How was the oscars event?

On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:52:30 -0500, Big_Al wrote:

Android99 wrote on 2/23/2015 5:39 PM:
When I was younger I used to watch the show but yesterday I was sleepy and
went straight to bed. I'll be wishing to see The Theory of Everything. It's
a true story about a scientist who wants to find a general formula that
could calculate anything in the universe. But then the scientist gets a
desease and his wife leaves him.

Well that's depressing as all!

It's always depressing when movies are crammed with 70% soap. I saw
the Turing one, but that was all soap except for a snippet about the
"Enigma" & a whirly-gig machine.

I despair of ever seeing a movie without soap. Was there anything
about the Unified-Field Theory in the Hawking movie? Is Hawking a
nice guy? Newton was a ratbag if the bios are true.

Thank god for the PVRs, DVD players etc; one can fast-forward thru the
soapy bits.

Another day, another dollar.. :-((

On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:12:45 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:52:30 -0500, Big_Al wrote:

Android99 wrote on 2/23/2015 5:39 PM:
When I was younger I used to watch the show but yesterday I was sleepy and
went straight to bed. I'll be wishing to see The Theory of Everything. It's
a true story about a scientist who wants to find a general formula that
could calculate anything in the universe. But then the scientist gets a
desease and his wife leaves him.

Well that's depressing as all!

It's always depressing when movies are crammed with 70% soap. I saw
the Turing one, but that was all soap except for a snippet about the
"Enigma" & a whirly-gig machine.

I despair of ever seeing a movie without soap. Was there anything
about the Unified-Field Theory in the Hawking movie? Is Hawking a
nice guy? Newton was a ratbag if the bios are true.

Thank god for the PVRs, DVD players etc; one can fast-forward thru the
soapy bits.

Another day, another dollar.. :-((

What do you mean by "soap"?

Not trying to get on your case, I'm really unsure (obviously, I have an
idea from context, but only a really rough idea).

BTW, I'm rereading the book ("Alan Turing: the enigma", Andrew Hodges)
before seeing the movie. I can't imagine how the book could become a
movie. In brief: it's all tech with hardly any personal story or plot,
at least up to where I am now, about 60% in.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:44:37 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:12:45 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:52:30 -0500, Big_Al wrote:

Android99 wrote on 2/23/2015 5:39 PM:
When I was younger I used to watch the show but yesterday I was sleepy and
went straight to bed. I'll be wishing to see The Theory of Everything. It's
a true story about a scientist who wants to find a general formula that
could calculate anything in the universe. But then the scientist gets a
desease and his wife leaves him.

Well that's depressing as all!

It's always depressing when movies are crammed with 70% soap. I saw
the Turing one, but that was all soap except for a snippet about the
"Enigma" & a whirly-gig machine.

I despair of ever seeing a movie without soap. Was there anything
about the Unified-Field Theory in the Hawking movie? Is Hawking a
nice guy? Newton was a ratbag if the bios are true.

Thank god for the PVRs, DVD players etc; one can fast-forward thru the
soapy bits.

Another day, another dollar.. :-((

What do you mean by "soap"?

The Love Game. There're always winners & losers.

Not trying to get on your case, I'm really unsure (obviously, I have an
idea from context, but only a really rough idea).



BTW, I'm rereading the book ("Alan Turing: the enigma", Andrew Hodges)
before seeing the movie. I can't imagine how the book could become a
movie. In brief: it's all tech with hardly any personal story or plot,
at least up to where I am now, about 60% in.

On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:01:09 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

Thank god for the PVRs, DVD players etc; one can fast-forward thru the
soapy bits.

Another day, another dollar.. :-((

What do you mean by "soap"?

The Love Game. There're always winners & losers.

I'm no less confused than before...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:27:45 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:01:09 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

Thank god for the PVRs, DVD players etc; one can fast-forward thru the
soapy bits.

Another day, another dollar.. :-((

What do you mean by "soap"?

The Love Game. There're always winners & losers.

I'm no less confused than before...

As an example I refer to the recent movie "Interstellar" that is
about worm-hole travel to other galaxies. A small amount of this
movie was, but most was about the dreary family dynamics of the
traveling hero. I was rescued by the fast-forward button.

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:44:37 -0800, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

BTW, I'm rereading the book ("Alan Turing: the enigma", Andrew Hodges)
before seeing the movie. I can't imagine how the book could become a
movie. In brief: it's all tech with hardly any personal story or plot,
at least up to where I am now, about 60% in.

It's a biography, and with very little maths or engineering detail
in it. Handy to have wikipedia for fleshing out the technical
references.

Peter Jason wrote:
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:27:45 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:01:09 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

Thank god for the PVRs, DVD players etc; one can fast-forward thru the
soapy bits.

Another day, another dollar.. :-((

What do you mean by "soap"?

The Love Game. There're always winners & losers.

I'm no less confused than before...

As an example I refer to the recent movie "Interstellar" that is
about worm-hole travel to other galaxies. A small amount of this
movie was, but most was about the dreary family dynamics of the
traveling hero. I was rescued by the fast-forward button.


I think I know just what you mean. "Human interest story" equates to
"Dumbed down for the hoi polloi".
That always happens in soaps. I remember in the "Rome" series they had
Brutus killing Julius Caesar to avenge his mum.

Ed

On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:07:35 +0000, mechanic wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:44:37 -0800, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

BTW, I'm rereading the book ("Alan Turing: the enigma", Andrew Hodges)
before seeing the movie. I can't imagine how the book could become a
movie. In brief: it's all tech with hardly any personal story or plot,
at least up to where I am now, about 60% in.

It's a biography, and with very little maths or engineering detail
in it. Handy to have wikipedia for fleshing out the technical
references.

But the book isn't, which is basically what I meant. I assumed the
Turing movie *couldn't* be like the book it is supposedly based on,
since the book has little narrative of Turing's life. But that isn't
really how I expressed myself - thanks to poetic license, I guess :-)

But a movie not being much like the book or the play or the life it is
based on hardly qualifies as news, as all of us are no doubt aware. It's
just that this book is so far from being material for a dramatic
presentation.

I promise to stop flogging this equum mortuum now :-)

I know equus is masculine - the above is in the accusative...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)