Ah, the great, great movie. Someone at STScI was in the movie, Trekkies. (It's awesome because that someone gets a link in imdb history! How cool is that!?) So this someone gets regular offers from movie-makers - come on, preview our movie, and bring your friends along. In fact, bring 'em all!!! We would like to see what you think!

I work just across the street, so I get to go along. With a bunch of other physicists and astronomers (you see why they invited her and asked her to bring friends?! They needed some expert opinion! We were supposed to be "scientific" advisors, sort of! Yeah right!), and its only a matter of minutes before we are all laughing our geek laughs. The way Erik imitates a geek laugh.

Some GREAT scenes from the movie:

1) DJ Qualls is supposed to be the computer geek. The Famous-But-Proud-Physicist played by Stanley Tucci is wondering out loud (very loud, in fact) why the Powers That Be decided to bring this computer geek along to save the world, when DJ Qualls' character (Rat, I believe the name was?) says: "How many languages do you speak??!"

Dr. Conrad Zimsky looks down on Rat haughtily and says, "Five!" (First of all, big fucking deal. I speak at least six languages, and I'm not even a great physicist. YET!)
But DJ Qualls replies: "I only speak one language. One Zero One One Zero One Zero One (or some other string of 0's and 1's like that)"

Its funny and cheesy if you know binary (eh eh eh... geek stuff... eh eh eh). Suuuuuuuccccchhhhh a bad joke!

2) Oh wait, did I mention that the core was SLOWING DOWN through the course of this movie? The imdb user review begins, and I quote, "This is not science, just a wild ride and a fun movie..."

3) The scene where all the pigeons in Trafalgar Square lose their sense of navigation because of the decaying magnetic field and dive-bomb into all the glass windows. My complaint about this scene, other than the fact that the pigeons don't need navigation sense if they have fucking EYES to see they are colliding with windows, is this: HOW COME THERE WAS NOT A SINGLE SPOT OF PIGEON SHIT ON TRAFALGAR SQUARE??????? Back at IISc, we have this road called Mahogany Marg. The inmates refer it as Maha-agony Marg, because all the trees have branches that hang right over this road, and there are pigeons and crows all over the place, and at times, the road is coloured WHITE and not grey-black as it should be. So, where's the crap?!?!?!?!?!

4) I like the scene where the captain of the ship is just about to come back into the ship, saying, "We are back on our way!", or some shit like that, when a hot projectile just falls right on top of his helmet and melts right through into his brain. I laughed soooo hard. It was just like the scene in Deep Blue Sea where after that long inspirational dialogue from Samuel L. Jackson, the shark suddenly jumps out of the water with its mouth wide open and disappears with him inside a millisecond later. Oh, anticlimax, how you amuse me!

5) Aaron Eckhart's character is sooo smart! At the beginning, when him and French counterpart Tchéky Karyo are brought in by the US Govt., and they won't tell him what for, he says something like, "There was some electromagnetic disturbance, wasn't there?" and the soldier-man wonders how he figured it out... and here's Dr. Josh's reasoning: "I work in electric fields of the earth's surface, and Serge here works on magnetic fields, since you brought us both together, it had to be something electromagnetic!" At which point, I expected us all to stand up and applaud him, geeks and non-geeks alike. Such amazing powers of deduction.

OK, so this wasn't the best timepass page I ever made. But it was fun watching this movie and laughing at it.