Science Fiction movies should stop being inaccurate

[Sarevok]

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Share lang ko sa ako experience. Actually trekkie ko and I have been watching Star Trek movies and TV shows ever since high school man tingali. During that time I really believed that the technology used in the show is real. Then I took up BS Physics sa college. I may have been inspired sa Star Trek nga mutake ani na course. Anyway, sa college, I learned how Star Trek really is science "fiction". I learned na it is impossible (with our current technology) to "beam" someone from one place to another in a matter of seconds. I also learned na in space, you could barely hear large explosions. But did this change my views sa Star Trek and science? Nope, it only motivated me more sa paglearn. I wanted to know which is possible and impossible and curious as to why we couldn't achieve some things like "beaming" an object from one place to another. So anyway, for me, having scifi movies may not be that bad at all even though it would stray away from actual science. It could actually help the young generation to open their imagination and maybe someday we could create some of the technologies in these scifi movies.

[miyay]

^ agree ko ana. hollywood and science are both evolving. i've seen something about this in natgeo/discovery channel, about some things in science fiction movies becoming real. for now, whatever entertains the masses is profit for the film industry. profit is the reason for business. and that's a fact.

[lomotel]

Somebody needs to shut up before embarrassing herself/himself further.


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@lomotel: You're not the first person to say that. I've stated somewhere in this thread that a story can still be fiction in so many ways (made up characters, made up events in a made up history) whilst still having some parts of it that are accurate.

For example: a fictional story that has fictional characters experiencing real life problems that a lot of people face in the real world. Hence the problems are real, the characters aren't. It has accuracies, but it's still fiction.

Your statement, therefore, is very misleading; it could pass as smart at first glance, that is probably why people keep echoing the same thought, but actually nothing could be further from the truth.

'Nuff said.

Please refer to the dictionary..

fic·tion (fkshn)
n.
1.
a. An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.
b. The act of inventing such a creation or pretense.
2. A lie.
3.
a. A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.
b. The category of literature comprising works of this kind, including novels and short stories.
4. Law Something untrue that is intentionally represented as true by the narrator.

Fiction is not necessarily based on fact therefore it is not accurate.

Though I would gladly believe that the phaser gun and quantum teleportation in Star Wars movie are accurate to the last detail.

[coolnezz]

close this thread? r u nuts? maybe u need to stop reading this thread ... period.

[kenites]

@splendid moonlight
nice post buddy, I totally get ur point...
pero naa pd point uban nga it's bzness and so dapat i tweak science to give entertainment value

IMHO ang movies man gud is a very powerful medium, dapat cguro it will not entertain lang but dapat it can also educate us.

Dapat cguro naa new genre
The story might be fictional, like the character or place but the science in that story should be an accurate or exact science..
Pwede ni cya tawagon cguro ug Science Film/Movie lang

[splendid moonlight]

@ lomotel: Please read your copied description of the word fiction again and see if it doesn't fit my example. There are science fiction movies with some scientific accuracies in them - your Star Wars statement may be one example of that. Therefore your saying that a science fiction MUST be inaccurate is totally wrong.

@ kenites: There is nothing in my previous posts that says I'm against the business and entertainment side of it. What I am against is this idea that people have that science fiction must be inaccurate because it is "fiction."

[moz_k2]

Jurassic Park is a good movie.
So good to make 3 Academy Awards and some other awards.

The movie have a lot of biological issues.

Now if movies should be scientifically accurate.
Spielberg won't be making a movie based on the book written by Michael Crichton.
Then there would be no flesh eating dinos.
No Jurassic Park, The Lost World, and Jurassic Park III.
Who knows what movie have been made.

[i_am_the_truth]

science fiction is just a fiction.... that is simple as ABC...

[Visual C#]

A movie can have realistic science, and still be enjoyable. No movie can be completely scientifically accurate of course, so balance is key.

To summarize:

Armageddon - FAIL
Deep Impact - FTW

The Core - EPIC FAIL
The Day After Tomorrow - SO MUCH EPIC FAIL
2012 - EVEN MORE EPIC FAIL

[Hellblazer 2.1]

that's why it's called "FICTION" and "MOVIE" because it's supposed to be inaccurate.

it's only supposed to entertain, and not to be accurate.