Pacific Rim: Apparently, someone found the script for Independence Day and thought it would be brilliant if it was remade with two significant changes: the aliens would come from under our feet instead of over our heads, and they would be fifty-story tall monsters. As it turns out, this was a fairly brilliant twist, as the massive monsters and the human-controlled robots that fight them make for a great foray into the monster movies of my youth. But it also uses pretty much every Hollywood plot device in the book. Turn off your brain and enjoy the monsters.
The Cabin in the Woods: A nice turn on the old horror theme that starts a bit slowly but picks up the pace and provides an wildly entertaining final half-hour with just enough twists to keep things fresh.
Oblivion: Decent action film which also has a couple of nice plot twists that lead to more plot twists that make for a pretty interesting ride. I particularly like that what seems like a plot hole in the earlier part of the film becomes a plot twist that catches you off-guard.
The Cabin in the Woods: A nice turn on the old horror theme that starts a bit slowly but picks up the pace and provides an wildly entertaining final half-hour with just enough twists to keep things fresh.
Oblivion: Decent action film which also has a couple of nice plot twists that lead to more plot twists that make for a pretty interesting ride. I particularly like that what seems like a plot hole in the earlier part of the film becomes a plot twist that catches you off-guard.
"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