Movie Definition and 285 Threads

I saw the movie Lincoln last night. It is brilliant! Two commanding performances by Daniel Day-Lewis (as Lincoln) and Tommy Lee Jones (as Thaddeus Stevens). I think both actors captured the essence of the respective persons. Particularly poignant is Lincoln's commentary on Euclid's...

Hey folks i have a doubt of this old movie, 3 of the main characters are on submarine and the submarine lost power so one of the mans pick the Inflatable Boats and by the hatch throw below of the submarine and then the submarine inflated to the surface. I mean really fake right this scene...

I know it's not a sci fi movie and it probably violates the terms of this board, but if any of you get a chance to see this movie it is completely awesome. The best Batman movie I have I ever seen.

This is the problem that a teacher (Kevi Spacey actually) presented the class on the movie 21: You are on a TV show and the announcer asks you to choose 1 from 3 doors. Behind 2 doors there are a goat and behind 1 there is a new car. The guy coose door 1. The announcer go and opens door 3...

I posted this in education. Basically, I teach HS Physics. I want to start using mroe movie clips, especially super hero clips, to teach concepts. Specifically, clips where you can estimate some things and then solve. In my class today we used Spider-man. We estimated his mass, and how...

So I love the Physics of Superheroes, I use it a lot when I teach. Today I did a lesson on work and energy using scenes from Spider-Man (climbing the wall for Work - > Gravitational PE, swinging from the top of the building for Gravitational PE -> KE) and Spider-Man 2 (stopping the train for KE...

Thoughts on the new Hobbit movie? I've seen a couple trailers. It's hard to get a real sense of what it will be. I suppose that is good. I can't wait for Smaug! I bet he's in the second of the movies though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0k3kHtyoqc

So the winners of the draw today are: Jurrasic Park Serpico and Ancient Aliens! Vote for the next 24 hours on which you want to watch as a group :). We'll use this thread for any movie talk as well.

Physics Forums Movie "Night"! Hey everyone! Evo gave me an idea; Selecting a movie, as a group, for all of us to watch during a given week and then dissolving/discussing/commenting on it until the topic's dry. A variable movie club! It might be fun to do once a month or so. If...

Two Brothers I've seen this movie 2-3 years back. Its absolutely amazing. Because, I love tiger and I've never seen a movie where tigers take such central role. Also the comedy, tragedy and overall human-tiger interaction have won my heart. ^_^ They are just big cats! Aren't they ? How...

Is it safe to conclude from the double slit experiment that the observer actually affects what is being observed? I ask with regards to a project I'm writing which I wish to be scientifically accurate.

G Force! (Not the movie :D) Homework Statement A rocket is accelerating from between Mars and Jupiter at 26.95m/s/s. calculate the g force on a 60kg astronaut. Homework Equations T=ma+mg The Attempt at a Solution T = 60x26.95=1617 = 1617/600 = approx 2.7g i would think that g in...

- Christmas with The Cranks - Home Alone 1&2 (just classic!) - Just Friends (not Christmas movie but there's snow, Christmas) - A Christmas Carol (never saw the whole thing)

I put together this little movie as (hopefully) the first in a series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjMjWtntm9k" My target audience is a second semester class of physics students that have already had a lectures in basic wave optics. When I give this URL to my students, it's with the...

I figured out the neverending story, catch-22, full metal jacket & others. Check it out: http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/tweet-m-for-murder/

--spoiler-- Saw this film on the plane flying back from Glasgow. The audio would drop out every once in a while for a just a second. Not a big deal, but it did it during a critical dialogue, one that frames the premise of the story, and I missed it. Our main character has been caught, and...

Oh... so Battleship, the game, is now a movie. Yes, that's right. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440129/ TRAILER: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1053203481/ Oh, and yes, it has a $200M budget. So... uhm... Yah.

Hi, I'm new here. My colleague and I are working on a sci-fi movie script. It's almost finished and it's going very well, thanks. At the beginning we made a promise. Although there inevitably has to be some small fantasy elements to any sci-fi story, we promised each other we wouldn't...

I need a free description with illustrations on 4D knots theory, especially the 4D generalization of Reidermeister moves and the movie represantation. Where can I find a freely available paper?

How often do you watch 8D movies ? or do you watch mostly 3D. How many theatres are there in your locality? My other question is Do 8D theatres need more preparation time to load the movies ( i guess lot of weeks) than 3D(which is instantaneous)? I think 8D theatres need to prepare for...

God I just saw Legion on Encore and holy hell. This movie was made of stupid. It was then wrapped in stupid, covered in a stupid sauce, and then deep-friend in a vat of stupid. Was this movie even meant to be serious? The movie cost about $26M to make, which could have been far better spent...

In case you were wondering how that's coming along: http://www.phdcomics.com/movie" EDIT: The link has a trailer for the movie, by the way.

The video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPdO-NIUuEo&feature=related shows an electron in motion and I had a few questions about it. 1. Are the "rings" that make it up caused because of interference between the photons and the electron? 2. Is that the reason why the center is...

I hav a physics movie project and i hav to find how the movie defies the laws of physics using calculations/theories with examples from the scenes. I chose the movie-The Matrix where the guy is dodging the bullets on top of the scene. Anyways, I was wondering what equation/theory I would use...

In the movie TRON, was TRON good or bad? and how about CLUE, was CLUE good or bad? If the programming of themselves into a computer was just programming, how come the main character said they were not programs, numerous times, how were they in a computer/ digital world if they were not...

I have an assignment on movie magic in which I have to pick a scene from a movie and analyse the physics (including calculations of physics in movie, description and calculations of correct physics etc.) Problem is, I haven't picked a movie yet :frown: I was going to pick 2 different scenes...

Hello. I'm Leo and I Know I probably won't be as welcomed here but ever since I found this place after searching up the Monty hall problem in the movie 21, I was extremely interested in this place and wanted to start learning about Logic, Physics, and math. Although I'm still in Grade 8, and in...

to waste an hour or two. http://www.moviespot.ro/1.html

Speed --- the bus jump in the movie! Homework Statement In the movie Speed1, a loaded city bus is rigged with an explosive that will detonate and kill everyone aboard if its speed goes below 50 miles per hour. As the bus is moving, the people on board are informed that a bridge ahead in the...

I saw the movie Sunshine, directed by Danny Boyle in 2007 and I wasn't extremely impressed (mostly due to my ignorance and immaturity) but I watched it today just out of pure fascination of how the movie intertwines fate, science, art, and humanity into one beautiful journey and I absolutely...

Since my fluorescent source it at the shop for repairs, I took the opportunity to set up a proper macro imaging setup. I saw the "Powers of 10" movie in school, maybe 1st or 2nd grade, and it had a lasting impact on my career choices as a scientist. So, I decided to take a series of images...

Just watch the 8th star treck movie,and at the beggining a champagne bottle smashes into the side of a newly made neterprise. what I am wondering is,as its in a vacuum would the pressure inside the bottle pop the cork out,or is the cork in tightly enough that it wouldn't pop? (lets say the...

Anyone seen Johnny Depp's (and Christian Bale's) "Public Enemies" about John Dillinger? It got mostly pretty great reviews, but I'm about halfway through and I'm really having a tough time watching it. It is far too amateurish for my taste. I'm not clear on if it was done on purpose, but...

This is from a stupid movie, lots of new age nonsense etc. However, please disregard that and judge this segment on its own merits. Is it accurate? I am not being sarcastic or have a hidden agenda. I just want to know!

Ok, so I'm supprised there is not a thread about this one yet. lol Hate to admit it, but this is by far the best movie in quite a while. They just keep getting better and better with every new Twilight movie. How many of you actually watched it, and what were your thoughts about it?

I thought the motorbike that the duo ride (in Seville, Spain) was a Ducati although, see below quote. Has anyone recognized the make of the three little cars following them? They looked like toy cars, but I am sure they are expensive sports autos. Found it...

I often hear little tidbits about the tv world that I find interesting. This is one that I heard last night that caught me by surprise. Do we have any former Nightline fans? I watched that show for years back when Koppel was the anchor, but I never realized how it got started. It makes sense...

Whatever you think of the shuttle as an effective way of getting stuff to orbit it's still a cool piece of engineering. Here is a time-lapse movie of it's last day at work. http://www.airspacemag.com/multimedia/videos/Go-For-Launch.html ps. sorry you have to watch a 20sec ad first...

It has been over a year since I saw the movie, so I apologize if I'm not descriptive enough. If you have seen the movie, then you know that scene where Kevin Spacey says there are 3 doors, and the main character picks one, then the other is eliminated, and so the main character increases his...

I managed to make a movie which displays my research results as a 3Dplot which varies over time. Now I would like to ad the actual time in my movie. Say I have data from 12:00 until 14:00, can I make some kind of counter so I can see what time it is in the movie? Hope someone can help me out...

My vote: Farscape! I haven't bought a movie in 6 years, but I just bought all 4 seasons of Farscape a couple months ago. It's the best.

Hello, I am currently working on analyzing the physics in a movie for a project. The scene in particular that I am reviewing includes two characters (one holding the other) that smash through a series of walls and windows without getting hurt or losing speed/momentum. Can anyone tell me...

some alien in the movie says there GOD and they kidnap children is any of this places, footages or videos you think is real?

hey, When people say you should form a mental image when doing physics, does that mean forming a picture(snapshot)in your head or an actual movie of what's happening in your head?

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/2489/asteroidtiming.jpg Here is a scene of a star destroyer firing on an asteroid. The entire explosion takes about 10 frames of video -- less than a third of a second. It's widely believed that the asteroid in question is about 40 meters in diameter and...

My wife and I have a neighbor who seems to buy DVDs at whim, as does his wife. We have borrowed movies from them, only to find that many (most!?) are not worth watching. They have "chick flicks", "sci fi", and other "drive-in" fare in spades. but it is rare that we can borrow a movie from them...

It's because they make people silence their beepers.

My wife informs me that next weekend I want to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie with her. She likes murder mysteries in general and she especially likes the Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett. I don't mind seeing all those dead bodies on the TV, but I wish she wouldn't take notes while...

At 1:19 in that video, the actor throws the ball agaisnt the backboard. As the ball bounces backwards, the actor "flies up" from the free throw line and dunks the ball. I know this is impossible, but I need the formulas that would prove this to be impossible. I'm utterly lost and can't...

Forum Game -- What's that movie? Similar to the landmark game. First to correctly identify the movie posts a new pic for a new movie. You are then responsible for giving clues (after a couple of days or so if its really a stumper), and deciding the next winner. Here's an easy one to start: