Really looking forward to 'Moon'

Not in places like Asda or Sainsburys - it's only the big music stores like HMV that do these midnight openings for big movies, of which Moon would not qualify.

Don't get me wrong, I saw it in the cinema and it was excellent, but it's only the likes of the Harry Potter movies that get that sort of 'treatment'

And frankly...I never get that concept anyway...the publicity tells you to be there at midnight and queue up, giving the impression demand is going to be so big you may not get a copy at all.

But it's such nonsense...because if you walk in the same store the next day there are thousanRAB of the darn things on the shelf.

These are major motion picture releases, the concept of them not producing enough copies is just never going to happen...in fact, in a few months they will be in the sales and probably bargain bins.

That said, I will pick up the blu ray of this tomorrow...excellent movie.
 
suspension of disbelief matters. and the ways to achieve it depend on the film genre. you don't get to arbitrarily claim any absurdity is just to be ignored. it has to be real within that world. and since sams existence was never justified in the film, it all falls apart.
 
saw it over the weekend with the mrs... great film, ticked along nicely and didnt go on for too long.

did the ending not confirm that it was all about cloning? ie: you can hear in the final few moments of the film voices about trials about cloning etc and the company saying he is dillusional?

i took the visions at the beginning to simply be that he was lonely (3 years talking to a robot must do that to you!) and that also followed it nicely with when he was on the op table and he saw the other sam standing there and he thought he was seeing things again.

just my take, a rather simple one perhaps - but i dont think this film is trying to be overly clever with its premise.
 
Been avoiding this thread for months and I watched Moon last night. Awesome. Creepy and thought provoking. I too read it as...
...his illness being part of the program, and 'home' was infact the pod where he would be destroyed to make room for the next Sam. (Presumably because the lifespan of a clone is something that hasn't been perfected and they start to fall apart after three years or so)

Brilliantly acted, emotional and very well shot.
 
I don't think it was necessarily a case of it being 'overly clever', I think it was one of those films which forced the viewer to make their own assumptions as to what was really happening, nothing was clearly defined.
And I guess it's one of those films that works on different levels, with the cloning story seemingly the most obvious, I wasn't personally happy to settle for that, as there were suggestions of other things in the film which take the viewer to a different conclusion - but maybe that's just me being too analytical.
 
I have been wondering about what happened to the sleeping clones not yet activated after Sam6 got to Earth and the corporation's activities were exposed.

Would all the sleepers have been "activated"? Would they manage to cope with reality, knowing they arent who they think they are? Knowing they only have 3 years to live? Would it be ethical to wake them, would it be ethical not to?
 
I saw this weekend and thought it was amazing. Definitely in my top 5 sci-fi films.

My favourite bit was when he was trying to get the password and GERTY appeared behind him, I thought he was going to kill him. I liked the way they played on our natural distrust of AI.
 
I liked it, but I didn't feel "wow"-ed. Sam Rockwell was great, and I thought the interaction between the Sams was amazing work, technically.

Also, I found the the set quite distracting, 'cos I was constantly spotting similarities to the sets in 2001, Star Trek (TMP), Space 1999, etc...! :D
 
Okay, let me reword it then: they utilized some of the set equipment from 'Alien', and it was filmed in the same studio. I can remember them saying so while watching Film 2008 when they first had an on set visit.
 
I think they also got some stuff from Gerry Andersons Space 1999.

They keep all old sets in a wardrobe out back next to a picture of James Bond.
 
Wow, you are a sarcastic one aren't you:rolleyes:

Look, the report where they stated this was on Film 2008, if you've got an issue with it's accuracy then take it up with Jonathan Ross...
 
i loved "Moon"

such a quiet, thoughtful little film. well acted by Rockwell. Spacey brings just the right amount of aloof detachment as GERTY, and the simple, changing smiley face is unsettling
 
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