Monday, January 01, 2007

Update to "Engineer as Hero"

I must face the fact that I have become the world's foremost authority on a subject few people care about: movies which feature engineers and engineering. How do you get expertise on something so obscure? By watching a couple hundred movies. LOL

Well, you also have to think about them, and you have to have standards to which movies can be compared. I evaluate "engineer as hero" flicks this way:
  • The movie has to be watchable.
  • An engineer, or a group of engineers, or someone who is doing the work of an engineer, must be in a prominent role, or roles. (There is one exception on my site for a snake.)
  • There must be some technical content. The more there is, and the more it can be understood, the better. The best "engineer as hero" movies have lots of technology, and the average moviegoer's eyes won't glaze over to see all of that.
My son and I will work this summer to expand what's now a single page evaluating over a hundred movies into a full e-book, which you can download and argue with my ratings in the comfort of your living room. :-)

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