[AR]

Ayn Rand died in 1982. Did she see some of those movies in the afterlife?

[Randito]

[MtnGoat]

32 years after her death and the ideas are still on the authors mind enough to generate some parody. There is no bad publicity.

[MtnGoat]

Interstellar (2014) An OK flick. Some real neat eye candy, I always enjoy thunderous chemical rocket takeoffs, and cool long shots of space near things like majestic saturn. The gigantic tides on the first planet visited are well portrayed in what I think is the largest wave I think I've ever seen done convincingly.....i thought holy crap that is one BIG wave. I always grimace when screenwriters mess up science for no good reason, there are more than a couple places where some just outright wrong things occur, or are the subject of some exposition....it seems to me it would be no harder to not include such stupidity than to write it in. But they do it anyway. Oh well. Much of this stuff flies by folks not as familiar with the physics, so I guess that's how it goes. Everyone in the film did OK acting wise, but Anne Hathaway left me cold, as always. I find her very over rated. Good to see Michael Caine is still kicking, he's always good though essentially a character actor IMO. The stuff near the end illustrating the worldline type ideas concerning time's arrow and the theories of additional dimensions was cool to see and nicely demonstrated. Overall I'm glad I saw it on the big screen. It was overly long IMO, but a good solid sci fi yarn all in all. Got a bit tired of being beat over the head by the score, but it's a space epic so I guess that comes with the territory.

[Bedivere]

[NacMacFeegle]

For the most part I don't mind poor science in movies (although I love to laugh at it afterwards!), there is something to be said for the suspension of disbelief.

[NacMacFeegle]

Hogfather (2006) This is one of my favorite Christmas movies. Based on Terry Pratchett's novel of the same name, Hogfather stars Death and his granddaughter, Susan, and their quest to save the Hogfather (the discworld's equivalent to Santa Clause). That is a simple and wholly inadequate way of describing this movies plot, which is both entertaining and remarkably deep (just like the book!). The story is far too nuanced and difficult to describe to attempt to do so here. It's actually a made-for-TV miniseries made up of two episodes totaling just over 3 hours combined. This is really the only way they could have made Hogfather, since leaving out any part of this amazing novel would have been a terrible tragedy! It is as close to a word-perfect adaptation as is possible, the actors are all excellent, and all the characters are exactly I imagined them from the book. Of course, I'm slightly biased on account of being a rabid Terry Pratchett fan to start out with, but this is a great movie on its own in addition to being a great adaptation from the book.

[Josh Journey]

The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies A worthy watch. It's an adventure/battle/comedy (some silliness is inserted into the movie)

I was hoping it would be a bit darker, however the near ending did not disappoint me. However the very ending felt a little incomplete but not too incomplete. The opening scene was pretty good. I could have done without the Sauron scene during the first half.

[NacMacFeegle]

Looking forward to seeing 5 armies, hopefully it is better than Desolation of Smaug was. Between Legolas and his lore-breaking girlfriend (ugh), an over-abundance of orcs, and the poor portrayal of the dwarves (in the books they were greedy, not heroic), not to mention the dumb Sauron cameo...... To sum it up I will simply post the relevant "Honest trailer": The critics say 5 armies redeems the series, and I'm hoping that they're right!

[Josh Journey]

The dwarfs were indeed greedy in this one (although mostly Thorin). Lord of the Rings of course is still better.

[Conrad]

[tigermn]

I don't go see many movies but was bored today so I went to see Wild thinking it might at least have some nice scenery. A hiking movie it isn't. It about one messed up chick if you ask me. If you are into those kind of movies maybe it is your thing.... Not even very much scenery footage other than maybe a few nipple shots... It wasn't even clear in the movie how much of the trail she actually did. I know she skipped a section because of too much snow.... I suspect that might have been the more scenic section. A lot of what was shown in the movie was in more desert like terrain. The movie ended where she was on some big bridge on a highway, presumably in Oregon somewhere. I'd wait for it to come on free TV or maybe skip it all together.

[zephyr]

NacMacFeegle, that Honest Trailer of The Hobbit is awesome. So much truth there. I like the comment about their being caught by so many enemies, and yet it was too bad they couldn't catch some of the magic of the original. Slam! Thanks for sharing. ~z

[mike]

5 armies . (yawn) One big Orc battle scene. No character development. Paid 8 bucks for the "special" effects.

[polecatjoe]