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Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Nobody asked for a less visually impressive Interstellar, Villeneuve. Better cast, though.

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Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Shaggar posted:

it didn't make any sense in the context of the movie where the premise is what regular ol' humans would do in the situation. irl the soldiers there would be boring but competent same as everyone else in the movie and their primary job would be keeping actual crazies away.

They attack the aliens so they can have at least one explosion in the movie and to make stupid people enjoy the lazy trope of the dumb, racist soldier. it sticks out as very bad writing in an otherwise pretty good film. the summary for stupid people at the end of the movie is there for a similar reason.

Yeah, Contact handled a bombing on the alien machine better by having it be a a plausible psycho like religious nut Jake Busey. Hard to think anything this movie does that hasn't been done better.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Jenner posted:

If so, why doesn't Amy Adams just make some different decisions and keep looking forward until she gets the Golden Ending?

Because the movie is about a woman coming to accept the loss of a child. It's not, say, Next, which is literally about a dude who sees the future. Prophecy is just an analogy in this movie.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

The book makes it easier to understand.

The book and the movie are different stories. That the movie includes something the book doesn't - Louise explicitly acting on knowledge of the future in the present to guide her behavior - makes it clear that vision of the future works differently between the two.

BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

That's not the point of the movie or the book.

It's the point of both, despite the differences.

sector_corrector posted:

jump in a woodshredder, dipshit

Sorry the truth hurts :(

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

I'd say you have a pretty narrow understanding natch

Less a fatal diagnosis than the death arising from it, I suppose. Fair point.

Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Dec 3, 2016

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Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


RainTree posted:

You're dumb as gently caress.

Perhaps, but still right about the movie :)

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