The worst sci-fi film?
“2012, Roland Emmerich’s gleefully comprehensive demolition-job disaster movie, has been named the most absurd science-fiction film ever by NASA,” The Guardian reports. “The film, which was released in 2009 to groans of guilty pleasure and the healthy ringing of cash registers … was deemed the silliest and most scientifically flawed film at a conference in California. Set on Dec. 21, 2012, the film tells the story of John Cusack and Amanda Peet’s marital reconciliation, against the backdrop of the end of the world – an effect of mysterious neutrino particles that lay waste to the globe’s top tourist attractions. … Part of NASA’s gripe with the film, it emerged, was the mushrooming mailbags it had triggered. ‘The agency is getting so many questions from people terrified that the world is going to end that we have had to put up a special website to challenge the myths. We never had to do this before.’ They were also unhappy with the use of neutrino particles, which in the film cause solar flares, earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis, but which in fact can’t interact with physical substances.”
“2012, Roland Emmerich’s gleefully comprehensive demolition-job disaster movie, has been named the most absurd science-fiction film ever by NASA,” The Guardian reports. “The film, which was released in 2009 to groans of guilty pleasure and the healthy ringing of cash registers … was deemed the silliest and most scientifically flawed film at a conference in California. Set on Dec. 21, 2012, the film tells the story of John Cusack and Amanda Peet’s marital reconciliation, against the backdrop of the end of the world – an effect of mysterious neutrino particles that lay waste to the globe’s top tourist attractions. … Part of NASA’s gripe with the film, it emerged, was the mushrooming mailbags it had triggered. ‘The agency is getting so many questions from people terrified that the world is going to end that we have had to put up a special website to challenge the myths. We never had to do this before.’ They were also unhappy with the use of neutrino particles, which in the film cause solar flares, earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis, but which in fact can’t interact with physical substances.”
