What is your #1 gripe about Science Fiction movies?

[Howard]

uh

LENS FLARE

 

[waggy]

uh

LENS FLARE

/this

 

[gorcorps]

Pick one.

Here's mine, and I think in the future our generation will have to answer for this, as we should:

See-through screens are ubiquitous in sci-fi movies and video games and in 99% of cases are a terrible idea, for obvious reasons.

Example, Minority Report

Well that one's easy to explain for the movies, and that screen cap is a perfect example of it. That shot shows you both what the character is doing and keeps the actor's expressions in the frame without any awkward cuts back and forth to a screen, then a face. It makes the scene much more fluid as you never loose track of the character. If you watch Iron Man you'll see lots of instances where Tony is walking around his shop controlling stuff but the camera is always on him. If they did it with normal screens and cut between them it would look like shit and not have the same feel.

 

[Agent11]

artificial gravity that is *magic* and sound in space are my least favorite things in sci fi.

 

[Northern Lawn]

Too many americans in space.

Shout out to District 9!

 

[Newbian]

Too many americans in space.

Shout out to District 9!

We claimed space when we stepped on the moon.

It's a law.

 

[Northern Lawn]

We claimed space when we stepped on the moon.

It's a law.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBsw7FUbOt4

 

[Jeff7]

Well that one's easy to explain for the movies, and that screen cap is a perfect example of it. That shot shows you both what the character is doing and keeps the actor's expressions in the frame without any awkward cuts back and forth to a screen, then a face. It makes the scene much more fluid as you never loose track of the character. If you watch Iron Man you'll see lots of instances where Tony is walking around his shop controlling stuff but the camera is always on him. If they did it with normal screens and cut between them it would look like shit and not have the same feel.

Same reason that TV/movie space suits are designed so oddly: Large transparent visors, and there's always internal lighting, all so that the actor's face is clearly visible.

And of course, there are plenty of exposed hoses or critical cables that can be easily plucked out of place, for creating artificial tension at the drop of a hat.

 

[pmv]

nm!

 

[Northern Lawn]

nm!

You said "if only all the americans were in space.. because they suck"... something like that.

 

[JoetheLion]

I hate when a sci-fi movie or series combines a different types of time travel/time continuum theories.

For example,:
1.they take the one crudely based on the theory of relativity - that every change or time travel was supposed to happen and it's actual the thing that caused the original event in the first place.
2.Then they take the theory where you can actually change the future or past with two variations of creating or not creating a time paradox
I don't have anything against these theories (although I prefer the first one), but even my beloved Star Trek Next Generation etc...Enterprise, DS9, Voyager or Star Gate lacked the consistency in whichever theory they chose (look at the end of 8th theory of SG1 for example). It shows how desperately was the whole time travel/change dependable on the actual story and often used to cover the plot holes.

Plus, I love Back to the Future trilogy, but the part where Marty's older siblings are slowly vanishing from his photo or the vanishment of doctor's tombstone from a photo as he/they change the past, is pretty much one of the dumbest things in sci-fi. Something similar happened in a Star Gate movie Continuum, where things and people were disappearing in a REAL TIME as the past was changing (past changing in a real time affecting the present? the scriptwriter should get a Nobel Prize or something).

Recently, I read a book by A.C.Clarke (yeah, The Space Odyssey guy) Rendezvous with Rama and it was written in a perfectionist style with the use actual physics even as changes in the plot. I recommend the book to all who find modern sci-fi lacking logic even in the already known things. And I also recommend it to those who think that you have to turn a blind eye, when something clearly stupid and illogical happens in a sci-fi.

 

[Newbian]

i hate when a sci-fi movie or series combines a different types of time travel/time continuum theories.

wwybywb?

 

[JoetheLion]

wwybywb?

I was you!

 

[JoeyP]

Everything has to make a sound.

Explosions in space that do not radiate in a spherical pattern.

Different races speak American Northern English (not Queen's or Southern).

Gravity on ships.

All ships "fly" on the same plane (although I believe STTWOK was the first to violate this).

When ships lose power, there is a slow downward pitch of everything instead of sudden silence.

 

[feralkid]

As has already been pointed out multiple times, movies are written by people with theater tech degrees. AKA folks who will never do anything real in their life.

Making a product and earning money selling it is not "real"?

http://www.the-numbers.com/market/

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Nobody's ever doing anything perverted with virtual reality.

 

[shortylickens]

Nobody's ever doing anything perverted with virtual reality.

Lawnmower man brushed the surface.

 

[JoetheLion]

Nobody's ever doing anything perverted with virtual reality.

There was a bordello with virtual women in Babylon 5, including commander Elizabeth Lochley in the 5th season.

 

[sdifox]

Nobody's ever doing anything perverted with virtual reality.

DS9 covered that in Quark's holosuite.

 

[69Mach1]

My #1 problem is planets approximately the size of postage stamps. Everyone is able to find anyone or anything they need immediately. And describing most planets as one homogenous whole surface area.

 

[shortylickens]

My #1 problem is planets approximately the size of postage stamps. Everyone is able to find anyone or anything they need immediately. And describing most planets as one homogenous whole surface area.

Well, if you look at our star system, only one planet has a varied surface.
The others are all homogeneous.

And I think those two other planets they found next system over are the same way.

 

[silverpig]

Hollywood's idea of science fiction seems to be just putting a normal movie in space, or in the future.

 

[Newbian]

I was you!

God Damn sci fi and alternate realities.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Hollywood's idea of science fiction seems to be just putting a normal movie in space, or in the future.

There's nothing wrong with that. It's bad writing and poor stories to begin with that hurts any movie type.

 

[Jeff7]

Well, if you look at our star system, only one planet has a varied surface.
The others are all homogeneous.

And I think those two other planets they found next system over are the same way.

Maybe. Depends on your point of view.

Earth: Atmosphere is primarily nitrogen, surface temperature varies very little, saltwater has accumulated across much of the available surface, and many of the land masses are coated with a thin film of carbon-based life.