Hollywood has always been pretty lax when it comes to adhering to science as we understand it - even out with science fiction. The most obvious things that one can expect to see - as the site Intuitor is often at pains to explain - are sparking bullets, the infinite clip, people able to fall substantial distances or smash through windows without injury, the amazing exploding car and of course

Perhaps the favourite science cliche in sci-fi is that anti-gravity is just about THE first thing a space faring race will develop. Not only that but it can be pumped through a ship like central heating and is a thousand times more robust than everything on the ship - including critical systems like... life support. Just about the only time artificial gravity ever failed were in Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country... and very briefly in the B5 TV movie - In The Beginning.

They really ought to try and build consoles with the same technology... because they do explode an awful lot. It's really saying something about your ship when your biggest worry is a computer blowing up in your face, rather than explosive decompression. Probably not a good thing either. Barring Dell's exploding laptops, there is little in the terms of equivalence.

Of course, these are generic sci-fi clichés... like the starfighters acting like they're in an atmosphere or Star Trek space battles being akin to being fought by pick-ups being driven around in a car park, firing nerf at one another... they're just things that are done for dramatic effect and such. However, once every few years there is just a film that is so stupidly idiotic that it shouldn't be bothered with.

Sunshine seems to be the next torch bearer, surpassing The Core. OUR SUN IS DYING! ONLY A BOMB THE SIZE OF KANSAS CAN SAVE US! Where to start... the inaccuracy. The fact our dying sun would consume the Earth rather than go off like a light bulb? The idea that a sun that has depleted its (massive) amounts of fuel can't be "reignited" by a bomb... and even if it could, the Earth is 1/109th the diameter of the Sun. Even though, it's akin to throwing a match on a dead fire. Not that logic ever applied to Hollywood.