Just watched it on a Sunday afternoon….
I can't believe this thread… Surely the worst part was gravity going in reverse, with people being sucked up into the air. I mean flying people, flying cars, hay bales, etc.
Also brown dwarfs are not dense object, only white dwarfs are. They mixed up the two, and explained it as both. They meant white dwarfs. Also white dwarfs are strongly magnetic, but only because of their fast rotation.
Yet if a piece of white dwarf did do what happened in the movie it is impossible, because with out the gravity the piece would expand back to normal matter - mind you not nickel or iron, but mostly carbon, oxygen and nitrogen. The object would have been a comet like object not any solid mass.
Ye, cannot change the laws of physics. Impossible.
The worst for me, however, is the portrayal of amateur astronomers by Hollywood. Why are we made out as geeks?
The other thing is why was one of the lead female artists Dr Maddie Rhodes (played by Natasha Hensgtridge) in an observatory at night and still dress to the nines!
…yet just to show how gullible it is presently rated on "The Internet Movie Database" 5.6/10 !!
As one commenter said; "TOTAL WASTE OF THE TIME!!!"
Comments on this site are worth the read; See;
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1227637/usercomments