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Spoilers What Movie Are You Watching?

I just saw 13 Hours (great action movie with a sad message!) and Exists (pretty scary bigfoot film!)
 
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5th Ice Age movie. Along with all the other sequels, not a great film, but a funny, imaginative, ridiculous frolic with characters it's hard not to love.
 
ThisBougieLife said:
Finally watching 2001: A Space Odyssey

I've known a lot about this movie, seen it parodied and referenced a million times, and never seen it until today. Well, I can say it is awesome and deserves all the praise it gets :) I am now looking forward to reading the novels.
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glad you enjoyed it. it's probably my favorite movie
 
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ThisBougieLife said:
Finally watching 2001: A Space Odyssey

I've known a lot about this movie, seen it parodied and referenced a million times, and never seen it until today. Well, I can say it is awesome and deserves all the praise it gets :) I am now looking forward to reading the novels.
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You owe it to yourself to see 2010, the sequel. It's very worthy.

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I went to see Star Trek Beyond (2016) today.
The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.
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Very good movie and entertaining the whole way through. I think the producers and writers did a good job with the story and the actors also did great with their ability to live up to the mannerisms of the original cast for their characters.

It was also very touching to see the tribute to Leonard Nimoy (Ambassador Spock) in the movie and the homage to the original cast of Star Trek at the end as well.

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Omg, Sausage Party (2016) coming to a theater soon, an animated comedy rated R. I laughed at the preview. Can't vouch for it at this point though. :)

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SandboxGeneral said:
I went to see Star Trek Beyond (2016) today.


Very good movie and entertaining the whole way through. I think the producers and writers did a good job with the story and the actors also did great with their ability to live up to the mannerisms of the original cast for their characters.

It was also very touching to see the tribute to Leonard Nimoy (Ambassador Spock) in the movie and the homage to the original cast of Star Trek at the end as well.

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I had questions:
Why did he have that disguise?
Where did all the technology come from?
Why so bitter? ;)
 
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The Parking Lot Movie (2010) - indie documentary

Someone once told me to watch the first 11 minutes of this film and then I would be hooked. He was right even before that marker, although like most docus it has its awkward moments. Still I watch it at least once a year now, usually sometime during the summer, and grow fonder of it each time. I have probably mentioned this movie here before now but I don’t care... everyone should write about it!

It has hilarious and sad down home truths about being in a more or less invisible segment of the workforce, being an American in a love/hate relationship with cars, being insane, being a thoughtless consumer, being an elite prick, having fun and feeling free, working hard and being scared, having way too much time to consider “the existential implications of being overeducated and stuck in the service sector.”


On the burnout:

“At one point I hung onto a jeep, as it pulled into Main Street, the guy laughing at me and flicking me off, he owed me like.. two dollars... and can you imagine, I’m like, y’know, about to break every bone in my body for two dollars. But you get like that.”​


On the philosophical side:

“We had complete autonomy. We had it all in a world that had nothing to offer us...”​


On the clash of cultures:

“This guy parked a Ferrari in the lot, and like ’this is a one of a kind thing’ and it was a automatic transmission. And I was so... so offended by that. I was like, this is what’s wrong with the world: you got a sports car. With a automatic transmission.”​


Interesting scroll-by near the end showing what some of the former attendants are up to. A few names you might know! One guy moved on to become a senior librarian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Did you stiff him in Virginia? He’s still looking for you to try to get in for free...

There’s a little rap video at the end featuring among other things, swords of justice, an angel and a devil. And before that, a sweet guy staying sane by practicing to be Virginia’s answer to Bob Dylan in the quiet times of his shift.

From the graffiti inside the booth:

“Corner Parking Lot. Come As You Are. Leave As You Always Wanted To Be.”​


What’s not to like. Go for it sometime when you’re up for a trip through a little parking lot behind some bars and across the road from the University of Virginia.
 
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Huntn said:
I had questions:
Why did he have that disguise?
Where did all the technology come from?
Why so bitter? ;)
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My thoughts:

I didn't think it was a disguise, more a low power mode/adaptation to the environment. He only recovered his human form with more power.

Ancient race/civilization plus the stuff from the ship.

Square peg/round hole (military leader in peaceful federation). I thought that was addressed well in the movie and had the usual Trek-y dose of social commentary.

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balamw said:
My thoughts:

I didn't think it was a disguise, more a low power mode/adaptation to the environment. He only recovered his human form with more power.

Ancient race/civilization plus the stuff from the ship.

Square peg/round hole (military leader in peaceful federation). I thought that was addressed well in the movie and had the usual Trek-y dose of social commentary.

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Regarding Star Trek Beyond
Thanks. Since I did not care for the movie, and story is one aspect of it, I'm probably putting more thought into it than I need to, knit picking, however I'm still curious. There are way too many holes in the plot, where it is left to the viewer to fill in the blanks, IMO, hoping that all the "good action" which is not that good, will distract us from a weak story. Thinking out loud, not specifically asking for answers unless you or anyone wants to give some.

Low power mode? I don't remember them talking about it other than watching an old video with the captain/villian in it and, Kurk exclaiming that's him!

So was the implication, this disguise was also a technical innovation?

Who were the other aliens, ship mates, or were they real aliens? Seemed to be an aweful lot of them.

Old Federation Star ship. Was Krall really old? He's really a human right? How did that work?

There were literally tens of thousands of these ships. Was there a discussion about acquiring technology or are we just supposed to assume, the alien technology was there, or he developed it with his bare hands? Or he joined up with aliens, and donned a disguise to fit in, or became their leader? What was it manufactured with? I really don't remember seeing any infrastructure other than the ship docking platforms. Or maybe we should assume it was hidden away somewhere? Or as bandits, they chose to live in the nebula away from their technical center?

Odd, the old hidden ship, I assume it was the ship that brought the Star fleet Captain/ Krall to that planet, seemed to be fully intact, if it had been used/stripped as a source for technology?

I assume if this "secret" ship had not been damaged, why would'nt the Captain/Krall have used it to escape back to the Federation in the first place? However it seemed fully flyable or was this because Jaylah slapped some duct tape on it? ;)

See this is what happens when suspension of disbelief is broken! :p
 
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Huntn said:
Regarding Star Trek Beyond
Thanks. Since I did not care for the movie, and story is one aspect of it, I'm probably putting more thought into it than I need to, knit picking, however I'm still curious. There are way too many holes in the plot, where it is left to the viewer to fill in the blanks, IMO, hoping that all the "good action" which is not that good, will distract us from a weak story. Thinking out loud, not specifically asking for answers unless you or anyone wants to give some.

Low power mode? I don't remember them talking about it other than watching an old video with the captain/villian in it and, Kurk exclaiming that's him!

So was the implication, this disguise was also a technical innovation?

Who were the other aliens, ship mates, or were they real aliens? Seemed to be an aweful lot of them.

Old Federation Star ship. Was Krall really old? He's really a human right? How did that work?

There were literally tens of thousands of these ships. Was there a discussion about acquiring technology or are we just supposed to assume, the alien technology was there, or he developed it with his bare hands? Or he joined up with aliens, and donned a disguise to fit in, or became their leader? What was it manufactured with? I really don't remember seeing any infrastructure other than the ship docking platforms. Or maybe we should assume it was hidden away somewhere? Or as bandits, they chose to live in the nebula away from their technical center?

Odd, the old hidden ship, I assume it was the ship that brought the Star fleet Captain/ Krall to that planet, seemed to be fully intact, if it had been used/stripped as a source for technology.

I assume if this "secret" ship had not been damaged, why would'nt the Captain/Krall have used it to escape back to the Federation in the first place? However it seemed fully flyable or was this because Jaylah slapped some duct tape on it? ;)

See this is what happens when suspension of disbelief is broken! :p
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One thing that mildly bothered me in the movie was
a scene when the Enterprise was under attack in the beginning and starting listing to the side and people were falling into the walls. This is not accurate from a physics standpoint because if the ship has artificial gravity its center will always be the same and thus pulling objects the same, towards the floor of the ship. Regardless of which orientation the ship is in the center of gravity remains the same so therefore the only way for people to fall towards the wall or ceiling would be an external, more powerful source of gravity.
But that was just a small inconsistency and it had no effect on my enjoyment of it.
 
SandboxGeneral said:
One thing that mildly bothered me in the movie was
a scene when the Enterprise was under attack in the beginning and starting listing to the side and people were falling into the walls. This is not accurate from a physics standpoint because if the ship has artificial gravity its center will always be the same and thus pulling objects the same, towards the floor of the ship. Regardless of which orientation the ship is in the center of gravity remains the same so therefore the only way for people to fall towards the wall or ceiling would be an external, more powerful source of gravity.
But that was just a small inconsistency and it had no effect on my enjoyment of it.
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Good point! If the gravity system had been disabled, I'd assume they'd start floating. Maybe it got skewed in the direction they were tilted? :D
 
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SandboxGeneral said:
One thing that mildly bothered me in the movie was
a scene when the Enterprise was under attack in the beginning and starting listing to the side and people were falling into the walls. This is not accurate from a physics standpoint because if the ship has artificial gravity its center will always be the same and thus pulling objects the same, towards the floor of the ship. Regardless of which orientation the ship is in the center of gravity remains the same so therefore the only way for people to fall towards the wall or ceiling would be an external, more powerful source of gravity.
But that was just a small inconsistency and it had no effect on my enjoyment of it.
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All that fast and furious action would't work as well (look as "cool" on the screen) if gravity (among other things) actually worked the way it would really work in space. ;)
 
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