Science and Technology in movies and TV.

Do they hire writers who actually have no knowledge of science to write scripts of movies? The latest "disaster" was Channel 7's miniseries, "Impact". With the orbital diagrams alone, we found a new energy source by putting a v-belt on Kepler's legs and hooking him up to a generator so he could pump out electricity as he turned over in his grave. Newton would also be included as a power source since in this movie F did not equal Gm1m2/d squared. It was bad enough that "Independence Day" had a space ship with 1/4 the mass of the moon in close orbit around earth with no gravitational effects but this mess had selective gravity! Trains got pulled off of their tracks but nothing else moved, not water or even the atmosphere. I normally use mistakes in movies as a quiz material in my Physics class but this thing would have been a final exam!
Hey guys! When you write science fiction you are supposed to have a good amount of the first word in the movie!

Other sci fi movies don't fair any better. Space ships not only make noise as they pass you in space, bank like airplanes but burn when they get blown up.

It's not limited to science fiction. Look at "Jingle All the Way" where Arnie chases the ball through the mall. Maybe it's made of "flubber" (see the original movie "Flubber"). Look at any gun fight in any movie. How many times does some one get hit with a bullet and fly backwards? "Mythbusters" destroyed that one. Or a character fires a shotgun from the hip? Ever fire a shotgun? I saw a fool break their collarbone by holding a shotgun improperly. I'd like to see some one hand hold a 50 cal. gattling gun and use it. Arnie can. ("Terminator") Just as real as a bus jumping a gap in a highway ("Speed"). Or sweating in a DESERT (low humidity makes sweat evaporate as soon as it hits the surface of your skin). Don't go to WalMart and look through binoculars, you'll be disappointed. The shape of the visual field is never what they show in movies. Yes, we see the person holding a binocular, why make what they see in the funny shape?

No reason for movies to total misrepresent reality unless it is for comic effect. What do you think?