[Off-topic] ShadowLea:
I see no reason why it shouldn't. But they would need to be creative in the first place to work something out.

The 'sound in space' cliché is the easiest example. Space is a vacuum, and sound needs air to travel. Simple. But directors can't figure out how to work with that and still 'make it grand', so they just ignore it.

When in fact science allows for hundreds of reasons as to why there could be sound in space. Air inside a nebula. Atmosphere that has escaped from a previously destroyed ship. (Imagine the sound effects you could do in a dogfight going in and out of those air pockets!) Serenity solved this by having the dogfight inside the upper atmosphere of a planet. There's plenty more for who wants to look into it.

And if the plot doesn't allow that, they could play the sound the pilots hear inside their ships. Which would be totally different from the far too overused 'fighter dogfight' sounds, providing the viewer with an entirely new experience. (The sounds in your car are different from when you're on the streets)

Add in the intercoms for additional effects, give the viewer the idea they're a pilot in the fight instead of an outside viewer. A bonus effect if the sound cuts out when the scene switches to an outside shot. That would make it an experience on its own.

Music could provide another, fully different experience. Classical music can simulate a battle, so music in films could do it, too. Swell the music on an explosion, quiet it down for a breather. It's well documented that music is the most immersive form of audio, there's a golden opportunity there. Need to give it a reason? Have the pilot play the music himself.

Imagine it for a second in a film like Star Wars: Grand ships, tiny fighters in a dogfight, the scenery of nebulea and stars, the bright explosions and the cold contrast of space, immersive music that flows with the fight and the feeling like you're right there in the middle of it all, a pilot in one of those tiny ships. The voices over the intercom, the strange, distorted sounds of your own ship firing and being fired upon, the music in your ears. And suddenly the dead silence of space (possibly with a melancholy soft note in the background as music) as the shot is viewed from outside, the contrast it offers, leaving you with the feeling of floating above it all.

Now imagine that in a cinema in 4K with 21:1 surround sound and a massive screen. Doesn't that sound like something you'd pay good money for to experience? I know I would. And all of it scientifically perfectly normal. This is what I mean with you don't need to mention the science for it to work.

I fell asleep 35 minutes in, so I don't exactly know. It was much more a film focussed on the human emotional journey than anything else. It just so happened to be in space, but it could just as well have been set in the ocean. I always fall asleep on emotional drama's, human introspective bores me to no end. I have Aspergers, can't help it.

As for accurate... The stars twinkled..... Stars only twinkle due to them being viewed through our atmosphere. The stations are above our atmosphere. They should not have twinkled. Such a simple, basic fact should not have been overlooked. Making them static would not have changed anything about the film, it would actually have been easier, and now people think stars twinkle when seen from space.

There's more, but I won't bore people with it. Let's just say there's no such thing as weightlessness upon re-entry. (As any pilot also knows, the G's do not allow for weightlessness.)

The greatest example of scientific stupidity is still the film '2012'. Where they try a little scientific explanation which has apparently been thought up under the influence of several class-A drugs. Some lark about mutating neutrino's. :laugh::laugh: Neutrino's do not mutate. :laugh:

I really can't put it any better than Dara O'Briain has done here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaQlQjLDsvI&feature=player_detailpage#t=4266

(And if that leads to anyone wasting several hours watching comedy clips on Youtube (Like I just did), you're welcome :p)