Not a good movie for math people

I see where you are coming from. However, you've got to remember that this is just the way it is for any movie genre. I believe that most firefighters agree that Backdraft is extremely unrealistic, a majority of law enforcement shows and movies are unbelievably, even laughably unrealistic, and most war movies do not (and perhaps cannot) accurately, realistically portray the horrors of combat. I don't personally know any, but I would bet that most locomotive engineers would agree that Unstoppable was not realistic either. This doesn't mean that they are bad by any means. A lot of unrealistic shows and movies are excellent (Law and Order, Unstoppable, 24, etc). Portraying ultra realism would result in ultra boredom. Picture an accurate movie about a mathematician's academic life. It would probably be really boring. Even an ultra realistic movie about a federal agent would probably be extremely boring.

sure, none of it was actually "math" , but who cares? It was just a movie,
try explaining hilbert spaces to a layman

I watched this film in a postgraduate level math class. My professor mentioned that, for some reason, she had not seen the movie herself prior to showing it to us.

We chuckled throughout. I appreciate some of the film's artistic merits, but Pi's childlike perspective on mathematical principles will make anyone even moderately versed in mathematics laugh.

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As a math major, I loved this movie. Then again, I didn't watch it for a lecture on math.

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I'm well-educated in number theory, stats, and theoretical mathematics, and I found Pi to be an amazing flick. Especially considering its budget!

Different strokes. Some people are just so literally-minded (left-brained) and lacking in creativity that they can't suspend disbelief for the length of a full movie. Sucks to be you.