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Movie Review: ‘Source Code’ is a fun and solid thriller
Apr 3rd
If thrillers are your favorite kind of movie, there’s a new one in Carson City that more than beats most of the recent examples; it’s “Source Code” and is at the Casino Fandango Galaxy multiplex.
The movie stars Jake Gyllenhaal at Capt. Colter Stevens, who wakes up on a Chicago commuter trail sitting opposite Michelle Monaghan as Christina, a friendly woman with a pleasant smile. Stevens fumbles around until suddenly there is an explosion (the only one, although it is repeated again and again as part of the plot) and the train explodes.
Stevens finds himself in a chamber with a TV screen, where he is interrogated by Air Force Capt. Goodwin (Vera Farmiga) and discovers he is part of a source code. (Don’t worry about what a source code is, though it is a command that computer programmers use in creating software.)
Seems that by the code the subject (Stevens in this case) can go back to a different body during the last eight minutes of that body’s life. So Stevens does so, trying to find the bomb that has been planted on the train. Reason the Air Force is doing this is to find out about a nuke someone is planning to set off in Chicago after the train explosion.
Stevens finally finds the train bomb but only removes one cell phone bomb trigger; he has to do it a second time and gets punched about for his troubles. He finally identifies the bomber and tips off the Army, which stops the nuke and arrests the bad guy.
But it seems that Stevens is really not quite dead in Afghanistan but is kept alive for future events. So how does this leave him with Christina, with whom he has fallen in love? Don’t worry, quantum mechanics comes to the rescue, just don’t ask questions.
This is a well-done thriller without car chases and, as mentioned, only one explosion, perfectly logical given the plot line. Direction by Duncan Jones is crisp and the cast is just right for the story. Technical execution is dazzling, as we’ve come to expect from thrillers.
There’s a neatness about this one (OK, so the science is kind of wacky and it’s best not to think about it all too deeply) that rivals that fine Clooney film “The American.” Jake and Michelle touch off sparks and Vera is a fine Air Force captain (spoken by me once upon a time).
And the photography is spectacular, showing Chicago off beautifully, including that city park next to the Art Institute. And and commuter trains were never as nifty back in the days when I was riding them. If you lived or worked in Chicago, these shots make the movie well worthwhile without the actors.
As thrillers go, this one goes well. See and enjoy.
— Sam Bauman
Cast
— Jake Gyllenhaal as Captain Colter Stevens
— Michelle Monaghan as Christina
— Vera Farmiga as Colleen Goodwin
— Jeffrey Wright as Dr. Rutledge
— Cas Anvar as Hazmi
— Russell Peters as Max Denoff
— Michael Arden as Derek Frost
— Scott Bakula as Stevens’ father (voice cameo)
Directed by: Duncan Jones
Produced by: Mark Gordon, Jordan Wynn and Philippe Rousselet
Written by: Ben Ripley
Music by: Chris P. Bacon
Cinematography: Don Burgess
Editing by: Paul Hirsch
Rated: PG-13, runs about 97 minutes
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Apr 3rd
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Colter’s latest mission is to work in the “Source Code”, which allows him to relive the last eight minutes in the life of another person to help solve the question of who set off the explosion of a commuter train. If Colter can solve that question, there is hope for a response can be avoided even greater purpose than a threat to Chicago for a second much more awesome explosion.
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Relive the last eight minutes of a man’s life over and over again, Colter hunting for the answers, but he discovers a woman named Christina, played by Michelle Monaghan, who may end up causing the soldier divert from his mission.
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‘Source Code’: The Reviews Are In!
Apr 1st
The beginning of March brought us a well-reviewed sci-fi movie in “The Adjustment Bureau.” The first day of April gifts us with a far superior, and deservedly better reviewed, genre flick called “Source Code.”
Here’s the funny thing (and the enduring, head-scratching nature of the box office): The new movie, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, isn’t likely to pull in more bucks over its opening weekend than Matt Damon’s “Bureau” ($21.2 million). That’s a shame, because more people than are expected to buy tickets — experts are predicting around $15 million in receipts — should check out “Source Code,” the second feature from Duncan Jones (“Moon”). But don’t just take it from us. Check out what the critics are saying about the film:
The Story
“Army Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) awakens on a commuter train heading to Chicago, and doesn’t know where he is. He finds the delightful Christina (Michelle Monaghan) sitting across from him. … Colter doesn’t know — and neither do we — that he’s part of a highly classified military research project and has been sent into the immediate past to find out who bombed that train. The ‘source code’ — a kind of shorthand for computer shorthand — is given a breezy but satisfying enough explanation by its inventor (Jeffrey Wright), but what it does, basically, is provide Colter with an eight-minute window, in a parallel reality, to find the bomber and prevent what is expected to be a subsequent terrorist attack on Chicago itself.” — John Anderson, The Wall Street Journal
The Performances
“‘Source Code’ clicks along with swift, crisp tension, with Gyllenhaal delivering an assured lead performance as a man at once out of his depth and supremely self-assured. … Indeed, it’s the persuasive turns of all the cast members — within an otherwise preposterous setup — that allow filmgoers to surrender to the propulsive force of ‘Source Code.’ Monaghan and Farmiga are especially winning as the sympathetic women who coax Stevens along a path that, while preordained, he insists on twisting.” — Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
The Direction
” ‘Source Code’ is nimbly directed by Duncan Jones, whose 2009 ‘Moon’ was probably the past decade’s smartest, most ambitious science-fiction film. Although ‘Source Code”s premise is a Philip K. Dick-style mindbender, Jones plays the story straight. The movie triggers memories of those classic Hitchcock suspense stories starring Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant as a bystander abruptly thrust into life-or-death intrigue. Setting the action on a train gives the story a claustrophobic sense of urgency and a nice thematic resonance: Is Stevens’ future also moving with unstoppable momentum on a fixed path?” — Colvin Colbert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Dissenters
“‘Source Code’ can’t help but come down with the conceptual sillies from time to time. The situation is so preposterous and the characters’ attempts to explain it make for such bogus high-tech gobbledygook — Jeffrey Wright does what he can with the stock role of the crippled Dr. Strangelove behind the experiment — that you need a weed whacker just to keep sight of the plot. The movie plays with the metaphysics of time and causality, and it gives Gyllenhaal a big Sisyphean rock to push uphill over and over, but in no way does it enter the cosmically profound through the back door the way ‘Groundhog Day’ did.” — Ty Burr, Boston Globe
The Final Word
“Superficially, ‘Source Code’ plays with some of the same themes as last month’s ‘The Adjustment Bureau.’ But it’s made with so much more skill and craft and impact that it’s as if that other film were its made-for-TV doppelganger. This is hair-raising, clever and winning entertainment. Even if his protagonists aren’t entirely what they seem to be or think they are, Mr. Jones is, it’s increasingly clear, the real thing.” — Shawn Levy, The Oregonian
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Jake Gyllenhaal Recalls ‘Debate’ On ‘Source Code’ Set
Apr 1st
For the skeptical filmgoers out there who love to naysay Hollywood plot twists and turns, the stars and director of “Source Code” want you to know that they’ve already taken any questions and concerns you might have about the story into consideration.
The film revolves around Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) on a mission to solve the mystery behind a devastating bombing, via Source Code technology — venturing into the mind of one of the passengers on the train, eight minutes before his death.
While director Duncan Jones told MTV News recently that the film requires a “leap of faith,” actor Jake Gyllenhaal promises that any questions you may have were already debated during production.
“The entire movie was a debate and the entire movie was also having to ask all the questions that the audience might be asking,” Gyllenhaal revealed. “Which is why I find it so successful that when you watch the movie, you can ask whatever question and think you know the answer, and we’ve already asked it or answered it,” he said, adding that the audience is constantly surprised. “Even if you’ve found out who the bomber is halfway through the movie, you don’t really know what’s going to happen.”
Gyllenhaal went on to say that everything came together perfectly in order to execute the story in the most entertaining and interesting way possible.
“It’s brilliantly written, it’s very clearly and brilliantly directed, which is so hard with a sci-fi movie and also at the heart of it is a character [for whom] we created a backstory that we thought a lot about,” he explained. “Each piece of his action is connected to what he does and why he does it and his own fate. I think, overall, we thought all the time, and that’s what made it so fun.”
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Movie Review: Source Code
Mar 30th
I can already see it at some virtual movie-revival house of the future: a “what-if?” double feature that teams Limitless and Source Code and points out that both films came out within a couple of weeks of each other in the same year.
The similarities don’t stop there. Both feature good-looking young actors – Bradley Cooper in Limitless, Jake Gyllenhaal in Source Code – who stumble into something much bigger than themselves and have to hang on for dear life if they want to survive.
But where Limitless posited a pharmaceutical that allowed the user to be all that he could be, Source Code is a time-travel thriller that spends a lot of time arguing against its being a time-travel movie.
The film’s central gimmick – that scientists have found a way to send someone back in time to the point eight-minutes before a certain individual dies, into that individual’s mind – is clever enough. And it makes a certain kind of Groundhog Day sense.
Gyllenhaal plays Capt. Colter Stevens, a soldier who served in Iraq who wakes up on a commuter train to Chicago. He can’t remember how he got there, he doesn’t know the woman sitting across from him (Michelle Monaghan), though she seems to know him, and he can’t figure out why, when he looks in a restroom mirror, he sees someone else’s face. And then the train explodes …
… and he comes to in some sort of flight-simulator capsule, or so it seems. He can hear voices talking military-computer jargon, trying to get his attention. Eventually, he finds out that he’s part of a desperate experiment.
Just back from fighting in Iraq, he’s somehow a perfect match for that guy on the train. Somehow, the military egghead in charge (Jeffrey Wright) has figured out how to insert Colter’s mind into the man’s brain – for the final eight minutes of the guy’s life.
And that’s his mission: To keep going back into the guy’s brain, in order to figure out who on the train set the bomb – and what he’s done with the dirty bomb he also plans to set off this same day. The catch: The train bombing happened earlier that morning and can’t be prevented, but Colter can affect the future by finding the bomber and bringing back that information.
Except that, as Colter makes his repeated leaps into the past, he discovers that he can change the events he’s experiencing. Does that mean he’s changing the past?
What’s the science here?
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Jake Gyllenhaal the ‘Source’ of mania with Chicago fans
Mar 27th
Jake Gyllenhaal plays a soldier on a mysterious time-traveling mission who is out to thwart a terrorist bombing on a Chicago commuter train in the new action thriller “Source Code.”
His fans call themselves Gyllenhaalics and there is no intervention. They just need to have their fix of those pecs and that sweet smile.
In Chicago, they gathered early in the morning at Millennium Park. Their ages ranged from 5 to 65, and they were on a mission to find the object of their addiction: Jake Gyllenhaal.
The 30-year-old heartthrob was filming a scene for his new movie “Source Code” in the park, and pandemonium ensued.
“Chicago is so cool in my book,” Gyllenhaal said. “We shot in the early morning hours and we had the whole park, but without giving too much away, we were filming in front of a statue that was very reflective. You could see the faces of the fans in the background going nuts and waving. It didn’t exactly fit into the plot about a guy who is hiding out.
“So I asked the ladies to shift a little to the left. It was pretty funny because the crowd moved together like one big dance step. It was everybody to the left in a few big steps. Then everybody to the right. I love my fans. They were so cooperative.”
In “Source Code,” opening Friday, Gyllenhaal plays Colter Stevens in an action thriller revolving around a soldier who finds himself stuck in an odd time-traveling pod that transports him into the body of a Chicago teacher stuck on a commuter train that has been bombed into oblivion. Colter winds the clock back eight minutes and is on a mission to find the terrorist before another bomb is unleashed in Chicago.
Each time he goes back for the eight minutes, he learns something new.
“Variation was key,” he said. “It was the only way this movie could be interesting. We figured out how to use this repetition to our advantage or we would be destroyed by it.”
He said the roughest part of the journey were the moments of disorientation when he travels from real life back into this unknown realm and lands in a pod.
“I knew it had to look disorientating, so what I would do is hold my breath and do a number of kung fu combinations to get dripping wet with sweat. Then we’d roll,” he recalled. “We’d do a seven-minute take and then I’d do my breath-holding routine all over again.”
He admitted that he almost passed out a few times. “The room was literally spinning, but that was great because my confusion looked so real onscreen.”
Gyllenhaal, whose most recent film was the love story “Love & Other Drugs,” said the idea of a thriller appealed to him.
“I loved that it was a film filled with twists and turns. In most films, the audience is way ahead of the story. This was unique in that it leaves you guessing,” he said. “The script gets there before the audience does.”
Director Duncan Jones said Gyllenhaal was the only man for the role.
“I’m a huge fan of Jake Gyllenhaal,” Jones said. “He’s an incredibly talented actor and he’s not painful on the eyes. He’s also incredibly brave. He’s an actor who is always willing to take a risk.”
Born to be an actor
Gyllenhaal grew up in Los Angeles with show business in his blood. He is the younger brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner.
“I was brought up in a family that desperately wanted to tell stories,” he said. “It was almost like a traveling circus. This is what still gives us joy. This is what matters to us.”
Gyllenhaal made his big-screen debut playing Billy Crystal’s son Danny in 1991’s “City Slickers.”
“It was crazy to be a kid on a major movie set,” he said. “I couldn’t believe that I was that close to Billy Crystal. To this day, I remember the wardrobe I wore, being in the makeup trailer and working with that cow that played Norman.”
He was a giving co-star.
“Remember the last scene at the airport with the family in the van with our new pet?” he asks. “The cow was peeing all over me.”
After that warm welcome to the biz, he went on to do roles in all kinds of films, from the small and independent (“Donnie Darko,” “The Good Girl”) and big blockbusters (“The Day After Tomorrow”). He became an international sensation playing a gay cowboy in Ang Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain.” His memories of working with co-star Heath Ledger are precious to him.
“I remember seeing him after we were both cast. We were at this party and we didn’t have real space to talk. But somehow we found a little corner and we started doing some of the lines,” he said. “We both thought the story was so beautiful and we wanted to service that story in whatever way possible.
“We had no time to waste.”
Gyllenhaal said his next film is “a beautiful screenplay about two Los Angeles police department officers. It’s about the nature of duty and friendship, and about the reasons why young guys put their lives in danger.”
No escaping the spotlight
Gyllenhaal’s only danger is the stalking paparazzi. He has had high-profile relationships with Kirsten Dunst, Reese Witherspoon and Taylor Swift.
“It would be great to just play characters and lose yourself in them while the audience loses themselves in the characters you play,” he said. “I’d much rather they know less about me and more about the characters.
“I don’t like having my life played out in the media. I’d much rather keep my private life private. At the same time, I completely understand the interest in an actor’s personal life. I am very forgiving of little 9-year-old girls who run up and say, ‘I want to marry you.’”
Gyllenhaal’s young fan club also includes his 4-year-old niece Ramona Sarsgaard, the daughter of his sister Maggie and actor Peter Sarsgaard.
“Family is the most important thing to me. I love being with my niece,” Gyllenhaal said. “Since my niece came into my life, I have a new perspective on spending time around the dinner table with the people who are special.”
They won’t have to deal with his movie star attitude, because there is none.
“If I developed an attitude, my mom would give me a real good whupping.”
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Exclusive: Source: Hangover 2 Cast Said “Hell No” to Mel Gibson Cameo
Oct 22nd
Sounds like Mel Gibson‘s cancelled cameo on The Hangover 2 was doomed from the start.
It’s been widely speculated that Zach Galifianakis was solely responsible for Gibson getting the axe from the sequel, after the actor admitted earlier this month he was “in a deep protest right now with a movie I’m working on.”
PHOTOS: Mel’s many meltdowns
But an insider close to the production says that all of the film’s stars — including Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms — objected to the stunt casting.
“They barely began shooting when [Gibson] was dumped on them,” the source tells UsMagazine.com. “It was met with a collective ‘oh hell no.’”
Director Todd Phillips and the film studio tried to “appease” the cast and make it into a “positive,” but to no avail. “This dampened all of the production,” the insider says. “None of the cast, Bradley, Zach, Ed, no one was pleased and it was evident.”
PHOTOS: Mel and Oksana’s bitter feud
The source adds that their objection wasn’t just to Gibson’s controversial reputation, tarnished more than ever over his vicious battle with ex Oksana Grigorieva.
“They don’t want him to be in the movie and serve as a platform for some creepy comeback,” the insider tells Us. “They didn’t want that energy or to shoulder what would come with having him apart of the film.”
PHOTOS: Other notable star meltdowns
“The entire cast and crew pretty much stood in solidarity and made it very clear: no. It took awhile, but it happened,” the source says.
“I thought Mel would have been great in the movie,” director Phillips mused to The Wrap on Thursday. “But I realize filmmaking is a collaborative effort, and this decision ultimately did not have the full support of my entire cast and crew.”
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Comic Book Movie Source Materials
Sep 19th
Hey all, This is a subject we are all familiar about in the recent years and coming up with comic book movies. The subject of today is the source material studios own and in some cases misuse, and how their actions have impacted on this film genre. The basic idea of a source material is simple, the source material are the basis for which comic’s establish and follow throughout years of publications and various writers use to keep continuity in line with only minor deviation to create a new continuity for new writers to use. There are two types of source materials: the first is an Open Source Material, where the characters have been established through years of writers and changes but stay totally faithful to the creators vision and style. The Second is Limited Source Material, where the characters and universe they live aren’t greatly established but are much more focused and follow a simple, straight, and narrow pathway, leaving little to no deviation. Since DC is owned by Warner Brothers and Disney now is the owner of Marvel, but some studios still own film rights but will eventually get them back, by some means.
So why and how do these two different means of sources greatly affect the studio’s investment and overall box office success or failure, it’s how the source is interpreted. Lets take a few examples of each type of source material and see the difference. Take a look at the Batman films, these were Box Office hits, except the 4th film we all want to forget, but the one thing they had was an open source, the 3 directors of these films took the materials from the comics and applied to into the films and gave us something unique and kept true to the characters. Another example of Open Source is the Iron Man Films, while only two films in, they remain true to who the characters are and the design of the suits are spot-on from the comic book counter parts. Other series like Hulk, Blade, X-men, Daredevil, Fantastic 4, and others tend to deviate from the comics but they remain faithful to the core concepts the comics have established. I made mention that the Singer X-men movies, while they totally deviate from the comic’s, they remain true to the ideals the original concept of alienation, racism, prejudice, and belonging. It wasn’t until Origins where things got lost in translation and now the film continuity is now split. The only true exception to the Open Source Material is the upcoming Avengers film. In this film we are following the combined film universe’s and while it will may be a 50/50 effort combing both comics and films into an amalgamation of all the history this team of characters have been through. The films coming up like Green Lantern, Thor, Captain America, Ant-man, The Flash, Spider-man reboot, and many other ones coming out are most likely to follow to follow this type of material
Now the second type of source material is the Limited source material, where little to no deviation is allowed but studios tend to butcher this type greatly. We have seen many LSM being taken advantage of and sadly were never box office greats. Look at any Alan Moore works took into Live Action movies. Watchmen is probably done well but it took different turns than most expected. Others like this include V for Vendetta for adding and removing elements from the original comic, WANTED for totally altering it to the point of no return, and LXG, which was…..well lets keep away from that……Why do studios screw these up, which to me is a very easy source to pull from. It has a well structured story telling and can be told in just one movie. A comic like Scott Pilgrim had all the looks and promises of being a huge hit, fell short of its goals, why, it was a limited source material, had a well structured and unaltered world, interesting characters, awesome fight sequences. Aside from all the glowing reviews it barely hit big with the mainstream audience. Now it did in fact deviate but fans didn’t mind because it stayed true to the source. KICK-ASS had the opposite effect, this was a film that while being limited was allowed to deviate and became a huge hit, a rare instance where the LSM didn’t apply. We got a few LSM movies coming out soon, we are gonna see KICK-ASS 2, Superior, and NEMESIS being made into movies, and I’m sure all will deviate and be altered but people will still go see them and they will make lots of money.
Now I exclude video game movies in this because they totally deviate, these films just take the ideas and apply them in a totally different way and have little to no connection to the games. I call those fan service movies. Where they show off like one or two things from the games and that instantly makes them connect. Like I mentioned to a friend, the whole point behind of the Resident Evil games was the fear of containment with a dangerous threat, knowing that you have limited resources and trying to prevent the threat from escaping. The Resident Evil movies are total deviations from those ideas Capcom created. Video game’s are huge stories that can’t be abridged into 2 hours of film.
Getting off that track, Whether OSM or LSM, comic book films are always big investment for Hollywood studios. To them everything is a gamble. For the most part, they want the writer to create a simple 3 act structure that would allow them to set-up for sequels, because a studio can make greater amounts of money with a franchise rather than a single film. Now will these types die out and the genre create a new type, may be not, because the fan base is strong and doesn’t allow the studios to alter or ruin their favorite characters. Will we see newly created super hero movies, of course, but they have to try twice as hard to create those universes where a Source Material has all the tools for the studio and writers to make it easy on them. Will we ever see a film that takes place in the comics, like Civil War or The Dark Knight returns, that remains in the air because of the various universes the studios created for their characters, but one day we will see the Marvel films under a single banner, and if WB ever gets off their butts and decide to do a REAL Justice League movie, then they will have plenty to work with, for now it’s all up to the Studio’s and their decisions, good or bad.
So in-closing, Studios are gonna keep creating these films, it’s not just them but the Director to decide how to implement the use of the Source Material. There are many directors who are staying true to the material, while others allow the material to be altered. Hopefully now that Johns is head of Creative Entertainment he is keeping tabs on Green Lantern and has given us lots of great news. Same with Quesada and Fiege, who are making sure our Marvel Favorites get their Spotlight. Hope you all enjoy this exploration in comic movies, I will be posting my weekly comic reviews some time next Friday at the earliest or Saturday. Til than, ComicCritic87 OUT!!!!
