Scientifically Accurate Film Scenes

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About

Scientifically Accurate Film Scenes refers to a copypasta which is typically used as a tongue-in-cheek title for various film scenes submitted to Reddit.

Origin

On January 15th, 2018, Redditor interlink_interlink submitted a clip of a nuclear explosion in the 1991 science fiction film Terminator 2: Judgement Day along with the claim that the scene was "still one of the most scientifically accurate nuclear detonation scenes in any media. Scientists wrote letters of praise to the film crew for the accuracy" (shown below). Over the next day, the post gathered upwards of 15,000 points (88% upvoted) and 2,600 comments on /r/videos.

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That same day, Redditor ASCIO submitted a clip from the television show Star Trek titled "The Kirk vs. Gorn scene from Star Trek is still one of the most scientifically accurate humanoid reptilian scenes in any media. Scientists wrote letters of praise to the film crew for the accuracy" (shown below). Within 24 hours, the post gained over 48,200 points (72% upvoted) and 3,400 comments on /r/videos.^[1]

That evening, Redditor shavin_high submitted a post asking "What's with all "Scientifically Accurate" Film Scene Posts on /r/videos?" to /r/OutOfTheLoop,^[2] to which Redditor semsr cited the original Star Trek post. Over the next 24 hours, several other parody posts were made, which included the "Not the Bees" scene from 2006 horror film Wicker Man (shown below, left) and a "frisbee death scene" from the 1987 action thriller film Hard Ticket to Hawaii (shown below, right).^[3]^[4] On January 16th, the news site RadioTimes^[7] published an article about the copypasta titled "This new stupid film meme is one of the most scientifically accurate in any media."