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A White Guy posted:So, I watched Interstellar last night, good musical score, great visuals. Interstellar is a well-made film, with a terrible script. It's littered with dumb exposition ("maybe love is some artifact of a higher dimension that we can't consciously perceive"), manufactured dilemmas, characters pulling solutions out of their rear end and then later being ignorant of things they should have accounted for (e.g. time dilation). For an SF film that bathes in physics and high falutin' talk, it's remarkably stupid.
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BiggerBoat posted:OK. I suppose I can see that but why though? It doesn't add much of anything to the movie other than to take me out of it - at least for me. In fact, I find it irrationally distracting. I was pretty tepid about Knives Out - seemed like a very standard drawing room mystery - but my distraction was Chris Evans. Maybe it was the makeup or the lighting but his face looked like a CGI rendition of itself.
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That Italian Guy posted:I'm rewatching BSG and I had forgotten in S4 how everything gets incredibly bleak after they find Earth. And I get it, the show definitely sets the mood for the disappointment and the failure, but I don't think it had set the stakes for "well, now we're hosed", since the space caravan had already travelled a shitton of void and now they even have cylon tech on their side to find an habitable planet. I took that as the survivors were just exhausted and mentally worn down at that point, and had no optimism left. But yes, the ending still sucks. The overarching plot of BSG is nonsense, but I thought the individual episodes were tight, especially when they had to deal with messy realities: starvation, rebellion, mutiny. If they'd just ended mid search, while they were still trying to find a home, it would have been fine. But no, the ending contorts itself trying to make sense after years of random plot twists.
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Gromit posted:No guild navigators is a disappointment. Loved those 3rd stage monsters in the original movie. That is a great scene when the Navigator's tank is hauled in and his spokesperson barks into a microphone, his lip movements not matching the words that are heard. There's lots of goofy things in Lynch's Dune, but that's a nice alien setpiece - this is not our world.
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Ommin posted:A show I really liked with an interesting premise, great cast, and solid writing; that started strong but then petered out incredibly quickly, was Designated Survivor. That's a good one. You can practically see the join marks where the show converts from a conspiracy thriller to the West Wing.
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