JJ Abrams is nothing more than a hipster version of Zak Snyder who hasn’t pissed everyone off by being openly obnoxious.

If a dummy moves towards you a pole and you shot it, that’s not murder. That’s what an FPS game is doing, in a really cool and advanced way. Hosts are fundamentally different unless you accept the premise that sensory input and stimuli are all we really are.

Also, you can’t put emotional weight on having Dolores “die” when one of the major plot point/reveals of the season was “There are, like, 5 Doloreses now.” Hosts just keep coming back. Given the rules that the show itself has established, time and again - why should I believe that, this time, this one is going to…

I get this point, but there’s support for the concept that we don’t truly have free will. Our brains are made in a way that responds to sensory input and experience but there’s not a separate “will” or “soul” aside from our brain wiring and stored memories. Like androids. The show tries to play with the blurry…

Yeah, I think this was the natural ending point of this show. I would have given the whole series a B overall just for the spectacle, even if it meant that Jeffrey Wright and his performance had pretty much been completely wasted.

The bus scene is an ironic twist on the avalanche scene. This time, Ebba was the one freaked out by stressful circumstances, demanding to be let off the bus (3 times, no less!), leaving Tomas with the children and not considering the consequences of her actions (unnecessarily freaking out the bus driver and causing…

I got the sense that the "rescue" was staged more for the kids than anything else. They had witnessed Tomas at his lowest, most un-manly. So she gave him the opportunity to redeem himself in their eyes.

But she immediately walks back up the mountain. Wouldn't Tomas be able to see it was a ruse?

Bit late to the party on this one, but what I got was that Ebba wanted Tomas to own up to his cowardice all the way through, but the event had done so much damage to his fragile male ego that it was like unravelling a sweater. His breakdown was the culmination of that unravelling. Ebba, unable to reconcile herself…

I always thought it was staged by the both of them for the kids. They themselves still know what's up.

Absolutely. She even gives a little laugh after he's 'saved' her. I probably would have done the same, though. The scene with the kids and 'sad' daddy was heartbreaking.

This is how I interpreted it. She's giving him an easy way to reaffirm his masculinity, after his sobbing, pantsless, complete and total mental breakdown the night before.

Did anyone else think that Ebba might have faked her need for a rescue on the ski-slope to boost his confidence? I mean what happened with he, why did she take her skis off?

Interesting. I would have had no way to know that, and since it is implied that the two men knew each other when younger, I assumed that they were of the same nationality.

I'm still trying to figure out that ending. I get that it wrapped up in that disaster movie bookend (I kept thinking it felt like a horror movie, but tomato/tomato) but what did it say about the dynamics of the family? Think I'll be scratching my head on that for a bit.

I thought it was Stephen Dorff

This movie tied for my favorite at Cannes running in any competition, and ranks among the smartest comedies I've ever seen. 100% worth your time, even if
you're not a huge cinephile. It had the single greatest cut-gag of the
entire of the entire festival (you'll know it when you see it), along
with other pleasures…

Loneliest Planet. This movie appears to be more funny / inquisitive, rather than emo.

One small note, this review as well as IMDb and Wikipedia only mentions Swedish and English being spoken, but in fact the husband is Swedish and the wife is Norwegian, and they speak in their separate languages. The same is true for the other prominent couple in the film, but the other way around (Swedish woman,…

I want to see this just in the chance the dad gives any George Costanza like excuses of why he ran away like a coward. "I was trying to lead the way!"