Given recent social media and news reports about the state of our nation, I found "Tomorrowland" not only timely but very positive.
Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) is a brilliant, inquisitive young girl who wants to travel in space. She's discouraged by her dad, a NASA worker, because NASA is closing. When she climbs a few fences and makes her way into the Cape Canaveral Launch Center to sabotage equipment and keep it from closing, she's arrested.
Upon the return of her personal effects, Casey finds a pin that isn't hers. She touches it, and suddenly, she's in a city of the future. This leads her on quite an adventure, which includes meeting a robot, Athena (Raffey Cassidy), who thinks Casey can help save the future. She brings Casey to meet Frank Walker (George Clooney), who has given up his life's project. As a former child inventor, he had worked to learn the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in collective memory.
I hate to say it but I think this film was maybe too esoteric for the special effects audience. This is a version in a way of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" and also deals with quantum physics.
Wonderful, fascinating movie, with incredible special effects and yes, the theme of optimism versus pessimism, summed up in a speech by Nix (Hugh Laurie) that you could read anywhere today. And the message is clear: If you buy into a bad future, you can't change it.
Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) is a brilliant, inquisitive young girl who wants to travel in space. She's discouraged by her dad, a NASA worker, because NASA is closing. When she climbs a few fences and makes her way into the Cape Canaveral Launch Center to sabotage equipment and keep it from closing, she's arrested.
Upon the return of her personal effects, Casey finds a pin that isn't hers. She touches it, and suddenly, she's in a city of the future. This leads her on quite an adventure, which includes meeting a robot, Athena (Raffey Cassidy), who thinks Casey can help save the future. She brings Casey to meet Frank Walker (George Clooney), who has given up his life's project. As a former child inventor, he had worked to learn the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in collective memory.
I hate to say it but I think this film was maybe too esoteric for the special effects audience. This is a version in a way of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" and also deals with quantum physics.
Wonderful, fascinating movie, with incredible special effects and yes, the theme of optimism versus pessimism, summed up in a speech by Nix (Hugh Laurie) that you could read anywhere today. And the message is clear: If you buy into a bad future, you can't change it.