Not exact matches
For example, the
mad scientist has been a recurring trope in horror movies since the very beginning, and movies that feature
mad scientists — movies like Frankenstein, Island
of Lost Souls and The Fly — can provide a powerful critique
of science
when it becomes divorced from morality.
It's a gentle version that Brinley gives, and once the New Englandy town
of Mammoth Falls starts to believe Dinky Poore's fib about the monster in Strawberry Lake, The
Mad Scientists» Club picks up another classic element
of boys» books» for that's the moment
when Henry Mulligan, the club's vice president and chief
of research, leans his piano stool back against the wall
of Jeff Crocker's father's barn and begins to think about how the boys could use their radio equipment, a wrap
of canvas around a chicken - wire frame, and a quiet outboard fishing motor to make the monster come alive.
Kim and AJ bonded over their science geekiness (Kim's a
scientist and AJ is a chemistry professor) and
when the subject
of how AJ's ex-wife resembled Helen Hunt came up, I made a joke about how if she was Helen Hunt, that would probably make AJ the Paul Reiser (a
Mad About You reference).
And I became intrigued by the short description
of Curse
of the Fly that appeared on the screen
when I hit the info button on the remote: «A
mad scientist tries out a molecular disintegrator on people but can not get the hang
of it.»
But amid the fears
of mad scientists creating designer babies and real - life Jurassic Parks, experts agree on one thing: It is no longer a matter
of if but rather
of when CRISPR - based genomic surgery will come to a hospital near you.
(and please believe me
when I say «
mad scientist», I don't look at myself as a character or anything like that... «
mad scientist» just happens to perfectly describe my personality
when I get into the gym... slightly insane, creative and always thinking
of new ways to do things).
As an act
of conscience, Empire
scientist Galen Erso (
Mads Mikkelson) designed the Death Star with that fatal flaw that is exposed
when viewing the original blueprints.
The Academy acclaims the oppositional project
of these new genre films; Logan articulates this in comic - book terms
when a
mad scientist (Richard E. Grant) restores Wolverine's twisted, evil doppelgänger: «You're a newborn by any measure.
His prayers are answered
when a
mad scientist (Matthew Goode) surfaces who is willing, for a cool quarter - billion dollars, to transfer his mind into the head
of a test tube human surrogate hatched in lab.
And if you guessed that it was only a matter
of time before these
mad scientists tried their process on themselves, you would also be correct:
when an accident in the lab electrocutes Zoe, Frank brings her back, and her «little weirdness» involves telekinesis, mind - reading, and other «crazy psychic shit,» because apparently that's cool and exciting, storywise.
Roaming the corridors
of these dungeons — it's the lair
of a
mad scientist, actually, but no matter — are the bad guys, who drop health and ammo
when killed and who tend to become more aggressive and less forgiving the higher level you achieve.
Then
when I viewed the video interview
of climate
scientist Dr. James Hansen conducted by the movie's producers, I got
mad.
As for getting the Persons Engaged in Ruing in the Planet outta here, well, you have folks like Stephen Hawking say that «humans» need to get off the planet in order to survive — maybe
when the
Mad Scientist Techno - Chem - Crats finally blast off, taking every last one
of their True Believers and Fans with Them, we should get busy and change the locks while they're out so they can never come back, then we'll finally have the planet to ourselves, haha!
Most resumes start out like Frankenstein — they're just a collection
of dead body parts — but all hell breaks loose
when the
mad scientist zaps him with a spark, a lightning bolt... and that was 80 years before Obamacare...