Pun Salad

An increasingly rare thing for me: going out to watch a movie in a theater. But Pun Son and I managed to head down to Newington (NH) to see this blockbuster. As I type, IMDB raters put it at position #78 on the top 250 movies of all time. Ahead of Toy Story?! I don't know about that, but I had a good time.

As in the book, Rylan Grace wakes up amnesiac, not even knowing his own name, let alone his situation. But he's very alone, save for two dessicated corpses he discovers early on. (One of them being Lily from those old AT&T commercials, but don't worry, Milana Vayntrub fans, she shows up in flashbacks.)

Grace gradually recovers his memory, and (spoilers ahead) also his purpose: against all odds, find out why a deadly menace is eating the Earth's sun, and come up with a fix that will save the world. Unexpected help arrives from Epsilon Eridani.

A good word for Ryan Gosling, who plays "everyman" Grace with grace.