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It's looks very interesting. Definitely a social commentary on these types of communities.
I adore Laura Dern in anything I see her in, and I'm enjoying snappy, potty-mouthed Reese Witherspoon. Great cast all around.
I'm interested how Nikol Kidman's story would develop. And I suspect something dark in relation to the father of Shailene Woodley's kid.
We had TCM when I was a kid (I don’t live in the USA), but it disappeared a while back, and I’ve never seen it on any cable provider’s list of channels.
I remember watching movies like ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?’, ‘2001: A space odyssey’, ‘Who’s that knocking on my door’, ‘Dog day afternoon’ and many more on TCM. It introduced me to a lot of movies I wouldn’t have sought out at a young age. Sadly gone now and greatly missed, but I have very fond memories related to it (weird to say about a TV channel, but there you go).
I didn’t watch it live (since it was on in the middle of the night here), but I did catch it on the news. I felt second hand embarrassment for Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. And I felt bad for the people from La La Land, to be called on stage and not be the winners. But it’s a honest mistake, it could happen to anyone.
First Elizabeth Taylor and now Beatty and Dunaway, old folks can’t catch a break in these award shows. :D
I’m familiar with the story, but all these years I never made that connection with my user name :)
It wasn’t just Vlad Tepes (though I believe that was something Bram Stoker made up for his story). Belief in vampires was widely spread around these parts back them. People genuinely believed that a bad person = vampire. Archeologists in Bulgaria have been discovering “vampire” graves from the Middle Ages for years now. All the folklore surrounding them is really fascinating and some superstitions are preserved to this day, though they’ve mostly lost their original function (calling someone a vampire is a genuine insult, though). And they’ve been muddled a bit with the pop culture aspects of vampires.
Anyway, I’m definitely staying! So far people have been great, and I hope the site continues to grow.
Me neither. I'd go insane.
And also it wouldn't hurt if there was someone looking like Chris Pratt for me to wake up :)
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not :D
An engineering film would be good as well, but I liked the moral ambiguity in this scenario. Not that you wouldn't have that with him waking someone else up, but it's a bit different with the romance angle.
Didn't Laurence Fishburne say that they didn't have the equipment to put people back into hibernation on board the ship?
I think that they wanted to bring humanity together. By landing all over the world they’re kind of forcing us to cooperate. And once the specialists decipher it and figure out its grammar and vocabulary they would start teaching other people.
I don’t think releasing it to the Internet would’ve been very helpful. It would still be the linguists doing the deciphering. But without a point of reference or an actual speaker (or an air drawer) of the language, they wouldn’t have been able to do that. People weren’t able to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphs before the Rosetta stone was discovered, and those depict things from Earth.
Learning a language is a social thing. We have plenty of resources for learning foreign languages by ourselves, but many people still choose to go to a course or hire a tutor. You need someone with a thorough knowledge of a language to guide you through the subtleties in pronunciation and meaning (and time travel giving abilities in this case).
Yes, I agree. Wake up another egineer or someone that understands how spaceship software works.
But hey, what we'd do in real life wouldn't always make for a very interesting movie, so i'm ok with him waking Aurora up.
He did find where the crew pods were, though. He just couldn't get to them. They were in that sealed off area that he was trying to break into. Laurence Fishburne finaly opened it with his special clearance (and gave it to Jim later).
And I remember Aurora suggesting they wake up the crew when things were going to hell, but they were running out of time by that point.
Joe Lando in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
As long as they keep making 'em, I'm gonna keep ignoring 'em (or try at least). James Bond has been parodied, and spoofed, and homaged so much, that I feel like I have a pretty good idea what it's all about, and I don't feel like I'd get much from that particular film series.
James Bond - Any. I did sit down to watch the latest one, but I fell asleep pretty early on, so I don't think it counts.
Harry Potter - except 1, 3 and 4
Transformers - same scenario as James Bond
The Hobbit - except An Unexpected Journey
Mad Men
The Sopranos
Twin Peaks