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Science of Watchmen (video)

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University of Minnesota physics professor James Kakalios discusses how he was tapped to add a physics perspective to the upcoming Warner Brothers movie, Watc...

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hitfix.com - 2/25/2009

The Motion/Captured Review: 'Watchmen' on Hitfix

— hitfix.com — "Watchmen" has been part of my life for most of what I consider my adulthood. I still... remember holding the book for the first time, looking at that striking smiley face graphic, flipping through and being confused by what I was seeing. At that point, ... (more) The Motion/Captured Review: 'Watchmen' on Hitfix

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chud.com - 2/25/2009

REVIEW: WATCHMEN

— chud.com — If nothing else, Zack Snyder's Watchmen demands praise as an awe-inspiring achievement. Snyder has done what many... considered impossible - he took Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's seminal comic book, Watchmen , and turned it into a movie. And not just a ... (more) REVIEW: WATCHMEN

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aintitcool.com - 2/25/2009

Harry Watches The WATCHMEN And Can Remain Silent Not One More Second!

— aintitcool.com — I have watched the WATCHMEN. WATCHMEN wasn’t something I discovered because my father handed it to me.... It wasn’t because he took me to buy it. I found WATCHMEN all on my own. After creating AICN, for the past 13 years we’ve been tracking WATCHMEN, and ... (more) Harry Watches The WATCHMEN And Can Remain Silent Not One ...

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AICN interviews Dr James Kakalios - the Science Consultant on WATCHMEN! Seriously!
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. — Dr. James Kakalios has been teaching and researching physics at the University of Minnesota since 1988. A comics fan, he created an extremely popular freshman seminar relating basic physics concepts to popular comic books and superhero movies. In May of 2002, on the eve of the release of Sam Raimi's first SPIDER-MAN feature film, Kakalios wrote an article in the Minneapolis StarTribune newspaper about a physics problem that had frustrated comics fans for two decades: What killed Peter Parker's girlfriend Gwen Stacy - the fall from atop the Brooklyn Bridge, or Spider-Man's web that stopped her just before she hit the water? The article was reprinted ...

The Science of Watchmen
/Film — University of Minnesota physics professor and The Physics of Superheroes author Jim Kakalios was the science consultant on Watchmen. The University of Minnesota has released a 7-minute video, which you can watch after the jump, with Kakalios talking about the science behind the book and film. ...

Check This Out: The Science of Watchmen Video
FirstShowing.net — At this point, we've seen nearly everything on Watchmen that's currently available, from behind-the-scenes featurettes to trailers to TV spots and more, but this is something I guarantee not many of you have seen. University of Minnesota physics professor James Kakalios was hired as a ...

Educational Video of the Day: The Science of "Watchmen"
The Screengrab — James Kakalios, physics professor at the University of Minnesota and author of The Physics of Superheroes, served as a consultant on Watchmen, and here he provides the Cliff's Notes to the scientific probability of what goes on in that bad boy. Kakalios is not the first expert invited to provide a real-world viewpoint on an elaborate sci-fi fantasy world; we can't help expecting that, a lot of the time, the analysis boils down to something like, "Sure, what the hell. Your check cleared." Kakalios, who was hip to the classic comic before the filmmakers ...