Other than Stand And Deliver . . . no clichés, please . . .
I'm looking for some fun movies that are thinly related to math that I can show as rewards or on other occasions, while being able to make a plausible claim that they are related to my curriculum. R-rated movies are not acceptable.
I've already thought of Sneakers. What is Contact rated? I'm thinking it's not appropriate for public school anyway, though, because of the religious overtones.
It doesn't matter how tenuous the link to math is, as long as I can claim it's there.
Any ideas?
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Posted by Ethics Gradient (Member # 878) on :
Pi.
Or Good Will Hunting... A Beautiful Mind.
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Posted by Taberah (Member # 4014) on :
. . . and so EG names three interesting, intellectual math-related movies that are also completely inappropriate for showing in school.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Goodwill Hunting is Rated R. As I said, though, math doesn't have to be in the foreground, as long as I can make some kind of connection.
Posted by Taberah (Member # 4014) on :
Perhaps I.Q. or Little Man Tate would work.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I had never heard of π before. Sounds interesting, but it's also rated R.
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
Watch Spider-Man. At least, that's what my class got to watch in Calculus.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
*nod* I remember those two. IQ in particular could be fun.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Groundhog Day
And yes, I did originally have a reason why it connected to math... *goes off to find it, as it seems to be lost*
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Is there an actual connection in Spiderman that I'm not remembering?
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Ooh, cool! Help me justify that one!
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
Mathnet! "My name is Monday. I'm a mathematician."
Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land! I would love to see that again. *grin*
π is awesome. Definitely rent it. But I think it would be inappropiate for public school, too, as there's some religious ties to it.
I.Q. is a charming movie. I quite enjoy it, and I think high schoolers would as well. Oh, and Real Genius is fun, too.
I've been watching "From the Earth to the Moon". I'm trying to remember if any of the episodes where mathematically inclined. Something space related might be good, though. Oo, how about October Sky?
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
What about Jurassic Park, what with all the chaos theory and Jeff Goldblum and stuff?
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
*nod*
Cool ideas!
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Pi is one of the best movies ever, but it's R.
[EDIT: I thought I hit enter about 10 minutes ago and then left. When I came back I realizied I hadn't, but it was too late. Icarus had beaten me to the punch by a sizable portion. ]
Hobbes
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Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
We watched Top Gun in my AP Calculus class...granted, the teacher was female and so was most of the class. (That, and it was after the AP test.)
Oh, and Contact is PG.
I once watched a movie in a math class that I can't for the life of me remember the name of... It was about a math teacher (with huge glasses and a comb over ) who brought math to a ghetto urban school and taught all the kids who hated school to love math. Very much connected to math, and it was actually not too bad. Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
ooh, October Sky is a good one...also PG. Posted by jehovoid (Member # 2014) on :
The Matrix, of course.
Posted by Ethics Gradient (Member # 878) on :
In Australia, Goodwill Hunting, A Beautiful Mind and Pi are not rated R. So
And since I'm assuming its a high school math class, I don't see the problem with an M film. We watched Bladerunner in year 7 English, for Pete's Sake.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
The problem with an R film (such as The Matrix ) is that I live in the South, and I will be fired if I show one.
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
A Beautiful Mind isn't rated R here.
And, I don't disagree that most high school students are mature enough to watch an R-rated movie, but it might single out a couple students. In my high school career I had many a alternate assignment because I don't see R-rated movies. Once, I had to sit all by myself in a book closet and watch an old black and white version of a movie that the class was watching. It was not so fun...
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
But as I said, it's not about whether or not individual students are mature enough, or whether or not I think high school 10th through 12th graders are mature enough. It is simply out of the question. I'd like to watch a movie once in a while to keep the kids motivated and having a positive attitude, but it ain't worth my job.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
How about Morris's A Brief History of Time?
Hobbes Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
A documentary? We have a library for that. I want something that will entertain 15 - 17 year olds.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
But it's so cool!
Fine, just show a movie for people who aren't squares and leave me out of it.
Hobbes Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Our Calc BC teacher showed is a disney movie about math. It was something like Donald Duck in mathland but not. I can't remember since it was a couple years ago.
Hobbes Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
Debbie Does Algebra. Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Do you have a link?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Icarus, how about Phenomenon and K-Pax? Both are PG-13. Each is a bit of a stretch, perhaps, but not much of one, I think. Codes and patterns in the first, astronomy in the second.
As far as the R-rated ones, any possibility of getting your hands on edited-for-TV versions? Or would that not be sufficient?
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
The Sting would be a cool movie to watch. It is a classic, but most kids in your class would not have seen it because it was before their time.
It has poker, betting on horses, so some probability related stuff. Also, as a movie made in 1970's, so nothing offensive about it.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I didn't see K-Pax . . . thanks for the lead. Phenomenon could be pretty cool.
I don't think TV versions of R-rated movies are acceptable. They tend to be legalistic and literalistic about such things. Plus, showing movies recorded off of TV might actually raise other copyright issues.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I loved The Sting . . . think I could really make the connection? I wonder if the gambling would get me in trouble with the Christians around here. I wonder what it's rated . . .
Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
Batman Forever, the riddlers clues are number puzzle, just say you are seeing if the students can do complex word problems with extra information (like say an entire movie) without loosing track of the numbers and the objective of the problem.
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
According to Netflix, it is rated PG. Aside from its gambling-math connections, it is also a history lesson (takes place during the depression), a morality play (never bet against the house), and a film classic (winner of 7 academy awards). Posted by Feyd Baron (Member # 1407) on :
Has no one mentioned "Powers of Ten"?
And who here knows what I'm talking about?
Feyd Baron, DoC
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
What about a chess movie?
I loved Searching for Bobby Fischer. Chess is kinda like math, right?
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Or a music movie? Music's mathematical... and Amadeus is a great movie to show at school
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Pool is all geometry and forces. Definite math connection to The Sting.
Robin Williams in Flubber? (PG) As the professor, he explains Newton's Law, and there's lots of math symbols on the chalkboards.
In Big, Tom Hanks explains basic algebra to a kid during the dinner party.
Back to the Future III, Labyrinth, Cocktail, Batman Returns, and The Man Who Knew Too Little (with Bill Murray) all have episodes of juggling, which is a calculus/parabolics tie-in. So did The Princess Bride, which has the extended riff on logical deduction, too. Scent of a Woman has juggling and waltzing (geometry). I haven't checked ratings on these.
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Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
D.A.R.Y.L- kid with a cybernetic brain flies an SR-71 Blackbird, ejects himself from the plane, and lives.
'Nuff said.
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
hansen- We watched that movie in my AP Calc test after the test was over. Unfortuanately; it was pretty boring to my class, all of us math geeks, so I doubt Icarus' class would like it.
I second The Sting, that would be sooooo cool to watch in class.
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
Is the class predominately guys or girls? I think knowing that would make things easier.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
2001: A Space Odyssey. I think that anyone would let you get away with that one in school.
Hobbes Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :
I'll vote for October Sky.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
How about The Phantom Toolbooth. Math, English, defeating Ignorance, what more could you want?
-Bok
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Apollo 13. The astronauts had to figure out a lot of their ballistics by hand, didn't they? Had they not done so correctly, they would have run out of power and died or burned up on entry and died or hit the ocean too fast and died.
I'm pretty sure that aside from a few naughty words, the film is fairly wholesome.
Posted by jehovoid (Member # 2014) on :
Young Einstein with Yahoo Serious. But if you were going to do a movie with Einstein in it, I'd just go with I.Q. anyway.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I agree with Taberha's suggestion of Little Man Tate. Although some could say the overtone of that entire movie is the struggle of control between the Mom and the Teacher of that math prodigy. My kids liked it the movie, however.
A lot of these movies mentioned aren't exactly "fun" for rewards or relaxing time in the classroom.
Farmgirl
Posted by Koga (Member # 5646) on :
X-MEN The X in X-men represents the unkown genetic differance that leads to a mutant ability. I think they called it the X-gene because the form of the mutation is not always the same.
So x represents an unkown, and they are studying Physics when Login walks into the Professor's office, there is tons of math in Physics.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Real Genius, how could I forget?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
The Dish might be a possibility. It's still on my "rent at some point" list, though, so I can't say for sure. It seems like it would fit though.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Don't you agree that justifying The Princess Bride would be a real coup, Noemon?
There's 1. The parabolics of juggling 2. Logic 3. Geography (which uses math and geometry, i.e., why land wars in Asia are not so good) 4. Biochemical kinetics (the rate of absorption of the poision)
I'm sure we could come up with more.
Hey, 5. Counting the seconds to avoid the marsh gas flames. Counting is math. 6. Inigo counts on his fingers to subtract 10 from 30 7. The physics of rolling down a hill (What's The Dish?)
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Posted by zip (Member # 4710) on :
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control might be a good one. Its kind of a documentary about chaos and complexity and also a pretty good movie.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Any Golf-related movie with the appropriate rating. They have to do math to add up the score. I'm not sure about the ratings but I'm guessing that Caddyshack would be ok, plus you could do geometry calculations with the gopher holes. Or Happy Gillmore Caddyshack Two Tin Cup probably wouldn't be entertaining enough but the end is classic.
Haven't checked the ratings though.
Maybe, Real Genius with the young Val Kilmer. And what about the action movie set in Russia where he "discovers cold fusion"? Was it "The Saint"?
AJ
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
The original Disney "The absent minded Professor" not the remake.
AJ
Posted by jehovoid (Member # 2014) on :
Caddyshack would unfortunately not be okay to show in school.
Also in the Princess Bride there's the game of wits between Fezini and Wesley.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Actually, The Princess Bride was the first thing I thought of when I read the question, and I was busily trying to justify it until I read your post. Absolutely, show The Princess Bride! It's perfect!
The Dish is about the role that a team of Australian technicians played the broadcast of the Apollo moon landing. It's supposed to be a pretty engaging comedy/drama, but like I said I haven't seen it, so I can't personally vouch for it.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
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Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
Oh, wait! Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead would work, and they probably haven't already seen it.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
There is scene in a math class in Better Off Dead.
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
Although The Sting is one of the most entertaining movies ever made, I don't think it would be appropriate to show in class. Maybe if you fast-forwarded through the burlesque show scene, but even then there are some spots that could make parents and school boards uncomfortable. The kids would love it, but your job isn't in their hands.
UofUlawguy
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
*Kicks Celia's shins*
What?
Hobbes Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
Let me say that "The Dish" would be perfect for a high school class. It has the science/math connection, is an entertaining film, and unless I'm misremembering, doesn't have anything in it that could be seen as objectionable. Oh, and it has Sam Neill in it, which is as good a reason to watching a film as any I can think of. (Although, Icarus, I don't expect that aspect to mean anything to you. )
"IQ" and "Searching for Bobby Fisher" are also good choices.
And one other thing - "A Brief History of Time" wasn't entertaining, as opposed to just informative? Could've fooled me. Anyway, I was always under the impression that Stephen Hawking was quite the cultural icon.
Posted by BookWyrm (Member # 2192) on :
Storm Saxon hit one I thought of. Apollo 13. There was a lot of mathmatics in it from O2 consumptions to entry angles.... several points on mathmatical interests.
Space Camp too.
IIRC Ghost Busters? had some scientific/mathmatical components?
Space Cowboys.
House of Cards (1993) w/ Kathleen Turner, Tommy Lee Jones
Man Without a Face
Thats all I can think of off the top of my head.
Posted by pepperuda (Member # 1573) on :
I've shown both October Sky and Apollo 13 to my math students and they went over pretty well. I read them the Princess Bride for reading time, and most of them had(shockingly enough) never heard of it.
What about Back to the Future? Ok. It's a real stretch. UMMMM.. The older Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, has a sequence where the queens are singing a song about numbers and Alice is frantically trying to keep track of the numbers as they sing... Ok. they probably wouldn't like the whole movie, but it might be a fun excerpt activity, and you could mention that Louis Carroll was also a mathematician.
What about Clockwatchers? I think that's what it's called. It's a more recent movie about the watches that make the person wearing it speed up.
Rocketman is hilarious and I believe the main character got involved because he figured out the math problem that was causing the flight leader or whoever to crash in the flight simulator.
Life is Beautiful is PG 13, but it has all those riddles. It has the benefit of being my favorite movie, but it didn't really go over well with the kids.
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
There was a miniseries Alice in Wonderland that was based on Through the Looking Glass. That entire novel is based on a chessboard!!!!
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
pepper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by GradStudent (Member # 5088) on :
Breaking the Code
It's about how Alan Turing and company used math to break the German Engima code.
Does have a suicide at the end. And Turing is gay.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Turing machines... *something stirs in Katie's brain*
Posted by MaureenJanay (Member # 2935) on :
pepper, I think that movie is called "Timestoppers" or something like that. It didn't stick around in my brain too long really.
Posted by GradStudent (Member # 5088) on :
Oh! Oh! N is a Number
It's a documentary about Paul Erdos. It's past hilarious, the man was the stereotypical crazy scientist. Also, gives insight into how "real" math is being done.
It's not that long, and really inspiring.
Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
The original Matrix is rated R?
Why did my senior year Trig and PreCalc teacher show it to us, then!?!
(amazing movie, but so did not explain matrices to me at all!)
I second K-Pax, as well. Great movie.
*think think*
Independence Day? computery-type stuff in that.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Are you guys trying to remember The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything?
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
Yeah, Kayla, that was it. oops!
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
Mercury Rising? A Beautiful Mind?
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
I vote for The Princess Bride! It's the best! And the book is good, too!
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
Princess Bride... Greatest...movie...ever. Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
A Beautifull Mind and The Matrix are good, too. Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
What about lemmings?
Turn this into a fluff thread, why don't you?! Posted by suntranafs (Member # 3318) on :
Darnit, all the good movies are rated R!
I s'pose yah might try pleasantville, Icarus. Or not. I donno.
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
quote: I s'pose yah might try pleasantville, Icarus. Or not. I donno.
suntranafs, what about the bathtub scene?
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
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(sorry lcarus)
Is "Big" the movie where a little boy wishes to be big, and grows up the next day (into Tom Hanks)? I'm fairly sure, but I just want to know... I've only seen about half an hour of it.
T'ank you.
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Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Yes, "Big" is the movie you're thinking of...
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
I've got to second "Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead." Great movie. And clean, too.
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
Nevermind... I was going to suggest Stand and Deliver but then double checked the first post and well..... Nevermind.
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Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
*Mild Spoiler for October Sky"
In October Sky, the main character had to use math (trig I think) to determine whether his rocket could have flown far enough to burn down a forest. If I have two votes (and I say I do), this movie also have my vote. Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
October Sky is an awesome movie. It's one of my favorites. It's a science/math movie.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
October Sky is amazing! I can't believe I forgot to suggest that one.
Posted by Godric (Member # 4587) on :
K-Pax a great movie?!
My old high school math teacher played October Sky. Personally, I highly recommend The Dish, though. One of the few comedies I've ever given a 5 star rating to. It doesn't really get too technical mathematically, but it's a great feel-good demonstration of what can be done with math and it's highly entertaining and very well put together.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Pleasantville?
Why?
(And no.)
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I asked my kids last night about the topic of this post, and they suggested (as a G movie that the school will allow) the video Masterminds Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*thumbs up to October Sky*
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Why didn't I think of this before?
RAIN MAN Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
A few thoughts as I get ready to take some of these suggestions . . .
What is Better off Dead, and how legitimate is the math connection?
What is House of Cards, and how legitimate is the math connection?
What was the math connection in Man Without a Face? Was the guy a math teacher? It's been so long since I saw it . . . I seem to remember there being a pedophilia issue there, like he was accused of it as a teacher but we think he didn't do it. Does this make it inappropriate?
What is the math connection in The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything, or in Clockstoppers?
What is Life is Beautiful about, and how good is the math connection? What was the connection in K-Pax? Independence Day? What is Mercury Rising about--was that the one with the autistic kid who cracked some code?
Isn't Contact too controversial for this area with it's religious issues?
What was the connection for Groundhog Day?
NOTE: When I ask what the connection is, I'm not challenging the suggestion or dismissing it, I'm asking for help justifying stuff to nosy administrators.
-Icarus
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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
ok I'm an idiot, I kept wondering who megachirops was because he sounded like someone I should know...
AJ
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Yeah Banna, I was wondering the same thing. Mystery solved.
Icarus, Better Off Dead is an '80s comedy starring John Cusak that I absolutely loved when I was 14. I suspect that if I were to watch it now it would suffer from the Highlander Effect, but there are still some scenes that, when I think of them, seem like they'd be funny. The math tie is in this; there is a scene that takes place in a math class, in which the main character hasn't done his homework (or at least hasn't done as thourough a job as all of his classmates), and has to get up and do a problem on the board. That's about it.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I think the math justification for Clockstoppers is its similar sleep-inducing qualities. Children all over the world will cry for you if you show that movie to your hapless students, Ic, and I will too.
Who suggested that?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
K-Pax has quite a bit of detailed astronomy. One needs calculus and trig to figure that sort of thing out, I believe.
Ahh, here we go: one review says (of the protagonist), "He knows complicated math equations and refutes Einstein’s theories." Sounds good to me. Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
I still second K-PAX, Icarus. Lots of astronomy fal-de-ral.
I think i said Independence Day because of computers and stuff. But you know, it's actually more science-related than math. soo...
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
semi-serious suggestion: the adventures of buckaroo bonzai.
serious suggestion: i agree with several, but i think rocketman might be one of the more fun ones. i laugh until i cry every time i watch it.
Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
Wow, I completely forgot about Buckaroo Bonzai! Great idea!
-o-
What about statistics? Any good statistics movies?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Searching for Bobby Fischer, perhaps? Surely there are connections between learning how to play championship level chess and statistics?
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Pi. I will not stop plugging that movie for a math class.
I second Bobby Fischer though I'm not sure how good a connection that is. I can't really think of a statistics movie at all, other qualifiers aside. Do you have any examples?
Hobbes Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
quote:I think i said Independence Day because of computers and stuff.
If you show ID4 to show the computer stuff, you'd better do it in order to show how ridiculous hollywood's perception of computers is.
Otherwise any student who knows anything about them will laugh at you, and you will deserve it .
I think Pi would be fine, and it would be a great way to introduce them to the golden ratio and other number theory ideas. Whats so bad about the movie as far as being objectionable?
Other than that, A Beautiful Mind would be my choice. Again I don't see whats so bad about it. The brief talk about sex (without any details)?
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
But it's not "what's bad about it" it's what the school system will allow. If you can't show a rated R movie, you just can't show a rated R movie.
Can you show a PG-13 movie?
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
I wonder what makes those movies rated R then. Pi only had one scene that was even the slightest bit objectionable right at the end, and I wonder if you can just skip that part.
Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
Skipping scenes will not do . . . it's an absolute. I am stretching the rules as it is, but there is a line there. Thanks for the suggestion, though. I am curious to see this movie for myself. Will I find it at Blockbuster, and if so, where?
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I'm not sure if you'll find it there, but you might. It would be under Sci-Fi or adventure (possibly drama). I have no clue why Sci-Fi but that's where my local video store put it.
[EDIT: I'm so obbsessed that I have two copies of that movie. My aunt got me VHS, and when I got a DVD player (i.e. a computer ) I went out and bought it on DVD. ]
Hobbes
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Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
Drama I think, and yes it would be there.
Its actually a very strange movie, but the plot is almost completely based on math, and most math types like it.
It also features the game Go, which I love.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I'm going to learn how to play Go. Through comics! (capers off)
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Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
Go is my favorite game. I have this really awesome 3 inch thick board and polished wooden bowls both made from Japanese wood. I use 8mm glass stones. Boy does it look nice as a centerpiece .
The game itself is what I love though, and I'm actually pretty good at it for a beginner. I have no one to play against anymore though!
My little brother and my roomate were both really into it, and we were playing several games a day, but then I got good enough that they couldn't beat me so they stopped playing.
Let that be a lesson to you, let your opponent win once in a while in order to keep them interested!
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
What's that recent one where the girl is into astronomy but she's dying of leukemia? Well, I guess it's religious and she's not very well rewarded. Walk to remember, that's it. I was personally kind of annoyed, but oh well.
Groundhog day is interesting in figuring out how many iterations he went through, since there was apparently six months where he did nothing but throw cards into a hat. Also, meteorology is a science. Also "People think I just hold the camera and point it at stuff. But there is way more to it than that."
Ghostbusters shows research at the beginning.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
That was "A Walk to Remember". And I didn't really like it, and it was a tear-jerker.
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
How about movies that have "alternative universe" type of plots? These type of movies demonstrate the concept of dependent/independent events.
Mr. Destiny, Sliding Doors, and, of course, Its a Wonderful Life are three movies that comes to mind.
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