Passengers
8/10
I really loved most of it. The end was a bit predictable. But still a really enjoyable film.
Thanks.If you like Passengers as i did, i suggest you watch http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/ .
I haven't yet no! Got a few horrors I need to catch up on and that's been on the list for a while. Might bump it up the list for tonight...
Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker - just been issued on a Criterion Collection blu-ray.
I love this film and this is the best I've ever seen the film look on a home media release.
I think people are clouded as it was a good piece of cinema, rather than the brilliant amazing film they think they watched.
Various ridiculous elements were in place.
Super powered kids, being chased by armed mercs, mercs decided to try to capture the kids and grab them to bring them back, yet not a tazer in sight.
It takes a death before the kids remember they have superpowers.
Then they finally start to use them.
What is so safe about crossing through a forest into Canada?
Mercs with guns might not be looking at their maps. They might even consider shooting their guns.
There are issues, the overall idea and arc within the plot is a good one.
The concept is good, Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman are good, the kid ain't bad, everyone else is a bit meh.
I didn't bother bringing up the likes of Alpha Flight (great comics and characters BTW).Re the border, the implication is that Canada has a sanctuary for mutants* and some form of effective border protection/monitoring, hence the permission needed to get through at a certain time.
This ties in right back to the early x-men comics and films as Canada has it's own Mutant special forces, and the mercs following the kids would have both known that they were not allowed to operate in Canada and that there may well have been some form of border protection team in place who would take action as soon as the kids crossed the line and were inside their area of operation.
*If unofficial/operating as a deniable operation.