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Title: Duncan Jones, Source Code
Post by: General Battuta on April 09, 2011, 11:01:54 pm

It's not exactly ****ty but it's not really great, don't see it.

Okay I mean I guess I can spare a few more words, not as good as his previous and mostly-excellent film Moon, not really full of any gaping flaws, just brought down by lots of nagging plot holes and some weird technobabble and janky pacing and a too-saccharine ending. I'm glad it was made though, it's a high-concept SF movie in an era of really terrible action-SF movies. Keep rocking, Duncan Jones.

going to go get excited to see hanna now

ed: badduda spell gud

Title: Re: Duncan Jones, Source Code
Post by: Mefustae on April 09, 2011, 11:30:15 pm

Well, Moon is an incredibly had act to follow. That was some truly awesome sci-fi at work. Not flawless, by any stretch of the imagination, but still bloody good for a director with no previous feature film experience.

Title: Re: Duncan Jones, Source Code
Post by: Nuclear1 on April 10, 2011, 02:53:20 am

I thought Source Code was actually quite good.

Title: Re: Duncan Jones, Source Code
Post by: Mongoose on April 10, 2011, 03:01:54 am

A few of my movie-nerd friends have been raving about it, but I'm not the movie-nerd type, so I'm not really interested.  Hell, seeing "Source Code" used as the title of a movie made me facepalm somewhat. :p

Title: Re: Duncan Jones, Source Code
Post by: S-99 on April 10, 2011, 07:05:40 am

Quote from: Mongoose on April 10, 2011, 03:01:54 am

Hell, seeing "Source Code" used as the title of a movie made me facepalm somewhat. :p

Same here. I haven't seen it, but i can tell from the previews is that it has nothing to do with developers in pre-compilation phase of making software.

Title: Re: Duncan Jones, Source Code
Post by: General Battuta on April 10, 2011, 08:29:26 am

Anyone who gets hung up on the title is a terrible sperglord! It's a military operation, you don't seriously think Operation Phantom Thunder was about ghostly thunder, do you?

Title: Re: Duncan Jones, Source Code
Post by: Mongoose on April 10, 2011, 11:53:00 am

No, though I did have to look up "sperglord" to figure out what the hell you were talking about. :p

Title: Re: Duncan Jones, Source Code
Post by: General Battuta on April 10, 2011, 11:55:51 am

I dunno, I feel like maybe people should go see this movie. Maybe it'll be an awesome ride if you don't rankle at sloppy use of quantum mechanics.

I maintain that the pacing went all to hell and the ending was dumb, though.

Title: Re: Duncan Jones, Source Code
Post by: Locutus of Borg on April 10, 2011, 09:17:17 pm

Would be best if the last five minutes were chopped off the end

Title: Re: Duncan Jones, Source Code
Post by: Nuclear1 on April 10, 2011, 09:31:37 pm

Agreed, the ending was a little cheesy.  They could have taken off the last few minutes and it would've been perfect.

Title: Re: Duncan Jones, Source Code
Post by: S-99 on April 12, 2011, 12:23:31 pm

Wow tutta.
 It's my opinion that computer lingo for the name of a movie not about computers or software is something that's pretty alien to do (not to mention different degrees of misleading).

Let's imagine pretty woman was called A+. While we're at it, we'll call a movie about time travel source code.

Im only hung up on the title making me cringe and nothing else. It appears to be decent exciting sci-fi movie that i do want see regardless.

Title: Re: Duncan Jones, Source Code
Post by: Nuclear1 on April 12, 2011, 12:46:33 pm

Quote from: S-99 on April 12, 2011, 12:23:31 pm

Wow tutta, amazing insult of intelligence.

I totally see how this was necessary. 

Title: Re: Duncan Jones, Source Code
Post by: S-99 on April 12, 2011, 01:31:25 pm

Yeah i was. I edited it out.

Title: Re: Duncan Jones, Source Code
Post by: Topgun on April 15, 2011, 05:41:26 pm

gonna watch it in a little while. hopefully its good.

Title: Re: Duncan Jones, Source Code
Post by: mxlm on April 16, 2011, 02:13:15 am

Quote from: General Battuta on April 09, 2011, 11:01:54 pm

going to go get excited to see hanna now

You absolutely should be.

Title: Re: Duncan Jones, Source Code
Post by: Topgun on April 16, 2011, 01:01:33 pm

Was good butt not great.