http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/14/opinion/obeidallah-fact-checking-movies/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7
The article at hand talks about the criticism made towards movies that are made for entertainment- not to acquire proper knowledge. Films like 'Gravity' and 'The Butler' were especially given hard criticism. For one, 'Gravity' is a science fiction movie, and for some reason astrophysicists seem to neglect that fact. They've been correcting insignificant things from the way Sandra Bullock's hair floated inside her helmet at zero gravity, to they way space junk floated around. In 'The Butler' critics complained that not all the characters were real in the depiction of a certain man's life. Honestly, if you are to make a documentary on someone's life, the details should be as accurate as possible. However, in the film business making extra characters to get a specific theme across is acceptable.
In my opinion, movies should be left alone to be special entertainment for people who want to escape the real world. Small errors in science shouldn't be chastised as hard as they are because after all, it is a science fiction movie. Historical event based films should be correct to an extent, but exact accuracy should be saved for documentaries or textbooks.
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