So they make a movie about your job

This morning while reading the paper i found out that Michael Shanks is making a movie in my home state (ok, island then!) called arctic blast (www.michaelshanks-online.com/news/index.shtml) and this got me thinking about movies that contain “science”. To further clarify that statement i mean movies where the lead character(s) are science based and/or the problems they face are classed as being about science.

This got me thinking about several things:
· how i feel about movies based in my field (in a general sense)
· how other people must feel when there is a movie based on what they do for a living

To be totally frank i think is highly unlikely there will be a movie based upon what i do for a living as it is hideously complex and quite dull (and i ENJOY doing it!). Also it would be filled with not many “characters” and lots of sitting at computer monitors....so not probable.

But there are all those movies about policeman, soldiers, doctors etc. How do these people feel about it? Not so many about cleaners and telephone call centre operators though. Untapped fields of gold there i think. Maybe.

Looking around the net at various top worst or top ten best science based films i must admit to being confused. i liked watching a LOT of the worst films. I really wasn’t that interested in whether they got things right or wrong. Mind you i laughed myself silly in Jurassic park when there was a slider moving (like from a quicktime movie) as a “live” video was supposedly playing on a monitor.

So what i am trying to say is that even though i would be highly unsettled to be watching a movie about my work and would probably cringe at certain things - if it were entertaining and not misleading WHO CARES???

Specially if it had a cute guy in it. Just call me shallow and be done with it.

o.k. so what i hope is that this movie, about a weather man, is in no way a bad refection upon people who work in meteorological related fields. They have been some of the most interesting, clever, nicest, sharing people i ever worked with.

ALSO i found out that not as many people watch Stargate-SG1 as i thought.

http://www.aad.gov.au/ The site of cool information