Why don't people in science fiction movies ever watch science fiction movies?

They could figure shit out so much faster if they did.  Hubby and I are watching Premonition and I am very disappointed with Sandra Bullock's character.  I would have figured out the time-jumping part (and would have been able to articulate it) no later than the third day.

Update: Also, I would have totally told Hubby what was going on immediately.  Stupid stupid Sandra Bullock.

Update II: Stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid Sandra Bullock.

Comments

[Nat Almirall]

Why are you still watching it?

[Scorpius]

Wash: Psychic though? That sounds like something out of science fiction

Zoe: Honey, we live on a spaceship

Wash: So?

[JD]

I think that this tendency is even worse in horror movies (where the tradition seems to arise). Both in terms of people doing silly things that remove them from all possibility of help and the failure to invent plausible lies. If a creature is killing people and I am trapped in the house, it is not even a lie to say "some madman is out there killing people". After all, does a madman have to be human?

But if you tell the police that the Sasquatch is there then they aren't going to show up and you get labeled as a crank!

[Scot B.]

Guy Fleegman, Galaxy Quest: "Didn't you guys ever WATCH the show?"

[Rob P]

My "stupid Sandra Bullock" comment comes from that fact that she actually took the role. She's a much better comedic actess than a dramatic one. And anyway, that movie was shite from moment one.

[Jacqueline]

"Guy Fleegman, Galaxy Quest: "Didn't you guys ever WATCH the show?""

HA! Hubby and I just watched that. He loved it. I promised him that WesterCon wouldn't be quite as bad as the conventions depicted on the show.