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Welcome to the shortest RowThree cinecast in years; under 90 minutes with a bullet! Instead of reliving Source Code (8 minutes at a time) we sort of blow right past it, the boys agree that it is a great sci-fi thriller, but it simply could not stir much conversation. Kurt gives a quick thumbs up for Joe Wright’s super-spy flick Hanna (more on that one next week). Andrew talks a bit about the TV-ish looking Camelot. Gamble chimes in on Insidious, the latest horror story from the Saw progenitors. And a brief chat on The Red Riding Trilogy. The what we watched section was brief, as Kurt needed his beauty sleep prior to road-tripping down to Carolina for ActionFest. Enjoy one of our rare ‘short-shows’ until we return (with a vengeance) next week.
As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening!
http://rowthree.com/audio/cinecast_11/episode_207.mp3
Full show notes are under the seats…
MAIN REVIEWS:
– Source Code
WHAT ELSE WE WATCHED:
Kurt
– Red Riding Trilogy
Andrew
– “Camelot”
Matt
– Insidious
DVD PICKS:
Kurt
– Taxi Driver [Blu-ray]
– I Love You Phillip Morris
Andrew
– I Love You Phillip Morris
– The People vs. Larry Flynt [Blu-ray]
Matt
– Jawbreaker
– Kill with a Dance
INSTANT WATCH NEW RELEASES/EXPIRING SOON:
Matt
– Conspiracy Theory (new!)
– Howling III: The Marsupials (expiring Apr. 15)
Kurt
– 21 Grams (new!)
– Gojira (expiring yesterday)
Andrew
– Toy Story 3 (new!)
– It Might Get Loud (expiring Apr. 8 )
OTHER DVDs NOW AVAILABLE:
Tron: Legacy
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Little Fockers
Casino Jack
Stanley Kubrick: Odyssey
Sarah Palin
Taxi Driver [Blu-ray]
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence [Blu-ray]
The Cove [Blu-ray]
Mystic Pizza [Blu-ray]
De-Lovely [Blu-ray]
Babe [Blu-ray]
OTHER STUFF MENTIONED:
High and Low Brow
The Natural at Cooper Classic
ActionFest
MSPIFF
Kubrick Conspiracies and the Moon Landing
NEXT WEEK:
Hanna
Kill the Irishmen
PRIVATE COMMENTS or QUESTIONS?
Leave your thoughts in the comment section below, or email us:
feedback@rowthree.com (general)
andrew.james@rowthree.com
kurt@rowthree.com
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Re: Source Code
At the end of Source Code he is in a parallel universe created by the Source Code. Every time he goes back, a new universe is created.
Duncan Jones has clarified this in some interviews:
http://ca.io9.com/5788795/duncan-jones-unravels-the-mysteries-behind-source-code
Great show btw
I thought that was pretty obvious by the ending but from what I’m hearing not everyone caught that aspect.
I didn’t think it was obvious at all. In retrospect maybe, but they kept making the point that it isn’t “real.” It’s like a shadow of what happened. It’s a computer program. What he does there has no effect on real life. All he’s doing is gathering clues from those memories to prevent more problems in the future. The parallel universe thing isn’t really explored until the very end and by that point its kind of like, wait… huh?
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When the director guy’s explaining source code, though, he says that it creates an alternate universe (though I don’t think he really understands the implications of that). Plus, the simulation is way too good – you can create programs with a lot of intelligence to react to the way you interact with them (like video games), but there are things in here that you’d never think to program in, like the conductor saying “well, you’re kind of strange” in response to Colter’s query. That to me suggested that each source code instance creates a new universe that carries on fully-formed based on each choice and interaction.
It’s almost exactly the way the multiverse works in Neal Stephenson’s Anathem. And similar to the some of the concepts in Fringe, though we don’t see the initial branching in Fringe.
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Soon as Gyllenhal started to want to change things I started thinking along the lines that Wright really didn’t know what was going on. I know over on Film Junk they were thinking that Wright was out right lying but I took it more that he just didn’t know what he was messing with.
I definitely agree with Jandy on her thoughts.
I just came back from this last night and enjoyed it quite a bit. There were a couple of minor gripes (I found Jeffrey Wright a bit OTT and the final act was a bit sappy) but on the whole it was an absorbing watch with loads of interesting ideas in there.
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I agree with Jandy and John. Plus it seemed clear to me the parallel universe thing was what they were going for.