Forgot to “review” it yesterday, but I caught “Intersect”.
I really liked it a lot… until the end!
Basically, a trio of scientists develop a working time-machine, sending things (at first) only 10sec into the future, but it was enough to open a sort of portal for other critters to come in, or at least that was the critters’ intent. And they influenced people to make it all happen.
The movie did a great job spoon-feeding you little pieces of the jigsaw puzzle letting you slowly but surely figure out what’s the Big Picture, almost but not quite in reverse chronological order, but you did have to keep track of where in the timeline each piece fit. As long as you could remember “Man, I really miss Bill…” wondering whonahell is Bill, an upcoming scene will show, you guessed it, Bill! I felt it walked that tightrope between being thoroughly confusing, and laying it straight out drawn in crayons, and just revealed enough at just the right time to keep your interest.
I have to admit, it did seem to be going off in tangent after tangent until the last scene with Nate tied it all together, and then with a series of quick flashbacks putting things in context, you finally got that Big Picture.
And then came the ending. W… t… f…?? I didn’t get it at all.
Kinda like the end of “2001” (whose ending I also hated), maybe someone’ll jump in and explain the weird-ass ending was about here.
It felt like someone was making for me an exquisite culinary masterpiece which I’d remember forever, where the smell was intoxicating, visually it looked like a piece of art, I was dying in anticipation to take that first bite… then the waiter trips and dumps it in my lap instead.
Arrrggh!!
It’s still worth the watch, just like 2001, but expect the same crappy ending.
Today’s was “Maybe Tomorrow”. All I can say was “WOW!!*.
It’s in French (fr audio, en hardsubs, at least my version) and is available on Prime. It’s only got 2 actors, plenty of gorgeous scenery, and is very talky. Still, I didn’t mind at all, as it grabbed my attention and didn’t let go. In fact, I was spending a lot of time rewinding just to make sure I didn’t miss even a single word of dialogue.
Basically, a guy and gril, both depressed, meet on the interweb and chat, spilling their guts to each other, and make a plan to get together, hike out to a cliff, and both jump off together. The movie essentially starts where they first meet in person preparing for the hike.
It’s about the day or so they spend together, learning about each other (or not, as the case may be), and how things resolve. Basically, I was floored. It was, in a sense, a 2-person “Breakfast Club” only without the detention, but with a certain (albeit slow) baring-of-souls.
What I found personally fascinating is that he told a Reader’s Digest version of the short story “The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas”. (Free .pdf online, but it was a bit tedious, even though it’s only 3-4 pages long, so czech out the synopsis on wikipædia instead if you want.) And I just watched “The 2nd” a few days ago where Richard Burgi’s character mention by name that story, too!
And more coinkydink, it was Ryan Phillippe in “The 2nd”, whereas back in “Maybe Tomorrow” the male character’s name is Phillippe. 
That’s a sign from God, go and watch both movies, or burn forever in Gehenna.
Anyway, highly highly recommended.
