Jim-499
Joined Jan 2000
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I saw this movie was available in 4K/UHD for free on AmazonPrime.
Having recently returned from a multi-year job in the remote Outback of Australia looking forward to spending a year or two with our beloved family dachshund Molly-only to have her diagnosed with stage 4 kidney failure the day after I got back and see die right in front of my eyes 3 weeks later...and having entered Molly in the 2009 Los Alamitos Weiner Dog Nationals...I was looking for some emotional healing and therapy from this film.
The film captured me enough to continue watching, however at the 0:32 (32 minute) mark, the screenwriter shot us point blank in the faced with a sawed-off shot gun when he forced his own personal politics on us when two European Americans pick up two Mexican hitchhikers from Mexico.
The dim-witted European American female ***character*** (no doubt a good actress) asks the two Mexican nationals if they are afraid of all the violence and drug cartels in Mexico. The two Mexicans say they are NOT afraid to live there and describe the United States of American as a "bloated elephant..."
I turned "Weiner Dog" off at this point before I heard any more. I tuned into "Weiner-Dog" to see a movie about dachshunds or even a movie about how dogs and pets are treated or mistreated in our great country, or perhaps how therapeutic dogs are to us humans...not to have the author force his narrow-minded, personal politics on us and down our throats with a line that had absolutely nothing to do with the plot or dachshunds.
A shame because I later find out the screenwriter wrote "Welcome To The Doll House" that I came across on Showtime nearly 20 years ago and found very unique and eclectic.
I don't like bait and switch movies: If the screenwriter/director wanted to make a movie where he professes his views on illegal immigration and how bad the USA is then advertise the movie up front as such. Then the viewer can decide whether or not to watch it...or whether or not to waste 32 minutes of their time on it.
The film captured me enough to continue watching, however at the 0:32 (32 minute) mark, the screenwriter shot us point blank in the faced with a sawed-off shot gun when he forced his own personal politics on us when two European Americans pick up two Mexican hitchhikers from Mexico.
The dim-witted European American female ***character*** (no doubt a good actress) asks the two Mexican nationals if they are afraid of all the violence and drug cartels in Mexico. The two Mexicans say they are NOT afraid to live there and describe the United States of American as a "bloated elephant..."
I turned "Weiner Dog" off at this point before I heard any more. I tuned into "Weiner-Dog" to see a movie about dachshunds or even a movie about how dogs and pets are treated or mistreated in our great country, or perhaps how therapeutic dogs are to us humans...not to have the author force his narrow-minded, personal politics on us and down our throats with a line that had absolutely nothing to do with the plot or dachshunds.
A shame because I later find out the screenwriter wrote "Welcome To The Doll House" that I came across on Showtime nearly 20 years ago and found very unique and eclectic.
I don't like bait and switch movies: If the screenwriter/director wanted to make a movie where he professes his views on illegal immigration and how bad the USA is then advertise the movie up front as such. Then the viewer can decide whether or not to watch it...or whether or not to waste 32 minutes of their time on it.
1. The ship is caught in a "Neutrino storm" that causes great damage to the ship. Neutrinos are virtually massless particles that can pass through long, very dense mass without colliding with a single atomic nucleus. In astrophysics class, as an example, the instructor said neutrinos could pass through a lead pipe for the entire length of the Galaxy (100,000 light years) and have no collisions. A neutrino storm would not cause the damage it did to the ship in the movie.
2. The ship continues to hover over the same area on the planet where the away team landed-- first going down to an "80 km orbit" then a "40 km orbit." Kepler's 3rd law of orbital dynamics (equal area in equal time) states that the closer on orbiting object is to the celestial object it is orbiting, the faster it goes unless a LOT of constant energy is expended. To stay over the same spot, the ship would have to be at the geosynchronous altitude of the planet. On earth this is approximately 19,000 miles. Since the plant was said to be 96% the gravity of the earth, a similar altitude would be required to hover over the same spot on the planet.
Of course the inclination would have to be close to zero and the apogee and perigee very close (eccentricity close to zero) and the spot to hover over near the equator in order to to hover over the same spot on the planet but they could have had such orbital parameters on the spacecraft so we can give them a break on this last area.
However, I rated the movie 3 out of 10 for other areas I did not like: Plot including an obligatory PC scene that was pointless.
2. The ship continues to hover over the same area on the planet where the away team landed-- first going down to an "80 km orbit" then a "40 km orbit." Kepler's 3rd law of orbital dynamics (equal area in equal time) states that the closer on orbiting object is to the celestial object it is orbiting, the faster it goes unless a LOT of constant energy is expended. To stay over the same spot, the ship would have to be at the geosynchronous altitude of the planet. On earth this is approximately 19,000 miles. Since the plant was said to be 96% the gravity of the earth, a similar altitude would be required to hover over the same spot on the planet.
Of course the inclination would have to be close to zero and the apogee and perigee very close (eccentricity close to zero) and the spot to hover over near the equator in order to to hover over the same spot on the planet but they could have had such orbital parameters on the spacecraft so we can give them a break on this last area.
However, I rated the movie 3 out of 10 for other areas I did not like: Plot including an obligatory PC scene that was pointless.