[nl]

> you can figure out some of the details on why the movie was trash by googling my name.

For those interested: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2020/12/07/bit-player-des...

Tl;DR: There are no substantive criticisms, but apparently the style wasn't to the reviewer's taste.

Here's an extract:

Finally there is the title. “Bit player?” Shannon is the most important applied mathematician and inventor of the late 20th and early 21st century. Nobody else comes close. What would they call a documentary on Maxwell? “Waves haggis-man?” What would their clever title for Newton be? “Calculus apple-noggin sperdo?” Napoleon’s documentary is “big hat frog midget.” How about calling your documentary of Freud “Pervert Schlomo” while you’re at it. What fucking pinhead planet are you from calling a documentary of Shannon “Bit player?” Die in a fire, you fucking philistines!

(Apparently the author missed that "Bit Player" is a play on the idea that Shannon played with bits, and is unfamiliar with the idea that association of a title with a common saying makes people more comfortable with the idea that'll enjoy watching it)

[scottlocklin]

Yeah, I didn't miss their clever little double entendre, nor did I miss they portrayed Shannon as a doddering old fool. This was not a docudrama; it was a desecration.

Are you actually defending the thing, or do you just take offence at "Calculus apple-noggin sperdo?"

[nl]

I haven't watched it so can't comment on it.