Interstellar

interstellarWhile I loved all the visuals, and some elements of the story. The whole “love conquers all” angle really brought this down a few notches. Seriously? These people just need to get over themselves.

Also, the whole thing about flying into a black hole was frankly stupid. You know what happens if you fly into a black hole? You get ripped to pieces by the gravitational forces before you even get close. Stuff like this makes me a little angry – we wonder why the general public is so uninformed about science? It’s partly because of crap like this. While I don’t expect every movie to be a science lesson, they could at least try to not get it exactly wrong. I mean, the writers are just making up crap because they’re ignorant. Imagine they made a movie about surgery, and simply invented body parts with magical properties – it’d sound ridiculous. Just because most people don’t know squat about black holes doesn’t make it any different. They could have made a very similar plot without all the black hole nonsense.

U-571

I had really expected this to be a good movie, it was entertaining, but I’d hesitate to call it good. It was really predictable & overplayed the tension – like the actor’s tension was more important than what was going on in the movie… I guess that means I think it was overacted? I dunno. If you want to see a good WWII submarine movie, see Das Boot.

 

Sahara

I saw about half of this movie and wasn’t really paying attention. I think it was on a plane or something. Anyway, it was enough to see that much. The guy who wrote the book this was based-on (Clive Cussler) wrote one of the most ridiculous books I ever heard on tape (which I can’t remember the name of at this moment). This movie fit nicely in the ridiculous genre.

 

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

One of those “lots of intertwining short stories” things. It was well done, I especially liked the way the stories took place at different times, although they were shown at the same time (confused? see the movie). Lots of good acting, dialogue, etc… There’s no obvious “theme”, but it doesn’t really matter, the stories are all good enough they don’t really need a “theme”. I guess the “1 thing” might be, “What makes you happy or fulfilled?”… but that’s just a guess.