MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Alan Siegman What is the problem here? Any science nerd who doesn't get a thrill from this -- hey I'll even give a fast forward or two -- maybe isn't really a science nerd. No, not really Great Science Fiction? Maybe not but this is more about the setting and the 'realistic' physicists, than the plot and the production. Or I would have just skipped the movie and moved on and not whined about some student movie not impressing me like Avatar.These are the people and equipment who actually DID discover the Higgs Boson, which made the entire physics Standard Model that has come out of relativity and quantum mechanics complete with its greatest confirmation ever!!! That was the culmination of 100 years of specific work on that model! The work done by these scientists and students at that lab -- NOT their movie production ability -- has become a meme that has been the subject of jokes for years. What nerd doesn't want ANY GLIMPSE of that actual accelerator which cost $13 BILLION dollars (so they can make a $2000 movie and show us the guts and their playing around in them???By contrast, not a single bit of String Theory has been backed up experimentally, regardless of how much you may like Michio Kaku. ;)I am a physics nerd, I took extra-bonus physics during my undergrad (electrical engineering) degree in the late 70's, back when Trekkies were all about Captain Kirk and i was more anti-Trekky then ... then around 1990 when working on my MSEE I took more physics, and I've used relativity both in my academic work and in my job in Bell Labs and Boeing Military.Now I've gone back to school at Wichita State University, so that I can learn what's new in physics. That's where I heard about this film. Our instructor was an experimental physicist at Fermilab in Illinois, which I then visited a few weeks ago. He knows some of these people personally, and the other day I brought in DVD's I got from Fermilab to give out to the classmates, and they mentioned this film Decay. It isn't intended to be Great Art for the Snobbery Critics; it's some actual nerds doing actual nerd imagination things at the most expensive nerd toy on the planet!!!REAL nerds will get what I mean, and were just waiting for this chance to pop up! Those who pointed this was a free film and it was with real stuff so that's a cool factor, thank you.Alan

motter1036 Many reviewers have really panned this movie. I guess they haven't watched too many episodes of MST3Ks. Some of those awful movies had much bigger budgets and some even name actors Granted this is not a great movie but any means The acting is pretty poor the plot has been done many times and it plods for about the 1st half But for a 1st time effort it shows promise the gory effects are very good.The movie does have some suspense too it and at about 75 minutes it does hold your attention Hopefully this 1st time director will have success in getting backing for a larger budget film with pro actors and then we may see how talented he really is

drugaddictsinthejungle First off, you need to know that Dadatuuexx has no idea what he's talking about to a worrying degree, in fact he appears to be personifying the same ignorance and fear of science that Decay (clever title - both people and particles decay - geddit?) is attempting to satirise in the first place. "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should" and all that nonsense. The LHC, stem cell research, Bruce Banner, Mary Shelley, it's been going on forever. What it comes down to is ignorance versus rationality and I know which side I'd rather be on. But then again this is a zombie film, and obviously zombies aren't real, couldn't be real. Bad science and THE BEST science coexist here and the contrast is I think intentionally obvious, the effect of which highlights just how silly all the death-by-a-thousand-black-holes and similar theories patently are. But people do believe them, and that's a problem.But anyway, that's about the extent of the satire as far as I can tell. The next thing I need to mention is the filmmakers could not have wished for a better location. The LHC is incredibly impressive to look at, and we see more of it here than I've seen in any of the documentaries about it. Not only does it look amazing, and it's HUEG, but the weight of its importance, and the genius not only of its architecture but of what it does, is constant, it makes you proud to be a human in the 21st century. Atmospheric.The acting is - not always - but sometimes - a bit dodgy, and a few scenes lack the emotional depth and sense of urgency they could have done with. But these are physicists, not actors, and anyway what's cooler, pretending to be someone else for an hour or FINDING OUT HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS? (The clue's in the caps.) A scientist would deck an actor nine times out of ten.Okay okay, actually, yes they're physicists, which would make you think they'd get the physics of a pipe through a skull or a hand through an abdomen a bit more...right. Both these things were done with seemingly little effort and no resistance (but the technique they use is potentially a smart one). Also the state of severed limbs and stuff like that reminds you that they're not biologists. Which is a slight shame, but it's still nice to see a pipe going through a skull and a hand going through an abdomen. And severed limbs.We spend quite a lot of time looking at computer screens, and it would be nice if one day we'll get a proper representation of what a computer screen actually looks like in situations like this - but saying that, it was a lot better than we've come to expect. Yes there's green-text-on-black-background flashing around for no reason, text bleeps as it's displayed (that would be my vote for the main thing to sort out, the first thing I do when I install a new OS is to stop it making annoying noises unless I tell it to), and on one occasion a character's username flashes for no other reason than to tell us to look at it. But it's fine, they're using Bash v3.95 Beta and I'm using v4.2.45 and I don't even have an LHC so I'm happy. The joys of the fourth dimension.They made the right choice leaving it at 75 minutes, it may have started to wear its welcome by the 90-minute mark, but overall I really enjoyed the film, I watched most of it with a smile on my face, so well done, you lot, seriously.

nursingservicesontario Stressfully dumb. Never seen anything this lame. Its such a slow movie not sure if its the directing or the actors just sucked. Good storyline but totally boring acting and direction too slow, and lacking logic. The girl who is supposed to be the main actor looked like she was already bitten before she actually was. Not sure what her qualities were other than being blonde. Totally didn't look sharp at one point one of her friends is bitten and then she runs off and stays in a corner while her friend gets devoured, totally lacking logic. and whatever those things were they moved faster than the ones that were not infected. I say this is a case of more money and time than brains. If you wanna be stressed out watch this. I wanna punch whoever directed this. Whoever directed this trying using your brain. Logically if there is any kinda danger ppl don't react like that. that was very annoying. Try writing and directing for smart people with a brain. This didn't make any sense.