For those interested, Silent Running is on "free" on-demand on Comcast/xfinity. IMO it has the strongest hippie sensibility of any mainstream science fiction film ever made - complete with Joan Baez performing two songs on the sound track.
Unlike other films thought of as hippy it is neither pretentious nor arch and deliberately self-mocking. It does not even think of itself as hippie. It is the film equivalent of the working class kids who ran away Haight-Ashbury. (Not saying it is not *mockable* . That is a different issue. One of the key plot points involves the main character overlooking something that means that both he and the writers were very very stoned - which if you think of it adds to the whole hippie thing.) Anyway, I would not suggest this to someone who hates Joan Baez's music or hippies, but I think everyone else will enjoy it.
Just to clarify - not the only plot hole, but a whole different level of WTF than the others. Nonetheless, really good story telling and emotionally true to the time in which it was made.
The other key to enjoying Silent Running is taking Very Very Seriously the plight of the three little robots that look like window air conditioning units.
I kinda think they look a lot like ancestors of R2D2. But I admit they also look like window air conditioning units.
We just saw "This is 40," I thought it was pretty great, but I also loved "Funny People" so maybe I drank the Kool-Aid?
I took myself to Les Miserables this afternoon.
I was less than impressed with Jackman's performance and voice, so that kind of colored my appreciation. I don't think anyone else was that bad.
Crowe was meh, the rest were ok, Hathaway and Samantha Barks were good.
The degree of realism in the sewer scenes made them unwatchable.
Saw The Hobbit again.
I liked it even more the second time.
I just watched Looper. I enjoyed JGL and Bruce Willis, but any time travel movie that flat out tells the audience not to think about the mechanics of time travel is not a friend to me.
Not even Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ?
Comedies more or less get a pass. Not movies that want me to take them seriously, and especially not movies that want me to take them seriously as science fiction.
