From worstpreviews, NASA held a private meet at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California to discuss the movies Hollywood has been releasing and to plead for filmmakers to stick to more rational plots.
Some of the movies that came under criticism include "Armageddon," "Volcano," "Chain Reaction," and "The 6th Day," but it was "2012" that was named the most absurd sci-fi film, taking the title from "The Core." NASA said that "2012" not only got all the facts wrong, but also managed to scare plenty of people into thinking that the end of world was really coming.
NASA is calling for more authentic science fiction and is joined by Dustin Hoffman, who was a chemist working for Maxwell House coffee before starring in "The Graduate." The only films that were praised were "Blade Runner" and "Gattaca."
5 comments:
Well, that's a great dis to a movie I mostly disliked (and on the same grounds as a lot of the dislike), but why is NASA doing this exactly?
Yeah, really. Since when has the movie industry correctly portrayed actual science?
Maybe they are hoping to knock all the 2012 doom sayers off course by discrediting the film.
That's the opposite of what they should be doing! Think of the funding they'll get for giant doomsday spaceships.
Now that manned space flight is mostly off the table, I guess NASA is looking for shit to do.
Dustin Hoffman was a chemist???
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