Will critics pan Angels and Demons because of antimatter? [spoilers]

[urbandk]

I am wondering whether critics who otherwise thought Star Trek was a good film, but panned its time travel, black holes, and red matter as implausible will mention Angels and Demons' ludicrous plot involving stolen anti-matter. Since it would take about a billion years to produce enough anti-matter the annihilation of which would equal an atom bomb, the whole stolen anti-matter plot in the new film is as implausible as Star Trek's supernova eating black hole.

I'm all for more science in sci-fi and movies in general. I dislike the whole sound-in-space, subspace, mcguffin, space-opera side to all Star Trek, and I hope Angels and Demons gets called out for this silly plot element.

 

[Butters]

Re: Will critics pan Angels and Demons because of antimatter? [spoiler

I hope it does get panned for bad science where relevant, but if the film works at the creative entertainment level, so what? Real science can be so unsatisfying at the human scale.

Star Trek asks some severe leaps of faith to follow its plot, but thats always been a huge part of trek.

I watched Dantes Peak for the first time in a room (my living room as it happens) full of geophysicists and they ruined the whole fucking film. Don't get too lost in the science, its all just fantasy.