Bullgrit
Adventurer
As much as I like and respect NdT, (I am currently reading his book Space Chronicles and loving it), his a bit nit-picky about movies. I mean, he complained about the night sky in Titanic -- something 99.99% of the viewers wouldn't catch or care about.Hand of Evil said:Neil deGrasse Tyson notes on the movie has made me decide not to see it.
As for his comments about Gravity:
Sandra's hair not affected by weightlessness -- her hair in the film is very short.
Sandra's character in the movie is a medical engineer.
"Why we enjoy a SciFi film set in make-believe space more than we enjoy actual people set in real space" -- Really? This is a mystery to him? We enjoy a film set in make-believe Earth more than we enjoy actual people on the real Earth.
"Nearly all satellites orbit Earth west to east yet ..." -- How many people know this, and how many of even them would recognize which direction the debris was moving while watching the movie?
"Why anyone is impressed with a zero-G film 45 years after being impressed with 2001: A Space Odyssey" -- Yeah, we're only allowed to be impressed once per subject. Yet he laments the waning interest in space travel.
Again, I like and respect NdT a great deal. But these tweets really make him sound like an ass. I wish he wouldn't be so snarky about something imaginary that could boost interest in something real.
Bullgrit