Movies named after scientific terms

[Asta Kask]

What kind of movies do the names of scientific terms and theories suggest? (Remember, what the names actually mean is irrelevant)

Physics:
The Hamiltonian - agent Hamilton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hamilton_novels) has to come out of retirement to face his worst enemy - himself
Symmetry Breaking - some kind of otherworldly cosmic horror movie
Ultraviolet Disaster - a hardpacked actionmovie about the ozone layer

Chemistry:
Dynamic Equilibrium - political thriller about two world powers on the verge of conflict
Dissociation Constant - documentary about people with dissociative disorder

Any other ideas?

[Don Julio Anejo]

Gravity - a romantic comedy between two people who are attracted to each other from afar, but can't actually get together.

[Knaight]

Chemistry:
Dynamic Equilibrium - political thriller about two world powers on the verge of conflict
Dissociation Constant - documentary about people with dissociative disorder

Any other ideas?

Dynamic Equilibrium doesn't sound all that dynamic. To me, it suggests more that a number of world powers are already in conflict, but nobody is able to get ahead because everyone else gangs up on them (which actually would be an equilibrium).

More Chemistry:
Ideal Gas Law: Airspace politics in the age of the zepplin.
Zaitseff's Rule: Cold war era science fiction where the Soviet Union rules the world.
Transition State: Drama around the founding of a nation, between revolution and statehood.
Resonance Energy: Psychics. I don't know what the details are, but there are definitely psychics.

[Icewraith]

Higg's Bos'n - Nautical thriller in which the Boatswain of the HMS Higg saves the boat and the lives of the entire crew from modern day pirates. It's like Die Hard, only on a boat.

Dielectric Breakdown - Second installment in the "Electric Breakdown" movie dance concert series.

Schrodinger Equation - Docudrama revolving around the infamous "Schrodinger Incident", when an errant pitch by Charlie Brown penetrated the protective mask of faithful catcher Schroeder ("dinging" him) and rendered him a comatose vegetable. The equation of motion for the ball's unlikely flight path, Brown's attempt to drown the incident in drugs and alcohol, his efforts at rehabilitation, his career as a motivational speaker, the effect on the neighborhood of the loss of a musical prodigy, and the subsequent legal maneuverings and bankruptcy of the facemask manufacturer are detailed.

[gomipile]

Schrodinger Equation - Docudrama revolving around the infamous "Schrodinger Incident", when an errant pitch by Charlie Brown penetrated the protective mask of faithful catcher Schroeder ("dinging" him) and rendered him a comatose vegetable. The equation of motion for the ball's unlikely flight path, Brown's attempt to drown the incident in drugs and alcohol, his efforts at rehabilitation, his career as a motivational speaker, the effect on the neighborhood of the loss of a musical prodigy, and the subsequent legal maneuverings and bankruptcy of the facemask manufacturer are detailed.

Well, that escalated quickly.

[SaintRidley]

The Uncertainty Principle - a postmodern experiment in anti-plot storytelling.
Positron - A pessimistic robot learns optimism
Relativity - a familial comedy of errors
Evolution - a comic horror movie about extraterrestrial, nitrogen-based life which terrorizes Arizona and is poisoned by selenium the same way we are poisoned by arsenic, because that's how knights move in chess. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_(film))

[Eldan]

Inbreeding - A comedy about the creation of new, popular dog breeds :smalltongue:

Inertia - A documentary about depression.

[Don Julio Anejo]

Inbreeding - A comedy about the creation of new, popular dog breeds :smalltongue:


Owen Wilson finds out he has a teenage daughter. She agrees to make amends with him if he pays for her college tuition... Which is when his best friend Ben Stiller comes to him with a great new money-making scheme about making Chihuahuas to sell to rich socialites. Cameos by Vince Vaughn and Neil Degrasse Tyson. In the end Owen Wilson shacks up with his daughter's sexy older step-sister played by Emma Stone.

[Kato]

Hehehe, sounds like fun!

The Drake Equation[/] - a fantasy thriller about mathematicians fighting dragons!
[i]Avogadro's Law - retired police officer Avogadro can't take the increasing crime rate in is home town anymore and decides to clean up himself
The Mass Defect - documentary about the problems of obesity
Interference - Romantic Comedy about a will-they-won't-they couple
Quark- the story of a German chef trying to set foot in the international world of cuisine

[Eldan]

I like Quark.

Hm. A series of biographical movies called Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange, Charm. Or perhaps they should be sorted as Up, Top, Down, Bottom, Strange, Charm, for the story to make more sense? Anyway. Businessman builds company, goes into the top 500, then fails spectacularly, becomes homeless on the street, joins a very strange art community, falls in love.

[Jay R]

Schrödinger's Cat: A horror thriller about a feline killer that might - or might not - be waiting out there for you. Tag line: You'll never know until you open the door.

General Relativity: A light-hearted comedy about a large family reunion, and all the awkward meetings of many people you never knew were relatives
Tag line: Everyone are relatives.

Conservation of Energy: a documentary on the need to preserve oil, coal, and other sources of energy for succeeding generations.

The Big Bang Theory: Hilarity ensues when four highly intelligent university researchers who are also comic book fans meet an aspiring actress working as a waitress.

[Eldan]

The Fast and the Furious X: Continental Drift

[Brother Oni]

Another idea for The Ideal Gas Law: A British Gas engineer gets embroiled in the murky word of espionage after visiting the wrong house on a callout. Starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Newton's Law: A theoretical physicist and his family are brutalised and left for dead by a gang in a home invasion. His mind broken by the ordeal, he dons the persona of a medieval knight and goes to seek revenge on those who killed his family. Tag line: For every action, there is an equal reaction.

[Radar]

Superfluidity - a young freerunner finds himself in a wrong place at a wrong time. Now he has to run for his life, while figuring out, what kind of a secret he actually knows. To survive, he will have to push his skills beyond human limits.

Commutator - Hank lives a simple life of a construction worker and enjoys his daily routine more then anything. His peace of mind is broken, when his morning train is suddenly taken over by an armed group of terrorists. Hank takes it personally.

[tomandtish]

Unified Field: A telepath uses mind control to bring all the world's military forces under his mental control. Only Jean Claude van Damme is able to resist his control, and fight back against the unified forces.


Owen Wilson finds out he has a teenage daughter. She agrees to make amends with him if he pays for her college tuition... Which is when his best friend Ben Stiller comes to him with a great new money-making scheme about making Chihuahuas to sell to rich socialites. Cameos by Vince Vaughn and Neil Degrasse Tyson. In the end Owen Wilson shacks up with his daughter's sexy older step-sister played by Emma Stone.

I think I've actually seen this one.... :smallyuk:

[Lateral]

Ooh, this looks fun.

Multipole Expansion: An artsy piece about four friends who meet in college. It tracks their (fictional) lives over twenty years as they grow apart, find careers, and lose themselves.
Color Confinement: A period piece about racial tensions in 1970s America.
The Inflationary Epoch: A thriller about a team of crack economists in the near future, hired to seek out a hacker who is manipulating accounts to cause rapid inflation. The twist ending? There never was a hacker. They were only hired to cover for governmental policy failure. It'd be directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and it'd suuuuuuuuuuck.
Space Roar: In the year 2149, Earth is being menaced by comet-sized space monsters. Bruce Willis plays an ex-bounty hunter who turns out to be humanity's last hope.
The Coronal Heating Problem: The king of a wealthy fictional micronation dies, leaving his five children to fight amongst themselves for the right of succession. It's a musical tragicomedy.
The Coronal Mass Ejection: A parody of the previous movie. It's a porno.

[BannedInSchool]

Brownian Motion: Offensive and racist political documentary. :smalltongue:
Spherical Cows: Kansas teens deal with teen issues growing up in Kansas.

[Eldan]

Gamma Ray Burst: an action movie about an ex marine - Ray Burst - who finds out he is actually the third in a series of three androids and that now he has found the secret, the new model - Delta Ray Burst - has been activated to hunt him down.

[Tvtyrant]

Square-Cube Law: A Hunger Game ripoff where society is divided into beaten down squares and enlightened but evil cubes. Each year a teenager from each society is thrown into an arena with each other, the "shape" of the winner runs society for another year but the Cubes create the arena and cheat to make sure they always win.

[Knaight]

Germ Theory: A brilliant researcher studies seeds, trying to figure out the riddle of wheat in time to stave off locust induced famine.

[Brother Oni]

Island Gigantism: a body horror movie where an agorophobic introvert who lives alone in his apartment building suddenly finds himself getting larger and growing into the the building where he eventually starts devouring the other inhabitants and starts enticing new residents into him in order to maintain a constant food supply.

Deep-Sea Gigantism: Sequel to Island Gigantism where the monster has escaped into the sewers and a year later, has grown enough to start threatening the entire city.

[Asta Kask]

Deep-Sea Gigantism: Sequel to Island Gigantism where the monster has escaped into the sewers and a year later, has grown enough to start threatening the entire city.

I went to the wikipage on that subject and found this picture:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Giant_isopod.jpg

I am now scarred for life. That's a wug if I ever saw it.

[Eldan]

I love that picture. It's kinda cute, with all those legs and the way it's rolling in. It looks as if it's cuddling.

[Asta Kask]

It looks like something H.P. Lovecraft dreamt up after eating something he found in the streets.

*shudder*

[Eldan]

How can you not love this face?

http://thefeaturedcreature.thefeaturedcreat.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/GiantIsopod-7649491.jpg

[Asta Kask]

It's a small Aberration. Befriending small Aberrations is never a good idea.

[Eldan]

That's vermin at worst. And cute vermin, too.

Back to topic: Chromatic Aberration, a movie about Lovecraft's Colour out of Space.

[Brother Oni]

It's a small Aberration. Befriending small Aberrations is never a good idea.

Depends on the Aberration.


http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090920192843/gremlins/images/f/fa/Gizmo.PNG

As for Eldan's giant isopod, I'm inclined to agree with him. As long as they're not trying eat me or lay their eggs in my flesh, I'm fine with them. Look, this one is chilling out:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Bathynomus_giganteus.jpg

Maybe some judicious use of photoshop may help?

http://silverstairs.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/bathynomus_giganteus-copy.jpg

[Eldan]

You made me spit water on my screen. Bravo.

Actually, you know what that picture reminds me of?

http://i57.tinypic.com/2wg5d2t.png

Knitting.

[Asta Kask]

Isopod - Horror is Magic

[Brother Oni]

Isopod - Horror is Magic

My Giant Isopod - More Legs are Magic. :smallbiggrin:

[Eldan]

And there's already merchandise.

http://www.strapya-world.com/pic/2014/390-891272img08.jpg

Honestly, some people on the net will make plushies out of everything. There's a page I once saw that made plushies out of various microorganisms. Including those causing Gonorrhea and Syphillis.

[Brother Oni]

And there's already merchandise.

Japan. Why am I not surprised? :smalltongue:



Honestly, some people on the net will make plushies out of everything. There's a page I once saw that made plushies out of various microorganisms. Including those causing Gonorrhea and Syphillis.

I like the Kissing Disease plushie - it has eyelashes. :smallbiggrin:


Anyway back on topic:

Faraday Cage: a moving biopic of one man's fight with degenerative Locked-in syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome) or a straight up action movie of a man wrongly imprisoned and his battle against the sadistic warden and guards, using his electrical engineering knowledge to defeat the state of the art electronic security measures (tag line: Brilliance can't be caged).

Archer's Paradox: a time travel action comedy where a young archer on the eve of the Olympics hits his head and finds himself meeting famous historical and legendary archers such as Robin Hood and Hou Yi, The Magnificent Archer, learning lost techniques and in turn teaching them modern archery methods.

[Asta Kask]

One last joke:

Legend of Watery Depths - featuring Isopod Crane

[Eldan]

One last joke:

Legend of Watery Depths - featuring Isopod Crane

And the headless merman?

[Knaight]

And there's already merchandise.

http://www.strapya-world.com/pic/2014/390-891272img08.jpg

Honestly, some people on the net will make plushies out of everything. There's a page I once saw that made plushies out of various microorganisms. Including those causing Gonorrhea and Syphillis.

It's a cute, interesting animal. I'm all for more plushies like that - mammal plushies represent entirely too much of the market. Plus, the disease ones are entertaining.