Yes, but one can barely see it. I wonder what it meant- did 'Mom or Dad' knock it out of orbit?
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This movie freaked me out when I was just a kid, so naturally, I love it. Great flick. I have it on VHS here somewhere....lolI love Logan's Run. I think it's great. With all its little quirks, I still love it. Saw it in the theater when it first came out and I was a kid. So, sentimental I may be.
According to what’s commonly accepted by fans it bonked Clover on the head sleeping at the bottom of the Atlantic and it didn’t take it very wellYes, but one can barely see it. I wonder what it meant- did 'Mom or Dad' knock it out of orbit?
Don't over think it. It's just a movie.According to what’s commonly accepted by fans it bonked Clover on the head sleeping at the bottom of the Atlantic and it didn’t take it very well
but wouldn’t the water have caused it to lose velocity until it was just gently sinking?
One thing I think it did right that other Kaiju movies fail to do is to focus on the event from a citizen's perspective instead of government shenanigans, it brought much more tension and you got to see a better view on what a creature that size wreaking a major city would really look like. You just want to watch gargantuan beings absolutely wreck havoc upon everything in their path, not the government talking about it.Don't over think it. It's just a movie.
But already eight years before there had been Kubrick's 2001, which is way ahead of every sci-fi film made at that point. It's amazing that came out in the same year as Planet of the Apes and Barbarella.
Apparently it took a long time before anyone else was able to reach the standard of the look of 2001. Star Wars seems to have been the first one that was able to do it.
Okay, now see, I took it that everyone that explodes, renews. The crowd cheers every single time someone explodes. And every single person explodes. Everyone does. So, in all the years of carousel, and everyone coming to rejoice in the renewals, if all they saw was everyone dying, they would rebel. But, they have been taught, explode = renew. When the people see every single person explode every single time, every single carousel -- they are seeing that as the moment of renewal.
If they really thought people were dying and not renewing, no one would try to renew, they would all run. But, they believe. Their faith in carousel is strong.
It's not a game, it's a mandatory, daily gathering. You reach a certain age, you blink, you go to carousel and renew. Even the sandman says, "why do they run, when they can renew?" But, there is the underground group that know no renewal is happening, it's death.
I need to read the book to maybe understand where you are coming from.
I am not seeing what you are seeing. But interesting nonetheless.
I'm a little cynical about this, but just a little. The main technology that made 2001 - and I'm old enough to have seen it when it first came out - was 1) the use of detailed models for satellites and spaceships when people generally stuck fins on a tube (although the series Star Trek, which came out two years before 2001, had nonstandard modeling); and 2) rotating sets to simulate zero-G movements.
The slit-scan for the "trip" may have been advanced for the time, but even when I saw it back in 1968, it seemed kinda psychedelically pointless.
I don't want to detract from Kubrick's vision and execution. It was visually scrumptious in a way that sci-fi movies up to that point just weren't. Awfully slow-moving, though. To me, nothing really delivered sci-fi the way it was supposed to until Star Wars. and that was unexpected and entirely thrilling.
I think retracing their steps, the big dome sticking out of the landscape was the big giveaway. . I don't think the dome was that far from where they found Peter, so it was just a matter of finding a way back in.They can be cheering because they're happy that others are renewing indeed. The whole concept of what the renewal entails is just a bit vague. Is a new baby born right away? But it's all about faith, they believe what they're told. And why not, their society is basically a happy one - they live for pleasure.
You also never see who is ruling the society. Logan gets his orders from a computer. Who instigated the society and its rules? You never see who are controlling it all.
The movie is most concerned with action, not everything else is worked out all that clearly.
I also wondered how they found their way back to the domed city when they take the old man (Ustinov) with them. Obviously they couldn't get back the same way, because the ice cave had collapsed, but how do they know how to find the city back? They just go along the beach and find it that way.
I think retracing their steps, the big dome sticking out of the landscape was the big giveaway. . I don't think the dome was that far from where they found Peter, so it was just a matter of finding a way back in.
Knives Out.
Cracking good mystery yarn. Delightful in its twisty-turny ways.
I'm all about the writing, and this writing was stellar with plotting, arcing, buildup, everything. And if you're all about the acting, these folks were romping in it. Chris Evans in particular tackled his role with zeal and conviction, as if he were enjoying it.
In case it's not coming across, we REALLY LIKED this move.