Last Movie You Watched

[DavidW]

Why couldn't he have brought his father back, rehabilitated him and moved on with his life because his childhood issues were resolved?  Probably too optimistic, which isn't good either but here, it seemed he let his father go without trying to explain they could resolve whatever he thought was unresolvable.  His father's motivations were still unclear.  He was doing a lot of damage to earth because?  He decided to die because?  Let's say he became obsessed with his work, then why wouldn't he want to continue on this work?  It sort of imploded without justifying the character's actions or motivations.  They don't need to spell it out, but it has to make sense.

I think you missed out on something important. The father found that there is no alien life out there. But that was the purpose that motivated his whole life at the expense of his family. So he went mad. You're looking for logical motivations out of someone who went insane.

There is no more work to be done because he already concluded that there is no alien life out there. Faced with that revelation, the father chose suicide, while the son chose the fellowship of humanity.

[relm1]

I think you missed out on something important. The father found that there is no alien life out there. But that was the purpose that motivated his whole life at the expense of his family. So he went mad. You're looking for logical motivations out of someone who went insane.

There is no more work to be done because he already concluded that there is no alien life out there. Faced with that revelation, the father chose suicide, while the son chose the fellowship of humanity.

I see.  I did miss that, and it makes more sense now.  Sad.  I wish he had an overview effect experience then.  That he realized earth was beautiful and a gem in a cold, lifeless universe, therefore life was worth being cherished and salvaged or perhaps make it so he reluctantly agrees to go to earth but because of damage to the ship chooses to sacrifice himself for his estranged son's chance for survival thereby coming full circle.  I also get that the story isn't about the father but about the son, just think they could have done both and would have made it a better ending.

[hopefullytrusting]

Evolver (1995) starring Ethan Embry (the main reason it popped on my radar, Ethan starred in one of my favorite films - Empire Records, also from 1995):



This is a fantastic cyberpunkish romp of a movie. Go in expecting 1990s vision of technology tinged with camp horror - you will easily be able to predict all the storylines of this film from the get go, but that did nothing to depreciate my enjoyment of the movie. You will see many parallels to what current AI does in Evolver, which is hilarious (like picking up on our bad habits).

Important: You will need to suspend disbelief, as Evolver is like under 3 feet tall, and so would be not much of a threat in real life - think Johnny Five from Short Circuit 2 in relentlessness.

The movie is super fun, the male lead and female lead are excellent together, all the characters are believable tropes - Q from the Star Trek franchise is in it, but it is corny and hokey, but I like that kind of thing these days.