>>212431108Maybe, but at the same time Miller's Planet is practically its own vignette, and it's still dumb as hell.
It's not the concept or the impractical, if not completely inaccurate depiction of the theoretical physics, that I can let go since it's just a creative medium to portray said theories with visual inspiration. For me, it's "smart" characters acting stupid to create tension where tension already exists anyway due to the aforementioned. Everybody hypes up the soundtrack of the sequence, how it's a clock and each tick is a day or whatever, and the overarching dread as the realization that the planet is likely uninhabitable. Great, LET THE FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN DRIVE THE DRAMA, NOT CHARACTERS ACTING RETARDED.
You don't even need the stupid ass wave or Brand and Doyle fumbling around like morons. Just have the Ranger fail on entry and the time spent repairing it be the tension. They made an entire fucking movie that is 100x more compelling on this premise, it's called Apollo 13.
And they did it without portraying anybody as a bumbling fuckwad.