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Skydancer · 09-19-2002, 10:30 AM

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Originally posted by Shadowy Man:
Which movies *haven't* butchered physics? Not many!

[ September 19, 2002: Message edited by: Shadowy Man ]

Apollo 13 did a good job. Other than that? Hah! Roadrunner cartoons have better physics than Armageddon did....

Queen of Swords · 09-19-2002, 10:45 AM

Originally posted by Valentine Pontifex:

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Now lets hope they get some who not only knows science, but actually knows how to write!

Unfortunately, I'm not a screenwriter.

wdog · 09-22-2002, 01:01 AM

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Apollo 13 did a good job. Other than that? Hah! Roadrunner cartoons have better physics than Armageddon did....

yeah i agree, but armageddon was just awful anyway. I thought 2010 did a decent job, and one of the two recent Mars movies (last summer) was ok.

Friar Bellows · 09-22-2002, 03:47 AM

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Sick of crap movies that butcher science?

I think the bigger problem is crap movies in general. There's such an overwhelming number of incredibly bad films that issues such as "bad science" just don't seem that important, at least for me. But bravo to any director who at least tries to do both, i.e. create non-crap films with reasonably accurate science.

Abacus · 09-22-2002, 05:46 AM

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Originally posted by wdog:


yeah i agree, but armageddon was just awful anyway. I thought 2010 did a decent job, and one of the two recent Mars movies (last summer) was ok.

You can't be talking about Mission to Mars. I just saw that movie for the first time recently. It was attrocious. Not just the story, but the physics was bad.

Wyz_sub10 · 09-23-2002, 06:32 AM

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Originally posted by Lex Talionis:
I agree with Turing's life making a good movie.

Another would be, imo at least, Nikolai Vavilov. Vavilov was the geneticist most associated with the resistance to Lysenkoism in Soviet science in the 1930s. His story is quite relevant to the modern USA; Vavilov was the scientist who stood up against Lysenko and his theories based upon communist idealogy instead of actual research and was imprisoned (and died in prison two years later) as the result.

I second that. This would be a fantastic movie - the whole story.

Steven S · 09-23-2002, 06:18 PM

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Originally posted by Nikolai:
This is great, more of "A Beatiful Mind" and less of "Signs"

I for one thought "A Beautifull Mind" sucked. It made the life of John Nash much less interesting and turned it into a typical hollywood story about the indomitability of the human spirit. Plus they didn't quite explain Nash's work on game theory right. Alas.

A movie on aspects of Andrei Sakharov's life might be good.

Steven S

Aethari · 09-23-2002, 06:24 PM

Or they could make a movie about Dawkins

-Aethari

Shadowy Man · 09-24-2002, 05:58 AM

Argh! Armageddon made me ill. I avoided seeing it for a long, long time. When it first came out, even the movie reviewers were bashing the science!

Feather · 09-24-2002, 06:10 AM

Well that's of somewhat dubious value, Shadowy Man, considering that most movie reviewers lack the intellect of the common garden slug.

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Aethari Veteran Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 1,635	Or they could make a movie about Dawkins -Aethari

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Shadowy Man Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: A Shadowy Planet Posts: 7,585	Argh! Armageddon made me ill. I avoided seeing it for a long, long time. When it first came out, even the movie reviewers were bashing the science!

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Feather Veteran Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Gainesville, FL Posts: 1,827	Well that's of somewhat dubious value, Shadowy Man, considering that most movie reviewers lack the intellect of the common garden slug.

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