Movie Details
| Title: | Bill Nye: Science Guy | |
| Director: | David Alvarado, Jason Sussberg | |
| Year: | 2017 | |
| Genre: | Documentary | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 11.11.18 |
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| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 11.11.18 | Blu-ray | This Screening is part of event: DVRfest 2018 Day three starts with this Bill Nye doc. A few things up front: 1) i backed this on kickstarter. I think it's the last movie I'm going to back on kickstarter. Even when it's successful and they finish the film, they shop it around all the festivals looking for a buyer before they let their backers see it (unless you happen to be in a town where they're already showing it, as was the case with this and sxsw I believe). So by the time I actually get the blu-ray that I pledged for, literally everyone else in the world has seen it. It's a flaw. and 2) I backed this before his latest netflix show, Bill Nye Saves the Universe, aired. I didn't love that show so much so I'm hoping this doc delivers a bit more of what I want: background on the guy and his history and some humor and maybe a little more dignity and less preaching that he does on his Netflix show. Ok all of that out of the way, let's watch. So maybe i was being too harsh. This was good and I'm glad my name is somewhere in those tiny credits as helping to make it possible. Plus I did get a cool shirt... so there's that. Anyway, yeah I liked this. It's pretty much exactly what I wanted. Some background, a little history, a little family, a little pathos, a little humor. It brought some interesting perspective to the Ken Ham debate and maybe a little scope to why Nye seems so outspoken about climate change these days. I'm probably biased because I agree with him (although not always. I think somewhere in my notes for when I read Michael Crichton's State of Fear or when I saw An Inconvenient Truth I was pretty skeptical), but to me this was an honest portrait of the guy. Of course he's no movie poster... if only there was a whole documentary about movie posters. |
