Anyone see Creation yet? If so, what did you think?
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I saw the World premiere in Toronto, see my review here Cobourg Atheist.
Martha West not only outperforms Jennifer Connolly and Paul Bettany but made the film for me. Where did they find that child? Thoroughly enjoyed it. Was completely different from what I was expecting.
I loved it, and more suprisingly my friends [usually hesitant and suspicious about my atheist interests] loved it too. It’s moving.
See it? I’m here because of it.
Oh, the film. OK I’ll let you know.
I haven’t but I want to. Might do it next week. Then I have some time.
No not planning to. Meaning that you are an atheist does not automatically requires you to see the film, I have also other interesting things in my life to do.
umm…. okay?
That’s not true. If you don’t see it you are in danger of losing your Atheist decoder ring and God-less street-cred. You are in danger of getting rolled by Fred Phelps and his posse.
Way to take up space with a completely pointless comment.
And why wouldn’t seeing a given movie possibly be on your list of “other interesting things to do” in your life? Just curious.
Saw the other Paul Bettany movie Legion…now I know what a Hawkman vs Punisher fight would look like
Currently looking for a decent screener or preview copy to torrent.
’cause im all immoral and stuff.
If worse comes to worse, Ill just have to wait for it on Netflix. I do enjoy documentary and historical movies, but I prefer them on my own couch.
It’s already on tvshack.net – I don’t know how the pirates get this stuff so fast.
The Internet community laughs at the puny MPAA.
Personally, I usually wait until it comes out on DVD to torrent it (watching camcorder copies is generally painful), and then if I *really* like it I’ll buy it on physical media.
I’m almost beyond physical media, and very happy about it.
The only media I still have to put up with is the occasional Netflix disk. Everything else is acquired across the net. The last computer I built, I just skipped putting in any media player. I installed the OS using a thumb drive.
Im predicting the death of optical disk drives in less than 10 years.
You’re probably right. What with thumb drives able to hold 4 GB and up, optical disk drives will likely go the way of the 3.5 floppy drive (remember those?).
The only sticking point is that optical disks (or, at least, the high quality ones) have better data corruption loss per unit time used than NAND flash devices. For archival uses at least, optical will probably be around for quite a while.
In my business, we’ve abandoned opticals for redundant external hard drives. The backups check each other for consistency and automatically back up the source every half hour. I feel much better about our back ups now than when we had to remember to get out blank disks, back stuff up, throw away the old copies, etc. Much easier now. At the end of the day, toss the backup drives in the firesafe and were good.
And Roger, oh ya I remember the 3.5′s. I remember when the 5 1/4″ floppies replaced the 8″. I’m dating myself a bit here, but I even remember when core memory was a big deal. My dad was a punch card programmer back in the day.
RAIDs are nice.
I remember when the 5 1/4″ floppies replaced the 8″.
My first compy was a Commodore 64, which had an external 5 1/4″. Man, those things were a pain; I remember you had to kludge write-protection using a piece of damn tape.
Go back one step from the C64. My VIC-20 you had to load programs from a cassette tape. It took forever.
But tape is even better and has the advantage that it’s been around long enough for people to understand the properties when stored long term. Hard drives … erm … who knows how long they will last and transporting them physically is a right pain. Great for redundancy but not so hot for archives.
I watched the first half last night – it’s no cam. Looks to have come from a master, maybe an Oscar judges copy.
Well, I just watched the rest. Some slight spoilers here, but nothing that would ruin the film I think.
The film is mostly about Darwin’s life during the period of Origins‘ writing. There is very little in it which discusses the theory itself or his journeys on The Beagle. That’s refreshing for a film about Darwin; it puts a human face on his struggle with his own discoveries. He says “The loss of religious faith is a painstakingly slow process, like the raising of continents. Now, I fear that process is complete”.
The film looks at how his wife, Emma, reacted to his works – she was a devout Christian throughout her life. Her anger at him for going against God is palpable throughout the film, but so is her love for Charles. This dichotomy is portrayed excellently.
The main focus of the film is Charles’ love for his eldest daughter, Annie, and how her death effected him and his work. His emotional turmoil as he tries to decide whether God has taken his child as revenge for the book which Charles is writing is acted brilliantly as always by Paul Bettany, who (in a reversal of his role in A Beautiful Mind, where he plays a figment of Russel Crowe’s imagination) regularly sees, converses and argues with Annie (great acting from Martha West, a girl to look out for in future movies I’m sure) for many years after her death.
The film is stark and honest about societal attitudes to Darwin, describing his enemies throwing a party when they believe him to be dying of an “apoplectic stroke” before Origins is complete, to which Charles looks bewildered and declares “But I have no enemies”. There is always a subtle undertone of great goings on in London of which Charles, in his rural isolation, is never really aware beyond second-hand accounts from friends.
The film also contains boiling pigeons and a cute baby orangutan.
Great review, mirroring my thoughts on the film but put ever more eloquently than I ever could.
‘Creation’ is not an atheist film (if such a thing exists) – it’s a Darwin biopic, and as such it focuses on the man Charles Darwin during a dramatic period of his life. This it does excellently.
I liked it. It humanized Darwin. It had little to do with his work. It dealt more with the struggle of balancing his beliefs with his love for his wife. It was like BLADE RUNNER meets PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. SPOILER ALERT: DARWIN sees dead people.
Ah hah. I don’t know why but when I read “Darwin sees dead people” I laughed out loud. I’m looking forward to seeing the film as my professor (who almost idolizes Charles Darwin) turned me into a big fan.
I see it’s rated PG-13 for “some intense thematic material”. I wonder if it was some young-earth creationist who thought Darwin’s theories might not be appropriate for younger viewers…
I’ve heard good things about the movie but haven’t seen it yet. It’s not showing around by me, so I’ll have to wait until it does, or until the DVD (hopefully) comes out
Mmm, no I think the PG13 is more likely for the scene when Darwin’s daughter is brought home from Sunday school by the preacher having been made to kneel in rock-salt because he wants her to deny the existence of dinosaurs and she won’t.
say what?
http://www.icefilms.info/index.php?option=com_iceplayer&sort=latest&video=92987
Bam! watch it here.