I watched a few minutes of Netflix's movie "Io".

[Lionel Mandrake]

I like science fiction when I can suspend disbelief, but "Io" makes that impossible. The film should have had a science advisor, who would have pointed out a couple of howlers:

1) Putting humans in orbit about Jupiter's moon Io makes no sense. Jupiter is ridiculously far from the sun. Furthermore, Io is right in the middle of a band of intense radiation, which would kill people very quickly.

2) Back on earth, scientists were trying to extract oxygen from ammonium, which contains no oxygen.

[hunter]

1. How do movies fail like this?

Compared to special effects, good writing and plausible science is cheap.

[wryter2000]

2. My favorite science oopsie in a movie

Jurassic Park. Leave aside only one of those dinosaurs was from the Jurassic period, per Stephen Jay Gould.

At the beginning, the animated video that explains how they created the dinosaurs from the DNA in insects trapped in amber, they say that where something was missing in the DNA they substituted frog DNA. Frog? Really? Frogs aren't remotely related to dinosaurs.

[Lionel Mandrake]

3. You're right.

Bird DNA would make be more plausible, since birds ARE dinosaurs. Also, real velociraptors were a lot smaller than those in "Jurassic Park".