The sci-fi genre is often cited as one of the most difficult for the general public to understand, as the scientific aspects of the genre tend to be a bit too complex to appeal to a general audience.

After browsing through this list, it becomes clear that the producers were right to go for sci-fi productions without science, as all of them turned out to be huge box office hits.

Not every movie needs to have a scientific basis like Interstellar,"and these 10 great movies certainly prove that. Even if fans are denied the chance to learn more about the worlds of these movies in a scientific way, it does not take away from the sheer excitement of watching a movie with fantastical elements.

We can hate on Hollywood’s oversimplification tactics all we want, but the idea of producing sci-fi movies without boring audiences with redundant scientific details has certainly stood the test of time.

Here are all the films mentioned: Armageddon (1998), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Core (2003), Lucy (2014), Transformers (2007-2019), 2012 (2009), What The #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004), Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008), The Happening (2008), I Am Legend (2007).

  • thesmokingman@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    Not all SF is hard SF and not all hard SF goes deep into the basis of its hardness. Sturgeon describes SF as asking “what if” which, at its core, does not require an untenable scientific basis.