Time travel is too confusing for film. In B2TF2, they had to stop in the middle of the film and draw a diagram to explain to the audience what was happening.
I-I'm just taking things without paying for th... In what twisted dictionary is that stealing?
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Tom Scola - Mar 03, 2010 11:35:38 am PST #7031 of 30000
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tommyrot - Mar 03, 2010 11:36:41 am PST #7032 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I just follow Basil Exposition's advice and not think too much about it....
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2010 11:38:16 am PST #7033 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Time travel is too confusing for film.
I think if you just take the moment's word for it, it's not so bad. If you take T1 at its word, for instance, it works. Try and reconcile the whole series, and then you're messed up, but still.
Polter-Cow - Mar 03, 2010 11:45:15 am PST #7034 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Time travel is too confusing for film. In B2TF2, they had to stop in the middle of the film and draw a diagram to explain to the audience what was happening.
Yeah, Primer doesn't do anything close to that. Which, uh, may support your point.
Gris - Mar 03, 2010 12:44:59 pm PST #7035 of 30000
Hey. New board.
Donnie Darko
Whatever Superman movie it is where he turns back time by spinning the earth backwards (okay, maybe not)
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2010 12:45:47 pm PST #7036 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Donnie Darko's in the article, Gris.
And it's the one I'd definitely yank from a top anything list. Boo, hiss!
Polter-Cow - Mar 03, 2010 12:46:30 pm PST #7037 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I've only seen it the once, but I really liked it. My friend called it "infuriatingly terrific."
Laga - Mar 03, 2010 1:01:19 pm PST #7038 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I liked Donnie Darko the first time I saw it but it gets worse every time I rewatch it.
I think Back to the Future is fun but not a great film and certainly not #1 anything.
I've never seen Timecrimes.
Idiocracy is terrible!
12 Monkeys was a mess but I heard the short film it's based on was good.
Polter-Cow - Mar 03, 2010 1:10:02 pm PST #7039 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I love 12 Monkeys, and La Jetee was all right.
Timecrimes sounds cool.
I love Back to the Future.
Aims - Mar 03, 2010 2:36:59 pm PST #7040 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
So Joe's been filming a thing for his class over the past week or so and they went to one of his co-filmer's apartment to shoot. Joe noticed that he had a "Cloverfield" movie poster framed on his wall. They had to move it to keep it out of the shot and the guy says, "Be very careful!" Joe says, "Heh. Not like it was a good movie." The guy gasped and said, "If you didn't like it, then you didn't watch it enough or understand it." Joe just kind of gaped at him.
Later they were talking other movies and somehow Bladerunner came up. Same guys says, "I didn't like that movie at all. It didn't have much of a story."
The pitfalls of going to film school with kids 10-20 years your junior.