Quote from: ThisBethesdaSea on Apr 19, 2012, 04:13:43 PM
Jesus. H. Christ. It's called SCIENCE-FICTION....NOT Science 'For Reals.' Give the man a break, or go and make your own perfectly realized scientifically accurate film. Please?
I swear, i'm going to become violent in a expanding circle pattern if people keep making this excuse, because frankly the argument needs to go the other way.
Everyone always says to those who critique or joke about the science "JAYSUS D00D ITS TEH FANTASTY ENTERTAINMAINT DURP DURP! GAVE ATE A BRAKE, KAY? LOL"
No, I think it's fair to say that most science fiction films in the last decade or so have been given plenty of breaks and respite with regards to shoddy science. Yes, it's Science
Fiction and as such there is an element of the fantastic. The point is those elements that are familiar to us already should be well grounded in truth. That is, they should be well researched and maturely realized. If only for the sake of being believable. It isn't the Fiction part of Science Fiction that is often ignored, it's the Science part. The part that separates Science Fiction from Fantasy in the library.
Also, the Alien series, save for the major league contrivances in Alien Resurrection, has always been generally fairly good at depicting it's science elements without getting bogged down in them. It's always tried to keep things viceral and grounded.
Let's hope Prometheus can do the same, even with it's outrageous bits here and there.