I finally got around to watching it. I was not impressed, but at least they brought up some interesting questions for others, I suppose. I guess it was going for quantum immortality? I thought it started off well, but quickly got boring and I felt it was unsatisfying in the end. Others might not feel that way, but that is my very short "review." :)The Discovery (2017)It wasn't exceptional, but interesting nonetheless
Two years after Dr. Thomas Harbor (Robert Redford) has scientifically proved the existence of an afterlife, suicide rates are through the roof. Harbor's son Will, who is less than fond of how society has reacted to this discovery, arrives on an island where his father has holed himself up in a mansion compound surrounded by Will's brother Toby and various survivors of attempted suicide. They are assisting Dr. Harbor in his search for the next level of truth — finding out what the afterlife really is.
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S'all good, man. ;)It's funny, because I used to be a huge horror fan, but I now have very little tolerance for gore, torture and graphic sexual violence in entertainment. I think I will skip this one.
I'm one of those who read Martin's Fire and Ice series when the books came out, but I stopped watching the show around halfway through the second season. (And I watched both seasons of "Rome"!) HBO decided to totally exaggerate the sex, gore, violence, and added even MORE rape then what was in the books. So I stopped.
I don't want to watch Westworld for the same reason! I'm done with graphic torture and rape in shows meant for entertainment.
I'm actually trying to wean myself off media altogether, but I still watch Better Call Saul and am looking forward to Stranger Things and a handful of Netflix comedies. But, I know, I should unplug. I'll get there eventually, I hope.
S'all good, man. ;)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/we_go_on/WE GO ON tells the story of one man's quest to find out if there is more out there after we die. Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon anything that can prove that we go on after our deaths. He narrows the responses down to three viable candidates a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. Along with his fiercely protective mother, he embarks on an adventure that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.
Vaguely unstable commercial-editor Miles Grissom has become fixated on death since the passing of his father and now the situation is critical. He’s afraid of everything. Of walking. Driving. Leaving the house. Miles opts to assuage his phobia by placing an ad offering a substantial amount of money to anyone who can prove that there is an afterlife or, better yet, show him a ghost. After recieving a landslide of responses, Miles whittles down the list to few key people and much of the movie sees the young man – sometimes accompanied by his doting mother (played by the amazing Annette O’Toole who shines here) – bumping from one charlatan and pretender to the next, save for a wild-eyed Spanish psychic (Giovanna Zararius, who is wayyyyy over the top) who seems to have totally tapped into the limbo where the restless dead still walk.
We Go On is a simple, effective story of the living making peace with the dead and it works. Grissom is fine in a difficult role as Miles is, well, kind of a drip. He’s weak and ineffectual and a lesser actor might make him unlikable. He’s propped up by O’Toole who is delivers the movie’s strongest turn as the mother who has tried to protect her son for years and now is faced with doing the unthinkable to keep that vigil going.
To fully appreciate We Go On, you have to kind of surrender to it. To fall into it and let the talented directors simply guide you through their carefully controlled landscape. And if you do let the film grab you, you might – like Miles – find its presence hard to shake.
Read more at http://www.comingsoon.net/horror/reviews/807991-we-go-on-review#4A1pV2bffqjSccYh.99
When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team--lead by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams)--are brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers--and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
And as I'm posting - I'm amazed nobody here's posted anything about the movie Arrival!One of the best sci-fi movies in recent memory - deeply intelligent & profound, a must watch even for those who don't like watching movies but are interested in such subjects as time, language, consciousness, aliens etc, as this will make you think.....I absolutely loved it!:
ARRIVALhttps://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/arrival_2016/
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I finally got around to watching it. I was not impressed, but at least they brought up some interesting questions for others, I suppose. I guess it was going for quantum immortality? I thought it started off well, but quickly got boring and I felt it was unsatisfying in the end. Others might not feel that way, but that is my very short "review." :)