Moon

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#1

I got the chance to see a pre-screening of a new film called Moon by Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie). It starred Sam Rockwell and the voice of Kevin Spacey.

Here is a plot synopsis:

Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet’s power problems.

It has an interesting take on a reusable resource.

I am a fan of Rockwell and he doesn’t disappoint in this 2001ish sci-fi thriller. If you get a chance, check it out.

#2

Yeah, they’ve been promoting the hell out of this film. Duncan showed up on Geek Cred, for crying out loud (usually the domain of the ‘internet famous’)

Looks good, though.

#3

It’s far from perfect and it poses issues already tackled on the sci-fi front, yet where those issues were used as allegory in the past they are very possible now.

#4

Wow, thanks 'Talos. Just watched the clips. Looks really good.

#5

I just got back from seeing it. I really loved it. And Gerty is one of the better Sci Fi computers. i loved his emotion monitor. I also loved some of the concepts brought up in the movie. It also brings up some really interesting humanity issues

#6

I just learned about this movie through a review in yesterday’s Washington Post (of course, it’s not playing ANYWHERE in my area. Frakking multiplexes!). They thought the explanation for a certain plot device ruined the movie, but it still sounded like a pretty good flick to me. I guess I’ll wait for a rental. Sigh! :frowning:

#7

whew With 'talos posting a thread with this title I was a little afraid to open the thread! I thought for sure he might be trying to “moon” us all!

#8

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

#9

if they mention [spoiler]The dude gets hurt and wakes up and finds that his body is still out on the moon[/spoiler] and bigger spoiler [spoiler] that he is a actually a clone of himself[/spoiler] those come relatively early in the movie and are not the big twists in the movie.

#10

Yep. Those are the ones. Actually, they kept he second one veiled and just said it was a disappoining and mundane explanation for the first one. But the movie still sounds pretty cool to me. I’d have to go out of my way and go into downtown D.C. to find a theater showing it, though, since the local multiplexes only have the same five movies playing in 15 different screens. (Seriously, do we really need that many showings of Transformers 2?)

#11

Have I mentioned my burgeoning love for you before? lol!

#12

Yeah, it’s in limited release in Los Angeles… I had to go searching for a theatre near me… hopefully I’ll catch it this week.

#13

Luckily my local Art house theater down here in little Tallahassee manages to pick up some really awesome indie films…pretty quickly

#14

:)This was an intelligent and very humane story with a magnificent central performance from Sam Rockwell.

Lot’s of critics have discussed Moon’s allusions to the ‘existential sf’ of films like Dark Star, Alien, Silent Running, 2001. In any case, it’s the perfect antidote to the more bombastic cinematic SF of the post-Star Wars era. Anyone who dug BSG will dig Moon.

#15

Has anyone else seen Moon ?

It was out in my area for just a few days, small release and not much advertisements. If I hadn’t heard about it on NPR I wouldn’t have even known it was out.

I was impressed, it was a good bit of scifi and drama. Virtually the whole movie takes place on the moon with only a few characters, so its very character driven. The plot was good.

The effects where almost completely model work and very well done, good sets for the interior of the base.

More information at:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/

#16

Wanted to see it this weekend, but it was already come and gone from our local art house.

#17

Finally saw Moon (thank-you public library) and loved it. My kind of quiet, thoughtful, surprising, tense sci-fi. Great first time direction and a tour de force performance by Rockwell. A perfect tonic for many of today’s bombastic brainless sci-fi flicks.

Now I’m totally jonesing for Dunkin Jones’ 2nd film, Source Code.

//youtu.be/aKtr9ZAooc8

#18

I thought this film was excellent. It made a refreshing change from the usual Hollywood stuff.

#19

Hey Just loved this movie and would recommend anyone to spend the time to watch it… great british sci fi movie…sam rockwell is brillant…and a great sound track by clint mansell (PWEI guy)… with a great twist at the end…

GUYS spend some time and watch it on netflix instant watch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_(movie)

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Moon/70112500?trkid=2361637

Dave L - the boys from the dwarf…

#20

Armando, have you discovered the E Street Cinema yet? I saw Sunshine there. They often pick up little sci-fi flicks that you can’t find elsewhere. Plus all the usual indie fare.

I watched Moon last weekend and really enjoyed it. I really liked the twist on the helper robot trope. Overall, a very good movie. I also recently read Hull Zero Three and felt echoes of that in the scene with the freezers full of Sam Rockwells.