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It begs the question as to whether the entertainment value (earnings) justifies the scientific inaccuracies.
Consider two popular sci-fi films that dramatise an impending asteroid impact. Armageddon earned more at the box office but Deep Impact was more accurate scientifically. Presumably then, Armageddon was also more successful in disseminating inaccurate scientific principles.
In a poll of 100s of scientists about bad sci-fi movies, the Core was voted the worst. If Descent simply borrowed from the Core, it was surely a bad error of judgement.
It is very sad indeed when a sci-fi film has little entertainment value as well as little scientific value.
Regards, Rob.
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