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

[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.