Sci-fi movies tend to create some of the most
ridiculous worlds and scenarios imaginable,
but that’s what we love about them.
We get to see things that perhaps have some
basis in a potential future someday, and stir
our imaginations greatly, but are far beyond
our current grasp.
Unfortunately, since it is science fiction
and most writers are more concerned with telling
an interesting story, scientific accuracy
and other real world concerns often get thrown
entirely out the window.
While most of your favorite sci-fi flicks
have a happy ending, in reality many of these
happy endings would have been anything but.
10.
After The Battle Of Endor, The Ewoks Would
Likely Have Had Little Time Left
This is something that is actually quite controversial
among Star Wars fans, and in order to satisfy
them, has had weird explanations written about
it in the Expanded Universe in order to stop
people from worrying about all the cute little
Ewoks dying out.
This controversy started with an astrophysicist
named Curtis Saxton, who wrote technical stuff
for Star Wars and ruined a lot of fans’
days by pointing out where a lot of things
were closer to fantasy than sci-fi.
He pointed out that there is no sound in space,
no fire in the vacuum of space, and also that
most of the Ewoks would have perished after
the events on Endor in Return of the Jedi
due to a horrible death raining down on them
from above.
While scientifically this is completely accurate,
the Star Wars lore master Pablo Hidalgo, also
known as the keeper of the holocron (he must
get all the ladies), explained that while
scientifically Endor should have gone through
a cataclysm, sometimes you can throw out physics
when you are making a movie and want a happy
ending.
In other words, his explanation is “*shrug*
Movies!”
For those fans who are particularly worried,
though, he explained that when the Death Star
was destroyed, it lost its hyperdrive regulator,
and most of the debris was sucked into a wormhole
and spread all over the galaxy — the remaining
debris was carefully swept up by Rebellion
tractor beams, in order to avoid any harm
being caused to their new furry friends.
9.
At The End Of The Day After Tomorrow, The
Survivors Have Very Little Chance
The Day After Tomorrow is a Roland Emmerich
apocalypse film in his usual vein, where pretty
much everything is destroyed, and the destruction
happens on a truly grand scale.
His movies tend to stir the imagination and
make us think about what we might be forced
to do if a truly large scale disaster were
to ever rock the entire globe.
However, Emmerich’s movies also tend to
be absurdly unrealistic, and that is more
true than ever when it comes to The Day After
Tomorrow.
In this movie, Dennis Quaid discovers that
the Earth is soon going to go through a new
Ice Age, and that we may only have a short
year or so left — a timeframe that is already
pretty unrealistic.
To make matters even more insane, it quickly
turns out that we actually only have days
left.
The world soon watches as everything falls
apart and the weather systems become so vicious
and nonsensical that we start seeing hurricanes
form over dry land.
However, the most insane part of the movie
is the entire ending.
Near the end, despite a cold snap that is
so deadly helicopters are freezing in midair,
Quaid manages to trek to New York, one of
the coldest places in this new environment
— when the storm is at its worst — to
go rescue his son, who somehow survived.
After going through incredibly dangerous weather
and somehow making it, he not only finds his
son, but a helicopter magically arrives and
takes them all the way to Mexico.
The most logical conclusion is that the happy
ending is the fevered dream of Quaid as he
dies in the storm, desperately and foolishly
trying to make it to New York primarily on
foot.
8.
Independence Day: Resurgence, The Earth’s
Stability Is Permanently Damaged
Independence Day: Resurgence is a movie that
didn’t quite get the kind of attention and
hype that the first one managed to garner.
Most likely, this was due to Will Smith not
being available for (or willing to do) the
project.
While Smith maintains his reason for not being
around was having other projects he wanted
to do more, some people believe he deliberately
turned it down because he was afraid he would
overshadow his co-stars and force most of
the budget of the movie to be spent on himself.
While this decision may have actually made
it easier to make another ensemble movie like
the first one, it wasn’t without its major
problems.
Near the beginning of the movie, a gigantic
alien spaceship that is so large it seems
to have its own gravity burns through the
Earth’s atmosphere, destroying countless
buildings and vegetation, and takes up camp
in the ocean.
It then starts using a laser to drill down
toward the center of our planet, so it can
take the core and use it as fuel.
The heroes manage to stop them just in time,
as they were about to strip off the last bit
of Earth between them and the core.
In the end, no one even talks about this at
all and just acts as if it is resolved, but
in the real world it wouldn’t be resolved
at all.
While it is hard to be sure of the science
as no one has ever drilled down that far,
it beggars belief that the Earth would not
be catastrophically, if not irreparably, damaged
if a giant laser managed to penetrate that
close to our core.
7.
The Humans In Wall-E Are Clearly Not Ready
To Return To Earth Or Be Functioning People
In Wall-E, the humans are living on a space
station because the Earth is no longer properly
inhabitable.
Wall-E is trying to bring them a flower to
prove the Earth is growing vegetation again
and it is time to bring the humans back, but
the artificial intelligence of the space station,
known as AUTO, is not having it.
It does everything it can to hide that Earth
has things growing on it again, and tries
as hard as it can to stop Wall-E and the humans.
However, the truth is AUTO may have been more
right than the movie would lead you to believe.
The humans have become incredibly fat, and
even in reduced gravity in space, they need
scooters to get around.
Computers do almost everything for them — they
are slothful beyond all imagine.
To make matters worse, the Earth is only starting
to recover again; it’s not like it’s full
of lush vegetation.
These humans are going to have an incredible
time trying to adjust back to Earth life again
after being so fat and lazy for so long.
The truth is that they probably would have
been better served waiting for the Earth to
recover more first, and slowly preparing subsequent
generations for the more manual labor lifestyle
they would soon need to adjust to.
6.
Children Of Men: Humanity Is Probably Still
Doomed
Children of Men is a grim sci-fi dystopia
where the world is falling apart at the seams,
largely due to the fact that children simply
aren’t being born anymore.
Women would have miscarriages left and right
when the crisis began, and soon the sound
of children playing on the playground stopped
— leaving everyone very worried.
The plot follows a man who is trying to bring
a pregnant woman to safety; someone who the
movie treats as the last, best hope for mankind.
However, the problem is that one woman managing
to give birth and being fertile hardly fixes
anything.
If the vast majority of women are miscarrying
like crazy, one woman won’t make a huge
difference when it comes to keeping humanity
going.
Even if she were magically fertile, that means
the survivors would likely force her to keep
getting pregnant nonstop, in the hopes it
would keep humanity going, while asking her
to make love with different men to improve
genetic diversity.
But what if her children aren’t fertile?
We are still back at square one, and we are
still trying to keep the Earth’s population
up with literally only one woman who can carry
children.
At the end of the movie, the chances for humanity’s
survival are still extremely grim.
5.
Minority Report: Lots Of Very Upset Would-Be
Murderers, Or Unstable People, Are Loose
Minority Report is a Tom Cruise sci-fi action
flick set in a future where special psychics
lie in weird floating tank things, and predict
crimes before they actually happen.
This pre-crime unit that Tom Cruise works
in allows them to keep criminals off the street
before they can actually become criminals.
However, Cruise soon learns that there is
something wrong with the entire system when
it predicts he will commit murder, and he
soon goes on a quest to get to the bottom
of everything.
At the end of Minority Report, it is proven
that the psychics can only see possible futures,
and cannot predict with certainty who is going
to do what.
This puts a huge kink in the whole “predicted
murder” thing and suddenly a veritable army
of formerly convicted people are out on the
streets, free to do whatever they want.
Now, all of them were technically innocent,
but many of them literally were stopped just
short of actually killing someone.
And some of them almost certainly were going
to be killers.
If that weren’t bad enough, many of them
are probably now very angry and holding quite
a bit of a grudge against the world in general
for wrongfully imprisoning them for so long.
Unfortunately, that huge prisoner release
may soon be followed by a massive violent
crime wave — a very real one this time.
Of course, if you thought that was depressing,
some fans are convinced that the happy ending
was all just a dream, and that everything
after Cruise goes into the weird coma prison
tube thing is just him imagining things.
And yes, “weird coma prison tube thing”
is, in fact, the technical term.
4.
After Jurassic World, Zach And Gray (Probably)
Both Have PTSD, And Their Parents Will Likely
Still Split
In Jurassic World, we mostly follow two story
arcs: the arc following Christ Pratt’s character
and the female CEO of the park, Claire (played
by Bryce Dallas Howard), and the arc following
Claire’s two young nephews, Zach and Gray.
These two boys are here on a fun vacation
and supposed to spend time with their aunt,
but soon end up spending time with each other
via a chaperone, quickly showing the dysfunctionality
of their family unit.
Later on in the plot, Gray reveals that his
parents hired divorce lawyers, and his older
brother tries to cheer him up.
This entire part of the story is not really
talked about again, and seems like it was
left without any real resolution.
At the end of the movie, we don’t have any
reason to believe that Gray and Zach’s parents
have changed their minds in any significant
way.
Gray and Zach went through a bonding adventure
and became closer to each other and to their
aunt, but their parents are no closer than
they were before.
On top of that, both kids witnessed people
eaten by ravenous dinosaurs, were nearly devoured
themselves, and only barely made it out with
their lives intact.
Both boys are likely to have serious PTSD,
and still will have to deal with the fact
that their parents are soon going to be divorced.
3.
Inception: Even If Cobb Is Not Stuck In A
Dream, His Life Is Still A Total Mess
Inception is one of the most well known and
memeable sci-fi movies from the last decade
or so.
Nearly everyone watched it, and we were all
fascinated by the idea of sneaking into someone’s
dreams to steal their secrets, as well as
the crazy way they fought their way through
dreams within dreams.
The setting was entirely original and gave
us a new world of sci-fi and fantasy most
of us never imagined.
However, while the movie was incredibly fascinating
and intriguing, it also left us with a less
than satisfying ending.
The truth is that Cobb is hardly in much better
of a position than he was before the movie
started.
When Cobb finally goes home, he is told that
his rich Japanese benefactor will get him
through Customs; however, going through Customs
doesn’t mean he has any kind of blanket
pardon.
He may still have some questions to answer,
or have to sneak around.
Not only that, but he may still have Cobol
on his back, if they can ever find where he
went, which means he will likely have to pull
his children out of school and upend their
lives in order to evade the law.
Even if his wife’s death was lowkey enough
that he wasn’t on the news for it, and his
employer really did get him a full pardon,
he is still incredibly psychologically damaged,
and trying to take care of children that hardly
know him.
On top of that, he essentially has to retire
from the only job he ever really knew, so
there is also the question of what Cobb will
do for work.
For his part, Christopher Nolan deliberately
left all of this vague because he wanted you
to decide the ending yourself.
2.
The Avengers: No One In The United States
Would Ever Trust Their Government Again
At the end of The Avengers, Loki uses the
Tesseract to open up a portal that brings
in the Chitauri army, hell bent on conquering
earth and taking it entirely for their own
species.
They are brought in right over New York, and
start smashing into office buildings and wantonly
killing civilians, presumably for fun.
Now, because it is an action movie meant for
fun, we won’t go too far into wondering
why Loki didn’t attack military installations
or somewhere like Washington DC if he wanted
to take out civilians, but there are some
important questions to answer here.
The biggest issue is that the powers that
be in the government made a decision to completely
give up on New York and just nuke the entire
thing.This is an absurd decision, as there
is still a portal open and we do not have
the intelligence as to whether there could
be many more still pouring out of that portal.
(Did they learn nothing from Independence
Day?)
The government chooses to wipe out millions
of civilian lives in the hope that it would
contain a threat — with no guarantee.
The sad aftereffect of this is that no American
citizen would ever trust the government again;
in real life it may have even created unrest
or animosity, and possibly a huge change in
our current government makeup.
To play so fast and loose with the lives of
millions of civilians, and make such a stupid
snap judgment, is something that would reverberate
throughout the globe for the rest of history,
even after Iron Man’s incredible last second
save.
1.
2012: The Remaining Members Of Society Are
Some Of The Most Useless
In the movie 2012, we are treated to an incredibly
cartoony and insane spectacle wherein the
entire Earth is pretty much upended.
The Mayan predictions come true and it turns
out some kind of magnetic force from the sun
is going to shift the Earth’s poles, realign
everything, and kill billions of people.
The elite of the globe figure this out ahead
of time, and secretly hide it from the masses.
They create huge Arks — special ships that
can survive the coming apocalypse and repopulate
the globe.
They try to get huge swathes of art and knowledge
to bring onboard, but when it comes to people,
tickets are only known of and available for
purchase to the most wealthy people imaginable.
This, along with a few random people who manage
to be close to the Arks as they are closing,
make it onboard and survive the coming apocalypse.
Now, the Earth is faced with the need to repopulate
all the lost people, but they are in a bit
of a bind.
There is going to be a lot of hard, hands-on
work to do in order to rebuild humanity and
the Earth, but those are not the kind of people
onboard (kind of like the situation in Wall-E).
Most of the people on the Arks are incredibly
wealthy people who never worked a day in their
lives, dealt mostly with top level administrating,
and never had to do any tough manual labor.
To make matters worse, the remainder of Earth’s
population are some of the most arrogant people
alive, who all think they should be in charge.
Unfortunately, it looks like the leaders in
2012 didn’t think things through very well,
and may find it difficult to properly rebuild
humanity.
Perhaps if they had thought things through
they would have brought a few more tradesmen
on board.
