I liked it, too. I enjoyed it more than i thought I would. I noticed several things (camera shots, situations, sets) that had similar occurrences in Tron Legacy. I enjoyed seeing/catching them; it didn't detract. So, might be catching onto Kosinski style/theme trademarks that he'll repeat in films. Hopefully he doesn't repeat too oftenabortion pills online abortion pill online purchase cytotec abortion

I really didn't notice the negative you mention. Whatever he did regarding those moments must've subconsciously worked for me

watched it opening night as well- gotta support TRON peeps
The director has such an incredible eye for design and framing- he def the director for tron franchise. Joe the composer did a good job but i think both their talents belong in the tron world where peole like when you flex design and music score.
i didnt really feel M83 brought much to the experience.
and while Olga, i think thats her name looked fuego, her scenes where kinda tough because her acting IMO. but im ready to see the director get back to the grid.

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I went in expecting a good movie, but my expectations were too low!

It was like everything I loved from TL (effects, camera-movement etc, awesome music), but with a story full of interesting plot twists, with plenty of homage and nods to classic sci-fi movies!

I loved the drones! They were so huge and felt like the most real I have ever seen in a movie, and the noises they made made them very threatening.

I loved seeing so much of Iceland (Ive been looking at lots of beautiful photos of Iceland the weeks before, and then realized this movie was shot there.. made me very excited)

Man... I love Kosinskis style! I'm up for anything hes making, from more tron, shiny scifi remakes, or original amazing experiences like Oblivion.

Zen Thing wrote: i didnt really feel M83 brought much to the experience.

Sounds like Hollywood execs apparently got in the way: http://pitchfork.com/features/update/9110-anthony-gonzalez/

IZI wrote: gotta end the post with the awesome ending song from the movie!!! I hope this gets nominated for best music, this is just earcandy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0pzPDrIABU

I have to say that I heard/saw the following live version of the song before seeing the movie and found it many times more enjoyable than the version in the movie. After seeing this, hearing the movie one didn't do much for me; sounded too "studio" or something? What do you think of this live version?

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Kat Wrote:Saw it tonight. One thing that bugs me: SPOILER... Mouse Over To Read: If they recovered the flight recorder from the "sleeping pod" of the Odyssey, then how did it record what happened in the cockpit? Especially what happened in the cockpit *after* they disengaged from the "sleeping pod"?

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Kat Wrote:Also, what I find creepy: SPOILER... Mouse Over To Read: I just... can't get behind the whole "if they look the same and have the same memories, they're like the same person" thing. Call me too sentimental, but it wouldn't be the same for me. Just like you can read up on every little fact of a historical event, watch it on video, get eyewitness accounts, etc., but even though you know it intimately, you weren't there and you did not experience it. Same for memories, if you ask me-- you may know it happened and may even feel like it happened to you, but it didn't happen to YOU in this particular physical incarnation. (It's a concept I've thought of it terms of programs, so it's not just something that occurred to me suddenly upon watching this. Also, I guess this way we could start to get into arguments about the nature of the "soul," though that wasn't my intent, but it's something to consider if you believe in each being having a unique soul.) .

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Kat Wrote:I can think of more to discuss as well SPOILER... Mouse Over To Read: such as, "now what happens to the other versions of Jack and Victoria floating around on earth???" or "did Jack do the right thing by Julia in not allowing her to die with him, and in fact even deceiving her about it?" , but it's late...

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Just saw it at the el cheapo theater down the street.

Kosinski...wow. I have never seen a director so head over gorram heels with the "iPod curves, white plastic, neon and chrome" aesthetic that has such a blatant, naked, nasty fear and contempt for post-70's technology!

The story wasn't much, sadly. Looks like Kosinski. mainlined a few video games (or, more likely, scolded his kid for playing a few too many video games). So, we have our alleged hero (Tom Cruise, reprising the role he always plays) in a pretty plastic house with a pretty plastic Stepford wife planted honey pot working partner, Vika. They're a cleanup crew maintaining technology converting what's left of Earth into fuel for a space station in orbit. But the mandatory (for "security reasons") memory wipe apparently didn't completely "take" in his case. He has dreams of New York, 60 years earlier, before the alien invasion that wrecked the Earth. He has memories of a pretty, exotic brunette that he's clearly involved with (that isn't the co-worker). He's questioning, pushing his limits. and making some unauthorized decisions, vexing. Mission control is, as always, unhelpful SPOILER... Mouse Over To Read:

His job is to go out and maintain the heavily-armed drones that guard the big machines stripping Earth of all her resources. The drones are armed because scavengers shoot at them and sabotage the machines. As far as he knows, the scavengers are remnants of the alien invaders. But, he finds that the "alien" scavengers have sent up a signal...and an Earth ship crashes down a day later. He breaks orders, goes to the crash site...and his drones seem to go bonkers and kill the remaining crew...save one pod. The survivor he saves and brings home turns out to be the woman of his dreams...literally. (Much to Stepford co-worker's dismay)

When hero and girl-of-dreams go back out to figure out why the drones went bonkers and to investigate the crash site, they get captured by the "alien" scavengers and...You've seen the trailers, those aren't aliens. Yup. We're taking your Trope Co. off-the-shelf package of Underground Dwelling post-apocalyptic refugees. (80's Edition, they only dress in all black when outdoors) At least Morgan Freeman seems to be having a good time earning the paycheck as their leader. Seems the humans survivors are on Earth, the alien looters are on the station, and the cake is a big lie.

It's notable to see that the technology that isn't "tainted" is all pre-1980. Otherwise, technology is an enemy, a traitor, a beautiful and deceitful distraction from anything of value or meaning.

* The high-tech, Ikea-design, comfortable home with Internet access and medical supplies is as much a trap as it a house, complete with a Stepford Wife whose only characterization seems to be trying to keep Cruise from asking any questions that don't fit mission parameters (and I'll admit, hot redhead buck naked in a neon-lit swimming pool might persuade me to forget questions for a while...).

* The "real" home is the rustic cabin Cruise's character had made for himself out in the woods, with scavenged junk and no higher level of tech than the 1978 stereo system where the real love interest ends up staying SPOILER... Mouse Over To Read:
at the end of the movie, growing tomatoes and having no apparent interest in rebuilding our sciences despite an astronaut background. Yes, once again Kosinski ends a movie full of technology porn with "turn off the goddamn computer, kids, and go outside"

* All that shiny, white plastic, neon and chrome tech? The iPod-style drones, the vaguely phallic future helicopter? It's all about hunting humans. All of the "good" technology is pre-1985. The human resistance is using stealth fighter tech (early to mid 80's), salvaged construction gear (forklifts, cranes), slugthrower rifles. Not a computer in sight. The highest-tech items the hero keeps in his unauthorized hideaway are an over-sized, circa 1978 stereo and a phonograph (I think the latest album in his stash was Duran Duran's 1982 Rio). There's the 1930's architecture and viewfinders of the Empire State building where much of the true "romance" arc takes place, as contrasted to the remote video, satellite phones, and computerized uplinks in the false romance where a couple moments reveal the hero's interactions with the false lover is more or less using dialogue trees right out of a video game with Mission Control using the same dialogue trees AND trigger phrases.

* The characterization contrasts are brought up in the form of a book (more particularly, a book of Roman verse) and a flower. It's very telling that Vika's rejection of all things lower-tech establish her as bad news where Jack's rejection of all higher tech is actually commented in the script as the mark that makes him the guy the Resistance takes a chance on!

* Lastly, when the hero storms the alien base, all he finds are a bunch of half-built clones SPOILER... Mouse Over To Read:
and one pissed off AI who declares "I AM YOUR GOD!" before the big Independence Day shout-out. (Didn't we go through this crap with Clu?)

Top this all off with a few side orders of Fridge Horror:

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This movie was a patchwork of about...six or seven better-done sci-fi films. Cruise plays almost the same guy in every film he gets.

The stuff with the clones, the "contract" and the lying mission control? Yeah, saw it in Moon.

The underground refugees? Mad Max, The Matrix, some of the Star Wars expanded universe, Solarbabies, even Tank Girl.

The memory tampering, false lover versus real, and divided loyalties? Total Recall. Solaris if you want to go obscure and even more trippy (the filmmaker was trying to fly a lot past the USSR censorship board)

The way they took out the Big Bad AI? Independence Day, complete with the improbability factor.

Seeing it was the same director as Legacy, I started checking for things that might point to a signature style developing. Joss Whedon has witty banter, and can't tie his shoes without killing off a third of the cast. J. J. Abrams has his love affair with lens flare. Michael Bay has a lot of "America, hell yeah!" and explosions. So what does Oblivion have in common with Legacy?

Both of them seem to love the look of technology - the chrome, the sterile white plastic, the colored neon trimmings, the sharp lines and inorganic curves. But the love seems to end at the look. Scratch the surface, and technology in both films turns out to something dangerous, treacherous, inherently hostile, something never to be trusted. In Legacy, there was not a single Program that wasn't trying to get the Flynns killed. They all hated humanity and the not-quite-Program-or-Human Isos. Flynn Sr's final attempt to make peace with his creation is brutally rejected and when Clu tries to murder again, Flynn has to kill them both while Sam takes Quorra (the only thing implied to be worth saving), hauls ass, shuts down the whole thing, and leaves to go see a sunrise (which reverses the sunset/fade to night in the first film and the implied "we are not so different")

In Oblivion, all the technology is still very pretty, but it is still just a trap. The modern home of plastic and glass with internet connection, computers, medical equipment, high-tech vehicles...it's a trap. Vika's apparent function is to keep Jack in that trap, her responses scripted and flat like badly done video game dialogue trees. The drones he fixes, the ship he flies, they are all tools of hunting his own kind, making him an unwitting pawn in genocide. His mission control is an insane AI who claims godhood. The technology is using him. It's shiny, it's pretty...it's pure evil. The movie shows he's a "good guy" by his explicitly rejecting higher technology. It's shown with Jack's low-tech hideaway. Freeman's character even says it openly when talking about the book and the highest technology the scavengers use are the stealth suits and scavenged industrial equipment.
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There was a fair amount of interesting concepts in there, but little of it was given detail, and left more questions than it answered. I can understand Julia spending the movie in an apparent state of shell shock, but what (if anything) was going on with Vika? Why such an inefficient and unnecessarily complicated system to strip-mine a planet/kill off the natives? Why so few defenses around the AI? And what chances do the survivors really have on a planet that's spent the last 50 years having everything of value (especially water) stripped away?

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And the problem with leaving that many questions unanswered is that the whole narrative starts falling apart and breaking into its constituent pieces.