Posted on 10/11/2015 1:52:56 PM PDT by EveningStar
There's much to sadly shake your head at in Pan, a sort of Peter Pan Begins that manages the unlikely feat of making battles between flying pirate ships a crushing bore. Most miserably, there's the great heap of action set pieces that are easier to wait out than to track with an instrument so primitive as the human eye—perhaps the singularity is nearing, and director Joe Wright's computers are whipping these scenes up exclusively for the enjoyment of advanced artificial intelligences ...
But here's perhaps the most egregious betrayal of audience intelligence in this latest go at monetizing those aspects of J.M. Barrie's Neverland that have fallen into the public domain. An opening narration attempts to justify the choice to concoct an origin for Pan, that spirit of whimsy and play that certainly doesn't need backstory. "Sometimes to truly understand how things end, we must first know how they began," the movie insists—as if this is all somehow a thoughtful attempt to get at the root truths of Peter Pan, to explore the sources of our common myths ...
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The best Mars movie is:
Robinson Crusoe on Mars starring Batman er... Adam West
Wiki says “Robinson Crusoe on Mars was shot on location”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_on_Mars
Adam doesn’t make it. Killed off early on. His fellow astronaut “Robin” <— get it? finds a new partner, a monkey.
At least there was an interview with Hugh Jackman the other day and he was very open about his Christianity.
Stick with the subtitled, three part mini-series!
The Hollywood version lacks essential back story. Lacks the intrigue and suspense as to what secrets are being kept. Focuses too much on Daniel Craig in a pleasant, klutzy, very non James Bond role.
I thought Interstellar was outstanding, and for me ranks as one of the best Science/SciFi movies I’ve ever seen.
The ending (inside the black hole...right) took me a bit to understand, and frankly I think it detracts from a movie that had a theoretical physicist help with the writing, but still a good flick!
“I thought Interstellar was outstanding, and for me ranks as one of the best Science/SciFi movies I’ve ever seen.”
It really was a father-daughter movie with the space travel a red herring. I had no clue the “ghost” in the room was connected to space travel that saved Matt’s life in the end.
and that scene where the lib teacher was a jerk explaining that the Russians were poor and that we had no right to be in space? You can credit every conservative viewpoint in Chris Nolan’s movies from Dark Knight onwards to his “American” brother and dave Goyer.
It’s like the original Danish “The Killing”. Excellent. I couldn’t bring myself to watch the English version of that.
Ditto for “The Bridge”. I know the US version of that was very inferior.
LOL!
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