Apparently, not all great minds think alike when it comes to critiquing science fiction movies.

Bill Nye, the engineer and educator forever known as The Science Guy, is close friends with Neil deGrasse Tyson, who tweeted positively about Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar while watching it.

In fact, they were due for a lunch date Tuesday immediately after we interviewed Nye for his upcoming presentation for fans at Toronto’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre Dec. 4.

But unlike Tyson – who apparently enjoyed the story and gave a general thumbs-up to the science (“More so than Gravity, the astronauts moved around in space very accurately”) – Nye was impressed with neither.

Nye’s chief scientific quibble is using a wormhole to get from one point of interstellar space to another. “You’d be dead. The gravitational forces would turn you to spaghetti.

“But I get it, it’s science fiction. You have to get from one place to another. That’s why we have transporters (in Star Trek) and that’s why when you show up on a planet, it has about the same gravity as Earth and everybody speaks English.”

So, other than the scientific quibbles, we ask, did he enjoy the movie? (SOME SPOILERS HERE)

“No, I didn’t. It was too long. I didn’t think it was especially good storytelling. It had a handful of ideas, a clutch of ideas, and they didn’t have the discipline to decide what to leave out – an old problem in storytelling.

“What was that Indian drone doing there? The tractors? The heroine of the story does all this amazing stuff, and we don’t even know about it?

“And I’m not going to be on a spaceship for 72 years or whatever with Anne Hathaway’s character and not have some sort of interaction, without banging space helmets or something,” he says with a laugh.

“And I think the box office backs me up on this. The opening was huge, and word got out and suddenly it wasn’t so huge.”

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