Eh, it can be distracting and disappointing the more you actually know about science (and I’m just a curious layman), but it’s a given that probably most pop culture science fiction movies and television series generally play very fast and loose with actual science. Last week I watched a particularly bad sci-fi movie called “Deus, The Black Sphere”; my Netflix deliveries have been out of whack for a few months now, so I stopped at a local library branch to get a couple movies, and while I’d never heard of this film before, it looked worth trying for free.

It was painfully derivative of a thousand SF movies that have come before it, and filled with so many standard SF bad science tropes, including suspended animation hibernation/“hyper-sleep” pods (these just for the trip to Mars from Earth, to boot), artificial gravity that isn’t at least visually explained by centrifugal force, instantaneous remote communications between Earth and a spacecraft in Mars orbit, people risking shooting solid projectile firearms inside a spacecraft, and undoubtedly a few more I don’t recall right now. The movie was so bad — writing, acting, plot, basic premise — I got probably 80% thru it but cared so little about the characters or story that I finally just turned it off.