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⌈ Secret Post #3056 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What fictional world is your escapist fantasy?

[dethtoll]

That's just it, I'm not seeing where the "everything else" comes from. At most, you can infer that there's probably some urban decay and not a lot of animals (the reason for both must be drawn from Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, but I prefer to take the movie on its face without drawing from the PKD novel.)

Re: What fictional world is your escapist fantasy?

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, at the very least I think we can say huge urban decay and a lot of poverty. There really are a lot of fucked-up old buildings that people are still living in.

Re: What fictional world is your escapist fantasy?

[dethtoll]

Well, like I said, it's not perfect, but it's gotta be better than here.

Re: What fictional world is your escapist fantasy?

[(Anonymous)]

Grass is always greener, huh?

You could always just move to LA, and then wear a really massive canopy over your head so it's always shadowy and dark. Practical solutions to your problems, here on fandomsecrets.

(No, I do get what you mean, I wouldn't mind spending a week or so there myself)

Re: What fictional world is your escapist fantasy?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh hey by the way - what'd you think of Interstellar?

Re: What fictional world is your escapist fantasy?

[dethtoll]

Rating: THAT SHIT WAS HOT/10

2001 is an okay movie for when it was made and it's one of the 2.9 Kubrick films I actually enjoy, but Interstellar feels like a sorely-needed update. It's easily Nolan's best film, and arguably one of the best films I've seen overall. It reminded me of Moon in that felt like a throwback to the 70s and early 80s sci-fi, which is one of my favorite eras in that genre, complete with a really crazy, emotional ending.

I know some people were a bit buttmad at the ending, but my advice to them is to go screw. IMO reducing the ending to "Deepak woo woo" is dismissive and ultimately elitist, it's no different from "literary fiction" snobs turning up their nose at "genre fiction." The ending fit perfectly with the rest of the film, because that's the story they were trying to tell. I'm really bored of this latest trend with sci-fi enthusiasts to eject all fiction from their science fiction, it feels like some kind of half-assed attempt to appease the lit snobs who like to pretend their books don't have any fantasy elements.

(Sorry, that turned into a bit of a rant, I had an argument with a friend of mine about the ending immediately after I saw the movie and it kinda soured my mood for the weekend.)

Re: What fictional world is your escapist fantasy?

[(Anonymous)]

That's fair (although I kinda disagreed)

I didn't like the ending but not because it wasn't scientifically plausible - nuts to scientific plausibility - I just thought it was ridiculous. In particular the look of the wormhole thing, with the library, was just... it was just hard to take seriously. Tonally, in combination with the rest of the movie, it didn't work. I also had problems with how blatantly it telegraphed a bunch of its punches and themes (I swear to God, some of those conversations between McConnaughey and his father-in-law at the beginning of the film...), and I felt like its pacing was an issue - it felt slow rather than deliberate, and in particular I think some of the montages ended up being a weakness.

But that's just me, glad you liked it.