Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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The narrative was awkwardly manipulated in order to get the end-result
Yep, be prepared for more of that. Once everyone gets to Point A, the moment-by-moment chain of causality works out fine, but getting everyone to Point A in the first place requires some very fancy hand-waving. And lens flares. So. Many. Lens. Flares.
And lens flares. So. Many. Lens. Flares.
Oh, dear.
I have been a bit spoiled, sufficiently that I'm not very excited about the movie. I may wait until it shows up at the beer-and-pizza theater.
Iron Man 3 made not one lick of sense, top to bottom. I still liked it!
Star Trek has also kinda never made much sense. Barn doors are open, and the horses are on fire.
It's got an 88% on RT, which is pretty good.
Meanwhile, F&F6 has a 100%, which pleases me. And amuses me, since Before Midnight only has a 94% because one curmudgeon was disappointed.
So, After Earth. It makes me crazy that they say there have been no people on the planet for however long, so all the animals have evolved to kill humans. Is that not the opposite of evolution?? No humans = no need to evolve in opposition to them, right??
So, After Earth. It makes me crazy that they say there have been no people on the planet for however long, so all the animals have evolved to kill humans. Is that not the opposite of evolution?? No humans = no need to evolve in opposition to them, right??
EVOLUTION DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!
Eta: You are not alone, Jesse.
Phew.
There's been a movie from my childhood that has haunted me from time to time, a cartoon that I could never find again that had touched me in some magical and tragic way, and I think I found it again.
It came to mind today, and I tried another search. All I remembered was an animated joey and a girl and such supreme loss. I think I finally found it, and it might be Dot and the Kangaroo. I'd thought for the longest time that it's been an animated TV show. But this makes more sense.
I remembered a kid, and a fence, and a kangaroo saying goodbye (it was very much a SHANE! moment). And oh crud, but there at the end of Dot and the Kangaroo there's a fence, and I started to get all misty-eyed.
The end of that movie has haunted me for ages, touched with this magical mystical sad veil akin to elves going to the west.
I haven't rewatched the whole thing, for fear of spoiling that magical memory, because there seems to be suspect spontaneous song and weird use of live-action mixed with animation.
But, I still can't believe I found it on a random whim after all this time.
I saw part of the trailer and mostly tuned out and though that in the future there were SUPER ANIMALS that Really hate people and started killing off all the people so people fled. To the stars.
And now some dude is taking his kid back to Killer Earth to jump off of crap and face his fears as a rite of passage or something.
But the actual plot sounds much worse.