― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
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― and what (ooo), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kiwi (Kiwi), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Leaving out Caine's final scene could have improved this movie a lot of ways, for me - watching that was such a gut check that afterwards the rest of the movie was really kind of a "whatever" experience except for the March Of The Crying Infant.
the livestock roaming the warzone ghetto were pretty funny, TBH. I didn't LOL though.
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
so many amazing details. off the top of my head, i liked:
that being nearly killed in a bombing isn't enough to get off work or even worth mentioning, but transparently complaiing about a diana-style celebrity death is.
the ethnic balkanization of the bexhill camp (british ramallah innit)
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
several Xs!
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost re rasta dude
― chap (chap), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
For some unknown reason, male sperm counts have dropped to the point of sterility.[???] More amusing than compelling, like a campy episode of Lost in Space where anything goes and nothing makes sense. Oh dear! Oh dear!
In a world where...the only hope for the human race lies with a hard-bitten hero and an immaculate conception.
Another problem is that the movie doesn’t seem to have any point to it when, given its subject matter, it really feels as if it should. Timely themes of terrorism, asylum seekers and mass disillusionment are all there, but nothing’s done with them...it’s a movie that only sci-fi nerds are going to enjoy.
What happened in the intervening years? Without this knowledge these events make little or no sense.
As it turns out, the movie is set not in besieged Seattle but in England, which is besieged by peaceful immigrants because it's the last bastion of civilization. (I got this from the press notes; it's not clear from the movie why everyone wants to go to England.)[???]
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap (chap), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
actually who cares what morons would have rather seen! haha zap! take that, retards!
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
a. I don't particularly want to see it again.b. I don't particularly want to talk about it to anyone who hasn't already seen it.--> C. This is because instead of thinking about the awesome parts of this film, I am stuck pondering relatively tiresome metaphysical bullshit, because (I think!) the ending was so open-ended as to be a poorly thought out cock-up.
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Dr Morbius (wjwe...), January 16th, 2007 4:20 PM. (Dr Morbius) (later)
agreed. this was one of the weaker points in the movie and it's an easy-out for a redemptive arc.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link
I did go see it again, and while I noticed a lot of things I hadn't before, once you know what's going to happen it's not nearly as good.
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link
There was a text crawl at the beginning! (on the tv screen at the coffee shop)
― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link
While the unknown wound, like the naming of the child, was a little distracting and cliche, two aspects of his death were important: 1) how Kee and Theo each handled his dying, and 2) Kee left alone with the child in a little boat in the fog on the ocean.
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
i liked the ending in a self-frustrating way, like a john fowles novel or something. enough tenuous information is out there in the film (that the tomorrow is a hospital ship, that the ship will take them to experts on the azores) that the ship actually showing up makes all that stuff true enough. maybe the ship patches theo up, maybe they take care of kee and the baby, maybe not. but why wouldn't it all be true?
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link