Was it Bring Your Kids To Work Day at the studio?

Rating: 2/10 (6 June 2012)

If The Archers on BBC Radio 4, billed as "an everyday story of country folk" has an Agricultural Consultant credited at the end of every episode, why couldn't the producers of this, a $130m movie, at least have asked a primary school Physics student if the science looked a bit dodgy? They'd probably have done it for a couple of Mars bars.
Surely the cheapest part of virtually every blockbuster is the script. A five-year-old could point out the holes in this one with one finger up their nose and half an eye on the Teletubbies.
Why can't film-makers, with a few notable exceptions like Duncan Jones, realise that the entire universe of a story falls apart without consistency and reason, at least within the "laws" of a particular movie? Presuming your entire audience are morons who just gape at the screen with mouths sagging open, constantly stuffing in over-priced popcorn to soak up the drool just pisses off the ones who have actually looked forward to your film, taken the time to schlep down to the cinema and hand over their hard-earned cash to the dead-eyed schlub on the till. OK, perhaps that's just in the Peckhamplex but alienating* the very section of your audience that actually gives a damn about your back catalogue will put them off paying to see anything else you make in the future.
Of course, getting in one of the Lost writers was probably a bit of a dozy idea from the start; not exactly somebody who can be trusted with taught plotting and management of story arc. Ridley, if you can't look after things properly any more then nobody else is going to trust you to look after their money. You could always go back to making Hovis adverts, as long as you get a responsible adult to help you with the tricky bits.
*See what I did there, Ridley?