That's the problem - I can't think of any scientifically accurate ones off the top of my head.
This has helped lead to, at least in the States, the population being a bunch of scientifically illiterate morons who actually think shooting someone in the chest with a shotgun causes them to fly back fifty feet into a wall. Problem.
Now, if you think being scientifically accurate is boring, I just have to ask you what the fuck you know about science. There's nothing boring about real science - the reason we have such awfully inaccurate movies is that people like Uwe Boll and Michael Bay are dumb cunts who know nothing and expect the rest of the world to be at their level. Being accurate doesn't mean being a freshman physics lecture - it just means not having IDIOTIC shit like 'curving a bullet'. The inaccuracies aren't even helpful - nine times out of ten they're just stupid ways of abusing more special effects and avoiding having a decent plot.
Seriously - would you really walk out of a movie with a great plot and good acting, but no glaring inaccuracies, and think "Wow, that film was well-thought-out, casted properly, orchestrated well, and written perfectly... but muthafuckas never ran on no ceilings, so I'm pissed!" Movies aren't fun just because they're stuffed to the brim with utter bullshit! The best movie ever fucking made was Dr. Strangelove, and if you disagree with me you're wrong... and not only was that a historically and scientifically plausible event, Stanley Kubrick even set a world record for scientifically accurate badassery by constructing the inside of the bomber based only on a few books - that bomber's layout was still classified, but he did such a good job of replicating it that one of the US intelligence agencies investigated him because they thought he had an inside source. That is fucking badassery, and did it ruin the movie? Fuck no.
It's one thing to stretch reality a bit with sci-fi, but when all you have as a result is more CGI bullshit trying to replace a real plot it's just wankery. And, again, if you don't understand how real science can be interesting, there's nothing I can say other than that you obviously have no idea how much total badassery is going on in the world of physics right now. There are no two ways about it, man cannot make up cooler shit than he is finding hidden in the universe as we speak.
Jeff
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