As far as I’m concerned, this is a perfect movie up to the crew’s return from the ghost ship. I have to disagree, Dowd, that there’s anything particularly exciting or scary about the final act. You can practically feel Danny Boyle ripping the steering wheel from Alex Garland’s hands. And that “nightmarish blur” felt…

I read Lovell’s book and that characterization is quite accurate. I think Hanks actually humanizes Lovell a bit more than he comes across in the book, making him someone you root for, rather than someone you wish would stop whining.

This would honestly be a MUCH better project for Canadian Supervillain James Cameron than 5 more Avatar movies.  I know the story and it would definitely work on film.

There was a bit of a backdoor nod to the whole Glomar Explorer situation in The Abyss (the Benthic Explorer was the stand-in mothership, and part of the plot was about salvaging a submarine, obviously). But yes, a dedicated film based on the endeavor would be great cinema.

I always leaven my criticisms of this film with the admission that I saw this 12 times in the theaters when it first came out (I grew up during the Apollo missions and my entire childhood was shaped by moon shots). Since its release, I’ve had a few things spoil the experience a bit for me (like discovering whole…

Prepare to feel the cold grip of time around your heart: we are now farther away from this movie than it was from the real event.

It’s fine, I’d even watch parts of it again on a rainy day, but it seems like a lot of people hold this movie in much higher esteem than I think it warrants. It’s cool people like it. That’s great. It’s just kind of by-the-numbers. Honestly, it’s really no better than “Marooned” and actually a lot less fun (I mean, no…

Finally! Someone read my spec script for a sequel to I Origins aimed at herpetologists.

Watched this last night, and it’s truly fascinating. It’s almost like they forgot to tell half the cast that it was supposed to be a comedy, and they never quite figured it out.

Generation ships aren’t exactly novel, though I can’t immediately think of any depictions in movies (there was a generation ship in an episode of Voyager, in one of the rare episodes where Harry Kim actually gets to be reasonably cool).

Easy, they just have Q saying he felt it would be more polite to match Picard’s advanced decrepitude, or something to that effect.

And that - not earning things - seems to be the theme of the current live-action fare, even going back to the Abramsverse.

Discovery season 4 is already looking like a shit show. They’ve saved the Federation from being destroyed by the Klingons. They’ve stopped all the dilithium in the galaxy from blowing up for a second time. They’ve saved all intelligent life in the universe. They’ve saved all life throughout the multiverse across all…

DS9 earned it’s depressing moments. It didn’t fabricate them in place of something meaningful to say.

Yeah but season one had like 50 show runners.  At one point I think I was running the show

it just feels like a story like this- based on a true story that happened very recently and was meticulously documented by everyone even tangentially involved- calls for either a concise movie (which we have) or a longer, fully fleshed out documentary (which we also have.)

this ‘what if the movie was long super long’…

I haven’t really gotten into the firestorm that seemed to erupt among many of the fans of The Last Jedi (a much larger segment voted with their money by choosing to keep it instead of repeat viewings) but given the number of different interviews I’ve seen with Rian Johnson being as patronising as he is to Mark Hamill…

Yeah it is a bitter pill to swallow. Especially since at this point he has his fingerprints in a lot of different parts of the comics industry as well as Netflix and other adaptations.

So this is what it feels like to be excited for a DC superhero movie. Inbetween all the hastags for the Snyder Cut and Restore The Snyderverse I’d almost forgotten what that feels like.

I legitimately wish Cavill had been allowed to be even a fraction of charismatic as he was in Man from UNCLE while playing Superman.