Movie Definition and 285 Threads

When I was a child, I watched a movie about an elderly university professor who lost his job as a professor and became homeless and lived on the streets. A young guy was friends with this university professor. The elder professor might have been the young guy's mentor. After the elder...

Cocaine Shark https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/science/cocaine-sharks-brazil-scli-intl-scn/index.html

For those who do not know the movie/story: this thread is about whether AI such as chatGPT is - on the long run - a danger to humanity, and why or why not. With its popularity rising so quickly, chatGPT has influence on our societies, and it may be prudent to ponder about them. I, Robot is a...

I really like watching peoples animation and movie short videos on Youtube, so I thought I'd create a thread here where people can share animated videos that they've seen recently which they thought were good. Here's a 1st one: "Happiness"

Anybody see the movie "Tesla" staring Ethan Hawke? It's...interesting. I'm almost finished with it, but got so angry I had to post this for validation... As historical fiction goes, it seems pretty good. But the movie's style is... unusual. It has a narrator who is JP Morgan's daughter and...

Is this how people would react to a looming world ending asteroid impact?

This is a thread for discussing the SF movie Dune (2021). Please post your opinions and reviews of the movie here, which may contain spoilers. There will be spoilers in this thread so please don't read it if you haven't seen the movie and don't like it spoiled! My short review: I really liked...

https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03808 They are using Boyer-Lindquist coordinates for the Kerr metric. As far as I understand they also introduced a camera-fixed basis defining spherical coordinates ##\theta_{cs}## and ##\phi_{cs}## to keep track of the directions of the light rays relative to the...

This weekend (June 26-28) the IEEE Information Theory Society is showing a free screening of The Bit Player - a movie about Claude Shannon (the "father" of information theory) The website below has the link and password for Vimeo...

The spice must flow. I just heard that there will be a new movie adaptation of the classic Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert. Article on Wikipedia: Dune (2020 film). And another movie is planned, i.e. the two movies will cover the first book. I don't think there is any trailer yet. The director...

I watched this movie maybe four or five years back in school. I wanted to watch it again, but cannot find it anywhere. YouTube seems to have only the trailer. A Google search brings up some useless sites, and Chrome blocks most of them saying they are insecure. Does anyone have a copy of the movie?

Ghostbusters: Afterlife is an upcoming sequel to the classic Ghostbusters (1984). I loved the original movie when I was a kid, and I actually look forward to seeing this sequel. I think the trailer is pretty cool: GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE - Official Trailer (HD)

Background: There is a very interesting Catalunyan film on Netflix called "Las Leyes de la Termodinámica" (The Laws of Thermodynamics) which is perhaps the world's first hybrid of a physics documentary and a romance film. The main character is a physics professor who falls in love and attempts...

Have any of you seen the movie Shrek? The message of the movie Shrek is that we should accept everyone regardless of their physical appearance, yet the movie Shrek made fun of the Lord Farquad character for being short throughout the entire movie. Am i the only person who thinks this is...

In the movie Interstellar we see a planet close to the event horizon so when the astronauts land and get stuck on the planet for over an hour, many years passes for the guy on the spaceship and when they return he is an old man. From what I understand, this is indeed what would happen and they...

I finally saw Ford v Ferrari, and one of the shorts opened with a team of people working seven miles under the ocean. My immediate, very excited, thought was that they've made Peter Watts amazing novel, Starfish, into a film. Starfish is the first in Watts' Rifters trilogy, and I loved it...

What are the favorite or touching phrases you have ever heard in movies? Mine is that scene in Phantom of the Opera: Christine: "Pitiful creature of darkness What kind of life have you known? God give me courage to show you, You are not alone." Who wrote that line anyway? What's yours?

e.g., at the moment I'm watching The Maltese Falcon, and finding it every bit as boring as 2001, A Space Oddysey. Any interest in a thread devoted to "critically acclaimed" movies that you want your money back when you see them for free in "The Nam," like Easy Rider? I did waste a perfectly...

Hi PF! I have a 3D surface that changes with time. I am trying to make a movie. The following is what I do, but the output is extremely low quality. Does anyone know how I can get the same quality that Mathematica uses for its images? mov[t_] := Show[ParametricPlot3D[{(2 + Cos[v]) Cos[U]...

for once not a Hollywood ending. Looks like Blade Runner at first, the plot is not unfamiliar but the ending is.

So far my google fu failed me. There was an Italian movie, shot is sixties or seventies, kind of a psychological drama (definitely not an action movie) that ended with a long car crash scene: guy was speeding through the country, at crossroads something went wrong, his car started rolling and...

I’m curious as to what you guys thought of the movie Contact. How well does it stand up to science and physics?

Here is a Science magazine news article on the Scientific Reality of the new Meg movie (staring Jason Stathan). You probably won't be surprised by the results (mostly not too realistic). This article is also in line with a show I saw during Shark Week where about four shark experts were shown...

Domain of Science reviews science in sci fi movies: The reviewer talks about how physics is misused in movies and cringes at some of the funny movie moments where they got physics wrong.

We all know that getting too close to the gravity well of a massive object like a black hole causes time to move more slowly for you than it would for people on Earth. But is it possible for a planet to exist close enough to a black hole and have a person actually stand on that planet? And if...

I just heard of this upcoming movie and thought I'd share it on PF. As a fan of The Right Stuff and Apollo 13, I look forward to this movie. :smile: First Man - Official Trailer (HD)

Just want to get a poll out there about what people think this is going to be like compared to the movie. I think it will be really good.

I'm interested to see what folks think about the BP movie. I just saw it this evening. Personally, I was very impressed by all of the actors except the Black Panther, whom I thought was meh. The general, the little sister, and the bad guy were all particularly outstanding to me. The CGI was...

(In this one I personally do not believe. But surprised I could be, who knows...) Trailer 1:

I find a very interesting site that shows us what it would be like to travel to a black hole or a neutron star. https://apod.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html Have fun !

Great movie, if you haven't seen it. I have a question on the technical side for those who have and might know the math/history. This is the GD forum, but this is as much a math and orbital mechanics question... The movie follows three [real] black women through the early space program (a...

If you've seen a recent movie trailer with the entire city of London on some treads and able to move around - that is Mortal Engines. Wired magazine takes a look at the science that goes along with that, and even has a few "homework" problems to work out. :smile...

I go to the movies quite a bit. I've always loved the experience and find it's fun to go into a new world for 1-3 hours. Usually I have at least one movie that gets me super excited each year, but this year was a big flop unfortunately. These are the ones I saw accord to my purchase history. I...

I recently ran across a review of the new movie "Downsizing" (starring Matt Daman and Kristen Wigg (together again from "The Martian")). The main issue in the movie seems to be shrinking people will reduce their environmental load on the planet (smaller people use less stuff). However, as any...

What do you guys think?

For my English class, I had to watch this movie. I remember watching Finding Nemo a long time ago when I was a pre-teen. I don't remember anything about the first movie except that Nemo got lost and his two fish friends had to find him. I was quite fond of the first movie and I feel like...

In discussing the arrow of time, the movie shows the swimmer diving and then shows the sequence in reverse so that the diver is seen going from the water back to the diving board. The movie was made decades ago; it's a black and white film, about an hour long. Anyone know the title or where I...

Hi guys, I am writing an undergraduate screenplay about physicist. The physicist is working on a mission with the aim to fly a spaceship with human crew to an extremely distant planet with an environment suitable for humans. Its really not that important for the story, because the film is...

In the Sci-Fi movie Melancholia, strange movie as it were I couldn't help but be drawn by the slowly moving planet as it gets closer to Earth. Unfortunately the new planets gravity should have shown many effects to weather/oceans much more in strength than what the Moon could have sooner. But as...

Ok, the next Star Wars, Episode 8, is named "The Last Jedi" and here is a brand new teaser, the first I think. "Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Arriving in your galaxy December 15."

Newly described clouds (also here) have been added to the International Cloud Atlas. I have always found clouds kind of fascinating, especially when viewed from airplanes. Didn't even know there was a cloud atlas.

This is a well taken movie. Would strongly recommend...

SPOILER ALERT. I saw this movie recently and, as usual, there are some things that I found puzzling and was wondering what other people thought. For one thing, the aliens were very much more advanced than us, so why didn't they figure out our language, instead of us having to figure out their...

Saw this yesterday and was thinking of Adam and Jamie afterwards. Several things in the movie were, IMNSHO, testable. 1. How much gunpowder would be needed to blow open a door made of iron reinforced wood that is 100mm or so thick? 2. Can you make a flying guillotine out of a shield? (A...

I'm actually running out of sci-fi movies to watch. I like sci-fi movies that keep their feet on the ground with science, don't mash much with fantasy (wizards, etc...) and at the same time spur "What If..." thought or make you pause and hop to the web to look something up. for example: Flat...

Homework Statement I have a project that involves explaining the incorrect physics that happens in a particular scene of a movie. I chose to do Furious 7 and the scene where dom rolls out of the car because the brakes stopped working and the car crashes falls out of the tower. I need at least 3...

In the movie wanted, the characters inside the movie can curve bullets by swinging the pistol, it is obvious it defies the law of physics. I know that a bullet cannot curve due to the law of motion, it is the same a sling (the thing that throw rocks) where the trajectory will always be a...

(NOTE: Not sure if this shouldn't be in "General Discussion"? The movie is fiction, but it's based on a true story about NASA & the first manned space launches.) Some math guy in another thread (I think it was "How smart is Tony Stark?") was complaining that mathematicians are usually...

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