5 Sci-Fi Movies That Couldn’t Care Less About Science, Panned by Reddit

The genre of science fiction is the one that deals with imaginative concepts of science and technology, trying to predict the future or to speculate of parallel universes. However, sometimes a movie pretending to stick to the real-life laws of science turns out to be among the least scientifically accurate ones.

Here are 5 sci-fi films with zero science factor, handpicked by Redditors.

1. Lucy (2014)

“Everyone knows the 10% of brain 'fact' is completely bogus, but they built an entire movie around it anyway,” admits Redditor @lostonpolk.

Indeed, the whole concept of Luc Besson’s movie assuming that people only use about 10% of their total brainpower is a total myth. In fact, we use different parts of our brain for different tasks, and we don’t need a special drug to unlock increased intellectual capacity.

2. The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Climate change is obviously a real thing, but Roland Emmerich’s film distorts the whole picture of how it works. This sci-fi disaster flick shows that the city can immerse into an ice age literally overnight, while in reality it takes millions years to develop. Indeed, we face the change of the average temperature and the water levels, but it all changes gradually, not all of a sudden, as the movie implies.

3. The Black Hole (1979)

The Disney film also deserved some criticism regarding its scientific aspect. It presents a fairy tale-like vision of the black holes, the gravitational pull of which can be magically avoided. However, as the onscreen crew eventually ends up pulled into the hole, they see hellish landscapes inside of it, and although the black holes are not yet fully understood, we can be sure it’s not realistic at all.

4. The Core (2003)

“I love that dumb, scene-eating, dumb movie,” says @christlikehumility about this seemingly serious sci-fi flick, and here’s why.

It tries to bring a scientifically impossible idea to life, the one of a possibility to travel to the center of the Earth in a ship. In fact, it would be either crushed by the planet’s pressure or would be burnt with hot magma.

5. Independence Day (1996)

Finally, here is another Roland Emmerich’s work that presents quite a hilarious solution to an attack of a powerful extraterrestrial race: the characters simply write a computer virus on Apple PowerBook, and it dares to disable an alien mothership. Today we can only burst with laughter after watching this movie, pretending to depict the potential dystopian future.

Source: Reddit