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[shadowkat]

Well this is kind of cool, an interactive map that shows walkable, bikeable, and transit-friendly neighborhoods across every block in the United States.” It automatically defaults to Seattle, but you can search other cities.

And.. NASA pinpoints the most and least realistic sci-fi movies of all time - this was over a decade ago, they don't know how accurate it is.





Implausible

1. 2012 (2009)

2. The Core (2003)

3. Armageddon (1998)

4. Volcano (1997)

5. Chain Reaction (1996)

6. The 6th Day (2000)

7. What the Bleep Do We Know? (2004)




Realistic

1. Gattaca (1997)

2. Contact (1997)

3. Metropolis (1927)

4. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

5. Woman In the Moon (1929)

6. The Thing from Another World (1951)

7. Jurassic Park (1993)



Sigh. There's some weird films on the second list. This was apparently on the Moviefone blog for ages. Moviefone no longer exists.

Comments

[days_unfolding]

That is a seriously neat map. I've been playing with it. It told me that my area is walkable, which I knew, but it's cool to see.

[shadowkat]

Agreed. It gives me hope. I can't drive - and here is a map showing me places I can go that don't require it. Also, the guy who made the map? He's trying to make Seattle and other places more walkable.

[kerk_hiraeth]

Of the realistic ones I've only seen Volcano, and one I didn't realise was SF; three I'd not heard of.

Two of the unrealistic ones are amongst my favourites, and I don't recall either was intended to be realistic anyway.

Volcano is my favourite Tommy Lee Jones movie; also Anne Heche's best performance for me (if not for Hollywood's homophobia it should have been her 'breakout' role).

Both The Day the Earth Stood Still and Metropolis were far more political than SF anyway, and Metropolis was one of the greatest silent films ever made, if not one of the greatest of all movies ever.

The Martian would have to be on that top list I would have thought; also Robinson Crusoe on Mars; based on what people thought they knew about Mars at the time was regarded as pretty realistic, and they accurately predicted what the Moon Lander would look like with no access to what NASA was working on.

kerk

ps. I think I may have to correct myself as it's possible I have seen The Thing from Another World, but I'm not sure this is the movie I may have seen.

[shadowkat]

Actually you have the two lists reversed? The top list is the "most unrealistic or implausible" and the bottom list is the most realistic or plausible.

So, The Day the Earth Stood Still and Metropolis are plausible, and Volcano isn't. LOL!

This was also done a long time ago, before the Martian aired or was thought of? I think?


Volcano is my favourite Tommy Lee Jones movie; also Anne Heche's best performance for me (if not for Hollywood's homophobia it should have been her 'breakout' role).

I loved that movie too - it's so much fun. (Although not my favorite TLJ flick.) AH was bisexual, apparently. And it wasn't just homophobia - but her own issues that got in the way? Hollywood is a small town and a toxic workplace - and she rubbed some bigwigs the wrong way and got blacklisted.

[kerk_hiraeth]

Apart from proving I'm an idiot...

Contact was a Jodie Foster movie, yeah? I think I may have been thinking of a more recent one to do with linguistics. Either way I've not seen either. Point being the bottom list seems no more realistic, or implausible than the top one.

I mean Jurassic Park? Seventh most plausible? Even back then I wouldn't thought it would make the top hundred.

Anyway; thank you for making a moron feel seen :-)

kerk

[shadowkat]

LOL! I went back and edited it - so that it was clearer. You're not a moron - you just couldn't see the titles after you clicked on it.

But admittedly NASA's logic seems a touch off...