Too Scientifically Serious

As I've come to learn recently, just as there are some who are devout in their religious faith to the point of delusions and obsession, the same can hold true for those as devout to their scientific faith.

I know a person who's so serious about their science, they get inflamed with anger with a fictional film that does not present certain science in an accurate manner. How fictional? Take "A Night at the Museum" as a prime example. The skeletal T-Rex drinking water from the fountain or running around even, not scientifically accurate or even possible. The lab scenes in "Spiderman 3"? Again, scientifically inaccurate.

My only question is, who cares? These are not allegedly true stories, I'm sorry to say. While I wish there were a Spiderman roaming the world at night, saving innocents, and bringing guilty parties to light, there is no actual Peter Parker with a red and blue Spiderman outfit, with web sprouting from the wrist in the suit. I'm also sorry to say that there are no dinosaurs walking around with just their skeletal make-out holding them upright.

These movies are not made for scientific accuracy. They're not made for any kind of real world accuracy. They're made for entertainment value. I don't know too many scientists that go see "A Night at the Museum," muttering to each other, "You know, through watching this film tonight, it could lead to a breakthrough in modern medicine." No! Most likely, they're taking their family, their kids, munching on some popcorn, and putting their scientific mind on hold for those couple hours.

If one wants to find these scientific accuracies, read a scientific/psychological journal, watch a documentary dealing with the sciences, etc., but don't go to a fictional film expecting to be satisfied through its immense scientific database and through its numerous accurate findings.