My dad wanted to go see a movie today. The options he presented to me were Sucker Punch, Source Code, and Your Highness. Sucker Punch looks like it's the worst ever... and Your Highness looks like something you wouldn't want to watch with your father... so I guess it was Source Code, since I feel like I should support the film career of Zowie Bowie.

I think it was the first film I've seen that's been released this year, so ladies and gentlemen, let me announce loud and proud that Source Code is the best film of the year that I've seen so far.

I don't really know what to say about it--other than it was a fun, gripping, and smartly plotted psychological sci-fi/thriller that was good enough that you didn't mind all the little implausibilities. I'd say that Mr. Zowie Bowie's last movie--that being Moon--was better in almost every regard, but this was still pretty damn good. It's just that the ending really, really sucked.

I don't want to spoil the movie--but essentially, the film begged for a more emotionally complex resolution, and instead we got one that was unnecessarily happy. Not that there's anything wrong with happy endings or anything--I mean, as it was playing out, I was thinking to myself "oh good, everything is going to work out". But then I realized it was kind of dumb and convoluted.

I'm assuming that the studio demanded a happy ending, and the filmmakers sort of shrugged and said "well, we could possibly make it work." Which I suppose isn't the worst thing in the world--I don't know if this is something the casual moviegoer is really going to go for completely, but as a fairly commercial film--it's smart and unconventional, and something you probably won't see from a typical Hollywood action movie (unless you've made the studios hundreds of millions--then you get to do whatever the hell you want, as is the case with Nolan and Inception). So I guess if the ending was the deciding factor in determining whether or not audiences really warm to the movie, I'd be OK--since the ending wasn't *that* bad judging by my own reaction to it. Just kind of dumb is all.

I'm not sure if that made a whole lot of sense. Basically, I went because it meant free popcorn... and I'm dating someone whose least favorite food happens to be just that. How that is possible I'm not really sure... but as it is, I'd sit through Sucker Punch if it meant free popcorn.