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Misplaced in Space (1998)

  • Jun. 30th, 2009 at 10:13 PM
haggardJack
It's been a while since last time I watched that movie.

The cast is every bit as excellent as I remember, and the script starts reasonably well. But from some point a little after the halfway mark..

IT MAKES NO SENSE!!

not quite sure why I bought the DVD now...

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[info]frankthepirate wrote:
Jun. 30th, 2009 02:59 pm (UTC)
Ah, but did it make sense LAST time you watched it? :P


Apparently to watch Donnie Darko I have to be REALLY tired or I just don't get it/tune in right.




btw: got to puzzle 17 while waiting for my stupid doctor. Nice thing is, I have memory issues, so can play them all 3-4 times before I start remembering how to do them! the game that nearly never ends :D
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[info]shrydar wrote:
Jul. 1st, 2009 12:57 am (UTC)
Hard to say - it's been a while. I don't remember having the same impression of it.

Donnie Darko's also on my pile to re-watch. Did you know there's a sequel on the way?

Glad Clack!'s keeping you busy :)
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[info]rabbit1080 wrote:
Jun. 30th, 2009 03:08 pm (UTC)
All the good character moments (see above) are in the first half, too. example:

"If you guys are done hosing down the deck with testosterone..." - Mimi Rogers
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[info]shrydar wrote:
Jul. 1st, 2009 01:03 am (UTC)
True. Though I did like the non-verbal exchange between the Professor and Major West after West kissed Judy.
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[info]woolenthreads wrote:
Jun. 30th, 2009 11:19 pm (UTC)
It makes no sense because it revolves around a time travel paradox bubble, which never makes any sense. Donnie Darko is similar in certain ways since it involves a temporal bubble too. I prefer my time travel films to be more similar to 12 monkeys where it is not a paradox and everything resolves into an explanation, even though it is confusing throughout.
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[info]shrydar wrote:
Jul. 1st, 2009 01:10 am (UTC)
Yes but some time travel paradox movies make more sense than others. The 'rules of the game' were poorly laid out in this one, and there was very little to suggest how the alternate future with Jared Harris' character could ever have come to be in the first place. After all, we already discovered that if the father hadn't returned they would have left almost immediately in any case (well before Smith's infection advanced), on account of the instability from the bubble. And if the bubble hadn't been there, the father would never have gone on the mission to acquire the fuel, as that wouldn't have been there either.

I'm going to watch Darko again reasonably soon to see what I think of it - cf response to [info]frankthepirate above.
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