WALL-E is an animated Pixar film about robots in love, and what happens to Earth when we abandon it. But is the science quotient more like a fresh young sapling that saves the planet, or is it just a load of old rubbish? more
Battlestar Galactica is a 2003 reboot of the 1970s show of the same name, and is a sci-fi space opera filled with action, political intrigue, religion, back-stabbing and identity crises. But is the science more like having a lovely dinner with a Number 6, maybe watching a movie and snuggling up warm to reboot the human race, or is it like being locked alone in a room with a Cavill? more
Armageddon is a 1998 film starring Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis, and directed by Michael Bay. It tells the story of an enormous asteroid heading for a collision with the Earth, and the rag-tag bunch of oil workers sent up to the asteroid to drill a nuke into it and blow it up before the world gets smushed. But in terms of the science, is it more like training oil workers to be astronauts and saving the world, or a crazy Russian alone on Mir with Space Dementia?
The film tells the story of the Lewis & Clark, a ship sent into deep space to search for the thought-lost Event Horizon, a space ship that was capable of super-fast interstellar travel due to its ability to generate black holes, and travel through them. When the ship is found, the Lewis & Clark’s crew - which features Lawrence Fishburne, Joely Richardson and the perennially-dying-in-sci-fi-films Sean Pertwee - are all killed off in gruesome ways by some unnamed power in the black hole that possesses the body of their ship-mate, Sam Neill (the man responsible for the technology).
So, it’s set in space and features black holes, but as a piece of science is it more like an experiment that betters mankind and helps them travel to the furthest reaches of the galaxy in the name of science, or is it like being kicked across a pool of blood by a naked Sam Neill?
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