"Neil deGrasse Tyson rates sci-fi movies" Topic

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I'm not gonna cross post to Poll Suggestions. I'll let Dear Editor do that if he must.

Stopped at his second movie. No one whose favorite movie is The Matrix can possibly have an opinion on a film I'd want to listen to.

The Matrix series jumped the shark for me after Neo stopped the sentinels when he was outside the matrix. At that point, he must still be in the matrix. The movies, however, do not address that issue at all. That left them uninteresting at best, unwatchable at worst.

Gravity: Dr. Tyson missed the orbital mechanics issue. The debris was going faster than the characters' space craft, but it keeps going around in orbit and hitting them again and again. In fact, if it's going faster, it will spiral into higher orbits, and won't cover the same orbit again.

The Quiet Earth should only get an A if you're very high when you watch it.

I'll watch more later. Thanks for the link.

"Armageddon was vastly entertaining. I don't care about all the laws of physics that it violated, because they didn't care."
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Seriously. That's why NOBODY should trust TMP reviews. We're just too darn GRUMPY!
There are NO historically accurate movies. Particularly War Movies.
NO accurate Westerns.
There are many entertaining musicals out there. #5 on my all time favorite movies is …. wait for it…. The Music Man! It's so gosh darned entertaining, yet nobody has ever commented on Historical Accuracy.
So, why do we get our panties in a wad about "Scientific Accuracy" in sci-fi movies??? 🤷🙄
"But, OFM! People might believe it!"
Yeah? So?

"And you can see all the disasters, which is why people go to see these movies."
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"These are MY favorites. They don't have to be yours."
Which is what it's all about, hainna?
I start Polls here, totally expecting youse guys to disagree with me.
Give him a view. He's knowledgeable and entertaining. And I don't agree about Pluto!

Watch it to the end, to bring in Barbie.

It's my morning, and I'll be grumpy if I want to. As pointed out, movies are entertainment and a matter of personal taste. Since I'm not researching movies for a class in film school, I'm looking for recommendations. That means either someone whose taste largely aligns with my own--NDT just spectacularly disqualified--or someone who knows me well and so can say "I didn't care for this, but you might like it." If he knew me that well, I'd like to have a long talk with DHS--but the Matrix recommendation shows that he doesn't.

Narrative video is incredibly time-wasting. A half hour of listening to someone talk provides the same information as ten minutes of reading--leaving me 20 minutes to figure out where I left the horse & musket rules binder. It has to be around here somewhere.

I don't "get" The Matrix either, but he has some pretty solid movies after that.

I have always thought that The Matrix was a dumb incomprehensible "film" or "cinema" that only "film buffs" would like. It's certainly not up on my list of things I want to see again.
But, if it floats your boat, fine. It doesn't invalidate your entire opinion, like thinking Jack Black is good would.
I agreed with maybe 60% of his choices.

OK, I got it. A pretend scientist talking about pretend movies. Makes sense.

Fortunately, with judicious use of a cursor, you can read his picks without having to listen to his droning on. Two, perhaps. And his critique of The Terminator shows he either wasn't paying attention or didn't think it through.

If he's not ranking "Zardoz," I don't wanna know.

Plus I'm with Sheldon, he was mean to Pluto and I like Pluto.