What Happens: Jodie Foster’s driven science lady builds a super-expensive machine using plans deciphered from intergalactic alien radio transmissions, and then travels with the machine through the universe to meet an alien in the shape of her dead dad.

Why It's Stupid: Because knocking the legs out of the plot you’ve been building up for over two hours by reclining into a pit of smug Freudian ambiguity isn’t smart or engaging. IT’S BULLSHIT.