Particle Fever

A heavy focus on the human elements with little focus on the science. You only get a sense of what's happening in very broad strokes, which I found unfortunate, but the heart of the film is in capturing the miraculous existence of the Large Hadron Collider, and the fact that, somewhere in the world (not America, mind you), people are spending billions of dollars and decades of their lives solely in pursuit of better understanding the universe and the laws of physics. And that's cool.

As soon as I notice dishonest cuts and additional ambient sound, a documentary has lost my trust. Have faith in your subject's ability to interest and entertain without these kind of tricks. They just add untidiness.

Some of the animations look nice, but I feel like the documentary is seriously underestimating its audience. By giving just the most general information about the research and results, it really doesn't tell anything that you haven't already heard on the news.

Dry except for a couple of instances where graphics were set to music.

It is so amazing what they do at the LHC. I enjoyed, for that reason, Particle Fever. It starts out really good by making this complex information 'simple'. I followd it quite well. It kind of loses momentum in the middle, and I do feel like they truly stayed on the surface regarding the science, but the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle is what this film is all about. And I didn't mind that too much. So for my own curious sake I rank it 67/100.

Well, that was easy to watch but I don't think it explains necessary details enough. Besides that, it was okay, not a big deal.

Tries to make the subject matter emotionally accessible, and there is a fun subplot concerning how the media treats the event. I fucking love science the way I loved this really cute and clever girl I met in high school. What they both have in common is that try as I might I'll never get to understand either one of them. This documentary didn't help either way.

If this movie is intended for the scientifically literate layperson (like me), it fails because it's just too simple. If this movie is intended for the true layperson, it's moderately successful. I wish it did a better job of conveying the excitement and wonder that an experiment of this magnitude generates for those who care (like me).

It's very light on actual science which I thought is a shame. Instead the documentary mostly focuses on some people who are related to physics and/or the LHC. This subject matter pretty much always inspires me and this film is no different, for that reason I enjoyed this quite a bit. At the same time I realize this documentary could have been a lot more interesting or at the very least a lot more informative if it delved more into the LHC and the science behind it.

For the film I wish this was (that is, a filmmaker's appropriation of a massive scientific project to ask and explore philosophical questions at the heart of the scientific enterprise), please see Into Eternity.

Pretty exciting in its hey-history-is-being-written-before-your-eyes! sequences, but more sort of a The King of Kong-esque science documentary -- with the same kind of nerdy, obsessed and funny characters roaming around the same themes everytime they start to talk.

I expected the focus to be on the LHC experiment but the documentary and the people it follows are only tangentially related to it. Who cares about the opinions of some airheaded student? There's nothing particularly interesting here, except that apparently you can measure in miles and still claim to be scientific.

https://movies.supertran.net/2018/06/particle-fever-2013.html

I understand how this documentary tried to put this highly complex project accessible to us, every day people, trough showing scientist as real people with real LHC problems, nevertheless I found it sloppy and although I am really interested in the topic (why else would I watch this documentary?) I lost interest in the middle of it

Not sure why people rank it lowly on the basis of it performing poorly on a function it never desired to have: Particle Fever is about Particle Fever, or the hunt of the physicists to discover and understand the smallest particles of the universe. If you want to know about the smallest details of the science, then you should read the actual studies.

A great documentary, especially for a layperson like me. I enjoyed how it highlighted the highs and lows that some of these physicists endure over the course of their careers as new theories and data emerge.

supersymmetry vs. multiverse, order vs. chaos, higher will vs. coincidence. this documentary serves as an exquisite reminder, that, like religion, cultism (which is basically religion on a smaller scale) or philosophy, science is yet another variant to suggest "we really have no idea what's going on here." even if you stuff everything in numbers to make it tangible somehow, find your "god-particle" (wtf?), it will never unravel existence. might be able to build a really rad tv with it, though.

Is it just me or did this movie really just end up repeating itself over and over again? There are no surprises to be had, and just some general knowledge to be gained.