick Wilson, Logan Marshall-Green, Kate Dickie, Robin Atkin Downes, Emun Elliott, Sean Harris, Rafe Spall, Benedict Wong, Ian MacNaughton, Ian Whyte, Harry Fowler, James Embree, Philip McGinley, Giannina Facio, Stuart Saunders, Shane Steyn, Eugene O'Hare, Florian Robin, Lucy Hutchinson, Richard Thomson, Vladimir 'Furdo' Furdik, C.C. Smiff, John Lebar, Daniel James, Louisa Staples, Jenny Rainsford, Matthew Burgess, Branwell Donaghey, Anil Biltoo, Shin-Ichiro Okajima, Sonam Dugdak, Wannaporn Rienjang, Annie Penn, Zed Sevcikova, Wambui Wa-Ngatho, Charalambos Dendrinos, Reynir Thor Eggertsson, Berhane Woldegabriel

  What Happens In The Movie: A crew of dedicated "scientists" travel across the stars to find alien life. A character remarks that after traveling 35 lightyears, they’re a “half-billion miles” away from Earth.

  Why It’s Ridiculous: As Neil DeGrasse Tyson himself pointed out, a half billion miles from Earth would actually put them around Jupiter. 

  What Should Have Happened: The character should have been talking about “hundreds of trillions of miles” away from Earth, or Idris Elba would have called out Charlize Theron for knowing next-to-nothing about space travel despite being the nominal mission leader, or the crew would have realized they took a wrong turn and somehow wound back up in the Solar System. Whatever the case, someone would be embarrassed. 
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  (#13) The Dark Knight Rises

  • Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Morgan Freeman, Matthew Modine, Ben Mendelsohn, Juno Temple, Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Nestor Carbonell, Aidan Gillen

  What Happens In The Movie: Batman safely flies an improvised nuclear explosive out of Gotham two minutes before it explodes. No one is hurt, and Gotham is totally fine.

  Why It’s Ridiculous: Even with a hi-tech Bat-Copter, it’s highly unlikely that Batman could have gotten the bomb out to the minimum safe distance of 10 miles. Even assuming he had, Gotham would have had to deal with a lot of complications from the following radiation. Just ask the people of Chernobyl. 

  What Should Have Happened: The bomb would have detonated too close to Gotham, destroying some or all of it. And even if it wasn’t caught in the initial blast, many in the city would have dealt with radiation poisoning for generations to come. Batman would likely be remembered as the vigilante who destroyed one of America's biggest cities. 
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  (#8) Lucy

  • Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Analeigh Tipton, Amr Waked, Choi Min-sik, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Johan Philip Asbæk, Loic Brabant, Pascal Loison, Luca Angeletti, Jan Oliver Schroeder, Pierre Poirot, Nicolas Phongpheth, Bertrand Quoniam, Pierre Grammont

  What Happens In The Movie: A woman gets an overdose of a drug that unlocks the full potential of her brain, giving her superpowers as she accesses all 100% of her mind.

  Why It’s Ridiculous: You use all of your brain to do even simple tasks such as turning on a coffee pot. It’s all being used, just in different parts. Trying to use 100% of your brain to do something would probably leave you catatonic. It would be like using 100% of your body to text. 

  What Should Have Happened: There wouldn’t have been a drug to unlock more of your brain. Lucy would have been a normal drugs mule and likely would have died from an overdose when a balloon full of heroin popped in her lower intestine.
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  (#4) Angels & Demons

  • Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgård, Ayelet Zurer, Rance Howard, Norbert Weisser, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elya Baskin, Pierfrancesco Favino, Carmen Argenziano, Anna Katarina, David Pasquesi, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Thure Lindhardt, David Hill, Endre Hules, Steve Franken, Curt Lowens, Vincent De Paul, Arne Starr, Victor Alfieri, Franklin Ruehl, Gregory George Frank, Waymond Lee, Jutta Speidel, Gino Conforti, Nico Toffoli, Misha Bugaev, Eric Shackelford, Calvin Dean, Laura Mary Clarke, Bertrand Roberson Jr., David Pearl, Aidan Bristow, Sophiah Koikas, Michael Laren, Masasa Moyo, Michael Patrick Breen, Cosimo Fusco, Matthew Thane, Bob Yerkes, Keith Shawn, Jon Morgan Woodward, Emanuele Secci, Christopher Karl Johnson, Andrea Kelley, Nancy Guerriero, Marc Fiorini, Pascal Petardi, James Ritz, Anthony Molinari, Jose Acevedo, Steve Kehela, Cheryl Howard, John Robert, David Frank Fletcher Jr., Ursula Brooks, Kristof Konrad, Shannon Watson, Shelby Zemanek, Frank Scozzari, John Bailey, Austin Michael Coleman, Martin William Harris, Harrison Freed, Thomas Morris, Victor Fischbarg, Liz Duran, Ben Bela Böhm, Todd Schneider, James Tumminia, Roy Allen III, Damon Viola, Adrian Lee, Maynor Lopez, Yuki Bird, Ryan Van de Kamp Buchanan, Sandra McCurdy, Jimmy Clabots, Marco Greco, Pasquale Cassalia, Kelly Ryan, Julie Mabry, Sally Berman, Jarrod Robbins, Jason Ciok, Christine Ames, Jonas Fisch, Allen Dula, Yan Cui, Allan Gray, Gina Juliet, Kei Hirayama, Robert Bradvica, Maria Cristina Heller, Howard Mungo, Vanna Salviati, Elsa Morales Myers, Ed Francis Martin, Peter Ettinger, Roger Groh, Franklin Amobi, Louis Riviere, Debbie McAlister, Raffi Di Blasio, Ava Allan, Norman Deesing, Blake Dawson, Matthew Earnest, Jonn Faircrest, Robert Corvin, Dylan Saccoccio, GJ Tiari, Anthony Bonaventura, Gina D'Acciaro, Felipe Torres Urso, Nancy Gassner-Clayton, Les Mahoney, Carina Aviles, Miriam Harris, Marco Infante, Eder López, Farouk Chakwa, David Dedinsky, William Myers, Mary Morales, Tibor Ambra, Dave Johnson, Tammy Colbert, Andrew Hamilton, Jeffrey Boehm, Clark James, August Wittgenstein, Amanda Jane Fleming, Michelle Macedo, Fritz Michel, Melissa Macedo, Devin Toft, Yesenia Adame, Richard Rosetti, Mark E. Clason, Angelique Deuitch, Brant Dorman, Aaron Denius Garcia, Luca Costa, Justin Giddings, Les Feltmate, Ernie Ventry, David Pryor, Paul DiVito, Jon Lucero, Sauvion Morkunas, Silvano Marchetto, Bacha Chilaia, Paul Richard, Justin Orton, Patrick Casa, Allan Yates, Rocco Passafaro, Roberto Donati, Phil Gold, Gary Mandarino, Brett Hunt, Shervin Davatgar, Stephen Marrero, Christopher Casa, Jerred Berg, Robert W. Laur, David Michael Lewin, Amelia Pawlak, Charlie Heydt, Deep Rai, Xavier J. Nathan, Albert Marrero Jr., Lea Deesing, Rashmi, Dale Pavinski, Paul Schmitz, John Dardenne

  What Happens In The Movie: Someone puts antimatter in vials in order to make a bomb.

  Why It’s Ridiculous: Assuming that the amount of anti-matter seen in the movie could be produced (which is a big stretch), it would need to be stored in a containment system where it isn’t touching anything... as in any matter. You would need a substantial apparatus generating magnetic fields, so basically the opposite of a small glass vial. 

  What Should Have Happened: The antimatter would have touched the actual matter in the bottling process, exploded in everyone’s faces, and obliterated all of the secret Pope clones hidden under the Vatican.
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  (#3) Die Another Day

  • Madonna, Halle Berry, Pierce Brosnan, John Cleese, Judi Dench, Rosamund Pike, Michael Madsen, Toby Stephens, Samantha Bond, Colin Salmon, Rick Yune, Will Yun Lee, Kenneth Tsang, Michael G. Wilson, Rachel Grant, Paul Darrow, Simón Andreu, Wendy Leech, Trevor White, Nina Armstrong, Rocky Taylor, Deborah Moore, Emilio Echevarría, Mikhail Gorevoy, David Decio, Joaquin Martinez, Lawrence Makoare, Thomas Ho, Mark Dymond, Catherine Porter, Christine Hewett, Oliver Skeete, Ho Yi, Cristina Contes, Stewart Scudamore, Stuart Ong, Tatiana Lavrentieva, Lea Jerova, Alan Bond, Gerard Naprous, Sherry Stone, Ian Pirie, Daryl Kwan, Aiko Horiuchi, Manolo Caro, James Wallace, Anna Edwards, Bill Nash, Sarllya, Lucas Hare, Ben Wee, Justin Llewelyn, Vincent Wong, Stephanie Burns, Christopher Schönning, Lynne Hazelden

  What Happens In The Movie: A baddie from North Korea has his DNA replaced so he can masquerade as a British mogul.

  Why It’s Ridiculous: You have DNA in every cell in your body. Changing all of that is simply impossible. Oh, sure, they gave some explanation about how the doctors killed off all the bone marrow so it can be replaced… but that would just kill you.

  What Should Have Happened: The bad guy would have died in the hospital, and the doctor who swindled him would have ran off with all his money. Pierce Brosnan would have stayed home, and we would have all been saved a lackluster Halle Berry performance. 

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