The Interview: this is a film I probably would've skipped if not for the controversy, by which I mean my friend got a copy and brought it over and I was intrigued enough to watch it. It starts off somewhat clever and funny. James Franco seems to relish these types of roles and throws himself completely into it, which makes the early going fun. Seth Rogen plays it fairly straight for the most part, ceding the limelight to Franco until the later scenes, when the movie just jumps the shark. I can't help but wonder what someone like Steve Carrell could have done with Rogen's part.
Not a great film, but not a waste of time either thanks to Franco's over-the-top yet oh-so-nuanced efforts in his role.
Not a great film, but not a waste of time either thanks to Franco's over-the-top yet oh-so-nuanced efforts in his role.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
