Source Code
So it turns out Source Code was pretty good. Maybe not as good as Moon, but damn close.
I always get kind of worried with time travel movies, on how they're going to end them. They all seem to fall apart at the end because of the whole time travel paradox and whatnot. But they did a beautiful job on the ending for this.
The one shot, if you've seen it, then you'll know which one I'm talking about, almost made me cry!
The only thing that kind of bugged me about the movie was the music. For some reason, it put me in the mind of a 1970's disaster movie sound to it.
Where the heck is Clint Mansell when you need him?!
Anyways, who's seen it and what did you think?
I guess let's keep things spoiler-free for a while, till it kind of settles in as to how many people have seen it or not.
It's probably better not to get to much into all the sci fi behind it, because I think if you look at it too closely the whole thing falls apart, in that, there's no way that what they just showed us is the logical result what what they showed us before. But it makes for a fun story just taking it on face value.
Damn. I can't really think of a way to explain it without getting into spoilers either. Who the hell decided to keep this thing spoiler free?!!
The one shot, if you've seen it, then you'll know which one I'm talking about,
That is pretty impressive if you can say this about any film and everyone else is all, like, "Yep!" "Yeah!" "I know which one!"
I thought the music was pretty bad. Didn't really fit the film at all.
Sounded like they ripped it from a Lifetime movie.
It just hit me what the music reminded me of, especially the opening sequence. Sounded just like the beginning of Airplane!.
3 people? 3 people is all that have seen this yet? Come on!
I literally just got back from seeing it. I don't remember the music....at all. What's wrong with me?
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Science fiction has to create a set of rules for its characters to exist within a certain reality. I felt like they kind of threw the rules of this world out the window in order to give the main character a happy ending.
Even if creating an entire new universe was possible within the rules of the reality of the movie, why did Colter get to live it? Why didn't the teacher get his body back once Goodwin let Colter die?
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I saw it on Sunday. I didn't really like it. I can't discuss it without spoilers.
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I agree with Mike in that they just kind of threw out everything the movie had been telling us was true, just so they could live happily ever after.
The whole time I thought the only thing that mattered was stopping the next bomb, but then they did that with such incredible anticlimax I didn't have a chance to feel any suspense. Also, I had no reason to be emotionally invested in the characters because they were either already dead or would be forced to live inside a computer program. But then in the last minute they decided to turn it around and make them real? Why am I supposed to care all of a sudden? He just kind of changed the laws of physics with what, willpower? And maybe love. Awww.
And that dad moment that they just squeezed in there felt like a cheep attempt to make me feel something. But on the other hand dad moments never get me because I hate my dad. It seems weird to me when people actually like their dads.
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
To be clear I thought it was really good despite the points I made.
havent seen it yet, maybe sunday. i mean, saw some of a cam of it to be sure i want to see it sunday, and that looked pretty good; but some friends of mine have seen it and said it's a good movie, that they really enjoyed it. at first glance at the premise oh so many months ago, i thought it was going to be a lame movie. now, after ten minutes with a cam of it, im really looking forward to seeing it on the big screen. and so's jen.
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
Great movie. I don't remember the music. Interesting story and well executed.
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Science fiction has to create a set of rules for its characters to exist within a certain reality. I felt like they kind of threw the rules of this world out the window in order to give the main character a happy ending.
Even if creating an entire new universe was possible within the rules of the reality of the movie, why did Colter get to live it? Why didn't the teacher get his body back once Goodwin let Colter die?
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The way I saw it was that, yeah, the one scientists dude gave us all the rules and then they threw them out the window at the end, was that maybe the scientist himself had no idea how things truly worked and we got to see what it was capable of.
That whole thing though with the teacher guy pretty much getting written out of existence though still bugs me. He pretty much took a nap on the train and blinked into nothingness!
I didn't think it was good, but it was entertaining. I disliked the scene where he was hit by the train, and before that the woman and man just kinda sat there and yelled at him, which seemed completely unrealistic to me. When it came around to the end of the movie, I felt like there wasn't actually a whole lot to it all.
I know which shot you're talking about. It was awesome, up until the point where the douchiest of douches that ever sat next to me decided to laugh. The prick.
It was good. I just really, REALLY still need to analyze the sci-fi behind it. I think I might've missed something in the description of the mechanism behind this little operation.
The music didn't bother me at all, actually. Didn't even notice it, which is probably the problem, cuz music usually stands out to me in a movie.
Overall, I thought it was good. I can't say it's anything worth buying on DVD, but it's definitely worth watching in theaters. Also, they've stolen my idea (which might've been thought of before, but I don't know that, so it could very well be original, or at least original enough to make some money on a script, but NOT ANYMORE!!). >:( When spoilers are allowed, I'll go into further detail about that.
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