Posts Tagged “movies”

Things relating to movies that I have seen.

• Rise of Gru - Waterfall to Steam Door Physics 06 July 2022
  • movies
  • physics
  • spreadsheet

  “Minions: The Rise of Gru” was pretty good, and tells the origin story of Gru and his formative years. That’s all well and good, but the waterfall trap scene was the most interesting piece of the movie to me. The movie opens with some villains attempting to steal this mystical artifact from a temple. In order to get into the temple the villain must reorient these dragons which blow fire to clear away the falling water by turning it to steam. Is this even possible, and if so how much heat would it take, and why wouldn’t the opener be singed by the overwhelming temperatures?

• The Lightyear Movie and Resilient Organizations 27 June 2022
  • idiot-engineering
  • movies
  • reviews

  “Lightyear” was a very fun movie. It’s not a timeless classic, but I enjoyed it. There were some serious issues with it, and the overall organizational structures. I expect better from Pixar on their research, after all they made one of my all-time favorite movies “Wall-E”. They got in an actual doctor of fishes in to explain how fishes move for “Finding Nemo.” As always there will be unmarked spoilers.

• Superman - Man of Tomorrow 02 April 2022
  • movies
  • reviews

  It’s been awhile since I’ve done a movie review, but I just finished yet another DC animated movie, that I think deserves another chance from critics. It’s “Superman: Man of Tomorrow”. You might think it’s another generic superman movie, and you would be right, however I need to applaud the use of Lobo and Parasite, two of my favorite rogues in Superman’s gallery. Both are really fitting villains for him to face.

• Batman Ninja Review 02 June 2018
  • batman
  • movies
  • reviews

  I just saw “Batman Ninja”, and it is the most over the top action movie ever. Although it lacks a plot, this movie has some of the best art ever and the action is completely over the top. I feel the action more than makes up for the lack of plot.

• Review of the Pixels Movie 29 July 2015
  • movies
  • rant
  • reviews

  I recently went to see Pixels, and I thought it was rather good. Even though it had an absurd premise. There is a possibility of spoilers below, so read on with caution if you care about that.

• Indominus Rex for President 09 July 2015
  • movies
  • photo-manipulation
  • rant

  The Indominus rex is the ultimate president. He is smart. He is willing to go to any lengths to survive. He will eat the terrorists, and make them sorry they ever existed. He will eat the stupid pundits. Therefore Indominus rex for president. Hey, he’s the lesser of 2 evils. This year vote for the wolf instead of the wolf in sheep’s clothes. Vote for Indominus rex for president in 2016.

• Idiot Engineering #1 - Jurassic World 28 June 2015
  • idiot-engineering
  • movies
  • rant
  • reviews

  I just decided to start a series about idiotic engineering in movies. The first movie I’m going to do is Jurassic World. Which is an awesome movie, however it is full of idiot engineering. So fair warning there will be spoilers below, so if you haven’t seen it stop reading now, or keep reading for a detailed examination of the engineering failures in Jurassic World, and how they could have been prevented.