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Jake Gyllenhaal's Source Code: BUMP THREAD for Amanda's Bowie Info (2011)
Front-Ranger:
Now there are two movies I really need to see!! Thanks, John.
Brown Eyes:
FWIW, (and this is taking us a tad bit off topic)... Johnny Got His Gun was the inspiration for Metallica's really famous song called "One" and clips from the film are in the video for that song.
Kay-Nasty:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on April 16, 2011, 08:51:15 pm ---SPOILERS SPOILERS SERIOUS SPOILERS SPOILERS
I thought the ending was the most "Hollywood-ized" part. Obviously, the movie was not supposed to have a happy ending, hence the captain's closure to parts of his life and the countdown to the cut-off of life support. The whole ending looks like something tacked on because some focus group preview audience somewhere didn't like the original downer ending. This 'happier' ending IMO weakens the entire movie by introducing the paradox. i.e. did he just hijack poor Sean's body? What happened to the teacher? The teacher is the guy Christina fell for. It makes it kinda creepy that you could be just living your life somewhere then someone else takes over your body.
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I really liked this movie, including the alternate universe aspect at the end. I thought it was a nice unexpected twist and kept the movie from being too cheesy. I had already expected Jake's character to somehow live on and fall in love blah blah blah, but the moment Vera's character got the txt my brain did some twists and turns to sort everything out. I love it when movies, or books, make me stop and think. Plus I've been fascinated by the idea of parallel universes since the first time I saw Donnie Darko. :o :o
I also thought Jake was excellent. A very underrated film.
ifyoucantfixit:
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I agree with everything Kay says. I like to have thought provoking movies and books.
Brokeback mountain was one of those for sure. We will never have the definitive answer to what happened to Jack. We all have our opinions, but we don't know for sure.
I liked this movie the best of anything Jake has done since BBM. Including his own
war hero movie. He is always good in all of what he does. The only problem with
Zodiac was the lack of cohesive answers. It is a thing that some directors do, in order
to as Proulx says, make it your own. I liked it a great deal. It was the very lack of
answers that makes it more interesting to me. As in Donnie Darko, that is part of the
appeal. Leave them wanting more. Do not answer every tiny question. It makes you think for yourself. After all is life giving you all the answers to everything you encounter? I for one will buy it and watch it over again for a long time to come. It is a movie that will lend itself to that very well.
The fast pace, and the manditory time span, makes you look fast, and try to catch more than you can possibly see. In each section you try and pick up more of the clues to the whole reason, and the outcome.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: southendmd on April 09, 2011, 11:56:08 am ---A little trivia: Vera Farmiga has acted both with Jake and with Heath. She was in "Roar", playing Caitlin to Heath's Conor, in the Australian TV series from the '90s.
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Watched a little movie tonight with my mom, Autumn in New York, because I was a little homesick for New York...and was delighted to see Vera appear in it, as Richard Gere's daughter, of all things! The movie was a lot like Love and Other Drugs, actually. I thought Jake was better in the male role, while I liked Wynona Ryder better than Anne (sorry!) in the sick beautiful young female role. Vera was luminous!!
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