Interstellar

I agree very much with all of it, great analysis :D I disagree about Gravity though. It's Zero-G, not Zero-Gravity. Gravity keeps them in orbit, so it's a very fitting name.

I'd have swapped your ranking of Back to the Future 2 and 3.

The only difference I have is the "blob" . I'd put it a grade higher. I'd prefer a grade+ but you didn't offer that option lol😊

Mars Attacks! Ack Ack! Ack Ack Ack!

Hope he'll do another one.

yup, he should make part 2 video

He is not a movie buff. Its a blessing when we get neil to comment on a sci fi movie in general. His top movies is based on what he seen. Not the entire world. And I can respect that. I dont hold Neil to a movie critic standard. We hold him to a science standard. So lets respect his movies even though they might not be the best . A lot of people down played gravity cause of neil but Gravity was a good movie. He was just focused on the scrience,

He can’t review all movies. You missed a lot of good ones too

He probably hasn't seen all of them lol

It’s a shame because people use cloud computing all the time now.

@@samanthac.349 Exactly. Ahead of their time, those two

I'd go so far as to say that the AIs realized that our human "wetware" was capable of solving problems the AI couldn't. That the AI was limited to being deterministic, where the humans had that creative spark that the machines could never have. Since they couldn't find that on their own, they enslaved humanity an mined it from them. Each time Zion was destroyed and the Matrix was remade, it was because humans found a way out that the machines couldn't anticipate, so the machines learned from it secondhand and built a better prison for the next cycle. The battery analogy works for the mass audience of the time and is very easy to understand for the average moviegoer.

Yup! This is another example of studio executives underestimating the intelligence of their audience.

Didn't know about that. But yeah makes more sense and would be even more mind-blowing back in 1999

Yeah, I don't think Neil has ever ridden a skateboard on uneven ground!

I got the impression hoverboards worked similar to maglev (even though there's no magnets in the pavement) - so yeah there was still proximity to the ground, like a mag-lev train, and with the same advantages

Yeah the bit about a hoverboard being pointless is a big WTF. Also, I got the impression too when I saw BTTF2 as a kid that hoverboards didn't work over water, but I think the flaw was that you can't thrust with your foot over water. The hovering clearly worked. It was just a little confusingly filmed.

But what if something came between the board and the ground, interfering with the hovering and causing you to fall over and eat shit regardless?

Exactly this. Give us hoverboards that you may ride on the ground, grass and rough surfaces where regular skates are a bumpy nightmare

Fun fact: Roswell had it's UFO crash in 1947 the same year the transistor was "invented" ;-)

The history of the development of computing was well documented and widely taught - so this sub-plot would not have passed the smell test. It was the right editorial decision to cut it

@@philipb2134 I think the idea was that the shadowy hand of DARPA would be secretly behind some of the big leaps - so maybe they “accidentally” left some code lying around in Bill Gates’ garage or something.

@@philipb2134 lol this is such a silly thing to say. The smell test? Can you prove right now that alien tech wasn't reverse engineered to create modern components of computers and thousands of other things? People absolutely would have accepted it, and it would have stopped a huge amount of of the flak the movie got for that weird plot hole that its removal left us with.

@@KakavashaForever the development of software platforms is well documented. This development was evolutive . We can track the various releases through time of f WinDOS iterations, or updates to Fortran, or Cobol, or ADA, and so on. What's silly is to demand that someone prove a negative. Is it possible that some alien society has some secret facility to spoon-feed software companies and make sure that thousands upon thousands never gave up the secret, and that this advanced space faring species was stupid enough to train humans on the software architecture which was coded in symbols used by humans? It is not absolutely impossible but astronomically unlikely.

Armageddon and independence day can't be more than F

@@praticastransculturais You can't be more than F

Armageddon above Close Encounters?!!!

I don't think he's interested in linguistics!

completely agree Armageddon is a F-

Yeah putting arrival at the c-tier was a bad look. It was almost like he didn't pay that much of attention to the movie to see just how detailed and specific they were with their science

Also... as a security specialist with an affinity for cryptography. I'd prefer to use a linguist over a cryptanalyst. Most cryptanalysis deals with uncovering hidden human writing of the major, current, human, written languages. A linguist looks at a multitude of forms of communication. I think they would first have some grasp on how the language works. Afterwards, maybe a cryptanalist could figure the rest out fast, but they'd have no place to start.

Spot on! …I was literally going to say the same exact thing! Also, interpretation was that they had tried everything with no progress so they were at the stage where they were throwing anything they could think of - thus the linguist.

I skipped to the end of this video because I'm not a huge NGT fan - when I saw Arrival was C-tier I was glad I didn't watch the whole thing. Arrival is a masterpiece. Full stop

Placing Arrival in the C-tier is a crime.

But u have vicadin!!!!

I'm sorry to freak you out (again) but, assuming your pot lid was metal, unless you counter wasn't at a +20* angle (or something like that) and maybe some tiny earthquake, something else moved the lid :)))))) It might be possible if the lid was plastic, put on some oily surface, otherwise his own weight would keep it still even with a whole book lifting one side of the counter. Or maybe I'm wrong :)

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@Mauro Biglino & The 5Th Kind & Adam 1414 channels

Impossible!!

EXACTLY! 😡 Neil!

They were both good movies. Also, I disagree about how accurate Interstellar is, mainly the Black Hole part of the movie. It also really bothered me that they thought going through a Wormhole is easier than fixing the food situation on Earth. It was also a stupid idea to go to the planet with extreme gravity. I thought a lot of the movie didn't make common sense.

Also the time it took for Matthew to enter the black hole the earth would have ended before he could play ghost in the 4 dimension due to time dilation

I thought the same

Dude that movie is sooo good. I also love Chappie

The concept is quite fresh, I agree, but the movie bored me so much that I can't even remember half of it, and I watched it twice (second time precisely because I couldn't remember anything about it)...

District 9 is one of my favorite modern movies. I thought it was so good.

That's not the reason they were forced to stay on Earth. They were forced to stay on Earth because humans didn't understand their technology enough to help them repair their ship to enable them to leave (to be fair, neither did most of the ones who survived whatever disease it was that wiped out most of their scientist and engineer class fellow aliens. It was mostly the blue collar class aliens who survived it.) The fact of humans trying to learn their technology after the fact was a by-product of this forced situation and not the primary reason they were trapped here. The humans were not trapping them here. They didn't know how to get them or help them to leave and short of killing them all, there was nothing else to do with them.

Was originally a halo movie..

Couldn't agree more

Totally agree. Also the point about writing being flipped is very weird. Obviously the alien was writing is for someone to read, not for themselves to read. If that's something the aliens use to communicate between each other (and we're led to believe that they do), then surely they are able to take that into account.

Yeah he lost me when he ranked this masterpiece at C.

Absolutely - hear, Hear! Unfortunately, I found Neil's entire presentation to be surprisingly coarse... Quite disappointing - I expected a far more thoughtful effort.

It sucked. I fell asleep halfway through and after I looked up the meaning it was even worse than I expected. 👎🏼

The Matrix was influenced by too many works to cite properly.

Agreed. My criticism of Independence Day was the farmer dad died. In my remake he'd be walking across the desert with Goldblum and Smith telling us that he ejected 0.5s before impact.

Yep. I very much respect Neil deGrasse Tyson but he absolutely missed the whole meaning and message, the whole point, of the movie. Wild to me, given he appears to be someone who pays attention to the tiniest of details (very much like me). For me Arrival is one of the best movies of the decade, not just sci-fi movies.

Armageddon was less up its own ass.

@@flaggerify God forbid a movie having depth and something to say

Agreed. Armageddon should have been S tier.

@@flaggerify My favorite part is when Aerosmith made that song and in the MV, Steven Tyler's daughter was the pin-up girl. Because that's definitely not up any ass. (This is supposed to be as ironic as your post)

Exactly that first one was wew scary until this day lol

Honorable mention?? F*** that! That should have gotten A+

The thing is not about science and space aliens but PARANOIA!!!

@@reyrayo2502 The Blob got top billing in Neil's list, not a whole lot different.

the thing is more horror then sci fi. The Thins is on every horror list but on 90% sci fi list not. why? Because 90% is horror, only 10% sci fi

Oh yeah, back in '77 Close Encounters was an amazing movie. It's a sentimental favorite of mine, probably made even moreso because I saw the movie not long after I went to Devil's Tower, so that adds a personal touch too. Back then, it was amazing because it was pretty original, the idea of music to communicate was totally outside the box (me as a musician also extra loved that idea), the idea of some people being mentally affected by it from all across the country....so many awesome ideas, plus the special effects for the time made it a really pretty movie too. Does it hold up to current standards of tech or political correctness and all that? Nope. Not much does. But for the time, amazing.

As I was walking out of the theatre one of my friends asked my if I understood the film. When I told him my take on the film, he exclaimed "You've read the book!" I assured him I hadn't.

which is actually not a sign of being particularly good I gotta say. A movie must stand on its own. if reading the book is required to make sense of it all the movie isn't as good as people make it out to be.

Is that true , shit man wow

@@paulnolan4971 yep. Gets killed by a T-800 in Terminator (1984) in the clip NDT showed. Then he gets killed by a Xenomorph in Aliens (1986) and finally he is killed by a Yautja on the train in Predator 2 (1990). Respect!

Not to mention been turned into a toad.

Not true. Lance Henricksen was also killed by a terminator, a predator and an alien.

​@@les4767 but was he killed by an Avenger too? Bill Paxton was.

In my headcanon (and after watching The Second Renaissance many, many times), the machines did it as a courtesy to their makers. They couldn't keep fighting, but also didn't want to commit genocide.

What I don't understand about what Niel is saying about thermodynamics is; then why are there Carnivores? Like isn't it because it's easier to let the herbivore do the work of digesting the food and then u just eat the herbivore? So they doing similar to us?

@@nx2120 Except the machines were designed and don't have to run with whatever random system evolution came up with. Photovoltaic cells and batteries are much more efficient and vastly simpler to design and maintain than the matrix and it's human bio batteries. 😁

@@nx2120 Carnivores exist because there's an ecological niche for them to exist in.

'only 12 Watts per hour per brain' would've sufficed, but sunlight being blocked is nice tho.

both if you do it right

It made me feel like I was on LSD before I knew what LSD was!

I noticed something curious about my LSD experience... a blank wall became a fascinating canvas for the imagination whereas a 'psychedelic' poster was practically inert.

The bigger pronlem is "20 minutes" - my gripe with 2001 is its run time ... way too long. Not just this scene but most of the movie is too stretched out. Instead of 2h20m it could've been 1h20m. I far prefer "2010", its sequel.

@@BryTee When the film was being made space travel was still science fiction, televisions and telephones were entirely separate devices, people still read 500 page books for entertainment and most minds were able to focus on one topic for many hours at a stretch. I saw the movie in 1968 on a rainy weekday afternoon sitting in the sweet spot in a near deserted theater on a rare, curved, ultra wide screen with six channel surround sound. If you watched it on a cell phone then I understand your complaint about its length.

As Tina Fey pointed out at an award show, George Clooney would rather drift away to his death in space than to date a woman his own age.

The Force is strong with this so-called silver fox, lol.

this is the only movie neil missunderstand, well most people do... Everything in that movie in space never really happened. it was all in her head. the movie was really about the diferent stages of grieving. first hint, she is a doctor..

CHA-CHING! all about the benjamins

@@pse2020 So that's where Returnal got the plot from?

2001 is based on clarkes short story the Sentinel.

@@jalusbrian Yes and no. According to Clarke, again from the forward to the Millenium Edition of 2001, "that is a gross oversimplification; the two bear much of the same relationship as an acorn and an oak tree." He goes on to say: "It needed a lot more material to make the movie, and some of it came from 'Encounter in the Dawn' ... But most of it was wholly new, and the result of months of brainstorming with Stanley."

Both Neil and jalusbrian are correct. Neil didn't say it was based on a book, he said it was based on a story (The Sentinel as mentioned by jalusbrian)

@@BrianWhite1 that really didn't do anything to contradict what jalusbrian or neil said. It was still BASED on a Arthur C Clark STORY ( I guess he could have said "inspired" instead but seriously who gives a fuck?) Nobody said the movie was based on the book 2001(which what you had to correct Neil about ) or that the story was exactly the same or didn't have other influences

@@iliketuna9326 But the implication, or perhaps just the obvious interpretation, of Neil's statement was that the movie "2001" was based on the book "2001", as is common for many movies. I didn't disagree with @jalusbrian but merely set the record straight using Clarke's own words who, IMO, doesn't regard the connection to "The Sentinel" as being a very good one.

Agreed a fantastic movie, but philosophical discussion is not SciFi.

Apparently in the latest version they just kept sending terminators back after them every year. I used to imagine that after they break the time loop, in the far future some time cop finds out about this anomaly and investigates, starting it again and giving the machines time travel.

Even so. Then it would have just been Sara Conner's mom instead of Sarah Conner. Same movie different time period. The machine kills because that's all it was programmed to do. I liked later lore about why the T1k in T2 made mistakes and why Skynet stopped making them.

Yea. Writers and studios were grasping for content.

Also to argue against Neil if you go too far back to kill Sarah’s parents you also risk significantly changing the timeline (butterfly effect)

You know if the Terminator was never sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor then Kyle Reece would’ve never been sent back to protect her, and they never would have conceived John Connor, and skynet would have won, but then if the Terminator was never sent back then cyberdyne systems wouldn’t find the destroyed Terminator in the factory, and would never develop the inhibitor chip that births skynet so it’s a never ending paradox of itself.

Damn good point sir. Fits well and works within the Terminator universe. Neil is a very intelligent and knowledgeable man, but nobody's perfect, and he definitely missed the ball a bit with his quibble about this movie.

Was looking for this comment. It didn't even know which Sarah Connor it was after which is why it went after all of them.

In the first script it said that the Terminator was ripping away the flesh on the leg of the first killed Sarah Connor, because it knew she had a metal piece in her leg due to the injuries from the explosion at the end.

@@w359borg Exactly, and if it had gone after the "parents of Sarah Connor," it would have had to kill twice as many people!

@@duncankennedy4080 Missed that and also a bit of engineering about skateboard wheels or even wheels 🤣

All of these were plans but the frozen embryo plan was supposed to be the backup plan while the main plan was to find a planet and bring everyone there. But it was actually a lie and the other way around, they never planned to save the humans on earth, i mean that's actually the whole plot of the movie.

@@kaen4299 No...they never intended to ship humanity to another planet. The main motive of the mission was to get the quantum data needed to satisfy the gravity problem and build O'Neil structures in other planets' orbits in the solar system. The backup was using the frozen embryos to repopulate the new world.

Gattaca…another crazy boring movie like 2001. Not a bad movie but I like my sci-fi to have space stuff and not just talk about space stuff. IMO

@@robertfalcon60832001 is widely regarded as one of the greatest pieces of filmmaking ever. you just have a short attention span

Just the idea of having even the remotest of chances to smash Uma Thurman makes me like gattaga.

Oh, yeah. That's one I've been looking to see if Neil had seen and commented on! The premise is that the main character can't pursue his dream to go to space (Saturn) because he's had a heart condition that was inherited (also people discriminate against his kind "in-valids"). I suppose it would be like how some teenagers playing sports find out they have an unusual heart condition when something happens. I guess they can't fix that or give him a transplant? The guy who sells him his identity (and genetic material) is confined to a wheelchair from an injury. So the former's strength of will, ability and duplicity gets him a position on the mission, if he's not found out. It doesn't say whether he's capable of surviving the launch and the trip to Saturn, but that's what people debate. I imagine in space his heart problem wouldn't be that deleterious, if he can make it.

Combining a space mission with the dystopia of ranking everyone by genetics and constantly testing them is what seemed off about that movie. I can't imagine any society like that being curious enough to explore other planets and moons, because what would they do if they found life on Titan - judge it by their own standards and "in-valid" it if it's deemed inferior?

Agreed! What about Spaceballs? 😂

For sure. Love his takes and would love his take on Moon (2009).

With such simplistic approaches? Nah, im fine with only part one!

Part 1 would need serious revising before I would care.

Agree

Agreed but the way in which the Government brought all the experts in at the beginning seems closer to what we would really do vs. in Arrival.

Family defies physics

@@drfeelgordo Defiles?

you have not seen "starflight one" then? makes armageddon look like a documentary

thats why t1 looked it up in phone book

Also he mentioned the sequels to The Matrix, and Back To The Future, but Terminator 2 didn't get a mention!? Arguably one of the best sci-fi films ever made

Good point.

One of my favorite movies. Although the look of the film is a bit dated today (especially the computer graphics) but the story/conspiracy is A+.

I think it hold up well despite the technology of the era. Remember the scientists in Fantastic Voyage used slide rules.

As a teen that movie blew my mind LOL excellent

Yes, for science sake I'd give it a "B".

Wouldn't really make it better, right? The movie had a ton of plotholes. For example: Apparently the inner core of the Earth was still warm (Dozer says son in the first movie when he talks about why Zion is located there) and the machines have the ability to drill. It would be way (WAY!) easier to just drill a tunnel to the core and use geothermal energy to power all the stuff and shut down the Matrix.

@@Llyd_ApDictanah, geothermal energy would still need a lot of work to carry that energy from deep in the earth, many km to the surface. Nuclear energy would still be readily available

@@Llyd_ApDicta Remember, "There is no spoon". The machine world with Zion is still a layer of The Matrix. The Architect's reset it several times. It's why Neo can 'see' despite being blinded. The scenario is all part of the plan to root out Smith, which is the real threat to the system.

They should’ve just enslaved bunch of bovines that would provide greater energy, yet wouldn’t have the same mental capacity to escape the matrix. Would’ve made more sense. But they probably didn’t want to create a barnyard-based sci-fi caper 😂

@@DonLee1980 What are you talking about? "geothermal energy would still need a lot of work to carry that energy from deep in the earth" - No. Some piping and a medium that can transport heat. Water for example. And you can even use the drill hole for the piping. "Nuclear energy would still be readily available" - First of all, geothermal energy technically is a form of nuclear energy and secondly if you are under the impression, that the enrichment of fissile materials to a purity level that let them be used as fuel in a controlled nuclear reaction is somehow easier to achieve than some pipes and, say, a Sterling engine you really need to read a book or two.

and Dark Star

@@AndersonDawesWasRight "#Benson Arizona, blew warm wind trough your hair . . .#" : )

The quality of the image blew me away when I watched it on Blu-ray.😮

About the worst criticism one can honestly level at the movie is "the end was little too psychodelic", but it was made in '68 so...

19:08 Yes, Neil needs to rewatch... A

True..

Except he was suggesting the cryptographer would replace the physicist, not the linguist.

No need for cryptographer at all. Their language isn't encrypted, it's just a foreign language. Also Neil must have missed they had a team of people working in their tent, and other teams were working on this around the world.

And H A L are the three letters preceding I B M

@@xneapolisx that just blowed my mind haha

The song is subtitled "Bicycle Built for Two" which is pretty funny in the situation (at least I think it is). Whether the ship is a bicycle built for the two astronauts, or that HAL and Dave are the "two" it's an ironic representation of our relationship to technology. Maybe not but I still enjoy it. Plus now I'm terrified fo tandem bikes.

And secondly, it’s a movie!

It ripped off Slaughterhouse 5.

As a fan of both linguistics and astro-science I love Arrival, but strong linguistic relativity - where a language can expand or limit a speaker's ability to understand the world - is generally not widely accepted as a real phenomenon, especially in such a strong expression as portrayed in the movie. I think in the context of Arrival this can be kinda hand-waved with the "alien science" justification, but it was a bit of a suspension of disbelief sticking point for me.

but that hypothesis is nonsense. i get the stretch of the concept, but when the whole movie is about that, that is like interstellar except instead of cooper going through a wormhole, he imagined it in his basement meditating the whole thing (along with saying that love was the reason he could meditate that hard). it is not even remotely realistic someone can time travel with language alone with no physical intervention needed. if the language included a new dimension that the aliens were able to teach her to see, it would have been better. but as the movie stands, it does not show this at all. maybe you can say it's implied, but at some level is it just an idea without execution. a movie close in terms of being more of an idea and not much meat is annihilation. there is a huge leap from the concept of mutation to a godlike or ideal form of being. but at least it showed something more of a transition into the idea. the coolest part of arrival was the creation of the language, which seemed like it took a lot of computer expertise to create. but in the end it still wasnt interesting enough to support a leap into circular time. i think technically even the language failed, as it ended up only being a couple of words. I don't know if they were able to make a language that fit the idea. the whole movie is about this linguistic concept but they also barely analyze the language, as neil mentions. as interstellar reaches the dead end of scientific explanation, he can say it's because of love, the movie is still mostly about the science. arrival seems to rely heavily on the imaginary fruits of understanding the alien language, but we get neither... it's just, adams having an implied deeper conversation with the aliens, end of movie. for example, it could have been cooler if they required some multidimensional analysis so that they can at least map what they think the aliens are saying. as it stands, they took the 2d watercolor ring language completely at face value, but somehow adams got superpowers from it with her mind.

@@quazillionaireDoes this mean theory or reality, Chinese perceive the world differently than Americans or anyone else who doesn’t speak Chinese (and everyone else perception of the world is different to Chinese perception)? If this is the case, why? Refer me to reading material ps, a link or something - I find this quite interesting.

I was going to leave the same comment, but you did it first

Absolutely

Interstellar is overrated

@@Gingnose No, it isn't. Inception is.

Gravity over rated

Good addition! Using the scientific method to figure out what made the old man and the infant the same and the testing of a number of hypotheses created the suspense.

totally agree...Neil,why wasn't it in your list?

​@@cwbybear4665It was said elsewhere, Neil only picked the movies he's seen and he's not a film buff! I agree: Andromeda Strain was a fine and subtle film!

another sci-fi i loved was one called "phase IV" where ants became sentient the scene where the ants picked up their dead to honour the fallen i found chilling and moving

Or Capricorn One. What a movie.

I think he's essentially pandering to hard sci fi here, Annihilation is cosmic horror. Though, I'm shocked Gattica isn't on here, or Garland's other film Ex Machina.

It didn't even occur to me that Annihilation is a sci-fi. It's quite ambiguous in that regard. It could easily fall into the horror genre instead.

A really good alien invasion trilogy.

Right. They all died horribly. That’s the other other movie.

I've always thought they should make Interstellar 2, where the reality is that plan B worked, and the plan B humans are the ones that solved the problem of gravity. Everyone on Earth from the first movie dies, but once the humans that survived via plan B find out that their ancestors died to save them, they want to use their time knowledge to save them. They then create the tesseract in the black hole in the past, resulting in the first movie. Not only would it be a great movie, it would explain the plot hole from the first.

​@@ImagineBaggins​ simple answer is there is no "us" from the future that create the worm hole or tesseract. We heard Cooper say it but there no evident, he could just "wrong". more accept answer is another advance spicies that save us. And thus no paradox

@@ImagineBaggins It would lose some of the essence of the first. Which for most of the time followed known physics. A sequel would be 100% speculative.

The other problem with biologists is that the school system stopped promoting science and instead focused on the labor side of farming.

Oh yeah...forgot about that part.

Was now saying this, there were no records on the Connors since everything was destroyed in the war. So the machines couldn't do what Degrass is saying would have been easier

This. Plus I'm pretty sure that the meta reason they had the "go back naked" rule has less to do with them wanting to show off Arnold and more to do with them wanting no high-tech weapons ruining the plot. Although I'm sure showing off Arnold was a bonus for them.

I came looking for this comment because it's exactly what I was gonna' say. They had this point covered. NDG's point about the hair and nails is a good one, though - if hair and nails are exempt, then you could pretty much wrap anything you want to bring back in time in leather and it would go through just fine.

​@@colinhiggs70though that raises thr question of "Couldn't they have smuggled a small plasma gun or a bomb you-know-where?"

They could go back to 1984, and infiltrate the IRS to find out the not only the personal data on sara Conor but the entire resistance.

Yep, the reason why the Terminator went after 3 different Sarah Connor's. Neil's argument doesn't hold up if you know the movie.

exactly. and Genysis breaks this rule with its alternate timeline.

Maybe he didn't watch it 🤔

@@Punisher6791 No one cares about Genesys.

I read this the 3rd in this comment section, now I am convinced 😄

Heh, you just reminded me of that X/Y axis scene in Dead Poet's Society.

That would have been so much better. Great idea. Some of the most entertaining movies have the worst physics accuracy.

Fantastic idea!!!

Oooooo!

He said it was definitely worth watching. But the movie was stupid though. An alien ship drops into the middle of a field and they only think to send 2 people? GTFO.

​@@Lionheartx675 have some of ur own thoughts u just repeated the exact same thing. Now tell me another criticism which is from ur own

@@zyrux_ i reiterated his thoughts because you (clearly) lack the critical thinking to understand the point he was getting across

@@Lionheartx675 tell me ur criticism. If u are so intelligent thn tell me an issue u actually have with the film and not the celebrity physicist

​@@zyrux_Arrival is a overrated shitty pseudoscientific garbage, learning some alien language will not rewire your brain and give you the ability to see the future 😂. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is considered a joke by linguists

Agreed. Best modern sci-fi in the last two decades maybe. Didn’t bother me that a linguist was also an expert in cryptography. The gift of non linear time perception is amazing.

I was thinking the same thing. He was too harsh with Arrival.

Agreed!!! Arrival should have been higher on the list!

I ranked it about 3/5 when I first watched it. Started off strong but at some point they threw all the delicacies of the script into the trash to move the film along. Then it lost me.

His rankings are way off lol

All of them in the phonebook, 3 or 4 if I remember right.

2012

Dune isnt really sci-fi. Its geopolitics in space.

@@johnfbm :D good one

The what of Night?

@@jcjcviews The Vast of Night (slight typo)

5 times no.

@@nedludd7622 dune is goated

I was teaching a class at university, a few years ago, and I was discussing consciousness. I mentioned the Matrix and got no response from the audience. I then did a quick mental calculation and realised most of them were born after it was released, and most had not seen it. Obiously being born after its release doesn't mean you can't see it, but essentially a whole generation has grown up without The Matrix as a massive cultural reference point, and that's a shame.

@@devononair Oh yeah, I had that moment shortly after 9/11 when I was a sophomore in high school, and I remember thinking 'everyone born today and after today will never have experienced what we went through right now', though surprisingly, we would be in a war during most of those peoples lives.

2001 Spoiler alert 🚨 The ending when I saw it, I couldn’t understand until someone a decade ago, explained that the rooms were designed by something that had never been on earth. Knew nothing about earths history and left the character in these rooms as we on earth. When we will generate a plausible living quarters for animals, like in our zoos that is nowhere close to their actual habitat. So we can observe them. THAT WAS GENIUS!!

​@@bertdashurt5202 Your ending is more confusing than the film's

@@supertouring22 this is the ending of the film though. That's what it's intended to be.

Hands down the most overrated movie of all time. Visually, it is a masterpiece; the special effects were amazing at that time. But I'm sorry, Arthur C. Clarke was a terrible writer. He had no idea how to craft a plot and his characters and dialogue were flat. Every book/story he wrote started off with a good idea but ultimately ended in ridiculous nonsense. This movie is the most perfect representation of pretentious nonsense and the fact that there are so many fans that, to the end of the world say, "you just don't understand it," only serves to prove the point even more.

@@Cromulant so your whole thing sums up to you laying this blanket of your opinion with “you’re pretentious if you disagree with me”. That’s the definable epitome of pretentiousness. Thanks for the laugh.

Modern farmers are scientists who know how to manage the soil for crop yield.

@@Awol991 maybe but they would lack the knowledge to combat a Blight. So not really

Putting Interstellar at anything less than S+ is criminal

Neil probably talked over the top of that bit.

Neil is a good talker. He rated Interstellar lower because of logic error with crops, but he puts the Martian A even as he says there cant be a strong Martian storm, as Mars has a thin atmosphere so wind is less dense. Interstallar is at least a A rating with so many good actors like McConaughey and Anne Hathaway. And the best music score.

I hate how it means the aliens knew the china crisis was coming before they even landed and just decided to let it happen anyway. Those Aliens are dicks...

Yeah that film was a wall breaker.

Maximilian haunted my dreams for a good awhile.

Neil’s ranking was on scientific accuracy more than storytelling. And the story is just a retelling of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

I saw Black Hole in theater as a kid and remember liking it quite a bit. I rewatched it last year and was highly disappointed by it. As a 10 year old, it was suspenseful but on rewatch, I have no idea what I saw in it. There are other movies I watched in a movie theater as a kid and still love. For example Sound of Music, Bad News Bears, Star Trek II: Wrath of Kahn, Rocky 3 and Poltergeist.

@@frommatorav1 Yeah I have not rewatched it since my childhood viewing.

Yeah!

agree....

Forbidden Plant has a lot of old fashioned attitudes, but it had pretty freaky special effects and an original monster

Forbidden Planet was for me a great Science Fiction story, but also a very scary invisible monster movie. Love the concept of the Krell. Using their minds to create matter but like human beings, they are genetically predisposed to violence and base emotions. Everything is a double edged sword. AI might be our Krell moment. Also love Fifth Element.

Forbiden Planet was essentially the prototype for Star Trek.

There were two of those robots with McC and the crew; KIPP and TARS. Matt Damon's robot was unnamed (or at least we never got to hear of it, as it had such a minimal appearance in the story).

@@noneofyourbeeswax01 no, those were TARS and CASE. KIPP was indeed dismantled and then exploded in the face of Romilly. You can read it's called KIPP, it's written on it.

@@noneofyourbeeswax01 Its name is on the front of it, "KIPP", in the same location TARS's name appears on it.

@@ZeroOskul There's never in the movie a robot refererd to as KIPP, it's always either TARS or CASE.

@@flybeep1661 see: *Interstellar - Kipp* Listen to what TARS says at 58 seconds.

Agree, great book & movie. One of my favorites.

@@chrishebert5672 I just hope people read the book or watch the film!

thank god for covid huh

Andromeda Strain is almost hard sci-fi, and *exceptionally* well thought out (by Michael Crichton) and executed. Like the _Mass Effect_ game series, Andromeda Strain contains only *one* plot element that is not current reality. While in Mass Effect that is the titular physical _Mass Effect_ of one chemical element, in Andromeda Strain it is extraterrestrial life. I prefer such kind of sci-fi because it allows for very strong audience immersion. the more a story revolves around the concept "this could maybe in the future happen", the better I can immerse myself.