Not a good movie for math people

Interesting thread. I have one reply to make to evildead167, on the subject of "Blade Runner," to his statement, "However, I had trouble accepting that Rick Deckard could be such a supposedly skilled, veteran Blade Runner ("the best"). How could he have survived for so long when he is depicted as being so weak and incompetent against the Replicants in the movie?"

If it helps suspend your disbelief, try considering that Deckard's experience doesn't entail Replicants loose on Earth itself, mingling in human society.

E.T. and Blade Runner are definitely notorious for their failures, amirite?

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Rick Deckard IS a Replicant. Also, he's not weak and incompetent, it's just that the particular replicants shown in Blade Runner are particularly strong. And yet Rick still "defeats" all but one of them.

I agree with the concept of "one gimme rule". However, your argument against E.T. doesn't hold up logically; since E.T. is an alien the filmmakers are pretty much allowed to do whatever with him.

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Now children... Say your sorry or no desert for you.
And WanderlustX2, keep using language like that and you grounded Mister!

yeah, requiem for a dream was not a good film for people who like drugs

Hi, I'm Cesar and I am watching all 250 imdb movies. I have seen half of them mostly 2000s 90s and 80s.

I am very into indie, foreign and began old ones like the fraduate or ordinary people.
here is a list of great foreign movies I have watched.
I would like to have contact

my top 10

1. city of God
2. The life of others
3. Amelie
4. Oldboy
5. Pan's Labyrinth
6. Internal Affairs
7. Hable con ella
8. My Sassy Girl
9. the life is beautiful
10. 9 queens

More excellent films (no hollywood, mostly 90s 2000s)
children Of Heaven
Tsotsi
todo sobre tu madre
tesis
Lucia y el Sexo
mar adentro
The divine Bell and The Butterfly
dogville
la haine
Red
Lola Run Lola
the downfall
la vida es bella (life is beautiful)
The best of youth
il postino
soon's room
malena
8 1/2
cinema Paradiso
science of sleep
Man without a past
Kolya
vals I am Bashir
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
No land's man
dancer in the dark
Hot buzz
tha transpointting
a clockwork orange
love actually
brazil
Eastern Promises
full monthy
Shaun of the Dead
Trainspotting
28 days later
notes of a scandal
the queen
nobody knows
Mononoke Hime
spirited away
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
memories of murder
audition
lady revenge
Sympahy for Mr. vengance
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Kung fu hustle
Hero
the last emperaror
kung fu hustle
2046
children of heaven
offside
slumdog millionaire
Lantana
diarios de motocicleta
la noche de los lapices
carandiru
central station
bus 174
maria full of Grace
la estrategia del caracol
paraiso travel
y tu mama tambien
amores perros
the piano teacher
the barbarian invasion

As most physicists do, he mostly used other peoples math. Einstein famously admitted that he never would have discovered the theory of relativity if it were not for some of the great mathematicians that had come before him. Einstein was good at math for sure, but not great, this is well known.

Biologists defer to chemists. Chemists defer to physicists. Physicists defer to mathematicians. Mathematicians defer only to God - Famous old saying in science circles

"The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea is amusing and enticing; but whether the Almighty is laughing at it and is leading me up the garden path -- that I cannot know." -Albert Einstein

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -Albert Einstein

"Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore." -Albert Einstein

My body's a cage, it's been used and abused...and I...LIKE IT!!

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Exactly, the point was not the solution of a rigirously defined complex problem.


I believe I know math(actually this is a very flawed argument) at an advanced level now and I still like this movie a lot.

Wow. That's a mouthful.

I liked it because it's the best depiction of a migraine headache I've ever seen and I have migraines.

I thought the juxtaposition of pain and genius was brilliant.

I know nothing about mathematics, except we'd still be living in caves and tossing rocks at each other if everyone was as math handicapped as me.

I wish I could appreciate it for the math. Really.

But I do love the movie.




"As the Philosopher Jagger said, you can't always get what you want."

A little verbose but exactly right...

The film is most definitely not about pi. It is about genius and insanity as a previous commenter said. It's just a lot easier to make a film about insanity and genius when the subject is a mathematician because most people see math as such an impenetrable thing, it gives him an air of genius for most people from the offset.

Also, the relationship between maths and insanity is certainly one worth looking into for a film maker, as there are lots of good examples of very, very clever people losing themselves in the abstraction and superficial absurdity of mathematics (e.g. Cantor, Nash, Godel). The fact that everyone has heard of pi, just gives the film an accessible edge so people feel less intimidated. That's how I interpreted it all anyway.