'Just Rewards (2)'
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So you say you love Lilo and Stitch and really liked How To Train Your Dragon? Bet you'd like to see Chris Sanders student work at CalArts from the early 80s, wouldn't you?
Fun with Father. Dark and wonderful.
Miracleman! You need to watch that in particular. Preferably with the Punk in your lap.
Okay Scrappy. From what you were able to discern from the movie, is Jake in his body back at the lab? If he consciousness left to play with woman going to India, and the teacher's consciousness is in the ether, then who is in Jake's half-body?
I think that he is in there, but an Alt-Jake is with the girl. Sending him back created an alternate version of this universe, where he is out there, but another version of himself is still inside. However, even with this answer as to how he can be "out," where's the teacher whose body Jake is in?
right. I too wonder where that poor teacher is. I swear I believe he is in Jake's head.
In addition, I thought that the end meant the doctor's description of what was happening was patently incorrect. I thought instead of creating an alternate timeline, he changed the timeline so the event never happened in the first place.
I also saw Source Code over the weekend and thought it was much more interesting than your standard vaguely-SF exploidy action movies. There are paradoxes and plot holes that do not bear much scrutiny and I am Super Ambivalent about the ending, but I liked it a lot all the same. The performances were great, especially by Jake G. and Vera Farmiga.
Re. the discussion above: I think they're endorsing multiverse theory with that ending, not Terminator: SCC-like "every time you do something, you change the event in that one timeline" theory. The biggest trouble I had with this is that the Doc emphasized that this was *not* time travel, and that Colter was just inhabiting the shadow / after-image of Sean's consciousness. The whole concept of the movie is based on that and the ending screws with the basic rule of the story for the sake of a happy ending. Which is too bad, because I thought that freeze-frame of Colter and Christina kissing was such a perfectly bittersweet note to end the movie. If it had ended there, I'd have loved it without any reservation.
Hollywood does love its happy endings. I was just reading up on The Thing, and apparently Carpenter filmed an alternate ending where Kurt Russell's character gets rescued at the end. (Sorry Keith David, you're a black dude in a horror movie. No rescue chopper for you!) Thankfully that never got released.
Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth have been cast as as Peeta and Gale in The Hunger Games.
I think they look fine, but I have no idea if they can act.
meh. i'm not happy about the boys casting.
That the boys are played by actors I don't know anything about and Katniss is played by an Oscar nominee seems pretty fitting.
I am just now reading Mockingjay, though, so it's not like I have spent a lot of time thinking about casting.