11 Wildly Inaccurate Movie Science Tropes

11. Dodge And Roll

Dogfights in outer space are always exciting stuff. Those pilots have got to have super sharp reflexes and nerves of steel to be able to dodge the (admittedly inaccurate) incoming lasers like that.

Except they don't. 

The common movie scene of space battles, with the little ships swooping around like futuristic fighter planes, is sadly just not how it works.

To be fair, we can see why they do this one. It's because the reality is inescapably lame.

Things don't fly the same way they do in space. Without an atmosphere to provide resistance and lift, it just doesn't make any sense for spaceships to "bank" when they turn. 

The way you change direction in the vacuum of space is by firing a thruster in the opposite direction to where you want to go. This produces a motion more akin to Space Invaders than Star Wars and is a world away from the slick manoeuvrability that we're used to seeing both on screen and off it.

On second thoughts, maybe they can keep this one.