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Community => Entertainment => Topic started by: ScaryTooth on Sunday, April 19, 2009, 07:27:45 PM
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I'm really interested in this. It's a trailer BTW (http://www.flabber.nl/linkdump/video/trailer-moon-1574)
I really like Sam Rockwell. I like him in pretty much anything he does, even if the movie isn't great he's usually enjoyable to watch.
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That looks pretty interesting!
By the way, since you like Sam Rockwell, have you watched Choke (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024715/)?
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This finally came out in my area and I went and saw it tonight. I really really liked it. It such a great Sci-Fi moving, and it really makes you think about things. I can't really say anything about the movie without giving it away. But definitely check it out if you want to see some great sci-fi.
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I know nothing about this but I heard Clint Mansell did the soundtrack which immediately piqued my interest.
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Saw it a couple of days ago. Loved it.
[spoiler] The movie definitely got the better of me. I didn't buy into the clone thing for a long time. I thought that he was just going crazy and the clones were a hoax. I also kept waiting for the computer to turn against him but that never happened.[/spoiler]
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Just saw this movie tonight. It was pretty good.
[spoiler]The trailer made it seem like the whole movie was going to be a big conflict between Sam going through crazy shit, or him hallucinating. I guess that was still the point, but I went in with certain expectations and I think those expectations made me look for all the hints they were dropping that it might all be fake. The ending was also a bit off too. I mean they obviously made it seem that he was hallucinating, then didnt even acknowledge it. It would be cool if there was maybe some discourse between the two about it. Maybe right before the older Sam gets put back in the crashed rover.
I loved the gerty character. Just enough personality.
Did they ever say what the older Sam was sick with? or was it just the after effects from the crash?[/spoiler]
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[spoiler]The cloning process didn't allow them to live for more than a few years.[/spoiler]
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It was a pretty good movie.
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Move up in the Netflix queue.
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Authentic sci-fi, always appreciated. +1 on that alone. Good movie regardless.
I did not watch any trailers or read anything beyond a minimalist blurb about this movie, so I went in with no preconceptions. I caught on to the basic premise very quickly. The rules seem to originate from established sci-fi, which made it all the more enjoyable to me.
[spoiler]Gerty is a robot, so advanced it may be sentient, like Hal. But unlike Hal, it was created by smarter humans who probably read Isaac Asimov. The 3 laws of robotics emerged not from benevolence, but from a desire to prevent a future such as Cyberdyne (Terminator movies). These 3 laws are at the very core of a sentient-robot's thought processes, and can never be bypassed without destroying its intelligence. It cannot harm a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm (first law).
Gerty may have been instructed to protect the big, evil corporation's business, but the deeper directive to protect humans overrode it when there was a conflict (2nd law). Everything it did was consistent with this boilerplate.
The concepts of mining the moon, and cloning with possible inherent flaws in each copy take the setting the rest of the way.[/spoiler]
Good story, without falling prey to some Hollywood money guy screwing it up with mindless action or horror elements to draw in the popcorn masses.
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Dammit. Spoiler tags aren't compatible with the WAP version of this site.
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Authentic sci-fi, always appreciated.
This is one of the things I liked most. The fact that the story wasnt perfect I could look past. I love seeing real attempts at sci-fi without the glam like primer or pi.
Moon is 38 on IMDB's list of top rated Sci-fi films. Not that IMDB rankings are worth a damn, but its interesting.
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Damn, I thought I posted in this thread already. Anyways, I saw this about a month ago and it was great. I'm with Cobra on the fact that it is nice to see an authentic sci-fi movie. I really need to pick up the Blu-Ray of this.
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Just got through watching this on one of the Starz channels. Pretty good, I must say.
[spoiler]The part when one of the Sam clones made the call to Tess, found out Tess was dead from Eve (who answered the call) who now is 15 - and one of the Sam's was already there was something else...[/spoiler]
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I guess I was the only one bored to tears
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I guess I was the only one bored to tears
I suppose I could see how you were bored. I enjoyed the hell out of it though.
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I just saw this last night and thought it was amazing. It really drew me in. I was like Cobra: I didn't watch or read very much at all about this movie other than the praise on here and therefore had no preconceived notions. I too caught onto the premise right away, but it didn't ruin the movie and in fact I thought it enhanced it because I found myself thinking about the protagonist's thoughts about the situation. It also allowed me to ponder then end of the term in a different light.
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Good flick. Reminded me of the old drawn out Sci-Fi flicks like 2001.
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I thought of that when I read Scott's post yesterday. Yes, they don't make them like they used to, not often anyway.