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CapnDunsel	Another Earth 2011	Lead	[-]
Jul 15 11 6:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	coming out next week, so I jumped the gun slightly by posting in this folder. Sounds like "Journey to the far side of the sun" mixed with a Star Trek:Voyager episode. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1549572/
Godziwolf		#1	[-]
Jul 16 11 5:03 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	CapnDunsel wrote: coming out next week, so I jumped the gun slightly by posting in this folder. Sounds like "Journey to the far side of the sun" mixed with a Star Trek:Voyager episode. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1549572/ I have the feeling the gravity problem will nag me into resenting this movie, no matter how good or bad, for trying to wear sci-fi pants with no real intention for using the sci-part.
CapnDunsel		#2	[-]
Jul 17 11 12:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Godziwolf wrote: CapnDunsel wrote: coming out next week, so I jumped the gun slightly by posting in this folder. Sounds like "Journey to the far side of the sun" mixed with a Star Trek:Voyager episode. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1549572/ I have the feeling the gravity problem will nag me into resenting this movie, no matter how good or bad, for trying to wear sci-fi pants with no real intention for using the sci-part. true...but it was an ignored problem in Far Side Sun, as well as the entire Space:1999 TVseries, so perhaps we could cut them some slack over it...
Monsterpal		#3	[-]
Jul 17 11 1:07 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just what the world needs, a soap opera version of JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN.
Godziwolf		#4	[-]
Jul 17 11 4:36 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	CapnDunsel wrote: Godziwolf wrote: CapnDunsel wrote: coming out next week, so I jumped the gun slightly by posting in this folder. Sounds like "Journey to the far side of the sun" mixed with a Star Trek:Voyager episode. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1549572/ I have the feeling the gravity problem will nag me into resenting this movie, no matter how good or bad, for trying to wear sci-fi pants with no real intention for using the sci-part. true...but it was an ignored problem in Far Side Sun, as well as the entire Space:1999 TVseries, so perhaps we could cut them some slack over it... I'm less willing to cut "good" movies slack over sloppy mistakes. If you want to portray it as fantasy or as a dream, fine. But don't call it sci-fi, because it's not. Would you have excused Moon if Sam Rockwell were strolling the surface of the moon without a helmet?
CapnDunsel		#5	[-]
Jul 17 11 6:53 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Godziwolf wrote: I'm less willing to cut "good" movies slack over sloppy mistakes. If you want to portray it as fantasy or as a dream, fine. But don't call it sci-fi, because it's not. Would you have excused Moon if Sam Rockwell were strolling the surface of the moon without a helmet? yes, IF he showed his ass like in "Confessions of a Danger Mind." Then "Moon" really would have lived up to it's name. I think it's like accepting that characters in a SUPERMAN movie arent able to see that Clark and Super are identical. Or that jettisoning the engine in Abrams "Star Trek" will somehow allow a ship to escape a quantum singularity made from Smuckers Strawberry Jam (when it should do the opposite).
Monsterpal		#6	[-]
Jul 17 11 8:03 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The MOON seemed to have lighter gravity when Rockwell was outside the base. When he was inside it, the gravity seemed the same as on Earth. I don't think just going indoors would make for heavier gravity. Besides, a low gravity pingpong game would have been interesting.
DerGolem		#7	[-]
Jul 20 11 1:00 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Godziwolf wrote: CapnDunsel wrote: Godziwolf wrote: CapnDunsel wrote: coming out next week, so I jumped the gun slightly by posting in this folder. Sounds like "Journey to the far side of the sun" mixed with a Star Trek:Voyager episode. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1549572/ I have the feeling the gravity problem will nag me into resenting this movie, no matter how good or bad, for trying to wear sci-fi pants with no real intention for using the sci-part. true...but it was an ignored problem in Far Side Sun, as well as the entire Space:1999 TVseries, so perhaps we could cut them some slack over it... I'm less willing to cut "good" movies slack over sloppy mistakes. If you want to portray it as fantasy or as a dream, fine. But don't call it sci-fi, because it's not. Really??? Its not science being used fictitiously? I really don't get people who expect sci-fi movies to use real science. Most sci-fi movies are just horror or fantasy films dressed up with scientific sounding lingo. Look at Star Wars, which is just a Lord of the Rings-type fantasy film set in space with aliens in place of elves and dwarfs, The Force in place of magic, and swords made from light rather then steel. Saying a film is science-fiction, like saying its fantasy, is nothing more then just another way of saying "Here's how I'm going to justify the absurdities you're about to see in my movie."
Godziwolf		#8	[-]
Jul 23 11 11:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	DerGolem wrote: Godziwolf wrote: I'm less willing to cut "good" movies slack over sloppy mistakes. If you want to portray it as fantasy or as a dream, fine. But don't call it sci-fi, because it's not. Really??? Its not science being used fictitiously? I really don't get people who expect sci-fi movies to use real science. Most sci-fi movies are just horror or fantasy films dressed up with scientific sounding lingo. Look at Star Wars, which is just a Lord of the Rings-type fantasy film set in space with aliens in place of elves and dwarfs, The Force in place of magic, and swords made from light rather then steel. Saying a film is science-fiction, like saying its fantasy, is nothing more then just another way of saying "Here's how I'm going to justify the absurdities you're about to see in my movie." Depends, are you talking hard science fiction or space opera? Star Wars is space opera. 2001 was science fiction. The worst factual error in 2001 was the concept that Pan Am would still be around.
Jonatwork		#9	[-]
Jul 24 11 2:59 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Godziwolf wrote:Would you have excused Moon if Sam Rockwell were strolling the surface of the moon without a helmet? Godziwolf, I thought it was odd that in the early scenes in MOON there was no sound in the exterior moon scenes, and then in another such scene, there was. That's just about the time MOON went downhill into the nine thousandth version of its gimmick. I haven't heard much about this movie, though. “The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” Joseph Priestley
Andrew Kidd		#10	[-]
Jul 24 11 4:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The way this film is described, it sounds like a cross between science fiction and "magic realism".
Victor Frankenstein		#11	[-]
Apr 29 12 10:00 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just saw this one, and I liked it! (Can't believe this is a whole thread of people who never saw the movie....) Anyway.... It was very well acted by the two leads, and due to its being more of an 'indie' film, it's certainly not effects driven. The story sets up a much more dramatic story than a sci-fi story: A young girl gets into a car accident and kills a woman, and child; leaving the husband/father in a coma. She goes to jail for four years, and when she comes out she seeks to help the man(who has since come out of the coma) as much as she can...without telling him that she is the woman that killed his wife and child. All while this is going on, a second Earth has drifted into immediate traveling distance from Earth, and our planet is setting up it's first mission to the other planet. I'll leave my summation there, but basically the movie is about the relationship of the leads, with a running 'what if' story of another Earth alongside... Definitely solid 3 out of 5 stars... And makes a good pairing with "Melancholia"
blackbiped		#12	[-]
Apr 30 12 3:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Seems like there was another thread about this movie somewhere, but I'll post my review in this one too. I liked the movie enough to not even consider the scientific inaccuracies until later. For me, if I don't think of inaccuracies and plotholes until after the movie is over then they don't count. Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way. Porfle's Secret Blog HK and Cult Film News Andersonvision.com

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