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.
River: You gave up everything you had. Simon: [Chinese] Everything I have is right here.
'Safe'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Typo Boy - Dec 28, 2012 10:33:49 pm PST #23249 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Jessica - Dec 29, 2012 4:10:16 am PST #23250 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
Typo Boy - Dec 29, 2012 11:30:16 am PST #23251 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I kinda think they look a lot like ancestors of R2D2. But I admit they also look like window air conditioning units.
erikaj - Dec 29, 2012 1:20:47 pm PST #23252 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
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?
quester - Dec 29, 2012 3:15:56 pm PST #23253 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
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.
P.M. Marc - Dec 29, 2012 5:03:57 pm PST #23254 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Saw The Hobbit again.
I liked it even more the second time.
Jessica - Dec 29, 2012 5:11:31 pm PST #23255 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 29, 2012 6:14:17 pm PST #23256 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Not even Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ?
Jessica - Dec 29, 2012 6:17:12 pm PST #23257 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
Consuela - Dec 29, 2012 7:07:48 pm PST #23258 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I took my folks to see Les Mis this afternoon. After I explained that le Maire was also the convict from the beginning, they were less confused.
I thought Russell Crowe was better than I expected (his voice isn't bad, per se, just not quite right for the part), the rest of the cast was fine, and Jackman was fine until "Bring Him Home", for which he seemed to be straining too hard and it just didn't work at all. Such a pity.
But I still found it marvelously moving, and got all sniffly in the end. And I got goosebumps every time they did the whole-cast singing of "Can You Hear The People Sing". It was a hit for my folks as well, except for the length.