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A bit less Disney’s Atlas Shrugged than the first teaser suggested.
On the other hand, there are proper spaceships that go up on a pillar of fire, and come down on a pillar of fire, as God and Bob Heinlein intended*. In fact, the entire thing looks pretty damned Heinleinian, mid-Campbell era: heroic engineers, technophilia, and the primacy of competence. Whether it also shares in Heinlein’s characteristic optimism remains to be seen. I certainly hope that they can manage the trick.
Also: giant fighting robots. They really should have put that in the first trailer.
I’m a huge Heinlein fan and, yes, the trailer does have the feel of the best of the Heinlein juveniles.
Added bonus, the movie is written & directed by Brad Bird – who did one of my all-time-fave Pixar movies: The Incredibles.
After such a generally lackluster 2014 for movie-going, I’m putting Tomorrowland on my must-see list.
I am there.
Hugh Laurie.
I’m in.
George Clooney.
I’m out.
I’ll see it. Yup.
I don’t resent all the CGI effort that goes into these fantasy movies since the simulations will just keep getting more convincingly realistic. But I hope the technology will also be used to make movies with recreations of historical places and events that even large sets and casts of thousands can’t quite capture.
Fucking sad and dead ass boring. Wow. So this is what pw has devolved to? I’ d rather read reviews about cupcakes.
Also giant fighting robots.
Dear god
Terrence, this is stupid stuff.
Pull.
>So this is what pw has devolved to? <
me i would like to take pw into pursuing the notion that mark levin's art. v/convention of the states is really a chapter 13 bankruptcy proceeding against the fed. gov't. this action should be broken down into 3 waves of art v petitions to amend the us constitution. here is the game plan:
2016-2018 term limits for all fed gov't employees
2018-2020 fiscal reform of the fed gov't
2020-2022 regulatory reform of the fed gov't
in 2016 all reps, delegates, senators to state gov't must state their position on whether an art v conv. is needed for term limits for the fed gov't. throw the federal bums out starting in 2016 at the state level.
geez, steph, too much saltpeter on your Wheaties this morning?
go ahead, stud, go OT and dazzle us with your brilliance.
>So this is what pw has devolved to? < cont.
steph i keep thinking that "if i just write a letter to talk show host x" all will be well. levin tonight was lamenting the fed gov't fiscal situation but i did not hear him say that this fed gov't is bankrupt. until the citizens go and tell their state reps/del/senators that the gay/lgbtxyz/racists/homophobe et al is bs and the main problem is the fed gov't: give me movie trailers.
to the jeff g.
this is how to hit the commies. we need you.
Hollywood Traitors: Blacklisted Screenwriters – Agents of Stalin, Allies of Hitler Hardcover – January 5, 2015
by Allan H. Ryskind
George Clooney in a Heinleinian movie? Pull the other leg.
And steph, as Darleen hints there is no law that says the thread has to be about the post. In fact, beyond the first dozen comments or so topic drift is damn near mandatory.
“Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far far away.”
Pull.
And I want to see the technology used to replace the current generation of vapid Hollywood “celebrities” obsolete – replaced with computer-generated simulacra that show up for work, don’t get arrested, and can stay on-message without swerving off into leftist politics and conspiracy theories…
And, considering that the current movie-going public these days have been brought up on a diet of video games and hentai, would they even notice the difference?
George does not seem too bad in that he stays focused on certain causes and does not just latch onto every fashionable lefty cause that comes along.
I smell “Utopia created by the carefully self-righteous elite ruined by a creepy Kulak of a Corporate Goon,” or, in other words, Hollywood.
This is me waiting for spoilers. There is the *potential* for epic greatness here, like Interstellar minus about 40 minutes of exposition.
Interstellar had its moments. However, I usually try to go to see any movie with my expectations set pretty low. That way I’m much less likely to be disappointed.