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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

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Bullets of Summer: Movie Edition
by ShaunHuston in ShaunHuston filmblog

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"Picking up more pieces from this summer of non-blogging. Now, summer films. Star Trek. Like, well, pretty much everybody, I found the new Trek film to be well-cast and thoroughly entertaining. Structurally, I think that the intro for Kirk could have been tighter – the joyride scene in no way needs to be as drawn out as it is, especially not when followed by the bar fight. For me, the movie really gets started when Spock shows up. And yet, I do agree with Chris Wisniewski at Reverse Shot about the lack of philosophical ambition in JJ Abrams' reboot. Trek's creators have always strived to make the franchise about something, and while this hasn't always led to good film or TV, it does, I think, help explain the durability of the storyworld. The new movie is not only the first installment that seems to have been made purely for thrill and spectacle, but allows horrific genocide to go by with hardly more than a nod in the direction of the profundity of such an event. I still enjoyed the ... " [More]

MOON Review
by Karina in Karina on SpoutBlog

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"This review was originally published in slightly different form during the Sundance Film Festival. Moon opens in New York and LA on Friday. A small, personal story wrapped in the trappings of classic sci-fi epic, Moon manages to be both derivative (most notably, of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001) and deliberately rebellious in its treatment of sci-fi tropes. Moving through familiar territory and yet sparked with a spirit all its own, like any great work of genre cinema Moon’s future-world scenario and super-slick techno-artistry are put to the service of a story that ultimately downplays the traumas wrought by technological possibility in order to dig deep into the trauma of being a person. The film, directed by Duncan Jones (once known as Zowie Bowie, son of David), begins with a pitch-perfect advert for the company that contrac " [More]

MOON Review
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MAKE-OUT WITH VIOLENCE: SXSW Pr ...
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"Make out with Make-out with Violence It’s rare that you Google the title of a film making its SXSW premiere in the Emerging Visions program, and discover a two year-old making of short, complete with impressively-looking underwater photography and 70s style voiceover, but the Deagol Brothers, the young minds behin " [More]

MOON Review. Sundance 2009.
by Karina in Karina on SpoutBlog

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"A small, personal story wrapped in the trappings of classic sci-fi epic, Moon manages to be both derivative (most notably, of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, but with only a touch of that film’s monumental pessimism) and deliberately rebellious in its treatment of sci-fi tropes. Moving through familiar territory and yet sparked with a spirit all its own, like any great work of genre cinema Moon’s future-world scenario and super-slick techno-artistry are put to the service of a story that ultimately downplays the traumas wrought by technological possibility in order to dig deep into the traumas of people being people. The film, directed by Duncan Jones (once known as Zowie Bowie, son of David), begins with a pitch-perfect advert for the company that contracts an astronaut named Sam (Sam Rockwell) to live and work on a space station for a three year stretch, accompanied only by a HAL-meets robot named Gerty (voiced by Kevin Spacey), and able to communicate with his wife and child on Earth on ... " [More]

I can see why tis is a classic
by BostonBean in BostonBean Blog

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"I had never seen this movie before, but I had heard a lot about it. So I rented it and was not disappointed at all! What a really wonderful film. Stanley Kubrik was a visionary and he put together this marvelous movie with his great talents. Actors - Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, [More]

Not the great classic I expecte ...
by The_MOW in The_MOW Blog

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"This is one of the hardest movies to sit through, unless you like scenery over dialog. It has more shots of outer space than dialog, character development and a story combind. It begins millions of years in the past, where a monolith somehow directs ancient homonids how to eat meat and use weapons. It then jumps to 1999, where yet another monolith is discovered. That monolith, when exposed to the light of the sun, sends a signal to Jupiter. NASA, or some space agency, sends a manned ship to Jupiter to find who or what is receiving the transmission. It is on this ship we meet the sci-fi icon, HAL, a computer which is programmed to think and act as close to human as possible. Most of the movie is visual -- I've read that there is about 40 minutes of dialog in the entire 2 hour movie. Although the visuals are well done, especially the space scenes, they appear to take longer than they actually do without the characters in the scenes talking (when there is more than one in the scene). ... " [More]

MAKE-OUT WITH VIOLENCE: SXSW Pr ...
by Karina in Karina on SpoutBlog

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Sunshine: A Review
by giraffeversusunicorn in giraffeversusunicorn Blog

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"Cross-Posted from Giraffe Versus Unicorn. Danny Boyle's Sunshine is a gorgeous psychological thriller set in the confines of the Icarus II space station, as it makes it's way towards the sun to deliver a bomb that will reignite the dieing star.The eight-strong crew of the Icarus II are instructed to carry out their goal as follows: the ship will fly within reach of the sun and fire it's payload of nuclear material, 'equal in mass to Manhattan Island', into it's very heart, while propelling themselves away within a four minute deadline. Only, they're met with a myriad of problems along the way.When they receive a distress beacon from the crew of the Icarus I, the first attempt at such a huge mission, the decision to chance docking with the other ship or continuing with the task at hand is left to Cillian Murphy's Capa, the ship's physics expert and the only person capable of delivering the payload.Events take a turn for the worse and the movie broadens it's outlook as it enters it's ... " [More]

2001
by Panther in Panther Blog

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"Once I went over to my friends house, he informed me that he had some acid. We watched this, tripppyyyyyyy..... " [More]

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