web02.fireside.fm Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:23:42 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The Monte Hall Effect - Episodes Tagged with “Nolan” https://themontehalleffect.fireside.fm/tags/nolan Tue, 10 May 2022 08:00:00 -0700 Tim Lloyd and Tola Marts are two leaders in the Seattle aerospace community with over forty years of experience between them dealing with aerospace and high tech issues. They're also avid film buffs, and in each podcast they'll take a different science fiction film and discuss three key facets: *Science: How well do the scientific ideas in the film reflect real science. *Fiction: Do the film's plot and characterization take the viewer on a fun or intriguing journey? And… *Film: Does the movie make the most of cinematography, so that it works better in conveying its ideas than it would in a book, or graphic novel, or play? At the end of each podcast they’ll give the film a percentage ratings for each of those facets. NOTE: there will be spoilers for the film being discussed, but they will try to keep spoilers for other films to a minimum. The podcast theme music- intro and outro- is written and performed by Guy Ellis, and more of his music can be found at https://soundcloud.com/gu42 and https://www.facebook.com/cloudcoverband/. en-us episodic Science - Fiction - Film Tim Lloyd, Tola Marts Tim Lloyd and Tola Marts are two leaders in the Seattle aerospace community with over forty years of experience between them dealing with aerospace and high tech issues. They're also avid film buffs, and in each podcast they'll take a different science fiction film and discuss three key facets: *Science: How well do the scientific ideas in the film reflect real science. *Fiction: Do the film's plot and characterization take the viewer on a fun or intriguing journey? And… *Film: Does the movie make the most of cinematography, so that it works better in conveying its ideas than it would in a book, or graphic novel, or play? At the end of each podcast they’ll give the film a percentage ratings for each of those facets. NOTE: there will be spoilers for the film being discussed, but they will try to keep spoilers for other films to a minimum. The podcast theme music- intro and outro- is written and performed by Guy Ellis, and more of his music can be found at https://soundcloud.com/gu42 and https://www.facebook.com/cloudcoverband/. no Tim Lloyd, Tola Marts tolamarts@gmail.com 5: Interstellar https://themontehalleffect.fireside.fm/5 0f762e6b-fbb3-466d-8e28-fde74fee80cb Tue, 10 May 2022 08:00:00 -0700 Tim Lloyd, Tola Marts full Tim Lloyd, Tola Marts After a long sabbatical, Tim and Tola discuss the 2014 Christopher Nolan film "Interstellar" as well as historical dramas, cocaine and hookers, the dreaded 2021 heat wave (we actually recorded this conversation quite some time ago), the awesomeness of LEGO Batman, building your movie around your cinematography, Dylan Thomas, watching dystopia movies in 2021, small-c conservatism, retconning your own characters, fleeing your problems instead of solving them, giant awesome bookshelves, Dr. Mann The Best Of Us, Christopher Nolan not understanding how science works, speculative vs observed science, how to leave a planet, looking over the wing of the spacecraft again and again and again... Final score: Science (60%), Fiction (73%), Film (83%). 2:18:55 no 005 - Interstellar After a long sabbatical, Tim and Tola discuss the 2014 Christopher Nolan film "Interstellar" as well as historical dramas, cocaine and hookers, the dreaded 2021 heat wave (we actually recorded this conversation quite some time ago), the awesomeness of LEGO Batman, building your movie around your cinematography, Dylan Thomas, watching dystopia movies in 2021, small-c conservatism, retconning your own characters, fleeing your problems instead of solving them, giant awesome bookshelves, Dr. Mann The Best Of Us, Christopher Nolan not understanding how science works, speculative vs observed science, how to leave a planet, looking over the wing of the spacecraft again and again and again, little kids and rollercoasters, kilocals, Dylan Thomas, lithium-thorazine cocktails, film scientific consultants, Larry Niven, cinematic debt to "2001", Dreamchaser, Surface Tension, primordial New Orleans, wonderful images vs scientific nonsense, chivalry getting you killed, The Great Man of Science, why design reviews are important, a lie told by an Englishman, the Deep Space Network, Dr. Mann The Best Of Us, more weird tracking shots, James Cameron's worldbuilding, Jim Emerson's analysis of a Dark Knight fight scene (https://vimeo.com/28792404), speculative xenobiology, David Grinspoon's analysis of the film (https://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/11/interstellar-movie-science-david-grinspoon-inquiring-minds/), Dr. Mann The No Longer Best Of Us, saying stuff to stay stuff, expensive and delicate NASA hardware which is to say all NASA hardware, space vehicle structural design, orbital decay time as a function of altitude, Tim's space piloting, artificial urgency, anemic accretion disks, the loving caress of relativistic impacts, Christopher Nolan not understanding how rockets work, event horizons (not Event Horizon), letting the fifth dimensional beings be your copilot, communicating the grand unifying theory connecting general relativity to quantum mechanics using morse code, Ann Hathaway's Boyfriend's Planet, the passage of time changing how you view a scene, and sending information vs sending matter. Final score: Science (60%), Fiction (73%), Film (83%). Next podcast: Dune! Interstellar, Nolan, scifi 005 - Interstellar

After a long sabbatical, Tim and Tola discuss the 2014 Christopher Nolan film "Interstellar" as well as historical dramas, cocaine and hookers, the dreaded 2021 heat wave (we actually recorded this conversation quite some time ago), the awesomeness of LEGO Batman, building your movie around your cinematography, Dylan Thomas, watching dystopia movies in 2021, small-c conservatism, retconning your own characters, fleeing your problems instead of solving them, giant awesome bookshelves, Dr. Mann The Best Of Us, Christopher Nolan not understanding how science works, speculative vs observed science, how to leave a planet, looking over the wing of the spacecraft again and again and again, little kids and rollercoasters, kilocals, Dylan Thomas, lithium-thorazine cocktails, film scientific consultants, Larry Niven, cinematic debt to "2001", Dreamchaser, Surface Tension, primordial New Orleans, wonderful images vs scientific nonsense, chivalry getting you killed, The Great Man of Science, why design reviews are important, a lie told by an Englishman, the Deep Space Network, Dr. Mann The Best Of Us, more weird tracking shots, James Cameron's worldbuilding, Jim Emerson's analysis of a Dark Knight fight scene, speculative xenobiology, David Grinspoon's analysis of the film, Dr. Mann The No Longer Best Of Us, saying stuff to stay stuff, expensive and delicate NASA hardware which is to say all NASA hardware, space vehicle structural design, orbital decay time as a function of altitude, Tim's space piloting, artificial urgency, anemic accretion disks, the loving caress of relativistic impacts, Christopher Nolan not understanding how rockets work, event horizons (not Event Horizon), letting the fifth dimensional beings be your copilot, communicating the grand unifying theory connecting general relativity to quantum mechanics using morse code, Ann Hathaway's Boyfriend's Planet, the passage of time changing how you view a scene, and sending information vs sending matter.

Final score: Science (60%), Fiction (73%), Film (83%).

Next podcast: Dune!

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After a long sabbatical, Tim and Tola discuss the 2014 Christopher Nolan film "Interstellar" as well as historical dramas, cocaine and hookers, the dreaded 2021 heat wave (we actually recorded this conversation quite some time ago), the awesomeness of LEGO Batman, building your movie around your cinematography, Dylan Thomas, watching dystopia movies in 2021, small-c conservatism, retconning your own characters, fleeing your problems instead of solving them, giant awesome bookshelves, Dr. Mann The Best Of Us, Christopher Nolan not understanding how science works, speculative vs observed science, how to leave a planet, looking over the wing of the spacecraft again and again and again, little kids and rollercoasters, kilocals, Dylan Thomas, lithium-thorazine cocktails, film scientific consultants, Larry Niven, cinematic debt to "2001", Dreamchaser, Surface Tension, primordial New Orleans, wonderful images vs scientific nonsense, chivalry getting you killed, The Great Man of Science, why design reviews are important, a lie told by an Englishman, the Deep Space Network, Dr. Mann The Best Of Us, more weird tracking shots, James Cameron's worldbuilding, Jim Emerson's analysis of a Dark Knight fight scene, speculative xenobiology, David Grinspoon's analysis of the film, Dr. Mann The No Longer Best Of Us, saying stuff to stay stuff, expensive and delicate NASA hardware which is to say all NASA hardware, space vehicle structural design, orbital decay time as a function of altitude, Tim's space piloting, artificial urgency, anemic accretion disks, the loving caress of relativistic impacts, Christopher Nolan not understanding how rockets work, event horizons (not Event Horizon), letting the fifth dimensional beings be your copilot, communicating the grand unifying theory connecting general relativity to quantum mechanics using morse code, Ann Hathaway's Boyfriend's Planet, the passage of time changing how you view a scene, and sending information vs sending matter.

Final score: Science (60%), Fiction (73%), Film (83%).

Next podcast: Dune!

Links:

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