The "last movie I saw" thread

[TripletDaddy]

So I bought 4 tickets to Star Wars 7: The Force Awakens. The timing is very precarious, as it cannot be at the same time as a Utah Football or Basketball, or BYU football or basketball game. That late in the season, I had to review the bowl games on Dec. 19 to determine if BYU will be in one that day, and I am pretty sure the Ute's bowl game will be later in the year.

So that just leaves me with Basketball. And when has a BYU or Utah basketball game ever been scheduled early in the morning, right? Like, never. So I bought the tickets for Dec. 19 at 9:30 in the morning. Mission accomplished.

So, yeah. Utah has a morning basketball game that morning. In Madison Square Garden. Against Duke.

crap. i doubt you could sell those 4 for cost. at this point it is way too late. looks like you are stuck.

[Eddie]

I assume you're old enough to have had to participate in what my elementary school (and others, I presume) called "Disaster Drills", even though the nature of the disaster was never specified. These were the "duck and cover" exercises where we'd kneel under our desks and hold our hands over our necks, while the teacher would pull the curtains. All this was intended to protect us when a 20 megaton warhead was detonated over our heads. Bridge of Spies shows this being done, along with a classroom flim about the effect of an atomic blast. This left the kids (and me back in the early 60s) both shocked and fascinated.

As for The Martian, I enjoyed it, even if it wasn't great. Some very nice visuals and CGI, although nothing groundbreaking from a storyline perspective (Apollo 13 was much better). An essential element of enjoying a movie like this is my being able to buy into the science part of it. I didn't care much for Gravity, despite the spectacular visuals, nice pacing, etc., because it was so clearly wrong from a science perspective (e.g., debris from an explosion coming around again on the same orbit as the damaged spacecraft). I'm dumb enough that I couldn't spot any obvious flaws in The Martian's science (although I'm certain there were some), so I was able to play along and enjoy. Again, very good and entertaining, but not great.

Finally, I watched part of Fury again on HBO or whatever the other night. The battle scenes in that remain at the top of any war movie I've seen.

During a LONG drive last week, as I was looking for a radio station in the middle of no where, I picked up NPR as they were doing a short interview with the author of The Martian, followed by an interview with a NASA scientist who is on the team planning the next trip to Mars.

The author talked about how he initially came up with the idea for the book, and thought that the science part was the interesting part. At first the book was free online and he would add chapters as he wrote them. People would email and correct him if he made any mistakes with the math or with other issues in the book, and he would correct them as he go. Ultimately it was published and no longer online for free.

The NASA scientist stated one of the reasons she really enjoyed the film is because the issues he faces and his solutions to those issues ARE so realistic. She indicated that the only unrealistic aspect is the storm that causes his isolation on Mars to begin with. Due to the atmosphere, Mars is not capable of producing a storm that would have the force seen in the movie. But she allowed him that creative license as a means of creating the situation for the story.

So - turns out it's mostly real stuff!

[Eddie]

crap. i doubt you could sell those 4 for cost. at this point it is way too late. looks like you are stuck.

You talking about the movie tickets, or basketball tickets?

[Commando]

You talking about the movie tickets, or basketball tickets?

I'm positive KL didn't have tix to the Utah game at MSG that she forgot about when getting the 4 star wars tix.

[TripletDaddy]

I dont plan on doing anything special to go see the new Wars. I will probably just buy a ticket as the release date nears and they keep adding screens to show it. Anyone else going this route?

[Jeff Lebowski]

I dont plan on doing anything special to go see the new Wars. I will probably just buy a ticket as the release date nears and they keep adding screens to show it. Anyone else going this route?

Me.

[smokymountainrain]

I dont plan on doing anything special to go see the new Wars. Anyone else going this route?

Me.

[Commando]

Normally I would just duck into the theatre w nice seats at an 11:00 matinee when nobody's up since it's going to be showing everywhere, but I'm xmas road tripping this year, wanting to get an early start on the 18th. I also wanted to IMAX the SW movie, so it works out that I got a ticket on the fandango app for a 7:00 p.m. showing on the 17th. Perfect.

I heard that the pre-sales 8x'd what the previous record holder, Hunger Games, did just last night alone. Biggest movie of all time- bout to make Titanic its bitch.

[Topper]

I dont plan on doing anything special to go see the new Wars. I will probably just buy a ticket as the release date nears and they keep adding screens to show it. Anyone else going this route?

If it is not rated in the top 25 by AP, my household won't see it.

[frank ryan]

I saw Crimson Peak. I really enjoyed it but Pan's Labyrinth remains my favorite Del Toro movie.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I dont plan on doing anything special to go see the new Wars. I will probably just buy a ticket as the release date nears and they keep adding screens to show it. Anyone else going this route?

They are advertising some marathon of all the movies then the new one, I'm thinking about letting my boys skip school and have a fun day with them.

[TripletDaddy]

They are advertising some marathon of all the movies then the new one, I'm thinking about letting my boys skip school and have a fun day with them.

My siblings at home were talking excitedly about doing this. The marathon begins at like 3am. I pointed out that they would likely have a blast watching 15 or so straight hours of Star Wars movies and eating movie theater food, they quickly opted for the midnight showing of episode 7 only.

[Commando]

They are advertising some marathon of all the movies then the new one, I'm thinking about letting my boys skip school and have a fun day with them.

That would be really fun.. maybe a bit much. I heard the first one starts at like 3:00 a.m. and you get intermissions all along the way, culminating in the 7:00 showing.

[Katy Lied]

My siblings at home were talking excitedly about doing this. The marathon begins at like 3am. I pointed out that they would likely have a blast watching 15 or so straight hours of Star Wars movies and eating movie theater food, they quickly opted for the midnight showing of episode 7 only.

You have a gift for wet blanketism.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

More than existing on a diet of popcorn and raisinets, I think you'd start regretting the decision at around the 15 minute mark of the Phantom Menace.