PI was a great film. Beautiful Mind was also pretty good. Anyone else know of any decent science-based films that are mainstream enough to find in a video store or on the net?

Planet 9. A very low budget film, and the director led an odd life along with his career. I once knew of one site that has old science fiction movies for download. Let me see if I can get a hold of that website.

Contact.

No, not contact. If you start going into alien movies you might as well say that Close Encounter with the third kind is scientific, or that star wars is scientific.

Hmmm a good scientific movie. Operation sord fish, Sneakers, hackers... Or does computer science not qualify?

Contact was a good scientific film. It showed a lot of different technologies and presented a time of space travel that could theoretically be possible. The movie is dumbed down version of the book, which is full of science (get Kip Thorne as a friend and it's hard to avoid).

Not so much a film as a book and a game: The Dig.
Goes on all about this think called space-time-six... but anyway its really interesting.

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I agree with abacus3 'pi' was a great film. It was really fucked up, but great in the same instance.

2001 homies. allthough the movie losses most of the real science the books goes through.

It may suprise you, ubergeek that I am, that I have never seen pi, or beautiful mind. In fact, I can't think of any other good math/science films. Though if you watch Nova on PBS there are some amazing subjects, everything from entemology to artifical diamonds (one of my favorites, half the lab equipment was made from 7-up 2 liters).

As for Contact, it was a dumbed down version of the book, but there was some interesting social commentary on human reactions when faced with the unknown.

I wouldn't even count hackers as computer science. Again there was the exelent social commentary built in, but lets be realistic. These people were drooling over 28.8 modems, downloading stuff at fantastic rates, pulling graphics that machines at that time were totaly incapable of doing, and videoconfrencing on a laptop that wasn't even connected to the phone. Not to mention the scene where the laptop screen was projecting on the wall behind it. Not to dis the movie or anything, it is one of my favorites. But in no universe could it be considered a computer science movie.

I've always wondered why I enjoy that movie even though I realize how horrible it is.

Prometheus is right, but what about something like say, Six days (getting off computer science)
or star trek is a little with the whole transporter thing and other stuff, the newer ... Dammit, whats the old show with the robot: DANGER DANGER WILL ROBINSON? Well the new movie is a little scientific... Thats all i can think of for now.

Lost in Space

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I thought Hackers 2 was a lot better. I loved the ending when he goes to the ATM.

I thought that "Perfect Geometry" was a pretty good film. Some bloke played by Ewen McGregor (sp?) trys to figure out schematics of the universe or something and he ends up being able to remove things from existance. Its a pretty good film but i was drunk at the time so i don't remember all the details. In my opinion though, films that don't have much to do with the restrictions of reality and feasibility are normally better than those that stick to the rules of physics, or even those that stick with common sense.

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Donald Duck in Mathemagical Land.

Stargate is kool.

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Are you shitting me? I have never heard of sequal.

The Lawnmower man is pretty good as well. We mentioned tron right?

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Hell yes! Best damn movie ever! I watched that thing 4 times in one week actually.

And anybody who hasn't seen War Games... Damn, great movie.

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i remember seeing Until the end of the world a long time ago, has anyone else seen it, its basically about recording dreams, through some device- eventualy turning everyone psychotic. some interestintg ideas etc. id like to see some others on this theme if anyone knows of it, oh yeah i also thought existenze was a great film, but im not sure if it falls in the science category so smoothly.

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angelina jolie!

Hell yeah.

A friend of mine insists that everything in the movie is feasable, except the sprinkler test. While I admit the sprinkler test is impossible, there are other problems too.

Prometheus, not to tell you how to do your job (or exactly tell you how to do your job), don't you think some recent threads need to be deleted?

Did some of that last night. I haven't been on in about a week cause of problems with my computer. I'm amazed and pleased that so little trouble sprouted up without my being here. Last time I had computer trouble I ended up with people screaming for my head on a pike. Such is life.