Meh
I don't realy care. I'm able to suspend my disbeleif for long enough to enjoy most science fiction films, if they're also well written and have decent dialouge ect. What I do care about though is when a film tries to explain it's obviously dubious science using lots of long words and such. I think it was Arthur C Clarke who said that any sufficiently advanced technology was akin to magic - If you're going to have a great big spaceship that travels through wormholes and blows up planets, please, don't have half an hour of pseudoscientific explainations, just tell me it's a damn big spaceship.

It's not the bad science that makes a sci fi film crap (Hell, there's bad science in most films. Cars dont tend to explode if you shoot them, bullets don't tend to make sparks and there's also no such thing as vampires) It's bad direction, lazy plots, poor acting and an overeliance on special effects. There's a lot of realy good sci fi out there, some of which isn't even written by Philip K Dick, about time we started using some of those ideas maybe....
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Mon 22 Feb 2010, 11:20, Reply)