Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv Path: sparky!uunet!walter!hip10.bellcore.com!nielsen From: Jakob Nielsen Subject: Re: Time Trax Message-ID: <1993Jan21.185126.27016@walter.bellcore.com> X-Xxmessage-Id: X-Xxdate: Thu, 21 Jan 93 18:46:13 GMT Sender: n...@walter.bellcore.com Nntp-Posting-Host: hip10.bellcore.com Organization: Bellcore - Bell Communications Research X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17 References: <1993Jan21.112231.6098@sol.UVic.CA> <1993Jan21.181355.23099@cs.tulane.edu> Distribution: na Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 18:51:26 GMT Lines: 17 In article <1993Jan21.112231.6...@sol.UVic.CA> Michael McAleese, mmcal...@cs16.UVic.CA writes: > After viewing the two hour debut movie of Time Trax, I have to give > it the old thumbs down. It wasn't exactly that it was bad... it just > wasn't good. There were also several errors showing lack of care in production. The worst (given its prominence) was probably the sign saying "Smithsonian Institute" when in fact it is called the "Smithsonian Institution". Another error (that admittedly might only be caught by a Scandinavian) is the scene where somebody gets the Nobel prize in physics and the diploma reads "Awarded by the Norwegian Nobel committee." The Norwegian Nobel committee only awards the peace price, whereas the other prizes are awarded by the *Swedish* Nobel committee. -- Jakob Nielsen, niel...@bellcore.com, fax (201) 829-2645 Bellcore, MRE 2P-370, 445 South St., Morristown, NJ 09792-1910, USA