Trust me on this. *thumbs up*

[zolac_no_miko]

Ladies and gentlemen of the internet, I bring you another very important PSA:

WATCH SOURCE CODE.

DON'T look up anything about it, really, don't, I'm completely serious, don't watch the trailers, the trailers make the movie look stupid and they are full of spoilers, it's better if you have no idea at all what the movie is about going in, just go see it, it's totally worth it.

All you need to know is this:

1) Directed by Duncan Jones.

2) Chicago.

3) AWESOME.

...Oh man, Duncan Jones is not a one-hit wonder, this proves it, he's two for two and he is going to be a man whose career I am going to enjoy watching for decades to come. DIRECT ME ANOTHER ONE, MR. JONES. MAKE DAVID BOWIE PROUD.

...Write-up of concert shenanigans to follow when I have had some sleep, oh god.

Comments

[shichahn.livejournal.com]

So I looked Duncan Jones up on wikipedia and his future projects sound exciting! Moon sequel(s)! Something Blade Runner-inspired! Yay!

Also, this is what I was talking about when I said I heard the original song of this on the radio and only knew the Hanukkah lyrics. It was sort of strange. I still don't know what the original song is supposed to be about and it isn't as if I care either, obviously.

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

Whoa, yeah, it's interesting that he's got all these ideas for stories that all take place in the Moon universe. I would not have expected that... Moon works so well on its own. But it's kind of exciting! And how cute that he's sneaking Sam Bell cameos in wherever he can. NEW AWESOME SF UNIVERSE, YAEY~!!

Haha, I just watched the Candlelight video, and then the one they were riffing off of, the Mike Thompson acappella Dynamite cover, and then the Taio Cruz original. Candlelight was adorable, and Mike Thompson's kind of adorable too, and great voice, wow! The original appears to be a club song about clubbing. Which is fine. As mainstream pop songs go, not terribly original, but harmless. I kind of feel that songs about people dancing happily and having a good time that make people dance happily and have a good time have their place in the world. Lol autotune, though.

[look-alive.livejournal.com]

OKAY OKAY I'M IN. :D

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

YOU SHOULD SEE IT WHILE YOU ARE IN CHICAGO. BECAUSE. THAT WOULD BE FUNNY. It was so weird and meta because I think when we saw the movie you'd already arrived, so I kept thinking of you, and it was filmed a year ago, like, Chicago's all full of happy springtime flowering trees, and it was sunny and gorgeous and the buildings were all shiny and I was like, "LAWL, SOMEHOW I DOUBT THE WEATHER'S THAT NICE OVER THERE RIGHT NOW~!" Although maybe it was, in which case, EVEN BETTER.

Also, what's funny is that I'm not familiar enough with Chicago to identify it on its own merit, but I saw the river with all the bridges over it and I was like, "HEY THAT LOOKS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE GOTHAM CITY, HURR~ :DD"

[look-alive.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'll download it... idk. Diana's gonna be at work during the days, so if I get bored, yeah. The weather right now is all over the place. Last night was HOT. Seriously, it was gross. Like, 70 or something. There was a thunderstorm right as we got home from the show. Today it's all cold and grey again. /shrug

Lol omg dude. I do that too, and I used to live here

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figure you're going to be pretty busy. If you don't get around to it, I WILL BE HAPPY TO WATCH IT WITH YOU WHEN YOU GET BACK. :DD

[look-alive.livejournal.com]

YAAAAAY! Yeah, either way.

Okay, one four-shot Americano down. I'mma go meet up with Diana now. THERE WILL BE DRUNKTEXTING! :D

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should go watch this and pretend that the weather is like that already. :/ The only flowers we have now are the ones the city planted that were already blooming beforehand, and they're just sitting in planters along the street doing a very good job of looking confused and kind of put-upon.

Also, I'm wondering how I missed them filming this in Millennium Park. I'm there almost constantly, and to think an entire movie snuck past me... (I'll bet it blended in with the Transformers stuff going on... very tricky.)

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I knew better than to think it was that pretty yet, what with what you were telling me and regonym's complaints about Iowa.

Most of the filming was done in Montreal... the Millenium Park bit was pretty brief, so I'm thinking it wouldn't have been too hard to miss. But I definitely lol'd and thought of you.

SEEEEEEEE IIIIIIIITTTTT~!

[peperima.livejournal.com]

RANDOM LURKER COMMENT, but does source code have anything to do with source code? I AM ASKING from a computer science major's perspective, because I was so excited and then I saw some of the trailers and it seemed to be completely unrelated to coding. :(

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

...Um. WHY HELLO THERE, RANDOM LURKER.

This is not a movie about coding or computer science, alas. It is ~SPOILER~ a rather nice science fiction story, but it has more to do with quantum mechanics and neuroscience than computers. I do not really understand why "the Source Code" is called that in the movie, or what if any relation it has to "source code" in the computer science sense; I'm not sure if that is because I lack any amount of actual comprehension of either computer science or quantum mechanics, or if it is because the writer picked the name out of a hat because it sounds cool.

You really can't trust the trailers, though. Crappy trailers are crappy and make the movie look like crap. Trust the 90% rating on the Tomatometer. Trust director Duncan Jones. If you don't know who he is, watch Moon, and then trust director Duncan Jones. Or trust me, I am a very trustworthy stranger on the internet. :DD

I see from stalking you that you are a fan of Inception. It is my belief that fans of Inception would also enjoy Source Code... unless you are into Inception only for the slash. Which would be valid, I suppose. ;D

[peperima.livejournal.com]

ooo thank you!! Wow, 90% is INSANE (I always trust Tomatometer, haha). I guess I will have to check it out! I am definitely able to ~*~ suspend my disbelief for cool currently-impossible technology ~*~. (coughinceptioncough) :)

I totally agree on trailers looking awful, though. I watched one and went "wait, why is there a WHOLE MOVIE on this?? doesn't he just go back and fix things??"

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, yeah, the Tomatometer never fails me, I always check there first before going to see a movie. It's gotten me to see some excellent films I otherwise might have missed... although in this case it was Duncan Jones that got me into the theater–I'm a huge fan of Moon (also a 90% on the Tomatometer). And lol, yes, "cool currently-impossible technology", this film definitely has that.

Yeahno, the trailers are awful. I remember seeing one in the theater and thinking that it looked completely uninteresting. After the movie I went looking on Apple Trailers and... yeah. Bleh. The storytelling in the film is really quite clever, actually.