{"id":3411,"date":"2003-08-28T13:23:13","date_gmt":"2003-08-28T13:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2003-08-28T13:23:13","modified_gmt":"2003-08-28T13:23:13","slug":"insultingly_stu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3411","title":{"rendered":"Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to my friend Ellen (who gets very annoyed with me if I don&#8217;t credit her) for pointing me at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intuitor.com\/moviephysics\/\">Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics<\/a> site.  It includes ratings of movies with the following rating system:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>GP<\/strong> = Good physics in general<\/li>\n<li><strong>PGP<\/strong> = Pretty good physics (just enough flaws to be fun)<\/li>\n<li><strong>PGP-13<\/strong> = Children under 13 might be tricked into thinking the physics were pretty good; parental guidance is suggested<\/li>\n<li><strong>RP<\/strong> = Retch <\/li>\n<li><strong>XP<\/strong> =Obviously physics from an unknown universe <\/li>\n<li><strong>NR<\/strong> =Unrated. When a movie is  obviously a parody, fantasy, cartoon or is clearly based on a comic book it  can&#8217;t be rated but may still have some interesting physics worth discussing. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of the site covers common poor physics used in movies.  It&#8217;s pretty interesting seeing just how many standard movie effects are so inaccurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to my friend Ellen (who gets very annoyed with me if I don&#8217;t credit her) for pointing me at the Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics site. It includes ratings of movies with the following rating system: GP = Good physics in general PGP = Pretty good physics (just enough flaws to be fun) PGP-13 = [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}