Non-scientific Science used in Movies

When : Nov 4, 2006, Saturday,
Where : Van Allen Hall, LR 1

(Professor Usha Mallik and Dale Stille) )

Just like science fiction stories, science fiction movies have also been very popular. But, do they represent proper scientific possibilities ? The picture below represents the first science fiction film, A Trip to the Moon, made in 1902. In the film, six adventurers travel in a space capsule fired from a large cannon. After their lunar landing, the explorers are kidnapped by disgruntled by moon inhabitants, escape to their capsules, nudge it off the moon's edge and fall back to Earth, where they splash down in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Day after Tomorrow, a recent movie.
 
The Spiderman, a popular and recent movie.
 
Armageddon, a popular recent movie.
 
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