When it comes to special effects, there’s no film quite as high on the list as disaster epic 2012. It’s also one of the dumbest movies ever put onto film. Dumb and pretty is a recipe for cinema disaster, at least as far as NASA experts are concerned. Roland Emmerich’s 2012 was named as the silliest science fiction movie of all time by NASA and the Science and Entertainment Exchange. Gattaca and Jurassic Park were both named as good examples of science fiction films, probably because both are based in logical scientific principles concerning DNA and cloning.
“The film makers took advantage of public worries about the so-called end of the world as apparently predicted by the Mayans of Central America, whose calendar ends on December 21, 2012,” said Donald Yeomans, NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission chief. “The agency is getting so many questions from people terrified that the world is going to end in 2012 that we have had to put up a special website to challenge the myths. We have never had to do this before.”
Do you think 2012 is the dumbest sci-fi movie of all time? Or do you think NASA is just irritated that it had to allocate precious resources to deal with people wetting themselves with fear over the end of the Mayan calendar? Possibly it’s a little of both.
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