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What did Noa see through the telescope?
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Starts out good but loses its way
Ben Foster was miscast
Sil's Al Pacino / Godfather impression
Really good
This movie vs Salmon fishing in the Yemen
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The premise sounds similar to the Japanese movie Alive. Have you seen it?
https://imdb.com/title/tt0331834/
That movie (Alive) is actually really good, sans the ending where it suddenly becomes goofy af. Always thought it could do with a proper Hollywood remake.
Robocat, Ranb, NorrinRad, Zarkoff, Moviechatterer etc. right now :D :D
https://x.com/TheRicanMemes/status/1854053739780300905
Anna and Ellie (not Emma) are step sisters, not half sisters - Anna is the daughter of Daniel (but not Celeste). Ellie is the daughter of Celeste and Paris.
And yes, Anna is Ellie's grandmother because she turns out to be Paris' mother and Paris is Ellie's father.
Hideous woman, inside and out.
Her serendipitous discovery of the star talent on the 11th hour aside, this was a great movie and very enjoyable indeed.
Not a big fan of Amy Adams, but she held her own against the always awesome Mr Eastwood and their chemistry was one of the best I've seen. Never liked her more than in this flick.
Love this movie, 8/10 for me.
YW. I had to re-watch a few scenes to follow the thread. Will no doubt pick up more clues when I watch it again down the line.
Also, Zeesha below pointed out the current year was 2022, not 2024 as I assumed, so that would make Paris' scenes occur around 2001/2.
Good catch! Yes, the date says 9-26-22.
You have sharp eyes.
It was the most confusing part in an already complicated plot, but makes sense once you re-watch.
Let's say that Anna originally goes missing in April (2024). Ellie goes looking for her, enters the time tunnel and sees Anna. But it is now (roughly) a month before the day she goes looking. Celeste is shown talking to the cops on the phone, saying Anna had followed her big sister alone a month ago and that's why when April Ellie sees Anna stuck in the boat, Anna still has her tooth intact and asks Ellie why she behaves that way (referring to a fight that April Ellie had had with her mom a month earlier before storming off, which from Anna's perspective, happened only a few hours earlier).
April Ellie then escorts (March) Anna back to their home (in March) and leaves. She goes back into the tunnel, exits in 2005, realizes the truth about Anna growing up in the past and returns to her current timeline (2024), finally letting her mom know Anna lived in the past.
Ellie is the only one who exited the time tunnel 1 day (or a few hours) after the first time she went through it, which is why she sees her double. The other 2 people who traveled through the tunnel end up in a time when they didn't exist, which is why they don't see a double of themselves - Anna, who gets taken back to 1952 where she originally never existed, and Paris, who travels to the future (from 2004 to 2024), where there is no living version of him, since he dies on the same day. Ellie also runs into her toddler version in 2005, when she encounters her mom after trying to grab the necklace from her car.
Good movie indeed, caught me by surprise and reminded me a bit of 'Where the Crawdads sing', in that it was well done, with a solid cast, no nauseating political BS and entertaining without a huge budget or CGI overload.
Yes, it was a bit tricky to keep track of. They (initially & IMO, cleverly) made it seem like Paris and Ellie are living in the same time, but Ellie is actually in the present (around 2024) and Paris' scenes are from about 20 years earlier (around 2003/4).
Anna, who goes missing as an 8 year old girl in 2024 is actually Paris' mom. Paris is Ellie's father, which makes Anna Ellie's grandmother and Daniel, Ellie's great grandfather (which is why in the end, she tells him that they are family, through Anna).
A rough timeline (after re-watching a few scenes):
Ellie lives with her mom Celeste, her stepdad Daniel and stepsister Anna (daughter of Daniel, but not Celeste). The beginning of the movie (original time where Anna goes missing) is around 2024.
Anna, Paris and Ellie run into the time tunnel and emerge at different times. Anna gets hurt and Paris finds her in 1952. Paris hands her over to some people to take her to a doctor. Anna gets stuck in that timeline and grows up, marrying Paris' dad and giving birth to him.
1999 - Anna dies in the car accident / drowning (1st scene), while her son Paris survives
~2003 - Paris' scenes - working on the boat, hooking up with Celeste and getting her pregnant
2005 - Ellie exits the time tunnel in this year, runs into her mom carrying the toddler version of Ellie. The mother (Celeste) thinks Ellie is a woman Paris is having an affair with and tells her to let him know he has a daughter (she originally tells adult Ellie about this after Anna goes missing). Ellie checks up on Anna's life in the internet cafe and realizes the truth
2024 - Paris re-enters the time tunnel in 1952 after handing Anna over, exits in 2024, gets arrested, carjacks Daniel & Celeste (who recognizes him), tries to escape from the cops and dies. Ellie enters the time tunnel again in 2005 (after internet cafe) and comes back to her correct timeline in 2024 - tells Daniel that they are family and lets her mom know Anna survived.
I could be off with the 2024 guesstimate (it could be a couple of years give or take), but otherwise, that's how I saw it happening. As many have pointed out (and I myself recognized), this was basically Dark's premise. Good, entertaining movie with a decent cast - I rate it an easy 7.5/10.
Grab the virtual helmet and put it on the Mexican god - I want to see it fight the digital god
And I agree, the segments weren't terrible so much as they were underwhelming. The family squaring off against the cops was funny and I hated that they didn't explore the lake concept more. Hoping V/H/S Beyond is better, cause I saving it to watch on Halloween.
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