johnzapetis

I saw this documentary at the first showing in theaters and the audience was deeply moved. So many personal stories of the life and times of friends, family and colleagues of a man we hardly knew. The true life story of courage and the love he left behind. I had no idea that his childhood shaped his perception of what family could be and that struck home for me. Great to see Robin Williams help his classmate, friend and being like a brother, stepped up when it counted most while dealing with personal challenges of his own.

The support of Christopher's wife, Dana, goes above and beyond normal caregiving and deserves her own life story told as well. The personal stories their children tell about what she went through in the years that followed.

His advocacy for change in spinal cord injury research has beared fruit all these years later.

It was great to see the original Superman film clips on the big screen since seeing them when they first ran in the 70's/80's.

Great CGI effects of a Superman statue among the stars and heavens with compelling narration. Bravo!

Why did I immediately feel enraged watching a fictional breakup? Because people suck. Period. Not entertaining enough to continue. Love the actors, hate the premise.

I've seen The Thing (2011) three times now and still have a difficult time distinguishing all the characters. I am still not able to tell you who's who for the entire cast nor what their job functions were at the antarctic base as you could somewhat in the first film. That aside, I was happy to see that a prequel story of a beloved film was being told and stayed true to many elements of the original. Many have disliked this film for its use of CGI and not using practical effects exclusively. If you're going to do that, you may as well have filmed it with antique cameras as well to blur the fact that it's a puppet. Geez! I loved the modern effects and the special features explain how they merged the practical with the impractical effects to create living monsters. The cast was superb in this rendition, no one was over-acting as they do in many of today's horror films. This story did have some loopholes and unanswered questions as did the first film. If the creature is a collection of captured DNA, they never touched upon its imitating plant-life. John Carpenters film had a flowering tentacle coming out of the dog thing. There was a hint of a dinosaur thing that emerged out of the Blair thing at the end of the Carpenter film. I always imagined that was it's true form. This film made it look like a sliver from Magic The Gathering that was trapped in the ice. I loved that. Maybe they'll make another story around the rescue teams or the Russian arctic camp. And what would the McMordo set look like? Leaves me with an appetite for more, how about you?