Every time I see that, or similar, explanation on a piece of media it reminds me of Stargate SG-1 https://youtu.be/zBjbNqBjSMI
Context for the video, the guy is a technologically advanced alien trying to contact another alien species that's light years away from earth. They're also refusing to share technology with earth humans because they deem earthlings are too primitive. In that same episode they talk about quantum physics and their answer is "ahh, yes, I remember that, I studied it in school, together with other misconceptions".
I love Stargate, in part because they take the time to explain things, sure, they do a bunch of stupid stuff too, but a lot of the time they're fairly accurate, and when something needs to go against physics they even acknowledge that that's not how it's supposed to work.
Are you sure you didn't mixed up the movie?