In the book,
Mitchell has explicitly stated that the protagonist of each story is the same character reincarnated and this is indicated by the presence of the comet birthmark.
In the film, I don't think it's quite that straightforward since
there is a small group of actors playing the *entire* cast and each timeline focuses on a pair of lovers rather than a single protagonist. If you assume that each actor is playing the same character across timelines, then the comet appears on whoever in that era is the catalyst for rebellion against injustice and not necessarily the same person throughout. (Alternately, the comet appears on the same soul in each timeline and the characters switch bodies. I think that in the case of the film, this interpretation is more confusing than the alternative.)
See, I took it the 2nd way and not the first. I find it difficult to imagine that
the actor plays the same person/soul through the 6 timelines, but perhaps I need
more imagination.
I don't remember if this is a Princess Bride commentary tidbit or not, but I found it moving: [link]
Someone mashed up the top 250 films in the IMDB database:
[link]
Pretty fun!
Okay, wow, that was pretty awesome. Totally worth watching, thanks! MOVIES.
Holy shit,
Wreck-It Ralph
is fantastic, everyone go see it. I could write things, but Tasha Robinson basically says everything I want to say.
What PC said. The story was well crafted, with plot twists that managed to take me by surprise but hat were fairly played.
Also, there's one scene in the film that delighted me, especially as it passed unremarked within the film itself: the one time we really get to see the human game-players,
the gamer who is playing the Halo-esque FPS game is a girl, while the two kids bogarting the Strawberry Shortcake-like racer game with he female avatars are boys.
Saw Argo yesterday. I liked it quite a bit. No doubt it was excruciating in real life, but there came a point in the escalation of the climax where I was willing to fake an orgasm to get our of there.
I wondered what it would look like politically, but it didn't make me annoyed. The US did a bad thing, the Iranian people were taking revenge on innocents.
I was impressed by the credits and the likenesses--until it came to
Antonio Mendez,
to whom Affleck bore not the slightest resemblance, and wasn't even trying. Oh, and the guy played by Tate Donovan got a bit of an upgrade.
