{"id":1929,"date":"2008-04-29T00:51:11","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T07:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2008-04-29T00:51:11","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T07:51:11","slug":"best-science-movie-it-doesnt-take-a-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/04\/29\/best-science-movie-it-doesnt-take-a-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Science Movie?  It Doesn&#039;t Take a Genius&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a comment suggesting that a Science Film festival be held to combat a certain <a href=\"http:\/\/expelledexposed.drupalgardens.com\">idiotic movie<\/a>, He of Uncertain Principles agreed, and then the powers that be at scienceblogs decided to hold a poll  on the Best Science Movies.  And the four choices are&#8230;.&#8221;Contact&#8221;, &#8220;Gattaca&#8221;, &#8220;An Inconvenient Truth&#8221;, and &#8220;Jurassic Park.&#8221;  To which I can only say&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhat!  No &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089886\/\">Real Genius<\/a>?&#8221;  I mean come on!  Talk about the ultimate of geeky science movies.  Make that geeky physics science movies.  Do I even need to count the ways?  Okay I guess I do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lasers.  Really, really powerful lasers.  Lasers so powerful they cut through a campus statue.  And lasers which lead to crazy parties with water slides involving a nearby School of Beauty.<\/li>\n<li>An evil geek.  With braces.  Which get wired so as to receive voice signals from the good guys.  Who pretend they are God.  &#8220;Hello? Hello, Jesus?&#8230; He hung up&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Solving long standing problems in gravitational physics: &#8220;Would you prepared if gravity reversed itself? The only thing I can&#8217;t figure out is how to keep the change in my pockets. I&#8217;ve got it! Nudity!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A genius who lives in a closet and wears pajamas and ends up winning thirty one point eight percent of the prizes, including a rockin RV.<\/li>\n<li>A movie which includes the lines: Mitch: &#8220;This is coherent light.&#8221;  Mitch&#8217;s dad: &#8220;Oh, so it talks. &#8220;<\/li>\n<li>And did I mention lasers?  And, by the way, lasers are a young science, you know.  And did I mention Val Kilmer and lasers?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t know how I feel about a rumored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2007\/01\/real_genius_ret\/\">sequel<\/a> to Real Genius, and yeah, okay, I&#8217;m a bit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unixgirl.com\/humor\/real_genius_refs.html\">biased<\/a>, but still &#8220;Real Genius&#8221; has got to be one of the top science movies.  At least I know it recruited a lot of smart people to go to Caltech (I never met a Lazlo, but I did meat Jordan.)  And, did I mention, lasers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a comment suggesting that a Science Film festival be held to combat a certain idiotic movie, He of Uncertain Principles agreed, and then the powers that be at scienceblogs decided to hold a poll on the Best Science Movies. And the four choices are&#8230;.&#8221;Contact&#8221;, &#8220;Gattaca&#8221;, &#8220;An Inconvenient Truth&#8221;, and &#8220;Jurassic Park.&#8221; To which I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/04\/29\/best-science-movie-it-doesnt-take-a-genius\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Science Movie?  It Doesn&#039;t Take a Genius&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[70,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}