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I got curious about that film and struck gold.wikipedia posted:Odd Thomas (Yelchin) lives in a small town in California called Pico Mundo. His morning of August 14 begins with him coming out of his apartment, and meeting the ghost of a teenage girl named Penny Kallisto, who silently leads him to a street, where Harlo Landerson rolls his Pontiac convertible beside Odd and says hello. Odd immediately pulls the keys out of the ignition and accuses Harlo of raping and murdering Penny, noting two pieces of white felt from the victim that Harlo apparently has in his pocket. Harlo flees and Odd gives chase, with the chase culminating inside a child's room in a stranger's house. Harlo and Odd have a fistfight and Odd knocks Harlo unconscious. Odd waits on the scene and meets with his friend, police chief Wyatt Porter (Dafoe), who knows somewhat of Odd's psychic gifts and promises to spin the story to keep public attention away from Odd, as Odd does not want that attention. In his narration, he says, "I see dead people, but then, by God, I do something about it".
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Galaxy Quest is a very silly movie indeed. The original Star Trek cast is mistaken for actual space heroes by aliens and recruited for a dangerous mission, except if you called it Star Trek in the film you'd get sued. Alan Rickman plays the show's Leonard Nimoy analogue - a classically trained actor stuck in his 20-year-old role as an alien man with silly prosthetics and a catchphrase he loathes. It's not helping that one of the aliens idolizes his character on the show and has modeled his own life after his philosophy (that is, on real Earth, being used to advertise special offers at the local electronics shop). Then towards the end there's a scene that has no right to be anything but sappy and the payoff may have been telegraphed miles ahead, but by god this is Alan Rickman at the helm and he delivers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7bo_A6XnUU (Sadly it's also the point where his character stops being very interesting or prolific but even so, it's an obvious turning point for him, and Rickman portrays him as much more at ease with his castmates from that point on.)
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May 11, 2014 18:45
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BioEnchanted posted:Until Galaxy Quest I never figured just how weird the concept of fiction would be to describe to a person with no prior experience. It's basically a structured lie that we allow ourselves to be told. If the details of the lie are consistent, we can buy it for a few hours and meet the liar halfway, otherwise the lie is blown and out disbelief shatters. Basically, we like being lied to if we are in on the lie.
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