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Movie Time 2.0: TT mini reviews

I also saw it yesterday afternoon. Loved it, Grace even came off as slightly less of a wunderkind which was appreciated. Only real complaint I had about the book was needing to roll my eyes at a few places where he was a bit too clever.

My wife cried throughout the whole thing, they spaced the emotional bits just right apparently.
 
jpfriction said:
I also saw it yesterday afternoon. Loved it, Grace even came off as slightly less of a wunderkind which was appreciated. Only real complaint I had about the book was needing to roll my eyes at a few places where he was a bit too clever.

My wife cried throughout the whole thing, they spaced the emotional bits just right apparently.
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I felt like if anything they made it even clearer how much better at math/physics Eridians are than humans. It's another set of changes I really liked.

Octopus Prime said:
To be fair in that last bit he was explaining it to an alien rock-guy; have to assume he didn’t have a working knowledge of Latin grammar
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Yeah, after seeing it I think that worked just fine. But her thesis is in phage so she's entitled to be pedantic ha.

If anyone is interested in other pedantic complaints from working scientists, my coworkers (separately!) said that there's a moment that snapped them out of the movie (but not enough to dislike like it to be clear) and none of them would tell me what it was to see if I spotted it. It's super obvious, he doesn't balance the centrifuge, those two tubes should be on opposite sides, that's bad! I went to try to find a picture and can't but found a reddit thread about people freaking out about it. It's a funny mistake in a movie with a spin drive.

Also please have a Reddit thread of photoshopped posters that I am absolutely loving.
 
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The only complaints I had about Hail Mary is that a few of the people who I went with said that it was distracting/unbelievable that such an attractive man was that big of a nerd. I do not personally mind such things.
 
That's a strange take in 2026, very "Revenge of the Nerds" 1980s pop culture view. Plenty of beautiful people are nerds.
 
lol. What am I to believe that famous actor and attractive man Ryan Gosling is a school teacher? Ridiculous. He was a children’s toy only a few months ago!

If I had to criticize anything about his performance its that he wears his glasses like a god damn maniac. If those fall and get scratched it is on you, buddy.
 
4-So said:
That's a strange take in 2026, very "Revenge of the Nerds" 1980s pop culture view. Plenty of beautiful people are nerds.
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Yeah as I said, I don't agree with it, and I brought it up as a roundabout way to illustrate that nobody I know has any meaningful criticisms of it lol
 
The Ugly Stepsister is good, though maybe a bit predictable/shallow and doesn't go as far or as hard as I think I expected. You get The Substance except it's Cinderella but less intense.
 
jpfriction said:
lol. What am I to believe that famous actor and attractive man Ryan Gosling is a school teacher? Ridiculous. He was a children’s toy only a few months ago!

If I had to criticize anything about his performance its that he wears his glasses like a god damn maniac. If those fall and get scratched it is on you, buddy.
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And he sure as hell can’t get to a lenscrafter
 
Despite seeing a number of commercials for Project: Hail Mary, I still don’t know what the premise of the movie is. It’s got a little Farscape muppet fella, so that’s cool.
 
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R.R. Bigman said:
Despite seeing a number of commercials for Project: Hail Mary, I still don’t know what the premise of the movie is. It’s got a little Farscape muppet fella, so that’s cool.
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Something is causing the Sun, and most of our neighboring stars to slowly go dark. Projections show that in about 30 years, global temperatures will fall least 15C and optimistically a quarter of the Earth's population will starve from famine. But there's one star ~4 Light Years away where this isn't happening. So the world governments convene "Project Hail Mary" to send a manned expedition out to that star system to see if they can't figure out why this one star isn't going dark, and if so, find a way to save Sol. Traveling that distance at sublight speeds is essentially a one way trip for the astronauts chosen to go on this voyage.
 
That sounds like a Sci-fi story from the 60’s with a crazy book cover. Or that one episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog where the family have to change the sun’s light bulb.
 
You're not wrong lol. But while the science is beyond flimsy, the spirit of the film largely adheres to exercising of scientific principles and a humanist philosophy that felt almost Star Treky at times.
 
Haven’t seen the movie yet, but with the book I felt most of the science wasn’t *too* far a stretch after you take as given the critical basically-magic thing the [actual cause of the problem] can do. And even there, there’s an attempt to keep it within the most basic known laws of the universe, even if the actual mechanism is hand waved craziness,
 
Project: Hail Mary is very much a classic sci-fi adventure story and while the "hard" in "hard" sci-fi might be questionable, Lord and Miller capture the spirit of it with their trademark humour. While they've been doing a lot of producing but it's actually been over a decade since they directed together and I realize how much I missed them (though many produced projects definitely have that tone and quality). They are really good at juggling visual spectacle and humour while still being character based.


It's interesting to think about the scene where we learn Grace was forced into his role because I can imagine in one of their comedy movies, particularly their animated family movies could play almost the same but for comedy and while there is humour within it, it's a really heartbreaking scene putting it near the end. Narratively, it works the same way in saying "this character's arc is to learn he is capable of being brave"
 
Just finished Deathstalker, the latest movie from the Psycho Goreman guy.

It is without doubt, the finest film ever committed to celluloid.

I give it 30,000/10

May the sun never set on its director.
 
Ooh I can do this one. Here's a barrage of mini reviews.

Mario Galaxy Movie is nice and fun, I like it.

The Rip is boring and forgettable, but I was forced to watch it.

Star Wars The Phantom Menace... also forced. But this is a way funnier story. Basically, my mom got into Star Wars by watching Andor, and me and my dad were arguing over the watch order. I wanted to skip the prequels, but my dad decided to just show a sped-up-through version of the prequels, skipping all the filler. We also did this for Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Though I had to go back for college before we could get to New Hope...

Wake Up Dead Man was amazing, even it the Christian references probably made less sense to me.

FNAF 2 was fun and campy.
 
Wake Up Dead Man needed the parish to be nominally Catholic for the sake of story logic so that the guy could be sent there by a bishop, but the whole movie plays really loose with the theology even before the part of the story where the other guy had de-Christianized the church with the extremely blunt visual metaphor of taking the cross down from the wall leaving a visible shadow where it had been. I'd be interested to hear the questions too.
 
I guess I wonder if there would be anything that I would've missed not growing up Christian
 
It is unusual to have a priest who is as interesting as any of the priests in the movie.

It is not unusual to have one lady way too involved in the day to day workings and politics of the church (I’m talking about you, Joy).
 
jpfriction said:
It is not unusual to have one lady way too involved in the day to day workings and politics of the church (I’m talking about you, Joy).
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Yeah a parish often has lay people helping out with the backstage stuff; stocking the wafers and altar wine, checking the candles, etc.
 
My useless Wake Up Dead Man fact is that one of the early scenes is the same location as the Never Gonna Give You Up music video.


I saw it with my mom and spouse who were raised quite religious and I remember them pointing out that Martha's name gives some hints to her character and they gave a bit more in-depth Road to Damascus references. I think there was also something where a character knocks on something in a way that references a story from the bible? Number of knocks or something?
 
It was a friend's 40th birthday this weekend and we went to see Devil Wears Prada 2 as a group. Big overall themes of how evil corporate takeovers are and how awful AI is which I did not expect. It's still the fashion industry as a focus and therefore something I'm not super into, but definitely had more fun than I thought I would, this wasn't something I would have gone to see on my own.
 
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