Topic: Deja Vu (movie, w/ Denzel)

[MysterD]

Anyone seen this Denzel movie yet???

[iPPi]

I got it but haven't had a chance to see it just yet.

[MysterD]

I was pretty impressed w/ it for the first hour and 20 some-odd minutes, as it feels like your not-so-typical movie....

But, then the movie makes a shift....for the worst...and goes "predictable..."

The "Shift" The Movie Takes....

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..But then, he goes the route that is very predictable -- the Gov't decides to take him off the case, but he decides to defy them, so he goes back in time and try to save the girl and the boat.

The movie would've been more interesting if say these "other" options were taken, after the Gov't decided to end his investigation.....

1. The movie ended after they got all the evidence and the Gov't decided he can't interfere w/ the Gov't. The terrorist is thrown in jail. The End.

2. Same as #1, but the movie doesn't end after the terrorist is thrown in jail. After the man is thrown into jail, Denzel falls into depression b/c he was thrown off the case and we watch this depression eventually lead to, somehow, his downfall -- maybe he commits suicide or dies in the line of fire w/ his regular job. I dunno'.

I'm sure there could be other ideas that could work, but the one the movie took was....well, PREDICTABLE and quite boring.

This movie could've been better than what it was....because in the 1st hour and 20 minutes, it was quite interesting, well-done, and unpredictable...

The last half of the movie, was just too paint-by-numbers and predictable...

[iPPi]

Well overall I enjoyed it.

[Cobra951]

Good, because it's waiting nearby for me to watch it soon.  Will post comments later.

[Cobra951]

I forgot all about this thread.  I watched the movie, twice, and I liked it, mostly. 

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There are the usual problems with the logic of time travel.  Making 2 of you at the same time defies everything that I can accept, but OK, since I think the whole thing forever shall remain fantasy.  As I've said before, I believe that time is an abstract concept--a very necessary one for human comprehension of reality, to be sure.  But one cannot travel along an idea, regardless of how deeply rooted it may be in our psyche and universe-modeling mathematics.  It's no more real in physical fact than the "E=mc²" floating around in the opening to The Twilight Zone.

Besides all of this, I really could have done without the humvee chasing the guy in the same space, but displaced in time.  Interesting idea, but it came off like a stupid car chase from 30-year-old movies.

[Pugnate]

Yea I liked it and didn't like it. I mean you have to suspend your disbelief massively to enjoy it. If you can put you logic aside then you will like it.

[angrykeebler]

I read this sci-fi story when I was like 12 that was totally like this movie.

In the story, man has found a way to look back into the past. They use these little portals and have set up a center where groups of scientists study the lives of past scientists/great men. The only thing is that they can't get any sound so each group has a person who reads lips.

Anyways, a journalist goes to do a story on these machines. He watches the group who are studying Isaac Newton. As they watch Newton grow older they notice he is very paranoid. He constantly rants about spies trying to steal his work. They skip forward to when he is a bit older. He is not paranoid anymore but they notice he does things like look up while he is working and smiles at no one in particular.

They fast forward to the day Newton dies. His last words on his deathbed are "My guardian angel who has watched over me my whole life. I am content to meet you now."

Then the leader of the Newton group gets this weird look on his face. He excuses himself and goes to talk to the other groups. He comes back and tells the journalist that every single person that the center is studying has at some pointed become paranoid and felt like they were being watched. "That is because they were being watched!..." he says "By us!"