Jackie Brown Roving Mars

Took my grandson and his father to see the widely acclaimed IMAX presentation of "Roving Mars" yesterday.  What a disappointment.  The colors and clarity were terrific, as always, but the narration made no differentiation of what was actual Mars footage and what was clever animation. It would be obvious to anyone with half a brain that movies of the Rovers on Mars could only be made by another Rover, but face it, based on GWBush's still having any showing at all in the popularity polls, how many of our fellow Amurkins have even half a brain?

E'en worse was the animation of the trip to Mars.  Here's this incredibly loud rocket launch, and it stays loud well into outer space.  Each booster separation was accompanied by a thunderclap explosion.  The two tethers which eventually extend to slow the spacecraft's rotation make a "swish swish swish" sound - in the movie at least.  Gentle reader, of course there is no sound transmitted in outer space as there is no air to conduct the sound waves.  Flick was nothing but eye candy.  And ear candy, I guess.  Blah.

The good movie was the re-viewing of Tarantino's "Jackie Brown" eight years after its release.  After Pulp Fiction, his best movie no doubt.  Mr Jackson is terrific and Ms Grier is amazing.  The long, long steadycam shots, the Quentinisms (the VW bus stalls leaving the mall lot, the excessive use of that despicable Nappellation),  the implied but never shown violence, and not being able to predict anything, ever.  Loved it.