Interstellar

I agree very much with all of it, great analysis :D I disagree about Gravity though. It's Zero-G, not Zero-Gravity. Gravity keeps them in orbit, so it's a very fitting name.

I'd have swapped your ranking of Back to the Future 2 and 3.

The only difference I have is the "blob" . I'd put it a grade higher. I'd prefer a grade+ but you didn't offer that option lol😊

Mars Attacks! Ack Ack! Ack Ack Ack!

Hope he'll do another one.

yup, he should make part 2 video

He is not a movie buff. Its a blessing when we get neil to comment on a sci fi movie in general. His top movies is based on what he seen. Not the entire world. And I can respect that. I dont hold Neil to a movie critic standard. We hold him to a science standard. So lets respect his movies even though they might not be the best . A lot of people down played gravity cause of neil but Gravity was a good movie. He was just focused on the scrience,

He can’t review all movies. You missed a lot of good ones too

He probably hasn't seen all of them lol

It’s a shame because people use cloud computing all the time now.

@@samanthac.349 Exactly. Ahead of their time, those two

I'd go so far as to say that the AIs realized that our human "wetware" was capable of solving problems the AI couldn't. That the AI was limited to being deterministic, where the humans had that creative spark that the machines could never have. Since they couldn't find that on their own, they enslaved humanity an mined it from them. Each time Zion was destroyed and the Matrix was remade, it was because humans found a way out that the machines couldn't anticipate, so the machines learned from it secondhand and built a better prison for the next cycle. The battery analogy works for the mass audience of the time and is very easy to understand for the average moviegoer.

Yup! This is another example of studio executives underestimating the intelligence of their audience.

Didn't know about that. But yeah makes more sense and would be even more mind-blowing back in 1999

Thank you! Exactly what I was thinking.

Yeah, it seems Neil really didn't get Arrival. The film (and the short story it's based on) explains very clearly why they need a linguist. And I'm pretty sure Jeremy Renner's character was supposed to be an astrophysicist, not a generic physicist, but he was there just as scientific support for the linguist. They were trying to communicate, not dissect and analyze their bodies, which is where they would have called a biologist. On top of that, there were more than two people, they were constantly web conferencing with other scientists from around the world, but those scenes were downplayed because it would just be scientist exchanging and comparing data. Also, the hypothesis that the aliens would be dumb enough not to realize they had to write their symbols from the perspective of the humans on the other side of the glass is too silly to even entertain.

It would not matter one iota if the slien language were written mirrored, flipped, or upside down.

Exactly my thoughts (as neither a linguist, nor cryptograhper)! Linguists are not just polyglots and translators. They study communication systems. They are the ones actually thinking about alien languages and constructing them. It would have been cool to see the background of the main character in Arrival include her constructing an alien language. Presumably some of the aliens' communication is private and they might be using some form of encryption to protect it, and a cryptographer would be useful in that case. But I imagine their effors wouldn't be vey fruitful without some knowledge about the underlying language.

Agreed. Such a poor take by Neil.

Arrival, to me, is great not because of the sci-fi aspect of it. It's great because of the idea that learning a different language is like learning a different way of thinking and changing the way you think can greatly change your perception of the world.

Armageddon and independence day can't be more than F

@@praticastransculturais You can't be more than F

Armageddon above Close Encounters?!!!

I don't think he's interested in linguistics!

completely agree Armageddon is a F-

Yeah putting arrival at the c-tier was a bad look. It was almost like he didn't pay that much of attention to the movie to see just how detailed and specific they were with their science

Also... as a security specialist with an affinity for cryptography. I'd prefer to use a linguist over a cryptanalyst. Most cryptanalysis deals with uncovering hidden human writing of the major, current, human, written languages. A linguist looks at a multitude of forms of communication. I think they would first have some grasp on how the language works. Afterwards, maybe a cryptanalist could figure the rest out fast, but they'd have no place to start.

Spot on! …I was literally going to say the same exact thing! Also, interpretation was that they had tried everything with no progress so they were at the stage where they were throwing anything they could think of - thus the linguist.

I skipped to the end of this video because I'm not a huge NGT fan - when I saw Arrival was C-tier I was glad I didn't watch the whole thing. Arrival is a masterpiece. Full stop

Placing Arrival in the C-tier is a crime.

In my headcanon (and after watching The Second Renaissance many, many times), the machines did it as a courtesy to their makers. They couldn't keep fighting, but also didn't want to commit genocide.

What I don't understand about what Niel is saying about thermodynamics is; then why are there Carnivores? Like isn't it because it's easier to let the herbivore do the work of digesting the food and then u just eat the herbivore? So they doing similar to us?

@@nx2120 Except the machines were designed and don't have to run with whatever random system evolution came up with. Photovoltaic cells and batteries are much more efficient and vastly simpler to design and maintain than the matrix and it's human bio batteries. 😁

@@nx2120 Carnivores exist because there's an ecological niche for them to exist in.

'only 12 Watts per hour per brain' would've sufficed, but sunlight being blocked is nice tho.

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@Mauro Biglino & The 5Th Kind & Adam 1414 channels

Rock-hard Science Fiction from a brilliant mind.

Agreed. My criticism of Independence Day was the farmer dad died. In my remake he'd be walking across the desert with Goldblum and Smith telling us that he ejected 0.5s before impact.

@@BryTee I like it. 👍🏻

The Blob was from the 50s. It was a great movie and a great alien monster.

@@mikeottersole Yes, and terrifying! I mean, after I saw it, I had a recurring nightmare where I was attacked by giant silicone implants. Scary stuff!

@@BertRussell4711 Watch Killer Clowns from Outer Space. Maybe that will scare you. It's pretty funny. Camp. And if you saw the Blob at eight years old like I did, it would make an impression. No CGI.

Yep. I very much respect Neil deGrasse Tyson but he absolutely missed the whole meaning and message, the whole point, of the movie. Wild to me, given he appears to be someone who pays attention to the tiniest of details (very much like me). For me Arrival is one of the best movies of the decade, not just sci-fi movies.

Armageddon was less up its own ass.

@@flaggerify God forbid a movie having depth and something to say

Agreed. Armageddon should have been S tier.

@@flaggerify My favorite part is when Aerosmith made that song and in the MV, Steven Tyler's daughter was the pin-up girl. Because that's definitely not up any ass. (This is supposed to be as ironic as your post)

Impossible!!

EXACTLY! 😡 Neil!

They were both good movies. Also, I disagree about how accurate Interstellar is, mainly the Black Hole part of the movie. It also really bothered me that they thought going through a Wormhole is easier than fixing the food situation on Earth. It was also a stupid idea to go to the planet with extreme gravity. I thought a lot of the movie didn't make common sense.

Also the time it took for Matthew to enter the black hole the earth would have ended before he could play ghost in the 4 dimension due to time dilation

I thought the same

Two excellent movies. Neil will not like Stargate though because of the wormhole thing

Also the lack of friction increases speed and allows you to traverse uneven terrain.

@@dariocarzola8978 Kind of like a... hovercraft. :)

...sometimes?

skill issue

Exactly that first one was wew scary until this day lol

Honorable mention?? F*** that! That should have gotten A+

The thing is not about science and space aliens but PARANOIA!!!

@@reyrayo2502 The Blob got top billing in Neil's list, not a whole lot different.

the thing is more horror then sci fi. The Thins is on every horror list but on 90% sci fi list not. why? Because 90% is horror, only 10% sci fi

Couldn't agree more

Totally agree. Also the point about writing being flipped is very weird. Obviously the alien was writing is for someone to read, not for themselves to read. If that's something the aliens use to communicate between each other (and we're led to believe that they do), then surely they are able to take that into account.

Yeah he lost me when he ranked this masterpiece at C.

Absolutely - hear, Hear! Unfortunately, I found Neil's entire presentation to be surprisingly coarse... Quite disappointing - I expected a far more thoughtful effort.

It sucked. I fell asleep halfway through and after I looked up the meaning it was even worse than I expected. 👎🏼

I'm sorry to freak you out (again) but, assuming your pot lid was metal, unless you counter wasn't at a +20* angle (or something like that) and maybe some tiny earthquake, something else moved the lid :)))))) It might be possible if the lid was plastic, put on some oily surface, otherwise his own weight would keep it still even with a whole book lifting one side of the counter. Or maybe I'm wrong :)

Dude that movie is sooo good. I also love Chappie

The concept is quite fresh, I agree, but the movie bored me so much that I can't even remember half of it, and I watched it twice (second time precisely because I couldn't remember anything about it)...

District 9 is one of my favorite modern movies. I thought it was so good.

That's not the reason they were forced to stay on Earth. They were forced to stay on Earth because humans didn't understand their technology enough to help them repair their ship to enable them to leave (to be fair, neither did most of the ones who survived whatever disease it was that wiped out most of their scientist and engineer class fellow aliens. It was mostly the blue collar class aliens who survived it.) The fact of humans trying to learn their technology after the fact was a by-product of this forced situation and not the primary reason they were trapped here. The humans were not trapping them here. They didn't know how to get them or help them to leave and short of killing them all, there was nothing else to do with them.

Was originally a halo movie..

As Tina Fey pointed out at an award show, George Clooney would rather drift away to his death in space than to date a woman his own age.

The Force is strong with this so-called silver fox, lol.

this is the only movie neil missunderstand, well most people do... Everything in that movie in space never really happened. it was all in her head. the movie was really about the diferent stages of grieving. first hint, she is a doctor..

CHA-CHING! all about the benjamins

@@pse2020 So that's where Returnal got the plot from?

One of my favorite movies ever.

Because they didnt pretend there were clever black people through DEI back then so he isnt a fan!

And if it was an incurable blight, there would be a high risk of carrying it to the new world.

Apparently in the latest version they just kept sending terminators back after them every year. I used to imagine that after they break the time loop, in the far future some time cop finds out about this anomaly and investigates, starting it again and giving the machines time travel.

Even so. Then it would have just been Sara Conner's mom instead of Sarah Conner. Same movie different time period. The machine kills because that's all it was programmed to do. I liked later lore about why the T1k in T2 made mistakes and why Skynet stopped making them.

Yea. Writers and studios were grasping for content.

Also to argue against Neil if you go too far back to kill Sarah’s parents you also risk significantly changing the timeline (butterfly effect)

You know if the Terminator was never sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor then Kyle Reece would’ve never been sent back to protect her, and they never would have conceived John Connor, and skynet would have won, but then if the Terminator was never sent back then cyberdyne systems wouldn’t find the destroyed Terminator in the factory, and would never develop the inhibitor chip that births skynet so it’s a never ending paradox of itself.

Damn good point sir. Fits well and works within the Terminator universe. Neil is a very intelligent and knowledgeable man, but nobody's perfect, and he definitely missed the ball a bit with his quibble about this movie.

Was looking for this comment. It didn't even know which Sarah Connor it was after which is why it went after all of them.

In the first script it said that the Terminator was ripping away the flesh on the leg of the first killed Sarah Connor, because it knew she had a metal piece in her leg due to the injuries from the explosion at the end.

@@w359borg Exactly, and if it had gone after the "parents of Sarah Connor," it would have had to kill twice as many people!

@@duncankennedy4080 Missed that and also a bit of engineering about skateboard wheels or even wheels 🤣

The Matrix was influenced by too many works to cite properly.

@@thejanitor3337 that's true and the themes the movie tackles have commonly appeared throughout the philosophy even dating as far back as ancient Greece. you can say the matrix and the real world is kinda like the allegory of the cave.

Agreed a fantastic movie, but philosophical discussion is not SciFi.

Excellent movie, but yeah, not really sci-fi.

both if you do it right

It made me feel like I was on LSD before I knew what LSD was!

I noticed something curious about my LSD experience... a blank wall became a fascinating canvas for the imagination whereas a 'psychedelic' poster was practically inert.

The bigger pronlem is "20 minutes" - my gripe with 2001 is its run time ... way too long. Not just this scene but most of the movie is too stretched out. Instead of 2h20m it could've been 1h20m. I far prefer "2010", its sequel.

@@BryTee When the film was being made space travel was still science fiction, televisions and telephones were entirely separate devices, people still read 500 page books for entertainment and most minds were able to focus on one topic for many hours at a stretch. I saw the movie in 1968 on a rainy weekday afternoon sitting in the sweet spot in a near deserted theater on a rare, curved, ultra wide screen with six channel surround sound. If you watched it on a cell phone then I understand your complaint about its length.

Agreed! What about Spaceballs? 😂

For sure. Love his takes and would love his take on Moon (2009).

With such simplistic approaches? Nah, im fine with only part one!

Part 1 would need serious revising before I would care.

Agree

Never saw the movie but s hoverboard staying a set height over any approaching surface would 'rock'!!... Sense a 1ft object coming and gradually adjust height... Make sure I get one.

it's a movie, not a documentary. for instance, morpheus saying it's all for a battery and then showing the battery. that's cool. in 1999, cloud computing will just sound like a fancy computer term. it won't have the impact the imagery of a battery will have.

Is that true , shit man wow

@@paulnolan4971 yep. Gets killed by a T-800 in Terminator (1984) in the clip NDT showed. Then he gets killed by a Xenomorph in Aliens (1986) and finally he is killed by a Yautja on the train in Predator 2 (1990). Respect!

Not to mention been turned into a toad.

Not true. Lance Henricksen was also killed by a terminator, a predator and an alien.

​@@les4767 but was he killed by an Avenger too? Bill Paxton was.

Good addition! Using the scientific method to figure out what made the old man and the infant the same and the testing of a number of hypotheses created the suspense.

totally agree...Neil,why wasn't it in your list?

​@@cwbybear4665It was said elsewhere, Neil only picked the movies he's seen and he's not a film buff! I agree: Andromeda Strain was a fine and subtle film!

another sci-fi i loved was one called "phase IV" where ants became sentient the scene where the ants picked up their dead to honour the fallen i found chilling and moving

Or Capricorn One. What a movie.

I think he's essentially pandering to hard sci fi here, Annihilation is cosmic horror. Though, I'm shocked Gattica isn't on here, or Garland's other film Ex Machina.

It didn't even occur to me that Annihilation is a sci-fi. It's quite ambiguous in that regard. It could easily fall into the horror genre instead.

A really good alien invasion trilogy.

Family defies physics

@@drfeelgordo Defiles?

you have not seen "starflight one" then? makes armageddon look like a documentary

Gattaca…another crazy boring movie like 2001. Not a bad movie but I like my sci-fi to have space stuff and not just talk about space stuff. IMO

@@robertfalcon60832001 is widely regarded as one of the greatest pieces of filmmaking ever. you just have a short attention span

Just the idea of having even the remotest of chances to smash Uma Thurman makes me like gattaga.

Oh, yeah. That's one I've been looking to see if Neil had seen and commented on! The premise is that the main character can't pursue his dream to go to space (Saturn) because he's had a heart condition that was inherited (also people discriminate against his kind "in-valids"). I suppose it would be like how some teenagers playing sports find out they have an unusual heart condition when something happens. I guess they can't fix that or give him a transplant? The guy who sells him his identity (and genetic material) is confined to a wheelchair from an injury. So the former's strength of will, ability and duplicity gets him a position on the mission, if he's not found out. It doesn't say whether he's capable of surviving the launch and the trip to Saturn, but that's what people debate. I imagine in space his heart problem wouldn't be that deleterious, if he can make it.

Combining a space mission with the dystopia of ranking everyone by genetics and constantly testing them is what seemed off about that movie. I can't imagine any society like that being curious enough to explore other planets and moons, because what would they do if they found life on Titan - judge it by their own standards and "in-valid" it if it's deemed inferior?

Wouldn't really make it better, right? The movie had a ton of plotholes. For example: Apparently the inner core of the Earth was still warm (Dozer says son in the first movie when he talks about why Zion is located there) and the machines have the ability to drill. It would be way (WAY!) easier to just drill a tunnel to the core and use geothermal energy to power all the stuff and shut down the Matrix.

@@Llyd_ApDictanah, geothermal energy would still need a lot of work to carry that energy from deep in the earth, many km to the surface. Nuclear energy would still be readily available

@@Llyd_ApDicta Remember, "There is no spoon". The machine world with Zion is still a layer of The Matrix. The Architect's reset it several times. It's why Neo can 'see' despite being blinded. The scenario is all part of the plan to root out Smith, which is the real threat to the system.

They should’ve just enslaved bunch of bovines that would provide greater energy, yet wouldn’t have the same mental capacity to escape the matrix. Would’ve made more sense. But they probably didn’t want to create a barnyard-based sci-fi caper 😂

@@DonLee1980 What are you talking about? "geothermal energy would still need a lot of work to carry that energy from deep in the earth" - No. Some piping and a medium that can transport heat. Water for example. And you can even use the drill hole for the piping. "Nuclear energy would still be readily available" - First of all, geothermal energy technically is a form of nuclear energy and secondly if you are under the impression, that the enrichment of fissile materials to a purity level that let them be used as fuel in a controlled nuclear reaction is somehow easier to achieve than some pipes and, say, a Sterling engine you really need to read a book or two.

Good point.

One of my favorite movies. Although the look of the film is a bit dated today (especially the computer graphics) but the story/conspiracy is A+.

I think it hold up well despite the technology of the era. Remember the scientists in Fantastic Voyage used slide rules.

As a teen that movie blew my mind LOL excellent

Yes, for science sake I'd give it a "B".

Right. They all died horribly. That’s the other other movie.

I've always thought they should make Interstellar 2, where the reality is that plan B worked, and the plan B humans are the ones that solved the problem of gravity. Everyone on Earth from the first movie dies, but once the humans that survived via plan B find out that their ancestors died to save them, they want to use their time knowledge to save them. They then create the tesseract in the black hole in the past, resulting in the first movie. Not only would it be a great movie, it would explain the plot hole from the first.

​@@ImagineBaggins​ simple answer is there is no "us" from the future that create the worm hole or tesseract. We heard Cooper say it but there no evident, he could just "wrong". more accept answer is another advance spicies that save us. And thus no paradox

@@ImagineBaggins It would lose some of the essence of the first. Which for most of the time followed known physics. A sequel would be 100% speculative.

The other problem with biologists is that the school system stopped promoting science and instead focused on the labor side of farming.

Fun fact: Roswell had it's UFO crash in 1947 the same year the transistor was "invented" ;-)

The history of the development of computing was well documented and widely taught - so this sub-plot would not have passed the smell test. It was the right editorial decision to cut it

@@philipb2134 I think the idea was that the shadowy hand of DARPA would be secretly behind some of the big leaps - so maybe they “accidentally” left some code lying around in Bill Gates’ garage or something.

@@philipb2134 lol this is such a silly thing to say. The smell test? Can you prove right now that alien tech wasn't reverse engineered to create modern components of computers and thousands of other things? People absolutely would have accepted it, and it would have stopped a huge amount of of the flak the movie got for that weird plot hole that its removal left us with.

@@KakavashaForever the development of software platforms is well documented. This development was evolutive . We can track the various releases through time of f WinDOS iterations, or updates to Fortran, or Cobol, or ADA, and so on. What's silly is to demand that someone prove a negative. Is it possible that some alien society has some secret facility to spoon-feed software companies and make sure that thousands upon thousands never gave up the secret, and that this advanced space faring species was stupid enough to train humans on the software architecture which was coded in symbols used by humans? It is not absolutely impossible but astronomically unlikely.

And H A L are the three letters preceding I B M

@@xneapolisx that just blowed my mind haha

The song is subtitled "Bicycle Built for Two" which is pretty funny in the situation (at least I think it is). Whether the ship is a bicycle built for the two astronauts, or that HAL and Dave are the "two" it's an ironic representation of our relationship to technology. Maybe not but I still enjoy it. Plus now I'm terrified fo tandem bikes.

thats why t1 looked it up in phone book

Also he mentioned the sequels to The Matrix, and Back To The Future, but Terminator 2 didn't get a mention!? Arguably one of the best sci-fi films ever made

They could go back to 1984, and infiltrate the IRS to find out the not only the personal data on sara Conor but the entire resistance.

Yep, the reason why the Terminator went after 3 different Sarah Connor's. Neil's argument doesn't hold up if you know the movie.

exactly. and Genysis breaks this rule with its alternate timeline.

Maybe he didn't watch it 🤔

@@Punisher6791 No one cares about Genesys.

Oh yeah...forgot about that part.

Was now saying this, there were no records on the Connors since everything was destroyed in the war. So the machines couldn't do what Degrass is saying would have been easier

This. Plus I'm pretty sure that the meta reason they had the "go back naked" rule has less to do with them wanting to show off Arnold and more to do with them wanting no high-tech weapons ruining the plot. Although I'm sure showing off Arnold was a bonus for them.

I came looking for this comment because it's exactly what I was gonna' say. They had this point covered. NDG's point about the hair and nails is a good one, though - if hair and nails are exempt, then you could pretty much wrap anything you want to bring back in time in leather and it would go through just fine.

​@@colinhiggs70though that raises thr question of "Couldn't they have smuggled a small plasma gun or a bomb you-know-where?"

I hate how it means the aliens knew the china crisis was coming before they even landed and just decided to let it happen anyway. Those Aliens are dicks...

Yeah!

agree....

Forbidden Plant has a lot of old fashioned attitudes, but it had pretty freaky special effects and an original monster

Forbidden Planet was for me a great Science Fiction story, but also a very scary invisible monster movie. Love the concept of the Krell. Using their minds to create matter but like human beings, they are genetically predisposed to violence and base emotions. Everything is a double edged sword. AI might be our Krell moment. Also love Fifth Element.

Forbiden Planet was essentially the prototype for Star Trek.

5 times no.

@@nedludd7622 dune is goated

And secondly, it’s a movie!

It ripped off Slaughterhouse 5.

As a fan of both linguistics and astro-science I love Arrival, but strong linguistic relativity - where a language can expand or limit a speaker's ability to understand the world - is generally not widely accepted as a real phenomenon, especially in such a strong expression as portrayed in the movie. I think in the context of Arrival this can be kinda hand-waved with the "alien science" justification, but it was a bit of a suspension of disbelief sticking point for me.

but that hypothesis is nonsense. i get the stretch of the concept, but when the whole movie is about that, that is like interstellar except instead of cooper going through a wormhole, he imagined it in his basement meditating the whole thing (along with saying that love was the reason he could meditate that hard). it is not even remotely realistic someone can time travel with language alone with no physical intervention needed. if the language included a new dimension that the aliens were able to teach her to see, it would have been better. but as the movie stands, it does not show this at all. maybe you can say it's implied, but at some level is it just an idea without execution. a movie close in terms of being more of an idea and not much meat is annihilation. there is a huge leap from the concept of mutation to a godlike or ideal form of being. but at least it showed something more of a transition into the idea. the coolest part of arrival was the creation of the language, which seemed like it took a lot of computer expertise to create. but in the end it still wasnt interesting enough to support a leap into circular time. i think technically even the language failed, as it ended up only being a couple of words. I don't know if they were able to make a language that fit the idea. the whole movie is about this linguistic concept but they also barely analyze the language, as neil mentions. as interstellar reaches the dead end of scientific explanation, he can say it's because of love, the movie is still mostly about the science. arrival seems to rely heavily on the imaginary fruits of understanding the alien language, but we get neither... it's just, adams having an implied deeper conversation with the aliens, end of movie. for example, it could have been cooler if they required some multidimensional analysis so that they can at least map what they think the aliens are saying. as it stands, they took the 2d watercolor ring language completely at face value, but somehow adams got superpowers from it with her mind.

@@quazillionaireDoes this mean theory or reality, Chinese perceive the world differently than Americans or anyone else who doesn’t speak Chinese (and everyone else perception of the world is different to Chinese perception)? If this is the case, why? Refer me to reading material ps, a link or something - I find this quite interesting.

Heh, you just reminded me of that X/Y axis scene in Dead Poet's Society.

That would have been so much better. Great idea. Some of the most entertaining movies have the worst physics accuracy.

Fantastic idea!!!

Oooooo!

But u have vicadin!!!!

Patrick Mahomes, is that you?

Agreed. Best modern sci-fi in the last two decades maybe. Didn’t bother me that a linguist was also an expert in cryptography. The gift of non linear time perception is amazing.

I was thinking the same thing. He was too harsh with Arrival.

Agreed!!! Arrival should have been higher on the list!

I ranked it about 3/5 when I first watched it. Started off strong but at some point they threw all the delicacies of the script into the trash to move the film along. Then it lost me.

His rankings are way off lol

I read this the 3rd in this comment section, now I am convinced 😄

All of them in the phonebook, 3 or 4 if I remember right.

What is the actual reasoning of the placements? Its not movie quality because interstellar was beaten by quite earth Its not realism because Armageddon is classed as C Is it a mix of the two? Doesn’t seem like it but i could be wrong? Is it personal preference? This makes the most sense but I think he’s missing why people wanted his opinion in the first place… WHY DOES THIS ANNOY ME SO MUCH

19:08 Yes, Neil needs to rewatch... A

True..

Except he was suggesting the cryptographer would replace the physicist, not the linguist.

No need for cryptographer at all. Their language isn't encrypted, it's just a foreign language. Also Neil must have missed they had a team of people working in their tent, and other teams were working on this around the world.

@@chrischampagne9469 No, he was actually wanting to replace the physicist with an astrobiologist and the linguist with a cryptographer.

Yeah, I don't think Neil has ever ridden a skateboard on uneven ground!

I got the impression hoverboards worked similar to maglev (even though there's no magnets in the pavement) - so yeah there was still proximity to the ground, like a mag-lev train, and with the same advantages

Yeah the bit about a hoverboard being pointless is a big WTF. Also, I got the impression too when I saw BTTF2 as a kid that hoverboards didn't work over water, but I think the flaw was that you can't thrust with your foot over water. The hovering clearly worked. It was just a little confusingly filmed.

But what if something came between the board and the ground, interfering with the hovering and causing you to fall over and eat shit regardless?

Exactly this. Give us hoverboards that you may ride on the ground, grass and rough surfaces where regular skates are a bumpy nightmare

Agree, great book & movie. One of my favorites.

@@chrishebert5672 I just hope people read the book or watch the film!

thank god for covid huh

Andromeda Strain is almost hard sci-fi, and *exceptionally* well thought out (by Michael Crichton) and executed. Like the _Mass Effect_ game series, Andromeda Strain contains only *one* plot element that is not current reality. While in Mass Effect that is the titular physical _Mass Effect_ of one chemical element, in Andromeda Strain it is extraterrestrial life. I prefer such kind of sci-fi because it allows for very strong audience immersion. the more a story revolves around the concept "this could maybe in the future happen", the better I can immerse myself.

There were two of those robots with McC and the crew; KIPP and TARS. Matt Damon's robot was unnamed (or at least we never got to hear of it, as it had such a minimal appearance in the story).

@@noneofyourbeeswax01 no, those were TARS and CASE. KIPP was indeed dismantled and then exploded in the face of Romilly. You can read it's called KIPP, it's written on it.

@@noneofyourbeeswax01 Its name is on the front of it, "KIPP", in the same location TARS's name appears on it.

@@ZeroOskul There's never in the movie a robot refererd to as KIPP, it's always either TARS or CASE.

@@flybeep1661 see: *Interstellar - Kipp* Listen to what TARS says at 58 seconds.

Yeah that film was a wall breaker.

Maximilian haunted my dreams for a good awhile.

Neil’s ranking was on scientific accuracy more than storytelling. And the story is just a retelling of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

I saw Black Hole in theater as a kid and remember liking it quite a bit. I rewatched it last year and was highly disappointed by it. As a 10 year old, it was suspenseful but on rewatch, I have no idea what I saw in it. There are other movies I watched in a movie theater as a kid and still love. For example Sound of Music, Bad News Bears, Star Trek II: Wrath of Kahn, Rocky 3 and Poltergeist.

@@frommatorav1 Yeah I have not rewatched it since my childhood viewing.

Absolutely at least among dramatic serious alien movies it's the best ever. Like almost no violence is necessary, an entire language is conceived of... And I think it's probably the best score in a movie in a long time.

Beautifully put.

Similarly the three body problem...

@@Montragon29 enjoyed the books, haven't taken a stab at the show yet

@@entropiceffect yeah the books were more robust, the show is still great but they had to make some adapting to more western audiences. Still I am curious as to how they will tackle the time frame in the show Vs the books.

Sadly another victim of studio draining until nothing was left, not even a decent ending. It sucked, especially compared to the books.

I watched it because of the recommendation from _The Critical Drinker._ I am *so* glad that I did. The Expanse is the best sci-fi series since 50 years.

I was going to leave the same comment, but you did it first

Absolutely

Interstellar is overrated

@@Gingnose No, it isn't. Inception is.

Gravity over rated

2001 Spoiler alert 🚨 The ending when I saw it, I couldn’t understand until someone a decade ago, explained that the rooms were designed by something that had never been on earth. Knew nothing about earths history and left the character in these rooms as we on earth. When we will generate a plausible living quarters for animals, like in our zoos that is nowhere close to their actual habitat. So we can observe them. THAT WAS GENIUS!!

​@@bertdashurt5202 Your ending is more confusing than the film's

@@supertouring22 this is the ending of the film though. That's what it's intended to be.

Hands down the most overrated movie of all time. Visually, it is a masterpiece; the special effects were amazing at that time. But I'm sorry, Arthur C. Clarke was a terrible writer. He had no idea how to craft a plot and his characters and dialogue were flat. Every book/story he wrote started off with a good idea but ultimately ended in ridiculous nonsense. This movie is the most perfect representation of pretentious nonsense and the fact that there are so many fans that, to the end of the world say, "you just don't understand it," only serves to prove the point even more.

@@Cromulant so your whole thing sums up to you laying this blanket of your opinion with “you’re pretentious if you disagree with me”. That’s the definable epitome of pretentiousness. Thanks for the laugh.