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.
Green Lantern footage from Wonder Con 2011 [link]
Josh Hutcherson was the son in the Kids are All Right, evidently (I didn't know him by name). I thought he was really pretty good in that.
IO9 lists 10 ways of looking at Blade Runner. They all make the story seem poseury and unattractive to me, pretty much.
I know Hemsworth as the guy from that awful Miley Cyrus movie that looked like a year-later remake of that awful Channing Tatum movie. Which does not fill me to overflowing with confidence in his acting ability.
