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I saw 2001 in a Cinerama theater when I was 14. There was my life before that day and my life after. I was inspired to get into aviation, doing 26 years as a Navy tailhook pilot. I "blame it all on Arther C Clark and Stanley Kubric along with Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood! I agree with NDT - it's my #1, but for laughs I love Galaxy Quest.
Cryptographers dont decipher extinct untranslated languages. why would they be expected to interpret/translate an alien language? what good is an astrobiologist if they cant communicate? maybe they can figure out how the aliens live/respire/use energy. is that useful? maybe sending them all together thatd make more sense. also if the info being conveyed to them was physics, which it was, what would you do without a physicist?
I was so excited for moonfall , that was until I watched it. The physics were so ridiculous it was more like a comedy. Also, independence day , an F-18 with a drag shoot? Wtf?
Why does listening to Neil's incredible mind and knowledge and perspective on things, give me comfort? Lol In a walking dead type apocalypse, I would want him in my community. He makes you feel like everything will b ok.
I really enjoyed this! Surprisingly I agree with the majority of your rankings!! However I think Back to the Future 3 is better than 2. Also Independence Day at least belongs as a C, maybe B. Other than that, you were pretty spot on! This was fun.
The black hole I think deserves a higher tier , it was aimed at children and had one of the first AI vs AI duels in movie history and it was a very good throw down for that time in the late 70s I saw this later in the 80s when I was very young and I loved it.
Armageddon was terrible IMHO. So far fetched with the whole oil drilling roughnecks to save the world. I was extremely disappointed. Arrival I thoroughly enjoyed. It took a different road and made you think. I know you were concentrating on the science but com on Man!.
I must lead us to con+vert up=truth=light=love=peace=God They're all coming with us this time! 5 years till possible collison. Let's fast forward this process!
On April 13, 2029, the space rock is scheduled to approach Earth, coming within 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) of our planet's surface. The event will mark the closest Earth flyby of an asteroid of this size that scientists managed to forewarn
Joe i need my Excalibur! My iron sword! Its in Atlantis, help me get there so i can become Gabriel and fight the darkness in hell and bring em all back! They can Be-ILL and call me!
The plot of Interstellar: Take the most unstable people possible, remove any semblance of logical thinking, tell them to go save mankind without any mission parameters, have them disobey orders, mission objectives and each other, and end it movie with an absurd "love conquers all" ending. But it sure was pretty. Just like Avatar. Pure shit, trips, crap, doo-doo. But it sure was pretty. The idiot masses still think this toilet bowl of a movie is brilliant. Humanity is doomed.
Terminator cristism doesn't work because as Kyle Reese himself says in the movie ‘Most of the records were lost in the war. Skynet knew almost nothing about Connor's mother. Her full name, where she lives. They just knew the city. The Terminator was just being systematic.’ Skynet had no records of who Sarah Connor’s ancestors are, it just had a name and a place and so sends the Terminator to kill every Sarah Connor living in the city at that time.
You mentioned Moonfall having even worse physics than Armageddon, so I'm guessing it's in an even lower ranking. Other movies I'd love to see ranked and/or taken apart for their "science" include: Mad Max, Moon, Children of Men, Blade Runner, Edge of Tomorrow, Jurassic Park, Planet of the Apes, Alien, District 9, Dark City, The 13th Floor, Gattaca, Starship Troopers, Minority Report, 12 Monkeys, The Abyss, Ex Machina, Avatar, Sunshine, Pitch Black, Elysium, A.I., Waterworld, Solaris, Her, Looper, 28 Days Later, Melancholia, Andromeda Strain, and The Day After Tomorrow.
😊 no existence, to existence is outwards the 1st direction collectively 3d and = nothing + movement ect ect. Calculate all possible directions as pos or neg as the individual scale =1d use balance to then overlap the scale=2d of directions remember a pos can be a neg and a neg a pos there is only two collective directions at this point + + = outward and - - = inward. Also, from no existence, apply cause, effect, and outcome to the directions expansion and by using time as a measure of the dimensions expansion apply time and then cause effect and outcome become future, present, past. Because existence and no existence are opposites, then there will always be balance, balance works in all directions, so apply Schroedingers cat until the 3rd dimension 😊 then a black hole kind of works inside out and outside in directionally, every overlap is the expansion rate growing in all directions. This is why I think that what you call muliverse is actually overlapping scales of dimensions and size, and then the atomic scale fits beautifully overlapping the quantum scale, making Schroedingers de javu a natural biological possibility but also remember we are a build up of the past on two overlapping collective 3d scales and your just dreaming about the outcome until you actually get there 😊 this equation I call the direction outcome can be used to do just that. On any scale of existence..... 😊Maybe😊 🖖
As far as Terminator goes, MY theory is the machine NEEDED the events to happen, so that the machine could evolve as is. It was NEVER about preventing a birth, but rather ensuring a specific future would play out. What do you think?
What’s missing from S-tier? Edge of Tomorrow, Dune part 1 & 2, Her, Star Trek, Enemy Mine, Zardoz, Being John Malcovitch, Altered States, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Wall-E?
I don't know why Andy Wier didn't go with a Mars quake. And I heard that in earlier scripts, The Matrix was using human brains to run the program, not their metabolism to create power. This was considered too complicated for audiences by company execs.
Close Encounters was made in '77 and movies usually forgot there were any other intelligent people except white men on earth so most movies reflect this. Star Wars assumed that in another galaxy the only people who would be in the ruling class would be white people. Hell, Chewy didn't even get a medal at the end. 🤣
NDG broke my heart with Arrival. I absolutely adore this movie. But I think he missed the actual premise of this movie. It's less about science and more about language and what life would be like if there were no lies and hidden intent behind the words we speak. I thought it was brilliant.
Come on, Neil. You like to pick apart things, but nothing for the mediocre The Day the Earth Stood Still? There’s easy things to pick apart in that movie.
Im going to have to put you in the B catagory now Neil...BTTF 2 and 3 really..really😂😂😂 2nd and 3rd is an easy A tier, and the hoverboard would be less bumpy. You never got tripped up by a pebble I take it
Great list! I mean i don't agree with a lot of it lol but some interesting takes.i wouldn't even classify some of these as sci-fi but that's debatable. The argument on hoverboards though? Come on! Ever try to ride a skateboard on anything that isn't road/Pavement? Sure they don't work on water but pretty sure there's plenty of value with it hovering instead of being wheels on the ground 😂
I'm curious what Neil would have said about Terminator 2, since he talked about the first one. I think that's one sequel that most people would say was better than the first movie.
