kavenga
Joined Feb 2000
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I liked the whole series, but I have been "forced" to watch "The Girl Who Got Rattled" several times. The cinematography is gorgeous, the wagon train totally authentic, the story superb, and the cast outstanding. The scenes between Heck and Kazan are touching and incredibly real. Ethan and Joel, if you're reading this, PLEASE make a feature length wagon train film. This was so beautiful it deserves a longer treatment.
I realize how difficult and expensive it is to provide realistic effects for film or TV program about space, but they barely tried in this one. Space 1999 was more realistic.
To me this was really just a sexy soap opera set in space. The focus was almost all about the murder mystery and sexual intrigues and hardly anything to do with the real problems that would face such a mission.
The initial hook was good and I agree with the review ratings of the first episode. But then we were cheated in the end. The plot has more loose ends than a floor mop. I don't know the whole story behind the original plans for the series. Maybe it was intended to go longer, but it certainly wasn't advertised as anything but a complete, three-episode mini-series (yes, I did see that each episode actually consisted of two separate episodes directed by different directors.) If you like your movies with all or at least most of the loose ends tied up, Ascension is definitely not for you.
To me this was really just a sexy soap opera set in space. The focus was almost all about the murder mystery and sexual intrigues and hardly anything to do with the real problems that would face such a mission.
The initial hook was good and I agree with the review ratings of the first episode. But then we were cheated in the end. The plot has more loose ends than a floor mop. I don't know the whole story behind the original plans for the series. Maybe it was intended to go longer, but it certainly wasn't advertised as anything but a complete, three-episode mini-series (yes, I did see that each episode actually consisted of two separate episodes directed by different directors.) If you like your movies with all or at least most of the loose ends tied up, Ascension is definitely not for you.
For anyone who has seen Stephen Hawking live or on TV, Eddie Redmayne's performance has to be seen as nothing short of amazing and alone would justify the cost of ticket to see this film. But on top of that, the story from Jane Hawking's perspective is worthy of comparison with the works of Jane Austen, and Felicity Jones is commendable in the role of Jane Hawking.
The way Redmayne holds his hands, the expressions on his face, the angle of his neck, everything is so perfectly Hawking that at one point late in the movie during a crowd scene I actually thought it was the real Hawking. Like Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot, I feel and hope that Eddie is in line for some awards.
The way Redmayne holds his hands, the expressions on his face, the angle of his neck, everything is so perfectly Hawking that at one point late in the movie during a crowd scene I actually thought it was the real Hawking. Like Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot, I feel and hope that Eddie is in line for some awards.