MSTed Movie That Butchers Science Most

[Phantom Engineer]

Many MSTed movies are science fiction and most of them got science very wrong. 12 To The Moon comes to mind. The invisible face shields,, the steam in a vacuum(which really irked Servo). Don't even get me started on King Dinosaur!
Which science fact gaffes grab you?

[Torgo]

I gotta go with 12 to the Moon. Those invisible face sheilds were hillarious.

Reminded me of that episode of the Simpsons where they're watching an old sci-fi movie on TV, and in order to breath in the "space air" they put goggles on.

[nightfalcawk]

Phantom Planet. "Einstein was trying to finish his theorum on anti-gravity..."


Einstein did. Negative pressure=repulsive gravity.

Time Chasers revoltingly tore apart Relativity.

Wild World of Batwoman tore apart the fabric of society.

DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE OTHER STUFF IN PHANTOM PLANET!

"The electrons are closer to the nucleus on this planet."
That means that the elements insanely easy to reduce and no life can form. That has nothing to do with gravity, sorry. Gravity is exchanged by chargeless massless particles.

[TV's Cowboy]

Cave Dweller's assertion that nuclear bombs and hang gliders existed back in the dark ages

[XerxesTheCat]

The Brain That Wouldn't Die.

We all know swapping heads is impossible, because blood vessels and veins and junk like that will not respond to the "foreign" cells and unfirmiliar brain.

The Atomic Brain is also scientifically incorrect.

[madcrowdisease]

How about the 'Giant Spider Invation'.Now listen to this.
A meteorite falls from space and hits the earth that opens up a black hole on the surface of the earth.The movie should end there with the earth imploding,but instead a giant radioactive spider comes through the black hole (from another dimension I guess),which is so
scientifically incorrect that it makes my head hurt.Oh yeah then they close it with a small bomb that makes an implotion that's only the size of a shoe box.
This plot is so thin it's transparent,but it completely
demorilizes Wisconsin so it's ok.
P.S. I'm from Wisconsin

[Phantom Engineer]

madcrowdisease said:

How about the 'Giant Spider Invation'.Now listen to this.
A meteorite falls from space and hits the earth that opens up a black hole on the surface of the earth.The movie should end there with the earth imploding,but instead a giant radioactive spider comes through the black hole (from another dimension I guess),which is so
scientifically incorrect that it makes my head hurt.Oh yeah then they close it with a small bomb that makes an implotion that's only the size of a shoe box.
This plot is so thin it's transparent,but it completely
demorilizes Wisconsin so it's ok.
P.S. I'm from Wisconsin

I don't understand, which part doesn't make sense?

[nightfalcawk]

Well the fact you said "from another dimension" is scientifically inaccurate because dimensions are simply different lines that can be drawn perpendicular to all the previous lines. For instance, height is the third dimension. Ana and kata are the fourth, etc.

[colemanfrancisfan]

Riding With Death always bugs me. Casey becomes invisible because of some radioactive explosion, and then a wrist watch makes him visible again? WTF?!

[Jazzman99]

How about Radar Secret Service, where RADAR! does everything but bring you cookies and milk at bedtime? It's been a while since I've seen it, but I seem to remember them using RADAR! for things that had absolutely nothing to do with how it actually works.

Obvious follow-up question: which MST3Ker came the closest to getting the science right?

[colemanfrancisfan]

Monster A-Go-Go - There was no monster.

[yousonuva]

I thought the Spiders from INVASION were just carried on the meteor itself and then grew to be the monsterous one in the end. I don't remember anything about a black hole......but it's hard to pay attention to the dialogue in that movie so I might have missed it.



The worms in SQUIRM not only evolve into flesh eating centipedes in one night but they travel faster than Micheal Johnson on a go-kart.

[Phantom Engineer]

yousonuva said:

I thought the Spiders from INVASION were just carried on the meteor itself and then grew to be the monsterous one in the end. I don't remember anything about a black hole......but it's hard to pay attention to the dialogue in that movie so I might have missed it.

There is something about a bkack hole that they have to seal up but I don't remember the details either and it wouldn't make sense anyway.

[Phantom Engineer]

Jazzman99 said:

Obvious follow-up question: which MST3Ker came the closest to getting the science right?

201 - Rocketship X-M tried to be accurate.
From Daddy O's Drive In Dirt:

"Trivia: ROCKETSHIP X-M is considered by some to be a ground-breaking sci-fi movie, because it was the first American film to depict space travel seriously for an adult audience. It was made very quickly to beat George Pal's Destination Moon to the theaters, and is considered the better of the two. Its unhappy ending was very unusual for its time (or today for that matter)."

I think that's a bit generous but XM isn't as bad as most of them.

[yousonuva]

phantomengineer said:

There is something about a bkack hole that they have to seal up but I don't remember the details either and it wouldn't make sense anyway.

Oh that's right, something about 'primordial blackholes'.....my interpretation of the script is better anyway.