Why the phrase "sh** just happens" is incompatible with astrophysics

Rating: 1/10 (2 May 2011)

If you isolate the extremely vague phrase of "sh** just happens" without any context, yeah, maybe you can figure a way into making it relate to astrophysics. In order to do that, you'd have to do some research in order to understand astrophysics enough to find a connection. If you haven't done that, then this a question that comes out of a lack of knowledge of the subject. That means that you've reached a conclusion without understanding.
This is exactly the major problem with this movie, and the context that this comment probably comes from when Cage's Astrophysicist character utters it. The writer has absolutely no knowledge of science, the scientific method, what scientists and professors actually do or anything remotely related to the subject. Unfortunately, he then decided to sit down and write a movie that incorporated and depended on key characters that were supposed to represent, not only the scientific community, but scientists who were educated in a very specific subject. Oops.
It's obvious that this writer wrote this movie doing absolutely no research into the subject that he tries to use in the movie and makes major assumptions about it. This says three major problems with this writer.
First, he's extremely lazy and sloppy, as he will just make up anything off the top of his head to get the story to reach the conclusion that he wants. He doesn't care if any of the characters or ideas are properly represented or consistent - just as long as he gets to his ridiculous ending.
Secondly, he assumes that his audience his equally lazy and stupid, otherwise he would have realized that anyone that studied science, even minutely, would find the premise and the characters to be completely ridiculous.
Now this last flaw leads to this writers third problem - he's dirt stupid. He is so incredibly stupid that he doesn't even understand that he doesn't understand certain subjects - to the point that he completes and releases a story and characters based on information that he doesn't understand at all. He just assumes that he knows enough to write about the subject, and that he doesn't see the monumental issues in his own screenplay. These problems would've been caught in a junior college writing class. There's no way that he even bothered to have anyone look at it before releasing it to a studio. He's just dumb.
So yeah, in the context of story, "sh** just happens" is a monumentally stupid thing to say, by a character that is poorly written in a sloppy movie that doesn't realize it's own stupidity.