{"id":229,"date":"2003-08-24T22:19:22","date_gmt":"2003-08-25T01:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=229"},"modified":"2003-08-24T22:19:22","modified_gmt":"2003-08-25T01:19:22","slug":"when-sci-fi-movies-take-the-wrong-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"When sci-fi movies take the wrong turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>O<\/span>ver at the BBC a cynical editorial how <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/3173935.stm\">Sci-Fi movies sometimes forget about real science<\/a>. Or rather use dodgy science to explain unnatural scenarios.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nApparantly, the Hulk (Ang Lee&#8217;s latest summer bash flick) is one of the clearest examples: the original (60&#8217;s) comic explained that radiation was the major cause of Banner morphing into the Green Monster.  Knowing that radiotion isn&#8217;t really good for the health, Ang Lee&#8217;s screenwriters decided to use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softcom.net\/webnews\/wed\/am\/Uus-hulk.RGT1_DlN.html\">Sea Cucumber theory<\/a>.  Making things worse, as many moviegoers found out:<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Science fiction often has to resort to pure fabrication in order to have a plot. When it does, our feeling is that it&#8217;s best to put it on the table with a minimum of explanation&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the BBC a cynical editorial how Sci-Fi movies sometimes forget about real science. Or rather use dodgy science to explain unnatural scenarios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}