Boy that movie missed a great chance to show some big wave riding. There a part in the beginning when the space ship is on a planet covered in water. One person was going to walk to a mountain only to discover it was a wave. They eat schitt on the first one. The second wave, they shoulda had them crank off a bottom turn then blast off the lip into hyperspace. But they didn't. 2 thumbs down for missed opportunity.
Matt Damon? Yeah I'm not a fan either, but I'll give the film a shot lol Caught the end of 2001 on tv yesterday, good times. One time there was a screening of it at the ny philharmonic with live orchestra playing the soundtrack - that was great. There are times I think I understand this: [video=youtube_share;ou6JNQwPWE0]http://youtu.be/ou6JNQwPWE0[/video]
I'm indifferent to Matt D, but I love Ridley Scott movies. But when I saw the trailer and it shows him getting clobbered and blown away in a dust storm...well, the prob is the atmosphere on Mars is so thin that even if it's blowing like a CAT5 hurricane it doesn't have anywhere near the force to do that. I can suspend disbelief if a movie doesn't even try to be hard sci-fi, but if you go down the hard sci-fi path it's gotta be iron clad. But I have faith in Ridley, and if that's the only hokey part no big whoop. No point throwing out the baby with the bath water. 2001 is a fantastic movie and was a real game changer in sci-fi cinema. Seeing it with the NY Philharmonic? That would be epic!
I thought Prometheus was a POS...very apprehensive to watch another Ridley Scott joint after that. I enjoyed Elysium. Haven't seen Interstellar, yet.
I didn't like Prometheus the first time but actually liked it the second time I watched it. I wouldn't put it up there with his best work though, and definitely some iffy plot holes. I'm looking forward to the next one in the series, if nothing else b\c I like the overall plot line. Agree Elysium was good. Have you seen Gravity? If so what did you think? Good movie but plot holes there too. I think it's just very hard to make a true hard sci-fi movie with any kind of backing from a studio. Not enough hard sci-fi nerds out there to buy enough tickets. I like hard sci-fi and I'm a fan of Arthur C. Clarke but couldn't get through Rendezvous With Rama. Was drier than the Atacama desert.
You an Evangelical? You be speaking in tongues. here's some cosmic schitt to cleanse your head. [video=youtube;UUQlSToVZkQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUQlSToVZkQ[/video]
Gravity was both disappointing and very well done for such a short story: (spoiler alert) Girl re-enters atmosphere and experiences a life threatening problem, but survives. The End. I doubt I'm the only one who, at the end of the movie, was thinking "that's all?". Apart from the cinematography, there's really not much to the movie.
