<story><title>Movies every physics lover should watch (2020)</title><url>https://www.wondersofphysics.com/2020/04/best-physics-movies.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t get the love for Interstellar either. Their black hole rendering was about the only interesting thing about that movie. The rest of it was predictable and generic right up until the end at which point is felt like a jumping the shark movement with its ridiculousness.</text></item><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>Gravity is not for physics lovers. Its physics make no sense. And contact is more fantasy than anything else. A pretty poor list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beloch</author><text>Actual physicist here. Don&amp;#x27;t get me started on Interstellar. There is so much needlessly dumb crap in this movie that I don&amp;#x27;t even know where to start, and the fact that people &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; it&amp;#x27;s realistic is just a kick in the pants.&lt;p&gt;Just for one example...&lt;p&gt;The crew being sent to save the Earth blasts off in a big ol&amp;#x27; chemical rocket with stages.  Yeah, fine.  I guess rocket tech hasn&amp;#x27;t advanced all that much in this future.  Then they land a ship on a planet in a gravity well so intense that it causes big relative time differences (Note: the gravity alone should have killed them). Then they blast off with the same ship and no big clunky chemical rocket stages.  Why didn&amp;#x27;t this ship just blast off of Earth as is? The energy to get off Earth is nothing compared to getting out of a gravity well that deep! I guess Nolan thought an oldschool staged rocket looked cool.&lt;p&gt;The SFX people did some actual science to figure out the black hole visuals but, other than that, this is a far worse movie than Gravity as far as science is concerned.  The new age emotions resolution was just a big ol&amp;#x27; F U to the crowd. Lazy, sloppy writing.&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of unrealistic movies on this list, and that&amp;#x27;s fine.  Some are just damned fun movies (e.g. Back to the Future).  Interstellar sticks out from the pack for it&amp;#x27;s pretensions and underlying ridiculousness.</text></comment>
<story><title>Movies every physics lover should watch (2020)</title><url>https://www.wondersofphysics.com/2020/04/best-physics-movies.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t get the love for Interstellar either. Their black hole rendering was about the only interesting thing about that movie. The rest of it was predictable and generic right up until the end at which point is felt like a jumping the shark movement with its ridiculousness.</text></item><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>Gravity is not for physics lovers. Its physics make no sense. And contact is more fantasy than anything else. A pretty poor list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gavinmckenzie</author><text>I love Interstellar despite some of the liberties it takes. For me the number one thing Interstellar did so well was communicate clearly that the universe does not care about us.&lt;p&gt;We are infinitesimally small and insignificant. I felt the scale of space and the unforgiving progress of time, as characters dealt with the emotional impact of time dilation on them, their colleagues, and family. And we, as viewers, get to experience it as we see minutes pass from our POV only to return to Endurance and realize Romilly has aged over 20 years in orbit, all alone; and Cooper’s kids have suddenly grown up without us noticing.&lt;p&gt;And as others have noted about the film before, it also relates to the phenomena we experience as we age and our perception of time accelerates. If you’re a parent, you feel yourself slipping farther and faster away from your children with each passing year. Chances are if you watched Interstellar as a parent, you felt the film deeply on another level.</text></comment>