― 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
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link
They're fucked, but they have to hope in something. Theo has one pretty decent excuse to go to the Human Project: Julian. He can trust her the way she ultimately trusted him. That seems to be one of the major points of the movie that the most elevated human ideas of love and hope and trust and empathy are personal and not political.
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.cswu.cz/music/characters/medals.jpg
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.phillyist.com/attachments/philly_nicole/mission-accomplished.jpg
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Didn't get the feeling of determined completion from that ending that you did. Not at all. The ship looked like a mirage. It didn't look real, and I don't think it was supposed to look real. The men on deck were posed in way-too-obviously-cartoonish poses of "brave discovery" and didn't seem to be pointing towards the girl and baby, a scant 100 feet away. They seemed to be gesturing towards an indefinable something off on the very distant horizon. Towards "tomorrow" or something similarly abstract?
I don't think we were meant to take the final shots as literally as all that.
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
(That could also be used on people confused after watching Inland Empire. Actually, never mind, the Lynch rabbits and Nastasja Kinski were on the boat.)
― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link