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Probably my favourite movie so I'm glad you guys did a commentary of it. And I fully agree they don't really make movies like this anymore (although Chef kinda has that feel-good quality of it). I always thought it was justifiable that Will knows so much. I think it kind of goes hand in hand with his fear of failure. He read books to make himself impenetrable to others (i.e being dumber than anyone). But he never pursued college or something further than reading because of his fear of failure. Overall I agree that most geniuses are geniuses in only a specific category, but I also don't think him being that smart hurts the movie.
As for the "It's not your fault" scene. While it is quotable and a bit melodramatic, I don't think it's the case that it kind of fixes all his issues. I think its obvious he was making progress before the scene, and even after the scene he doesn't immediately go and chase after the girl. Will still takes time to realize what he really wants and chase after it.
Just my 2 cents, overall it was a fun episode to listen to 
Doctor Submarine wrote:MrDudeMan wrote:But the stuff after the black hole just doesn't hold up, I don't think there's any possible way for it to be future humans who set up the tesseract. I think the theory that whoever sent them there just wanted them to go into the black hole is a nice one though.
How can you say with certainty what is possible and impossible for humans thousands of years from now?
I can't say with certainty, but it's no more likely than any other scenario out there. The wormhole would never have existed, so Anne Hathaway never would have made it to start the foreign colony. Sure maybe in a timeline without the wormhole they're able to come up with a solution that lets them stay on earth longer, and they eventually come up with the same technology. But if that's true, why even bother altering the past? I just think they ignored too many points to make a somewhat unsatisfying reunion happen.
I saw it in imax this past weekend. Honestly the visuals were nice, but weren't anything jaw-breaking, although I did spend a lot of time comparing it to Gravity. I thought the movie was great up until he goes into the black hole. I can see why he went for the happy ending, and listening to Cooper's voice get shaky as he went further and further in made me wish for a happy ending. But the stuff after the black hole just doesn't hold up, I don't think there's any possible way for it to be future humans who set up the tesseract. I think the theory that whoever sent them there just wanted them to go into the black hole is a nice one though. Also they knew about the time dilation on the water planet, they should've realized that the astronaut had been on that planet for about half an hour compared to other astronauts who had been on for a lot longer.
So I saw this movie in theatres when it first came out with my sister. I was actually looking forward to it for awhile and was surprised at how empty the theatre was. I loved it a lot despite not understanding any of the dialogue during the after apocalypse story. My sister liked it a lot too, she cried during the end but she cries at everything so it wasn't a huge deal. Then I saw it again a month or so later with my girlfriend at a cheap $3 dollar theatre. And I also saw it at a residence movie night back at university. So I really thought I could keep along just by listening to the commentary (without having to watch the movie side by side). But as hard as I tried I really couldn't lol.
I'm glad to see you guys liked this movie, I thought it was one of the best movies I'd ever seen after I watched it. I think the fact that there was so much in it made it a lot more interesting to me, and I didn't have much problem following along the first time. Although I did get a lot out of it the second and third times I watched it. I've also read the book and I prefer the movie tbh. The book just didn't have the same impact on me.
Lamer wrote:Jack Reacher.
Well... it's not really a movie. It's more like a collection of scenes filled with badly delivered lines that don't really go anywhere. Also, Tom Cruise plays a character that's supposed to be 6'5"/250lb. That pretty much sums it up.
I honestly thought the whole thing was supposed to be a spoof until my friend told me afterwards that it wasn't. The movie was kind of entertaining, but thinking back it was really weird if they were taking themselves seriously.
Edit: Since this seems slightly relevant in this thread. A while ago there was a thread about movies to watch before you die or something along those lines. I remember a google doc being made with a huge list of movies on there, could anyone do me a favour and link me?
Yea I don't like OSC but I enjoyed the book a lot so I'll probably end up watching the film.
Some things to note are that they completely scrapped out the whole Valentine and Peter part of the book. Which sucks because it was one of my favourite parts, but I guess they would have some trouble keeping it all in and having it make sense. Also the star (Asa Butterfield) did an AMA on reddit a few days ago. He said that they keep in the children death parts, but the movie is rated PG-13 so that kind of speaks for itself.
Gone, Baby Gone. I liked it, I thought Casey's acting was a bit weird and I couldn't stop seeing him as his character in good will hunting, but overall it was a pretty good film, especially the ending.
Making my way through some more Vonnegut with Breakfast of Champions. Haven't read much of it, but what I've read I've enjoyed. Has the same style of writing you'd expect from Vonnegut
Also reading A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. Really good book, full of tragedy but also full of humour and the author is really good at getting you attached to the characters.
Pretty sure you can find the entire film on youtube if you look hard enough. I watched it like a month ago or something. And yea it sucks.
So after listening to the recommendations episode and watching the indie game movie on netflix, I decided to finally purchase Super Meat Boy. Its as much fun as I thought it would be, and even more frustrating at certain parts. Other than that lately I've mostly just been playing League of Legends with friends, and the occasional game of Team Fortress 2. Been meaning to start playing SC2 again though.
I saw it in just regular 3D and enjoyed it. The movie looks very beautiful, although thats kind of to be expected these days. I agree that it was more childish and cartoony than I originally thought/wanted it to be, but that didn't turn me off to much. But yea, it was a tad too long, didn't help that the theatre chairs werent comfy to begin with either.
BigDamnArtist wrote:I'm doing them in order. So just Looking For Alaska so far.
I'm enjoying Katherines so far (I'm about halfway through), but I can see where you're coming from, it doesn't quite feel on the same level as Alaska.
And Doc, I know eh? That thing is a beast and a half.
Hmm, to be honest I thought Katherines was better than Alaska. But then again I really didn't like Alaska too much. Having just read Fault in our Stars, I think the level of quality of John Greene books I've read goes something like this
Fault in our Stars >>>> Katherines > Looking for Alaska > Papertowns
Over the winter break I've also read slaughterhouse five which was good but I still think cat's cradle is better. I tried reading catcher in the rye but I hated the main character too much to continue (got like 60 pages in or something). I read the Bartimaeus trilogy which was awesome. I'm about 23% through Cloud Atlas, which has been harder to read through than I initially thought it would be. And I'm also like 30 pages in on the Golden Compass.
Just finished Cat's Cradle. Definitely the best book I've ever read (Not too many, but still). I think I'm gonna have a go at Vonnegut's other works once my finals are over.
Finished reading Ender's Game a few nights ago, I liked it quite a bit. Has anyone read any of the other book sin the series? Right now I'm reading Cat's Cradle, which I'm also enjoying quite a bit.
Phi wrote:Finished the commentary. I'm stunned that there are apparently large numbers of people who haven't heard of shawarma. I could probably walk to three shawarma places from my house...
...ok I just checked the internets and apparently I live in 'the shawarma capital of the world', or at least outside of the middle east, so I have sampling bias. Anyway, it's delicious. And a bit sketchy since they saw the meat off this large rotating column of meat of unknown history. A delicious large rotating column of meat. And then they add garlic and who cares what else and stuff it into a pita.
Just out of curiosity, where do you live thats considered the shawarma capital of the world? But yea, there are a ton of shawarma places here as well. And agreed on the partial sketchiness, but they're usually pretty cheap so I'm willing to overlook it
Great review, and I do hope you guys do a commentary on this because I also thought it was an excellent film. It was probably the first film with such a long run time that I never felt for a moment dragged on. I also agree with Doctor Submarine in that the film isn't 6 separate stories but one unified one. For me it worked well, I enjoyed seeing how the characters were related as well as seeing how the stories changed in the different time periods.
@TheMargarineMan
1.) What is it that you hated about engineering that made you want to pursue a different career?
I'm starting my undergrad in chemical engineering this September, and while I was looking forward to it a lot when I first applied and got accepted, the input of other people has begun to make me wonder. It's mostly just the workload I'm worried about to be honest. I've always enjoyed Math/Physics/Chemistry more than any other high school course (except for maybe Media Studies); but I'm worried that the workload and stress will be too much to handle. Which brings me to my second question.
2.) How much harder was first year in comparison to High School
So I've basically breezed through most of my high school classes (don't want to sound smug about it, but I understand the concepts well and have a pretty good memory). And I know that the marks in Ontario are much more inflated than the marks in Alberta, so I'm just wondering what I should expect when I get to university. The university I'm going to is Waterloo btw if that makes a difference (which I don't think it should since the curriculum is the same everywhere).
BigDamnArtist wrote: Pulp Fiction. In Order.
I feel like all the graphics in that organizer over complicate things. The timeline in pulp fiction really isn't that hard to figure out, it should be pretty obvious the second time you watch the film.
Business*, Also I don't think there's such thing as an unbiased movie commentary (at least not the kind that DiF does). Still upvoted though
Fob is a pretty common word up here. Maybe it has to do with the fact that this place is basically a melting pot, but Fob really isn't seen as much of a slur. The general definition is the same (basically someone who is new to the country and hasn't really adapted to the culture), but its never used as an insult really.
I was actually really excited to go see Snow White and the Huntsmen today, then everyone bailed 
. Is it as dark as it seems to be?
Well there are enough movies on here to last you a couple months, so I'll just add that you should watch all of the works of Hayao Miyazaki (with emphasis on Princess Mononoke), as well as Akira.
I always saw it more like Loki just had something to prove. Almost like he was convincing himself that humans were ants by conquering their world with ease (in theory). I think it does come down to an ego thing, where ultimately he is trying to prove he is far superior compared to everyone else. There are multiple examples throughout the film, one being his confidence in his ability to manipulate the avengers, and another being his inability to realize that black widow was trying to get information out of him in their 1 on 1 talk (it was pretty obvious she was faking, and I think it was meant to be obvious to show how Loki's ego was clouding his judgment).
The more I think about this movie, the more of a problem I have with the plot. Especially the part where the doctor programs in a failsafe into the machine he used to open the portal, as well as the fact that all the aliens just seemingly died after the mothership got destroyed.
Haven't had a chance to listen to the full commentary yet. But did anyone else really find the sound that the destroyer made to be really annoying? When I watched it in the theatre I had to cover my ears everytime that thing shot out its death laser thing.
I agree, I'm just saying this idea of stereotyping isn't unique to the comic book industry.
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