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Films I have seen this week

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Boobie inspector
Lucy, a bit weird, ended really abruptly, a mostly emotionless main lead. 5/10
Sex tape, a comedy with almost no comedy, and very little sex, 4/10
Robin Hood (Russell Crowe), long, tedious, historically inaccurate (WWII landing craft!), and trying too much to be the Batman begins of Robin hood, 3/10.
 
I've had a copy of Lucy for six months and still not watched it despite liking Scarlett...it just looks pretty bad.

I remember finding Robin Hood pretty boring and there was a pointless subplot about Marian's blind dad or something?
 
At least the blind dad added someting to the film, the lost boys in the woods added nothing rigth until the point where they suddenly for no apparent reason became Marion's warrors.
 
Lucy wasn't as bad as I'd heard, but what did annoy me far more than I was expecting was the constant repetition of the 10% bullshit. As a massive scifi fan you'd think I'd be more forgiving of movies that take a few liberties with science in the interests of a more entertaining plot, but it was just too much. Morgan Freeman was the only thing that really saved it. He was totally convincing throughout.
 
The real Lucy was the Cylon daughter of Helo and Boomer anyway, wasn't she. All reall scientists know that.
 
I saw Interstellar this week and am amazed that they are claiming it is scientifically accurate.

It was long, dull and I truly began to hate Matt Damon almost instantly. It wasn't his character, it was HIM, HIM, HIM all the way the fat lazy bastard.

I was truly beginning to ask them to hurry the fuck up when they decided to relay the entire mathematical data from inside a black hole singularity via morse code. WTF? I started to laugh because I genuinely thought that could extend the film by another 17 years.

Then suddenly we jump to an O'Neill cylinder where he sits on a FUCKIN FARM museum, like because its an O'Neill cylinder we can have all the space in the world to play with?

Idiotic, self congratulatory pap. Awful.
 
I also saw shutter island, which is super depressing.
The Raid 2, which wasn't as good as the first one.
 
Doesn't Interstellar have time travel in it (I haven't seen it)? It would be weird to claim it was scientifically accurate.
 
Yeah so I liked the parts of Lucy that were this sort of zany pulpy story about SUPER DRUGS making ScarJo have a magic brain, but then like half way through Luc Besson wants to throw in gangsters and police having these big firefights and it just didn't fit. And the last 10 minutes were really weird in a good way, but that probably should've been the last half of the film rather than the last 10 minutes. ScarJo was good though (BECAUSE SHE'S SCARJO).

All of the crazy stuff at the end of Interstellar is backed up by scientists going "Yeah that would probably happen, I guess", which is about as 'scientifically accurate' as you're ever going to get when it comes to that sort of stuff. I quite liked it??? I liked the robots. They were cool.
 
headvoid said:
I saw Interstellar this week and am amazed that they are claiming it is scientifically accurate.

It was long, dull and I truly began to hate Matt Damon almost instantly. It wasn't his character, it was HIM, HIM, HIM all the way the fat lazy bastard.

I was truly beginning to ask them to hurry the fuck up when they decided to relay the entire mathematical data from inside a black hole singularity via morse code. WTF? I started to laugh because I genuinely thought that could extend the film by another 17 years.

Then suddenly we jump to an O'Neill cylinder where he sits on a FUCKIN FARM museum, like because its an O'Neill cylinder we can have all the space in the world to play with?

Idiotic, self congratulatory pap. Awful.
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All of this is fairly well true, but it's still probably the best sci-fi film I've seen in a long, long time. I'm not sure what that says, exactly. Oh, and now we get to see Matt Damon playing the same jackass this fall in "The Martian"! Yay.

I had a 40th Anniversary screening of "Jaws" the other night.
 
There were aspects that I thought were excellent about Interstellar. However, there obviously is some interest so I will go further.

SPOILERS AHEAD

The beginning was promising and I enjoyed this initial pace. The capture of the drone was excellent and the history rewriting aspect in the school was also good but too many ideas were crammed into a short space. If the history being rewritten was not crucial to the story (it wasn't) then it doesn't move the story forward. This can happen when a name like Christopher Nolan does not have a challenging voice alongside him to say NO!

The arrival at Nasa was also delivered slowly and there were many polished items that were not required. Why do they have fantastically swishy doors that open on high power output screens? If these people live in the desert why are they all wearing suits? It was just a bit fake.

The robots were cool.

Where the film really found it's feet was on the water / tidal wave planet. Fantastic action sequence, delivered with high science concept, well though through. The return after 21 years was also excellent. I do wonder why they only realised the original scientist would only have landed / crashed a few hours ago AFTER they found the wreckage...

The discussions about the choices of planets to visit was also tightly scripted and good science. The detail around the Anne Hathaway love was good, but again lots of ideas crammed in where they were not necessary to moving the story forward. I guess her alone at the end was a nod to this in some form.

I'm really not sure how he managed to enter a black hole and "feeling the gravity now" was about all he got. He should have been stretched to a single molecule about half a light year from the singularity however, lets pass that for the moment. The tesseract of his daughters bedroom was such a beautiful device I could forgive them. Well delivered and stunning visually.

But why did he have to sneak off at the end alone to find brand? It looked like he was nicking a tiny company car to drive to outer Mongolia. Surely a little planning and extra resource was needed? Did he pack some lunch at least? I'm guessing it might take a while.

Anyway, there were really good bits but I just felt it was self indulgent. A little more strong editing and it could have been stunning. The tesseract scene (apart from the morse code crap) was lovely.

The robots were cool as well...
 
I still have no fucking idea why Bane was getting a blood transfusion from Littlefinger or whoever on a plane at the start of The Dark Knight Rises.

(I know that's not what really happened, I'm mangling it for comic effect. It still didn't make any sense.)
 
CaptainWacky said:
I still have no fucking idea why Bane was getting a blood transfusion from Littlefinger or whoever on a plane at the start of The Dark Knight Rises.

(I know that's not what really happened, I'm mangling it for comic effect. It still didn't make any sense.)
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So they have like a scientist dude on the plane who they want to capture and also they bring an unconscious guy (or a corpse??) with them so they transfuse the scientist dude's blood into the unconscious body so that when the plane crashes and people do blood tests on the bodies they think it's the scientist guy who has died.
 
I'm pretty sure they use dental records (fingerprints? DNA?) to identify bodies in plane crashes rather than blood. Since planes tend to explode when they crash? And wouldn't have to transfer 100% of "scientist guy's" blood into the other body otherwise they'd think "this guy doesn't have much blood!"
 
Also the plane crash investigators will wonder why the wings crashed about a hundred miles further back than the rest of the plane.

No part of that entire sequence made any sense, from the CIA not checking who was under the hoods, to leaving one of their own behind to die in the crash.

Still at least that looks positively well thought out compared to the later scene of a heavily armoured slow moving helicopter outpacing rocket powered heat seeking missiles.
 
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