I saw this as a kid. One of those weird memories where for years I wasn’t sure what the hell I watched. Then I caught it a couple of decades later and it made sense. I don’t think it gets the love it deserves.
As an IT nerd I loved how they made the door out of rack slides. Probably the easiest and cheapest way to make something that seems futuristic, but if you work with servers you see them every day.
The opening scene is also epic, still legendary to this day. I rented the movie on VHS back in the day, looked promising, but I wasn’t that interested to be fair. Then the opening scene happened and I was glued to the screen.
I’ve watched this movie more times than I can say. I’m less into it now (I watched it again 20 days ago and wasn’t as excited with other movies I still watch again).
There was a lot of thought into it making mathematical sense and how to make it feel believable. The plot is perhaps not as deep, but the movie remains enjoyable!
I never thought about it, but I’ve always been hunting for new details and this is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for!
Do you happen to remember if this is before or after Leven decides whether a trap number must be a power of a prime?
Because after she understands this, a number like 125 = 5^3 is a trap number, but a number like 212 = 2^2 x 53 is not a trap number since it has two distinct prime factors
Cheers mate!
Edit: I just found out that Lemmy can exponentiate expressions so 2^2x53 is not what I wanted to write (aka 2^2 x 53)
Peeking at the script, I think this was the scene that annoyed me.
"It seems like if any of these numbers of prime, then the room is trapped. Ok, 645... 645, that's not prime. 372... no. 649... Wait, 11 x 59, it's not prime either. So that room is safe."
The pauses after 645 and 372 are pretty bad. The line should have been something like "645 and 372 are not prime. 649..."
As at the moment she was operating under the theory that only primeness mattered, anything with an even number or a five should have been instantaneous. 3s take a second to check (add the digits and see if that's a multiple of 3). The rest of the primes up to 31 are tougher. (Well, you only have to worry about 961 for 31, as otherwise a lower prime will interfere, but eh.)
Oooh, I never thought about reading the script! When this came out in 1997 internet was a thing, but not the same it is today.
You’re right, she pauses after numbers which are obviously not prime (when primes were the known working theory)
We could argue that it’s a very stressful situation and she pauses to think because it’s not a relaxed moment and she doesn’t want to get it wrong or another possibility is let the audience think for themselves and realize they couldn’t have been prime, but then it would have been better if she had said loudly what the numbers were and the easy rule to exclude them
I just watched it for the second time (the first being about twenty years ago or more), and I made the realization they only needed one cube to film it up until the ending. Glad to learn it was a cube and a half.
This popped up on my YouTube for me the other day I decided to just randomly watch it and it wasn’t all that bad at all …it definitely passed the time and I got a couple Chuckles out of it. It’s obviously not the most original concept but it was still entertaining enough!
The only thing that gives me pause is the weirdly high IMDb score. IMDb is usually a lot more brutal than Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes - so maybe it’s worth watching a few minutes to see if it’s better than what the other scores suggest.
This movies background is amazing. How they created all the effects was groundbreaking. I love watching the clips of the behind the scenes for scenes like the dish throwing where they created animatronics to handle the actual physical props, and then painted the cartoons over it.
It’s also amazing to me that no one drew shadows on cartoon characters in films until this movie.
I didn’t get it as a kid, but it’s so clearly a metaphor for the decision to build freeways through marginalized communities that happened in real life. Thanks for posting this here, I hadn’t seen this movie in probably 15 years, and it holds up really well. Too bad there wasn’t a real life Eddie Valiant back then.
I’ve actually never watched this all the way through. Only bits and pieces back in the cable days where you’d start halfway through. Maybe I’ll give it a go.
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