Source Code - Grading/Discussion
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Why was "F" not an option in the poll? Is it inconceivable that someone could've hated it? 
Saw it today. Found it enjoyable, but not as good as Moon.
I think it's possible that some aren't finding it as good as "Moon" was because this wasn't an original concept from Jones. He didn't develop it right from the start. "Moon" is the first in a potential trilogy of films that take place in the same universe. "Source Code" was something that he took on and developed. That's maybe the difference between the two. That being said I think that Jones was the perfect director for this story. I just don't like the rewrites that were done.
I've jumped into a dead thread to resurrect the past and alter the trajectory of its future. Will I get my very own perfect girlfriend from the act? Probably not.
Re-watched the film on redbox and still find it enjoyable. I liked that Rutledge's bullshit makes no sense in or outside of the movie because he was clearly lying to Coulter to keep him from realizing the truth: Rutledge was sacrificing the lives of people in other realities, who could be saved, to further his own ambitions for the project and to save "his" America's citizens. If Coulter realized he was letting real people die with all of his failed attempts, he might have been unable to continue or focused more on saving each train load rather than looking for the bomber. Hell, he could have lied to them once he figured out how to beat the scenario and save the day in the AUs and gone in again and again, pushing it right up until the last second necessary to also save his own reality's Chicago from the dirty bomb.
This alternate reality stuff is much more fun than simple closed loop time travel paradoxes we usually get. Great flick.
When I first watched this in theatres, I had no idea it was directed by the Moon guy, but it clearly has his touch and I look forward to anything else he puts out.
Re-watched the film on redbox and still find it enjoyable. I liked that Rutledge's bullshit makes no sense in or outside of the movie because he was clearly lying to Coulter to keep him from realizing the truth: Rutledge was sacrificing the lives of people in other realities, who could be saved, to further his own ambitions for the project and to save "his" America's citizens. If Coulter realized he was letting real people die with all of his failed attempts, he might have been unable to continue or focused more on saving each train load rather than looking for the bomber. Hell, he could have lied to them once he figured out how to beat the scenario and save the day in the AUs and gone in again and again, pushing it right up until the last second necessary to also save his own reality's Chicago from the dirty bomb.
This alternate reality stuff is much more fun than simple closed loop time travel paradoxes we usually get. Great flick.
When I first watched this in theatres, I had no idea it was directed by the Moon guy, but it clearly has his touch and I look forward to anything else he puts out.
bringing back a dead thread since I watched it on DVD recently (for the second time) and realized something I probably should have thought about after I left the theater.
Basically as time goes forward won't you have alternative universes now where's there multiple versions of Colter occupying the bodies of other people? The movie ends with the assistant getting the letter from him letting her know this is an alternate universe created by the Source Code successfully stopping an attack. So there's another version of him hooked up to the machine that has yet to travel back since in this universe that attack never happened.
So once the next attack happens that the source code is needed for he'll be sent back and there will already been a Colter existing in that universe. So once he successfully completes that mission it will eventually end up creating an alternate universe where you have two Colter's inhabiting the bodies of people and a third Colter yet to be sent back... and then just continue from there.
At some point I wonder if they will just act like the 1st Colter and contact 'their' Dad. Dad must be thinking it odd so many guys were in his sons unit.
Basically as time goes forward won't you have alternative universes now where's there multiple versions of Colter occupying the bodies of other people? The movie ends with the assistant getting the letter from him letting her know this is an alternate universe created by the Source Code successfully stopping an attack. So there's another version of him hooked up to the machine that has yet to travel back since in this universe that attack never happened.
So once the next attack happens that the source code is needed for he'll be sent back and there will already been a Colter existing in that universe. So once he successfully completes that mission it will eventually end up creating an alternate universe where you have two Colter's inhabiting the bodies of people and a third Colter yet to be sent back... and then just continue from there.
At some point I wonder if they will just act like the 1st Colter and contact 'their' Dad. Dad must be thinking it odd so many guys were in his sons unit.
If each trip into the past goes to another alternate universe, it's probably safe to say there are so many alternate universes you will never hit the same one twice--the odds on doing so would be so minuscule as to be statistically insignificant.
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