Movies: Moon
Jun. 29th, 2009 01:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deirdreMoon is the best actual science fiction film I've seen since Gattaca (unless you count Donnie Darko in that category).
Moon, like Donnie Darko, was filmed for $5 million dollars, which is undoubtedly less than the advertising budget for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The movie was filmed in a large studio, and it really gives that big-picture feel of being on the moon. Truly amazing what both M and DD were able to accomplish in that budget. (I've seen several other movies recently in the under $5M category, so I've seen how much can be done for that little.)
It's always hard to do what's essentially a one-person show, and this is no exception. Everything falls on one actor's performance, in this case, Sam Rockwell's. The director picked his actor well.
The essential premise: a moon base has a lone solitary employee who spaces out while outside one day, gets in an accident -- and wakes up back on the base. Obviously, it goes on from there, but I'd rather not spoil it for you.
It has an eerie feel to it like moments of 2001, Donnie Darko, and Solaris. It feels lonely.
The instrumentation and music (which can be heard on the trailer) are minimalistic and reinforce the isolation. It also has some of the "the loneliness of space will crack you" feel to it that some of the previously-mentioned movies and Dark Star had to them.
The movie is remarkable. As an independent, it'll be at smaller theatres, and may have very short runs, so see it as soon as you can.
Here's the trailer, and here's the web site.
Regardless of what comes out later in the year, this one's going on my Hugo ballot. (It's pretty easy to see my "this year so far" list for long form, which I keep here.)
Moon, like Donnie Darko, was filmed for $5 million dollars, which is undoubtedly less than the advertising budget for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The movie was filmed in a large studio, and it really gives that big-picture feel of being on the moon. Truly amazing what both M and DD were able to accomplish in that budget. (I've seen several other movies recently in the under $5M category, so I've seen how much can be done for that little.)
It's always hard to do what's essentially a one-person show, and this is no exception. Everything falls on one actor's performance, in this case, Sam Rockwell's. The director picked his actor well.
The essential premise: a moon base has a lone solitary employee who spaces out while outside one day, gets in an accident -- and wakes up back on the base. Obviously, it goes on from there, but I'd rather not spoil it for you.
It has an eerie feel to it like moments of 2001, Donnie Darko, and Solaris. It feels lonely.
The instrumentation and music (which can be heard on the trailer) are minimalistic and reinforce the isolation. It also has some of the "the loneliness of space will crack you" feel to it that some of the previously-mentioned movies and Dark Star had to them.
The movie is remarkable. As an independent, it'll be at smaller theatres, and may have very short runs, so see it as soon as you can.
Here's the trailer, and here's the web site.
Regardless of what comes out later in the year, this one's going on my Hugo ballot. (It's pretty easy to see my "this year so far" list for long form, which I keep here.)