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Post by Mirabilis on Aug 18, 2014 10:18:42 GMT -5
I have seen The Giver: although the plot is very disappointing, the visual quality if very high with memorable scenes, and there are a few themes that are borrowed from EQ. If you have the time, you might consider this film, although it would be disappointing for those who are not EQ fans. Divergent was FAR better in comparison. On this occasion, once again I must recommend Divergent!!! Hi Invisiblescientist! Indeed ... we have Divergent high on our list of movies to watch. And we will also be watching The Giver in due course. Are you also planning on seeing The Maze Runner? www.imdb.com/title/tt1790864/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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Post by invisiblescientist on Aug 20, 2014 0:45:20 GMT -5
I have seen The Giver: although the plot is very disappointing, the visual quality if very high with memorable scenes, and there are a few themes that are borrowed from EQ. If you have the time, you might consider this film, although it would be disappointing for those who are not EQ fans. Divergent was FAR better in comparison. On this occasion, once again I must recommend Divergent!!! Hi Invisiblescientist! Indeed ... we have Divergent high on our list of movies to watch. And we will also be watching The Giver in due course. Are you also planning on seeing The Maze Runner? www.imdb.com/title/tt1790864/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Thanks for mentioning The Maze Runner, I am definitely planning to see this film also. But Divergent was so excellent that I am surprised that it does not have better reviews. It is very energetic and invigorating, it draws the audience in, and it also has a wonderful and profound childish quality.
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Post by Aedh on Aug 20, 2014 10:02:04 GMT -5
Thanks! We'll take that as a recommend!
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Post by Mirabilis on Sept 12, 2014 23:38:21 GMT -5
Hi Invisiblescientist! Indeed ... we have Divergent high on our list of movies to watch. And we will also be watching The Giver in due course. Are you also planning on seeing The Maze Runner? www.imdb.com/title/tt1790864/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Thanks for mentioning The Maze Runner, I am definitely planning to see this film also. But Divergent was so excellent that I am surprised that it does not have better reviews. It is very energetic and invigorating, it draws the audience in, and it also has a wonderful and profound childish quality. We watched Divergent and enjoyed it!
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Post by invisiblescientist on Sept 25, 2014 16:44:21 GMT -5
Thanks for mentioning The Maze Runner, I am definitely planning to see this film also. But Divergent was so excellent that I am surprised that it does not have better reviews. It is very energetic and invigorating, it draws the audience in, and it also has a wonderful and profound childish quality. We watched Divergent and enjoyed it! I am glad you liked Divergent!!! I have also seen Maze Runner and although it is not too bad, it is somewhat derivative, without a philosophical direction. I will definitely see Interstellar, which seems very promising. Here is the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePbKGoIGAXYBut I cannot find an explanation for the latest wave of spam. It is too bad the administrator is not in charge anymore, as it is definitely possible to add some safeguards to make it difficult for spammers to register to the site.
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Post by Mirabilis on Sept 25, 2014 23:41:20 GMT -5
We watched Divergent and enjoyed it! I am glad you liked Divergent!!! I have also seen Maze Runner and although it is not too bad, it is somewhat derivative, without a philosophical direction. I will definitely see Interstellar, which seems very promising. Here is the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePbKGoIGAXYBut I cannot find an explanation for the latest wave of spam. It is too bad the administrator is not in charge anymore, as it is definitely possible to add some safeguards to make it difficult for spammers to register to the site. Yeah ... the spammers are a pain ... all I can do is keep knocking them off the front page. I sent JenGe a message about it but I doubt I'll ever hear back from her. Thanks for the heads up re. Interstellar ... we'll definitely put that high on our 'to see' list.
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Post by invisiblescientist on Oct 17, 2014 19:14:21 GMT -5
I am glad you liked Divergent!!! I have also seen Maze Runner and although it is not too bad, it is somewhat derivative, without a philosophical direction. I will definitely see Interstellar, which seems very promising. Here is the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePbKGoIGAXYBut I cannot find an explanation for the latest wave of spam. It is too bad the administrator is not in charge anymore, as it is definitely possible to add some safeguards to make it difficult for spammers to register to the site. Yeah ... the spammers are a pain ... all I can do is keep knocking them off the front page. I sent JenGe a message about it but I doubt I'll ever hear back from her. Thanks for the heads up re. Interstellar ... we'll definitely put that high on our 'to see' list. Interstellar must have both a lot of substance and content because Kip Thorne, a leading astrophysicist, whose works on gravitation inspired the film, actually became an executive director and scientific consultant to make this movie, which is 169 minutes long!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_ThorneThe soundtrack by Hans Zimmer also seems to be great: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDVtMYqUAywwww.youtube.com/watch?v=0iteQE7KEyU(Hans Zimmer's music would be appropriate for any remake of Equilibrium in the future!) But I am still saddened and disturbed by the new spam epidemic at EQ, which is ridiculous because this started recently, precisely when the number of active members declined to less than a dozen. How sad...
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Post by Mirabilis on Oct 18, 2014 9:49:35 GMT -5
Yep ... only JenGe or MisterAnderson have the power to ban the spammers and delete their posts. Sadly this nearly always happens on message boards when the admins disappear.
On a more pleasant subject, there's a new soundtrack album coming out shortly which looks very cool ... www.amazon.co.uk/Fade-To-Black-Various/dp/tracks/B00MWPA3C6/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1 Some excellent music included if you're a fan of any of these TV shows (which we are!) Definitely going to get this one.
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Post by invisiblescientist on Oct 18, 2014 16:57:40 GMT -5
In November 2014, SyFy channel will start a new series called Ascension. In this story, after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy worries that ultimately a major war can destroy the world and he launches a secret space mission to send 600 Americans to a distant star a few light years away to colonize a planet in that range, to make sure that humanity survives. This film is inspired by the original work of the physicist Dyson, who was in favor of building nuclear powered spacecraft that can reach higher speeds than the current chemical combustion rockets. The maximum performance would be only 5-10 % of the speed of light, but still fast enough to reach a star in a few hundred years. So the people in the ship were born there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ZuWjyKp84www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig2Ofg-Z540www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0rDFICkL_0In this movie the technology and culture of the people in the giant spacecraft are still from the 1960s, even 50 years after the mission has been launched: their values are still conservative and somewhat backward, and women are barely beginning to acquire more rights in society. The idea is that because they are somewhat isolated, social change is much slower. Here is a discussion of the Dyson's original idea during the 1950s. Basically within 100-200 years it is possible to reach a star that is a few light years away. This means that the generation that reaches the star will be born in the ship, but as long as there is a good educational system, this is OK: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSK_mymJvkMen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
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Post by Mirabilis on Oct 18, 2014 23:34:42 GMT -5
In November 2014, SyFy channel will start a new series called Ascension. In this story, after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy worries that ultimately a major war can destroy the world and he launches a secret space mission to send 600 Americans to a distant star a few light years away to colonize a planet in that range, to make sure that humanity survives. This film is inspired by the original work of the physicist Dyson, who was in favor of building nuclear powered spacecraft that can reach higher speeds than the current chemical combustion rockets. The maximum performance would be only 5-10 % of the speed of light, but still fast enough to reach a star in a few hundred years. So the people in the ship were born there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ZuWjyKp84www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig2Ofg-Z540www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0rDFICkL_0In this movie the technology and culture of the people in the giant spacecraft are still from the 1960s, even 50 years after the mission has been launched: their values are still conservative and somewhat backward, and women are barely beginning to acquire more rights in society. The idea is that because they are somewhat isolated, social change is much slower. Here is a discussion of the Dyson's original idea during the 1950s. Basically within 100-200 years it is possible to reach a star that is a few light years away. This means that the generation that reaches the star will be born in the ship, but as long as there is a good educational system, this is OK: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSK_mymJvkMen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)Thanks! We hadn't heard about this one, surprisingly. It looks interesting ... will definitely check it out.
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Post by invisiblescientist on Oct 24, 2014 18:23:07 GMT -5
About the new movie Interstellar: Here is a new interview with the director Christopher Nolan and the astrophysicist Kip Thorne who was a consultant and executive director. They explain how they actually used Einstein's equations to make realistic the visual representations of the wormhole the astronauts are supposed to exerience in space. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQye2XkvDpo
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Post by Mirabilis on Oct 25, 2014 9:34:13 GMT -5
About the new movie Interstellar: Here is a new interview with the director Christopher Nolan and the astrophysicist Kip Thorne who was a consultant and executive director. They explain how they actually used Einstein's equations to make realistic the visual representations of the wormhole the astronauts are supposed to exerience in space. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQye2XkvDpoFascinating! Thanks!
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Post by Mirabilis on Oct 30, 2014 14:32:11 GMT -5
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Post by invisiblescientist on Oct 31, 2014 22:48:46 GMT -5
Thanks for bringing this movie to my attention! This trailer and review by Grace Randolph is very interesting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=--9tUW0DZoII will definitely see this film. In the distant future robots will be as smart as humans, and possibly smarter.
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Post by Mirabilis on Nov 1, 2014 10:48:19 GMT -5
Thanks for bringing this movie to my attention! This trailer and review by Grace Randolph is very interesting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=--9tUW0DZoII will definitely see this film. In the distant future robots will be as smart as humans, and possibly smarter.
Very good ... thanks ! I also love the fact that it was filmed in Norway as well as at Pinewood Studios ... it looks visually stunning.
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Post by invisiblescientist on Nov 23, 2014 1:08:22 GMT -5
About the new movie Interstellar: Here is a new interview with the director Christopher Nolan and the astrophysicist Kip Thorne who was a consultant and executive director. They explain how they actually used Einstein's equations to make realistic the visual representations of the wormhole the astronauts are supposed to exerience in space. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQye2XkvDpoFascinating! Thanks! I have seen "Interstellar" twice. First of all, despite the typical superficial Hollywood plot, many of the things in this movie are scientifically plausible, once you separate the unlikely technology from the scientific basis of the main ideas. Once again, here is the Wikipedia article that discusses the scientific accuracy and inaccuracy of the film: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_%28film%29As I mentioned, Kip Thorne who is a leading expert on relativity and gravitation, was hired as a science consultant and executive director, to assist Christopher Nolan. For the first time in Hollywood history this film describes the effects of general relativity accurately (where heavy objects like supermassive black holes not only bend space, but also cause time to get dilated.) Once again, let me quote a paragraph from the Wikipedia article about the scientific accuracy of the film: I must re-emphasize that most scientific inaccuracies in the film are more technological than scientific: for example, when the smaller space shuttle that separates from the mothership descends to a lower orbit to reach the first planet that is close to the super-massive black hole, although the astronauts in the shuttle would certainly age much more slowly than the other astronauts who stayed in the mothership that remained far from the black hole, the shuttle would need incredibly large amounts of fuel to climb back to the higher orbit to return to the mothership, because in this movie the gravitational force of the black hole is supposed to be millions of times stronger than that of our sun (which is why there is time dilation as shown in the film). But the latter inaccuracy that the shuttle probably would not have been able to return back to the mothership due to inadequate fuel, should be considered more technological than scientific, it is a hypothetical scenario, where if it were possible for the shuttle to return back to the mothership after visiting the planet that is close to the black hole, the returning astronauts would certainly discover that the other astronauts who remained in the mothership aged a lot faster, even though the trip took only a few hours for the first group of astronauts in the shuttle. Also, it would probably take a lot longer for Earth to become uninhabitable the way it is shown in the film, but this is not the main subject of the plot. The main point is to show how relativistic travel would look like, and how the traversal of a wormhole in space would be perceived by the astronauts. And before I forget, at the end of the movie, in the final scenes, the music in "Interstellar" becomes a bit similar to EQ.
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Post by Aedh on Dec 31, 2014 23:12:50 GMT -5
"White God," a Hungarian film. This looks interesting. It's like another take on EQ ... where mixed-breed dogs are the Sense-Offenders, and dogcatchers are like the Sweepers and Clerics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIGz2kyo26U
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Post by invisiblescientist on Feb 21, 2015 17:56:30 GMT -5
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Post by Mirabilis on Feb 23, 2015 10:42:51 GMT -5
Thanks! Definitely one to watch out for ... and of course I've always been a big Ridley Scott fan. Btw, I also sorted the spammer problem out by communicating directly with the ProBoards admins ... really helpful guys. So in future if a new spammer pops up I simply report them and their account gets blocked.
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Post by invisiblescientist on Feb 28, 2015 10:44:40 GMT -5
Btw, I also sorted the spammer problem out by communicating directly with the ProBoards admins ... really helpful guys. So in future if a new spammer pops up I simply report them and their account gets blocked. Thanks a lot for resolving the spam problem: you have actually saved the EQ site from extinction!
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Post by Mirabilis on Mar 16, 2015 10:35:55 GMT -5
Fascinating! Thanks! I have seen "Interstellar" twice. First of all, despite the typical superficial Hollywood plot, many of the things in this movie are scientifically plausible, once you separate the unlikely technology from the scientific basis of the main ideas. Once again, here is the Wikipedia article that discusses the scientific accuracy and inaccuracy of the film: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_%28film%29As I mentioned, Kip Thorne who is a leading expert on relativity and gravitation, was hired as a science consultant and executive director, to assist Christopher Nolan. For the first time in Hollywood history this film describes the effects of general relativity accurately (where heavy objects like supermassive black holes not only bend space, but also cause time to get dilated.) Once again, let me quote a paragraph from the Wikipedia article about the scientific accuracy of the film: I must re-emphasize that most scientific inaccuracies in the film are more technological than scientific: for example, when the smaller space shuttle that separates from the mothership descends to a lower orbit to reach the first planet that is close to the super-massive black hole, although the astronauts in the shuttle would certainly age much more slowly than the other astronauts who stayed in the mothership that remained far from the black hole, the shuttle would need incredibly large amounts of fuel to climb back to the higher orbit to return to the mothership, because in this movie the gravitational force of the black hole is supposed to be millions of times stronger than that of our sun (which is why there is time dilation as shown in the film). But the latter inaccuracy that the shuttle probably would not have been able to return back to the mothership due to inadequate fuel, should be considered more technological than scientific, it is a hypothetical scenario, where if it were possible for the shuttle to return back to the mothership after visiting the planet that is close to the black hole, the returning astronauts would certainly discover that the other astronauts who remained in the mothership aged a lot faster, even though the trip took only a few hours for the first group of astronauts in the shuttle. Also, it would probably take a lot longer for Earth to become uninhabitable the way it is shown in the film, but this is not the main subject of the plot. The main point is to show how relativistic travel would look like, and how the traversal of a wormhole in space would be perceived by the astronauts. And before I forget, at the end of the movie, in the final scenes, the music in "Interstellar" becomes a bit similar to EQ. We finally watched it ... really enjoyable ... although I did find myself wishing Matthew McConaughey could have spoken more clearly ... his constant low volume mumbling made the dialogue hard to follow at times ... but that was a minor quibble ... and the Hans Zimmer music was awesome.
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Post by invisiblescientist on Mar 25, 2015 6:00:42 GMT -5
I have seen "Insurgent" (the continuation of Divergent), and compared to the major breakthrough that the first episode was, this was a disappointment, but those who liked "Divergent" should definitely see the second part. My complaint is that unlike "Divergent" which relied on old school acting, character development and emotional intensity, there was too much emphasis on special effects and computer graphics. However, at least the first half of "Insurgent" is more similar to the first part, with more acting and original scenes and architecture, and so it is definitely worth watching. An exceptionally good and emotionally deep alternate reality type science fiction movie is "Never Let Me Go" (2010, Keira Knightley). The movie is unforgettable, and I strongly recommend it. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/never_let_me_go_2010/Separately, let me mention that the 2006 version of Macbeth as an alternate reality was very interesting. In this version of Macbeth (Sam Worthington) is the leader of criminals in modern Sydney, Australia, and he wants to become the biggest drug dealer. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10007336-macbeth/#contentReviews
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Post by invisiblescientist on May 5, 2015 5:42:46 GMT -5
Thanks again for bringing this movie to my attention! I have seen it, and I strongly recommend it because it is a true breakthrough. Here is the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyKqHOgMi4gThe movie has a minimalist $16 million budget, but this is precisely because the director wanted to emphasize ideas more than action, and even visually the film is very impressive. At rottentomatoes.com, this film has a very high 91 % rating. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ex_machina/
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Post by Mirabilis on Jun 6, 2015 9:24:11 GMT -5
Thanks for bringing this movie to my attention! This trailer and review by Grace Randolph is very interesting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=--9tUW0DZoII will definitely see this film. In the distant future robots will be as smart as humans, and possibly smarter.
Very good ... thanks ! I also love the fact that it was filmed in Norway as well as at Pinewood Studios ... it looks visually stunning. We finally watched Ex Machina last night. Highly recommend this if you haven't seen it yet. And here's the place in Norway where most of it was filmed ... a really beautiful location ... www.juvet.com/en
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Post by invisiblescientist on Jul 16, 2015 7:10:26 GMT -5
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Post by Mirabilis on Jul 17, 2015 9:41:59 GMT -5
Thanks Invisiblescientist ... I'll add it to the 'One Man's Vision' thread. It looks very promising! Btw ... you might also be interested in this website where you can quickly and simply convert youtube videos into mp3 downloads ... great little tool ... www.listentoyoutube.com/
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Post by invisiblescientist on Aug 27, 2015 19:08:04 GMT -5
Here is the latest trailer to Ridley Scott's "The Martian": www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3ioOneTy8Sean Bean is in the movie, and there is an EQ moment: Sean Bean speaks like Cleric Partridge before he was killed by Preston. See the trailer!!!
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Post by Mirabilis on Aug 28, 2015 10:10:52 GMT -5
Here is the latest trailer to Ridley Scott's "The Martian": www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3ioOneTy8Sean Bean is in the movie, and there is an EQ moment: Sean Bean speaks like Cleric Partridge before he was killed by Preston. See the trailer!!! I see what you mean! It looks very good, although I do wish they wouldn't give so much of the plot away in the trailer ... that seems to be a growing trend in movie trailers these days.
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Post by Mirabilis on Oct 23, 2015 13:40:11 GMT -5
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Post by invisiblescientist on Dec 14, 2015 18:52:10 GMT -5
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