Random Most Inaccurate Science Fiction Movies

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(#1) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Cate Blanchett, Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, John Hurt, Ray Winstone, Jim Broadbent, Karen Allen, Ernie Reyes, Jr., Neil Flynn, Alan Dale, Andrew Divoff, Sasha Spielberg, Dimitri Diatchenko, Paul Thornton, Robert Baker, Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Chet Hanks, Ilia Volok, John H. Tobin, Igor Jijikine, Fileena Bahris, Maria Zambrana, Nito Larioza, V.J. Foster, Ted Grossman, Jesus Maldonado, Sean Marrinan, Andre Alexsen, Janet Lopez, Jon Valera, Joel Stoffer, Dianne Zaremba, Philip J Silvera, Venya Manzyuk, Amanda Bromberg, Emmanuel Todorov, Bogdan Szumilas, Conor Timmis, Carlos Linares, Helena Barrett, Bryan Thompson, Kevin Collins, Michael Maddigan, Gustavo Hernandez, Noelle Bruno, Brian Knutson, Audi Resendez, Adam Kirley, Sam Rocco, Dean Grimes, Tim Camarillo, Steven A. Miller, Jon Braver, Errol Sack, T. Ryan Mooney, Martin Dew, Jason Roehm, David LaVera, Brendon John Kelly, Ilya Jonathan Zaydenberg, Chris Todd, Nicole Luther, Maria Luisa Minelli, Jonathan Lomma, Ilya Rockwell, Andrew Simms, Dennis Nusbaum, Marly Coronel, Sophia Stewart, Jerzy Jacyna, Joe Jagatic, Adam Prakop

What Happens In The Movie: Indiana Jones is stuck in a nuclear testing site. To survive the bomb going off, Indy hides in a lead-lined fridge. It’s sent flying thousands of feet from the force of the blast, and Indy walks out unscathed.

Why It’s Ridiculous: If we assume, for just one second, that an old lead-lined fridge would save him from the radiation (which it definitely wouldn’t, especially the second he got out), the sheer force of the explosion would have broken every bone in Indy’s body. And that’s assuming the fridge stood up to the blast at all.

What Should Have Happened: Indy should have been liquefied inside that fridge. If there was enough of the fridge left over, at least he would already be in a convenient coffin.

(#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.

(#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.

(#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.

(#5) Total Recall

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Dean Norris, Rachel Ticotin, Ronny Cox, Anne Lockhart, Robert Costanzo, Ray Baker, Marshall Bell, Rosemary Dunsmore, Debbie Lee Carrington, Roy Brocksmith, Marc Alaimo, Alexia Robinson, Mark Carlton, Michael Champion, David Knell, Mel Johnson, Jr.

What Happens In The Movie: Any time someone goes out in the surface of Mars without a space suit, they expand like they’re about to blow up. Many other movies are guilty of this trick.

Why It’s Ridiculous: Explosive decompression is a myth. As is the myth that you’ll instantly freeze in a vacuum (or low atmosphere) out in space. You get about 15-30 seconds of consciousness (depending on if you were smart enough to exhale) to freak out about your impending death while the oxygen in your blood is sucked out through your lungs. The pressure difference gives you case of the bends so bad, your lungs rupture. Your exposed tissues get what is essentially horrific sunburn as all the water in your skin begins to spontaneously evaporate.

What Should Have Happened: As people were exposed to the surface of Mars, they would get frostbite around their nose, eyes, and mouth, and begin the symptoms of hypoxia within the first few minutes. At that point, their brain and heart would still technically be working, so they'd have about 90 seconds for someone to save them. After that, their blood pressure would drop so low that the blood would literally begin to boil. After that, it would be game over.

(#6) Waterworld

Kevin Costner, Jack Black, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Michael Jeter, Tina Majorino, Kim Coates, Robert Joy, Sab Shimono, Jack Kehler, Robert LaSardo, Leonardo Cimino, Lee Arenberg, Sean Whalen, Rick Aviles, Zakes Mokae, Gerard Murphy, R. D. Call, Greg Goossen, Robert A. Silverman, Chris Douridas, Lanny Flaherty, John Toles-Bey, Neil Giuntoli, Doug Spinuzza, Zitto Kazann, John Fleck, William Preston, John Otrin, Chris Moore, Ari Barak, Hal Douglas, Alexa Jago, Anne Gaybis, Rita Zohar, Chaim Girafi, Michael Haddad, August Neves, Henry Kapono Kaaihue, Paul Bogh, Anthony DeMasters, Willy Petrovic, Luke Ka'ili Jr., Delisa Sexton, Tracy Anderson, Victor Sánchez, Jenny Tallent, David Finnegan

What Happens In The Movie: The polar ice caps melted, covering the entire world in water and making it one massive ocean. The only dry land is the top of Mt. Everest, and it's terrible.

Why It’s Ridiculous: There’s only enough ice to raise the water level a little more than 200 feet worldwide. This would be a disaster for coastal towns and cities, to be sure, but it wouldn't be flooding Denver.

What Should Have Happened: People would walk on dry land around the overcrowded interiors of continents, complaining about how they miss New York City and Venice but not really giving that much a sh*t generally.

(#7) Wing Commander

Mark Hamill, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Saffron Burrows, Matthew Lillard, David Warner, David Suchet, Jürgen Prochnow, Simon MacCorkindale, Tchéky Karyo, Hugh Quarshie, Richard Dillane, John McGlynn, Ken Bones, Fraser James, Mark Powley, Ginny Holder, Davif Fahm

What Happens In The Movie: Sound travels in space – so much so that people on a ship have to be quiet or another ship will hear them. Pretty much every sci-fi movie features this, but Wing Commander makes it a plot point.

Why It’s Ridiculous: While sound technically can travel in the vacuum of space, it's completely inaudible to human beings. Sound can only move through space in particularly dense interstellar gas, and it definitely wouldn't breach the walls of a space ship.

What Should Have Happened: Everyone on that ship could have talked as loud as they wanted, since there was no way for that sound to travel to another space ship.

(#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.

(#9) Independence Day

Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Vivica A. Fox, Randy Quaid, Harry Connick, Jr., Mary McDonnell, Harvey Fierstein, Frank Welker, Bill Pullman, Adam Baldwin, Judd Hirsch, Andrew Keegan, Brent Spiner, Robert Loggia, Mae Whitman, James Rebhorn, Lisa Jakub, Erick Avari, Christine Devine, Rance Howard, Dan Lauria, John McLaughlin, Richard Speight, Jr., Margaret Colin, Wendy Walsh, Tracey Walter, Leland Orser, Bill Smitrovich, Dean Devlin, Jerry Dunphy, Eleanor Clift, Fred Barnes, Tim Kelleher, Jim Piddock, Thomas F. Duffy, James Duval, Carlos Lacámara, Robert Pine, Ron Pitts, Anthony Crivello, John Capodice, Sharon Tay, Jeffrey Gold, Jay Acovone, Kevin Cooney, Greg Collins, Kiersten Warren, Raphael Sbarge, Nectar Rose, Morton Kondracke, Thom Barry, Sayed Badreya, George Putnam, Giuseppe Andrews, David Pressman, Ross Bagley, Lyman Ward, Devon Gummersall, John Bennett Perry, Johnny Kim, Bob Friend, Pat Skipper, Kimberly Beck, Mark Thompson, Barry Del Sherman, Malcolm Danare, Ernie Anastos, Bobby Hosea, Randy Oglesby, Frank Novak, Jack Germond, Gary A. Hecker, Adam Tomei, Jeff Phillips, Levan Uchaneishvili, Wayne Wilderson, Derek Webster, Peter J. Lucas, Jana Marie Hupp, John Bradley, Scott McKinley, Jessika Cardinahl, James With, Barry Nolan, Darla Rae, Volker Engel, Jon Matthews, Julie Moran, Gary Pike, Kevin Sifuentes, Kristof Konrad, Michael A. Valenzano, Elston Ridgle, Nelson Mashita, Jack Moore, Vivian Palermo, Joyce Cohen, Mark Fite, Lee Strauss, Michael Winther, John Storey, Daren Dochterman, Tadao Tomomatsu, Mike Monteleone, Robin Groth, Steve Giannelli, Joe Fowler, Michael Haddad, Bonnie Silco, Eric Michael Zee, Marisa Johnston, James Wong, Lisa Star, Paul LeClair, Roy Newton, Barbara Beck, Andrew Warne, Richard Pachorek, Eric Neal Newman, Jonathan Adler, Michael Moertl, Ross Lacy, Yelena Danova, David Chanel, Greg Bronson, Carlos Lara, Arthur Brooks, Matt Pashkow, Gary W. Cruz, Michael Vacca, James J. Joyce, Jonathan Khan, James Woodson, Vanessa J. Wells, Eric Paskel, Dexter Warren, Troy Willis, Mirron E. Willis, Darin Mangan, Lincoln D. Hiatt, Bryan Moss

What Happens In The Movie: Jeff Goldblum creates a piece of malware that infects an alien operating system, ordering all their ships to lower their shields.

Why It’s Ridiculous: Goldblum’s character David is a smart guy, but he only just got a glimpse of an alien computer language. There’s just no way they’d be able to create a virus to screw with a completely alien computer system – let alone deliver it via an interface through Mac OS. It might be impossible to learn an alien language in the first place, let alone the nuances of their coding.

What Should Have Happened: Humanity should have been utterly exterminated and Apple stock would become meaningless.

(#10) The Matrix

Keanu Reeves, Hugo Weaving, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Gloria Foster, Ada Nicodemou, Rana Morrison, Robert Taylor, Belinda McClory, Matt Doran, Bill Young, Marcus Chong, Paul Goddard, David Aston, Anthony Ray Parker, Julian Arahanga, Steve Dodd, Marc Gray, Nigel Harbach, Tamara Brown, Harry Lawrence, Robert Simper, Natalie Tjen, Chris Pattinson, Fiona Johnson, Rowan Witt, Bernard Ledger, Lawrence Woodward, Denni Gordon, Adryn White, Luke Quinton, Jeremy Ball, Janaya Pender, Michael Butcher, Eleanor Witt, David O'Connor

What Happens In The Movie: After a war between humans and machines left the skies perpetually cloudy, machines grow humans to use as batteries.

Why It’s Ridiculous: Humans really don’t produce that much heat and electricity. In fact, it would be far more costly to create the conditions and nourishment required to keep the humans alive.

What Should Have Happened: The machines should have invested in nuclear power, hydroelectric power, and wind. Who knows? With some time and ingenuity they could have created sustainable fusion, instead of wasting all their processing power on rendering Hugo Weaving's face over and over.

(#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.

(#12) Robinson Crusoe on Mars

Adam West, Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Barney, the Woolly Monkey

What Happens In The Movie: The protagonist of this film survives after his spaceship crashes by finding food, potable water, and rocks that release oxygen when burned.

Why It’s Ridiculous: Mars has exactly none of those things. The funniest part is that part of the movie’s ad campaign touted it as “scientifically authentic,” which makes sense since people in the '60s also thought cigarettes were medicine.

What Should Have Happened: The guy would have died the minute his air ran out, or gotten hypothermia, or gotten hypoxia, or many other things. It's Mars, y'all, the Red Planet doesn't mess around.

(#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.

(#14) Jurassic Park

Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Wayne Knight, B. D. Wong, Ariana Richards, Richard Kiley, Miguel Sandoval, Bob Peck, Joseph Mazzello, Martin Ferrero, Whit Hertford, Gary Rodriguez, Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc, Jophery C. Brown, Cameron Thor, Gerald R. Molen, Dean Cundey, Christopher John Fields, Greg Burson, Brian Smrz, Laura Burnett, Brad M. Bucklin, Tom Mishler, Adrian Escober

What Happens In The Movie: InGen creates clones of dinosaurs using DNA obtained from mosquitos encased in amber for millions of years.

Why It’s Ridiculous: While the premise is pretty clever, around 20 years after Jurassic Park's release, it was discovered that the half-life of DNA is only a measly 521 years.

What Should Have Happened: They would have looked inside the mosquito and found no useful genetic material. InGen would have lost billions in R&D and Samuel L. Jackson would have dodged a nasty raptor attack.

(#15) Star Wars

Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, James Earl Jones, Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, Anthony Daniels, Denis Lawson, Don Henderson, Phil Brown, Richard LeParmentier, Eddie Byrne, Jack Purvis, Alex McCrindle, Shelagh Fraser, Paul Blake, Steve 'Spaz' Williams, Larry Ward

What Happens In The Movie: From Tatooine to Coruscant, every planet in the Star Wars universe has only one type of climate.

Why It’s Ridiculous: While we can buy a desert or ice planet (after all, Mars and Neptune are perfect examples), a moon like Endor wouldn’t be completely covered in forests. If you look at Naboo from orbit, for example, there are no desserts or polar regions whatsoever. It's highly unlikely that so many planets would only have one biome.

What Should Have Happened: Our heroes should have come to planets which much more varied climates. depending on their location in relation to equators or the poles. Also, Yoda could have probably taken a beach vacation of two. There's no way Dagobah would be all swamps.

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