# I would like to see...

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**Created:** [March 19, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-see/616232 "2012-03-19T15:54:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-see/616232/27 "2012-03-20T17:52:45Z")

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I would like to see movies that have scientists who actually believe in science.

> [@"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" kicks ass (boxed spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-kicks-ass-boxed-spoilers/591692/82):
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> Since it is out on Pay-Per View and DVD, I will forgo the spoilers.
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> Ahem…
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> Have the producers, director, writers ever heard of science??? It goes into sci-fi stereotype BS right away.
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> Science guy’s father has terrible disease. Science guy works tirelessly to cure that disease.
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> Science guy gets remarkable results with ONE test subject and declares victory and wants to start with human trials.
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> That ONE test subject freaks out and based on that ONE example, the higher ups shelve the project.
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> Nobody watched that ONE test subject closely enough to notice that is was _ **pregnant, and had in fact just given birth to live young.** _ I guess checking the subject’s vital signs regulary during a drug trial was too much trouble.
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> Science guy gives experimental drug to father, who has remarkable results. He tells no one for 5 years, untl after ‘cure’ has started to fail. This causes him panic, as if alzheimer’s sufferers and their families wouldn’t give _every dime they could beg, borrow or inheret for 5 more good years._
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> Later, they have another remarkable advance with ONE subject and want to make this the focus of all their efforts. ONE GODDAAMNED SUBJECT.
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> Ceasar is wearing pants throughout most of the film. Even after he in custody and placed in an animal shelter with other chimps. He is still wearing pants.  
> OK, I can go along with him being ‘house-broken’, but he is an animal in a single pair of pants for months on end in a room with no ‘toilet’ long after an intelligent creature would have realized that wearing pants was not nessasary.
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> Why did science guy not get concerned that chimp handler is sneezing blood after being exposed to experimental drug???

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